[table= //////= EXIT'S POST DESIGN v5 =\\\\\\][row][sub][h1][right][sub][sub][sub][sub][sup][color=2e2c2c]_[/color][/sup][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/right][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][img=/// TOPIMAGE \\\]https://i.imgur.com/OzkE6no.png[/img][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][sub][color=0b0d11][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c][sub]...[/sub][/color][sup][b]▇▇▇[/b][/sup][/sub][/sub][color=2e2c2c]_[/color][sub][color=white][sup]The[/sup] L S F[/color][/sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]__[/color][sup][b]▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇[/b][/sup][/sub][/sub][/color][/sub][center][sup][sub][sup][sub][color=555555][color=888888]a [@Fiber], [@Mistress Dizzy] & [@Exit] collaboration[color=2e2c2c]----------------‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ [/color][/color][/color][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/center][/h1][/sub][/row][row][cell][sup][center][b][color=0b0d11][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][/color][/b][/center][/sup][/cell][cell][color=888888][sub][sub][u][b][color=d7d0e7]Mistress Dizzy   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Jin stared at the most powerful boss in the Underground, on her knees. Still defiant, still fighting, to the last. [color=d7d0e7]"...we can't keep her? If she's this strong, wouldn't she be an asset?"[/color] It was a minor shock to hear their own voice. All the while, they kept scratching numbers into the dirt. [sub][sub][u][b][color=bca346]Exit   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] [color=bca346]”She’s too powerful and knows too much. This one has to die.”[/color] Nelu said, still holding the woman in place. [sub][sub][u][b][color=d7d0e7]Mistress Dizzy   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Jin paused and looked down. Ran the equation again. [color=d7d0e7]"I have it. 2107."[/color] [sub][sub][u][b][color=a4c2f4]Fiber   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Zhen walked with a limp, tired from the low oxygen, exhausted from the fight and still straining her brain with the last part of the calculation. She never would’ve been able to finish it without Jin. As she got close to Jin and Nelu, close enough that Nelu maybe, just maybe might be able to shield them, she thought that all of this was a risk, a calculated one, but a bet all the same. A bet that the rock dust in the air was small enough. A bet that the structure was neither too strong nor too weak. A bet that Jin did the math right, a bet that Nelu would know what to do next, a bet that she had enough resolve to remain conscious and see this through, to live to tell the tale. It was exciting in a perverse way, actually getting to do this theoretical exercise for real. No LSF member in living memory had seen this, and if it failed, it would remain that way. [color=a4c2f4]“Nelu, we’re about to go thermobaric. We need every drop of moisture, here, now.”[/color] Zhen took the breath that might be her last, and gathered her arms in front of her. Then she made one sweeping motion and threw a gust so large it caught all the dust and turned the other side of the room into a cloud of silhouettes. [sub][sub][u][b][color=bca346]Exit   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] At the exact same time, Nelu dropped his concentration on Hunang and began focusing on the very small. Like running his fingers carefully through grains of sand did he peer at the finer world that lay beneath all things. It was a technique he’d been forced to hone for nearly as long as he could remember and the basis for his minute manipulation of water. Of bloodbending. There was moisture in the room. Not much, but it was there if one knew where to look, or in Nelu’s case, wherever it was he could [i]feel[/i] it. It was this water that began to draw itself toward him from everywhere in the room, coaxed by the circular motion he was drawing in the air with his arms. Water as sweat that peeled off Hunang’s forehead or water pulled from the air that had burned off of Katakuri as his own sweat evaporated from the heat of his flame. Water from a water bottle left behind by a refugee. Blood from 141. It twisted through the air like a ribbon stretched across the chamber and spun itself into a red hued orb in front of Nelu about the size of a stickball. [sub][sub][u][b][color=a4c2f4]Fiber   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Zhen followed by doing something she almost never did, she screamed at the top of her lungs, screamed til she could breathe no more. [color=a4c2f4]“EVERYONE, BREATHE OUT, NOW!“[/color] [sub][sub][u][b][color=d7d0e7]Mistress Dizzy   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Jin wasn't sure what they expected of their last moments. They were too tired for fear, too wound up for relief. Still so much left to do, but at least… at least the kids would make it out. They could still feel Hunang’s defiance, through the smoke and stone. Still feel that iron gaze. [color=d7d0e7]"... I'm sorry."