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Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

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Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Relica

@PaulHaynek, @Rezod92, @The Irish Tree

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Well... This had gone horribly wrong horribly fast. Relica cursed under her breath as one of her drones went on a little trip, beyond her control. It didn't seem to have broken, but she wasn't willing to risk further damage to it at this point, instead landing it in some bushes a small bit away from the scuffle - hopefully, the varjan goons wouldn't try to run after and stomp on it. With one drone down, and none of the varjans really knocked out yet, this had quickly turned in terms of favor. She had hoped that the shock from her drones would've been strong enough to at least paralyze the swordsmen, but it seemed that had utterly failed - and she felt a vein of annoyance form on her temple.

Kerry had also not amanaged to KO the axe-thrower, but at least he hadn't hurled his weapon at one of the peasants. If one of them got hit square in the face she'd never hear the end of it from the monk. Did he reven realize how precious these drones were? And how expendable peasants were!? It's not like anyone's growing any food on Shizuyama during the invasion anyway! Bah! Still, the situation needed immediate addressing. Their distraction had deecided to join the fight, but was under pressure from the tassel-armored leader-looking fellow. Kerry was busy exchanging blows with one of the swordsmen and the axe-thrower was on his way back onto his feet...

"The hell you are...!" Relica muttered through grit teeth with a venomous bite to her tone.

Her remaining drone zipped over to the axe-varjan and unleashed another arc of electricity... And then another... And another, all while circling in semi-circle, keeping itself in such a position as to allow Relica to see and monitor all the other combatants. She wasn't going to let anyone sneak up on and clonk her remaining precious drone!

She'd also need to remember to tweak the output of the little buggers when they got back to the temple. Feeling that the axe-thrower had been sufficiently zapped at this point, Relica would pilot the drone away and towards the swordsman that Kerry had thrown previously - and who had been knocked out of the air by his own comrade...

Using the drill-nose of her drone, she dive-bombed the grounded Varjan, aiming for the back of shin. Hopefully, the armor there wasn't strong enough to avoid being penetrated, and if the drill got inside, this guy wouldn't be able to move around any time soon. Unless varjans were immune to pain and big bleeding holes in their legs... Which Relica was fairly certain wasn't the case.

In the event that the varjan on the ground moved though, she'd have to take evasive maneuvers and park the little drone in the top of a tree or something. At which point she might as well join the fight, and would likely approach by crouching through whatewver shrubs and vegetation she could use as cover, before springing up and launching blasts from her wrist-mounted magitek arm-blasters... But that was a big if.

In any other situation, Relica would probably have squeed and rushed up to Eula to ask her a bunch of questions regarding the automaton's specs and design, but seeing as this was a serious fight, her attention was sadly entirely focused on dealing with the threats present. First take out the trash, then finish off the leader. Standard tactics. Hopefully Kerry and their new friend could deal with their respective troubles long enough for the gremlin to lend her invaluable support!

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Wow, that swordsman is such a chump. "Nah, bruh! I couldn't do my military duties, 'cuz I had a cold that day, yeah... Totally! ANyway, I'm totally not suss bruh, it's YOU that's suss!!" Break his noise, Shizuka! Do it! DO EEEEET!

And screw that guy who hit Relica's drone. Do you have any idea how much these things cost!? Gremlin rage imminent! >:(

Anyway, I decided to do something fun (for me) and gather a whole buncha songs for all of our dear characters! Now these aren't meant to be theme songs, just character songs.

Eula's Song:

Alice&Carrol's Song:

Luna's Song:

Io's Song:

Lili's Song:

Atsuha's Song:

Hinami's Song:

Shizuka's Song:

Skar's Song:

Grimgoon's Song:

Kerry's Song:

Relica's Song:

Yuki's Song:

Takeshi's Song:

Kyouko's Song:

And finally, of course, we have the theme for Tales of Shizuyama itself:

Our Glorious Theme:

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Time for a graveyard rumble~
So we got a band of samurai and some three half-naked men with bigger swords, facing off against... A cranky old woman with an axe, a sad spider, an unconscious undead, a smarmy goblin and... Coming in from behind, we got a high orc imitating a dog, a fairy riding a cow, a naked fungus and the lady who the aformenttioned samurai all (supposedly) works for.
I'm too tired to come up with wrestling references for this mess.

