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Worm - The Malfesant Throne

^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

She actually impacted Sickle-Cell. That was more than she expected. Able to feel where she hit him, Knight pursued him, unable to get a grip on him but regardless carried him forth towards the building. Had she not been with him, she’d have stopped before impact. However, with him? She could take the hit for whatever damage he’d take.

The impact came, and with a sudden stop the force of the rapid stop shook her body, tightly locked inside the armor as she was. She grunted, pain radiating both from her skin at the impact and from her mind, complaining about being opposed. She knew if she flew into something at too high a speed, she’d squash herself inside her armor. Let’s not do that.

She felt that Sickle-Cell had slipped out of her grip. With no other senses, she didn’t know where he was, as such she propelled herself away from the wall to then open a hole to see out, and confirm the situation. Sickle-Cell… looked fine, despite having just been smashed into a building. He also simply stood, and didn’t seem to move after her or flee…

Blood armor.

Knight shivered as she realized, reminded again that their powers were similar in application. This meant she basically couldn’t defeat him unless she ran him through, and she didn’t want to do that. It’d take a lot of her to defeat him, and she couldn’t maintain her own armor for all that long… That said, Vector only needed him to not leave, and-

- And then he spoke his ultimatum. Let him leave, or they die. Damn. She could see the puddles of blood around making weapons, there was no way she could stop him. Damn him. It was for reasons like this that villains always had the upper hand. How can he claim she’s wrong when he’s the one threatening lives? That aside, she had no choice…

Anomaly’s voice came through the communicator. Knight cursed a little internally. The girl was going to be putting herself in danger. That’s twice Anomaly’s gone after an enemy that could so easily kill her. Knight had to but hope the girl knew what she was doing.

‘… It’d be perfectly reasonable for me to assume defeating you would save more people in the long run.’ Knight sighed, letting her blue paused-time armor vanish, meaning she was no longer a threat to Sickle-Cell. Yet, I wouldn’t accept letting them die like this. She walked to place herself in-between Sickle-Cell and the injured, ready to raise her barriers, but otherwise showing what her decision was.

At least until Anomaly does whatever she planned.

… Then there was the sudden spray of gold coins heading for the Wards. If Knight was in a position to see it and perhaps react, she’d immediately reach out while startled to raise a blue barrier between the gold and the wards, only for the gold to curve upwards becoming a stair over for an unknown cape to run up while calling that he was a random independent… huh. Knight had to take him at his word, turning to look at Sickle-Cell again, hoping not to miss whatever Anomaly was going to do to give her an opening, or whatever she had said.

immediately concerned: @Sickle-cell@Banana
semi-immediately concerned?: @DracoLunaris
concerned as far as that they previously were on this battlefield: @Kiddo@knifeman

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@Sickle-cell May I ask for the logistics of the current situation? That is, how is Knight and Sickle-Cell placed in comparison to the bodies that he's aiming those weapons for? Those puddles of blood he's manipulating, how far away are they?

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@Sickle-cell Aaaaaaah, interlude? No, I'm opposed to both Maxwell and Sickle! It's way too early for us to learn of their secrets! Unless it's, like, a story that somehow doesn't tell all the facts but only hints at them? Er.

Immediate three thoughts. Vector, she feels kind of like our version of Miss Militia _{(does that make Praetor our pre-change Armsmaster? *cough*)}. Whetstone, she's interesting and has an aura kind of like Faultline, but not really because she's leading a gang, but still similar. Hah. And then Sidestep, who interests me as well, but...

I'm going with Vector! She feels like an honest enough person! XD

Edit: also holycrap that post

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@SkinnyTy Ah. Shit. That sounds right, doesn't it?

I did keep Clockblocker's power in mind as I wrote the details of her power, and I don't believe the colours of those he pauses changes, but... But if something's perfectly paused, no absorption or so, then the fields would reflect all of it and become perfect mirrors, wouldn't they? ... ... ...

@Sickle-cell Hey, GM. I'd like your thoughts.

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@SkinnyTy If you can tell me the color air would have when frozen, I would be very curious. But, I've said it's blue due to high nitrogen concentration (AND NITROGEN'S BLUE, RIGHT!?). So, she's wearing a slightly stylized medieval knight armor that's entirely in a dull blue color, light doesn't reflect off it correctly, but it's there and it's blue, I imagine it. It isn't paused on contact, she cannot add more to an existing field of paused time.

I'm honestly open to suggestions if you feel it should logically interact differently. Heh.

