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  1. Mai Tokiha has left.
  2. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "Kozue might get to replace Tsubasa, because the clock over here is 05.20, it's taking quite a while and I am Pretty Dead, orz"
  3. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "oh no! sleep is important"
  4. [OOC] Mami Tomoe hug a Tsubasa <3
  5. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "I'm glad you came in"
  6. [OOC] Kasagami Araki tsubahug! What mamichan said!
  7. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "yes!! it was good to see you"
  8. [OOC] Endo Naoki <3 tsubasa
  9. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Yes! Very much so :)"
  10. [OOC] Madoka Kaname <3
  11. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "Aaah, it just feels bad because I really wanted to participate and I really wanted to roleplay!"
  12. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "But 05.20 is safely on the 'absurdly late' side of night, especially if you were out during the evening."
  13. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "Yeah no worries we'll be happy to catch you another day"
  14. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Yeah we'll give you more lead time for the finale of finales"
  15. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Which you ARE ATTENDING"
  16. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Mikoto Minagi's Attacks ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  17. * MIROKU!! | Finisher | PL: 7 | Physical Ranged | Speed -3 *
  18. * Flags: Accurate, Homing, and Charge3 | Mana 43 *
  19. * Obsidian Blade: Death | Finisher | PL: 8 | Physical Melee | Speed -2 *
  20. * Flags: Penetrating, Charge2, and Efficient3 | Mana 35 *
  21. * MIKOTO YES | Free | PL: 0 | Magical Ranged | Speed 0 *
  22. * Flags: Cheer and Efficient2 | Mana -5 *
  23. * Obsidian Blade: Defence | Free | PL: 2 | Physical Melee | Speed 0 *
  24. * Flags: Overpower and Efficient2 | Mana 8 *
  25. * Obsidian Blade: Dilemma | Free | PL: 2 | Physical Melee | Speed 0 *
  26. * Flags: Efficient2 | Mana 7 *
  27. * Obsidian Blade: Distrust | Free | PL: 1 | Physical Melee | Speed 0 *
  28. * Flags: Overpower and Efficient2 | Mana 0 *
  29. * Obsidian Blade: Dyspathy | Free | PL: 2 | Physical Melee | Speed 0 *
  30. * Flags: Homing and Efficient2 | Mana 8 *
  31. * Obsidian Blade: Dauntlessn | Special | PL: 3 | Physical Melee | Speed -4 *
  32. * Flags: Psych, Charge4, and Efficient4 | Mana 17 *
  33. * Obsidian Blade: Demolition | Special | PL: 3 | Physical Melee | Speed -2 *
  34. * Flags: Overpower, Cripple, Charge2, and Efficient2 | Mana 21 *
  35. * Obsidian Blade: Destructio | Special | PL: 4 | Physical Melee | Speed -4 *
  36. * Flags: Defense Breaking, Charge4, and Efficient2 | Mana 27 *
  37. * Obsidian Blade: Devastatio | Special | PL: 2 | Physical Melee | Speed -1 *
  38. * Flags: Stagger, Stun, Psych, Charge1, and Efficient2 | Mana 18 *
  39. * Obsidian Blade: Disequilib | Special | PL: 3 | Physical Melee | Speed -3 *
  40. * Flags: Exhausted, Diversion, Charge3, and Efficient3 | Mana 20 *
  41. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Freeattack Attack Points: 5.5 ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  42. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "Heyyy, Sayaka, I wanted to attend today, too, y'know!"
  43. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "You did attend!"
  44. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "90% of life is showing up"
  45. <Pose Tracker> Mami Tomoe [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  46.  
  47. "...Sakura-san makes a habit of making it look as if she takes /nothing/ seriously," Mami says darkly in answer to Endo's statement, in time with Sayaka's answer. They talk together. It's almost cute. She has watched each and every of her Chevaliers on the way over, looked them over, judged their state--not just as some kind of general, but to make sure they are all well, to check each of them over. She cares for all of them, after all. Each of them is precious. ...She even smiles at Nori's earrings; she remembers those well, after all.
  48.  
  49. ...As for the Shepherds, not /all/ are familiar to her precisely. She lifts an eyebrow at Nao, Kasagami gets her look, and Mikoto and her sword--Mami's eyes bear down on her for an instant. She knows that one well. Chitose, too. And Pluto... It is solemn, yes. They are all talking.
  50.  
  51. She has to agree with Tsubasa about the battle.
  52.  
  53. But Sayaka speaks up, mentions the Chevaliers, mentions the world they want, that they will have, and Mami says nothing at first; instead, she is already holding her musket, and when Sayaka draws her sword and touches it to her weapon, Mami looks to her once, with a nod. She senses those little movements... and only Sayaka is likely to notice the little give in the way Mami holds her weapon, the flutter of her heart as she looks to her. They are in this together, no matter how far apart they are.
  54.  
  55. ...And as soon as Sayaka moves, Mami steps back, her weapons fanning out as suddenly there are /six/ rather than one, each hanging in the air, pointed downward, and Mami pulls the first--and starts towards Kasagami, the Engaged, not that she knows it. Her honeyed eyes are on her, this foe she's faced before. And the muskets twirl along behind her, a beautiful chain that she twirls and takes from, leaping into the air as she keeps firing, picking up one after another and dropping each in turn.
  56.  
  57. "You have /no/ idea how long I've waited for this one, Araki-san."
  58. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has used Tiro Flourish on Kasagami Araki.
  59. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has finished attacking.
  60. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "Dang, can't argue with that..."
  61. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "It's true"
  62. [OOC] Tsubasa Kazanari says, "Well then, I'm really sad I can't attend MORE. But I'll sign out, thanks everyone for having me!<3 Have fun!"
  63. <Pose Tracker> Mikoto Minagi [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  64.  
  65. Mikoto's enemies, all lined up. Sayaka, whose honeyed words have turned so many against them; Mami, who hates her, divinely and utterly, as far as Mikoto cares to know. La Sirene, whose darkness consumes; Garnet, whose fists decimate. A strange, stately woman, unfamiliar to Mikoto, bearing a blade which marks her enemy regardless. And Endo, who she had once fought alongside, when fate took a strange turn.
  66.  
  67. It's that last one she focuses on, eyes locking on his, grip tightening around her claymore. You learn someone's measure when you fight side-by-side, and she knows that he presents just as much of a threat as the louder warriors facing them. She has already decided that her blade must meet his. Now, she waits. It doesn't take long.
  68.  
  69. When the flurry of movement starts, Mikoto springs forward, as if a sprinter pushing off of the starting block. A scream tears from her throat, primal and terrible, Miroku squealing against the ground as she tears forward towards enemy lines. When she swings her mighty sword in a wide horizontal arc, she doesn't care who gets caught in the crossfire -- but she's only aiming for one boy.
  70.  
  71. He's got the devil's luck.
  72.  
  73. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "Night Tsu <3"
  74. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "thanks for coming!!"
  75. [OOC] Mami Tomoe <3
  76. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki narrowly dodges Mami Tomoe's Tiro Flourish, taking 16 Fatigue damage! Kasagami Araki's Fade ability activates! Kasagami Araki's Flash ability activates!
  77. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Night Zwei Wing"
  78. [OOC] Garnet says, "Goodnight Tsubasa!"
  79. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "and sorry if my quality's a bit poor, i'm a little off-kilter, it'll improve in a bit"
  80. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has used Obsidian Blade: Dauntlessness on Endo Naoki.
  81. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has finished attacking.
  82. Tsubasa Kazanari has disconnected.
  83. <Pose Tracker> Garnet [None] has posed.
  84. Sayaka Miki. What she lacks in stature she makes up for with heart and courage. At Sayaka's words and bearing, Garnet is (as she feels all beings with a conscience should be at so noble a call to action) inspired, and when her blueberry leader asks her for a hand with her assault, Garnet complies gladly, her teeth grit with stermination, carrying into that throw and Chevalier flagship strike all the energy it deserves and more.
  85. COMBAT: Garnet has joined the combo started by Sayaka Miki!
  86. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "Kasagami"
  87. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "it's time"
  88. [OOC] Kasagami Araki just <3 so much, dancing with my favorite delinquent~
  89. COMBAT: COMBO! Sayaka Miki and Garnet have used Perfect Pitch and Hand Tossed Special Delivery on Sailor Pluto.
  90. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki has finished attacking.
  91. COMBAT: Garnet has finished attacking.
  92. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Hey, maybe you two should +cancel and let Pluto boss first"
  93. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Otherwise this is gonna get weird, since mid-scene bossing is percentage-based"
  94. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "(If we were going with that, maybe there is no bossing, I forget)"
  95. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "I'm not gonna boss, all's fair in war~"
  96. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Pluto's hardcore"
  97. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto perfectly braces Sayaka Miki and Garnet's Combo: Perfect Pitch, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Brace! Sailor Pluto's Block ability activates! Sailor Pluto's Parry ability activates!
  98. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "/super/ hardcore"
  99. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "APPARENTLY"
  100. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Yeah that's pretty hardcore..."
  101. [OOC] Garnet .:o
  102. [OOC] Sailor Pluto o_o
  103. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "pluto is so badass"
  104. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Pluto was a boss in her heart all along..."
  105. <Pose Tracker> Kasagami Araki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  106.  
  107.  
  108. "You know Mami-chan..." She starts, smiling all cheshire and bloody minded grin and just /itching/ to fight the Golden Queen. And Mami gives her a brilliant start, with those many muskets fired at her. Ribbon musket balls fly for her, and as usual she's annoyingly difficult to hit.
  109.  
  110. She spins, turns, leaps into the air upside down and spins her long nodachi in a flash that has bullets falling from the sky. A few get close though, this is /Mami/ we're talking about, and her coat has several signs of gentle aeration from those seeking bullets. Kassie brushes her poor coat off, touching down a few feet away from her golden tressed dance partner, just in time to blow a kiss and wink at one Sailor Pluto.
  111.  
  112. "Don't you dare lose, Sailor Pluto!" Her tone is encouraging. Her eyes say more. I love you. I believe in you. Let's end this.
  113.  
  114. "I actually believe that! Hah haaaaah! Come on, Golden Delinquent, don't hold back! Let's cross blade and gun, dance and let our hearts light on fire! Nothing more that I love than beautiful girls like you, dangerous and savage, and a good fight! Oh, tonight is going to be WONDERFUL!" She laughs, joining battle with her demon's grin and way too much enthusiasm for a duel, even if not a Duel.
  115.  
  116. She also briefly seems to dissappear, falling from on high and blade slashing down to try to lash into Mami!
  117.  
  118. "Show me what you dream of, Mami Tomoe! Say it with your weapons!" Encourages Kassie most unwisely. Perhaps Kassie's life is just one bad decision stretched out over years, but she's going to enjoy it, dangit!
  119. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has used Rose on the Wind on Mami Tomoe.
  120. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has finished attacking.
  121. [OOC] Mami Tomoe <3
  122. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe narrowly counters Kasagami Araki's Rose on the Wind, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Kasagami Araki is Psyched! Mami Tomoe's Reverse ability activates! Mami Tomoe's Tactician ability activates!
  123. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe's counterattack, Tiro Retort, partially gets through, doing 14 Fatigue damage to Kasagami Araki!
  124. <Pose Tracker> Nao Yuuki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  125.  
  126. Mikoto watches the enemy -- Nao watches Mikoto. They've fought alongside one another enough for her to be wise to what's about to happen; her friend will charge in and could get taken by surprise from the sides, and that is /not/ cool. Not cool at all.
  127.  
  128. Yup, there's the battle roar.
  129.  
  130. Her smirk widening into a grin, Nao slams a button on her phone. If she's going to fight tonight, it might as well be to her tunes. Its speakers are not up to the task of penetrating the myriad noises of the battlefield, but every so often snatches of the chorus make it up to her ears.
  131.  
  132. Diegetic BGM: Now - Paramore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpxjx2fy_E
  133.  
  134. Then she leaps into action -- leaps /high/, like she's in a wuxia film, being pulled by wires (more on that later). She comes down on the person nearest Endo -- la Sirene -- with a swish-slash of claws that turns her whole body in a complete, graceful circle.
  135.  
  136. Don't try to take this from me
  137. Don't try to take this from me -- no-o-o-o-o-o-w
  138.  
  139. Her stocking knee comes down hard, hits the concrete, but she's game to take it, and again tastes whatever her claws have caught on the other side, even if it's nothing but the cool evening air.
  140.  
  141. "Have you ever tried selling all those diamonds?" she asks her opponent, without turning around. "I mean, like, if that was /my/ magic power, I'd never worry about anything again. You could even use it to buy stuff for widows and orphans if you needed that to sleep at night."
  142.  
  143. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has used A Girl's Best Friend on La Sirene de Diamant.
  144. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has finished attacking.
  145. COMBAT: Endo Naoki perfectly counters Mikoto Minagi's Obsidian Blade: Dauntlessness, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter! Endo Naoki's Reverse ability activates!
  146. COMBAT: Endo Naoki's counterattack, Asteroid Eilen, bursts all the way through, doing 42 Fatigue damage to Mikoto Minagi!
  147. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant narrowly braces Nao Yuuki's A Girl's Best Friend, taking 3 Fatigue damage! La Sirene de Diamant's Block ability activates! La Sirene de Diamant's Parry ability activates! La Sirene de Diamant is Taunted!
  148. ============================[ Ueno Museum District ]============================
  149. Name Idle Pose B|D: Y/N Fatigue Mana Morale
  150. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  151. Nao Yuuki 4m 5m N|N Great Great Upbeat
  152. Kasagami Araki 49s 7m N|N Good Great Upbeat
  153. Garnet 9m 17m N|N Great Good Normal
  154. Mikoto Minagi 0s 19m N|N Okay Good Normal
  155. Mami Tomoe 6m 20m N|N Great Good Upbeat
  156. Sayaka Miki 9m 42m N|N Great Good Normal
  157. Sailor Pluto 5m >1h N|N Great Great Normal
  158. La Sirene de Diamant 27s >1h N|Y Great Great Normal
  159. Endo Naoki 59s >1h N|N Great Good Normal
  160. Kyouko Sakura 10m >1h N|N Great Great Normal
  161. Madoka Kaname 14m >1h N|N
  162. Kozue Kaoru 9m None N|N Great Great Normal
  163. Steven Universe 56m None N|N
  164. Scene Pose >1h Scene pose set by Sayaka Miki.
  165. =============[ Sat Feb 17 21:47:15 2018 / Sat Mar 28 2015, Part 2 ]=============
  166. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Mikoto Minagi's Status ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  167. * Fatigue: 58/100 Mana: 89/100 Morale: 10 *
  168. ----------------------------<< Reaction Penalties >>----------------------------
  169. * Dodge: 0 Brace: 0 Counter: 0 *
  170. * Recently Targetted By: Nothing Yet! *
  171. ------------------------<< Status Effects (Duration) >>-------------------------
  172. * --==None==-- *
  173. ---------------------<< Finisher Threshhold Availability >>---------------------
  174. * MIROKU!! | Morale Threshhold: 75 | Mana Cost: 43 *
  175. * Obsidian Blade: Death | Morale Threshhold: 80 | Mana Cost: 35 *
  176. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Power of Darkness: NO ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  177. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "nao, for some reason my flawless strategy of running straight for the enemy screaming has failed"
  178. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "what happened......."
  179. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "It'll be okay, kid"
  180. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "The favor of the running forward gods is fickle today..."
  181. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "Miko, I became the Engaged by basically doing exactly that. Running Forward is the only swordstrategy. Also hitting things"
  182. <Pose Tracker> Kyouko Sakura [None] has posed.
  183. <SoundTracker> .
  184.  
  185.  
  186. ~~EARLIER~~
  187.  
  188. Between Kyouko's first footfall, not so far from those she means to slash and stab, and the series of flips and leaps that sends her off to the other side of the thin red line, she caught the eye of her oldest friend. Mami looks at her without apparent feeling, save assurance, and Kyouko returns her gaze as evenly as it is offered. She doesn't mock Mami, nor offer a respectful nod. There are a number of things that she wants to do with Mami, but the door that leads to them has been sealed, and she is not eager to proceed down the only path remaining to them.
  189.  
  190. It hadn't been destiny, not when they'd spoken. But Mami has made it so, so so it is.
  191.  
