(6:37:13 AM) Ikiryo: The huge wold towers over the battlefield and even the henge itself, it's misshapen and barely humanoid rock form glowing with bright red runes as it swivels it's head, attempting to understand the sudden chaos...
(6:41:51 AM) Ikiryo: The huge wold towers over the battlefield and even the henge itself, it's misshapen and barely humanoid rock form glowing with bright red runes as it swivels it's head, attempting to understand the sudden chaos...
(6:42:25 AM) ***Reise eyes Linny as the halfling tromps after her. Then she shifts her attention to the wold. "Well. Think you can pick *this* one up and throw it?"
(6:43:07 AM) Ikiryo: Hana has crouched to the ground, one of the stolen silver knives from the druids in hand as she cuts open her own palm.
(6:43:40 AM) Feldi: Linny snorts.  "Maybe if I could use that power Asylla gave me.  But there's no moon to draw power from for that."
(6:45:06 AM) Ikiryo: "...I can help there." Hana is tracing runes on the ground in her own blood...though given the nature of her blood it's closer to her engraving it into the rock she's standing on. "If you buy me a little time."
(6:47:04 AM) Reise: "Do whatever you need to, Hana." She clomps her helmet back on, and there's a slight hiss as the atmospheric seal closes up. Data pops up on her HUD, outlining potential weak points in the enormous stone figure. "Linny, if you can, try ripping apart weak points. They're probably close to the same as a normal person--you know. Joints, mostly."
(6:48:54 AM) Ikiryo: ...and suddenly, the red runes flare as matching runes appear around the warlock in charge of this all...despite being on the other side of the battlefield. The wold turns towards them, moving with sudden smoothness and grace despite it's side.
(6:48:56 AM) Feldi: Linny flexes her fingers, claws. "I can give that a try~" She growls. "But first..let's clear away the small fry!" She lets out a bloodcurdling howl and barrels into the oncoming wave of soon to be forgotten extras.
(6:49:11 AM) Ikiryo: "...shit. Shit Shit..." Hana traces runes faster.
(6:55:50 AM) Reise: Reise joins Linny in teamwork, the pair working like a smoothly-oiled machine, covering each others' backs and occasionally throwing each other at hard-to-reach druids standing in midair with lightning crackling along their hands and arms. Any of them who try to get close to Hana while the pair are distracted find themselves quickly skewered or cloven in twain.
(6:59:19 AM) Ikiryo: It's nearly a full minute later, an eternity in a fight, when the pair feel energy pulsing through the area. It doesn't take Linny long to realize what it is: Hana has redirected the leylines. Linny can draw power most easily from the moon...but Luna is also a goddess of nature.
(7:03:39 AM) Feldi: Linny's body twists and grows upon itself, the primal energy of the planet fueling her transformation into the form of a giant white wolf.  The enormous beast, eyes blazing, great maw baring teeth as big as an adult orc, points its head to the sky and howls.
(7:05:30 AM) Feldi: [Want to climb up?] Linny asks from the commlink.
(7:07:35 AM) Ikiryo: Hana grins...and staggers for a moment, her own form moving unevenly as parts swell and shift...becoming a towering figure herself. If not quite in the same terrifying way that Linny is, the large red haired figure more like a dancer of flame or a djinni...she looks particularly unhappy about the fact her 'outfit' seems to be cloth made of flame.
(7:13:14 AM) Reise: [...Not fair, you guys.]
(7:14:41 AM) Ikiryo: Hana moves her hand like she's using a comlink...then facepalms with her massive hand. "...right, no equipment."
(7:14:58 AM) Feldi: Linny's muzzles turns to the wold and then to the side so one of her giant eyes gazes down at Reise.  A large claw comes and delicately taps the center of Reise's helmet.  [This place has two suns, Reise. Make that mark of yours useful~]
(7:26:24 AM) ***Reise has to retain her balance after Linny nearly knocks her backwards. [Don't worry about me. Beat the unholy hell out of that thing.] She pats Linny on the ankle and lopes forward, then abruptly vanishes...to reappear behind the wold and up its leg.
(7:30:29 AM) Feldi: Linny rises off of her haunches and steps forward toward the wolf, growling.  She also crushes several druids beneath her front paws.
(7:33:03 AM) Ikiryo has changed the topic to: Hana, Riese, Wold, Wolf.
(7:34:45 AM) Ikiryo: Hana lashes out, flame springing from her hand like a blade...and dissipating on the Wold's armour as runes flare. That looks like the same elemental protection as the druid's robes had...
(9:06:25 AM) ***Reise tosses a small device into the knee joint of the giant stone being, a little capsule that rolls and wedges into place; as the wold shifts its stone leg parts crush the capsule and a greenish gunk oozes out, sizzling and eating into the stone, turning solid rock into so much cruddy regolith.
(9:08:05 AM) Ikiryo: The wold raises heavy arms, bringing them down at it's various attackers and sending the ground rippling...
(9:12:29 AM) Feldi: Linny jumps back from the heavy swings, crushing another five druids under paw and claw, but feels a jitter in her bones as the ground buckles underneath her feet.
(9:13:23 AM) Ikiryo: Hana moves out of the way, her movements more like a dance than combat...she seems to be gliding along the ground...which nearly trips her up when the ground ripples.
(9:17:48 AM) Feldi: With a growl, Linny lunges forth with her great maw, wrapping teeth around its elbow joint, digging ugly tracks in its stone.
(9:18:49 AM) Ikiryo: Even her teeth barely scratch it, the sheer bulk of it means that it's hard to destroy.
