The Will to Fight: Ongoing: Red and Purple

[voidtreckermods]

Dawn Attack

It's been a busy few days of fighting demons, attacking keystones and fighting both on the demon and human planes. On the morning of day nine of the month of Kazoo a gate opens close to the base camp that the two teams have made.

It seems the demons have decided to focus on this unexpected threat, because it is a sizable force, with a number of the large demons. They march towards the camp with single-minded focus, the opportunity to stop these unwanted defenders taking precedence over their desire to destroy the city.

The advantage to the landscape being as ruined as it is, is that there isn't much to stop the lookouts from seeing this force headed towards them. A gate opening is not subtle. There should be enough time to make sure the defenders are ready.

Scouting Ahead

Once that skirmish is won those on the Red team will find their SCA's beeping, with an exclamation point far out to the east.

A group of demons is congregating at the location indicated. Investigate why, defeat the demons and close any gates nearby.

It will take a while to get there and there is plenty to do on the way for those that follow the exclamation point. Roaming packs of demons, gates to be closed. Exhausting work, especially for those going in and out of the demon gates.

Protecting the City

Once it is clear that these defenders are not going to be easy to wipe out, the attacks on the city itself get more frequent. The demons have changed tactics: rather than sending in large groups they open many small portals, sending small strike teams to harry and target individuals.

Some of the attacks are clearly meant as traps: they open the gates in or very close to the city, to lure the Voidtreckers in to where they will be affected by the spell. Ranged attacks may be useful here.

Comments

[xue_yang]

He laughs and pushes himself up. He opens his mouth with a playful expression as he lets Xingchen feed him. He is perfectly capable of eating for himself but that doesn't mean he can't enjoy this bit of spoiling.

"I'm not so tired that I can't feed myself but if you insist, I"m not going to stop you."

[xue_yang]

Xue Yang looks back at the weapon that is somehow nosier then the previous one he was using. He shakes his head and goes back to his own demonic partners. Modern weapons were all about the load and obnoxious it seems.

Somehow so much less elegant then a sword but perhaps a little more productive.

"If the little ones are this annoying, I can't wait to see how frustrating the one in charge of them will be."

[lucklessgege]

"That is true. That one was quite nice." Very nice actually...not that he would ever admit to why. But at least that world seemed peaceful. So at least there is some places out there that haven't succumbed to war.

"Perhaps the next one will be nice as well." THey are going to need a break.

Re: Dawn attack

[creepyoldguy]

"Then we're pals! Great! I need some new ones since Lyds isn't here. And A-dog and B-town. And other Lydia. Or even Chuck and Debbie."

He set a row of demons on fire with a flick of his wrist, bouncing on his toes, hair brightening to a neon shade of green.

[schrodingersghost]

"I don't have any demons at home to deal with." Danny makes a face as he punches away another demon. "Just ghosts, and they wake me up in the middle of the night all the time. Especially the month Skulker decided to try out his ambush attack techniques, until he decided that it wasn't sporting enough."

[schrodingersghost]

"Hey, I'll gladly take the company."

Danny thinks it over, and this could work out. He knew Raven could fly too. So the two of them could move fast and bring back any news before anyone else ran into it.

Rescue

[schrodingersghost]

Danny knew his own strength. He knew he could take care of himself, and that his powers meant that he was better suited that many of the other passengers for missions like this. And so he'd volunteered to take on as much as he could.

But after days of constant fighting and scouting, he was starting to push at the edges of his endurance.

And of course that was when he got ambushed on the way back to the camp. The first few groups he takes care of, leaving a trail of ice and ectoplasmic burns across the ground. But they keep coming, and he keeps fighting them, pulling on the source of ectoplasmic energy at his core to keep going.

Until there was nothing else and he suddenly finds himself human and powerless, facing down an army alone.

This... really wasn't his day. He reaches for the battered thermos hanging on his belt and silently vows to start carrying backup weapons.

And then all he can see is light.

[voidtreckernpcs]

beep boop
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boop beep boop beep
boop boop boop
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beep
beep beep
boop beep
beep boop
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The pattern seems to repeat as they get the signal steady, still interrupted here and there by some static but not enough to obscure it.

Meanwhile Inigo pulls away the sleeping bag... To find a metal object, a centre sphere with metal legs curled around it as if it had attempted to make itself smaller. It is very still.

[flatteries]

Whatever, you two. Have fun with your beeping radio. It seems that Roland is actually hearing something in it, but Inigo has no idea what the guy is getting from nothing but these sounds. Roland isn't the type to kid around about these things, so.. who knows, maybe he really is hearing something.

Inigo will leave it up to them to figure out. Instead he's all eyes for this odd metal object over here. Was this thing moving? But how? Did someone throw it in here by accident? Inigo doesn't think he's ever seen it on the train before, but it could belong to a fellow passenger..

Either way, he just reaches his hand out to try and pick it up. Maybe he can figure out what it is after he holds it in his hands.

[stardustofdawn]

"Of course, but I insist." He looks happy, so that must be a good sign. "You've been fighting hard. All of that training and working out in the gym helps. You need to eat to keep up your strength."

He continues to feed him to spoil him that way. It felt nice and he wants him to feel happy and be a source of his happiness.

[blitzcheer]

What is Roland hearing? Is it the same as him? Tidus watches completely oblivious, one second his wrist grabbed, the other letting it go. But Tidus doesn't move, doesn't dare to, other than his head as his gaze goes over to Inigo and then back to Roland, then to nowhere as he attempts to make anything out of the weird beeps.

