* Sullivan idly doodles on a plaza. That. Sure is some sort of arcane and dangerous circle.
<YashaGrave> *That's a nice circle you got there, Sullivan. Sure would be a shame if there was the increasingly loud sound of a d-wheel getting closer and closer.*
* YashaGrave skids around a corner and goddamn Akira slides towards Sullivan, stopping inches from fucking up his nice arcane and dangerous circle.
* YashaGrave also looks approximately 5 years too young to be driving a motorcycle of any kind, but it's fine. don't worry about it. "Hey you!!! You're the guy that I was gonna duel, right?!"
* Sullivan ... perks up. "Oh! This... You're a bit earlier and punctual than I thought you'd be~"
<YashaGrave> I'm always early and punctual to everything!
<YashaGrave> Except boring things!
<Sullivan> "Y-yeah? Could you maybe come back in a few days? There's some more people I'd like to, ah... talk to?"
<YashaGrave> Hmmmm... I don't think so! Viccy booked me for another European tour!
<YashaGrave> And nothing short of a supernatural incident could stop me from going!
* Sullivan ... nervous sweating
* YashaGrave throws her helmet off and into the air, where it somehow lands perfectly on the back of her d-wheel. Then does a flip off of it that she only ALMOST lands on her face from. "So we should duel right now! I need the practice!!"
* Sullivan mutters/buzzes to himself. "W-well, I don't have enough energy anyway. What could go wrong...?" He straightens up and tosses his chalk to the side. There looks like there's spaces for duelists to stand in the circle. "Alright~ I guess there's no harm in it."
* YashaGrave blinks. stares at the circle as if she only just noticed it.
<YashaGrave> That's a weird arena.
<Sullivan> "W-well, it's for later~"
<Sullivan> "Like, in a month. We probably shouldn't stand too close to it."
* YashaGrave thinks about it for a minute, and then shrugs. Weird arcane circles are like, 98% of duel monsters. She pulls a hard-light duel disk from the central console of her d-wheel, because she whined loud and long enough to Victoria to let her upgrade to a hybrid model, because it's the most hype kind. "Ehhh? What's the point of having it if we aren't gonna use it?!"
* Sullivan nervous buzzing. "I was just practicing drawing it, really."
* YashaGrave smacks the disk onto her wrist and leaps dramatically onto one of the duelist spaces. "Well, then this is practice to see if it'll stand up to a duel!"
<YashaGrave> It would suck if it got ruined during whatever you need it for!
* Sullivan blank stares. There's no getting out of this. But he doesn't have enough energy for anything major. If anything slips out, he can... probably contain it. Especially with this girl here.
* Sullivan veeeeerry slowly gets up into the other space, disk forming around his arm.
* YashaGrave is bouncing on her feet. Hasn't gotten a chance to do anything for fun in a long time!
* YashaGrave smacks her deck into the disk and it roars to life. literally. did she get a custom disk that does a dragon's roar when it turns on? What a fucking nerd. "I'll take the first move! DUEL!" (8000 LP)
* YashaGrave stares at her hand, then throws almost all of it onto her disk. "I set three cards and one monster! Turn end!!"
* Sullivan shakily looks at their hand and then nods. "First! Reinforcement of the army! I'll Add Stellarknight Deneb to my hand and summon it!" (1500 ATK) "And when they're out, I add Stellarknight Zefraxciton to my hand~ And! Set the scales~ Zefrathuban, Zefraxciton, 7 and 1." It waggles a finger
<YashaGrave> Ooooh, Pendulum Summoning?!
<Sullivan> "Pendulum summon~ Shaddoll Zefracore (1950 DEF), Zefrasaber (1500 ATK), and Zefraxa (2000 ATK)! And then finally, Zefraxi, Treasure of the Yang Zing, which can make any of my Zefra cards a tuner!" It grins as it's field swells.
* YashaGrave blinks. blinks. HUFFS.
* YashaGrave looks incredibly offended that you summoned a Yang Zing against her.
* YashaGrave not offended enough to flip any of her set cards, though.
