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Fissures of Time: Finale

FISSURES OF TIME: FINALE

... POI 12-13

DESPITE THE DIFFICULTIES OF POI 11, A RHYTHM SETTLES TO KEEP EVERYONE PROTECTED. The rumbling of Kolokifi's domain continues to persist, as do the more intense distortions, but the Voidtreckers are not alone. The equalisers keep the camps safe, as does the Ministry base, and as well the Voidtrecker Express itself.

Late into Poi 12, the Voidtreckers receive a call from Zhak through the map on their SCA.

"Hey, hope everyone's doing alright. You're all doing great so far." Zhak is nothing if not encouraging. Though it's a very textbook encouragement, he quickly moves on to the next point of business.

"It seems reports were right in that you lot are effective, and troublesome. But considering all that has happened this last week we believe we are at a crucial changing point on this world. We have been working on a device for a while which we are hoping could... reboot things as such. Give us and the Gods some idea how to move forward, anyway. We plan to set it up tomorrow, and we're expecting resistance. Any help you can give will be great though it's a bit above and beyond your mission brief so I'd like to make it clear you can say no.

We're not expecting this to fix anything, but if we get even a small somethin' out of it, it'll do some good for this place. We'll need some people to help defend the device, and some to keep the area we're working in secure. We suggest some fighters stay in the camps in case anything untoward happens, but we'll have some guards come and boost your numbers."

POI 12: THE FINAL NIGHT. Whatever the voidtreckers choose individually or as a group, it seems that this mission is coming to a conclusion. There is one last night in the camps altogether; one last night where the sky hangs in an unending sunset. The refugees have been subdued since the day before, and it's a quiet night for the most part.

Some of the refugees, perhaps feeling bad about the commotion and trouble or perhaps just thankful for the help the voidtreckers have given them in the last few days, have made foods out of the ingredients from the supplies shared by the Ministry. It's messy given the camps, but they show their cuisine of flavourful dips, vegetables roasted in a special cooking oil that adds an unusual taste, and skewered meats.

Tonight is a night to prepare, but also to rest and save their strength. Tomorrow, they will fight.

MORNING DAWNS. Bright and early the next morning, the camps awaken. There is much to do, to pack and be ready for the day ahead. There are three main tasks to be done: People to go and help the ministry with their plan to mend this people, people to stay and keep dealing with the smaller distortions, and people to stay and defend what camp was left.

If any Voidtreckers decide to stay behind. Regardless, they won't be alone,

... THE FINAL FIGHT

THE MINISTRY ARE ALREADY AT WORK WHEN THEY ARRIVE, having set up a large device that looks almost like a mirrored horn. Around the area there are a ring of equalisers that sets the arena, ready for trouble.

That trouble comes quickly. The ground is already rumbling when the voidtreckers arrive, but as they draw close the air itself seems to erupt, throwing some people backwards towards the equalisers and pulling others inwards as a distortion envelops around them.

INNER CIRCLE. Those who are pulled into the centre find themselves stood in the grounds of a temple. The place is frozen, in temperature and in time. The ministry workers are still there, but they are not alone, golden tendrils swarm out of the temple towards them, picking one of them up by the ankle and pulling them into the air.

From the very centre of the temple a figure is emerging. A woman, growing larger than the temple, bursting out and reaching for the voidtreckers with many golden arms like rays of sun, bent and disfigured. Her face is a cracked mask symbolic of the star, surrounded in a halo of tendrils that whip out everywhere in wisps, crackling lightning and winds thrashing in level with her head.

Help the Ministry contractors, and help each other against the tendrils of gold - the equaliser guns work best. But watch out - each touch of the golden ribbons will leave a burning sensation that can't be healed while inside the distortion. A divine curse.

OUTER CIRCLE. For those who were pushed backwards, they find themselves looking at a swirling whirlwind. Getting through is impossible, but that is not their only problem. The distortion is growing and it takes constant use of the equalisers to keep it under control.

As well as growing, the distortion itself seems to be fighting them, with gusts of wind trying to trap them, vines reach out to fling them away. There are also the warriors from history, more transparent and less stable, but their attacks just as damaging as before. Sometimes, stepping in the wrong place might suddenly drop you - and you'll find yourself somewhere else, at some other part of this chaotic mess.

Everything is attacking everyone - the Voidtreckers, others with the Ministry. Help each other, as well as yourself.