[/color] Jin exhaled. Nelu did as well. [sub][sub][u][b][color=a4c2f4]Fiber   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] Zhen had no more words, no more air left in her lungs as she staggered to be next to Nelu. She just stared at the figures in the dust, at Hunang who still clearly held to her determination despite her situation, at Object 141, a crumpled mass on the ground, and at Kata’s fire engulfed form, who she knew was staring right back at her wordlessly through the cloud. She felt bad about the way it would end for them, wondering if it would be their lungs rupturing from the inside, or their bodies pulverized by the pressure wave, or the blinding heat of the blast that did them in. In this moment, she wished she could have given them a painless death, but there was much about the world that stubbornly insisted on learning lessons in a much more gruesome fashion. The last thing she said was not a word, but a stream of data: [color=white]MAX YIELD OVERRIDE SAFETY Y TERMINATION NOW EXEC[/color] [sub][sub][u][b][color=bca346]Exit   [/color][/b][/u][/sub][/sub] It was a last ditch effort from both Hunang and Katakuri that saw them make their final moves in their last moments. Spurned by the actions of the trio opposite them, or as Zhen would later confirm, drawn out by them. The water, the dust and her careful maneuvering toward Jin and Nelu hadn’t been lost on Katakuri. Nor was it lost on Hunang, who from the ground and on her knees, threw her arms up and brought them down swiftly to her chest. It was much the same as her previous move when she dropped a block of dirt on top of 141, only this time, she intended to bring down the entire ceiling. Jagged lines formed cracks that carved themselves into the earthen dome above them until these lines began to intersect and large sections of earth began to fall away. They tore the lights from the walls and pulled apart the industrial fans embedded in the ceiling, filling the enclosed space with the deafening sound of metal ripping itself apart. Katakuri had reacted too, having catapulted himself toward the trio in an attempt to stop a conceptual plan he vaguely recognized. But it was too late. The metal capsules attached to Nelu’s belt exploded, releasing an enormous amount of water that he immediately shaped around Jin, Zhen and himself. It would harden into ice long before Katakuri could reach them. [sup][color=2e2c2c]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/color][/sup] [/color][/cell][cell][sup][img=//////SIDE IMAGE HERE\\\\\\]https://i.imgur.com/3bhGl68.png[/img][/sup] [color=303030][table=bordered][row][/row][row][cell=active][sub][color=white]Time.[/color] Late Night, SE+3 [color=white]Location.[/color] The Core in The Underground, [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4593910][color=303030]Ba Sing Se.[/color][/url] [color=666666]____________________________[sub]....[sup]......[/sup][/sub][/color] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/users/Mistress-Dizzy][color=white]Mistress Dizzy[/color][/url] as [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5599001][color=303030]Jin Takashi[/color][/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/users/Fiber][color=white]Fiber[/color][/url] as [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5598941][color=303030]Zhen Mie Lun[/color][/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/users/Exit][color=white]Exit[/color][/url] as [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5599864][color=303030]Tarnelu Dermok[/color][/url], [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5599002][color=303030]Katakuri Soran[/color][/url], [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5599863][color=303030]Object-141[/color][/url] and Hunang.[/sub][/cell][/row][/table][/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/AgXwj8b.png[/img] [color=2e2c2c]_ _[/color][/cell][/row][/table][table= //////= EXIT'S POST DESIGN v5 =\\\\\\][row][sub][h1][right][sub][sub][sub][sub][sup][color=2e2c2c]_[/color][/sup][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/right][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][img=/// TOPIMAGE \\\]https://i.imgur.com/2eQxCAx.png[/img][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][sub][color=black][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c][sub].[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]............[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/color][sup][b]▇▇▇[/b][/sup][/sub][/sub][color=2e2c2c]_[/color][sub][color=white][sup]Object[/sup] 1 4 1[/color][/sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]__[/color][sup][b]▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇[/b][/sup][/sub][/sub][/color][/sub] [color=2e2c2c]_______.[/color][/h1][/sub][/row][row][cell][sup][center][b][color=black][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][sup][h2][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h2][/sup][/color][/b][/center][/sup][/cell][cell][justify][color=888888][color=2e2c2c].[/color] There was a brief moment of clarity found beneath all the pain and fire and noise. A moment when 141’s mind found his body once more and for the first time in a long time, he could think for himself. In that moment of clarity, he realized that he’d done it. Done exactly what he’d been told to do as a boy if ever he wanted to be accepted. As a friend. By the world. Into a good family. He’d helped them. Helped all of them. [color=white]MAX YIELD OVERRIDE SAFETY Y TERMINATION NOW EXEC[/color] This next thing he did was meant to keep it, and once they were safe, he could rest. 141’s mix of synapses and wires got enough of Zhen’s command to burn bright for one final time, pushing the system to accept that critical value that Jin had so helpfully calculated. But while it was the machine 141 that received and ran it, it was something else that replied back. [color=white][i]2107. I dun really get et, but if et helps mah friends, I'd be happy tuh.[/i][/color] 141 near lifeless body seemed to swell and then glow for a half second before detonating. All at once, all of the dust and oxygen became one great fireball. The heat and the blast spread so fast and engulfed so much that it didn’t matter where the explosion came from, everything was caught in it all the same. [sup][color=2e2c2c]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/color][/sup][/color][/justify][/cell][/row][/table][table=bordered][row][sub]Prompt:[/sub][/row][row][cell][color=9f9f9f][color=white]Jin.[/color] Right before the ball of water and ice closes around you, you notice Hunang is smiling at you. End Chapter Three.[/color][/cell][/row][/table]