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middleofsomewhere2021-09-21 09:07 am
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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."
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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With that, he leaves them at the enclosure and heads back out, eyes back on the upside-down bird and its assailants. While there is little he can do from here, he is prepared to catch anyone if they happen to fall.
ROUND
Emporio hits it with a smash of wind as Kabuto slices at its wing. It screeches, an ear splitting sound as it plummets, rolling out of control, a swirl of gravity and not gravity. Bird, voidtreckers and all on an crash course with the hillside.
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Either hopefully this will work with minimal injuries, or he'll have thought correct in at least one of the others around catching him before he does hit the ground.
Progress.
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"Time to go Rouye.." He says a the bandage unwraps from the talons and while still holding on as best he can, Xie Lian looks around for anything that he might use to break his fall or to tie the bandage around as a way to slow his descent. But looks like he will just have to take his chances.
At least he is an immortal and doesn't feel much pain so no matter how badly this fall is...even with as unlucky as he is...he should at least survive. But he pushes off from the bird, hoping to get as far from the crash zone as he can with the leap but still unsure how the shifting gravity is going to affect that as well.
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Thanatos slashes another flock of birds trying to give chase. If those on the ground are unable to catch everyone falling, Thanatos will catch one. However, given his role of keeping the other birds away, that may cause more complications and injuries of a different kind for both him and others.
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-and grabs ahold of their centers of gravity, arresting their fall-
-only to have that control snap in the next moment as the bird turns again-
-and reaches out again, because he will not be bested by some malevolent avian!
Kabuto's and Xie Lian's fall is less a controlled descent and more a stop-start of freefall and arrested motion, as Siebren's control over gravity snaps every time the bird turns in the air, forcing him to reestablish it in the next moment. It's not exactly pleasant for anyone involved, but it's better than letting anyone impact the ground at speed, and Siebren is not about to allow his teammates to be injured. The halting descent is not the best he has ever done, but at least it is done, and he does not let up until his teammates are safe and uninjured on the ground.
(Thanatos seems to be keeping to the air just fine under his own power and is therefore left to his own devices.)
END~ Thank you all
Luckily the crash sight was some way away from the woolies and their herders. It hit the ground with a loud crash, causing a small shockwave for anyone standing nearby and a small crater underneath it.
The bird was still, lifeless and the air was still, no more birds in sight. For now.