  192. ~~EARLIER STILL~~Kyouko shaked her head, her oversized hat wobbling precariously upon her head. "Thanks, but I don't want anything nice enough that I have to care about keepin' nice. 'sides I kinda gotta go katana for this East / West thing.." Her face splits into a grin. Shrugging her hat off of her head and catching it with a fingertip, she starts to spin it around and around..
  193.  
  194. "'s not meant to be graceful. That's your job."
  195.  
  196. ~~NOW~~
  197.  
  198. Kyouko glances at the falling street lamps, taken slightly aback before she realizes that Kasagami is speaking to her, but before she can gather herself to respond, her theatrical comrade is chiming in with a pep rally of her own. Kyouko's eyebrows lift about as far as the corners of her lips, but she blanches a little at the final tag.
  199.  
  200. /What? We're not the revolutionaries here...that's the whole point.../ Naturally, she thinks better of raising the issue.
  201.  
  202. She waves a hand to Nao, grinning back in kind. "This? This is just the sound check. Main event's comin', don't worry." To Sailor Pluto she flashes a wink. "Oh, always ready. That way I don't need to worry about if I should be ready, or when. I'm glad you're ready too." To her own epigram, she smiles, and nods in approbation.
  203.  
  204. ~~SOUNDTRACK CHANGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa90OVJkBos ~~
  205.  
  206. And then it's on.
  207.  
  208. Mami rushes forward with a whole squadron of rifles to her credit, and alongside her is a swordswoman who Kyouko does not recognize. Kasagami, in her way, leaps into the fray to lock horns. Kyouko bares her teeth in something like a smile, hurling hat and glasses and pipe and robes from her body to reveal the ornate dress proclaiming her power.
  209.  
  210. Mami's range gave her an early opening, and Kasagami's cavalry charge bravado quickly closed the distance between the two..in short, they've met in melee slightly sooner than most. The expected thing would be to engage the fencer. As an unknown factor, she can't yet assess her as a threat..but the golden gunner she stands with is a well known danger. In her way, she goes with her gut.
  211.  
  212. Squaring her spear out like a lance, Kyouko charges headlong towards Tsubasa, her hair whipping behind her like a comet's tail, her face a feral rictus as she expels an animal scream. But before the two can join in battle, Kyouko's magic banishes the spearhead from its forward positioning, toggling it to the rear as she plants the newly blunted end into the ground, lifting herself up into the air as her weapon takes on a vertical posture which only grows as the shaft extends itself. Instead of fighting Tsubasa, Kyouko has leapt straight over her..and behind her comrade.
  213.  
  214. Mami's back is to her..and Kasagami is, among other things, a tremendously effective gravitational center for attention. It is time to walk the last path left to her and her senpai. Gritting her teeth and whitening her knuckles, she does not hesitate as she attempts to run her oldest friend through.
  215. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has used Masterstroke on Mami Tomoe.
  216. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has finished attacking.
  217. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "aaaaah kyou <"
  218. [OOC] Kasagami Araki <3
  219. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura <3
  220. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru tries to cover Mami Tomoe for Kyouko Sakura's attack, Masterstroke, but cannot get there in time!
  221. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Yeah I'm trying it again by divine right. As in Mami's back is too divine for it to be right for me to let it get skewered."
  222. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Haha agreed"
  223. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru covers Mami Tomoe for Kyouko Sakura's attack, Masterstroke, taking it upon herself instead!
  224. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru narrowly counters Kyouko Sakura's Masterstroke, taking 30 Fatigue damage! Kozue Kaoru's Reverse ability activates! Kozue Kaoru's Tactician ability activates!
  225. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru's counterattack, Strepitoso, partially gets through, doing 10 Fatigue damage to Kyouko Sakura! Critical Counterhit! Tangle applied to Kyouko Sakura!
  226. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "Ouch, strep"
  227. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Good thing I can make my own booster shots...er, well, the syringes at least.."
  228. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ahahah"
  229. [OOC] Mami Tomoe reads
  230. <Pose Tracker> Endo Naoki [Juuban Public School (11)] has posed.
  231.  
  232. Endo gives a nod at Nori's assessment of Kyoto. He wasn't present at the last battle, hasn't seen the full might of the Shepards, but he knows some. He's seen the power of Kasagami's unbridaled passion, the strength of the Outer Senshi, the unbridled ferocity of Mikoto and the dark blade she wields. None are to be taken lightly.
  233.  
  234. But neither are the Chevaliers and their dream, spoken so eloquently by the blue-haired Puella Magi at their front. It's a sentiment he shares-and even more, a promise he made. He has a contract of his own, to protect his home. To destroy his enemies. He never imagined that those foes would be these, other magical girls, some who he'd even fought with side-by-side on strange occasions.
  235.  
  236. But there's no choice in the matter. Not now. Not with the howling figure of Mikoto charging forward, swinging the vicious sword he'd seen easily carve through other adversaries. He doesn't have to go far to meet her, and he does so head on and with much the same strategy. Run forward and swing.
  237.  
  238. They crash together like comets. Ancient weapons meet, collide, spark. The force reverberates through Endo, shakes him to his bones and throws the knight backward once the exchange is done.
  239.  
  240. He extends a hand quickly after, thrusts it forward and calls forth a spell. The air around his fingers burns and a large, triangular glyph spins to life in the air in front of him.
  241.  
  242. <KETTE BINDEN.>
  243.  
  244. From the disc-like sigil burst a dozen chains, purple-black lines of Belkan magic that streak toward his opponent. They seek to catch, to bind, to restrain and slow the power behind her massive strikes. Any one, he knows, could be fatal.
  245. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant :O
  246. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Kette Binden on Mikoto Minagi.
  247. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.
  248. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Great pose, Endo"
  249. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Thank yooou"
  250. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "endo's so cool"
  251. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Battle Fantasia Character Sheet ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  252. * Name: Mikoto Minagi Master Rank: B *
  253. * Henshin: HiME Mikoto Henshin Rank: B Points: 280 *
  254. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Statistics ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  255. * Might: 70/100 Fatigue: 58/100 *
  256. * Reflex: 61/100 Mana: 89/100 *
  257. * Vitality: 40/100 Morale: 10 *
  258. * Spirit: 40/100 *
  259. * Composure: 6/10 *
  260. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Abilities ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  261. * Master Traits: Dynamic, Fade, Flash, and Massive Impacts *
  262. * Henshin Abilities: Improvisationalist, Kung Fu Wizard, Riposte, Supersonic, *
  263. * and Unstoppable Force *
  264. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Status Effects (Duration) ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  265. * --==None==-- *
  266. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  267.  
  268. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi perfectly dodges Endo Naoki's Kette Binden, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Mikoto Minagi's Fade ability activates! Mikoto Minagi's Flash ability activates!
  269. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "you can't binden this kette"
  270. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP"
  271. [OOC] Endo Naoki gasps! She broke those cuffs!
  272. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "hahaha"
  273. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "You two are having a very advanced combat over there"
  274. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Only perfect things are happening."
  275. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "listen, if you throw enough force at a problem, there eventually won't be a problem any more"
  276. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i see no flaws in this logic whatsoever"
  277. GAME: Save complete.
  278. [OOC] Steven Universe just taking pictures from the bushes n_n
  279. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant near done...!!
  280. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "love it Kyouko"
  281. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Thanks!"
  282. <Pose Tracker> La Sirene de Diamant [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  283.  
  284. La Sirene gleams lightly as Sayaka speaks with such clarity. She draws in a breath. She has no blade or gun to lay atop Mami's or Sayaka's but for a fleeting moment she wishes she did; that her strength did not lay so deeply in shadows and feelings and subtle permutations. Yes, of course, it's effective. That isn't the /point/. What is she going to do, walk up and rest her Pharos on top of --
  285.  
  286. There is, of course, another problem with la Sirene's way of thinking, which is that she is not always fully aware of her surroundings. Yes, she could see the girl with the great sword, but she saw her tense and was shifting herself in anticipation of raising her left hand, calling upon Les Mysteres, and sending Mikoto into the side of the bridge.
  287.  
  288. There is a problem with this plan.
  289.  
  290. That problem is Nao Yuuki.
  291.  
  292. "Kyah!" la Sirene exclaims as she whips her arm abruptly upwards, a sharp SHING! coming along with a spark of unnatural light as one of those diamonds on the backs of her gloves glances off of the sweeping blade. She stares at Nao, breathing heavily for a moment, before she realizes - Nao spoke -
  293.  
  294. Recover yourself. Straightening, her arm lowers, and la Sirene answers her with a tart tongue, "They're common enough, where I am from. It would be poor play for me to give away my regalia for so much dross."
  295.  
  296. Those blades, she thinks.
  297.  
  298. The light tightens around la Sirene and then ripples outwards. Unlike the traditional form, the erupting all-directions attack aimed to ensnare and tangle up Nao Yuuki before she can gut la Sirene like so much seafood does /not/ resemble vines - it resembles instead a ghostly anemone aiming to entrap her, finding its own personal nobody and holding her against the bridge. Such is la Sirene's intention.
  299.  
  300. The execution is more complex. "Endo," la Sirene begins, before she sees his own sorcery erupt - "Ah, you've seen her, fair enough," she concludes with a nod.
  301.  
  302. You paged Endo Naoki with 'endo's still wielding fallen stern, the best sword, right'
  303. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has used Polyploia on Nao Yuuki.
  304. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has finished attacking.
  305. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "Norin <3"
  306. Endo Naoki (Endo) pages: Yep!
  307. You paged Endo Naoki with 'okay good'
  308. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "That understatement about Endo, haha"
  309. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i mean, she's not wrong"
  310. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "hehe"
  311. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant was just imagining her panning over to see - oh OK he's full of like, magic runes and stuff, he didn't get jumped like i almost did
  312. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "mikoto was nice enough to yell a lot on her way over, unlike other well known delinquents :|a"
  313. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "I think we should probably desynch the rounds of each pair in order to help it move more speedily, any objection to that?"
  314. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i'm down!"
  315. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "That is to say, pose order only within your combat"
  316. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "Yes!"
  317. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "I am waiting for Kozue for obvious reasons first, but after that"
  318. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "in which case, would it be my turn in my particular cell"
  319. [OOC] Kasagami Araki agrees!
  320. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Sure!"
  321. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki fails to counter La Sirene de Diamant's Polyploia, taking 33 Fatigue damage! Trap applied to Nao Yuuki!
  322. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki's counterattack, Mean Girls, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to La Sirene de Diamant!
  323. <Pose Tracker> Sailor Pluto [Infinity Institute (U)] has posed.
  324.  
  325. Sailor Pluto breathes in deeply of the charged air, filling her lungs with anticipation, and feels the steady pace of her heart jump -- speeding as everything else slows, a natural dilation of her element, adrenaline welcomed as an old comrade-at-arms. In the moment that battle is joined she feels the absence of Sailors Uranus and Neptune, that distance itself an old comrade of sorts. She salutes them in her mind, knowing that a stand here might make the difference to their duty.
  326.  
  327. Pluto has newer comrades, though. The Shepherds are at her side, and she theirs; with Chitose at her shoulder and the ferocious might of hungry swords and spears unleashed before her, she cannot feel alone. Certainly not after she catches a blown kiss and wink, and with battle-readiness thudding through her veins all Pluto can feel is a surge of fierce joy that drowns anything bittersweet.
  328.  
  329. There is only time and space here for ferocity, in all things. She nods with gazes locked, and calls, "Never!" and her evergreen hair swirls in the shifting currents of the fray's opening volleys, whipped by passing bullets even as she stands tall and still. "While I breathe, I stand." It is a promise.
  330.  
  331. They come -- her focus forward, now, the senshi imposes with the deep tones of her voice, addressing their attackers directly. "And while I stand, you shall not have Ueno!"
  332.  
  333. In particular, Sayaka comes, propelled by a Garnet-colored and -attached fist Sailor Pluto -- and more specifically, a spot on her jaw that suddenly aches from pure memory -- remembers with exquisite clarity. That painfully-gained knowledge gives the senshi an idea of the walloping force headed her way.
  334.  
  335. It is a test. And she will meet it. Legs limber, ready to absorb impact -- she grips the Garnet Rod with hands spread wide, like her feet, all of the stoic senshi primed for the moment of impact. Sailor Pluto makes her stand with eyes narrowed and hair streaming.
  336.  
  337. She promised not to move.
  338.  
  339. Blade and staff collide with a flash of light and a clash of sound, both silvery and sharp and immense. All of the bruising impact of Garnet fists combine with the blue streak of velocity that is Sayaka and her sword, and it rings through the sacred titanium of the Garnet Rod right back through Sailor Pluto's very being.
  340.  
  341. Concrete ripples behind her boot heels as they dig into the bridge, driven down with great force -- down... but not back.
  342.  
  343. The promise is kept.
  344.  
  345. And when the violence of Sayaka's passing clears, the senshi has not moved. As promised. The cost of it rattles her arms and teeth, but she stands. And turns -- to face the blue knight.
  346.  
  347. Rotates, with the Garnet Rod at the fore, to not just face her foe but retaliate, sweeping it down and around to tangle the limbs of the girl who would take Ueno.
  348. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "Belatedly, no problem here"
  349. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto has used Aoristic Fulcrum on Sayaka Miki.
  350. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto has finished attacking.
  351. <Pose Tracker> Kozue Kaoru [None] has posed.
  352.  
  353.  
  354. As it is in many things, Aohime is fashionably late as she vaults over the side of the bridge, just after battle is joined. Black flying behind her before there's a tremendous clack of her boots, and her coat flies down back into place. Heeled black suede that reach just over the knee. A matching black miniskirt and leather trench that's open.
  355.  
  356. Beneath it is a T-shirt with the singular word of SERIOUS printed upon it. She's not wearing shades either. But she knows how to accessorize-! In this case it's a sickle in her right hand attached to jangling chain links held in her left. A weight with asymmetrical blades attached to it swinging back and forth like a pendulum..
  357.  
  358. "You know - when you first proposed a girl's night out for this part of town Sayaka-chan, I wasn't really that into the idea. I mean museums? The zoo? Sounds like where you go to finish a school report rather than for a good time."
  359.  
  360. Her eyes drift up, towards the bolt of blue fluttering towards Sailor Pluto. One might think now is the worst time to distract. And yet she's shameless about her timing. "I think you've convinced me."
  361.  
  362. She hardly seems like a Chevalier. In fact in many ways none of the Chevaliers would mistake this girl for one of them. Given their past history some seem like to even turn on her, putting her in a pincher between the other side...
  363.  
  364. And what a side the other one is.
  365.  
  366. They're all heavy hitters on the other side, enough that it would give her pause under the best of circumstances.
  367.  
  368. On any given day she didn't give herself good odds against any of them, and even now is a little hesitant to make Minagi or Yuuki her enemies. Even settling old scores with Araki or Pluto would be a bad idea, no matter how much she wants to.
  369.  
  370. She's not here to settle old scores though.
  371.  
  372. Now that she's on the battlefield she seems entirely unhurried. Her gait slow and measured, as her eyes assess and reevaluate what she's walking into at any given moment. The weight on her chain moves back and forth in a pendulum like rhythm with a wrenching jangle.
  373.  
  374. And then there's Sakura. She only knew her by reputation but she knew Mami Tomoe is wide open - and sees the feint the moment she leaps over Tsubasa's head. And her gait stops for just a fraction of a second, but just to press down a little more at her knees, before her gait picks up. She's no runner even if she's athletic, but she has to see if her swimmers legs are up to the challenge as she takes off at an all out sprint in a war of the crimson Puella Magi's momentum, starting to revolve the chain with her hand as she runs until it's a whirling blur.
  375.  
  376. She isn't going to make it - and she knows it.
  377.  
  378. A blue-haired streak that might make Sakura think that Sayaka had come to her senpai's aid for all of a split second as she enters into her vision. That is until Kozue's revolving chain arcs to wrap around Sakura's chained lance - spoiling her aim in mid-air as she yanks it taut.
  379.  
  380. But only just. Digging her heels in, she pulls with all of her might. In a tremendous effort against the Puella Magi's greater strength, which she knows she can't stop it. Just redirect. Which sends the red comet straight at her instead. Hooking her sickle up against the tip of the barbed spearhead. Sparks fly before she jukes up the sickle with all of her might in an attempt to blade lock it.
  381.  
  382. Only for her to be slammed backwards with the force of a freight train the moment she /thinks/ she has it parried.
  383.  