(9:28:57 AM) Ikiryo: Hana leaps high into the air, bringing the flaming blade down on the creature's head...punching straight out from the bottom of it. The fact it's still moving indicated the head might be more decorative and for vision than actual function though...
(9:29:28 AM) Ikiryo: The rock of it is starting to glow slightly, heat melting it a little in places and revealing the wood insides the plating covers.
(9:34:42 AM) Reise: Despite the crack in Reise's HUD, it's still sending her good data...including having found its resonant frequency, translating it to a value she can sing herself. She takes a deep breath and belts out the tone, her suit's speakers upshifting it to the proper range and adding considering intensity...
(9:34:43 AM) Reise: ...while she takes a small grenade from a storage cubby located on one thigh and chucks it at the other knee joint. The small explosive sticks, its timer ticking down rapidly...
(9:46:26 AM) Reise: The grenade explodes and blasts a hunk out of the knee joint while Reise's jab with her arm blade obliterates a piece of stone that tumbles to the ground beneath, and the wold's legs begin grinding against each other--so much so that Reise cuts in her helmet audio dampers to kill the noise.
(9:48:52 AM) Ikiryo: The wold pauses...and it's heavy shoulders start to glow, the runes along it shifting. A moment later, a storm starts to form over the area...a massive lightning bolt reaching down for the werewolf.
(10:29:40 AM) Feldi: Just before the lightning bolt would crash into it, the wolf pounces forward.  The great claws puncture the wold's chest, lightning flooding into the spreading cracks, meeting the great burning hole Hana made, weakening the stone man even further.
(10:50:55 AM) Ikiryo has changed the topic to: Reise, Hana, Wolf, Wold
(11:29:00 AM) Reise: Reise uses the jets in the back of her armor to aid in a leap off the stone leg, climbing higher on the wold's massive back. Around "shoulder" height she encounters a ring of glowing, engraved runes inscribed on wood and in stone; a slash of her arm blade takes care of the stone ones, exposing the wood underneath.
(11:29:00 AM) Reise: "This looks important," she comments to herself, dropping another microbomb inside and sliding down the stone back to its "waist;" and not a moment too soon, as the bomb explodes, tearing a great chunk of stone and wood both and utterly ruining a huge swath of power and control runes.
(11:38:13 AM) Ikiryo: The woldwrath staggers...and the flaming blade scythes down through it again. This time it does not go point first but instead carves a trench in the ground as Hana brings it around in a sweep and slices the woldwrath in half. The ground shakes and several druids splat as it falls apart...
(11:38:53 AM) Feldi: [Now /that/ was impressive!]
(11:39:12 AM) Feldi: Sadly, Hana can't hear that given her equipment is non-existent.
(11:41:31 AM) ***Reise slides down the more convenient half as it staggers to the ground, jumping off with a little hop and staring up at the oversized Hana. "...It still only counts as one!"
(11:42:23 AM) Feldi: Linny bumps her muzzle into Hana's upper arm as a friendly gesture.
(11:44:30 AM) Ikiryo: Hana grins...and staggers slightly, as the rewritten leylines start to fix themselves, Hana and Linny shrinking back down...
(11:46:21 AM) Feldi: Linny guides her faltering transformation back in to her warform, beautifully frightening body that it is.  "I owe you another night of drinking after that!~"
(11:47:49 AM) Ikiryo: Hana rubs her head. "...oh gods, that's a headache...too much power at once." Her outfit back to her previous one...if a bit more scorched and damaged than before.
(11:52:03 AM) Feldi: Linny looks over towards the warlock, Morvhana far on the other side of the thinning battlefield. "Need to take a rest, Hana?" She asks.
(11:52:50 AM) Ikiryo: "I can keep going if you need me." She clutches her head, groaning.
(11:54:01 AM) Feldi: Linny pats her on the shoulder. "Reise and I can rip apart...I mean, take that bitch 'into custody' with the others. You rest, and be back-up if we need it~"
(11:55:01 AM) Ikiryo: She nods. "Right. Thanks."
(11:55:16 AM) ***Reise nods. "What the tiny terror said. Honestly you probably turned the tide all by yourself after that."
(11:55:44 AM) Feldi: "Tiny..." Linny mutters to herself.
(11:56:09 AM) Ikiryo: Hana nods. "I'll just...I'll act as backup. See if I can disable any wolds that havn't been called up yet."
(11:56:14 AM) Reise: "I thought you'd like the 'terror' part more than you hated the 'tiny' part, I just had to be alliterative."
(11:57:09 AM) Feldi: "Well, I take terror as a given~" So says the Lunar barbarian who is currently a six foot tall wolf woman.
(11:57:53 AM) Feldi: Still shorter than Reise though.
(11:58:41 AM) Reise: "There you go. And at least I've managed to avoid any 'dog treat' jokes. I make one of those, I wouldn't blame you for breaking my legs. Twice."
(11:59:36 AM) Feldi: Linny chuckles. "Maybe a toe.  I do like being able to fight /with/ you, Reise!~"
(12:00:39 PM) Ikiryo: Hana moves from clutching her head to facepalming.
(12:01:58 PM) Feldi: Linny rolls her wolf eyes at that, grinning. "You thought I'd kill you and then you ended up drinking six bottles of dragon-brand drinks with me!"
(12:02:49 PM) Ikiryo: "Yes but you are flirting...as a wolf...in a battle." She facepalms harder.
(12:03:45 PM) Feldi: Linny looks over at Reise, then up and down her furred self. "And?"
(12:07:43 PM) Reise: "Not the strangest semi-proposition I've ever received," Reise adds, doffing her helmet. "Hmm...this crack's gonna annoy me, but I don't exactly have the time to patch it."