CAMPS. Here, things are calmer at least. The minstry workers who have been sent to help out try and organise people to take shifts manning equalisers just in case, but for the most part, tasks are practical ones. Keeping people calm, keeping people fed. There are some smaller distortions that still appear nearby, and so teams are encouraged to go out and deal with them.

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TL;DR: Later on Poi 12, the Voidtreckers receive a message that the Ministry are going to attempt a weapon that's been in the works to help do something for the state of the world. Voidtreckers can come help, but don't need to feel obligated to.

We included a few prompts in case anyone wanted to do something lax, if anything at all on the finale log!

Poi 13, those who decide to come to the spot (located on their maps) will find a large area of land bordered by equalisers, as well as a camp. The weapon the Ministry spoke of is a large mirror, which can be seen inside and outside the distortion, reflecting each.

The goal of the boss battles are: 1) to protect the large mirror from attacks. Equaliser guns will be provided, but also trying your own attacks can help.

2) To keep Kolokifi in line with the mirror before it and the distortion starts to crack.

Assume Ministry people are around in the boss battle and outside. To make it easier to read, we won't refer to Ministry folks unless necessary (because boss battles get hectic enough!).

The boss battle is done in rounds with the NPC tag marking the start of the round. Please tag once in each round and don't worry about tagging order between players. If you miss a round don't worry just jump in the next. If you are late don't worry and just jump in the current round. If you accidentally post over someone just repost in response to them. If you need any help just ask a mod.

For those fighting on the border of the distortion (non boss battle) please feel free to play with anything from earlier in the mission. Things are fracturing and going a bit mad so use what you want and have characters be bounced the outskirts for team ups with other voidtreckers.

NOTE FOR BOSS BATTLE PARTICIPATION: 1 character per player per boss battle. Your character can't be in both threads. The Kolokifi fight is more suited to characters with high power levels whereas the mirror protection fight is more suited to characters with more mundane fighting skills.

Don't worry if you don't feel you can post or keep up with this - there won't be any negative consequences for not participating! A conclusion will go up on the 28th.

Art credits: Whirlwind, camp2, sunset, second header

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Floating above, but close to the fracas, is a form surging with energy of a different sort. Something dark and green. Something made for a moment just like this one.

Orbs of light arc from the bright green humanoid shape, striking at tendrils as fast as the eye can see as she positions herself between them and those most in danger.

"You know, you gods REALLY piss me off sometimes, you know that?"

Cassie's mean mug can't be seen behind the blinding light, but those who know her will be able to envision it.

Despite the storming, the thrashing wind around, there has still been light basking from Kolokifi's form. But as Zagreus's call, the sky - brightened by the figure of Kolokifi alone - darkens high above and begins to bear down as everything happens. Light shifting, but not fully blinding the Voidtreckers in darkness.

(You have called is spoken to Zagreus, no voice but the essence of night itself left imprinted inside his mind. Approval, acknowledgement, as the battle continues.)

For a moment it distracts Kolokifi, a scream erupting from her that brightens her body in a greater fury of light, but the night continues to bear down. Her arms have paused briefly, and some of the whirlwinds and pressing winds die down with Jingyi's concentration allowed. Nypsia can shroud those higher in the sky, which is how when Kolokifi continues to reach out and grab someone, it's Trunks that she pulls in with her, grasped tightly in her burning hand - much to her own displeasure.

'No! NO! You are not THEM, you are in the WAY!'

He won't get time to use that blade right now, the crackling lightning doing nothing to dissuade Kolokifi as she throws him in Kyoko's direction. But then there are Cassie and Usagi's efforts, Cassie's blasting at the hands that start reaching again in Zagreus's (and Emporio and Thanatos's) direction and directing its attention to throw itself out at her, while Usagi's healing energy seems to do nothing at first, except - a darkness billows out around her and some of the Ministry and whoever else is near, causing the lower golden tendrils to dissipate.

(Child. It's not a voice, but a presence in Usagi's mind without infiltrating her thoughts; the same way that night itself is present without needing more than darkness itself. I am Nypsia, I am the Night. You are the Moon. I will grant you a blessing: Accept it, and we will shrink the Sun's reach with your power.)

There are no immediate tendrils ground level, but Kolokifi seems unconcerned, more focused on seeking out Thanatos and Emporio. She waves a brightened hand in their direction to fight Nypsia's darkness, likely to snatch Zagreus unless he moves.