  384. The transferred force slams her into the ground and grinds her in, a cloud of pulverized concrete wafting up from the spot.
  385.  
  386. In a cloud of white and grey, it's a situation that Madoka might throoughly empathize with from afar.
  387.  
  388. Coughing and wheezing from within - it's clear that she's inside, but unclear where, other than on the ground.
  389.  
  390. "What've they been... feeding you..." Is the groaned statement from within the settling cloud, as her silhouette finally appears. The spear pinning her appears to suddenly smack concrete as the black outline moves inside. There's a light tug like a kid trying to pull someone that thoroughly one-upped them off-balance by the spear.
  391.  
  392. Before she slides forward like the devil himself is prompting her to move before she loses all opportunity.
  393.  
  394. In a desperate attempt to slide into her guard, she takes the sickle in a serpentine quick strike at her flank with the blurring sickle. Any other Chevalier might consider it a dirty move, like a rabbit punch with a blade.
  395.  
  396. Despite being covered with powdery white, there's now a telltale stain of red on the shirt, as her opposite clenched hand is run over her lip as she finally catches her breath. "Everyone wants to get a piece of Mami-chan. I get it."
  397.  
  398. In the wake of that hand, there's a wicked looking grin, "But now that you've painted me your color, it's only natural that we tussle for a while - ne?"
  399.  
  400.  
  401. [OOC] Kasagami Araki heart eyes so much!
  402. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has used Staccato on Kyouko Sakura.
  403. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has finished attacking.
  404. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "well dang"
  405. You paged Kozue Kaoru with 'so, do you mind if i have mikoto catching sight of kozue and going 'OH GOD NO SHE'S NOT MY ENEMY''
  406. [OOC] Steven Universe says, "I uh, I immediately that of thast .hack series on the PS2"
  407. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "kozue is /also/ so cool"
  408. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Hell of an entrance~"
  409. Kozue Kaoru (Kozue) pages: I don't mind!
  410. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Hahaha awesome"
  411. [OOC] Steven Universe says, "main character uses a move called that so much"
  412. Kozue Kaoru (Kozue) pages: Kozue might even say something if Mikoto does~
  413. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura narrowly braces Kozue Kaoru's Staccato, taking 15 Fatigue damage! Kyouko Sakura's Block ability activates! Kyouko Sakura's Parry ability activates!
  414. <Pose Tracker> Mami Tomoe [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  415.  
  416. There are many things Mami would rather do with her oldest friend, with her onetime partner, than this. ...But that door is sealed. She will proceed down the path that has been prepared. ...That Mami herself ahs prepared.
  417.  
  418. It is destiny now, whether it was or not before.
  419.  
  420. "You don't want me to stop holding back," Mami says smoothly to Kasagami, with all the authority of the Queen that she has been long named. "You want to see my dreams? You don't understand dreams--"
  421.  
  422. Mami is in motion, for Kasagami this time. Kasagami's sword hacks a thin red line in Mami's side, in her arm, as she whirls and pulls a gigantic hand cannon out of nowhere and fires it straight back into Kasagami. Mami doesn't smile; Kyouko is revealed, and quickly there is melee. ...Mami doesn't favor melee. But Kyouko charges forward in an instant, and Mami /realizes/ her mistake--turning her back on Kyouko--when there is no time for her to do anything about it. The final path available to them is here. Mami draws in a quick breath, knowing that she cannot move in time.
  423.  
  424. But it doesn't come. It hits someone else, in a blur of blue, and Mami's eyes widen. "Kozue-chan," she breathes, and nods to her for an instant. "...Thank you. Don't take her lightly."
  425.  
  426. Mami whirls at that, hitting the ground again and starting to put her eyes on Kasagami. "...You don't get it," Mami says to her. "This isn't a game. This isn't some kind of beautiful showing of what we are. ...Do you know what this kind of conflict is?"
  427.  
  428. Mami's hands are empty of guns--and then suddenly she's pulling a yellow ribbon taut. "But sure, I'll say it like this. I have a lot to say to you."
  429.  
  430. She whirls out with the ribbon--but moves /past/ Kasagami, as she leaps over her next, sticking that ribbon to the ground, sticking another to a pole, before she has an entire lattice of them all around Kasagami in instants, whirling far too quickly to be seen.
  431.  
  432. ...Each of them razor sharp as she pulls the whole thing tight to crash around the Engaged. They may not be yellow ribbons for long.
  433. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has used Tagliare on Kasagami Araki.
  434. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has finished attacking.
  435. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "I don't think I could take her lightly when she hits with the force that can be measured in megatons of TNT."
  436. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki narrowly counters Mami Tomoe's Tagliare, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cripple applied to Kasagami Araki!
  437. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki's counterattack, Turning the Petal's Edge, interrupts, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Mami Tomoe!
  438. [OOC] Kasagami Araki welp
  439. <Pose Tracker> Mikoto Minagi [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  440.  
  441. Both Endo and Mikoto charge forward, wielding ancient blades, and it's clear the power between them as they clash. Miroku meets Fallen Stern, and the two have a conversation writ entirely in grinding steel, dark blade against dark blade. Golden slits appear along Miroku's side, like eyes, for just a moment, as if to recognise a greater threat -
  442.  
  443. - and then, from the corner of the eye, Mikoto catches the flash of a sickle-blade. Unbelieving, she's driven to glance. She sees something she never wanted to see -- Kozue, so similar to her friend Nao, but she's attacking Kyouko. Attacking her ally. Mikoto's eyes widen, and for just a moment her grip falters. "Kozue!" Mikoto screams, her voice breaking. "/No!/"
  444.  
  445. It's the very worst time to have an emotional moment. The distraction is deadly, and Endo's strength overwhelms Mikoto. His strike sends her flying, bodily, sailing back along the bridge she'd charged over. Such is the power of the swing that she, unthinkably, loses her grip on her sword.
  446.  
  447. The chains chase her, as she falls to the ground. But Mikoto does not slam against the concrete like a broken doll -- she rolls, instinctively, and the motion takes her away from the first chain. As it slams into the ground, all force and fury, Mikoto realises Endo is still on the attack.
  448.  
  449. There's no time to mourn for people on the wrong side of her sword, not now. She has to fight, or she'll die. Kozue is an enemy, now. Kozue will kill her. And Endo is her enemy, and Endo will kill her. Mikoto has to get there first.
  450.  
  451. She springs from the ground, a split second before another chain latches onto the spot she'd been; she twists around in the air as if she had her own righting-reflex, leaving two more chains to pass alongside her instead of finding purchase. When she lands, she ducks, as another of those horrible magic chains passes overhead. She is a flurry of movement, always just a step ahead of the chains. One misstep could kill her; she doesn't misstep.
  452.  
  453. She's not cold any more.
  454.  
  455. "MIROKU!", Mikoto cries, once the barrage has finished, hands outstretched. The obsidian blade flickers and disappears from wherever it has landed, and reappears in her grip, her arms sagging slightly when the weight hits. One cannot disarm a HiME -- not when their weapons are materialising equipment.
  456.  
  457. There are tears in her eyes as she snarls, whirling to face Endo. She charges, screaming, a raging, wounded tiger. Before she reaches him, she springs upwards, and brings Miroku down in an overhead swing which is surely intended to cleave him in two.
  458.  
  459. They're all her enemies. They're just her enemies. Don't think about it. Just fight.
  460.  
  461. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Lots of great poses in a short span here"
  462. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has used Obsidian Blade: Destruction on Endo Naoki.
  463. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has finished attacking.
  464. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Kozue and Mami versus Kasagami and Kyouko is... high-investment combat for Sayaka, haha"
  465. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki narrowly counters Sailor Pluto's Aoristic Fulcrum, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Sayaka Miki is Quipped!
  466. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki's counterattack, Disjunct Chord, partially gets through, doing 4 Fatigue damage to Sailor Pluto!
  467. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "hahahaha I bet it is"
  468. <Pose Tracker> Kasagami Araki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  469.  
  470.  
  471. Kyouko rages like a bull, using her lance so well. It has Kassie shooting grins and even a wink her own way. "Oh don't be that way, Kyouko-chan! I'm a King! I'll do whatever is right, just, and most importantly, pleasant! Sometimes change is it's own status quo~!" She's teasing here, all grins and poking to set off just a biiiit more fury in her fellow Shepherd. All so Kyouko can slam it right into Mami Tomoe's face.
  472.  
  473. She is, by the way, graceful as heck Kyouko. And some of her katanas probably are worth more than most people's life insurance pay outs. So that's probably the smart thing there wasn't any borrowing done.
  474.  
  475. Kassie's delinquent senses tingle. Oh hey, it's the expelee! She's busy with Mami, but not so busy that she can't find a petty taunt to toss the former Duelist.
  476.  
  477. "Kozue-chan! Now that's just /rude/! Didn't anyone ever tell you not to cut in on someone's date at a dance!? Terrible manners, really, but I guess the life of a worthless dropout invites such lack of standards!"
  478.  
  479. Kasagami just has this knack for being a punchable /jerk/ even without trying. Here, she's trying.
  480.  
  481. There's also a Mami weaving plenty of razor-sharp ribbons around her in that whirling pattern of hers, like a spider web attached to poles. This is worrisome. Very worrisome actually, Kassies don't fight well when not free to dodge and weave and put blade into vulnerable body parts. So, hammer to a nail, she does the thing she does so well. As they all crash around her, her blade is everywhere at once. A vast majority of those razorribbons are slashed to yellow confetti in a spinning maneuver with a dancer's grace and warrior's ferocity.
  482.  
  483. "We have /got/ to have a chat about your hobbies Mami-chan, this embarrasses even me." This is said while one of said ribbons has caught her free arm, causing her to dangle a bit before she manages enough momentum to swing about with it still attached. Her sleeve is obliterated, one glove torn to bits, and burnt flesh on display. Luckily she doesn't seem to feel the cutting it's doing. She'll deal wtih that in a bit, she has a Mami to catch.
  484.  
  485. "But dreams, Mami, is something I understand completely. I live for my dreams! I'd be dead without them! Now come on, double time, I told you I want to see your heart burn for me!" She suddenly howls out, ribbon on her going taut and she's once again devouring space with worrying quickness as her sword swings swiftly in a one-handed drawing motion. Hit or miss, several nearby lightpoles are getting their height cut in half before crashing to the ground. The range on that nodachi is a thing of beauty and menace in it's perfect shine yet to be dulled!
  486. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has used Rose Flash on Mami Tomoe.
  487. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has finished attacking.
  488. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "besides, we gotta have king vs. queen"
  489. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "but who's the jack of all trades"
  490. [OOC] Kasagami Araki darn right :| You're a great dance partner <3 Also kick me if I miss stuff mamichan, it's late and my 'details getting eyes' drops like a rock >.>
  491. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe narrowly braces Kasagami Araki's Rose Flash, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Kasagami Araki is Psyched!
  492. <Pose Tracker> Nao Yuuki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  493. <SoundTracker> Nao's iTunes, con't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpxjx2fy_E
  494.  
  495. Remember the part where Nao leapt forwards as though she was on wires?
  496.  
  497. That becomes relevant right around the time that la Sirene's shadows close in all around her. Her eyes flash brilliantly, unabashedly frightened by fighting a force that she does not understand; her claws pass straight through the many-limbed unlight that surrounds her, and moments later she is wrapped up in a cruel parody of her own best practices upon the unsuspecting pedophiles of Tokyo.
  498.  
  499. Her cell phone music is swallowed up with the rest of her.
  500.  
  501. --el- ---- --- wa--- ---- --- -- ead
  502. -n- -ve-------- --en ------- -n -e
  503.  
  504. Nao makes a cute shadow-chrysalis; she /wiggles/. It's a lot less fun inside; sweat pours off her brow, then chills instantly at the touch of the Sea of Tears, and her eyes roll wildly behind reflexively shut eyelids.
  505.  
  506. Inside, she can hear clearly enough. Too clearly, it's loud, it's too loud.
  507.  
  508. Now I'll never have to wonder
  509. What it's like to sleep a year away
  510.  
  511. This could already be over. Mikoto looks like she took a big hit, and now Nao is helpless to aid her; the only reason she's even here.
  512.  
  513. Well -- almost.
  514.  
  515. She stops moving. From the outside, it looks like a surrender, the pillar of unlight finally stilling.
  516.  
  517. And then she, and it, topple over the edge of the bridge -- and the many, many sharp strings of webbing, strings she planted all over the area before the battle even started, strings which were all connected, through one trajectory or another, to her claws -- go taut.
  518.  
  519. A razor-sharp net closes around la Sirene from below, from above, from everywhere.
  520.  
  521. Nao herself is lost from sight for a long moment, until she comes swinging back up from the other side of the bridge like Tarzan on a fully circular arc, shedding polyploic shadow as she moves. Shreds of it still stick to her, trail after her like the wavering scraps of an artfully torn witch's sleeves.
  522.  
  523. She is, naturally, preceded by the music accompanying her.
  524.  
  525. Lose the battle, win the war
  526. Bringing my sinking ship back to the shore
  527.  
  528. She lands behind la Sirene and not far from Mikoto, who she is hugely relieved to see is still up, still fighting. She missed both her friend's epic escape from her own chains, /and/ the full implications of Kozue's presence in this battle, but none of that matters to her right now.
  529.  
  530. That's already in the past. There is only the present.
  531.  
  532. We're starting over, so head back in
  533. There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it
  534.  
  535. With a twist of both her hands (and her lips, also), she tightens the many nearly-invisible wires around la Sirene.
  536.  
  537. "That's just like a rich bitch -- you're gonna call the kind of money that could feed starving kids /dross/? So much for heroism, I guess. That's okay, though."
  538.  
  539. Her claws glitter, not like gold or diamonds. Just like danger and hatred and anger.
  540.  
  541. Just like her eyes.
  542.  
  543. "I only punish the wicked, after all."
  544.  
  545. If there's a future, we want it, no-o-o-o-ow
  546.  
  547. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has used Welcome To My Parlor on La Sirene de Diamant.
  548. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has finished attacking.
  549. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "I love Nao"
  550. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant accepts Nao Yuuki's Welcome To My Parlor, taking 29 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! La Sirene de Diamant is Quipped! Trap applied to La Sirene de Diamant!
  551. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Damn Nao."
  552. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "w-whoa, hardcore sirene"
  553. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Gothy"
  554. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "well, i mean, i wanted to go with it, i liked the direction"
  555. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Tarzan 360 Nao is great."
  556. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "This whole scene is great"
  557. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I am surrounded by awesomeness, it's like the awesomeness jacuzzi"
  558. [OOC] Steven Universe says, "Its a good un for sure!"
  559. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "God yes <3"
  560. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "this is the best <3"
  561. COMBAT: Endo Naoki fails to brace Mikoto Minagi's Obsidian Blade: Destruction, taking 49 Fatigue damage!
  562. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Our side of the fight has a Brazilian soccer announcer"
  563. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Yeouch"
  564. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Who just can't stop screaming GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL at every reaction resolution"
  565. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "is...is this what it feels like? :|a"
  566. GAME: Save complete.
  567. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "and you're the ball, endo"
  568. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Hey if you're going to get cut might as well get cut by the best."
  569. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "we're just gonna keep taking turns sending each other flying, endo"
  570. [OOC] Sayaka Miki re: Mikoto -- http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/281/058/c4d.jpg_large
  571. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi :3c
  572. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Super Smash HiME: Brawl"
  573. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Both of them already at 99%"
  574. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "ahaha"
  575. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Back and forth across the arena they go"
  576. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Fuuka Taisen... then we get Haruka jumping in with her super cosplay finisher."
  577. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "eventually they figure out the secret to flight is just to keep hitting each other with swords really hard"
  578. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "they ascend into space, never to be seen again"
  579. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Swords are like wings if you chop frenziedly enough"
  580. [OOC] Steven Universe says, "Is that how its done?!"
  581. Huh? (Type "help" for help.)
  582. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "it's a science fact"
  583. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Infinite aerial battle, FF15 style."
  584. [OOC] Steven Universe immediately off to ROse's Armory.
  585. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Tonight the role of the Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok will be played by Endoto"
  586. [OOC] Steven Universe just gone
  587. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i should know, i got a D in science"
  588. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "that's good, right???"
  589. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Definitely, Mikoto-chan, D is for Dangerous"
  590. [OOC] Kasagami Araki Disciplinary Stare over at Mikochan. Arm cross :|
  591. [OOC] Steven Universe says, "It isn't Delightful?"