<Sullivan> "Now~ I'm going to make Zefraxa my tuner! And begin tuning it with Zefraxi~ Eight total ranks! Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing~ (2600 DEF)" They point at the set monster. "And I'm going to throw that back into your deck~"
* YashaGrave HUFFS HARDER THAN EVER BEFORE. "Reverse card, open! Solemn Warning!"
<YashaGrave> By paying 2000 life points, I negate the summon of Baxia and destroy it! (6000 LP)
<Sullivan> "Oh my~ That's a bit much." It giggles. "Well, that's the end of my turn then~ Your go, miss Yasha."
<YashaGrave> Draw!
<YashaGrave> (Field checku desu)
* Sullivan has Zefrathuban and Zefraxciton in pendulums, Zefraxa in the extra deck, Deneb and Zefrasaber in ATK with 1500 each and Zefracore in DEF with 1950
* Sullivan has no sets, no hand
<YashaGrave> I'll show you how to use Yang Zings! I summon the Tuner Monster, Chiwen, Light of the Yang Zing! (0 ATK 1*)
<YashaGrave> Flip Summon! Bixi, Water of the Yang Zing! (0 ATK 2*)
<YashaGrave> TUNING! Light of the stars and Water from the heavens, call forth one of your servants! SYNCHRO SUMMON! (1+2=3) TUNER SYNCHRO MONSTER, TATSUNOKO! (1700 ATK 3*)
<YashaGrave> When Tatsunoko is used as a Synchro Material monster, one monster in my hand can be used as another Synchro Material!
* Sullivan ... stares blankly. "I knew I should've decked more Yang Zing~"
<YashaGrave> I'm tuning my Tatsunoko and the Suanni, Fire of the Yang Zing from my hand!
<YashaGrave> Child of the Wyrms of heaven and Fire of the heavens, call forth a new star! SYNCHRO SUMMON! (3+4=7) The darkness between stars, descend upon this field! YAZI, EVIL OF THE YANG ZING!
<YashaGrave> (2600 ATK 7*) *yo that's a bigass evil looking dragon.*
<YashaGrave> BATTLE! Yazi, destroy Zefrasaber! BLACK LIGHTNING!
<YashaGrave> *Yazi roars out a blast of, well. black lightning. it's very dramatic.*
* Sullivan why is this duel so dramatiiiic [6900] and huffs.
<YashaGrave> Turn End!
<Sullivan> "Hmph. Fine~"
<Sullivan> "Draw!"
* YashaGrave grins. "That's what you get for trying to use my Yang Zings against me!"
<YashaGrave> *Sullivan may also notice that the circle is starting to faintly glow. Which it shouldn't be doing yet, there's no way he should have gathered enough energy for anything yet.*
<Sullivan> "Are they really yours~? Besides, th-" He pauses, looking down. "Um... Can we maybe call this off?"
* YashaGrave blinks, too focused on HYPE to notice anything. "ehhh? Just because I did one attack? C'mooon, don't be lame!"
<Sullivan> "I'm not being lame, I'm being..." A pause. There's no good way out. The truth? Terrible, would get him killed. Or worse, grounded. A lie? No. He's the best mage the world has ever seen, he can control some tiny baby demon. He grins, feeding off the hype. "Call this off for YOUR sake~ Oracle of Zefra!"
* Sullivan is surrounded by a faint angelic glow and an outline of the tree of life as his deck spits out a Zefraxciton! "Now~ Are you ready, miss Grave?" Another finger waggle. "Pendulum! Zefraxciton (1900 ATK), Zefrasaber (1500 ATK), and Zefraxa (2000 ATK)! When Zefraxciton is pendulum summoned, I can blow up a Satellar Knight Deneb and..." He points to the left set card on Yasha's field.
* Sullivan "Blow that up too~"
* YashaGrave hovers a finger over her disk. '... eh, he hasn't normal summoned yet, would just summon whatever back.' but doesn't do anything, as Compulsory Evacuation Device is blown up.
