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Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

Alright, finally making an update.

This week _should_ be the last combat post and we're back to ordinary narratives. The trapeze is pretty much dead, so Cam can just straight up kill it. Besides that, just the Ringleader needs to be dealt with.

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

I'm going to delay my posting for a week, mostly because I am in the fuckzone with an essay right now.

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

How many coins do we have per clash?

@ERode

fourteen on each side

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

Alright, update post.

Combat will probably be finished up in the next 1-2 weeks. On defending: you can either take a chance and respond with an attack which may or may not win the clash, use an action to dodge/block, or just eat it. I'm not going to really police damage unless it goes against something outright stated. If it's not enough, it'll balance out at some point. These are still just vague guidelines of how I'll respond to things.

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

CLEANERS Honest Tough Love: Refuses to act unless ??? or ??? Yasu Cam Niid Emma	TARGET LIST Lion-headed Ringleader [BLINDED; NEUTERED] [2] Beast of Rage: Gain strength as wounded. Nemean: ??? Half-Man Sized Car [UPTURNED; DENTED] [1] Clown Car: If possible, creates another clown. Elephant-headed Unicyclist [DISMEMBERED] [1] Elephant-headed Trapeze [VERY MUCH FUCKED] [1?] Clown with Accordion Arms Clown with Oversized Axe Clown with Undersized Mallet Clown Covered in Party Poppers Clown of Normal Human Size
Special characters have special qualities that may be hidden until they become apparent. Undetected characters can freely act until detected, but can only take one action that would reveal them.	Elite entities require multiple actions to fell and have special (possibly unknown) characteristics. Greater entities may require multiple actions to fell. Lesser entities can be slain by a single action. Destroyed entities are usually out of the fight [state] denotes their current state and [#] denotes how many actions they can perform each round. > {Name} denotes who the enemy is currently focusing on.

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The shadow that Emma had called leapt and chomped down on the unicyclist. While it had not been as loud as Emma had hoped, the sound of flesh tearing and bones crunching filled the stage. What Emma had discovered, however, was how much mobility a single wheel gave. Alongside the noises of flesh came the screech of a flesh-tire and the smell of burning flesh. While the maw closed, the unicyclist had reversed course and leapt. The maw had only caught part of its torso; its arm and a good portion of its chest had been taken. If the stage was shrouded in darkness, then her creature would likely have been fast enough to snag the unicyclist in its entirety.

The unicyclist would not stop and lick its wounds. Its flesh splattered and sputtered as the wheel spun faster. It skirted around the shadow beast. What remained of the unicyclist's body painted the stage with flesh and blood as it made an impossibly agile corner. It was attempting to run down Emma.

Yasu's blade further cut the trapeze. While it had not been finished, its body became unrecognizable. Its familiar form had been gashed and bashed into a blob-ish bloom of cut flesh and spurting blood. Awakening from the pain, it crawled towards the only target it could see with its blade-mangled face pressed against the stage floor: Cam.

The bestial shifter had been dealing with the clowns. In her brief moment of respite, she found enough time to attack the car. The car's undercarriage rattled as Cam struck it. Metal--if it could be called that--became dented and connections came apart. However, it was not enough to destroy the vehicle. After all, she was still only one person. What chance did a single person have at destroying a car by hand?

The clowns, it would seem, arrived as easily as they left. The doors of the car opened once again. A clown quickly crawled out, its body noticeably larger than the previous ones. Immediately after standing, it leapt at Cam in an attempt at delivering a flying punch directly to her dome.

Niid and Yasu's tag-team attack worked well. Niid's shots bore holes in the ringleader's visage. While they did not penetrate beyond its skull, a twin pair of flowery blooms replaced one eye and dripped foul blood above the other. The shots were enough to get the ringleader to one arm in front of its head and change its attempts at stopping Yasu to desperate blind swings. Her blade cut through the groin of the ringleader. Not the deepest cut, but enough of a cut to wound the beast. It roared in response; perhaps one was expecting it to purr instead.

What Niid learned from leaping at the ringleader, however, was that lopping a limb off was considerably more difficult than a makeshift neutering. If his blade had been wreathed in chains or had been a refined blade, then he could have made it. However, a machete made to hew would only become stuck within the dense flesh of a lion-man. Niid could only dangle awkwardly as the blinded ringleader's muscles seemed to thicken with each wound.

