thewizardguy

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Deep beneath the overgrown surface of the space station, a quiet ticking could be heard. A single light flickered, a series of half-broken screens crackling to life, white static visible through the moss and rust. The skittering of some space-born pest that had chosen this place to be it's home, reacting to the sudden light. An ancient protocol, running on a broken computer, the size of a continent. With a slow whirring, the Central Processor started to life, the heat burning away layers of plant life, the reinforced shell still solid. Not even a hundred years and rapid-growing plants could pierce the Voidmetal casing of the Plot Reactor.

And in the centre, as it had since the moment of it's creation, the Plot Hole burned on, devouring and creating, a flaw in the very concept of reality, an infinite source of energy tapping into a loophole in the Laws of Energy Conservation.

Ancient machines awoke from their slumber, the devices of the God Emperor himself, who had once spread his will across the Multiverse, before a rebellion had defeated him. His throne still stood, filled with the remnants of his power. The hole still stood, where he had blown his opponent through a kilometer of Voidmetal Alloys.

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Sci-fi Mercs (Need new name)

@KzkSkippy

Hmmm, I could say the same about your own sig. River FTW.

Bread for the Bread God!

The Blood Compact

@The Grey Dust

See, it turns out the Purge and Bedhivere CAN see eye-to-eye on some issues. They should form a blow-Void-out-of-the-sky club.

But it can't be blown up now without MASSIVE retcons.

@akje

Totally fine with the way you handled it, makes sense. They're walking health hazards. Although trying to explain that to the Court Martial afterwards might be a bit amusing.

Also, are you referencing Martin's alternate-timeline Hippy Drug Addict Blood Cult?

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Bolts of plasma flew, as the Voidwalker softly hovered amongst the fields of corpses. And yet, to her slightest whim, the battlefield was changed. Superheated bolts that boiled the air, ripping through the armies of the Forsaken, their souls dissolving as their physical bodies were incinerated. Nothing got near her, nothing touched her, as she simply teleported from place to place, all attacks being redirected against their allies.

Every member of the Omegans excelled at one class of magic, with the exception of Cosmos. Voidwalker had taken portals to the maximum, and her mere presence made mass combat pointless. The Forsaken did more harm than good, as walls of fireballs and laser beams ripped struck Eruka from the side - her own minions' munitions moved right beside her.

The giant dragon was torn in two, and from beneath it's fleshed spilled thousands of smaller dragons, forming a flock that blocked out the sun, circling above as they unleashed vast volleys of fireballs, which were then redirected and focused by Voidwalker into great beams of flame, annihilating city block-sized areas at a time. Even as Eruka was recovering from the hit, she felt the heat of such a beam forming above her, as she looked up to see a portal forming just above her head.

Bahamut directed his dragons from afar, but was not far from the conflict himself. With a roar true to his nature as a dragon-themed magician, he rushed towards the mysterious foe with the sword. Flaming wings extended from his back, as he drew a weapon of his own - a katana inscribed with a golden dragon. And even as he slashed forward - an elogent and efficient rapid strike, similar to the style employed by Japanese Samurai - the sword roared in unison with him.

Cosmos smiled, as he looked upon the battlefield. He did not mingle in the battle directly. To fight his opponents on equal ground was beneath one such as him, who had mastered the nature of magic itself. Instead, he focused on the powers of the Hellworld around him, as he began subtly interfacing with the magic woven into it's walls. A thousand souls, tortured and torn, their power moving towards Ozzy and powering him up. In his own realm, the Demon formed quite the threat. Of course, if that power were to be redirected to five, it would end the fight rather quickly...

Speaking of which, 5 was already crackling with Soular energy. Ozzy was a smart person, and he realized a superior opponent when he saw one. 5's power was an expert mingling of the Dark Side and Soular Manipulation, two arts focused on the same root. Honed to the point of danger, 5 was most likely one of the most dangerous beings in the Multiverse, deadly even by the standards of the Omegans. Speed, ranged offensive, melee offensive, skill, versatility... in each field 5 was a master.

Of course, that would be outside the Hellzone.

Lightning streaks past Ozzy, as he flashes forward at immense speed, blades already flashing as the nanobots are crushed and molten by repeated swipes. 5 moves back, a field of kinetic energy throwing Ozzy back only for a moment - delaying but dealing no severe damage. Anger and arrogance are measured - it was clear that expressing any singular emotion above all others would be his downfall. Here, he was faster than any other, and stronger even than 5. Even as feelings of anger or happiness attempted to encroach in his mind, he simply dismissed them, hardened by his shrewd self-consciousness. he was master of his emotions, not the other way around. And as he dashed forward once more, he could barely restrain from pirouetting around the clumsy strike towards his chest.

Sci-fi Mercs (Need new name)

Honestly, I know nothing about Sodium Rockets. Hence, anything I say on the subject is likely to be wrong.

I realize that such things would be highly impractical, but in all honesty, lasers themselves are highly impractical weaponry. Using any kind of armour capable of refracting the beam, and/or absorbing the heat, they become useless. Even now we can create ceramics that can withstand heat up to 12000 degrees Celcius.

The only real advantage to a laser is that it's instant, which is why they're used to intercept missiles and bombs. They're not REALLY instant, but the speed of light is so great that, for all intents and purposes, it's instant. But as a handheld weapon it's simply not nearly as practical as ballistics.

Assuming we could create a handheld powersource that could power a laser strong enough to deal good damage, it would still be far less efficient than a railgun, or even more advanced ballistic weaponry.

Mainly what I'm trying to achieve here is Star Wars style lasers because they look cool.And lasers going snap crackle pop is far less cool. When I hear snap crackle pop I think of breakfast cereal, not lasers.

Oh well, it's sci-fi, so realism is optional >.>

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

It means angry men are going to knock down your door and slaughter your orphans. And maybe eat them.

And since Natsu's an orphan, that's bad news for him....

The Blood Compact

I'm going to have the SOLDIER boss-people refuse and then attempt to murder Kami no Kage, stating that the Purge is far more dangerous even than the vampires or something like that. This mentality would also explain why Matt attacked the Purge on-sight originally. I also think it muddles the borders a bit from the Purge being pure-evil to maybe being not-pure-evil-but-still-pretty-bad.

Any objections? Just checking, cuz story consequences.

The Blood Compact

@akje

Silver bullets would do nothing. Although they're probably using hollow-point rounds to maximize the damage. If you manage to destroy the brain, you kill them. Other than that, nothing will bother them.

Also, I always thought there was more to turning someone into a vampire than biting them. Like, they have to drink some of your blood as well, or something like that.

But all these fledgelings aren't going to be biting anyone. I mean, if you were suddenly attacked and turned, would you go around spreading vampirism? Especially with a group of soldiers shooting at you, you're going to be running like crazy. They'll lie low until they get hungry, maybe return to the locations that meant something to them in life.

Also, wouldn't slaughtering the Fledgelings be illegal? I mean, technically speaking, they haven't broken the Compact. I'd think there would be some moral compunction to slaughtering what are essentially innocent bystanders.

The Blood Compact

@akje

Fresh Fledgelings are pretty much at a Captain America level of physical strength and speed. Also, they can't be killed by bullets, unless you manage to completely destroy the head.

I still don't get why SOLDIER even uses guns....

But yeah, the answer is that they are incredibly dangerous. The upside is that they have a mind of their own, and probably don't like Void very much. So at least half of them are going to be attacking Void, the other half will be running.

They only really become a threat when they get hungry...

More than Human

Agreed.

Those damn blurry lines.

In any case, once Teo gets his character up, or another person joins, I'll set up the IC.