* Sullivan grins as he holds out a hand. "Construct the Overlay Network! Zefracore, Zefraxciton, and Zefrasaber! Stellarknight Delteros! And I'll use it's effect to discard Zefracore to the grave and destroy Yazi!"
<YashaGrave> Yazi cannot be targetted by my opponent's card effects!
* Sullivan tchs. "Fine! I'll just use Oracle's effect to draw and discard a card!"
* Sullivan cycles out a 'pot of dichotomy' and ends their turn!
<YashaGrave> DRAW!
<YashaGrave> I summon the Pendulum Monster, Zefraxi, Treasure of the Yang Zing! (1500 ATK 3*)
<Sullivan> "Oh, isn't that a familiar little thing~"
<YashaGrave> Yazi's effect! I can target one Yang Zing I control and one monster my opponent controls, then destroy them both! I target Zefraxi, and Stellarknight Delteros!
<YashaGrave> HEAVEN'S WRATH!
<YashaGrave> Additionally, I chain to that effect! Reverse Card, open! Yang Zing Creation!
<YashaGrave> When a monster I control is destroyed by battle or card effect, I can special summon a Yang Zing monster from my deck, but I cannot special summon monsters other than Synchros from my Extra Deck! Sorry, Zefraxi!
* Sullivan ... oh. Okay.
<YashaGrave> I special summon the Tuner Monster, Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing! (0 ATK 2*)
* YashaGrave grins wider and wider, as the glow of the arcane circle gets bright enough to be noticable by just about anyone not blind to everything except the hype. Yasha's Clear Mind game too strong.
<Sullivan> "Well, Delteros going to the grave means I can summon Satellar Knight Zefrathuban! (2100 DEF)"
* YashaGrave blinks. Oh yeah. Her grin gets slightly less wide.
<YashaGrave> well, that won't matter!
<Sullivan> "Still a wall between you and me!"
<YashaGrave> TUNING!Evil of the heavens, and the darkness that created it! Call forth phantasmal light from the depths of your abyss!
<YashaGrave> (2+7=9)
* Sullivan ... oh no
<YashaGrave> SYNCHRO SUMMON!!
<YashaGrave> CHAOFENG, PHANTOM OF THE YANG ZING! (2800 ATK 9*)
* Sullivan ohhhh no
<YashaGrave> *Chaofeng arrives in a flash of light and roars, the circle's glow intensifying. But it's fine, it just matches her monster. no problems. none. anywhere.*
<YashaGrave> BATTLE! Chaofeng, destroy Zefrathuban! SPIRIT OF HEAVEN!
<YashaGrave> *Chaofeng stares down at Zefrathuban and just slams the thickest part of it's serpentine body down on it. Because it's not even worth a cool attack animation.*
* Sullivan stares down. Stares up. Zefrathuban blows up and the hivemind lowers their EDMOND DANTES hat as it's destroyed. Zefraxi stares sadly.
<YashaGrave> Chaofeng's effect! Once per turn, when a monster my opponent controls is destroyed, I can special summon a Yang Zing monster from my deck that has an original attribute that matches the destroyed monster's original attribute!
<YashaGrave> Chiwen, Light of the Yang Zing! (0 DEF 1*)
<YashaGrave> Turn End!
* Sullivan tchs and draws! "Pot of Riches! I can shuffle 3 Pendulum monsters into my deck from my graveand and draw two cards! I can just not special summon anything but pendulums this turn from my extra deck! Zefracore, Zefrasaber, and Zefraxciton are shuffled~"
<Sullivan> "I'll activate the spell card I drew, Supply Squad! Then, I'll~ Pendulum summon~ Zefrathuban from my extra deck and Zefraniu from my hand~"
<Sullivan> "I'll add Oracle of Zefra to my hand and play it right now! Then add Zefraxciton to my hand~ I'll summon him and blow up Zefrathuban to destroy your Chaofeng!" (1900 ATK)
<YashaGrave> tch.
<YashaGrave> Chaofeng's effect activates! When destroyed by battle or card effect, I can add one Tuner from my deck to my hand!