  592. [OOC] Steven Universe :o
  593. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i thought it stood for deadly precision"
  594. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "D for Daaaangwhattagrade"
  595. <Pose Tracker> Sayaka Miki [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  596. The ringing in Sailor Pluto's bones is exceeded by that in Sayaka's, insofar as that great staff is a much better implement for this contest than Sayaka's sword. Diverted solidly away, Sayaka scrapes to a stop on one hand and two feet, managing to keep hold of her sword despite her stinging fingers.
  597.  
  598. "Tch." Sayaka wipes her cheek with her glove, then drives forward with a shove of both leg, her booted feet pattering rapidly as she lets her cape fall over her arms.
  599.  
  600. "Garnet!" she cries, as her blade rings out again, a skyward swipe the opening note. "We need to bring her down before she starts putting up shields or using Death Screech!" Sayaka may not remember the attack name too well but she remembers how it was the most visibly frightening one she's ever seen. Pluto is a priority target... unfortunately there are a lot of those.
  601.  
  602. Pirouetting, Sayaka lightly takes the opposite side of Pluto to Garnet's. She keeps doing that, infuriatingly, no matter where Pluto turns, harrying the much taller woman with light slashes and pokes, denying her the ability to retreat from Garnet's much heavier blows.
  603.  
  604. "Kozue!" Sayaka espies the other bluenette. "Garnet, Kozue's here!" She's really happy about that. Did she forget to mention something?
  605. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki has used Caprice on Sailor Pluto.
  606. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki has finished attacking.
  607. <Pose Tracker> Kyouko Sakura [None] has posed.
  608. <SoundTracker> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk5s_nMFh6I
  609.  
  610.  
  611. A remarkable phenomenon. An oversized lump of hail whistles through the air..not falling, but gliding above the ground. A dirty blue nuisance, and with such clear skies...
  612.  
  613. It's true, at first Kyouko was sure that Sayaka, hot headed and fearful of calamitous loss, had abandoned the din of battle to hurl her body in the way of a blade. It is only when the literal dust settles that she sees that that is not the case. This woman wields no saber, but a sickle. Her hair is a close cropped blue, but shaped to angular wings instead of a tight sphere. And that outfit..Sayaka's fairy knight attire gives way to a certain vintage of chic, a short skirt and looooong leather.
  614.  
  615. A stranger. How SERIOUS a stranger remains to be seen. But, from the outset, Kyouko knows a few things.
  616.  
  617. She is brave.
  618.  
  619. She stands with Mami Tomoe.
  620.  
  621. And she bleeds.
  622.  
  623. Kyouko's entire poise shifts. The instrument of her initial thrust is gone from her grip, its purpose achieved. She had leaned so far forward in her gait that she would nearly fall flat if she stopped moving. Now she corrects so severely that she doesn't stand straight so much as she slightly leans back, her sprinting charge giving way to a long legged lope. Where before her stride could make a circle of perpetual motion, her feet now stab into the ground as if anchoring with every step. A spear in her hand swishes through the air in arcing circles, dancing from hand to hand, before her and behind.
  624.  
  625. She is dining now, supping upon raw observation, pressing a sheaf of wax paper to the contours of this girl's being and scraping it with flat charcoal to inscribe an impression. She drinks of this unknown soldier's aura, entirely fixated on this newest combatant as the periphery of battle seems to momentarily slip away from third party influence.
  626.  
  627. A half grin splits her left-face wide at the remark. One who makes quips. And then she is gone from under her needle.
  628.  
  629. Kyouko stands firm as this fashionable girl who speaks cleverly before she strikes appears before her, nocking the angry fang of her sickle into Kyouko's side. Leering at her, she does not flinch, even as her own red garment stains darker. Her hand lashes out to grasp at that leather coat's collar, to yank this strange girl closer in, close enough to feel the heat of Kyouko's breath, and the palpable thrill emanating from her like a cloud of spores.
  630.  
  631. "I eat blue-haired girls."
  632.  
  633. Her muscles tense. The nascent nubs of spears form all along the front of her body, molten and malformed, lacking much in aesthetic but nothing in jagged serration. Kyouko makes herself a crown of thorns, and attempts to taste blood.
  634. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has used Pincushion on Kozue Kaoru.
  635. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has finished attacking.
  636. [OOC] Garnet says, "the dreaded Death Screech .:o"
  637. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru narrowly dodges Kyouko Sakura's Pincushion, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Kozue Kaoru is Quipped! Kozue Kaoru's Fade ability activates! Kozue Kaoru's Flash ability activates! Cripple and Exhausted applied to Kozue Kaoru!
  638. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "kyouko, what have we told you about eating people"
  639. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Keep doing it?"
  640. <Pose Tracker> Mami Tomoe [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  641.  
  642. Mami may or may not be planning to wreck at least one of those swords--especially now that Kyouko is commenting, tossing a taunt, and Mami narrows her eyes. "Worthless dropout?" Mami asks.
  643.  
  644. "...You're a worthless blowhard who will never achieve any of your dreams, Araki. Calling yourself a King is a /joke/. You're the most common girl I've ever /met/."
  645.  
  646. Mami is weaving her ribbons--and Kasagami starts cutting. Perfect, of course--she sees that. A chat about her hobbies, is it? Mami keeps working, and watches the burnt flesh for an instant. But Mami is here to be caught, all right. She's here, prepared for it, already having started planting rifles. Even as Kasagami approaches, Mami is pulling another from her bodice, three from her skirt, four from her sleeves in an instant, so many all at once. Worryying quickness is right--Kasagami is howling, and Mami doesn't even /try/ to dodge this time.
  647.  
  648. She just projects a set of ribbons before herself to slow and redirect the blade, taking what remains across her stomach, razor sharp but not a deep enough wound to kill her.
  649.  
  650. "...You know my dream, /Araki/-chan?" Mami says.
  651.  
  652. "...One of them is already there, taking on your ex."
  653.  
  654. She pulls an arm back as if ripping a cord, and the scattered rifles erupt, turning into a semicircle as Mami handsprings backward and upward, towards a rooftop--
  655.  
  656. And a dozen rifles fire straight at Kasagami's chest all at once in a roar of gunfire.
  657. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "... Death Screech."
  658. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has used Tiro Circle on Kasagami Araki.
  659. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has finished attacking.
  660. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "death screech is the best"
  661. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "C...common!?"
  662. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Aww"
  663. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "Them's fightin' words Mamichan"
  664. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "+ooc yup"
  665. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "sure are"
  666. [OOC] Garnet says, "Critical Ego Hit"
  667. [OOC] Sayaka Miki swallows nervously watching Kyouko versus Kozue.
  668. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "root for kozue or I swear to god I'm taking my clothes to the laundromat for the next week"
  669. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Why would anybody root for a corpse.."
  670. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki fails to dodge Mami Tomoe's Tiro Circle, taking 41 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Mami Tomoe is Psyched!
  671. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "brb a sec, i have to feed the cats before they declare /me/ an enemy"
  672. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "This is such a dramatic fight"
  673. [OOC] Garnet says, "and also a critical normal hit... anyone else want a curse while I'm handing them out?"
  674. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Perfect dodge into insanely large hits..."
  675. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Mami-senpai that Kasagami burn was not just a burn"
  676. [OOC] Sailor Pluto waves her rose-and-sword pennant a little harder, ow... Go Kassie!
  677. [OOC] Kasagami Araki bleeds beautifully on puruchan <3
  678. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "But the sort of compliment Sayaka would do a year's worth of chalkboard duty at school to hear"
  679. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Also"
  680. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "don't mess with my roommate"
  681. [OOC] Sayaka Miki roots for Kozue in a frenzy, swinging around blue pennants like she was directing an airplane to land in a rave.
  682. <Pose Tracker> La Sirene de Diamant [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  683.  
  684. Kozue! la Sirene thinks when she hears Mikoto call out that name in such hot denial. Is she - ah, there it is. That is an obscure relief, even if there is that same sick tightening at the recollection of whatever it is that has led Kozue and Sayaka to bond. That feeling, mixed with the wicked claws of her opponent...
  685.  
  686. and
  687.  
  688. The net comes around her. Her eyes are swift enough to see the wires. It lets her bring her arms up, and so it is that the collapsing web around her does not go through her like so much soft cheese subject to the wire. Those diamonds prove themselves worthy because each piece of chunked carbonado is nigh-unbreakable: they might make poor armor, but they and the thicker material keep most of la Sirene's personal corpus from contact with those wires.
  689.  
  690. Most; not all. There are a few blooms of red on her upper arms, towards the shoulder, which are bare. Her crossed arms and an aborted half-leap back mean that she is in fact well and truly clasped in that web, unable to even see much beyond her wrists. Well, her first thought goes: This is a mess.
  691.  
  692. Then Nao speaks and it all gets much worse.
  693.  
  694. Her face does not redden because in this state, la Sirene de Diamant doesn't exactly have very dark red blood, but the flush comes. A helpless tightening. A contraction in her gut. I didn't want to, she thinks. She feels choked; she wants to scream, but black futility and lassitude take a moment to murmur wordless assent to what Nao is saying. It is a swaying and dizzying twist; perhaps not so different from the spin Nao took.
  695.  
  696. Caught like this, Nao has a pretty clear shot towards la Sirene if she cares to take it. The lantern at her belt - whose rope, perhaps notably, did not fray at the touch of the wires, though it was indeed pressed into - glitters like a strange black jewel. La Sirene contorts inwards and that glitter flares - a sudden lash, blind yet guided, right towards the face of Nao!! (Though of course the light itself has almost no quite-exactly physical presence behind it.)
  697.  
  698. La Sirene speaks then, though her voice is querelous. "Hate me if you want. You have the chance..." It trails off, but after that she /does/ twist, decisively, hissing out the rest of that breath because she managed to wrench her upper body free. With a hand on the ground she is able to curl her fingers, which is, it seems, enough to pull the rest of her. Her back arches; the aura around her undulates, and the wires don't break but they do /slide/, skitting down the leathern armor of her dress and her boots.
  699.  
  700. Sometimes they catch on the diamonds, but then they move along.
  701.  
  702. Of course this gracious process takes time, and, tragically enough, a short hank of hair from two particularly closely lashed wires; so it goes. It grows back.
  703.  
  704. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has used The Black Kaleidoscope on Nao Yuuki.
  705. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has finished attacking.
  706. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki narrowly braces La Sirene de Diamant's The Black Kaleidoscope, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Nao Yuuki is Quipped! Nao Yuuki's Block ability activates! Nao Yuuki's Parry ability activates!
  707. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto fails to dodge Sayaka Miki's Caprice, taking 21 Fatigue damage!
  708. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Mikoto Minagi's Status ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  709. * Fatigue: 58/100 Mana: 65/100 Morale: 33 *
  710. ----------------------------<< Reaction Penalties >>----------------------------
  711. * Dodge: 1 Brace: 0 Counter: 0 *
  712. * Recently Targetted By: Nothing Yet! *
  713. ------------------------<< Status Effects (Duration) >>-------------------------
  714. * --==None==-- *
  715. ---------------------<< Finisher Threshhold Availability >>---------------------
  716. * MIROKU!! | Morale Threshhold: 75 | Mana Cost: 43 *
  717. * Obsidian Blade: Death | Morale Threshhold: 80 | Mana Cost: 35 *
  718. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Power of Darkness: NO ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  719. <Pose Tracker> Garnet [None] has posed.
  720. Garnet, still landbound allows herself a moment of quiet awe at the outcome of their assault. Well.. she (Pluto) certainly stayed true to her word...
  721.  
  722. But Sayaka wastes no time in redoubling their assault and calls out to the Gem! Garnet doesn't know what a Death Screech is... oh wait, isn't it something from that movie Steven watches during the holidays... "The Banshee Who Stole Christmas"? It turns all the presents in a room into coal as she recalls, which seems of dubious usefulness in this battle, but Pluto's probably does something else, something worse.
  723.  
  724. So Garnet heeds Sayaka's call, and while the valiant blue swordsgirl keeps their foe's attention with her flurry of strikes, Garnet swoops in at speed with a low punch, carrying the momentum of her blur of motion into a hopeful opening of her defenses.
  725. COMBAT: Garnet has used Decisive Punch on Sailor Pluto.
  726. COMBAT: Garnet has finished attacking.
  727. <Pose Tracker> Kasagami Araki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  728.  
  729.  
  730. "Pretty dull dream if you ask me!" Pause. "The blue one, not Big Red. Gems are always shiney." So the insult is falling apart, Kassie is rolling with it here.
  731.  
  732. Squint. Pause. Wait a sec..."COMMON!? I am the head of a prestigious samurai family! My Dad was a /Diet Member/! I am not COMMON!" Oh dear, did Mami hit a nerve? Yes. Yes she did.
  733.  
  734. This all is a great distraction though, as she has lots of guns and rifles circled about connected to a set of ribbons. The trap sprung, Mami Tomoe gets this lovely look of surprise as the guns go all right to her chest. Someone get a picture, that's a moment to treasure. Even moreso as ribbon bullets tear through her. Her coat is basically tatters now.
  735.  
  736. Oh, and her sides of her uniform look like she's gone through a Student Council approved punk phase. Kassie did an impressive series of back flips to avoid being actively made very dead by the Golden Queen of Shibuya, but boy did more of those shots hit than were strictly comfortable.
  737.  
  738. Now there's just anger fueling her, and Kasagami gives another howl of fury. Leaping at the fancy Puella, she drops things like tactics, insults, or even human speech. Just spitting wrath as she gains on Mami. Then she jumps at the last second, long legs carrying her with superhuman speed up and then down in a front flip.
  739.  
  740. Oh, and there's the toe of her steel toed boots. Aimed very, very hard for Mami Tomoe's face.
  741. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has used Kassie Kick on Mami Tomoe.
  742. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki has finished attacking.
  743. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "'student council approved punk phase: the black rose arc...'"
  744. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "hahaha yes"
  745. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe narrowly dodges Kasagami Araki's Kassie Kick, taking 39 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Mami Tomoe's Fade ability activates! Mami Tomoe's Flash ability activates! Stagger applied to Mami Tomoe!
  746. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ahahahah"
  747. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto perfectly braces Garnet's Decisive Punch, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Brace! Sailor Pluto's Block ability activates! Sailor Pluto's Parry ability activates!
  748. [OOC] Kasagami Araki shines her boots
  749. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Jeeze you two"
  750. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "wtf"
  751. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "It's like a beamwar except both beams miss each other and directly hit their target"
  752. <Pose Tracker> Kozue Kaoru [None] has posed.
  753.  
  754.  
  755. "Heh. No need to waste your breath on the obvious." Kozue retorts playfully back at Mami, having now seen Kyouko's strength. Now in a predator's challenge she knows that the other girl is the stronger one. A spear honed by the streets and battle after battle. One wouldn't think a rich privileged girl would have anything on her, but she's also a mean feral thing in her own right. Yanked in close, she's hit by the heat of that pocky-filled halitosis. And she doesn't flinch. Instead she's immediately trying to rip away with a growl from her grip, releasing fabric into her hand.
  756.  
  757. Twisting to the side, her chain unravels around the other girl's lance, sliding away. There's one hop back, then another. Then a sideways one as more spears come close to her and rips a hole in her coat. At the last minute she knocks another away with her sickle when she seems beyond endurance in just barely avoiding. Breathless from the effort, and a little wide-eyed from the number. The smirk goes back onto her lips after in her charade play of dominance. "That a promise?" She asks with a suggestiveness.
  758.  
  759. The piercing scream of her name and 'No' from Minagi's voice causes her eyelashes to flutter in a gesture that would cause her to close her eyes normally. After this grunting exhalation of breath, she finally says, "No - what Mikoto? /No/ /what/? What are you asking me not to do? Don't fight? Don't defend people who are important to me?"
  760.  
  761. She can't look her way, not right now. Not facing down Sakura. "I know better than to patronize you by telling you no."
  762.  
  763. Whereas when Araki calls her out, she turns her neck with a twisting of the vertebrae, a popping and cracking of the joints without even looking in her direction, eyes still upon the crimson gladiator facing her down, "Excuse you Araki. The only dance here is between wild animals - and since you're carrying on like a baboon in heat there's not a girl here that isn't out of your league on this dance floor - Mami-chan most of all."
  764.  