Is there... is there anything in this he's not realising he's hearing? But there's no eureka him, no sudden realisation. The beeps could be anything to his ears.

"What?" he asks, as Roland makes his commotion about need something. But his brain isn't working as to what. A translator? And once again does he look about the small space, seeing Inigo and...

Tidus is having a lot of small moments of pauses, here.

"...isn't that Cassie's bot?"

But also, that has to be Cassie's bot. Doesn't it? Right... right??

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven notices Peter looking around suddenly, getting her attention. "Something up?" Then she hears the soft beeping too.

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[guru_clef]

"Fine. But I do not feel like having a friend with me now. You can find me in the library, after."

[its_dad_sanzo]

Light so bright it almost seems to roar with a consuming silence.

But though Danny's eyes may not realize it just yet, flashed as they are, it's dimmed down to the intensity of a bright day on a snowy mountain with no shade. And it dims further, until the innumerable, impossible tendrils of holy paper aren't giving off light at all, though they remain floating around in the air.

"Ah... your eyes should recover soon." It's not the first flashed person Koumyou's encountered today, using the sutra as liberally as he has been. "The danger's gone for now, you can let them rest."

Re: Dawn attack

[creepyoldguy]

"Oh. You're a nerd." He made an "L" with his hand and frowned to himself. "Anyway, we're not supposed to leave each other on the battlefield. I don't think we get paid as much if people croak."

[runicfeathers]

That was definitely not the reaction she had been expecting. How could a robot be afraid? This makes no sense, but she sighs and steps back to Ryo as Vexen does his thing.

"I wasn't going to harm it, but that is odd that it shows fear.. the last time I saw a robot it was out to kill us."

[chocobosnap]

"How is that any better than daemons?" Prompto asked with a bit of a huff. He's not pronouncing it the same, he's just likening these creatures to the ones he knows.

"Man, who invited these guys?"

Dawn

[spikelet]

She hasn't really wanted to test their ceasefire during a mission, when everyone is armed and tensions are high, but she wasn't not going to sleep near Xiao Xingchen on the day she'd caught a ride back to the base camp. So when Xue Yang wakes up, so does she, slipping back into the practice of years to come entirely alert in a moment.

And, also practised, she pads after him silently until he stops at the lookout post.

"Haven't you been beating them up for days?" She grouches, fishing a Pokeball out of her pocket and releasing her Vulpix in a flash of white light. "All that and they're not scared of you? You'd better not be slacking when daozhang is working hard..."

Resting

[subcircuits]

The supervision of base camp keeps Devero pretty busy through the first three days of the mission-- but not too busy for his Sanzo. Someone has to make sure Koumyou actually stops to attend his bodily needs at least occasionally. As holy as the Seiten sutra is, the priest protecting it is still a man.

"Welcome back," he says as Koumyou joins him, trying not to flinch too obviously from the sight of all the gore on the other man's robes. He reaches into the band at his wrist and hands the requested towel over to Koumyou. Producing a jug of water next, he hands that over as well, for the priest to drink or wash with as he sees fit. "I very much doubt you're okay, so I'm forced to assume you mean you're not hurt. Or do I need to make you take some of these potion things I grabbed from our field hospital?"

[chocobosnap]

"Ha!" Prompto cheered a bit when the demon went down and turned his attention back to watching Xue Yang's back.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." He spoke from experience. Pretty much all the Lucians used bladed weapons, Prompto was a noisy sort.

Re: Resting

[its_dad_sanzo]

Koumyou actually glances himself over as he takes the towel and the jug, like he's honestly not sure until he looks-- "Nothing's broken, everything's attached."

The red blood on his robes is probably his own; the demons' ichor on him is more of a greenish yellowish grossness. Like poison snot.

So he chugs from the jug first, then wets one end of the towel and starts scrubbing his face and hands and head as he talks, muffled by towel. "...Potion things? Maaaah, let's leave the healing supplies for people who need them... I'm fine, I haven't even had to cauterize anything!"

That's... that's what fine means, right? Devero saw the cauterized bullet wounds from Nion, back when he'd first seen the priest in swim trunks. It hadn't been that long after that mission.

[melodiouspacifist]

"I hope so, but I don't really know. I haven't been on the train that long. The winter thing was the first thing I went to." Demyx admitted. So this was his second mission and it was exhausting!

[melodiouspacifist]

"Yeah! Who doesn't like a little battle music?" Demyx asked with a bit of a chuckle and he's playing, notes on the sitar that are more on the rapid side, but it becomes apparent there's more than meets the eye when balls of water begin to form.

He reached a crescendo, and they shot forward, knocking six of the small demons off their feet, staggering them and from the way they were moving, that hurt.

[subcircuits]

"Well, that's a start," Devero says, frowning pointedly at the priest. He wasn't planning on pushing him immediately-- at least until Koumyou goes and says that!

"Koumyou," he starts sharply, but the heat in his own voice makes him pause and wrestle with his temper. When he continues, it's to say in a more measured voice, "Will you at least let me look you over?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny blinks, trying to clear the light blindness from his eyes.

"Ah... you sure?" Not that he was doubting whoever had been nice enough to interfere with a situation that he was pretty sure a few people would be lecturing him about later. But... that had been a lot of demons just now.

He tries to summon up a shield, just in case. A flicker of green light shimmers around his his hands, but quickly sputters and vanishes.