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Wings of Wonder: Finale

THE DAYS have been long and tiring, always a job to be done. If it hasn't been taking out the birds that continued to come over the days, it's been fixing and repair; if it hasn't been that, it's been working with the crystals, offering energies, searching for a way to make powers work on a world that refuses them.

The Voidtreckers know the sali's plan, and have been working with them to achieve it, as well as to add their own ideas. Both groups are to make a team to head to the West Island where the birds gather their numbers, singing a song that calls more to them. Taking an airship and craft carriers, they will blow at the Red Storm being generated by the birds, and then take out their numbers before it can be amassed to any dangerous amounts.

And for the Voidtreckers not going West, they're asked to go South. The East will be protected by the sali and the Forever Ones there, and Enshala will need any extra aid in taking out the birds by disorienting them, making them easier pickings for both sali and Voidtreckers.

Finally, 11 Nebula arrives. People who wish to risk going to the heart of the problem are to meet either to the North, or at the Centre island. Hemla is coming with them, along with the Shrinlo, to closely connect the powers of the Forever Ones in the battle to come.

Over the SCAs, a call goes out - and a voice comes through: young, perhaps around 20s in terms of human age, androgynous in tone. Small yet driven, clear to any who hears them:

"Help from skies far, this is Hemla. I thank you deeply for joining us. For coming to help, for working with us despite the struggles it has taken, the pain.

I want to speak to many of you so much, but now is not the time. Through the tools you call S-C-As, we Forevers will sync with its energies and meld them to ours. We will trick the world into seeing your powers as ours. There will be limitations, so be safe - use the crystals made by our crafters and yours too. Speak to each other, learn how they work. The sali - and your people who helped - know.

I...will be doing my best to protect those who go West. Everyone I have spoken to, you are in my thoughts. Reach for me in your minds if you need my strength, and I will do my best.

Thank you... thank you."

With those words, there is some time before everything is set into motion. Until finally, the airship rises and starts its travel to the West Island. Until finally, both Voidtreckers South and West-bound feel their body lighten, the first proper relief they've had for days. As the Southern skies start to show approaching wings from a distance waning...

WINGS OF WONDER: FINALE

A TL;DR notes version of event/prompts: (click to show)

EVENT BASICS:

West Island

Boss Battle

boss battle

TO THE WEST

The sound of music sings inside the airship, powering its speed, and winds that repel the Red Storm. It resonates with the surrounding air, offering protection to the smaller crafts following at the sides. "It is time!" A sali declares, and two come to stand by what looks like a mix of a megaphone-cannon, pointed out from the front. Sali and Voidtreckers have smaller versions, and are directed to prepare their places - take to the sides of the ship, be ready for combat.

Already the birds are coming for them, covered in red, but their united power pushes them away. The White Forest is under them, and the cannon-phone starts powering. Another signal is given as a hand is raised, counting down from three. The instruction is simple: At zero, shout.

And indeed, when the fist is made, a great chorus of screams join, and the weapon at the front glows, and blasts a magnificent whirlwind of air that encompasses the mountain the birds have been nesting at. Many are blown away, every which where. The Red Storm thinning out, the airship flying close to the mountain peak, usually a crater.

Except a bird emerges with large red wings and rocks the ship as it ascends from their roosting spot, filling the air with its shrieks and presence.

The fight begins.

ATTACK FROM DECK. Some of the Sali are on the deck, armed with their blowhorns and any voidtreckers who feel they would be most use fighting the birds at range can join them in the skies. Those with magic, music, bows or guns join forces with the Sali to fight off the swarms of birds.

GROUNDED. Not all the fighting is in the air. The blast from the air ship has sent many of the birds tumbling to the ground where more Sali and those Voidtreckers whose fighting skills are best served when on solid ground are waiting for them.

The birds try and recover, but most remain at least low to the ground, attacking those they see.

KING OF THE AIR. Through the chaos of snow, red mist and birds comes a beating of wings as another threat appears.

TO THE SOUTH

Those that do not go West will be asked to go South, to defend island and the Sali who are too old or too young to fight..

PAINT IT RED. The Sali have an area for those who cannot fight, protected as best as it can be by geography and Enshala's power. However with the birds swarming everywhere there is need of defenders to make sure that it remains a safe space.

Though before it seemed that certain birds had flocked to certain islands now the swarms were more varied, any of the different kinds of birds; swift wings, red wings and steel wings all dive down to attack.

SENDING HOPE. Of course the Forever Ones hold the key to all of this, helping the Voidtreckers be able to use their power better than before, helping hold back the birds from strategic places and creating a web of power across the islands that connects all the Sali and their allies in the Voidtreckers.