  765. Spinning her arm in a vertical loop-de-loop as she circles around Kyouko in a back and forth of this predator's dance. "So you're the kind of girl that just likes to get straight to it huh?" She suddenly steps in with a wild feint like she's going to rush into her guard again and that grip. When suddenly she slams her foot down and pivots in a long twist, grasping her chain as it circles round and round at her. The whirling knob at the end of it shooting past her in that wild circle.
  766.  
  767. Only to slam against spear haft or body, as it wraps again and again and again in a circling revolution to encompass her whole body before the weight snaps into the tangle - coming to the end of it's length.
  768.  
  769. Raising up one leg high like an axe kick over the held chain while keeping the other planted. She then slams it down upon the chain to try to viciously snap the scarlet Puella Magi into the ground like some lasso'ed wild animal, hoping the wound leverage outstrips her strength.
  770.  
  771. "Such a shame - normally I'd enjoy this more, but I'm only letting one girl take me home tonight and it's not you."
  772.  
  773.  
  774. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has used Dominant Chord on Kyouko Sakura.
  775. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has finished attacking.
  776. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "...I'm gonna need so much burn cream"
  777. [OOC] Kasagami Araki <3 kozue
  778. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "I just want people to know"
  779. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "that possibly the most dangerous thing to happen in the last month"
  780. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "is Kozue and Mami becoming friends"
  781. [OOC] Kasagami Araki cries a little
  782. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "*blu-ray feisty suggestiveness."
  783. [OOC] Mami Tomoe type type
  784. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "dammit her swan magic spreads"
  785. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Ara, Kaoru-chan, I don't think you have to /blu-ray/ feisty suggestiveness"
  786. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Either you have it or you don't"
  787. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Hahaha"
  788. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Look Nao they used up all the suggestiveness budget in this scene on you."
  789. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "We're breaking it together."
  790. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Suggestiveness isn't like hair, it isn't expensive to animate"
  791. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Says you. It is if it's done right."
  792. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Never underestimate the power of a well-placed still..."
  793. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "Oh Kozue doesn't stay very still while she's suggesting, trust me"
  794. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura perfectly counters Kozue Kaoru's Dominant Chord, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!
  795. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura's counterattack, Latticework, interrupts, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Kozue Kaoru!
  796. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Haha nice."
  797. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "This fight"
  798. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "It's perfect"
  799. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "I think that's the first time I've ever properly used that attack, by the way."
  800. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Every reaction perfect..."
  801. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Yeah you've had some bad luck there in the past."
  802. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Ever, in the history of this game."
  803. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "I think it worked like once maybe in this movie theater monster of the day?"
  804. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "No, like..I've tried it in bad situations, like against finishers."
  805. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "And then it was only partial."
  806. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "That's possible, yeah."
  807. <Pose Tracker> Endo Naoki [Juuban Public School (11)] has posed.
  808.  
  809. Endo doesn't have much time so see what's going on around him. Her can tell La Sirene de Diamant is close, and catch just a glimpse of her foe. "I see." And he's happy to see that she's still on once piece after Nao's appearance. He can also see, across the way, the entrance of Kozue-though the task of processing her actions and what side she might be on is too mind intensive an exercise for this particular moment.
  810.  
  811. This moment, with Mikoto re-launching her assault. The chains he'd expected to wrangle her do no good, and his eyes snap back as she takes her leap. He doesn't have much time to react, and it's doubtful he could move fast enough to avoid such a strike. Instead, much like the last time, he raises his weapon in a bid to deflect hers.
  812.  
  813. The exchange goes worse this time. The collide again, and Endo gives. A knee folds, driven down into the foundation of the bridge with the overwhelming force of his opponent's strike, concrete tiles snapping and cracking with the impact. He appears for a moment as Atlus, one hand on the hilt of his weapon and the other on the flat underside of the opposite end, desperate to hold back the weight of the world.
  814.  
  815. And he does, this once. He remains one whole Endo, albeit with screaming joints and near blinding pain shooting through one leg. There's a moment, brief, when the proximity allows him a glance at Mikoto's face. Time, for an instant, stands still.
  816.  
  817. And then he uses his sword. He shoves back in desperate bid to put a few feet of space between them again, enough to right himself before she can overwhelm him. The blade is cast in an arc toward Mikoto after, a sharp cut to ward her off with a pained grunt.
  818.  
  819. Like Mikoto, Endo is not much for talking. Not until it's over. But Fallen Stern, it's dark metal marked with a thin line from the exchange, warbles its acknowledgement: <STRONG.>
  820. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Blauverschiebung on Mikoto Minagi.
  821. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.
  822. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Stern is enjoying this."
  823. <Pose Tracker> Mami Tomoe [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  824.  
  825. "If you say so," Mami answers Kozue, smoothly as they fight their respective partners here--she is concerned for her, but she cannot look away from her own opponent for long. ...That's how she's gotten as far as she has, after all. Besides--she's getting quite the reaction out of Kasagami here, smirks as a result.
  826.  
  827. "So you say. You haven't seen what I have. You don't know the really valuable things."
  828.  
  829. A beat, "And all I hear is that your family was important and managed to turn out an ordinary bully."
  830.  
  831. The distraction works, and she treasures that moment of surprise, the coat in tatters. Kasagami does her backflips, and Mami watches that howl of fury--the tactics, insults, everything is dropped in favor of wrath--
  832.  
  833. And Kasagami's kick connects--but not with Mami's face. She lunges to the side and takes a hit hard enough to make an awful noise at her shoulder, the steel toe knocking her backward into a storefront that crashes down around her, seemingly just the end of things for an instant, causing her to cough for an instant.
  834.  
  835. ..."...Out of her league, hm...?"
  836.  
  837. Mami's voice comes from the ruin, as she lifts one arm--just one arm--as if taking a hint from Sayaka's conducting. A wall of rifled muskets suddenly appears before her, dozens in succession right there, in a burst of golden magic, as Mami starts to rise from out of the rubble.
  838.  
  839. "...I should tell you," Mami says, "It's really not very kind of me to enjoy this as much as I'm about to."
  840.  
  841. They all go off at once, and Kasagami faces a one-woman firing squad as Mami's left arm hangs uselessly at her side, eyes /entirely/ on the girl who once kidnapped her precious, precious friend not here tonight.
  842. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Battle Fantasia Reaction Queue ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  843. * Attacker: Endo Naoki | Blauverschiebung | Type: Special *
  844. * ***** Power: Moderate | Speed: Poor | Melee | Physical *
  845. * *** Flags: Accurate *
  846. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  847. COMBAT: FINISHER! Mami Tomoe has used Tiro Salvo on Kasagami Araki.
  848. COMBAT: Mami Tomoe has finished attacking.
  849. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi perfectly braces Endo Naoki's Blauverschiebung, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Brace!
  850. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Stern approves of all weapons (except Ren's)."
  851. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Damn Mikoto"
  852. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ahahah"
  853. Huh? (Type "help" for help.)
  854. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "hey csys quick question: the hell"
  855. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Shepherds getting the natural 20's on their dice tonight. ^^"
  856. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Mikoto too strong."
  857. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i'm not even specced to brace, that was just the most in-character reaction at the moment"
  858. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Sometimes the most in character reaction super pays off."
  859. COMBAT: Kasagami Araki fails to brace Mami Tomoe's Finisher, Tiro Salvo, taking 112 Fatigue damage! Kasagami Araki is unable to keep fighting!
  860. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "So uh puruchan"
  861. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Noooo"
  862. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Semicolon period semicolon"
  863. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "Do you have a stapler? I'm gonna probably need bits reattached"
  864. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Eri sympathizes, she's ate that one enough times."
  865. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ilu kasagami"
  866. [OOC] Kasagami Araki <3 mamichan
  867. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Aaaaa Kassie"
  868. [OOC] Sailor Pluto salutes (and hugs!) the fallen ;_;
  869. [OOC] Sailor Pluto also gets the band-aids ready for later
  870. <Pose Tracker> Sailor Pluto [Infinity Institute (U)] has posed.
  871.  
  872. The demands of combat awareness hone Sailor Pluto's perceptions, and her world becomes the precise and narrow slice of reality that she requires to track two opponents at once. Kasagami becomes a dear flash of crimson she keeps at the corner of her eye. The entrance of Kozue Kaoru, in similar fashion, splashes a touch of blue at the senshi's peripheral, unrecognized by her tactical mind in the moment as more than an addition to the Chevalier ranks that is not her immediate concern.
  873.  
  874. The combined onslaught of Sayaka's dancing blade and the indomitable Garnet is extremely immediate and of the utmost concern to Sailor Pluto, however. She acknowledges the necessity of movement -- this is no defensible choke point, and the Shepherds are themselves the wall the Chevaliers must break through. Any symbolic point she needed to make about the absolute nature of their resolve has been more than made.
  875.  
  876. Pluto steps free of the small craters left by her stand and moves to try and put both attackers in her field of vision, only to be foiled by the dragonfly quickness of the blue knight. It's bothersome, but somehow... not so bothersome as hearing Sayaka call it /Death Screech/. It show in an arch of one elegant eyebrow.
  877.  
  878. "You--" she grates out between teeth, between throwing herself away from that wicked sword edge repeatedly and more often than not failing, "--are welcome to try, Miki-san." Dark skin appears in thin stripes beneath split senshi silk. "But you'll find I'm harder to stop than that! Stubborn, like you."
  879.  
  880. She gives up trying to keep both of them in sight and turns to Garnet, knowing that whatever blow is coming will be mighty -- and she is not wrong in the least. Pluto is only just in time to catch the incoming metal knuckles on the horizontal length of the Garnet Rod, and another clash of impervious wills resounds.
  881.  
  882. The senshi staggers, but stands yet, and the sweat on her brow betrays how close a thing it might have been.
  883.  
  884. She whirls again, following her instincts -- if she can take down the sturdy but at least not /metal-bodied/ Sayaka with all her quickness, then perhaps Pluto can engage in a battle of endurance with Garnet after. Not with that sword stinging her she can't, though.
  885.  
  886. With a great pull of her arms she drags the Garnet Rod into a swift spin, the whirring of displaced air announcing all the menace of the sacred weapon's velocity. This, she aims directly at the blue knight, swinging down and around to send countless raining blows down at the white-cloaked puella magi.
  887.  
  888. If her eyes blink a bit comically wide somewhere in the middle of all of that rotational fury she's bringing to bear at the mention of Kozue Kaoru, it's to her credit that she doesn't slow her roll at all.
  889. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto has used Pendulum Blitz on Sayaka Miki.
  890. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto has finished attacking.
  891. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Battle Fantasia Character Sheet ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  892. * Name: Mikoto Minagi Master Rank: B *
  893. * Henshin: HiME Mikoto Henshin Rank: B Points: 280 *
  894. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Statistics ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  895. * Might: 70/100 Fatigue: 58/100 *
  896. * Reflex: 61/100 Mana: 65/100 *
  897. * Vitality: 40/100 Morale: 33 *
  898. * Spirit: 40/100 *
  899. * Composure: 6/10 *
  900. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Abilities ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  901. * Master Traits: Dynamic, Fade, Flash, and Massive Impacts *
  902. * Henshin Abilities: Improvisationalist, Kung Fu Wizard, Riposte, Supersonic, *
  903. * and Unstoppable Force *
  904. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Status Effects (Duration) ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  905. * --==None==-- *
  906. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  907.  
  908. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "blu-ray *It shows in an arch of..."
  909. <Pose Tracker> Kasagami Araki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  910.  
  911.  
  912. Squint.
  913.  
  914. "Quit your barking, little dog, before I tie you to a tree!" Is Kassie's snapped response to Kozue. Oh man this is /not/ Kassie's night out.
  915.  
  916. There's some catharsis here though. That satisfying sound of Mami's shoulder, that eruption of chaos as Mami is added to the ruined storefront like a piece of jewelry. Kasagami takes a moment to survey her work and give a self satisfied little nod.
  917.  
  918. Truly Kassie is the greatest King. She scowls though when Mami gets back up.
  919.  
  920. "Bully, huh? Please, I just use authority the way it aught to be used. Direct and practical." She counters, though there's real hurt in her tone. The thought that she'd dissappoint her parents with her ways is a very real fear, deep down in her heart. Mami tugging on that scabbed wound though lets her get out a proper firing squad, and Kassie knows she can't block or dodge all of that.
  921.  
  922. Oh, she tries, and full half of them are parried or kicked out of the way. She even catches one with her teeth before spitting it out.
  923.  
  924. When the ribbon bullets hit, though, she doesn't feel too bad. This just has /not/ been her night. Uniform and appropriate wounds given to her, it's a pair of shorts and a lovely, cut mid-drift now. Just as she collapses to the ground, right before blackness takes her, she gets the last word edgewise to her opponent like a proper bullying git.
  925.  
  926. "To be fair...I would have enjoyed doing the same thing to you." Mami and Kassie finally agree on something, sort of.
  927. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "Mami, everyone, this has been brilliant"
  928. [OOC] Mami Tomoe <3
  929. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Kassiiiieee"
  930. [OOC] Kasagami Araki says, "But your local kassie collapses. Night all <3"
  931. [OOC] Sailor Pluto just hugs
  932. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Night Kassie <3"
  933. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Goodnight!"
  934. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Goodnight Kasa!"
  935. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "You were glorious, good night!"
  936. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "niniiii"
  937. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki narrowly braces Sailor Pluto's Pendulum Blitz, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Sailor Pluto is Psyched! Sayaka Miki's Block ability activates! Sayaka Miki's Parry ability activates!
  938. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "you were great, kasa"
  939. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru salutes.
  940. [OOC] Garnet says, "Goodnight Kasagami~!"
  941. GAME: Save complete.
  942. <Pose Tracker> Mikoto Minagi [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  943.  
  944. Another girl, another fighter, would have screamed: I don't want to fight you! I don't want to kill you! Please, don't fight this war! I don't want to hurt you! I don't want you to be my enemy!
  945.  
  946. Perhaps...
  947. ... perhaps a tiny little sliver of Mikoto is still screaming that, in some untouched corner of her heart. In the smallest little garden of her soul, the part which hasn't been turned to steel, there might be a little raincloud, falling on the little flower of Kozue's friendship, driving all the cats away.
  948.  
  949. The only hint on her face are the tears, which only keep falling as Kozue confirms that she is her enemy, that she has something to fight for. She has no choice. She has to fight her enemies.
  950.  
  951. Does it hurt more, fighting someone she respects as she struggles to accept Kozue's apparent betrayal? Someone whose weapon she knows the name of? She doesn't know Endo's name, but she knows Fallen Stern. They're not strangers to her. And she's fighting them, too. Knowing someone doesn't mean they'll stop fighting you. You can know your enemies, too. And Mikoto has to fight her enemies. Why does she have to know her enemies? It's so much harder to know them.
  952.  
  953. She looks Endo in the eye, from behind tears, as she grinds him into the pavement. Her teeth are bared in a snarl. Her eyes... her eyes are so sad.
  954.  
  955. But she has to fight. Her enemies must be destroyed.
  956.  
  957. The garden door locks; she blinks the rain away. It gives Endo the opportunity to rise, and as she shakes off the tears, she sees Fallen Stern coming for her.
  958.  
  959. Is it strange, that she only knows the sword's name?
  960.  
  961. Is it strange, that her eyes are hard as steel the next time Endo looks into them?
  962.  
  963. Mikoto raises Miroku into a left ox guard, a strangely Western style -- though one befitting the claymore-shape Miroku has taken. It seems impossible for such a small girl to hold such a large sword so well, let alone to bear the brunt of Endo's strike; but she can, and she does.
  964.  
  965. There are golden slits along Miroku's length. They appeared when Mikoto's breath stopped shuddering. They disappear when she growls, deep and throaty, golden eyes narrowed. It's as if she has another pair, as yet unopened, to see out of her weapon.
  966.  
  967. It's as if she's forgotten all about being so upset.
  968.  
  969. Mikoto moves fluidly, with a terrible scream, shifting from high stance to a diagonal slash as she dives forward towards Endo. She's trying to slice his sword-arm clean off.
  970.  
  971. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Ahhh Mikoto, wow"
  972. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "mikoto.exe has encountered an error and will now close"
  973. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Poor Mikoto."
  974. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "aww, Mikoto"
  975. <Pose Tracker> Kyouko Sakura [None] has posed.
  976. <SoundTracker> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP0Ks3ecOj8
  977.  
