Nimda

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Inimical

*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*

Myriad Reality

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*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.

@Inimical

*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*

Myriad Reality

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You’re doing good, Gio!

@Session

*Through gritted teeth*
Shut up!

Myriad Reality

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*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*

@Inimical

*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*

Myriad Reality

*Readjusts my grip on my gun*

Myriad Reality

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*Headbutts you in the head in the same motion as you are yanked in to me*

@Unhinged

*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*

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

I'm a little busy over here!

Myriad Reality

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*Drops below the attack by doing a split, while hooking my arm upward into your gut for a blow to lift you off the ground, then pops back upward before you come back down and repeatedly volleys out rhythmic blows into your torso to keep you off the ground, not letting you touch*

@Unhinged

*Grabs onto your hand in the middle of one of your punches and uses it to pull myself in close*

Myriad Reality

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*Each blast bursts against my person creating a cloud of smoke that gets louder with each impact, completely enveloping me, but after a moment I swipe my arm through the air and dispel the smoke in one motion while posing confidently*
You sure you haven’t done this before?

@Unhinged

*Launches off of the remains of the stone wall and flicks a metal bead into the air, which morphs into a crude but razor-sharp blade in my hand, all in rhythm*
I avoid crashing parties.
*Slices the blade against you, paying close attention to the flexibility and stability of your body*

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Inimical

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*