Her body gurgles, and there is a pause, whether she's gotten a hold of anyone, whether she hasn't. Then her head turns, her mask and halo slow to follow the mass of white and gold mass existing behind it like a burning star. Looking somewhere in Death's direction.

'It's happening,' some low voice to the ground cries, and it trembles with the words, a deep grieving under in the dirt. 'The premonition is coming true... we were supposed to stop...'

But the laughter rises up again, and her head begins to turn back its attention to where it was.

Edited 2022-01-25 21:23 (UTC)

Crap!

[Three more Kyokos materialize out of red light, moving to catch Trunks and limit the damage to both him and the real Kyoko.

Kyoko snaps her fingers and even more copies of the fighters appear, with special attention payed to the sky full of hundreds of illusions of Thanatos.]

Edited 2022-01-25 21:34 (UTC)

Another time, another place, Usagi might have rejected such things. But, she was hit with some harsh truths recently, and she knew she needed other’s help. Closing her eyes, she nodded.

“Nypsia, I accept your blessing. Lend me your strength so we can calm this one.” She said.

"Oh for the - for fuck's sake!" Naoya launches himself into the air, trying to get a better vantage point on the fight. As he jumps, batlike wings spring from his back. His features become sharper and his hands grow into claws. A long whiplike tail extends behind him and he huffs.

"Thanatos, here!" The air around him shimmers for a brief moment - Q'uila's got Emporio so he'll at least protect Thanatos from a physical hit. He can cover another person easily with the same spell, after all.

As for Kolokifi, he turns to her and starts gathering energy in his palm. Megidolaon is a powerful spell, so it'll be a moment before he can unleash it on the goddess. She needs to be distracted while the others do their work, and... well. Damage sure is distracting.

Cassie's a professional. She tends to think she knows how to keep her focus. But there's only one thing that has her attention now.

"Trunks!"

She surges through the air toward him, her left hand outstretched to catch and support him.

Her right hand, however, is still throwing fireballs at alarming speed - faster than she was managing with two hands before. Because she is pissed now.

"So let it end!"

Even with the darkness embracing and dulling the burning brightness of the
unsteady god, his eyes see fine: he lets the others with their skills drive
what's happening, but he pushes as well, switching from undoing whirlwinds
to aiming them at the higher tendrils that try to reach. Sending also water
falling, like a fog starting to coalesce before he returns to trying to
mitigate whirlwind damage for what remains

"Please, Kolokifi, we're trying to help-" is Zagreus' desperate plea, as he continues to get in the way between Thanatos and Emporio, even when Thanatos starts to move up and away from his protectors. Dammit Than, now is not the time for this!

"From one God of Life to another, please, listen to me!" He tries to hone in on Kolokifi, on her pain and anguish, on calming her rage and fear. "We want to heal you. We want to fix the damage done by the invaders of this world that cost you Sylnis, that cost you Herios!" He will specifically aim to move closer to Kolokifi, trying to move toward her head specifically, to draw her attention, and maybe some of the golden hands reaching out and clasping everything.

"Everyone, protect Thanatos and Emporio! Do not let Kolokifi grab either one of them!" He calls over his SCA, as he Dashes forward toward her.

"Kolokifi!" He calls again as he Dashes ever closer. "Read my thoughts! See my world and its suffering, and know that I don't want this for your world either! Lady Eilifi must be given her Time! Skonisica, Chemilica too! You can't protect them like this, you're only harming them and the people of Praeus, your people. Please, please, listen... we only want to help you! Life can't continue without Death, please, don't take him!"

And in his mind he focuses hard on the story of his world that he told the Gods in the Temple, of his ruined world and how the cycle of Seasons has been interrupted. How he's trying to fix it all through his repeated Deaths. How Lady Demeter weeps for her lost daughter. How much Thanatos means to him and how utterly destroyed Zagreus would be if Than was taken away. She clearly has the ability to draw images of his Past from his minds, as long as she controls Time.

If he gets grabbed, he will let her do so, especially if she appears to draw him toward her, but if she tries to toss him aside, he will cling on for dear life and make sure he doesn't get tossed.

Okay, getting grabbed hurt. Trunks was no stranger to pain, and the fuel of a super saiyan was anger--so pissing him off was not going to help. But the pain was disorienting enough that it was all he could do to keep a grip on his sword as he's tossed away.