  978.  
  979. She's performative. But even then..there's some scrap to her. Not everybody is so fit to stand ground against Kyouko in a stare down, and she always appreciates a good growl. Dancing like an arcade queen, she manages to sidestep the full force of her speartips, too, and at point blank range no less.
  980.  
  981. To her coy counter of a question, Kyouko offers no riposte. This girl prefers a wordly arena and she can think of no reason to indulge in her preferences. But despite her denial, words come for Kozue all the same as allies and antagonists alike call for this apparently popular person.
  982.  
  983. It annoys Kyouko, to be denied her full attention, even if that gaze never leaves her.
  984.  
  985. Kyouko does not know that Kozue is a duelist, but as she darts and weaves all throughout the empty spaces of the imminent assault, she comes to appreciate her opponent's nimble alacrity. She seems to be squirming her way to an advantage..fielding responses and finding the confidence to taunt the flame haired fighter in her spare time.
  986.  
  987. How dexterous of her. How masterfully performed..that lacerating lasso loops along longitude and latitude, looking to loose lengths of life from the long-haired lancer. Kyouko stares with an unblinking gaze, allowing herself a pygmy smirk as a criss crossing gridwork of humming ruby light radiates around her, snipping the oncoming attacks like so many rosebuds all at once.
  988.  
  989. And then she drives a harpoon towards the nimble girl's torso, confident that she'll hop as easily as any other grasshopper underneath an entomologist's pin.
  990.  
  991. "Don't worry. I'm enjoying it for all three of us."
  992. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has used Masterstroke on Kozue Kaoru.
  993. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has finished attacking.
  994. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "HECK i forgot to declare an attack"
  995. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru narrowly braces Kyouko Sakura's Masterstroke, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Kozue Kaoru's Block ability activates! Kozue Kaoru's Parry ability activates!
  996. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "hello this is cat i am not good at computer"
  997. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has used Obsidian Blade: Demolition on Endo Naoki.
  998. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has finished attacking.
  999. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "also damn kyouko is cool"
  1000. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "/how is everyone here so cool/"
  1001. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Badass, yeah"
  1002. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Aww, thanks!"
  1003. <Pose Tracker> Nao Yuuki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  1004.  
  1005. The invitation is given, straight out -- and, after all, Nao is very good at hate.
  1006.  
  1007. It's the thing she's best at, really.
  1008.  
  1009. It is a blade that she's honed to a fine edge, ready to be wielded with equal ease against murderous invaders like SEARRS or obnoxious gnats like the unfortunate Takehara-san still webbed to the floor of that building she left earlier.
  1010.  
  1011. Like the spider her powers so resemble, she looks down at her prey with merciless eyes and a razor grin far sharper than even her own wires. It is warmed by the unmatchable fire of self-satisfaction. Nao saw her words hurt la Sirene. It was worth taking that lash of darkness across her quickly crossed arms, worth the chill that followed them.
  1012.  
  1013. Even as she starts to pull free, la Sirene feels a matching chill to her own powers in the nearness of Nao's claws, an index finger's tip especially, which lingers, for a critical, dangerous moment, right in the hollow of her throat.
  1014.  
  1015. Nao hesitates.
  1016.  
  1017. (There's a lot to be said there, a lot to discuss about those two words, but for all the honey-like slowness of near-death experiences, everything is happening very quickly, so we will leave it at that for the moment.)
  1018.  
  1019. Nao hesitates, and a moment later, la Sirene is too mobile to guarantee the shot, while at the same time, Mikoto's scream has reached a pitch she recognizes, from other times, times as bad as these. Maybe times that were worse.
  1020.  
  1021. She pulls away -- leaves her prey to her struggles to free herself, knowing that she still has time before la Sirene will be a serious danger again. Just a little time. Maybe enough.
  1022.  
  1023. In a graceless scramble that belies her own desperation, fingers -- fingers!, she's banished the Element on one of her hands for this -- shaking, she fishes her phone back out of her shirt, and thumbs down her playlist.
  1024.  
  1025. ---
  1026.  
  1027. ON A ROOFTOP, IN WARMER TIMES
  1028.  
  1029. The concrete is warm on Nao's back, even though it's getting her painstakingly well-kept hair gritty.
  1030.  
  1031. "Hmph," she grunts at her companion, and her companion's companions, a small army of cats. "I see why you like it up here."
  1032.  
  1033. Lazily she watches the color of her phone's screen change with the music, dull in comparison to the midday sun overhead.
  1034.  
  1035. BGM: Spectrum - Florence + The Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpngOvcBlg
  1036.  
  1037. When we first came here
  1038. We were cold and we were clear
  1039. With no colors on our skin
  1040. We were light and paper-thin
  1041.  
  1042. Nao flushes a little when she realizes what's come up, and she rolls onto her side, turning away from Mikoto.
  1043.  
  1044. "This song is so uncool," she lies. "I'm not sure how it got onto my phone..."
  1045.  
  1046. And when we first came here
  1047. We were cold and we were clear
  1048. With no colors on our skin
  1049. 'Till you let the spectrum in
  1050.  
  1051. After that there's no further point in denying anything; with a last sigh for propriety, she lets momentum carry her the rest of the way over, so that she's facing Mikoto now, almost nose to nose.
  1052.  
  1053. They listen to the whole thing together quietly. Afterwards, when the cats demand attention, it's almost a relief.
  1054.  
  1055. ---
  1056.  
  1057. NOW
  1058.  
  1059. Nao flies the phone across the bridge towards the two greatswordfighters (great swords, greatswords, greatsword fighters, great sword fighters, all are true) by the simple expedient of sticking it to the webbed tip of one of her wires.
  1060.  
  1061. Thank goodness there was still a lamppost left to hang it from.
  1062.  
  1063. It's cranked up to full volume, and, no longer under fabric or polyploic matter, has at least a hope of making it into her brutally miserable friend's ears before she does something that would make today an even worse day than all those other days before.
  1064.  
  1065. Say my name
  1066. And every color illuminates
  1067. We are shining
  1068. And we will never be afraid again
  1069.  
  1070. "MI-KO-TOOOOOOOO!!!" Nao screams in counterpoint, not self-possessed enough to fail to blush furiously at breaking her own cool mien to do so.
  1071.  
  1072. But some things are more important than being cool.
  1073.  
  1074. Some things are even more important than hating people.
  1075.  
  1076. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "god that's such a good song nao"
  1077. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has used Spectrum on Mikoto Minagi.
  1078. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has finished attacking.
  1079. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Battle Fantasia Reaction Queue ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1080. * Attacker: Nao Yuuki | Spectrum | Type: Free *
  1081. * ***** Power: Nonexistent | Speed: Average | Ranged | Physical *
  1082. * *** Flags: *
  1083. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1084. COMBAT: You don't have an incoming attack from Spectrum. Please check +queue to see your incoming attacks.
  1085. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi accepts Nao Yuuki's Spectrum, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Mikoto Minagi is Reinforced by Nao Yuuki!
  1086. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "It iiis, lovely"
  1087. <Pose Tracker> Sayaka Miki [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  1088. Sayaka is opening her mouth to call out again, "Hey, Koz-" when she gets cuffed sharply upside the head by a giant key, which is a lot more elegant and menacing in practice than it sounds on paper. Stumbling back from her prancing assault in a daze, she starts forward again before her head even clears; she's learned to rely on her quick healing, and over-rely on it too.
  1089.  
  1090. Sayaka gets drubbed a few more times before learning her lesson, the whirling staff cracking into exposed limbs whenever she tries to pick a side to defend. Not wounded badly enough that her healing can't sort most of it out quickly, but presently outmatched, Sayaka ducks a high blow and scampers off to Garnet, leaping up onto her shoulder and seating herself there. "Back, back!" she says, like Garnet was both a truck and the driver of said truck.
  1091.  
  1092. When they have some distance, Sayaka hops up to a standing position on Garnet's shoulder, then down onto Garnet's palm. "Um..." She's eyeing Sailor Pluto's titanium defenses dubiously. "How about that... NASA thing." She refers to a Secret Attack by an indirect name in order to conceal it from Pluto's ears.
  1093. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "I'm going to split pose with Garnet to complete this combo"
  1094. [OOC] Mami Tomoe ROFL oh my god
  1095. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "the nasa thing"
  1096. [OOC] Nao Yuuki yesss
  1097. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "hahahaha I cannot wait"
  1098. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Don't worry Puu the second half shouldn't take too long"
  1099. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Garnet adjusts her shades. 'you're not a planet anymore' instant morale -100, chevalier victory"
  1100. [OOC] Sailor Pluto all the :|
  1101. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "hahaha"
  1102. <Pose Tracker> Kozue Kaoru [None] has posed.
  1103.  
  1104.  
  1105. Without missing a beat at the threat, she tosses back her own sort of rejoinder, "Ara. If you want to get kinky like that it's your business Araki." There's a hint of a smirk on her concrete covered face, "Just find a girl that's willing first." It's her own way of thinking she can help out Mami perhaps. By trying to throw Kasagami off her game in a fight with stakes this high.
  1106.  
  1107. But then red light flashes in that ruby cocoon of lattice work and her chain bangs off against the endless metallic eyes.
  1108.  
  1109. It's a little unnerving, like those diamonds are looking at her from every which way.
  1110.  
  1111. And then there's a flash of red as that girl drives her spear right towards her. Whipping out her sickle, she slides her foot underneath the chain link and kicks it upwards in the air.
  1112.  
  1113. The harpoon bangs against the jangling links before driving against the hooked blade, en route towards the hollow of her neck.
  1114.  
  1115. ... and deflecting just enough to prevent a fatal blow
  1116.  
  1117. "Gck." That's a sound out of Kozue's throat as the spear just misses her neck, slicing off the coat over her shoulder again, leaving another stain right on the ripped part of her shoulder, hissing as she does.
  1118.  
  1119. After she gets over her initial shock from the pain though, there's a light chuckle out of her throat, "... heh heh..."
  1120.  
  1121. The way her eyes flit to the side it's like she wants to put her hand against her wound and knows she can't quite. Instead substituting laughter as her narcotic of the hour, "...ahahahaha... that's quite a boast!"
  1122.  
  1123. Twisting in a sudden jagged carousel of metal, the chain rivets off the ground as she spins in a wide arc. It's like what she does before, but at the last moment her arm starts to spin it back into whirling revolutions. "Because it's you...
  1124.  
  1125. Right before casting it forward with a sudden power like a pianist hitting the keys forcefully during a passionate cadenza. The chained fastball streaks outwards, in a shearing buzz of wicked blades, hoping to stain red upon red as she tries to send it dead center into her red rival.
  1126.  
  1127. "...I ALMOST BELIEVE IT!"
  1128.  
  1129.  
  1130. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has used Subito Sforzando on Kyouko Sakura.
  1131. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru has finished attacking.
  1132. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura perfectly braces Kozue Kaoru's Subito Sforzando, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Brace! Kyouko Sakura's Block ability activates! Kyouko Sakura's Parry ability activates!
  1133. [OOC] Madoka Kaname slowly pulls back the curtain, revealing that tonight the csys has been replaced by one of those giant hamster wheel engines powered by chocobo
  1134. [OOC] Garnet chuckles
  1135. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Hey, if it warks..."
  1136. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "the csys knows this is a dramatic scene, and it wants to help"
  1137. [OOC] Garnet says, "hahahahaha"
  1138. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "The Chocobo had this song playing the whole time for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzn-cMuRXVg"
  1139. Text
  1140. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "This would be a pretty indecisive scene if the constant perfects weren't balanced out by massive hits that don't even get partially mitigated"
  1141. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "As it is it's just very... dramatic"
  1142. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "wow that song"
  1143. Unescaped comma in final arg of ANSI by #71. This behavior is deprecated.
  1144. Unescaped comma in final arg of ANSI by #71. This behavior is deprecated.
  1145. People who oppose you are your enemies, Mikoto. You must kill your enemies. This is the will of your Lord Brother, Mikoto. Do not disappoint.
  1146. Unescaped comma in final arg of ANSI by #71. This behavior is deprecated.
  1147. Mikoto. You must kill your enemies. This is the will of your Lord Brother, Mikoto. Do not disappoint.
  1148. People who oppose you are your enemies, Mikoto. You must kill your enemies. This is the will of your Lord Brother, Mikoto. Do not disappoint.
  1149. COMBAT: Endo Naoki perfectly counters Mikoto Minagi's Obsidian Blade: Demolition, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter! Endo Naoki's Reverse ability activates!
  1150. COMBAT: Endo Naoki's counterattack, Machtiger Schild, interrupts, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Mikoto Minagi!
  1151. [OOC] Sayaka Miki head in hands.
  1152. [OOC] Endo Naoki |a
  1153. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ahahahah fuck"
  1154. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "I'm dreaming"
  1155. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "holy cow"
  1156. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "oh my god"
  1157. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "the both of them just"
  1158. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "'your sword is good'"
  1159. [OOC] Garnet slowly blinks.
  1160. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "I missed the scene, I'm sleeping through it, this is just a dream of the scene"
  1161. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i'm cackling, this is so good"
  1162. [OOC] Nao Yuuki yesss
  1163. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Later: So who won? 'Dramatic storytelling.' Who lost? 'The animation budget.'"
  1164. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "/it's so true/"
  1165. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "we're gonna have so many talking silently in the elevator scenes after this"
  1166. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Time to do PMMM Episode 10, the 'recap' episode..."
  1167. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Everyones drawn in crayons from now on."
  1168. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "as for me"
  1169. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "i'm"
  1170. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "goig to nimate so zs"
  1171. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "..."
  1172. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "ok I give up lol good night"
  1173. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Good night mami!"
  1174. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Here a preview of our next dramatic BSSM scene: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sailormoon/images/7/7e/Tumblr_nhmhg8KRl91ro8ba4o1_500.gif/revision/latest?cb=20150107092456"
  1175. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "niniiii <3"
  1176. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Breath-taking animation budget."
  1177. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "go home, crystal, you're drunk"
  1178. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Look at Usagi go..."
  1179. [OOC] Sailor Pluto hugs a Mami, even though she did basically aerate Kassie <3
  1180. [OOC] Sailor Pluto (glorious)
  1181. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Night senpai! We may well be continuing tomorrow"
  1182. [OOC] Mami Tomoe says, "i'll be here"
  1183. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "If other people need to sleep they can do so and the more wakeful can do a little more, we're not synched anyway"
  1184. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Hehe sleep well!"
  1185. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "tomorrow i'll need to AFK around 10pm est for a bit so i can take an appointment, but the disability advocate's coming here so it shouldn't be too long before i get back"
  1186. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "I've ruined my sleep schedule earlier and am having a great time, so I can go on. But I can halt if our group needs a break."
  1187. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i'm australian, it's only 7pm here"
  1188. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I'm pretty weary but hanging in to at least see Norin and Endo's next poses"
  1189. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "I'm staying awake to see what NASA has in store for me... but my reply may come on the morrow"
  1190. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant may explode in her next pose, it's a mystery to everyone
  1191. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "And Mikoto's of course"
  1192. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Ha ha yes"
  1193. [OOC] Nao Yuuki pats the ticking timebomb she left on poor Norin
  1194. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Ganbatte"
  1195. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Don't explode until Nao reveals her Finisher."
  1196. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "It'd be a delight to us all."
  1197. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "+attack nori=Feisty Suggestiveness"
  1198. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "don't worry, today mai's cooldown hug is being substituted for nao's cooldown music"
  1199. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "no one has to die!!!"
  1200. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "r...right"
  1201. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Look."
  1202. GAME: Save complete.
  1203. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "I don't want you to die I counted you as one of the people I'd want to defend."
  1204. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "listen kozue you're fighting on the opposite side, that makes you an enemy"
  1205. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Yep well aware."
  1206. <Pose Tracker> Garnet [None] has posed.
  1207. Garnet nods at the code phrase, grabs Sayaka and places her on her hair (AKA The Steven Taxi) for quick transport and takes a large leap backwards, putting considerable distance between the two and the implacable Guardian.
  1208.  
  1209. Garnet raises one of her armored gauntlets in front of her and it glows with transformative light, quintipling in size and stands at the ready for its passenger. Garnet seems to remember something and they glow again, and now have a handle just in case. The mom in her is hard to shake. She waits for Sayaka to board and then it rockets... upward?
  1210.  
