The World

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War

Since there's some traction now, I'll throw in an interested as well.

Symphony of Espers

Here for review, very rushed honestly but still.

Being a Basic Bitch

Backup:
After You Get Smacked Up : Silver Self - Heal

PR:
Disco Fever - The clip light can change colors.
Clip Light
Kevlar Coat
Kevlar Padding

Secundi Lux

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"tHeRe WeRe SuReLy OtHeR tHrEaTs ThAn ThEsE tHrEe NeArEsT," stupid girl. Had to open her big mouth inside her own head. By the time she caught the glimpse in the sky she was already dead. Or would be, if the giant insect could aim. She decided that there was only room for one insect here, that being Kheper, and then realized that the thought she just had wasn't the greatest endorsement of her teammates. That was all that she had time to process before a large chunk of construction materials soared past her and into the core of the giant drone overhead. Crystal looked down and saw Selma, to no surprise, was the source of it. She gave a thumbs up that she doubted would be visible and turned back to the wasp overhead. She didn't know what it could do, but early prevention was usually a good way to handle battle.

Crystal took advantage of Selma's attack, a wonderful distraction she hoped, to freeze the pouring rain into two twin spires of ice, one circling up to the "stinger," coiling around it while the other went to just above the drone's body. She'd practiced maneuvering using her Elementum quite a bit, so it was almost second nature to form steps under her as she jumped her way up the pillar, not dissimilarly to how she climbed the building in the first place. By the time she was halfway up, the drone had broken free its laser and moved away, readying another attack. But now they were in the air, and while it may have been better suited to flight than her, Crystal had the stem of a wonderful, soon to be blooming, flower that she was standing on. What a beautiful final sight for it.

Crystal began freezing the rain on the drone, which in this downpour quickly built up weight and loss of temperature for the laser-wielding machine. Unfortunately, the laser in question was underneath the body, and was therefor not freezing as well as the rest of it. But this time she was ready, jumping aside while forming ice under her heels, and she managed to dodge the beam. She kept sliding across newly forming ice until the structural integrity of her sculpture could no longer hold her weight, at which point she jumped off towards the machine. With its internal temperature dropping severely and gaining a large coat of ice on its shell the machine was a fine target for Crystal's Gladius. Hiems was stabbed into the side of the hull, not quite piercing the metal until the freezing point of its tip made it buckle beneath it. Soon Crystal was holding herself up by her Gladius as the drone tried to maintain flight, with her flopping around as she hung on to its side.

Soon, the insides of the drone would be totally frozen. And the insect that came to pollinate her flower of ice would explode into the shape of its petals.

... Maybe she was trying to show off a little, after all.

Symphony of Espers

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Will reword, thanks.

@The World

I also cut the latter half of the description to make it less seem like a special itself.

Symphony of Espers

@The World Oh cool! So it's just an anti-decapitation/headshot sort of delio? If someone tries to #slapthosecheeks the armor is sacrificed instead of the head? I'd probably reword it to something like this:

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Operation being the official term for each "encounter."

@BrokenPromise

Will reword, thanks.

Symphony of Espers

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This description kind of confuses me.

So she has armor on her cheeks (two pieces) which gives her +1 physical defense total. Then when she gets hit anywhere(?) a peice of her armor breaks, and if she loses all of her armor pieces, her defense score is normal? Does that sound correct?

#slapthosecheeks?

@BrokenPromise

Oh, sorry I really messed up explaining that. Basically if she gets hit in the face, her armor pieces she has on it will lessen the damage from physical attacks, but break if it's too much force. So it's a potential safety net for a one-shot kill if someone slashes at her face or something.

Symphony of Espers

Wonder if I'll get away with this since it's a physically very small defense change.

Old

STYLE: Wind-Carved Glacier
Marrie gains a winter aesthetic and small pieces of armor that look made of ice on her cheeks.

GRADE: Bronze
PHYSICAL: E
ARCANE: D
CHAOS: C
SPECIAL: Masking. The "armor" on her cheeks can be targeted by spells for defensive purposes. Otherwise it's entirely cosmetic.

