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[center][color=MediumSpringGreen]Playtime’s over.[/color]

[color=888888]-Ashley Avenir[/color][/center]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656356]Ashley Avenir[/url]
Max MP: 50 Current MP: 43 - 4 = 39
Casting: [Projectile] 0 [Damage X (Routine+] 4 = 4 mana

Gear: Clip Light (4) Taser (4 shots) Medical Supplies (4 uses) Flash Bang (4) Kevlar (Coverage 4)

Leveraging: N/A

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One moment, Ashley was being ignored by Dan, the next, Pax Septimus had returned to being its usual ugly self. The skies were gloomy, the beach was filthy, and the balmy summer breezes had become the chilly gusts typical of late November. Along with the change of scenery came the welcome return of the high-tech heroine’s standard esper outfit and instruments, as well as the far less welcome reveal of a sizable craft hovering over the water and formerly indivisible purple armored abductor. The Knight of Tomorrow paused for a moment in an attempt to get her bearings, while also listening to the heated conversation between Dan, “Tim”, and the now captive Alice.

As she’d strongly suspected, the entire “beach vacation” was too good to be true and there was indeed an ulterior motive at play. [color=MediumSpringGreen][i]Well, at least now we know what happened to the others…[/i][/color] However, Dan genuinely seemed to want everyone to enjoy themselves and vocally opposed his armored ally’s tactics. That said, the shark man had still enabled the abductions, and that would have to be addressed, albeit at a later time. Right now, there were more pressing problems to deal with, like the gelatinous turrets that had popped out of the apparent spacecraft and begun firing at the beach.

Raising her shield to guard against any shots directed her way, Ashley aimed her glowing, prong-tipped techno-wand at one of the turrets atop the alien craft and fired a neon green energy sphere at the weapon, promptly followed by a second, even more powerful techno-arcane projectile. [color=MediumSpringGreen]“Cerberus!”[/color] the Knight of Tomorrow called to her teammate. [color=MediumSpringGreen]“Help me take out these turrets!”[/color]

[color=MediumSpringGreen][i]Then we can focus on the ones responsible for all this…[/i][/color]