Niid's hang-time was cut short as the ringleader responded with a powerful shoulder check. The close distance meant that Niid was thrown--not struck--towards Yasu. Nothing would be damaged, save his ego.

Of course, that was only if the ringleader stopped there. It didn't. The ringleader pulled back its whip-holding arm.

Visions of death. Niid and Yasu both understood that, if they did not move, they would be bisected where they stood.

And the ringleader's arm, bulging and ripping with power, swung the whip at the two.

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

Woo posts, will toss something up tomorrow (probably just Cam squaring up with the car man thing horror).

@Abstract Proxy

Alrighty. I'll update right after you do.

Expedition to Isekai

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Her body was battered and bruised. Her mind was dulled by the rising heat. The continuing warmth. The drumming beat of her heart. Her solution to the situation was uncharacteristically straightforward. No gadgets or gimmicks. She didn't have her tools with her to make anything.

No, her plan was simple. It was a practical proof of Newton's theories. With Maki being flung off--a proof that students made sub-par bull-riders--everything was in place. Her body rolled off the branches that held her.

Like a needle, her body oriented itself in the air. She was feet first and aimed directly at the bearwolf restrained by man and morsel. A well timed blow. That was all she needed. It was David vs Goliath. Though, there were a little too many Davids per Goliath to make that comparison.

"Rin bomb." She muttered to herself. The energy to yell it escaped her, somehow.

Sleepless Nights\\ Iron Cages

So that's like, one action from Yasu, ya? Short post either way.

@ERode

Yea, one action (nut shotting the ringleader) if you want to treat the stabbing the trapeze as a flavour thing. If you want to treat it like a full on, second attack after chopping it down, holler back.

Decibitus

Lucian

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~1442 | PARIS | FASHION SHOW VENUE

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With his rear firmly implanted into drywall, Lucian was now folded into the wall. Thankfully, Vera's actions had spared him from being splayed into a violently mutilated wall ornament. He was still a wall ornament, but he didn't have his skull torn open. He definitely broke the bottom two of his ribs and probably cracked a few more. His body usually didn't bend that way. It was like one of those schoolyard rumours where people had them removed, except this time it was violently percussive to fold him into a wall.

His moneymaker was thankfully safe. His face had escaped the carnage. Lucian didn't really know what would happen if his skull was torn open. Would he wake up in Decibitus as though he had died again? Would he just be standing their with his face looking like a half-eaten pastry? Would his soul be banished to a true death?

It was a good thing he wasn't thinking of any of that.

Beyond the pain, something had attracted his attention:

Monkeys.

Even though they lacked the cymbals and funny little hats, the mere presence of them stole his attention.

However, Lucian had to make his choice. Help Vera or go after the monkeys. It wasn't like they were carrying Celeste in some kidnapping. No, they were just leading her.

Which, to Lucian, did not mean it was a kidnapping.

Popping out of the wall and ignoring the pain, Lucian half-stumbled and half-charged at the dragon. On his way, he picked up his pool cue. This time, however, he was swinging. He'd repay Vera for cutting off the dragon's tail and saving his precious face.

Expedition to Isekai

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Soaring through the air, Rin was reminded of something. She always wanted to make that glider. She wanted to fly in the sky. What was the reason again? She wanted to survey the land. Right, that was it. Surveying the land. Not looking through a screen at satellite images. Not walking around and measuring with sticks. Looking down at it with her own eyes.

Twelve meters wasn't very high up, but Rin could make a conclusion. Flight kind of sucked. Losing her tools kind of sucked. Everything kind of sucked.

Her thoughts shut down as she smashed against the trunk of the tree and was caught by its branches. It hurt. Actually, did it hurt? It wasn't like any pain she normally had. It felt like her blood was welling and pooling. Gathering. Her back, her arms, her legs, her head. They all held. The buzzing kept her conscious. Or was the collision not enough to rob her of her consciousness in the first place?

She took breaths looking down at the wolf. She couldn't just jump down, could she? Not while Maki was riding the beast. It wasn't like she had anything left to throw besides her own body, either. Rin just needed to bide her time. Be ready to strike.