New

STYLE: Arctic Storm
Marrie's sweatshirt now flows in the wind like a capote, allowing for melodies to be put on it for protection.

GRADE: Silver
PHYSICAL: E
ARCANE: C
CHAOS: B
SPECIAL: The "armor" on her cheeks now provide an additional rank of physical resistance once per transformation per piece. (In other words they can take a physical hit and then they break until they recover.)

Symphony of Espers

Marrie Knight

Marrie didn't know what was happening until she made her way over to the counter next to Orion. She had heard the sound of fighting from the other side of the makeshift bathtub she was shocked in, and assumed that Sofron was already down. She was wrong, again, and this time once again might prove fatal to someone. When was she going to get things together? She watched Orion put down what could only be another esper and saw Sofron throw someone out of the window, someone who was most likely the Maiden. She didn't have a chance to think, she began moving.

[Warm: Silver Self - Flight]

With the speed she had just gained and adrenaline pumping through her as she watched Orion's arm get shot off, she flew to her and tackled her over the counter farthest from her the instant Orion's own beam attack was fired. She didn't realize that she was probably throwing off her aim, she only cared about getting her out of the path of the beam and hopefully out of Sofron's sight. She didn't even consider the very likely possibility that she would get shot instead as she then flew to Sofron, attempting to grasp him by the face and take him out the window with her. Later, she would, assuming she were still alive, likely justify this as an attempt to stop the Maiden from hitting the water from such a height in mundane form. And maybe Sofron would just drown without something to put a portal on. But in the moment, all she knew was that her body was moving.

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19 | Female | Freelancer | Misty Steps
Apexer Predator | Dagger | Physical | Heavenly Chain
Wind-Carved Glacier | Masking
Step of the Hurricane | Wind | Riding the Currents
[Storm (4), Flight (6)] Damage X (6), Multi-Cast (4), Blink (4), Magic Sense (6), Heal (16), Portal (8), Rain (2), Scatter (2), Bounce (2)

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: D | SENTINEL: C | 750

[158]
[Warm: Silver Self - Flight]: 96

PHYSICAL: E | ARCANE: D | CHAOS: C | 158

Secundi Lux

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Having had the, perhaps misguided, foresight to transform on the way over, Crystal had no impressive metamorphosis to dazzle the Officers with. Instead, she waited and watched as her teammates fought, using their Elementum and Gladius magnificently each. And before she could even examine the coming machines, two were down. One certainly at Selma's hand, another likely at Aoife's, with help from Rivka. She supposed she should probably act, but...

"Is it really only these three? Surely not." Or rather, surely not as they were now. There was always a distinct chance with machines that there were other functions than those visible on it. You wouldn't guess most mechanical purposes without seeing them in action, after all. "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That was the quote, wasn't it? And for those with magic, the Ars Magi, that saying would be much more terrifying than it would to a normal person if true. Knowing the depths of magic only made Crystal more worried about the ease with which her teammates defeated these drones. Sure, she was proud to be on their team, to be standing alongside such wonderful Ars Magi, but perhaps it was best to simply stay in the back for now.

If all five of them used up too much of their reserves, then a secondary threat would decimate them. Chie had run the dinner bell, so it was certainly time to eat, but... She doubted that this was anything more than an appetizer. And while she trusted Selma's ability to grasp the battlefield, there was always another possibility; that the drones took more from their namesake than simply their autonomy. Instead of joining the fight in an offensive manner, perhaps she could kill two birds with one stone? Distract and survey.

Crystal went to the nearest building and looked up at it. It appeared to be high enough to get a good grasp on her surroundings, so she expended a small fraction of her Nox reserves to form platforms of ice alongside the building out of the falling rain. It took only a moment for her to have a path up, which she took quickly, rising to the roof where she stood and looked out upon the mission area. If there was even a single airborne drone, she would alert her team and draw its, or their, attention so that she and her team could begin the process of violently dismantling.

And if not? Well, she could always use some target practice, being mostly suited for close-combat, and there were surely other threats than these three nearest.

Going Viral: A Digimon RP

Is it still possible to send in a CS or are you only looking for ones from those who already expressed interest?