<YashaGrave> I add Jiaotu!
<YashaGrave> Furthermore, Yang Zing Creation activates!
<YashaGrave> I Special Summon Zefrainu, Secret of the Yang Zing from my deck! (2600 DEF 6*)
<Sullivan> "Whatever~ You're going to run out of this eventually. Zefraxciton, destroy Chiwen."
<YashaGrave> The stars of the heavens will never run out!
<YashaGrave> When Chiwen is destroyed, I can special summon a Yang Zing monster from my deck!
<Sullivan> Zefraxciton moves to cut Chiwen in half, glowering at the new Yang Zing.
<YashaGrave> Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing! (2200 ATK 5*)
<Sullivan> "That's the end of my turn~"
<YashaGrave> DRAW!
* YashaGrave tears the card from her deck and a trial of stars follow. Are they real, or hard light? Who knows.
<YashaGrave> Continuous Spell Card! YANG ZING PRANA!
* YashaGrave slaps it onto her disk, and leylines of light erupt across the arcane circle.
<YashaGrave> This card gains different effects depending on the number of different Attributes of "Yang Zing" monsters in my graveyard! I have: Water, Light, Fire and Dark!
<YashaGrave> All Yang Zing monsters I control gain 500 attack! (Zefrainu: 0 -> 500 ATK Taotie: 2200 -> 2700 ATK)
<YashaGrave> If a Yang Zing I control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, I can send Yang Zing Prana to the graveyard instead! And finally, you cannot set monsters, and if you had any set, they'd be flipped up right now!
<Sullivan> "Tch. I guess you ARE a professional duelist after all~"
<YashaGrave> I summon the Tuner Monster, Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing! (0 -> 500 ATK 2*)
* YashaGrave grins. "Mostly professional! But most importantly, I'm a Grave! And now that all of my sisters are with me, I can never lose!"
<YashaGrave> And now, I'm tuning my Jiaotu and Zefrainu!
<YashaGrave> Darkness between the stars, and the secret treasure of the Earth! Call forth the dragon-father of the heavens!
<YashaGrave> (2+6=8)
<YashaGrave> SYNCHRO SUMMON! BAXIA, BRIGHTNESS OF THE YANG ZING!
* Sullivan ... well balls.
<YashaGrave> *Baxia appears in a flash of light, roaring out. And looks far more appropriate on the correct side of the field.* (2300 ATK 8*)
<YashaGrave> (field check)
* Sullivan has his Stellar/Zefra pendulums, Zefraxa, Zefranui, Zefraxciton, Supply Squad, and Supply Squad
<YashaGrave> Baxia's effect! I can target two cards on the field, and return them to your deck! I return Zefraxa and Zefranui!
<YashaGrave> HEAVEN'S RADIANCE!
* Sullivan shuffles them in, sighing. "Guess I'm going to need to step up my game~"
<YashaGrave> Now I activate Baxia's other effect! I can target one card I control and one level 4 or lower monster in my graveyard! I destroy the targeted card, and Special Summon the monster from my graveyard!
<YashaGrave> I destroy Taotie to Special Summon Suanni, Fire of the Yang Zing! (1900 ATK 4*)
<YashaGrave> FURTHERMORE! From my graveyard, I activate the effect of Chiwen, Light of the Yang Zing! When a Yang Zing I control is destroyed and Chiwen is in my graveyard, I can special summon it, but it is banished when it leaves the field! (0 ATK 1*)
<YashaGrave> NOW! Taotie and Yang Zing Creation's effects activate!
<YashaGrave> From my deck, I special summon two Bi'an, Earth of the Yang Zings!
<YashaGrave> (1600 --> 2100 ATK 3* x2)
* YashaGrave has a FIELD FULL OF DRAGONS
* Sullivan has noticed this, yes. He looks at his poor Zefraxciton. Shakes his head.
<YashaGrave> I'm tuning Chi'Wen with Suanni and both Bi'ans!
<YashaGrave> Light of the stars, Fire of the Heavens and the Earth below!
<YashaGrave> Call forth the destruction of everything!