She has to rely on air that she paused within her armor. She probably has an air-pocket inside her helmet for this very reason. But, yeah, she can't stay in there for long. But every time she opens a small hole to look out with her eyes to overview the situation, she gets some new air. So, yeah. Heh.

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In the light of that one dropping out, I decided to post anyways. Draco can react to her action if he wants to.

Tell me if Knight's interrupted at any point during that post. If she is, then the post will likely not be accomplished in its entirety. Also tell me if I make her do something she cannot. Otherwise, yeah, that's it. Also, what is this communicator she has? ... Oh, well.

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^Knight

Rosaline Buckner
Battle in Dorchester

Knight found that the fighting had largely ended with the Covenant’s arrival, so she ran over to seek for survivors among those that lay bleeding. She started ripping their clothes to try to use the patches to close the wounds, making a mental note to bring bandages or so with her in future trips.

Sickle-Cell followed her. She hadn’t expected that. She frowned as he recommended her to leave the city. While she thought about what could have brought him to say this, she didn’t reply. Then she was startled as Vector’s voice came through the communicator, but the message was nice and clear. Anomaly followed after with a more… sensitive line. While listening to what Sickle-Cell was saying after, Knight took the communicator to her mouth and spoke silently. It was to the Wards she spoke.

‘You might have brought it out, but it was always in him.’ She said first to Anomaly, speaking silently due to not wanting Sickle-Cell to overhear the next part. ‘Wards, get out of here. I won’t be able to protect you.’ She said, hoping they’d listen. Then, she answered Sickle-Cell.

‘I trust Praetor’s words more than yours, but your reasoning has been noted.’ Knight answered Sickle-Cell on the part about believing in that they were all the Protectorate could spare. There had to be some reasoning behind if they didn’t spare more, like being ready in case greater dangers appeared, or so.

She sighed out at his question if she was going to let him leave. Knight stood, turned, and glared at him, sword in her right hand pointing at the ground, not raised. ‘… The hell are you still here for? The situation has changed. The answer is no.’

Knight manifested her armor. At point-blank range, it was far easier to manifest a shaped body, and she had been preparing to manifest it ever since it became clear she might be ending up in close combat with him, shaping it in her mind. A thin layer of paused time, it froze all over her already armored body, and extended out over her sword as well. Like this she was basically invulnerable. However, there were consequences.

Neither light nor sound nor radio-waves could travel through her armor of frozen time. Nothing could. Meaning if she wanted to speak, listen or see she had to open holes in the armor, which would be weak points Sickle-Cell was perfectly suitable to abuse. The only sense she had was touch, which took the form of a pressure against her mind where anything pressed against her barriers. The only way she could fight Sickle-Cell was to make herself completely invulnerable, but this was in exchange of her senses. She couldn’t protect ANYONE from in here. Only attack.

Which she did. If nothing else happened, she propelled herself directly at Sickle-Cell with her telekinetic power over her barriers which gave her the rating of Mover 2, shaping the armor to accommodate her movements. It put a heavy pressure on her mind, she couldn’t use her powers to do anything else while like this in addition to the loss of her senses, but in exchange for all this she’d be invulnerable, at least for now. Like this, not even Sickle-Cell could harm her… she thought. She was under the impression there was no blood on her right now. If there were, then she had just locked herself into a torture-chamber.

She attempted to tackle Sickle-Cell. In case of impact she’d try to grab onto him, hold him in place, pursue where she felt that she hit him. If she missed (which she considered likely) she’d continue a bit before spinning around and opening a hole in the frozen armor to her eyes so she could see and confirm the current situation, ready to quickly close it again if she had attacks heading for her. She did keep in mind how far it was to the next building, invulnerable armor or not it would still hurt to fly into a building.

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

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Okay, um. I don't want to hold the situation back just because I wanted to wait to see if the others wanted to do something. But I also want to give a bit of a warning. So. I'll post when this post becomes a day old. Yeah.

Pokémon: Start

@Pirouette It's a trial for a reason. But hey, you've been doing fine so far, haven't you? XD

@Joshua Tamashii Both start with Char. It gives _me the impression that I either gave him a Pokémon based on the name I gave him, or I named him based on the Pokémon I gave him, which is silly. Noted, it's not a complete coincidence, since I always wanted the demonstration to be fire-themed since I don't know how long ago and that must have impacted the decision-making in both decisions, but I hadn't realized until now. I try to avoid such silliness like "Char-l with Char-mander", and such. Hah. Oh, well.

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

So, the post I just made does not expect a reply, I will make another post to pursue another intention. But not right now. Right now, I need to sleep.