Inimical

Myriad Reality

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*Launches off the ground and bounces up on several circles of light that materialize on my feet as I ascend*
I could use a healing!
*Reaches into a pocket of shadow and withdraws two chrome marbles that I grasp between my fingers, each of which generates a rotating magic circle*

@Nimda

*Floats in place, looking down at you with my arms outstretched*

Myriad Reality

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Whoop—
*Casts my gaze toward the projectile and doubles its size, vaporizing the knife on contact*
Careful over there.

@Session

Kk-
*Is carried away by the impact of the projectile after resisting being pierced by it, flipping around and kicking off the air to cancel my momentum after a quick moment and ending up a ways in the air*

Myriad Reality

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*Through gritted teeth, swings the gun at your torso, fully charged*
She paid, you didn't. End of story.
*Pulls the trigger, launching a new projectile empowered by the absorbed light from the first magic circle, and immediately accelerated to blinding speeds*

@Nimda

*Yanks your knife from my own neck and parries the shot down toward the shield we stand on*

Myriad Reality

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*Yelps loudly enough to hurt eardrums, and reactionarily arcs the gun in my other hand at your face*
You—
*A deep-black magic circle pierces through the center of the barrel, drawing light toward itself and coating the nearby region in shadow, while another two spawn just beyond the end of the gun*

@Nimda

*Casts you from your flimsy arm across the surface of the bubble on which we stand, near to an “edge” from which it would be easy to slip and fall the remaining way off*
I’m sure you’re a good guy, Joe, caught in a grey area for which you know not the context.
*Holds a single fist toward the sky as the crowd and the music grow silent as it pauses, with palpable anticipation hanging in the air*
But you defend a criminal now. We can’t let you win.

Myriad Reality

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*Clenches my teeth as blood gushes from the point of impact, and goes straight for your neck with my knife, not letting go of your hand*

@Nimda

*The knife impales my neck like butter, but I take my other hand grabs your arm and snaps your arm backward at the elbow while tearing your grip from its handle*

Myriad Reality

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*More a projection than a physical entity, my body glows with radiant light as the beam passes through me*
Hey Gio, I'm going to work on this but it might be faster if you just hit it really hard!

@Session

...
*Continues my act without further interaction after that attack*

Myriad Reality

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*Hums to myself as blue points of light trace patterns across the barrier's surface, analyzing its makeup and structure, searching for means to unravel it from the outside as I would a spell*

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*At the subatomic level, light seems to be imitating the arrangement of crystal lattices while being extremely dense and consistent, not really offering any particular weak points. I stop at the end of a moonwalk and suddenly point in your direction, firing a beam from my fingertip through the barrier directly at you*

Myriad Reality

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On it!
*Flies over to the cannons and looks for structural weaknesses or single points of failure that would disable the lasers*

@Session

*There seems to be no point of access to them as they also lie within the confines of the one-way barrier*

Myriad Reality

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The stakes are the only thing that matters!
*Fires seven blasts of light into your body from alternating guns, capping the sequence off with a triplet blast to below your chin, then kicks off of your torso and slams the guns together in one beat, charges an enhanced double-barrel blast the next two, and unleashes the attack on the fourth*

@Nimda

What a show, everyone! The kind of experience you could only get at a show run by yours truly! Nil!
*Throws up one arm in a flexing pose, but with my fingers cupped such that they make an “o” shape*
And!
*Does the same with my other arm, forming another “0” with my fingers*
Nuhl!
*More pyrotechnics explode off the stage as large screens display a very bombastic logo simply sporting the characters “0 + 0”. The crowd bellows in excitement unmatched prior, and I snap my gaze up toward you amidst the uproar with clear, pompous confidence*

Myriad Reality

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I...
*Scratches my forehead with the gun barrel*
Cannot believe you're doing this.

@Nimda

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*Audibly gasps*
I have always wanted to do this!
*Claps my hands to the song, which causes Gio's heartrate to sync up with the beat*

@Session

Having fun is great. The crowd can really feel it.
*Whirring can be heard from the underside of the stage, where things were shifting before*
Just as important to not forget the stakes though, either!
*A triumvirate of gigacannons manifested underneath unleash a cascade of explosive laser bolts into the mountainside of the base*