<YashaGrave> SYNCHRO SUMMON! (1+4+3+3=11)
<YashaGrave> STAR EATER!
* Sullivan ... oh no
<YashaGrave> *That is perhaps the largest dragon, which is coiled around a dying star. That, presumably, it's eating.* (3200 -> 3700 ATK 11*)
<YashaGrave> When Suanni is used as Synchro Material, the summoned monster gets 500 attack! Furthermore, when Bi'an is used, that monster cannot be destroyed by battle!
* Sullivan ... checks to see how his circle is doing.
<YashaGrave> Star Eater's Synchro Summon cannot be negated, and no cards or effects can be activated in response anyway! When Star Eater attacks, it's unaffected by card effects until the end of the damage step!
<YashaGrave> *it's fucking blinding*
<YashaGrave> BATTLE!
<YashaGrave> Baxia, destroy Zefraxcition! HEAVEN'S LIGHT!
<YashaGrave> Then, Star Eater, attack directly!
<YashaGrave> DESTRUCTION OF SPACE!
<YashaGrave> *whoops Star Eater just vomitted a bunch of star fire on your face, Sullivan. it's a good thing this isn't a proper dark game!*
<YashaGrave> Baxia's effect also summons another Chiwen! (0 DEF 1*)
* Sullivan yes it is. It draws as as Zefraxciton is destroyed, then yelps as it goes all the way down to [2800]
<YashaGrave> I'll let you in on a little secret! I have five attributes in my graveyard now, so even if you can clear out my monsters on your turn, I can use Yang Zing Prana's last effect and destroy every card on the field!
<YashaGrave> TURN END!
* YashaGrave crosses her arms and basks in the light of victory. Or, uh, in the light of this summoning circle.
<Sullivan> "That won't be necessary." They adjust their hat and draw their card. "I'll let you know something, since... Well. You're here. I'm using this circle to summon something to fix me~" Sullivan points to the glow. "You've got the strongest duel energy I've seen since I started gathering it when that girl went nuts. Magical resevoirs and all. But."
<YashaGrave> eh? fix you?
<YashaGrave> Like... wait, what? no! ewwww!
<YashaGrave> Y-you can't talk to a girl about something like that!
<Sullivan> "Well, uh... I'm missing pieces of my soul from some deals I made when I was your a-What? No, like... Make me a real person again! I-I'm not like a dog!"
<YashaGrave> ... ooooh, okay. that makes more sense.
<YashaGrave> Well you should have told me that in the first place! Of course I have the strongest Duel Energy you've ever seen, I would have helped you do this from the get-go!
<Sullivan> "I'm just... a mess of old memories and a virus that hates all l-... really?" It smiles. "I'm sorry. It just didn't feel right to go about screaming that. People... don't like or really trust me nowadays. N-not that I blame them."
<YashaGrave> Well, I wasn't around for whatever happened.
<YashaGrave> But you seem nice enough! And everyone deserves to be a person!
<Sullivan> "Once I become a real person again and you beat me senseless with your deck, d-do you want some tea and tiny sandwiches~?"
<YashaGrave> Tiny sandwiches are the best kind!
<Sullivan> "Yes, I agree!" It smiles happily now! Everything's going well! It's got friends, it's got tiny sandwiches! "Well~ Pendulum summon then~ All I need are my Stellarknights from my deck to get this monster out and into this circle~"
* Sullivan summons Zefrathuban and Zefraxciton, buzzing in excitement/happiness.
<YashaGrave> *Hey, what's that up in the sky? It looks like a woman with on-fire wings, carrying an... ogre? or a man? mangre??? in an also on fire bubble.*
<Kaz> "WE COULDA JUST RIDDEN BIKES Y'KNOW"
<JeanetteGrave> I told you to keep an eye on them if they've got a book on ancient summoning techniques on their desk! Oh my god, I'm going to wait SO LONG to build you a motorcycle robot...
<JeanetteGrave> ... is... is that Yasha? Is he using her for this!? I'M NEVER BUILDING YOU A MOTORCYCLE ROBOT, EVEN ONCE.
