PlatinumSkink

Pokémon: Start

@Pikmin Eye I'll simply have you arrive. Heh.

@Joshua Tamashii Alright, nicely posted. I will defend Audrey a bit that she did realize Amelia hadn't actually cheated and switched to "not fair" instead mid-word, but hah. Alright. Wandering town and thinking amusing thoughts. Now allow me to consider... Hm-hm.

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@Sickle-cell Have to make up plans with the powers at my disposal. Speaking of which...

@Sickle-cell@Banana I edited in a paragraph at the end of my post addressing what Anomaly said. Because, Knight was frightened by Sickle-Cell. Not enough to cause sheer panic, but enough that it isn't doing her any favors. So, yes. Anomaly can balance the team's emotional state, which Knight's addressing there. There we go.

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So, yeah. Knight's looking at Sickle-Cell as an extreme danger right now, and I just had to post as soon as possible. Because planning became important and I really wanted to write her facing towards him, not knowing what he had been thinking. Heh.

@DracoLunaris The mention of the Knight + Ward group as the "Protectorate's teen girl squad" caused me amusement. Thank you.

Edit: Now, because I posted so soon on top of one another, I'm going to wait a while. Wooo. *sits in corner somewhere*

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just going to say Knight didn't see Anomaly's attempted attack, somehow

^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

Knight’s eyes widened. She just saw the effect of Sickle-Cell’s power, and how he so easily murdered the nearest gang-members with lethal and brutal use of his power. His power was similar in application to her own, Knight observed, but far, FAR more powerful! Did she and him seriously have the same PRT ranking!? He was seriously scarier than some Slaughterhouse Nine members she had read about! She was going to have to recommend them to boost his ranking to at least Shaker 8…!

She stopped short as she saw Sickle-Cell make use of her stunning gang-members to murder them. Both her shields vanished into nothing as the air unfroze. It seriously looked like she was helping him murder, and that was unacceptable. Knight held out her hands to stop her team-mates from advancing, and when she was sure they stopped she drew her sword. Physical sword so she could have a weapon but still use her full actual powers for something else.

‘Okay. New plan. Disengage the gang-members. Focus all your efforts on not dying to Sickle-Cell.’ She stated. Even if gang-members might have fled by Sickle-Cell’s announcement, Knight stood firm, for it felt like something she should do. Count of five gave her brief seconds to say a plan. She spoke quickly. ‘Don’t provoke them. Stand your ground. My powers can freeze his blood and Gubbin’s bombs. When frozen, I want Septima’s portals to banish the frozen fields, removing their ammunition. Keep him on a distance, he likely has a range like mine where he can effectively control. Use my walls to block attacks. Anomaly, if they’re trying to attack and are distracted, having Sickle-Cell suddenly become depressed or terrified would be really nice.’ She took a breath. ... At least she thought she could freeze his blood? It didn't count as living, did it? Knight didn't know, she had never tried to freeze blood before!

‘But nobody do anything rash. This man’s a cold-hearted murderer… Stay defensive. Don’t let him do as he please, but don’t give him a reason to kill you if you can help it.’ That is, we’re horribly outmatched but we’re not going to leave anyways. Why, oh why, was she facing someone this scary already…!?

Regardless, Knight stood, despite Sickle-Cell’s order to have everyone flee for him to chase, glaring towards him with sword ready and staying ready to use her powers at moment's notice. Ready to attempt stopping him from murdering anyone else.

Now, because her eyes were fixed on the Covenant and Sickle-Cell, she wouldn't actively be looking for terrified people, but… ‘Anomaly, I'm feeling kind of terrified. Could you take that?’ … Now, revealing that she was frightened as a leader kind of felt like it was undermining her authority further, but her current fear for Sickle-Cell was kind of sub-optimal if they'd start fighting, so… ‘If you feel anything similar, give it to Anomaly.’ Now spoken to Gestalt and Septima.

immediately concerned: @Sickle-cell@Banana
locally concerned: @DracoLunaris@Kiddo@knifeman

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@Banana I'm pretty sure all of us see him right now, and heard his announcement. Though, Knight's going to tell you all to "GET INTO DEFENSIVE STATION, DON'T DO ANYTHING RASH" as soon as I can get a post up. I know I basically just posted, BUT DAMN I'M WORKING ON ANOTHER ONE. XD

Pokémon: Start

@Rune_Alchemist Alright, nicely posted. ... Okay. Let's see what kind of accessory shops exists in the Pokémon universe that I could list. But, honestly, this place probably has what you might be looking for even if it isn't on the list. XD

@Pikmin Eye *checks size of Goldeen for purpose of surfing* ... Oh, wow. Okay, it's actually kind of big. ... Wait, haven't I had this realization before? Heh. In any case, alright. Nicely posted. So, those questions you have, are those questions you intend on asking when you actually reach the Explorer's Guide Service or are you asking them on the way? As I interpret it right now, I'll simply post you arriving at the place and then you can ask the questions, but I wanted to ask anyway. Heh.

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@Sickle-cell Okay. Tiny needles in a potential dark future it is. Heh.

Left the details about why they fell vague for now. Tell me if I did anything strange anywhere. Otherwise, Knight intends to engage and break through. There we go.

