[Thursday, October 23rd. 8:25 PM] [The situation: The Kitchen Cinqo, along with 25-30 Axe Effect goons, have suddenly appeared! GrenaDeer threw a grenade at the mayoral candidates onstage, which Christian managed to knock away harmlessly.] [Cops are trying to hustle the candidates off stage (or steps) left, but are currently blocked by some of the Axe Effect goons, who've encircled the crowd and are engaging the cops inside and outside their perimeter.] [ChakRam, Mac the Knife and Dog Pilum are interspersed among the audience, which is pretty well panicking at this point, what with the explosion and their escape being blocked by the goons. Grenadeer is more towards the front, and Ugg is towards the back.] [Redcoat, in disguise, is behind a tree behind the audience on the left (opposite side as the candidates), Jacky's similarly in disguise on the right, Christian's on stage, and Horus/Mizuki are in the air.] [That's everyone, methinks. Session Start!] [Ugg, for the record, is currently hoisting one of those three-wheeled Lego-looking police scooter/car things.] * Christian curses mildly under his breath and speaks low. "Ain't good. Too many peeps around to let loose. Gotta get them outta here." With that he hops off the stage and dashes at Grenadeer, making a swipe to grab her. [GrenaDeer ducks into the crowd as Christian flies by, and he's unable to get a hold of her! Too bad she's not wearing more clothes so he'd have had something more to grab.] * Christian tsshes with that. "Dammit. Need to get them outta the crowd." * Jacqueline 's gun appears in her hand after being pulled from /somewhere/, and then a multitude of beams trace all along the details of the police scooter before finally converging towards Ugg. [Ugg gets blasted in his bare, bronzed chest! He stumbled back.] [Meanwhile, Mac and ChakRam get into the fray. The former tosses a knife at Christian as he emerges from the thick of the crowd, followed by one up at Abby! Meanwhile, ChakRam tosses... well, you know at Christian and Horus!] * Abby puts her staff in front of the knife as she floats aside, deflecting it off the right side. Her teeth grit. "Bad situation, I know." * Horus flits out of the way of the chakram as she calls down, "Never give it the fuck up, do ya, ChakRam?" ["Not when I'm being paid!"] * Christian 's eyes widen as he sees himself double-targetted. "Fuck!" He takes a harsh shock to the shin and then gets a knife lodged in his hip. He reaches down and pulls it out, bleeding over his pants and tosses it aside. Dude CLEARLY doesn't pay you enough, 'cause you're gonna get your ass handed to you again. * TheRedcoat ducks behind another tree, peeks out around the trunk, and tosses off a shot at Mac the Knife with her trusty Oh Crap a Gun. [The shot is partially stopped by a force field, but Mac still takes a decent hit to his side. He looks around. "Gah! Who di- that red-coated harpy! She's around somewhere!"] [GrenaDeer, meanwhile, chucks a grenade at Jacky! "There you are! Have an EMP grenade!"] * Jacqueline is suddenly herself, amidst crackling and sparks, and once the static has cleared from her vision she flicks her head back without a care, sneers at the GrenaDeer and notes, "As if it helped you the /last/ time." * Abby moves into roughly the center of the kitchenettes, spreads her arms wide from her flying position, and says, "Let's slow down you five and let the people get free, mmm? Flow, stone, and bind." The ground cracks in places, actually flowing up to try to grab and, shortly, solidify around their legs. Rock doesn't flow long! [Abby manages to ensare GrenaDeer, Mac and Ugg, who struggle to get free!] [As she does that though, Dog Pilum throws a pilum up at her! "Your heathen magic cannot restrain the avatar of the dog spirit!"] * Abby interposes her staff again, with a hard crack as the pilum hits against it and stops dead. She looks down at him and says, "I've been waiting for weeks to point out that you're full of crap a little less diplomatically, you know that?" ["DOG crap!"] Still smells. * Horus flies higher and spreads her wings as wide as they go. Her glow intensifies into a blinding brilliance, and despite the late hour it's like the noonday sun shines down upon the scene, brightening the area and stengthening her allies' resolve. [Horus' light washes over the crowd, who calm down slightly as they wait for the cops to open up a gap for them to escape through.] [Meanwhile, Ugg, being beefy as all hell, frees his feet and throws the Lego scooter thing at Horus! Or, more