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Go, go, Monster Rangers~

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Relica

@PaulHaynek, @Rezod92, @The Irish Tree

BATTLE TIME!

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"I keep tellin' ya, Curry. Your butt ain't a weapon." Relica responded with a rolling of the eyes at Kerry's comment about her having not one, but two, weapons.

The situation didn't seem to be going anywhere though. For once, Kerry and herself agreed on the possible outcome. Back in the day, the gremlin had found the hornet to be a bit ... Optimistic... when it came to dealing with situations and tactics. That is to say, the choco-bug rarely ever thought beyond: Enemy there, go poke! Still, they couldn't just sit on their asses either. For one, that wouldn't get the monk to where he neeeded to be. Secondly, those varjans were gonna run out of patience, or get bored, with bullying the peasants sooner rather than later.

And then, like a mechanized angel that appeared from the great cogs in the sky, a divine messenger had appeared!

Or, well, something along those lines. A lot less heavenly choir and shafts of light forming a perfect spotlight on a single individual during the middle of the day, and more just a random appearance of someone who wasn't there previously. But hey, same thing, different names.

"Wha- What the what!? Oh, oh! Curry, go! Now! I'll back you up with the drones! Take out that axe-thrower first so they can't hurt the yokels if they run!" Relica chirped in a hasty fashion.

There was no time to think or consider. The Varjans attention had been drawn to the new arrival, and that was really all they needed - a distraction. All Kerry needed to do was to take down the one with the throwing weapon, and Relica would handle the two sword and board-goons.

And, as she'd said, she quickly pulled her goggles down over her eyes again and held up her left glove, opening a small compartment ontop of it. A set of buttons and small stick-like ... joysticks? could be seen inside. Soon after this unveiling, there were to distinct, electronic 'bzzt'-like noises coming form her back. Followed by a low whirring noise. In the blink of an eye, the two spherical shapes on either side of the top of her M.E.E.P sprung to life, detaching from the complex backpack and beginning to hover gingerly near their operator.

"I'll take down the shield-boys. let's go." Relica reaffirmed, no hesitation or patience to wait for compliance or protests. It was go time!

Her little gizmos swiveled in the air, then took off, towards the group of seven, a low humming noise as they zipped through the air like a pair of tiny drones. Which they were. Convenient! Relica's plan was fairly simple; She'd use the electric taser built into her drones to zap each of the sword and board varjans at (roughly) the same time, meanwhile, kerry would intercept and either take down, or distract, the only one with a ranged weapon. Hopefully the surprise attack would either allow the pestered peasants to pedal their paws out of the predicament, or, in the worst case, cause the varjans to focus all their attention on the hornet, drones and the newly arrived monster.

She felt a little guilty for using this new addition to the scene as a distraction, but it was all good. She'd apologize afterwards.

... If she remembered...

... And felt like it...

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Double post, oh noes!
I like how Shizuka is just done with all the silliness and chaos of the monsters. xD
"Seriously? Eff this noise, I'm gonna go cooly off my head by fighting Death-Dancer-the-Dandiest-Dandy-of-Dueling."

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Relica

@PaulHaynek, @Rezod92

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The walk was fairly uneventful, until it wasn't. Once the duo had spotted the signs of trouble up ahead, further down the very same path they were travelling, measures were taken to immeidately get out of sight. Ducking off the road and into some shrubbery and other light vegetation, Relica used her goggles to take a closer look at what was up ahead, after all, it paid to investigate.

It seemed to be a random group of random Varjans, pestering a pair of locals. No big deal. They could easily just take a wide swing around and avoid any sort of trouble whatsoeve--

And then, of course, the monk said it. Of course he did. Why wouldn't he? She should've known he'd say it. Help them. An annoyed expression appeared on the gremlin's face as she looked to the side at her ward, raising her goggles up so she could and him could look at once another properly.

"Are you serious? Look, there really isn't much I can do. They've got those two yokels surrounded and flanked, even so all they'd need to do - provided they have any sort of brain - is take one or two of'em hostage as soon as I do anything. I'm a good shot, but not good enough to take down four mooks at the same time, baldie." Relica stated, feeling unwilling and unmotivated to get involved in this particular mess. "And before you say anything, no. I'm not letting you do something stupid like acting as a decoy or wha-have-you. I need to get you to that shrine or whatever, not them." She pointed at the general location of the Varjans and accosted Shizuyamen plebs. "If we had a bigger group or even just another person with us, then it'd be a different sto--"

Buuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzz!

