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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5657165]Roland Huang[/url]
Max MP: 50 [b]|[/b] Current MP: 42 - 1 = 41
[b]Casting[/b]: 
Projectile [0] + Quake [2-1 (Routine)=1] = 1


[u]Gear: [/u]
Googles ([b]active[/b]: Witchsight), Pistol (4/4 shots), Medical Supplies (4/4 uses), Cash

Leveraging: --
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It was not a shock to Jack that she (and those two espers working for GEMINI) were pretty much doing all of the work. In her opinion, at least. She didn't have a clue where that spider had gone, so all she had to go on was that the other two Mavericks were just making a bungle out of themselves behind the espers doing the real work. Jack scoffed lightly and brushed slime from her person. 

It was a let down to know the other girls didn't have a way of tracking their comrades, but whatever. Systematic search it was. 

At least after they took care of one more enemy. Jack blinked in surprise when Mika identified the shape the new, larger slime took as the Iron Queen of Pax Septimus. [color=gold]"That's her?"[/color]

Jack really didn't know what she expected. Someone bigger maybe, or more elegantly dressed. Or even more skimpily dressed, not this in-between. The golden eyed esper tilted her head at the slime queen, letting out a [i]huh[/i]. She'd heard of the Iron Queen before, of course, but had never seen her in person. This green copy was her first time getting a "real" look at the ex-monarch. 

In the middle of her musing the slime chucked the large ceiling brick it had come down into the room on at her and Mika, forcing Jack to dive to one side to avoid getting crushed. When she popped back up, the situation was a little different.

At first Jack was fine to leave the mini-boss to the doll-like esper and go ahead with the others. She didn't know Nukkelina and had no particular investment in whether she lived or died. But thinking about it for more than a second, Jack came to the conclusion that it would actually be really stupid to entrust their backs to the puppeteer. She couldn't be sure that Nukkelina would win, and if their priority was search and rescue, leaving an enemy alive behind them on their escape route was also a bad idea. Plus if she failed to contain the slime, let alone defeat it, then it could follow behind them and pincer the other espers in. 

Jack looked over her shoulder. The puppeteer seemed to have some kind of history with the Iron Queen. It was easy enough to tell that from her expression and her body language, not to mention the want for a one on one battle. Seeing the simulacrum of her foe must have stirred up some real emotions for her. 

Fortunately for Nukkelina's well being, Jack didn't give a shit about any of that.

She skidded to a halt near the green room's other exit so suddenly that Orion bringing up the rear went by her, after which Jack used all (extremely imposing I assure you) 5'8 of herself to seal the remainder of the ship off from everyone else still in the room. The slime copy would not be getting past her even if it wanted to - but also the other Mavericks and Dan were cut off from Ashley, Mika, and Nina, for now. 

[i]If they need help they'll holler,[/i] Jack reasoned of the three that had moved on. Until then, there was a false queen to dethrone.

[color=gold]"Uh-uh,"[/color] Jack tutted, wagging one finger at the assembled espers and monsters as she leaned on her instrument, deceptively casual. [color=gold]"We want to clear this ship as fast as possible, so the rest of us are taking this goo ball down. Gotta make sure no monsters try and jump us from behind."[/color]

Her gold eyes flickered meaningfully to Dan as she said that. Then, with a hint of a grin, Jack threw the simple spell she'd been composing at the mock Iron Queen, her own brand of damaging magic. [color=gold]"So let's get started!"[/color]