Cassie's hand manages to graze his enough to get his attention. The grab is missed, but Trunks at least manages to pull himself together so that he won't hurt Kyoko falling into her. "Thanks." Murmured in a low grunt to Kyoko, as that pain from being grabbed remained.

Before he's launching himself back into the air again. Aiming to put himself between Kolokifi and Emporio and Thanatos just like before. He's stubborn, pissed off, and will use that pain to fight on for now. He can rest and recover when he's unconscious.

Shoot-!

[Far from descriptive, that's about the response given as chaos unfolds on the field- he'd expected to draw attention certainly, but to see the fall out is something else. As the tendrils become something worse, while Kolokifi succumbs to her madness in pursuit.

But Emporio is done being the hidden one, the protected one.

He doesn't know what side is creating that dome, but he's with Thanatos in this- he's not staying there.]

I'm coming! [is what he calls after Thanatos, shooting after him with haste. Conjuring what wind and cold fall rain can be possible to combat the brilliant heat of Summer and Life.

(Autumn is a season of Decay and Death; things begin to die as the upcoming winter approaches. It's the best defense he can come up with, without inviting spring to follow.)

Emporio flies as close as he can to Thanatos, one part by request another to do just as much support for him as he himself is receiving. His hands grip his glider like a vice, and his breathing becomes rapid.

Still, he turns to look at Kolokifi.

If she might hear anyone, would it not be the perceived 'gods'? (Jolyne would have a fit over this, he quietly thinks.)]

What premonition? ...That you would end? Everything has to come to an end to heal, Kolokifi! That's why it's a cycle! You have to let go..!

...Otherwise, you can't ever come back either..!

[Balance and a cycle after all, mean Summer and Life cannot simply be gone forever either.]

Death stands firm. Easier, when your body is more of a suggestion than anything else.

"Maybe there's an end, but that's the only way you'll get a new beginning. The disaster happens when you try to fight it. It won't be easy, but it's what you need to do."

She's not angry. But she's firm. "You need to cut this out."

Look, Zag. He had just yelled about being sealed away and trapped, and then someone was going to do just that to him. Thanatos had reasons. And Emporio agrees!

He doesn't manage to fly very high into the now darkened sky as he's surrounded by Kyoko's multitude of illusions. He honestly doesn't know how well they'll work, if they'll fool the senses of a goddess, but seeing himself in multiple sure makes him pause. Mort squeaks, eyes trained on the illusions.

"Yeah, that is a lot of Death," Thanatos replies to Mort. Then Naoya casts his protective-not-an-enclosure spell on Thanatos. He gives a quick thanks before weaving his way through the illusions. Then something in him pulls, a connection grows stronger in a way Thanatos never expected. "Emporio, use these as cover as you work. I'll be right back!"

Thanatos knows where he needs to be. Where there's one idiot god, especially when he's claiming with such confidence that he's the God of Life, the second idiot god is going to follow. Including straight toward a giant goddess and away from all the people trying to put themselves between Thanatos and Emporio and Kolokifi.

Thanatos swoops down next to Zagreus. "Ideally, we'd be standing side by side, right?" Thanatos says for Zagreus's ears. If mind reading is what Zagreus's strategy is, then Thanatos will make sure he dodges for him. The God of Death isn't about to let his God of Life be taken or thrown away. He'll grab him and hopefully shift them out of the attack path and back towards Emporio. If he has to hold onto Zagreus because Emporio's in the air, then that's what he has to do.

Better late than never, right? This whole thing is... a mess, to put it lightly. This god, or whatever the hell it wants to call itself, is an utter corrupted piece of shit and she's pretty sure she hasn't seen many things more ugly than it. But she doesn't get to mull on that for too long as she's clocking where people are as quick as possible. Particularly whatever the hell Emporio is doing, but he seems to be fine at this particular juncture, so she'll leave him be out of the corner of her eye.

"Jeeeeesus fucking shit, ain't often when I call somethin' an utter abomination, but I see that ship's sailed." Not that anyone cares as she's moving to take get a better look at this mirror and judge just how far this goddess supposedly is from it. Because what is a shounen protag if not an utter and entire idiot?

For the time being, she'll focus on making an anchor of weaved strings into ropes at the corners of the mirror, just... just in case.