  1211. Garnet leaps back to Pluto and shadowpunches awkwardly with her other arm, not waiting for the one gone to fully form so She seems a little, off balance. The punches don't seem very accurate. just quick, and irritating.
  1212. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "the rulebook is very clear vis-a-vis enemies"
  1213. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "And it's also very clear that I don't follow any rulebook."
  1214. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "/but i do/ :("
  1215. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Ohhhh my"
  1216. COMBAT: Garnet has started a combo targeting Sailor Pluto!
  1217. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "garnet's gonna open a can of whoop-ass"
  1218. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Don't let Kozue hear you call her girlfriend that, Mikoto..."
  1219. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "looooool"
  1220. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "ahahahaha"
  1221. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Wait call me what, an enemy?"
  1222. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "A can of whoop ass."
  1223. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "..."
  1224. [OOC] Garnet blink.
  1225. Steven Universe has left.
  1226. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "She can call me what she want as long as she doesn't open me"
  1227. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "technically then i'd be the one opening the can"
  1228. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I love the handle on the gauntlet, such a nice touch X)"
  1229. [OOC] Garnet says, "thanks haha"
  1230. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "garnet values safety!"
  1231. [OOC] Garnet says, "nods solemnly, remembering The Teacups."
  1232. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "would you like me to hold for Sayaka + Garnet finish or should I go ahead?"
  1233. [OOC] Garnet says, "combats are seperate, so no need to wait?"
  1234. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "You can go yeah"
  1235. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "IKUZO"
  1236. <Pose Tracker> Endo Naoki [Juuban Public School (11)] has posed.
  1237.  
  1238. Endo takes what time he has, pushing to his feet, heavily favoring one leg now. He is given a moment too, to ruminate on their brief glance. There's something he saw in Mikoto's face that tugs at his heart, something familiar. Tears shed for a friend, pain not made from combat, but something deeper? Those are things he knows too well. He hopes, fleetingly, that La Sirene and the rest of the Chevaliers are holding their own.
  1239.  
  1240. And when their eyes meet again, what was there is gone. Only ferocity, once again. Maybe, when this is over, things will be different. Some time, but not this time.
  1241.  
  1242. Symbols whirl to life as Endo lifts his sword, this time not trusting only steel to protect him from Mikoto's savage strikes. There's magic too this time, an iron wall to catch the blade racing forward.
  1243.  
  1244. <MACHTIGER SCHILD>
  1245.  
  1246. There's a brief flick of his eyes in surprise when, suddenly, his battle is now orchestrated. There's no time to worry if there's more it than that, though.
  1247.  
  1248. Again ugly violet triangles form, though this time they do so at Endo's feet. His hands grip his weapon tight, his face painted, breathing short. He launches forward again, the symbols beneath his feet acting almost like a springboard, giving him lift and speed he'd be unable to achieve on his own. His weapon arcs through the air, whirls in a circle as it gathers speed. Contrails of purple-black fire arc behind it, flashing lurid light across the space between closeby combatants.
  1249.  
  1250. <METEOR ABSTURZ>
  1251.  
  1252. He puts nearly all of his power into it, a massive strike to mirror Mikoto's previous.
  1253. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Meteor Absturz on Mikoto Minagi.
  1254. COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.
  1255. Mami Tomoe has disconnected.
  1256. <Pose Tracker> La Sirene de Diamant [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  1257.  
  1258. The blade touches la Sirene's throat. The feeling that comes is indescribable. A moment later it ends and the feeling that comes THEN is very describable: saggy, lumplike relief. Her eyes close as she hears screams.
  1259.  
  1260. La Sirene writhes as Nao moves. Her attention is diverted and the tension in her wires feels less to her. She gets her other arm free, and starts untangling a leg while Nao -- she does something with her phone; in her inner despair mingled with the cold tempered sense of relief at not having found herself gouting her life's blood out on this bridge, la Sirene is having a hard time focusing on anything more than the raw physical.
  1261.  
  1262. Guns speak. Blades reply. Magic clashes.
  1263.  
  1264. Nao screams a name in three syllables. La Sirene's head curls, her hair falling obliquely, and she answers Nao then.
  1265.  
  1266. The words come out of la Sirene's mouth with a penetrant echo and a faint distortion. The concrete she's facing mostly towards, perhaps?
  1267.  
  1268. "What's wrong?" she asks.
  1269.  
  1270. "It looks like she's winning," la Sirene continues. There is none of the airy distance and mystery to her usual words.
  1271.  
  1272. "You'd remove an obstacle, if she won," la Sirene says. "You would not even have had to do anything. Another block to matters, removed."
  1273.  
  1274. La Sirene is quiet for several seconds due to a sudden full body cold tremor that she does not vocalize. She waits it out. She turns her face away so its contortion won't be seen by Nao and she doesn't look back even as she draws her foot, her leg, stretched at a balletic and gracious angle, loose of slips of wire.
  1275.  
  1276. "You could plunder him, for his Device," la Sirene continues. "It would no doubt /sell for a lot of money/."
  1277.  
  1278. There is the heat, at last.
  1279.  
  1280. There are other words la Sirene wants to say, but they run into each other in her throat, a half-dozen cutting vicious retorts or final remarks crashing and wrecking themselves as if there were a great disorder in the rail line that runs from her heart and her mind to her throat and her lips.
  1281.  
  1282. In the end it's just a pained and impotent gasping. Her foot comes loose, but she can feel the cold wash sneak up on her. Is she going to be able to stand? La Sirene herself cannot say for certain.
  1283.  
  1284. The wreckage slips past her lips. "Why do you all act so callous!!?"
  1285.  
  1286. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Battle Fantasia Reaction Queue ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1287. * Attacker: Endo Naoki | Meteor Absturz | Type: Special *
  1288. * ***** Power: Major | Speed: Slow | Melee | Physical *
  1289. * *** Flags: Defense Breaking *
  1290. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1291. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has used Cutting Remark on Nao Yuuki.
  1292. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant has finished attacking.
  1293. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki fails to dodge La Sirene de Diamant's Cutting Remark, taking 10 Fatigue damage! La Sirene de Diamant is Psyched!
  1294. COMBAT: La Sirene de Diamant is unable to keep fighting!
  1295. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Poor Endo has this murderkitten smashing him around with a godblade"
  1296. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Meanwhile Nao and Nori snipe each other to death"
  1297. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Yes"
  1298. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Oh no Norin"
  1299. test
  1300. test
  1301. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "avenge me, endo"
  1302. <Pose Tracker> Kyouko Sakura [None] has posed.
  1303. <SoundTracker> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5zTNr11kk8&list=PLeogPTA03KQ_vl0v9G04dexcCkBxfed_3&index=4
  1304.  
  1305.  
  1306. Kyouko's brow furrows. Even now, this girl can't scrounge up her full attention. Acting like an angel above, offering prayers for the faithful to steel them in their time of trouble. But she has her own crisis to deal with, and if she doesn't realize it yet then she will learn all too quickly. But all's well with the world. Tonight she wars with some she'd rather save, people she wants to live who insist on death instead. People she cares for.
  1307.  
  1308. For this stranger there is nothing. All the better if she's too busy taunting the likes of Kasagami to save herself.
  1309.  
  1310. She fights well, whoever she is. That slender swan neck of hers is unbroken yet, for all the red blemish to blossom against its lily field. Kyouko is confident that she commands full attention, now. The dancer's motions are that much less controlled. There's a jaggedness that was lacking before, a haphazard careen where there had been choreographed grace. As Kozue hops, Kyouko stands her ground, and watches.
  1311.  
  1312. Her ears hum as that angry wasp buzzes by in looping arcs, probing her space for inattentiveness, for a slow uptake. For exposed skin. No stranger to such a technique, she knows to wait when waiting is called for. And when it comes..all that misdirection gives way to something profoundly direct.
  1313.  
  1314. All she has to do is eschew panic..and to shift her wrist and the spear in her grip, ever so precisely.
  1315.  
  1316. ...
  1317.  
  1318. The flat end of her blade rings like a tuning fork, absorbing the entirety of force that was meant to steal her away from all that she might ever be. She smiles.
  1319.  
  1320. "I know that you're afraid."
  1321.  
  1322. Ducking down low, she lunges for Kozue's belly..and keeps lunging past it, stepping beyond her target. Her blade again inverts position in the same moment that she stabs back to pick at her opponent's side. Her entire body follows through on the motion, crouching down and balling herself up to tackle at Kozue's legs from behind. Just after transferring the lion's share of her kinetic energy into a hopeful impact, her heel grinds the ground, propelling her away at a perpendicular angle as her hands lash out in her wake, blades manifesting an snapping at unseen speeds. At the crest of her jump, a spear length forms in her hands, jutting against the ground and halting her momentum entirely. Grunting, she reverses her course through sheer force and will, pushing herself up above Kozue's head, spinning her pole vault in her hands to slash down below in a half circle, landing opposite of Kozue from her initial launching point.
  1323.  
  1324. "You should've believed."
  1325. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has used Bloodcraze on Kozue Kaoru.
  1326. COMBAT: Kyouko Sakura has finished attacking.
  1327. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "and snapping*"
  1328. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru narrowly counters Kyouko Sakura's Bloodcraze, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Kozue Kaoru is unable to keep fighting! Kozue Kaoru is Quipped! Kozue Kaoru's Reverse ability activates! Kozue Kaoru's Tactician ability activates! Stun and Trap applied to Kozue Kaoru!
  1329. COMBAT: Kozue Kaoru's counterattack, Paint it Blue, partially gets through, doing 7 Fatigue damage to Kyouko Sakura!
  1330. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Battle Fantasia Character Sheet ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1331. * Name: Mikoto Minagi Master Rank: B *
  1332. * Henshin: HiME Mikoto Henshin Rank: B Points: 280 *
  1333. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Statistics ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1334. * Might: 70/100 Fatigue: 58/100 *
  1335. * Reflex: 61/100 Mana: 59/100 *
  1336. * Vitality: 40/100 Morale: 43 *
  1337. * Spirit: 40/100 *
  1338. * Composure: 6/10 *
  1339. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Abilities ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1340. * Master Traits: Dynamic, Fade, Flash, and Massive Impacts *
  1341. * Henshin Abilities: Improvisationalist, Kung Fu Wizard, Riposte, Supersonic, *
  1342. * and Unstoppable Force *
  1343. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Status Effects (Duration) ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1344. * --==None==-- *
  1345. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1346.  
  1347. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi narrowly dodges Endo Naoki's Meteor Absturz, taking 51 Fatigue damage! Mikoto Minagi's Fade ability activates! Mikoto Minagi's Flash ability activates!
  1348. [OOC] Nao Yuuki whistles at Endo and Mikoto both
  1349. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Ara"
  1350. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Endo and Mikoto are such an epic battle tonight"
  1351. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Battle Fantasia Character Sheet ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1352. * Name: Mikoto Minagi Master Rank: B *
  1353. * Henshin: HiME Mikoto Henshin Rank: B Points: 280 *
  1354. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Statistics ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1355. * Might: 70/100 Fatigue: 7/100 *
  1356. * Reflex: 61/100 Mana: 62/100 *
  1357. * Vitality: 40/100 Morale: 46 *
  1358. * Spirit: 40/100 *
  1359. * Composure: 6/10 *
  1360. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Abilities ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1361. * Master Traits: Dynamic, Fade, Flash, and Massive Impacts *
  1362. * Henshin Abilities: Improvisationalist, Kung Fu Wizard, Riposte, Supersonic, *
  1363. * and Unstoppable Force *
  1364. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Status Effects (Duration) ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1365. * --==None==-- *
  1366. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1367.  
  1368. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "I STILL HAVE SEVEN WHOLE HIT POINTS"
  1369. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "/I CAN STILL FIGHT/"
  1370. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "no kidding"
  1371. [OOC] Garnet says, "lucky seven?"
  1372. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Holy crap scary Kyouko"
  1373. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "if only we could be sword friends, not sword enemies :("
  1374. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "I swear if this is another Aphex Twin OST..."
  1375. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Okay cool"
  1376. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "I think I'd like to strike that last line of dialogue for the Blu-Ray"
  1377. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Hahaha"
  1378. <Pose Tracker> Sayaka Miki [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
  1379. <SoundTracker> SUPER ROCKET RUMBLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmMisr-o4pg
  1380. Sayaka leaps atop the now truly gigantic gauntlet, grinning openly at Pluto. When you have an attack this cool you can gloat about it a bit, it's okay. It will definitely work anyway.
  1381.  
  1382. "I don't need this, though," Sayaka grumps out of the corner of her mouth, looking at the big friendly handle popping up right when she's trying to be cool. "Look, no hands!" Is she making fun of Garnet? Probably not.
  1383.  
  1384. The rockets are loud and proud, and Sayaka gets pinned to the palm of the glove like a bug on a windshield. Groping around for the handlebar, Sayaka grabs it with great shame and turns her eyes to the sky, tears streaming back across her temples as the wind lashes her hair violently and wobbles her cheeks around. "SpaAaAaAaAce," she says, either out of fear or amazement; she can't remember because she immediately is thinking more about how her voice sounds like it's going through a floor fan. Sayaka hooks her arm through the handle as she breaks the clouds... she's not quite going to space but it's not too far off either. With a graceful loop-de-loop, Sayaka is deprived of gravity, floating weightlessly, the handle now quite easy to grip. "Whoa," she breathes. "Whuh-OOOOOOOH!" she screams, as the jet boosters kick in again and send it hurtling straight down. The giant hand breaks the clouds again violently, bringing a little poof of them down for a moment, and judders around trying to fix on where Pluto is. When it locks on, the thumb sticks up in either confirmation or simple satisfaction. Sayaka, gripping tightly with teeth locked, counts in her head.
  1385.  
  1386. The fist smashes down in a giant cloud of shattered concrete, cratering the nearby area. Sayaka is surely either dead or in for a long heal... but wait! Tossed up from the impact is a fluttering white cape and a determined blue head with hair inverted like a troll doll. She had let go before the rocket fell, and before terminal velocity could break her legs on its own, the impact itself tossed her back up, more gently this time. Eyes sharply tracking through the debris cloud, Sayaka wraps herself in her cape to protect from flying shards, falling straight through right to (and maybe on top of) Pluto.
  1387.  
  1388. Lashing about with her sword, Sayaka uses the advantage of temporarily concealed vision to make this a more brutish fight, with less room for Pluto's prowess to turn the tide. With raw speed and savagery she lashes out repeatedly, chasing Pluto around with scampering motions when needed. It's more Mikoto-like than Pluto has previously seen Sayaka, and more frightening.
  1389.  
  1390. "Wan sumoru..." A silver blade slashes a bright figure eight as the debris clears. "Suteppu for man!" Sayaka fistbumps the side of the half-buried hand with a metallic clonk.
  1391.  
  1392. Well it was briefly frightening anyway.
  1393. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki has joined the combo started by Garnet!
  1394. COMBAT: COMBO! Garnet and Sayaka Miki have used Combo: Super Rocket Rumble!, composed of Rock-it Gauntlets! and Furioso, on Sailor Pluto.
  1395. COMBAT: Garnet has finished attacking.
  1396. COMBAT: Sayaka Miki has finished attacking.
  1397. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "oh my god"
  1398. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "/amazing/"
  1399. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "it is an honor to be NASAd by you both"
  1400. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Hey Pluto"
  1401. [OOC] Sayaka Miki http://joecarabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/imperfect.jpg
  1402. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "ahahahah"
  1403. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Ahahahaha"
  1404. [OOC] Garnet Italian chef hand-kiss
  1405. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto fails to counter Garnet and Sayaka Miki's Combo: Super Rocket Rumble!, taking 49 Fatigue damage! Garnet drains 20 fatigue from Sailor Pluto!
  1406. COMBAT: Sailor Pluto's counterattack, Garnet Dome, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Garnet!
  1407. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "yowch!"
