[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/SR52k84p/54b4e63d635603b22d80f72a4ba2be54.png[/img][hr][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/0198ca19-f2b8-77c0-b44d-bca7878f0337.webp[/img][hr][@Morose][@Achronum][@Blizz][@Forsythe][@Kirah][@PatientBean][@Trainerblue192][hr][h3][color=AC3EFF][b]Afternoon - Wed. December 15th, 2038 - New Orleans, Louisiana[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	

Panic set in. Skyler’s illusion warded off the water girl’s attack, but Skyler’s magic wasn’t enough. He faltered as Dorian again wielded the same static against him and the duplicate Thelma’s vanished as Skyler clutched at his head, doubled over in pain. Thelma, slowly gaining movement and feeling back, knew what was coming. Her bluff, stupid and emotional, had been called. She’d thought their fear of her would direct them towards Thuy or Skyler or anyone else, but they’d rallied against them. Thelma’d thought (Wil’s shield caught the brunt of the rock head’s punch but Thelma was certain she heard a rib crack) she’d reduced them to equations like every other team, like every other insect who thought they (if she’d had the voice, the shock would have torn a scream from her) could break the her Hex girls, and predicted it perfectly but here she was, watching their pet clown conjure enough fire to level the stadium and hurl it at her. Thelma had just enough control for one last act of strength. 

She stared directly at the boy who stunned her and, even as Wil’s shield burned like paper against the onslaught, held his gaze as she refused to scream even as her skin melted and burned and then darkness took her. 

“FUCK! YOU! ALL!” Thuy screamed, the dark and whispering flames spiraling around her and hugging her tightly, absorbing Andy’s electrified punch harmlessly. Again, flames swirled in her hand as Thuy eyed up her next victim. 

“Wow, you all are kinda mean.” Ava commented, both now a victim of Percy’s bullying and some of the rude things coming out of this team. Ava threw herself at April, fist raised again, and a shield following up behind her. The shield seemed like a solid shot, but petered out a moment before hitting. 

“Calm down, Wil. Get your shit together.” They muttered to themselves, taking a deep breath even as they eyed Leah warily. 

“Seriously! Thelm’s would be pissed if she found out you were acting like a bitch just ‘cause she hit the ground.” Tatiana snapped as she soared by, double tapping the lightning copy cat. 


[hider=Round 3 Stats]Thuy:[list][*]Health: 75
[*]Focus: 115
[*]Karma: 0
[*]Notes:[list][*]Edge on Hellfire Chains.
[*]Concentrating on Elemental Protection[/list]
[*]Action:[list]Rolls a bloodlust check with trouble. 2 + 4 + 3 + 5 (Ego) = 14 vs 13 (TN). Stays in control. 
[*]Prepared reaction triggers against Andy’s attack, costing 5 Focus. Thuy takes no damage from Andy’s attack since it doesn’t deal more than 20 damage.
[*]Thuy holds her action again.
[*]Takes 5 points of internal damage.[/list][/list]

Skyler:[list][*]Health: 9
[*]Focus: 50
[*]Karma: 0
[*]Notes:[list][*]Has an edge on Suppressive Fire.
[*]Uses Agi against Melee Attacks.[/list]
[*]Actions:[list][*]Uses both reactions to give double trouble to Dorian’s attack. 
[*]Percy’s help and Dorian’s karma negates the trouble. 
[*]Skyler takes 24 damage and is stunned, dropping Images of Ikkon on Thelma.
[*]Takes 5 points of internal damage. [/list][/list]

Wil:[list][*]Health: 90 
[*]Focus: 45
[*]Karma: 2
[*]Notes:[list][*]One Additional Reaction Each Turn
[*]Regains 3 HP at the end of their turn.
[*]Concentrating on Shield 2.[/list]
[*]Action:[list] Wil uses both reactions, giving Thelma DR 2 against Leah’s punch and Danni’s fire, costing 10 Focus. 
[*]Wil is unable to reduce the damage enough to save Thelma.
[*]Wil uses hurled shield bash on April.
[*]Wil rolls 2 + 2 + 1 + 0 (Wil Agi) = 5 vs 11 (Aril Agi) and misses. [/list][/list]