<Sullivan> "... We've got company."
* YashaGrave blinks, and looks up in the sky. "Yoooo! It's Jean, and that HUGE guy from her job! They must have come to watch me duel!"
* YashaGrave waves excitedly to her sister.
* Sullivan ... stares blankly at Yasha. "... please never stop being so pure."
* JeanetteGrave waves back, then looks down at Kaz. "Did you ever read comic books? 'cause I'm gonna do something I saw a lot when I was a kid, but never had the chance to do until now."
<Kaz> "WHAT NO how the hell is this MY fault?! We're here, ain't we? There ain't no cosmic horror rampag-... What."
* JeanetteGrave flaps her wings and comes to a stop, then telekinetically pulls Kaz's fire-bubble up over her hand.
<Kaz> ".... Oh, HELL YES." He shifts in the bubble until he looks like a lineman.
* JeanetteGrave then FASTBALL SPECIALS the hell out of him, down at Sullivan. It would be a shame if something was to be summoned that might deflect him.
<YashaGrave> YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
<Sullivan> "W-wait! Let me explain~ I'm trying to fix myself! Construct the XYZ Overlay! Soul of the Outer Gods, the Crawling Chaos! OUTER ENTITY NYARLY"
<Kaz> "YOU'RE SO GROUNDED SULLIVAN"
<JeanetteGrave> Trying to fix yourself with LITERALLY a lovecraftian abomination!? Yasha, you helped him summon this! YOU'RE ALSO SO GROUNDED.
<YashaGrave> w-wait. Wait. what?! I didn't do anything wrong here, I was just dueling!
* Kaz gears up to just tackle Sullivan to the ground and we'll deal with the horrorterror after that
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS tears itself out of the Xyz Network, all tentacles and mouths, which open and shriek as the energy of the summoning circle is trasmitted into it. (0 ATK R4)
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS pauses for just a moment as it absorbs the energy, then the mouths that line it's body grin, as it rather simply reaches up and catches the bubble Kaz is in, and in one motion sends it hurtling towards the nearest alley, where he bounces like a pinball between the two buildings until the bubble pops and he can just fall to the ground, like a normal person.
<Kaz> "WAIT FUCK THIS WAS A BAD IDEeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa"
<GraveSisters> <Yasha> Uhhh... yo, you sure that thing is going to help you...? I think it just killed that huge guy.
<GraveSisters> <Jeanette> *Slams onto the ground just outside of the summoning circle, where she unleashes a stream of flames that just curl around a barrier that's suddenly formed. The barrier is also covered in mouths that match Nyarla's.* oh my god are you SERIOUS this thing is rank four and i'm level twelve!
<GraveSisters> <Jeanette> ... also if Kaz got killed by that then I'm really worried about what being an "ogre" even means.
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS turns it's... face...? to Sullivan, towering over it. "WHAT HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME FOR?"
<Sullivan> "Thank you." He adjusts his hat. "I have seen that man soak hits more terrifying than that and just reset his broken bones. Now! I... I'm sure you can see the condition I suffer from, Crawling Chaos. Could you purge the Evilswarm Virus from my body and thus, from existence? Patch the holes in my soul and make me human once again!"
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS stares down at Sullivan, through it's body and into it's very soul. "I SEE... YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF SOME VERY POOR DEALS. LITTLE MORTAL SCATTERED ACROSS THE SWARM, TOUCH YOUR HAND TO MINE." and then it stretches out a hand towards Sullivan.
* Sullivan nods, extending their hand. This is it! They've been waiting for this for YEARS.
* Kaz meanwhile, dusts himself off in the alleyway. Cracks his neck. And begins jogging back towards the plaza!
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> *Sullivan feels a... presence crawl through his hand, through his skin, through the very fiber of his being. It crawls along everything that makes him himself, crawls along everything that makes the swarm the swarm. It takes special care as it crawls around and through the holes in his soul, and Sullivan can feel... something filling them. And just as quickly as it began, it ends, with the Crawling Chaos pulling it's han
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> back.*
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> YOU ARE COMPLETE ONCE MORE.
