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Worm - The Malfesant Throne

^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

To Knight’s surprise, Sickle-Cell replied with a speech, the first words in particular startling her. Then the speech… infuriated her, and she clutched her sword harder as she glared at him.

‘Fuck you.’ Maybe not the most mature of first lines, but his supposed personal justice and messed up reasoning to her supposed hypocrisy pissed her off. She held her sword ready as she spoke, her mind working on her reply… and on another thing at the same time.

‘You don’t get to claim we’re-’ Then she realized she was seeing someone dash at Sickle-Cell from a nearby alley. It was with a mixture of anger, regret and sheer annoyance that she let go of her sword with one hand and swung the hand to hold in his direction.

‘STOP THAT!’ She shouted as a wall of air froze in time into a blue barrier in front of Iron Fist, two meters wide and high but very thin, yet unmovable. ‘I appreciate what you’re doing and all, but I just decided not to fight this man for the safety of my team! Now stay put and let me talk!’ She paused a moment to make sure everyone understood what she wanted. Assuming nobody talked or did anything else the next one and a half seconds, she’d continue talking.

immediately concerned: @Sickle-cell@Banana@POOHEAD189
locally concerned: @DracoLunaris@Kiddo@knifeman

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@Sickle-cell ... What's the difference between "responding to the provocation" and "acting"? Which is what action, in between responding to Sickle-Cell's words and responding to Iron Fist's attack? And what do you mean with that I can do one before the other, when it comes to the contents of my post? I'm a little confused as to what you mean?

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@Rune_Alchemist I was thinking you tell me in OOC/PM what you're interested in and I'll give you a price in return. I expect it to be anything from 200 for the cheap things, like small ribbons, to up to 2000 for the bigger and weirder things. Clothings will probably be somewhere in between. Now, clothing actually already has price-tags... ... ... *actually reads the prices* ... Yeah, no, if there's anything in the list that costs over 10,000, assume I'm going to lower the price to something more reasonable when you ask about it. If nothing else, make up clothing as you want it and I'll put prices on it. Yikes. Hah. Anyways.

@Eklispe Alright, onto Route 5. That should be easier, allow me to just check... Okay, Deerlings don't learn grass-type moves in forever, Wooper's relatively safe. Heh. Nicely posted, let's see if I can have a response soon enough.

@Pikmin Eye Alright, nicely posted. Alright, let me info-dump you fairly soon, then. Teh-heh.

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I have a post already written, but I don't want to post it until I know if Anomaly's going to do anything. She's in this scene too, after all. So, yeah. @Banana

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@POOHEAD189 Understood. Heh. And, it'll be a new shield. Unless you're saying Knight won't notice you. She's going to be in the middle of a speech of her own, and somewhat pissed. Heh.

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@POOHEAD189 ... Ah. ... Statement, you're going to be stopped by a shield.

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Oh, that piece of-

@Banana Can I post? I really want to have Knight shout in his face.

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... Eh. I'll post. With the information that Mary and Dragon will be retreating, I feel I might.

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^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

Sickle-Cell really does have self-propulsion, Knight confirmed as she felt his strength against her shield and saw him hold his own against Anomaly’s hand. However, it seemed like he was pushing against her wall with intention to push it back. He does not know it’s immovable when not moving, occurred to her with a start.

Entertaining this, Knight allowed her wall of frozen time to be pushed back, equivalent to how much force she felt in her mind that he pushed against the shield. The progress was slow, but the fact that it was slightly working could give him, and other criminals, the false idea that fighting her barriers was not a futile endeavour. She could use that. It was delaying him.

Knight felt a flash of hope as she felt herself lose the mental weight of the net with the blood-shards as Septima removed them from this world. Wonderful. Now she’d shape her wall and capture Sickle-Cell as he was pushing against it-

Gestalt created two walls, intent on boxing him in, and Knight blinked startled first because her mind went “I didn’t make those”, they completely invalidated her own plan by alarming the opponent. Not to mention, there was a glaring flaw in the plan that both she and Sickle-Cell realized at once.

She tried to shape her own shield to block the escape route, but it was too late, and Sickle-Cell was already flying out… and landed in front of her, staff of blood pointing at her. Knight swallowed, fear returning somewhat, but she let her other shield vanish as she prepared to clash… when he spoke.

The first instinct was to oppose his words with a flare of anger. “We don’t negotiate with the likes of you, as heroes we have to take you down”. But, as the hero in charge, she had to consider the safety of these young girls. … It occurred to her with surprise that Sickle-Cell was giving a peaceful option rather than just attacked them when she hadn’t expected him to. Did he not want to fight them? Was his target only the gang-members? The Protectorate was among those he had declared war against. … She gained a little hope for his mental state. She considered it a second or so more.

As a leader, could she lead a group of young girls towards a battle with significant chance of death? … No, she couldn’t be that irresponsible. To minimize chance of death, it needed a coordinated strike by the collected heroes of Boston to take him down, not just the four of them. Though, she couldn’t just let him act as he pleased, either. She came to a compromise.

‘… Leave this field without spilling one more drop of blood. Do that, and we’ll let you go.’ She held her sword ready as she spoke.

‘Attack anyone further, and we’ll be obligated to stop you.’ They would not stand idle while he took lives. It was that simple. ‘… Though you may save your allies, assuming you do it nonlethally.’ She added as an afterthought because she knew that, in his position, she wouldn’t stand by to let an ally be hurt just because of such an agreement.

immediately concerned: @Sickle-cell@Banana
locally concerned: @DracoLunaris@Kiddo@knifeman@POOHEAD189

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@Sickle-cell Oh. Okay.

It's really weird, another universe where she means nothing and is separate from the canon and I still feel sad hearing about that death in this. Hah.

On a different note, since that's happening while this happens, I will wait for a post exchange from Kiddo/Draco to see what happens in that corner of the battle before I post with Knight, because that's happening on the same battlefield and it'd feel weird to progress here without it progressing over there.