The familiar guh-dong behind him breaks Zagreus' concentration for a moment. He'll let the God of Death grab onto him, but he immediately answers, "Than, no, I can't abandon her now-- please don't move me away, I have to make her see reason. I have to stop this-- I can't let her take you or Emporio. She might listen to me if I'm the God of Life after all--"

He focuses again on his memories despite the interruption, trying to make Kolokifi see them. There's some small amount of sanity left in her, isn't there? Isn't that what they saw when she paused like that, spoke of a premonition?

"Please, Lady Summer, Life-Giver! We want to help you! Gods damn it all, we want to heal you! What those earlier Invaders did to you and your world was wrong - we want to help fix the damage! For your pantheon, for your people, for your whole world...!"

Well this battle had become every bit as insane as Leia had expected it would. She'd managed to resist the fierce winds but lost hold of her equalizer gun at some point. With it gone, she was relying solely on the Force and her other powers, ducking and weaving around the tentacles and trying to help where she could.

And speaking of helping, through the chaos, she hears Zagreus shouting, and realizes what he's trying to do. Though she can't reach him physically, she does reach out to him with the Force lending him as much power as she can spare to bolster his efforts.

She also adds her own voice to the mix, calling upon the powers of emotional influence via voice that she'd picked up from the false Diagad to try and help calm the mad goddess. She would question whether or not her voice would even be heard among everything else going on, but she doubted Kolokifi needed ears to hear. "Listen to him, Kolokifi,' she called out. "We want to help you, to help your world! To help you find your way back to yourself and overcome this madness! I know you have the strength in you, and the wisdom! Listen, and see the wisdom of what he's saying in turn!"

The brilliant crystal shield has risen most of the way up when Thanatos darts up and out of the forming bubble.

"Gods damn it, Thanatos!" Q'uila hisses and grits her teeth, she can't loose focus now and at the very least she can provide Emporio with protection and a potential haven for the others in the chaos.

The shield finally closes and within it everything dies down, the whirlwind and the heat all cease their assault. The glowing tendrils are repelled back with equal force to how they connect or are are blasted to smithereens by the repelling properties of the shield.

She sees Thanatos and Zagreus pop back up close to the dome and calls out to them both, "If you need protection just walk through!" Infact, if any of the Passengers touch the shield they will find themselves able to pass through after a slight moment of resistance.

Without resistance, Zagreus is grabbed in one of Kolokifi's many hands - a hand that wraps around him, keeping on a tight hold. It will be too late for Thanatos to grab him.

Usagi, accepting Nypsia's blessing, will be able to understand that with the power of her Moon Stick, she will be able to send threads of Night out to grab at Kolokifi.

The weather shifts between Jingyi and Emporio's meddling; the sun's rays dim in the air where the fog manifests and spreads, a rain washing the battlefield to at least keep the heat that radiates from Kolokifi's body eased. Nypsia's sky manages to slip in with the fog as well, and the combined efforts do keep the reach of the Sun's rays from extending too far...

...but Thanatos seems keen to follow where Zagreus goes, and Emporio with Thanatos. 'Merios! Herios!' Kolokifi sings with relief, and a hand grabs for him too, while another goes for Emporio. All attention seems to focus on these few, no new arms and tendrils appear or care for the rest of the area. The God isn't fooled by the fake Thanatos, and doesn't seem bothered by Trunks's lingering with her tight grip on the three.

The grip is difficult to even shift out from once inside, not without intense concentration. It is burning to their skin, this intense life, this passion of Summer, but it also dies down some - especially as Leia uses her calming, for what amount - for how long - it can help.

It is chaotic indeed, and even an already unstable God can barely hear all that is being said, but in that moment-

'Chaos would let misery fall on us! As a lesson, as judgment! But I will not - I will keep us all safe, don't you see? I WILL...'

Kolokifi brightens, and an intense burning occurs, but a 'guh!' echoes from her, her head tilting back as something bulges from her midsection. She seems paused again, as odd cracks and dark shimmering dances around her body. Down at the temple, pieces of its roof, parts of the wild growth still tangling around the lower levels start to detach... and float?

There is an odd sensation in the air. For those keen with understanding their surroundings and its energies, it's as if sections of reality are being torn at. But it's not too strong yet - and it will ease after a few seconds.

For now, there has been an opportunity given for Ministry workers to fire equaliser shots at Kolokifi's arms, near the wrists, which will weaken her hold on the three, and make it easier to pull them away, or for Thanatos to shift. There is a cry that echoes out, and the rain washes even harder as a result over everyone, making it difficult to see.