Tatiana:[list][*]Health: 55
[*]Focus: 60
[*]Karma: 0
[*]Notes:[list][*]Edge on Leech Life
[*]Has an edge on all Melee attacks.
[*]One Additional Reaction Each Turn
[*]Uses Melee Defense for Agility defense.
[*]Concentrating on Attack Stance.[/list]
[*]Action: [List]
[*]Moves to Andy and uses Fast Strikes. 
[*]Rolls 6 + 5 + 2 + 4 (Melee) = 17 vs 14 (andy Melee). Rerolls the 5 but gets a 2 so keeps.
[*]Tatiana deals [5x3+8]/2 = 11 damage.
[*]Rolls 5 + 5 + 3 + 4 (Melee) = 17 vs 14 (Andy Melee). Rerolls the 5 into a 6 for 5 + 6 + 3 + 4 = 18 vs 14 (Andy Melee). 
[*]Deals [6x3+8]/2 = 13 damage for a total of 24 damage.
[*]Takes 1 point of internal damage.[/list][/list]


Ava:[list][*]Health: 60
[*]Focus: 60
[*]Karma: 2
[*]Notes:[list][*]Edge when attacking with her mace.[/list]
[*]Action:[list][*]Uses Clobber on April.
[*]Rolls 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 (Melee) = 11 vs 11 (April Melee). This matches and is a hit.
[*]Deals 4 * 2 + 2 = 10 damage.[/list][/list][/hider]
[center]✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*[/center]

All of the eliminated competitors, from both the Hex Girls and Excelsior, were teleported the moment they slipped into unconsciousness. Rather than hitting the cold and unforgiving ground of the arena, the students would land on a bed - by no means a comfortable one, given its place in a medical ward, but a bed nonetheless. While the decor was the same as it had been in the medical examinations, they were not in the lobby or in the individual rooms patients were seen in - instead, it resembled more of the ward where multiple patients could expect to be treated post-surgery, allowing the staff to concentrate their duties in a single location. 

Some of these duties, of course, were [i]far[/i] easier than others. 

The first student, Prudence Snyder was burnt - a mixture of both electrical and thermal wounds. One of the healers on staff had begun attuning to her the minute she appeared, the wounds slowly vanishing, her consciousness not yet returned. 

The second patient, Sabine Bassard had some heavy bruising - her healing was done much more readily, the mage on duty rubbing a healing ointment over her body, its inherent properties restoring her just as fast as any mutant or inhuman could. She would wake up with some aches and pains, but nothing severe. 

The third patient, Thelma Thule was fucking on fire. 

Thelma won triage. 

Every fucking healer immediately pivoted, as the fire extinguisher was deployed. [i]As several fire extinguishers were deployed.[/i] One of them not even bearing a rating Sabine would have seen before - it was a class Q extinguisher, rated for [i]magical[/i] fires. The foam spewing out of it seemed almost never ending, Thelma’s medical bed looking more like a gigantic cloud, the flames just barely doused. 

“Fucking omega level mutants,” one of the doctors muttered under their breath.

Not that they were done with Thelma yet, no. They hadn’t even begun to address her burns. 

[center]✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*[/center]

[color=5b8a9a] “Room 0221. Search the bedside table. I doubt its previous holder understood it enough to ward it.”[/color] Nicky waved away the illusion, and the smoke, with a flick of his wrist. 

She would receive a final message from Vision, for the moment.

[hider=TO VICKY]DID MS. BASSARD WITNESS THEM CONSUMING AN ILLICIT SUBSTANCE PRIOR TO THE START OF THIS MATCH YET AFTER THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION? IF SO, THEN HER MEMORIES MAY SERVE AS EVIDENCE. IF YOU CAN PROVIDE ME MORE THAN WITNESSING THEM HAVING ONCE EATEN CANDY, I CAN BRING THIS TO THE JUDGES. 

HOWEVER, IT IS POSSIBLE IT WILL NOT BE NEEDED. EXCELSIOR SEEMS TO HAVE RALLIED.[/hider]