16:41	DMoppler	Anywho, where we left off was http://pastebin.com/KxY9Gtgb ]
16:44		Reverb moves before the giant can attack again, making a clear beeline for the boss, holding a knife in her mouth as she tilts into her "feral" method of running; arms and legs both pushing in sync to reduce energy loss and air resistance.
16:46	DMoppler	The giant with the torn legs is quick to pounce in the way with its giant mass and try to swallow her whole, it seems even wounded their directive is to keep her away to the death.
16:47		Reverb quickly rolls aside, taking advantage of her likely greater agility to start scaling the giant, moving to the head with the knife still held in her mouth.
16:49	DMoppler	In a final effort the giant pinned by arrows tears its own legs off and starts to charge at her on its hands, jumping and bellyflopping onto the pile
16:49		Reverb sighs and leaps off of the giant, letting them land in one big pile.
16:50	DMoppler	They groan and thrash about, trying to claw after her but ultimately in vain
16:53		Reverb looks over the giants, quickly sliding a flat disk underneath them. This disk becomes a massive needle extending directly upwards and right through the giants.
16:55	DMoppler	They are then shishkebabed, all of the massive demons made powerless and soon seem to deactivate themselves in the futility of struggling
16:55	Reverb	"At least they recognize when it's futile to try any longer."
16:56	DMoppler	Blasphemy looks over his shoulder, his glasses further down on his nose as he blinds at the situation with his own naked eyes. A moment later he adjusts them back on and the lanky lad turns from the terminal
16:57	Reverb	"The question is, do you?"
16:59	DMoppler	"I'd need more evidence before I'd rule out success" one wonders if he's actually serious. He doesn't look like he has any muscle on him and has so far been fairly clumsy looking with his skinny body. Still he steps forward with an unnerving casualness
17:00		Reverb isn't stupid enough to underestimate this guy. She stays on her guard, standing on her toes and ready to start moving if she needs to.
17:03	DMoppler	Blasphemy rubs the back of his head, looking her over with those analytic eyes of his that quickly shift from focus to focus. Finally he takes a scalpel out of his pocket and tosses then catches it as he begins to walk towards Reverb
17:10		Reverb starts moving slowly, keeping her distance from the man, two swords in hand now. She carefully follows his gestures and movement; this guy has a plan, and if she can find it, she can outmaneuver him.
17:13	DMoppler	As he starts to walk towards her in his slow gait Reverb starts.... seeing things. Whenever he moves there seems to be an imprint, almost an image of him, in the air behind him creating a trail that fades the further each one gets. It makes one slightly feel nauseous to look at.
17:13	DMoppler	If that wasn't enough, she can start to see little barely visible currents go through the air like veins that reach out towards her
17:19		Reverb sighs, it was never going to be easy. She falls back on her training, taking slow and deliberate steps, breathing deeply and focusing her attention on the actual Blasphemy, and none of his after-images. To assist with that, she starts sending out a wave through her headphones, using a basic form of echolocation as a visual aid.
17:21	DMoppler	The echolocation is quick to pick up on him, but also reveals something else. Those "air currents" seem to contain more than air. With her careful detection she can tell there's what seem to be some kind of dust or even spores carried through them. He's deliberately biding his time
17:23	DMoppler	Blasphemy flips the scalpel once again, his calm and weak nature now starting to look far more intimidating with a murderer's intent glistening through his blue tinted glasses.
17:24		Reverb figured, something had to give with the deliberate movements. She'll need to stick away from these currents, and focus on getting her hands on Blasphemy. Better make it quick then. Rather than going back, she starts moving in.
17:27	DMoppler	The scientist boy keeps his pace, a little anticipating grin inching bit by bit across his face in a twisted fashion. "Finally, lets make this quick then, eh? sbrigare!"
17:32		Reverb moves deftly and quickly. Her blades have the advantage on range but she can't be cocky. With one sword she slashes upwards, keeping the other close to her side.
17:34	DMoppler	The body of Blasphemy makes an unnatural motion, joints working against what is physically possible to duck underneath it and dash past her as he makes a cut at her with the scalpel.
17:35	DMoppler	The images follow his movement as well, carrying their spores that litter the air and cause further nausea.
17:38		Reverb groans, why can't these bastards just have no tricks under their sleeve. She narrowly misses the scalpel, instead bringing her other blade down on Blasphemy. She'd need to do something about the spores too.
17:42	DMoppler	The blade cuts into his side, leaving a wound as he passes by. The hand not holding the scalpel covers the bleeding as he turns. He's bloody quick, though. The second he gets past her he's already spinning to get out of her line of sight and make several slashes from her legs up to her shoulders with the small knife.
17:50		Reverb grunts, focusing and shutting her eyes. If he's too fast to see, she'll just hear instead. She manages to block most of the slashes, one catching her face and another her chest. She growls, /hating/ that this guy was getting past her defenses. She starts retaliating, throwing some swift slashes in the direction she hears Blasphemy in.
17:53	DMoppler	Its hard to keep track of him, between his body that seems to contort and break itself in any direction and the speed he's quite the devil. It comes to a point he ducks between her legs to slash at her ankles then resume the assault up front. She does manage to cut him, though. The shattering of glass is heard as his glasses and the eye underneath get hit.
17:54	DMoppler	His back and right leg also receive a few gashes along them as he moves, caring more about attacking her than his own safety. In a deft motion Blasphemy jumps back to survey the damage as well as wipe the blood from his clenched wounded eye
17:56	DMoppler	Namely he seems to be watching the wounds that Reverb had sustained. To the untrained eye they looked like any old cuts but he could see that there was a healing factor within them. That revelation does not look like it pleased him.