What was that? Bees? No, there were no bees around here, the goggles hadn't picked up any sort of bugs when she was looking around before. Plus, judging from the sound, it was coming from abo--

As the gremlin looked up and around a bit, she suddenly became very aware of a dive-bombing hornet, coming straight at her and her charge. Rising up from her kneeling spot, she put herself between the monk and oncoming, unknown ... Threat? Hornets weres sneaky buggers after all, they'd swoop down, nab a human male and then buzz off into the sunset with their catch. Well, some of them at least. So she wasn't about to let this hussie steal her -- ohwaitaminutewhattheactualpumpernickel?!

The buzzy one had landed. And it spoke:

"S'up, Rel? Fancy seeing you here in this backwater sinkhole.",

A somewhat stunned Relica stared in disbelief at the person before her. Never in a hundred years had she even remotely imagined that she'd ever meet this one again. A rush of memories and... Complicated... feelings came rushing back to the little lady as she stood there, mouth half agape and eyes staring widely, before she finally shook her head and collected herself. Replying with a sigh.

"Curry?! You're here too? Jeez, like I didn't have enough on my plate..." The gremlin bemoaned, though not entirely sincerely. Also, the nickname she'd used was probably a mix of the hornet's name, and her skintone. "Look, it's great and all to see you again and we can totally braid each others hair and stuff later. For right now, we got a situation here. Some of those varjans are picking on a pair of locals, and this guy-" She gestured to the monk behind her with her thumb. "-wants me to go save'em. Of course, I wasn't planning to do so, until you showed up. Impeccable timing by the way, were you stalking us or something?" The gremlin said, raising a suspiscious eyebrow.

She turned around again, slid her goggles back down and began to take another look at the situation up a ways away form the trio. She was silent for a bit, before speaking up again.

"Alright, looks like this: Four varjans bullying two locals. Two of the baddies are using swords and board, one's got twin axes with one looking like a throwable and the last guy's lugging around a big mace... And for some reason, he's got skulls dangling from him like some kinda morbid trophies... Also, his armor is a bit more fancy than the rest, it got tassels. Heh, what a chump." She reported, snarkily. "There really isn't any good cover to move up to or hide behind on the way to them though.. Hmm.. And there's nothing for the locals to run to or hide behind if a scrap breaks out. I mean, we could just throw you at them and see what happens, but I'm still thinking they might try to use those sitting ducks as human shields if we try something..." The gremlin soldier mused, gently massaging her own chin, before raising her goggles and turning back to Kerry and the monk.

"Look, honestly, my main goal here is to get Mr. Monk to the place he needs to go. And that's not here. I could have Curry stay behind and watch you, baldie, but I'd rather not hand your protection off when I'm the one who agreed to take your job. We could have buzzy-buzz here go and try to sting the bad guys, but she's, y'nkow, only got one weapon that can only attack one person at a time. Finally, we could both go and pincer the Varjans, which would totally flatten'em, but that'd leave you unguarded, and if they've got some extra muscle hiding somewhere that I didn't see,.. Well, I'm not risking it. Fah... Curry, ideas here? I'd love to just walk away, but this one won't let me I'm sure." She finalized her view and stance on the situation at hand.

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Well poop. Look what you've done, noble samurai! You mader the bunny mad, and now she's gonna make the smug gravekeeper who hates monsters even smugger and say stuff like: "Seeeeeee? I told you monsters were evil and murderous. Seeeeeeeeeee?"
All that good will, restraint and slowly improving repuation, all gone.
... Unless a certain young Lord takes the blame for killing all the enemies himself... *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*

EDIT:

@PaulHaynek, @Rezod92

Civilian casualties are an unfortunate inevitability of war! Yup. So sad, too bad. Le'ts keep going alright! 8D
We're off to see the temple, the wonderful temple of sick~!

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Pandora Hearts was a manga/anime in the 2010~ period with a heavy Alice in Wonderland-theme and influences. It was not very good. Except the music. Because it was made by Yuki Kajiura, like all anime around that time.