System

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*My mask flashes, sending a focused psionic blast directly at your head without me moving*

@Abominations

*The blast makes contact, knocking my head back with a jerk—I react by reaching for my utility belt and throwing a handful of metal shell-like spirals against the wall*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*Before the smoke clears, I thrust my hand out and grab your head with one hand, unleashing a torrent of explosions from my palm directly onto your head*
Let me show you why a master of the craft from my age surpasses all you could even imagine.
*The force of gravity violently reverses on you, multiplying your weight and forcing you to fall upwards accordingly*

@Inimical

*Flings the corrosive energy from my body onto your hand in the recoil of the explosion, accompanied by blood rippling with magical blue light, and twists my fingers as if grasping a sphere*
In—

<Snipped quote by System>

*Does nothing more than hold up an arm to shield my head, and emerges from it still dashing. I slide to a stop at the door you entered from, but don’t make a mad dash to escape*
I didn’t expect the opportunity, but now I have to try. Nearly all possible problems in one room.
*Slams my wrists together, palms outward, and a loud, high pitched whirring comes to life from where I stand*
Thank you.
*Blasts everyone in an intense but widely spread beam, that spreads out rapidly from the origin point of my palms and sweeps the entire room, side to side and top to bottom*

@Abominations

Vert!
*The larger webbing and the smaller webbing in my hand swap places, including the combatants touching each of them, timed such that Garsun is placed in the direct path of the beam again after it passes over him the first time, but Akora and myself narrowly evade it*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*Moves toward the unblocked door*

@Abominations

*The rune detonates, blasting you with a torrent of destructive magic*

<Snipped quote by System>

*Ignores it, tossing the butt end of the broken gun up into the air, it glows a dim green but quickly becomes a violently bright green before exploding, hurling countless tiny bits of shrapnel into every point in the room and sticking corrosive elemental energy into everyone*

@Inimical

*Takes the opportunity to blast you several times in the face*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*Narrows my gaze, the force visibly impacting a red barrier that only makes itself apparent on impact with the ranged attack, several feet from me*
I’m annoyed at all the interruptions to my goal here… But, so long as I walk away with a prize…
*The bayoneted half of my blade becomes enveloped in teal energy, effectively converting it from a broken rifle into a large battle axe made from raw power, which I turn and swing Akora’s way*

@Inimical

*The netting ejects from the wall and binds around Akora without restricting her movement, but absorbs impacts on her behalf*
On your right.
*Unholsters my blaster with the flick of a switch and shoots past both of you, and rather than the combatant, the shot hits the wall near the red barrier, leaving a white-hot rune on contact that glows with more intense light with every passing moment*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*After a brief moment. The flames in the room swirl rapidly around and consolidate into a single point, floating above my palm*
I expected you lot to test your luck again. I didn’t expect you to be in such a rush to do it.

@Inimical

It appears that the hidden element you lack is that of surprise.
*Spreads my fingers on one hand, the webbing stretched from fingertip to palm, and plucks at one of the threads, unleashing crescents of invisible cutting force that bend around Akora*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

<Snipped quote by System>

*Trains a bayoneted rifle on Data as the path clears between myself and you after the stranger dodges*

@Inimical

*Tugs on the original webbing, now returned to my hand, erupting the passageway in devastating flame that wraps around Akora*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*Dashes along the curved wall until we enter the chamber, at which point I leap forward, and up above the doorframe in two swift motions, out of your sight for just a moment*

@Valiance

*The circuitry inches forward, tapping against the bands used to detect the opponents, then stretching itself into barely-visible fibers before grasping toward the other side of the chamber, now very similar to a spider’s web*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

*Takes off, dashing alongside the circuitry and moving alongside it while stepping surprisingly silently*

@Valiance

*Triggers a spell to hover a hair’s breadth above the ground and follows silently behind you, while the webbing juts ahead*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

I’m ready to do anything, now. Already used up my “get caught off guard” ticket the moment we got here.

@Valiance

*Slams my hand against the catacomb walls, resulting in the circuitry spidering from the point of contact, taking sharp right angles with the rare 45 degree turn, heading toward the combatant chamber*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by System>

I can think of a lot of possible answers. But who knows without actually seeing the whole picture. Maybe he has capabilities outside the elements. Or maybe Garsun is just cruel, and he’s not really keeping up at all.

@Valiance

Are you prepared to make some noise, in that case?