<GraveSisters> <Yasha> Yo, it actually did the thing! See, I told you it was fine! <Jeanette> This is... maybe Onni won't have to leave vacation? Did something go well here, for once? I don't know how to feel right now.
* Sullivan stares blankly. "... I'm not though! The swarm song is still there! There's still... holes."
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> I HAVE FILLED THE HOLES IN YOUR SOUL WITH YOUR SWARM.
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> THEY WILL HOLD THERE FOR A FEW MOMENTS, BEFORE FALLING BACK APART.
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> THE CONTRACT IS COMPLETE.
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS cackles from every mouth, including the ones on the barrier outside of the circle. In different pitches and intensities for every mouth.
<Sullivan> "No! NONONONO! I asked to be HUMAN AGAIN this isn't anything. NO. I BANISH YOU BACK TO THE OUTER SPHERES"
<Sullivan> "I HAVE DECKS TO DELIVER AND TINY SANDWICHES TO EAT WITH CUTE GIRLS I WILL NOT
<Sullivan> STAND FOR THIS"
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS shrieks from each of it's mouths as an Overlay Network rises out from underneath it, seemingly starting to drag it back to the other side of the galaxy, 'cause that's where Xyz monsters come from.
<GraveSisters> <Jeanette> Did... did absolutely nothing just happen? Did we get back to square one here? Other than Sullivan being more grounded than any hivemind has ever been grounded before. That's happening.
* Sullivan swells, his coat becoming moth wings as chitin spreads over their skin. "I BANISH YOU FOR A THOUSAND YEARS FROM THE MORTAL PLANE CREATURE"
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS shrieks one final time, the barrier around the circle beginning to crack as it's dragged all the way into the Overlay Network, vanishing from this realm, as the mouths that line the barrier vanish one by one.
<GraveSisters> <Yasha> ... yo, that was... dramatic. Also, that sucks! I'll duel you again so you can get enough energy to summon something less awful!
* Sullivan doesn't breath but stares at the portal with their glowing eyes. "We... Possibly. There are other avenues to fix us."
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> *Huh, the barrier isn't fading. And there's... another mouth still there, directly behind Sullivan.*
<THECRAWLINGCHAOS> POOR BROKEN MORTAL. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME ENERGY BEYOND ANYTHING YOU OR YOUR SWARM COULD POSSIBLY DEAL WITH.
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS slowly slithers out of the mouth, now out of the barrier that Sullivan and Yasha are still stuck in.
* Sullivan ... oh no
* Sullivan turns to face it and starts dropping the barrier. "We suggest you run, Yasha~"
<GraveSisters> <Yasha> What, no! Never! I'll just crush this thing right now before it can do anything!
<GraveSisters> <Jeanette> Yasha you're going RIGHT HOME is what you're doing! <Yasha> You fought eldritch abominations when you were younger than me! <Jeanette> Yeah but I didn't literally go chasing after them! <Yasha> ... yeah you did! <Jeanette> I... okay yeah I did but that's not the point, you go home right now!
* Kaz bursts back in. "... What the FUCK is going on. And can it be solved by high grade explosives?"
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS cackles once again as it finishes slithering out of the mouth on the barrier, which follows the last bit of tentacle to exit it. The crawling chaos begins to fold in on itself, a swirling ball of, well... chaos, that can no longer decide upon a form to take.
* THECRAWLINGCHAOS finally does seem to decide upon a form as the ball grows three absolutely massive legs that dwarf all of the assembled heroes and also Sullivan, leading up to a massive armless torso, a tentacle covered in mouths where a head and face should be.
* GODOFTHEBLOODYTONGUE then shrieks out of every mouth in an utterly ear-piercing manner, knocking everyone unconcious, as it then reforms into a two headed bat and flies off to begin it's terrible work.
* Sullivan ... wakes up before everyone. Sets their eyes on the horizon. And flies off after the latest in a long series of terrible mistakes.