Enshala welcomes any who needs to rest and of course anyone who wishes to help by lending energy, or anything else they feel they can contribute in a spiritual sense. Her area is one of peace and rest.

It is also where those Sali who cannot fight are sheltering and though they are resilient, those who can help with food or persuading small Sali that they cannot fight birds, is also a task worth doing.

DIVEBOMB. Despite the attempts at shielding the area a swarm of birds has broken through to where the herds of woolies and headbutters are. Any Voidtreckers who can be spared to fight are asked to assist fighting the birds off. They arrive to scenes of chaos.

OOC NOTES

NOTES: OOC info is here, info about powers/magic here. Ask questions here, submit shenanigans here, submit rewards here.

ABOUT POWERS: Powers are available around 40-50% percent. People can teleport easier if they stick around the area, but will still need to watch how often they do it. Manipulating the environment is still greatly difficult (the air, plants, gravity) etc, but anything that relies on one's own inner power (magic, chi/ki/qi) works easier.

ENERGY/ETC BEINGS: No longer feeling so much a drain. Will be able to run around and fight without being completely drained.

ABOUT USING STONES/SALI WEAPONS: During the battles, the Voidtreckers will be able to tap into some special weapons and elemental stones. These are:

BLOWHORN:

will

SLINGSHOTS, BOW AND ARROWS:

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS:

banjo

AIRNADO:

FLASH BANG:

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Getting up to the gravity changing bird doesn't seem like a bad idea, but for the time being it seems someone might have an idea or two on that matter. Meaning he'll leave his attack for the time being, but making sure to keep an eye on the situation.

If things get worse, he can always try his hand at it. "I might be able to paralyze it, if need be. Can't really fly if you can't get your nerves to a wing to work correctly, right?" But, for now, he probably should head in the direction of the other birds causing problems. Maybe his more non-human appearance might attract attention to him instead of the others.

He catches a little of what the other man says about paralyzing it. It is a good plan and he wonders what he could do to go about doing it. He doesn't have any sort of ability to force it into happening and now he is avoiding a talon as he tries to consider his options.

Then it comes to him...instead of avoiding the talon he grabs onto it when it gets close, using the silk bandage to wrap it up and tries to tie the legs together. Maybe if he upsets this part of the bird's balance then he can get it distracted enough to stop it's flight.

For a moment, Xichen lowers the xiao from his lips. He is not shouting, but his voice carries enough, hopefully.

"If anyone has any kind of sensitivity to such things, can you tell if the birds are coming of their own will, or are they controlled in some way?"

It might be a long shot, but he still thinks it might be worth asking. If something is controlling them, resolving the current crisis might still leave the sali with a problem for a later time.

And then Liebing is back at his lips, and he focuses his help towards the birds harrying the woolies. The more they can protect, the better.

Oh no! These birds are big bullies. Romeo waved his stick at them. "Go away!" Jonouchi's horn was a better distraction but then it meant the birds were attacking him and then some were attacking Romeo and the woolies! And there were more woolies.

"LINE LINE LINE" He fired three borderlines at the birds, stumbling with how tired that made him. It was better than before, but still not good!

"This way!" He shooed the woolies away from the birds and ran down to round up the other woolies, he swung out at the birds nearby.

Katsuya's shadow blasted the small birds, knocking two of them out of the air completely and sending another after an easier target. He's safe for now but there is a swiftwing swooping above, stalking him.

Between Siebren's blasts and Romeo's borderlines the woolies are herded further up to join with Kaseri and the other woolies. From behind a red wing swoops over Siebren in a move that seems to be distraction rather than an attack, though it gets close enough to perhaps singe his hair. Meanwhile two swift wings dive towards the now together flock, one trying to grab Kaseri and the other Romeo and lift them into the air.

Kabuto and Lan Xichen will have to be careful as the struggle up above means the shadow of those wings are cast towards them, if they are caught in it they will find themselves flung up into the air. Though they may remember that Siebren had offered to help with that!

Up in the air the bird is not taking to having it's feet tied without a fight, it twists and turns trying to kick Xie Lian away. A few of the smaller birds have come to help, though their flying is thrown off by the affects of the upside down bird they still try to peck at Xie Lian as they fly past in chaotic flight patterns.

Emporio seems safe for a moment before a rain of feather-knives fly out of the clouds nearby. No bird can yet be seen... But it's clearly out there.

"Thank you sir!" He calls at Siebren, glad that the birds had flown off enough for him to get the woolies away. It was good that they had got the herd all together again and he circles again, keeping them all together.

He has done a bit of animal herding on missions before, which still doesn't quite account for how natural he finds this. But he's not thinking on that. Rather he is distracted by talons, digging into his shoulder.