Oh come on! Immune to physical attacks, illusions don't work, and I'm not even going to try fire on a god of Summer. They're just invalidating my whole skill set!

[Kyoko will... Try to set up chains to block grasping arms and ribbons? She guesses?]

Edited 2022-01-26 10:20 (UTC)

[Persephone bursts into the inner circle, skidding to a stop as she takes in the chaos. It's hard to parse with the rain and it takes her several long moments to spot those wrapped in her long tendrils. And she stops breathing. The goddess who--with her friends? What can she do, what can she even do?

The ground around her bursts into life, a thicket of green that's as much thorns as roses. Equally as green are the leaves that her hair is becoming. For those who know her, it's obvious that she's struggling with controlling both her emotions and her powers]

It hurts. Gods it hurts, a divine sting that even he feels won't heal right away. But it doesn't go deeper, which is telling - it means that he can endure it longer, as he's dealt with far worse pains in his repeated Deaths, pains that went deeper and lingered even after he'd return.

But then he feels something happen. The power of Life Itself surges within him from an unknown source. Whoever it was that granted him this blessing, he knows better than to turn it away.

Zagreus uses the Force on instinct, shielding Thanatos with an invisible barrier directly in front of him in a wall, as large and as high as he can form it. He's not practiced with this new power, but he's not about to let Kolokifi get hold of Thanatos while he is still conscious.

"Kolokifi, Lord Krios, he-- he wants to help you, he's connected to you too through Sylnis, you all are! He may Judge your actions, but all of your Kin would be worse off without you! Please...!"

Zagreus grips tighter on Stygius' hilt, then call the activation words, "I see your kingly pardon from a prison of stone!" Stygius transforms into Excalibur, and Zagreus immediately uses its special ability Hallowed Ground, which will protect him from harm for a while.

His sword glows a brilliant white, almost as bright as the Lady of Summer herself.

Usagi can feel the power course through her. She knows what she can do now.

“Kyoko, use the ground to your advantage!” Usagi shouted. “Protect the workers!”

With that, she aimed her Moon Stick at the form of Kolokifi, unleashing the threads of night at her, hoping the rain doesn’t interfere.

~~We'll pretend I can read.~~

Shit. Shit this isn't good in the slightest and she's keenly aware if this scenario. But maybe she can try and distract her a bit? Whether it works or not, she highly doubts. But it's worth a shot to keep her off the current targets.

Which means she's going to attempt to make her strings into weaved rope and go directly for trying to grab on the top and bottom of Kolo's mask to try and rip that sucker off. Might as well know what's beneath it or see what happens without it, if she can.

"You really gonna just ignore the rest of us? That's pure fucking rude after trying to off me last time!" Bold words for a moron, perhaps.

Well crap. Trunks' original plan is not working, and those he was trying to prevent getting grabbed, are getting grabbed. Time for a new strategy then. His sword is getting sheathed, so he can free up both hands.

And take potshots at Kolokifi and the ribbons via ki bursts. He may as well be a very annoying gnat, since that's what the goddess is treating most of them like.

As usual, perhaps, following after someone in a chain reaction ends in that chain getting tightly snared. Emporio manages to see the hannd just before it grabs at him, and while he does his best to dodge it he can only swoop so fast. "NGH-AAAUGH-!"

Narrowly, he makes use of Weather's more obscure abilities- the boy is coated entirely in ice water, the fluid melting as fast as it forms, his fragile shield against brilliant light requiring almost all of his focus.

And then there is some relief. "MNh...This isn't the way though! Following the path of seasons and time won't be chaos, Kolokifi! It'll be order!"

How fitting, his thoughts idly note; the first God, the God of Time, is also the God of Order.

"NGhhk...." Still, he's also in a hand. Emporio focuses best he can on his shield and on escaping, biting back a scream as intensity rises. Annd then abruptly, something changes. There is that buldge appearing, that pause and tearing...

The equaliser shots are fired, and with his shout and even Weather Report itself giving a cry, the boy breaks free- darting immediately toward where he can best see Thanatos and the others flee to.

"Thanatos! Zagreus!"

He hasn't spotted Jolyne's strings. Perhaps that's for the best- what she's doing is just a little terrifying after all.

Meanwhile here's a dragon, still keeping the storm coming such as he can.

"Balance in all things! Life and death, order and chaos, or else you destroy whatever you're meaning to save! Come on!"

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tl;dr getting closer to Kolokifi, trying to get her to read his memories with her Time powers

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