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middleofsomewhere2021-09-21 09:07 am
voidtreckermods) wrote in middleofsomewhere2021-09-21 09:07 am
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."
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.
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:
- ~ Voidtreckers can chose to go to the West Island with the Airship to disrupt the Red Storm or to go to the South to help protect Enshala and the Sali who cannot fight.
~ The West Island prompts are for those on the air ship and those on the ground. These are both fights and there are prompts for play-your-own-monster fights as well as the boss battle.
~ For the West Boss Battle characters can be on the ship or on the ground- the bird will sweep between but for mod sanity please make it clear where your character is!
~ In the South there are prompts for general bird fights (play your own monsters) as well as the option to be helping out near the Forever One for those who are more healer, support, non combatant characters.
~ The boss battle here will be out in the plains.
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.
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: Weapon. Literally a horn for blowing in, this will create a blow of air that can take down whatever is immediately in front of the user. Doesn't have a long range, depends on the strength of your blow, but working with others with a blowhorn will make the attack stronger.
SLINGSHOTS, BOW AND ARROWS: Weapons. Basically made than anything special. Those who have had good relations with some sali will be granted metal-tipped, or power stone-tipped (these are rarer), which will explode inside their target.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Mostly reed woodwind instruments (alboka and taepyeongso), but they also have a type of erhu and a banjo. Some tune must be made with these, and if so, the music playing will startle the birds, be able to sometimes stop their attacks. They can bolster other's attacks so long as the pair work in unison. Bard type. Continously playing will exhaust the individual.
AIRNADO: Air stone. You toss it out and will it to go off through desire. It creates a spherical whirlwind wherever it's activated.
FLASH BANG: Fire stone. Small, but when activated (same as above) it will create a strong flash. Do not look directly at.
Note: Once the fighting is over, none of the crystals/anything crystal-powered will work.
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[Because that's the starting component to soup, right? Seems simple enough. He also doesn't want to dig through their things to see what they brought, because he can't remember who the fuck is wearing one of the magic pocket dimension bracelets.]
[Eventually he returns with some gourds, some mysterious tubors, and some vegetables all in various shades of blues, orange, and brown. And some woolie meat on the side]
[And no idea how these things taste.]
[He puts them by the cutting board, shrugging.] It's soup, as long as there's salt no one will complain. [Meat's good for that, right?]
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I'll start with this and get it cut up, since I think we should make sure the meat has time to cook through. [She grabs the meat and sets it in front of her, with the rest of the food out of the way to give her room to work and avoid cross contamination.
Technically she's aware that you don't always have to cook meat all the way through, but she's not familiar with woolie meat, so she's being cautious on that front.]
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[He flaps his hand in the general direction he'd seen people heading earlier. Unfortunately, no gun? No decent ability to fight.]
Okay, I do meat, you do vegetables. How does that sound? I'll chop it up, toss it in the frying pan a little, chuck it in the pot and the boiling water and a spoon should do most of it.
[It might be adventure soup but people can eat it or they won't.]
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[The result of most hotel rooms not having kitchens: no chance to cook for yourself.]
That sounds good. I’ll let you take over the meat here while I move over to get the veggies cut.
[Masumi grabs an armful of the vegetables and moves them over to make way for Murphy, then gets a new knife and picks one of the mystery tubers to cut first.]
At least this’ll be actual food, instead of that food goo nutrislime stuff from other worlds.
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[He grabs a knife to start cutting up the meat, chopping it into cubes 'cause that seems the best bet.]
I've done the 'meat on a skewer' thing for years now. But I still have that old 'barbecuing middle class' guy programmed into me so I should be able to handle it.
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She continues to work on the vegetables, slowly forming a pile of cut vegetables off to the side as she goes.]
Better than what experience I've got. Never got the chance to learn for myself before the train, since I was living in hotels and had to rely on what I could buy. I've been trying to learn whenever Purple's turn to cook comes up, so that's something.
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[He never got to do that in prison. But even without any kind of seasoning, he should be able to handle frying up some meat.]
[He does, however, try a piece of it straight up raw to see how it tastes. Before adding a quick-] I'm allowed. I got the system for it.