"No! Bad Bird! Bad bird!" He swung his stick, trying to beat away the bird that had him in its grasp, even as his feet lifted off the floor.

Lan Xichen tries to evade the shadow, out of habitual reflex to avoid things coming his way which give an off feeling, though if he is close enough to Kabuto, he might try to spin the other out of the wingspan reach and take the risk himself.

He keeps hold of his xiao at any rate, and will try to continue dealing damage, on the ground or off it.

Edited 2021-09-23 20:29 (UTC)

Siebren feels that sudden source of heat and ducks on instinct alone, watching as the flame wing swoops low overhead. Well. It certainly has his attention, and he is going to make it regret that. If it's close enough to affect him, after all, then it's close enough for him to hit.

He'd been preparing the accretion for the upside-down bird, but instead he hurls the makeshift boulder in a short arc at the flame wing, aiming to knock it out of the air, along with any bird unfortunate enough to be near it at the moment of impact.

That's when he hears Romeo yelling, turns to see him clutched in a bird's talons, and reaches out, taking hold of Romeo's center of gravity. "I have you!" If he aims his hyperspheres at the bird, they'll implode too close to Romeo to avoid hurting him; he'll need other help disengaging from the bird, but for now, Siebren will not allow him to be carried away.

[Note: Accretion is an improvised boulder that stuns the target when it hits, shatters on impact, and does blunt damage to the target and surrounding targets with what is effectively Earth Shrapnel. We have fun here.]

That help might come in the form of winged Death Incarnate using the flaps of his wings to augment his floating to move faster. Thanatos grips his sword to slice at the bird holding Romeo, hoping that Siebren will make sure Romeo doesn't come to further harm.

He weaves through the birds to help Emporio with the large upside-down bird he saw shadowing the sky. He could try to wound it up close with a sword, but he might be better to distract it to let Emporio do his thing.

Emporio, ultimately, needs to just do his best and pray at this point. The birds are closing in- they know what he's after, he's sure, just as much as it tells him this is something they don't want to happen.

So he launches himself forward as fast as possible, a tiny bullet of wind and cloud, and does his best. Feet first- he dares not risk his head if he crashes into any of these birds, but the goal is to avoid them or at least only hit their feathers on the way forward.

He just needs to survive, and reach the upside down bird from the 'top' part. That's it.

(It feels so much harder, and more terrifying, than when he had the idea from afar)

Perhaps it is better if he takes his own advice, he... does have a slight advantage with movement if one takes the stomach snake into consideration. Which, why not at this point. He's taking off towards the shadow of the large bird to take advantage of the gravity change in hopes that if he does get flung into the air that maybe he can use said snake to grab onto something of the large bird to get some purchase.

If that works, then he's going to scramble to get to one of the wings somehow to use his chakra scalpels to try and sever some nerves to make that particular wing useless.

Edited (Getting Kabuto and Tsunade's things mixed up like a dingus.) 2021-09-23 23:45 (UTC)

With the Woolies safe, Wangji focuses his attention on the swift wings that seem to be causing the most issues to Xie Lan, with a few short bursts of music -trying to disorient or make them change target until he has managed to achieve something with his quarry.
Emporio whizzing through the sky is enough of a surprise while he jumps out of the way of any incoming bird attack, that he has to pause to catch his breath, feeling tired already from the draining effect of this world.
Then he sees Romeo get lifted into the air and stops in order to run over to stand underneath him - hoping to catch him if the bird decides to drop him mid-battle.
He plays the banjo as menacingly as he can at it.

Meanwhile, now that the woolies are safely out of the way, there's room for another addition to the sound and fury of this fight. Quick, precise bursts of rifle fire erupt from below, targeted at the razor birds above.

Cassie's an elite marksman - she's not taking any shots she'd be likely to miss.

Lucky for him, Xie Lian has a really high pain tolerance so he barely even notices the smaller birds trying to tear at him. His attentions are far too focused on the bigger one as he keeps his grip on Rouye and doing everything he can to bind those legs together.

He doesn't want to kill the creature but he knows that they probably will have to when this all heads towards its climax. He might be newer to missions but even he understands that they are here to clear such dangers. But for now he will continue to try and humanely keep this bird from continuing on its chaotic path.

Which means he extends out to try and reach the bird's head, pulling those legs along with him in an aim to tie his feet to his face.

Siebren's boulder hits the redwing that was attacking him and explodes, taking down a couple of the smaller bully-birds that had been coming to join in.

The bird trying to take Romeo is unhappy at its target all of a sudden being heavier and more weighed down then it anticipated and digs its talons in, flying upwards with purpose. For a moment they are caught in a tug of war before Thanatos cuts the bird down, leaving Romeo to be caught by Lan Wangji and his menacing banjo.