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^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

Oh, right, the Wards had a better idea than her already of who to cover them. Okay. That put Knight in a spot of that either she’d be admitting her spot was wrong and undermine her own position as leader, or… yeah, the alternative wasn’t an option, but Knight still became self-conscious about it. In any case.

So, they steadied the craft, kind of, but then they came crashing down anyway and Knight was left with a headache. Ooough, the details of her power… She shook her head in time to note that Septima had saved them from a couple of bullets. Okay, she got onto her feet and quickly headed to watch the scene.

Gladius versus Wonderland. Gladius had the obvious upper hand, being trained soldiers basically fighting lunatics. She noted several capes, one able to create fissures against one controlling strange monsters on the side, and she had looked out just in time to see an unknown blasting off from the middle of the field, towards a roof that erupted in fire. Huh. And there was-

‘Report to HQ that the Covenant is here.’ She turned and said to the pilot or whatever else they might have nearby. Then, turning to the field once more. They were behind the Wonderland lines, with the Covenant beyond them, and then Gladius in the furthest back.

‘Okay. We’re going to break through the Wonderland lines, and then engage any who wishes to engage with us. If they all flee, we give chase. Gestalt, you and I will split defense and offense, watch for those who’re trying to attack us and don’t let them, especially if they’re Covenant. Anomaly and Septima, wreak havoc. Let’s go.’ And with that, she jumped out.

As she did, she focused her powers and froze the air in two places close to her. She made two round, thin shields, large enough to cover one of their bodies if it needed to. Because of the purpose she wanted them for, she felt she could afford to make two. The edges were thin, but not sharp, intended to strike hard. One of these shields she kept on standby, floating a bit tilted in front of her, ready to move to defend any of them should they end up in danger.

The other she grabbed and telekinetically threw into the lines of Wonderland goons, intending to telekinetically send it slamming into one criminal after another, intentionally aiming for those with guns and who might be preparing to fire at them. If it was stopped she could send it flying away from them a bit to gain speed and then surge back to slam at them again. Striking it would result in nothing, because it’s frozen air. If they grabbed it to contain the field, because they could, then she’d simply make it vanish from existence and create a new one.

It occurred to her that right now their whole team were capable distance-fighters that stirred up panic from a range. Okay. Let’s stir this pot up a bit.

immediately concerned: @Sickle-cell@Banana
locally concerned: @DracoLunaris@Kiddo@knifeman

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@Sickle-cell Alright. Thank you.

I did worry that perhaps the roof would break. That sounds more in-line with what I imagined. I'll make it vague in my post how exactly she crashed down, heh.

Edit: ... Um. That's another aspect of her power that I didn't consider. Would her telekinetic force become stronger the bigger the field she's controlling, or is the force she's controlling it with always as strong? Both of these come with serious consequences. If it's the former, it feels like the best strategy would simply be to create a giant wall and mash it at her enemies with considerable extra power. Then making a hammer makes more sense than a sword, it smashes better. If it's the later then she could do extremely cheaty things like creating tiny needles that come flying with the same force she'd swing a sword with and that could turn deadly as heck. ... ... ... Eh. I'll just roleplay her as I imagined her to use her power. Hah.

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@Sickle-cell I have numerous questions I want to ask. My apologies if I shouldn't be asking and should just post.

Firstly, er. Septima can retrieve those she takes into her separate worlds, right? So we're not killing them because that'd be terrible with the unsaid rules and all of that... XD

Secondly, roughly how does the situation outside look to us?

I know Mary's up there on the smokey roof with Sidestep, we're probably not seeing those.
Automaton and Askaryan are by a car over there if I understood correctly, but perhaps far enough away that they won't be drawing attention and likely leaving?
Freakshow and Curbstomp are engaging one another, I guess. Unless Curbstomp has curbstomped all Freakshow's creations already, or any other development has happened.
I suppose Dragon's over there where the Covenant are emerging in full force, heh. And Holly+Mandy are protected. How much of that do we see?
Pipeline's lying around somewhere, I suppose, do we see that? I know Vice's in the group of Wonderland gang members but I suppose we can't see that because of Spite's Stranger power?

Other than that, which gang does the fight seem to go in favor of in general? In plain terms Gladius VS Wonderland? Or did Covenants arrival mess everything up? What's the most notable thing we're seeing? Which side's the closest one to us, what direction will we be approaching the fight from if we state Gladuis to be south and Wonderland to be north? Where's the Covenant emerging from in the same comparison?

Honestly, do we know of any of the other capes here? I'll assume that Knight has read up on the known local capes so shouldn't be taken by surprise by the powers she might be seeing, unless they've never appeared before. Like, Dragon, I don't know if we've ever seen her? Hah.

That's about it. Other than the slight detail about how I imagined Knight's power to work, for the future. I imagine that if she tries to move her field of paused time against an existing force, like the falling VTOL, it pains her and might not work, but if that something else pushes on her field then it won't budge because it's paused time. So, if they already managed to slow down the craft, then the other engine breaking shouldn't suddenly cause massive pain and cause sudden crash-landing because the field suddenly turned defensive instead of offensive. But, eh, let's go with this.

And yes, I'll personally never assume that my attack has hit an enemy. That feels so preposterous of me to assume. They might have secret tricks or whatever that I don't know of, so, yeah. Always just type what I'm attempting to do.

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