  1408. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "thanks to your image link I feel good about that Sayaka <3 you Chevaliers and your morale"
  1409. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "(freaking ow)"
  1410. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "The Space Program deserves more funding based on these results"
  1411. ============================[ Ueno Museum District ]============================
  1412. Name Idle Pose B|D: Y/N Fatigue Mana Morale
  1413. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1414. Sayaka Miki 10s 14m N|N Good Okay Upbeat
  1415. Kyouko Sakura 15m 21m N|N Okay Critical Radiant
  1416. La Sirene de Diamant 5m 28m N|N Okay Okay KO
  1417. Endo Naoki 1m 28m N|N Okay Bad Upbeat
  1418. Garnet 2m 42m N|N Great Bad Upbeat
  1419. Kozue Kaoru 19m >1h N|Y KO Bad Normal
  1420. Nao Yuuki 7m >1h N|N Okay Okay Upbeat
  1421. Mikoto Minagi 0s >1h N|N Critical Okay Hopeful
  1422. Kasagami Araki 1h >1h N|N KO Awful Radiant
  1423. Sailor Pluto 12s >1h N|N Awful Good Hopeful
  1424. Madoka Kaname 44s >1h N|N
  1425. Scene Pose >1h Scene pose set by Sayaka Miki.
  1426. =============[ Sun Feb 18 01:46:00 2018 / Sat Mar 28 2015, Part 2 ]=============
  1427. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "The future of magical girls awaits in space"
  1428. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "The KSB, Kyuubey Space Program..."
  1429. [OOC] Garnet nods in agreement, wearing labcoat and orange mirrored nerd glasses
  1430. <Pose Tracker> Mikoto Minagi [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  1431.  
  1432. Miroku is hungry, but Fallen Stern is not ready for Endo to be dinner just yet. The obsidian blade meets a wall, magically summoned, and it cannot break the defense. Mikoto pushes, but Endo pushes back. In the end, neither sword draws blood; Mikoto leaps backwards, once it's clear the offensive is fruitless.
  1433.  
  1434. People who oppose you are your enemies, Mikoto. You must kill your enemies.
  1435.  
  1436. She begins to circle him, blade held low, searching for an opening. She is a wild beast, come down from the mountains to rip and tear; has she only been pretending to be tame, all this time? In that moment, Mikoto's eyes glowing like a demon, the answer seems clear.
  1437.  
  1438. Destroy your enemies. This is the will of your Lord Brother, Mikoto. Do not disappoint.
  1439.  
  1440. She can see the avenue of attack clearly in her mind. All she has to do is catch him off his guard, and open him from belly to neck. Then she will open La Sirene, and Mami, and Kozue, like a locksmith on a chilly night. Her lips part, and her tongue darts out to lick over her teeth. She can almost taste the blood already, as he pulls himself into position to attack. This is as it should be.
  1441.  
  1442. But.
  1443.  
  1444. When we first came here, we were cold and we were clear...
  1445.  
  1446. There is a song, at the corner of her mind.
  1447.  
  1448. She's made half a circle before Endo's magic takes root again, propelling him forward with terrible force. Her warring mind is far from him; her instincts take over, leaping away again. It's just a hair too late, and Fallen Stern draws blood, a long line along Mikoto's left arm. It drips into the teal of her shirt, staining it irrevocably. Hissing through grit teeth, Mikoto is forced to transfer her greatsword to a single-handed grip.
  1449.  
  1450. When it's time to pray, we dressed up all in gray... with metal on our tongues, and silver in our lungs...
  1451.  
  1452. She grips her sword, lips raised in a snarl, and takes a step forward.
  1453.  
  1454. "MI-KO-TOOO!"
  1455.  
  1456. And at her name, Mikoto hesitates. Shaking, shuddering, blood dripping from her open wound, she turns her head halfway towards Nao. That song...
  1457.  
  1458. ... it's the song they were listening to when she introduced Nao to her kittens, isn't it?
  1459.  
  1460. "Nao," Mikoto says, through grit teeth, "it hurts. But I can't stop, Nao."
  1461.  
  1462. People who oppose you are your enemies, Mikoto.
  1463.  
  1464. So say my name, and every color illuminates...
  1465.  
  1466. You must kill your enemies.
  1467.  
  1468. ... and we are shining, and we'll never be afraid again...
  1469.  
  1470. Mikoto tries to grasp her sword with her other hand, but the grip is weak, and it makes her hiss in protest. "It hurts, Nao," Mikoto says, again, emotion staining her face like the blood on her shirt. "It hurts."
  1471.  
  1472. Her single-minded focus is broken, torn up by Nao's music and Endo's sharpness; more than that, she's /talking/. She stands, she faces Endo, but she does not attack.
  1473.  
  1474. COMBAT: Mikoto Minagi has finished attacking.
  1475. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "blu-ray "MI-KO-TOOO!" to 'MI-KO-TOOO!' so it's a bit clearer mikoto isn't speaking, i think"
  1476. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "hello i am cat, i am not good at computer"
  1477. <Pose Tracker> Kozue Kaoru [None] has posed.
  1478.  
  1479.  
  1480. Whatever grin, whatever easy confidence in Kozue's expression fades the moment Kyouko confirms her fear. It's easy enough to deny it to someone who doesn't know.
  1481.  
  1482. But this girl knows. And it's a game of chicken for a moment, on who will blink - before the lunge.
  1483.  
  1484. Of course it's Kyouko who wins that staredown.
  1485.  
  1486. Just as she lunges for her prize. And her sickle scythe slams again and again into her blade. In this back and forth desperate game of hooking parries and blinding slashes and thrusts. It's red on blue violence at it's finest. As red - red - red appears, overwhelming her with every single flinch.
  1487.  
  1488. With every single growl.
  1489.  
  1490. To whatever small credit, no matter how afraid she is, she gives back as best as she can, even beyond endurance.
  1491.  
  1492. Just like she gave Greer.
  1493.  
  1494. Until finally she takes several blows just to lunge in enough to grab Kyouko's collar, and whisper something by her ear. "Course I'm scared..." A light rasp, "... always terrifies me... when I see people... who are willing... to drown kittens... crush baby birds... for their bottom line..."
  1495.  
  1496. There's a hoarse chuckle as her grip weakens... and she sounds more raspy, "...S'like looking in the mirror."
  1497.  
  1498. And then unable to hold on any longer, she let's go, and slumps down to her knees, her fingertips sliding off her Element as it hits the concrete. "Damnit." Whatever fear she might have though, she's got enough dignity not to beg. In the same way she knew she couldn't beg the others before. Just sounding resigned to her failure, "Go on. Finish what your friends the Senshi started... just don't make her watch."
  1499.  
  1500.  
  1501. <Pose Tracker> Nao Yuuki [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
  1502.  
  1503. Nao is not immune to La Sirene's words.
  1504.  
  1505. "You don't even know me," she observes, though, without turning around immediately. (This is an ignorant statement, because Nori Ankou must know, at least from afar, of her delinquent kohai Nao Yuuki; but HiME Nao knows nothing of Red Future's connection to la Sirene du Diamant...) She can't tear herself away so easily from Endo and Mikoto's clash. "But if you think that my choice, or lack thereof, to steal and sell his sword thingy, absolves you of /your/ choice to use your magic powers for -- this..."
  1506.  
  1507. She gestures at the battlefield, the falling girls everywhere, the wreckage and debris, and as she does, her metallic claws reappear on her fingertips in a sparkle of summoning, fading back into existence first down at the knuckle, then up to each fingertip.
  1508.  
  1509. "...Instead of by, y'know, feeding the homeless or whatever, you're wrong."
  1510.  
  1511. She presses one of her low heels -- higher than school standard, lower than any sort of stiletto -- an innocent heel, in a way, the heel of a young maiden not fully into her prime -- and swivels back to face her opponent.
  1512.  
  1513. Her eyes are ice chips, but her words are colder.
  1514.  
  1515. "One way or another, we each gotta live with our own choices."
  1516.  
  1517. Hints of Nao's prior passion is all but drowned by the sharpness everywhere. It's her own sharpness -- the razor wires she was spinning with her own back to hide them, which she now releases, yet again, to surround la Sirene, to keep her out of this fight.
  1518.  
  1519. "Or die with them."
  1520.  
  1521. She shrugs one shoulder, lowers it.
  1522.  
  1523. "Up to you."
  1524.  
  1525. Nao walks away, and joins Mikoto, who is calling for her. With perfect gentleness, she drapes a hand, still clawed, across her classmate's back -- and points her free one at Endo.
  1526.  
  1527. Setting sunlight collects on the outstretched claw. It sparkles beautifully, and dangerously.
  1528.  
  1529. Now it's two on one.
  1530.  
  1531. "Walk away," she suggests to him, flatly, with the authority of the person who just convinced his fellow Human Sword-Comet to stay her hand, at least for one quiet moment. "Because pretty quickly I am gonna run out of sympathy, dude, if you decide to keep hitting /that/."
  1532.  
  1533. That being Mikoto, misery incarnate.
  1534.  
  1535. COMBAT: Nao Yuuki has finished attacking.
  1536. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Beautiful pose, Kozue"
  1537. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "blu-ray reappear on her *hands"
  1538. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "those are both so good"
  1539. [OOC] Garnet nods solemnly
  1540. Kasagami Araki has left.
  1541. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*(( Battle Fantasia Character Sheet ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1542. * Name: Mikoto Minagi Master Rank: B *
  1543. * Henshin: HiME Mikoto Henshin Rank: B Points: 280 *
  1544. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Statistics ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1545. * Might: 70/100 Fatigue: 7/100 *
  1546. * Reflex: 61/100 Mana: 62/100 *
  1547. * Vitality: 40/100 Morale: 46 *
  1548. * Spirit: 40/100 *
  1549. * Composure: 6/10 *
  1550. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Abilities ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1551. * Master Traits: Dynamic, Fade, Flash, and Massive Impacts *
  1552. * Henshin Abilities: Improvisationalist, Kung Fu Wizard, Riposte, Supersonic, *
  1553. * and Unstoppable Force *
  1554. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+(( Status Effects (Duration) ))+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
  1555. * --==None==-- *
  1556. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+----+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
  1557.  
  1558. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I love you guys, I gotta go to bed"
  1559. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Sleep well Nao <3"
  1560. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I will be reading any more poses in the morning with /great/ eagerness, especially from my pals Endo, Norin and Mikoto"
  1561. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi <3!
  1562. +sparkle: Nao Yuuki has voted for you.
  1563. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "thanks for coming nao, you were amazing"
  1564. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Sleep well!"
  1565. +sparkle: Kyouko Sakura has voted for you.
  1566. +sparkle: You have voted for Nao Yuuki.
  1567. +sparkle: You have voted for Garnet.
  1568. +sparkle: You have voted for Endo Naoki.
  1569. +sparkle: Madoka Kaname is currently set as an observer. If they should be getting sparkled, please do so separately!
  1570. +sparkle: You have voted for Sailor Pluto.
  1571. +sparkle: You have voted for La Sirene de Diamant.
  1572. +sparkle: You have voted for Kyouko Sakura.
  1573. +sparkle: You have voted for Sayaka Miki.
  1574. +sparkle: You have voted for Kozue Kaoru.
  1575. +sparkle: Player not found.
  1576. +sparkle: You have voted for Kasagami Araki.
  1577. +sparkle: Sailor Pluto has voted for you.
  1578. +sparkle: You have voted for Mami Tomoe.
  1579. +sparkle: Sayaka Miki has voted for you.
  1580. [OOC] Endo Naoki <3!
  1581. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "If you have taste and a mind for high culture"
  1582. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "I will be back tomorrow at +scene-time for any denouement~"
  1583. +sparkle: You have voted for Tsubasa Kazanari.
  1584. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "yesssss"
  1585. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Sparkle Tsubasa also of course"
  1586. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "My god this room is full of amazing, you guys <3"
  1587. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "we're team all-stars"
  1588. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "And Chitose?"
  1589. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Yeah, if you feel like putting those +sparkles where they'll go to non-NPC use, feel free to hit Madoka"
  1590. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Yeah, fantastic stuff all around"
  1591. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "I shall hold until tomorrow, then."
  1592. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "Who has /soooo/ much use for XP, ha ha"
  1593. +sparkle: You have voted for Madoka Kaname.
  1594. +vote: La Sirene de Diamant has voted for you.
  1595. [OOC] Nao Yuuki says, "But nevertheless"
  1596. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Homura sez: you will never use that CP Madoka >:O"
  1597. +sparkle: Endo Naoki has voted for you.
  1598. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "She's going to get increasingly powerful Miracle Lights."
  1599. +sparkle: Garnet has voted for you.
  1600. COMBAT: Madoka Kaname has used MIRACLE LIGHTS! on La Sirene de Diamant.
  1601. COMBAT: Madoka Kaname has finished attacking.
  1602. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "Blu-ray that out, I'm sorry, it was pavlovian"
  1603. [OOC] Garnet gasp!
  1604. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "I couldn't help myself"
  1605. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "ahahahah"
  1606. [OOC] Madoka Kaname says, "I've kept it around since launch day... X)"
  1607. Huh? (Type "help" for help.)
  1608. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "oh man"
  1609. [OOC] Garnet says, "hahahaha"
  1610. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Kozue, I think your pose very much needs a response, but is it alright if I offer it tomorrow?"
  1611. +sparkle: Kozue Kaoru has voted for you.
  1612. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "I'm 100% okay with that."
  1613. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "also thank you endo for being a magnificent sword partner tonight"
  1614. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "In part because I think someone else intends to respond to it too."
  1615. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "indeed I am kaput until tomorrow as well, when I must face the wrath of NASA squarely"
  1616. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "XD"
  1617. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i will definitely be sure to kick your ass with all seven of my fatigue tomorrow"
  1618. [OOC] Endo Naoki <3 murdercat. I'm very glad we got to do this.
  1619. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi <3
  1620. GAME: Save complete.
  1621. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Ok! I'll almost definitely be on late tomorrow unfortunately, probably around 10:30 server time"
  1622. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "once the chevaliers plot is tied up we should work on becoming sword friends, somehow"
  1623. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "or at least sword rivals"
  1624. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant aww
  1625. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Definitely."
  1626. [OOC] Garnet says, "just let Kasagami catch you wandering around Ohtori after hours, you'll be conscripted into Kendo so fast..."
  1627. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "You could write a pose beforehand tomorrow if you have time, but I know that might not be feasible"
  1628. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Mikoto you'll always be my sword frien-emy to keep it ambiguous."
  1629. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "I will not have time unless I do it right now, unfortunately."
  1630. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Which I can do, but it'll probably be abbreviated."
  1631. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "We'll just keep Kozue and Kyouko in a state of Homura time stop until you get on."
  1632. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "i mean, we /do/ have pluto..."
  1633. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Yeah but she dies to do it."
  1634. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "And she sure aint dying for Kozue."
  1635. [OOC] Garnet says, "..yes I simply can't see that happening."
  1636. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "pshhhh we'll just get a civvie in to wish her back to life, kyubey always wants more souls"
  1637. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "... oh, this is why the chevaliers think we're the bad guys, isn't it"
  1638. [OOC] Garnet stern look.
  1639. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "pretty much"
  1640. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "also eri is mean* (eri is not actually mean)"
  1641. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "A continuity where Usagi doesn't forget she exists and died, unlike the manga, or the anime... or the second anime which we forget exists."
  1642. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "what second anime"
  1643. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "Kyuubey bugs Madoka to resurrect Sailor Pluto. Homura's head straight explodes."
  1644. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "To be fair, isn't Crystal basically the manga anyway?"
  1645. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "It's kind of a terrible adaptation of it that takes out most character moments even that were present in the manga and moments of quirky humor."
  1646. [OOC] Kozue Kaoru says, "Until S3 which is done better."
  1647. [OOC] Endo Naoki says, "Okay friends it actually is ungodly late for me, so I'm off to bed. I shall return tomorrow~"
  1648. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "honestly i didn't even get to episode 3"
  1649. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "niniii <3"
  1650. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "You are amazing Endo! Niiiight"
  1651. Endo Naoki has disconnected.
  1652. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "also yeah sleep sounds like a good idea"
  1653. [OOC] Sailor Pluto says, "see y'all tomarrey"
  1654. [OOC] Setsuna Meioh returns to OOCness.
  1655. Setsuna Meioh has left.
  1656. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "This went super well"
  1657. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Great chemistry among all foes"
  1658. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "100%"
  1659. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Space program advanced by leaps and bounds"
  1660. [OOC] Sayaka Miki says, "Sayaka single again in 3, 2, 1..."
  1661. [OOC] La Sirene de Diamant says, "Kozue Space Program is launch"
  1662. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "All according to keikaku.."
  1663. [OOC] Kyouko Sakura says, "Bedtime for me, thank you all so much for an incredible scene! I can't wait for the rest of the finale! <3"
  1664. [OOC] Mikoto Minagi says, "niniiii <3"
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