As Thanatos moves towards Emporio some of the smaller bully-birds move in to try and hinder him, flying in to peck at him or catch his clothes in their talons.

Back on the ground the onslaught is less now, thanks to Lan Xichen's song and Cassie's sniping of birds before they got low enough to attack those on the ground.

Kabuto flies upwards and manages to meet Xie Lian in his upside-down bird ride. The bird bucks and twists trying to avoid being tied, making the shadow move erratically over the ground, Lan Xichen and Cassie will see the shadow moving towards them rapidly as they play and shoot.

Emporio begins his dive down to meet the two on the upside down bird and is perused, by a swiftwing who seems to be trying to grab him and two steel wings, knife feathers coming in at him from two sides as he flies through the air.

Talons dug into his shoulders as the bird pulled up and some force pulled down and he cried out in pain before he was let go and, there was Lan Wangji.

"Thank you sir!" He hoped he didn't squash him too badly, landing on him like this. He'll move in a moment but right now his shoulders are too sore, he can feel them damp with blood.

It's very scary, this big fight and he stays by Lan Wangji's feet, watching the birds in the sky with big eyes.

"It is no trouble. Please hold still."

Wangji leans down and presses a hand to Romeo's shoulder and sends a pulse of healing Qi. Wounds won't heal miraculously, but they will stop bleeding and you will feel better for a while. This person appears to be a small child and while Lan Wangji is not unfamiliar with children fighting in battle, he's rather glad this one is staying put.

He absently pats Romeo on the head and then redirects his attention to what is left of the swarming birds. The banjo is useful but he's running low on energy, so he has to wait for it to recover before he can launch back into any kind of fray.

Cassie immediately turns her aim and attention to the great shadow looming above her. She narrows her eyes, cursing under her breath as the friendlies keep moving.

Dammit. She needs a better shot than that...

Emporio suffice to say is having a bad time- it's all he can do, but dodge best he can and otherwise keep himself as cloaked in razor winds as possible.

Katsuya is doing far better suffice to say, and he points toward where shelter- however distant it may be- ultimately is.

"C'mon, let's go!!" he shouts, ushering the woolies and others along. "Th' whole point of this is keepin' these guys safe..!"

Behind him, his shadow roars and snarls, Red-Eyes clawing and torching whatever bird dare draw near. What injuries he sustains, however light, reflect upon the blond's own face and body however- there are limits for them all.

It can struggle all it wants to, but that snake is not letting go for anything as Kabuto's trying to use the moment of it moving to get himself a proper hold on said bird to scramble up onto it. If he does manage that then he'll try and move the navel snake to a more... biting the top position to keep him tethered to the angry avian.

One step at a time or... something. But he's at least being a stubborn jerk about this.

Thanatos grits his teeth and tries to evade the smaller birds as best he can. They tear at his clothes, but given that his hoodie and such have needed mending already from when he got stabbed, there isn't a hint of concern. (He's also used to going around with half a shirt, so honestly, it's just protecting him from getting scrapped himself.)

Regardless, his goal is still to reach Emporio and aid with the birds attacking him.

The fight higher up is difficult for Siebren to reach with his powers diminished; for now, he stays with the ground fight. Romeo is safe, if injured, and the woolies still need to be moved; to that end, he takes position near the rear of the herd, ricocheting his hyperspheres off any birds who get too close for comfort, attempting to turn the birds from the herd or drop them entirely.

Siebren's hyperspheres keep the birds away as Katsuya herds the rest of the woolies towards the shelter. It's not far and the birds are taken out before they reach so it is not so difficult to get them all inside and safe.

Up in the air Kabuto has latched onto the upside down bird which is now rolling wildly with two voidtreckers attacked.

Emporio and Thanatos are almost upon it too so it would see its time is numbered...

With Thanatos' aid, Emporio is battered but otherwise on track. The winds gather at a point, the boy focusing them away from their status as shield and more into a sort of drill at his feet. He is a missile now on target, and the upside-down bird is coming to its end. (Hopefully without killing one of their medics.)

Katsuya meanwhile, breathes a sigh of relief- his shadow retreating, the pokemon gently nuzzling any woolie who are still particularly anxious (more than the others anyway), and ultimately comes to sit. "Hahhhh...man..." He looks out at the battle, shaking his head. "At least it's almost over.."

It can roll wildly, but with those jaws attached to it, hopefully he keeps a good grip. And maybe he can use some of that momentum to get to the "shoulder" area of the bird and get a good solid chakra scalpel hit in to sever those muscles and tendons there.

One less wing is a good thing, right? ~~This is probably a bad idea.~~

Wings of Wonder: Finale

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