middleofsomewhere | The Will to Fight: Ongoing: Red and Purple

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.

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"What kind of notes?" Demyx asked jovially as he continued to play. He couldn't make it hail, probably, but he could send a little tidal wave to knock a few demons off their feet.

"Hah! Probably not musical ones?" he offers, deciding to take the chance.

"I definitely don't want to fog things up accidentally all the time though, so the more I know the better..!"

Emporio's joke made him chuckle shamelessly.

"Good point." He grinned. "Well I don't know much about fog stuff, I don't really work with the air."

"It feels like an advantage, just working with water- trying to think about the ways the weather works gets dizzying sometimes..!"

"Yeah, I bet I could see that. I've never really tried to mix my magic with something else." Demyx admitted with a bit of a hum. "Just the water. I mean, if it works, it works!"

"Do you think it would work..?"

Now he's curious. Not distracted, fortunately, or this fight would be veering in a bad direction, but curious.

"I...have no idea." Demyx said with a bit of a chuckle as he blasted back a few more demons.

"I don't know what I'd pick. Not fire, definitely."

"I don't think fire would really work anyway," Emporio snorts. "If you're already working with water, you'd want to try something 'like' water, right? Maybe something like the wind. Air already has water in it after all."

"Wind huh?" Demyx asked, considering that. "That might not be a bad idea, I just don't know any spells like that."

"Maybe you could buy a book?"

He has no idea how magic works in Demyx's case, to be fair to that suggestion.

"A book? Ugh. No thanks." Demyx was not the reading type, thank you.

"That bad..?" Demyx.... "How did you learn water magic then?"

"I don't really read." Demyx said, as if that wasn't an understatement.

"I don't know." He admitted. "I just kinda...woke up with it?"

"...At all?" Concerning...

"Oh- I guess it's more like instinct instead of learning then..."

"I can, but it's so boring." Demyx complained.

"Yeah, it's like that. I can just...do it. I figured out a couple moves and that's about it."

"Huh... ...If it's like that maybe you won't be able to branch out then. I'd sort of assumed it was something you could learn about, but I guess not."

A pause.

"It's pretty incredible that you just could though!"

"I really don't know if it's something you can learn or not. I don't know that much about how it works. I'm not really a researching guy." Demyx admitted with a sheepish duck of his head.

"Yeah, I kinda like it."

"Hahaha...I don't really know a lot who are, so I guess that's fair..."

Ahhh. "...Do you just not read at all though? Even stories?"

"Not really, not my thing. I read sheet music." Demyx said, because that was true.

Well, he's never had the option to read sheet music in his own defense, so there's not much he can do other than nod.

And, well, guess? "Sheet music is basically instructions for different songs right? I can see why you'd read those at least," he laughs, grinning widely. It seems practically vital for Demyx!

"That's right." Demyx grinned brightly. "Instructions for songs so I can learn new ones. That kind of reading is really fun." At least, it was to him.

"I like music more than anything else."

This is a kind of relaxing fight, weirdly enough.

Something something...water soothes...

"...Can you play other instruments?" he finds himself asking.

Demyx chuckled a little bit. "Nah. I'd like to, someday." He admitted. "But I haven't had the chance."

He could do it here, but he felt more comfortable with Arpeggio in his hands.

"I always wondered about piano..."

...He doesn't say why. He realizes, just before he does, that 'I slept in one' might not sound right.

"That's not my area so much, I mostly know about stringed instruments." Demyx admitted. "But I bet there's a way to learn. I've been able to order some music books so you can probably get one to teach you."

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