18:07		Reverb now focuses on Blasphemy, growling angrily. Even in the light of day her powers were in effect, so she was slightly less concerned for herself than usual. She stepped forward, taking advantage of the situation and rushing ahead once more.
18:09	DMoppler	It seems like he lost a bit of that cool that he felt as he learns more and more, switching to a more defensive stance as he uses that little scalpel similar to a fencer. The lad seems to read the body in and out, always slashing whatever isn't covered in an attempt to keep her back
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18:14		Reverb keeps blocking, focusing on her own defense for now. She's fairly certain she has the better stamina of the two, so she will focus and take advantage of that, carrying on her approach, attempting to coax Blasphemy into attack through insults.
18:19	DMoppler	He's starting to look further frustrated, backing away as she continues to approach. Suddenly his eyes narrow and he leaps back a few meters to give him space, now looking dead serious.
18:20	DMoppler	"You had your little chance, but I still have one more trick up my sleeve" he grunts, his eye having healed in the meantime and opening despite the blood on that side of his face. "You're already beaten"
18:22	DMoppler	The spores! He's been spreading them around as he danced through the battle at all those weird angles. Reverb can tell that the air is absolutely filthy with them. All at once her vision blurs horrendously as the nausea shifts. Instead its replaced by... emotions. A complete tidal wave of them and every last one of them achingly strong.
18:24	DMoppler	Her bloodlust seems to go through the roof at the same time she feels far too lazy to lift a finger, she feels an inexplicable hunger and lust and fixation on the world at the same time as feeling overwhelmingly self centered AND self deprecating. All the grief and moments of pain seem to explode as memories through her head.
18:24	DMoppler	It comes to a point her body feels like its going to fall apart. But... it doesn't. Through that vampirism that she inherited she's able to keep a sliver of her own thought alive and keep her body from literally tearing itself asunder.
18:25	DMoppler	Blasphemy stands watching as if he had finally beat her, expecting her to drop dead any moment now.
18:26		Reverb growls. Even with the vampirism, she's better than just letting her emotions take over. She laughs. Laughs right in Blasphemy's face. She takes a step forward... and then another. And with each step, she focuses on one simple thing; the people she promised she'd save and she'd return to.
18:28	Reverb	"I'm not failing. Not now." she says bluntly, instead throwing her sword right at Blasphemy. "Maybe other people would be taken apart by these feelings. By the anger and the lust and the hatred and the greed... but me? The only one of those I've needed is anger, and even that's long gone. I've got a friend, back home, and I promised him my anger wouldn't...
18:30	Reverb	...get the better of me either. Lust? Don't need it. Greed? What use is that? Pride is for people who don't know their worth. In short... you should start running before I go back on my promise."
18:31	DMoppler	He blinks. "N-No.... No, you're supposed to be dead. The brain /cannot/ handle that, its sensory overload!...". Blasphemy is slowly starting to realize his usual deadly ace isn't working, and his face shows that realization.
18:32	DMoppler	"You... healing factor, of course. But... no! No, this is impossible! You should be driven mad!"
18:32	Reverb	"Good thing I'm not the smartest around then, huh?"
18:32	Reverb	"Maybe I'm already mad."
18:32	Reverb	"Or maybe you're just full of shit."
18:32	Reverb	"Either one seems likely."
18:34	DMoppler	The scientist's body seems to portray... fear. Fear and utter rage as he tries to piece together whats happening with what he already knows and planned. Seething and growling he makes a wild charge, the bones in his hands jutting out into makeshift claws as he basically pounces at her in a mad frenzy of attakcs
18:35	Reverb	"Now this, this is more my style. Let's see what you're really made of!"
18:36	DMoppler	"I'LL SEE YOU AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS DEAD, YOU DISGUSTING MUTANT /PIG/! ONCE I GET OUT OF HERE, OOOH BOY I'LL MAKE SURE WHEREVER SHITHOLE YOU CAME FROM IS BOMBED TO THE GROUND!" he has gone completely feral as he charges
18:37	Reverb	"Oh yeah? I'd like to see you try, fucker. I'm not even the /strongest/ of my team."
18:38	Reverb	"I know others who could run circles around you before you blink. They'd crush you like a little damn egg."
18:39	DMoppler	Blasphemy seems to have taken on a new strength with his anger, crashing right into her and trying to tear her apart with his bare hands like a cornered animal. He even attempts to bite her with the ferocity of a mad dog. "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"
18:42		Reverb grunts and punches Blasphemy wildly, pushing him back and trying to shift him into a corner. "Make me shut up, weakling. You keep hitting but it's USELESS! LIKE YOU! 無駄無駄無駄!"
18:45	DMoppler	With every last ounce of power left in him the scientist delivers a punch, hitting like a wrecking ball with all the hidden strength he had kept inside and following it up with a flurry of blows to try to push her back as he repeatedly screams an unintelligible Italian.
18:47	DMoppler	"MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE MORIRE"
18:50		Reverb is just about tired of this little fucker. She sneaks a knife between her fingers, raised right upwards. She suddenly raises her arm to block, the knife right in the path of the flying fist.
18:51	DMoppler	The blade goes straight through his hand, right through the palm as he thrashes madly but his attack is interrupted.
18:52	Reverb	Reverb uses this chance, sending back her own flurry of blows, aiming mostly for the midsection and arms to keep this guy alive. Right now, all in her mind is getting the excess anger out, punching like a jackhammer as she screams.
18:52	Reverb	"悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴悲愴"
18:54	DMoppler	Blasphemy is unable to put up any defense, pressed back into the wall by the constant punches as his lungs fail to give him any air to protest. He's completely helpless as even his symbiote enhanced form starts to give out on him