specifically... AT HER HEAD!] * Horus apparently hasn't blinded herself with that move, as she sees the scooter coming and flies out of the way. "... Yeah, okay." [As the two teams square off, another confrontation is taking place! The thirty or so Axe Effect goons are engaged with the cops inside and outside. A couple of cops on the outside get hit, along with one of the four protecting the candidates, while an equal number of goons get shot.] * mayfly has joined #tlb * Christian steps up and gives Grenadeer a bit of an irate look, before grabbing her by the bandolier. "Now....let's try that again." He takes off with a burst of speed, ripping her from the restraints and smashes her into ChakRam at full speed. [Christian slams GrenaDeer into ChakRam, bowling them both over! They both seem to have FF's, though, which absorb some of the impact, and are quickly to their feet.] * Jacqueline doesn't quite manage to fire anything at all, on account of the gun just not working on the setting it's placed on; something about having just been fried by EMP. [GrenaDeer, getting up, doesn't even notice she barely avoided hot energetic death.] [Mac the Knife smashes the rocks holding his feet with one of his knives, then throws it at Mizuki's shoulder! "Macs stand for FREEDOM!"] [At the same time, ChakRam throws oddly thick, small rings at both Christian and Horus!] * Abby twists out of the way slightly, but doesn't quite make it as it scores her shoulder. She counters, "I don't think you're doing a good job of prosthletyzing." [As the rings approach Horus and Christian, they expand and open up, encircling the waists of the two heroes before closing back up. Then, about a dozen chakram rise up from ChakRam, six each speeding towards the heroes and starting to orbit around them rapidly, cutting and slicing!] * Horus is ring-grabbed. "What in the fuck?" is all she manages to say as she bursts into flames and tries to burn it off. * Christian gets grabbed by it as well and tries to dodge the follow-up attacks and punch some of the offending satellite chakrams out of the way. [ChakRam laughs heartily as the two heroes are surrounded by floating, slicing chakrams. He puts a little space between himself and GrenaDeer as he does so.] * TheRedcoat stealths to another area of cover, and takes another shot at Mac. [In the confusion, Mac doesn't see that one either, and his FF goes down as it slams into his non-arm shoulder. "Ow! Dammit, show yourself!"] [GrenaDeer, shaking off the effects of Christian's attack, throws a grenade into the air between Jacky and Abby! "Say hello to my good friend Willy Pete, ladies!"] [The grenade explodes in the air, granules of WP floating down into the crowd! People start to scream and panic again as the WP starts to burn through clothes and skin.] * Abby takes the explosion, letting out a sharp scream. There's a moment of shock as she burns, then she says, angrily, "White phosphorous?" She lets out a soft cough, then she raises her staff above her head. "You are a disgusting woman, committing warcrimes for hire. "Air, I plead with you, wisk this false fire away from us, protect those that rely upon you!" She grips the staff tight as there is a torrent of wind, the clinging fire being swept up off people into the air. * Jacqueline hops a few feet to the right, avoiding the shower entirely and leaving herself enough time to remark, "Really. Naming your weaponry a thing reminiscent of inbreeding and the Confederacy." [A powerful rush of air sweeps through the crowd! Some civies are knocked off their feet, but the wind manages to drag away all the white phosphorous granules and deposit them into a nearby fountain.] [Meanwhile, Dog Pilum, ever hopeful, chucks a black, runed pilum up at Abby! "Your winds cannot silence the howl of the wolf! The bark of the doberman! The yapyapyap of the chihuahua!"] * Abby gets hit with this one, letting out a slight gurk as it glows slightly. She grips the javelin alongside her staff, before pulling it out and tossing it aside. "Or your big mouth, either." * Horus grimaces as the chakrams dart in, over and over, and slice at her, but she doesn't waver as she spreads her wings. Hot, thin bolts of light shower down on the crowd, piercing and destroying every axe clone it touches. Before long an entire side of the area is clear of mooks. [The side of the area the candidates are on is suddenly clear of Axe Effect guys as lances of energy... well, lance through them. The cops on that side quickly move to get the crowd and the candidates clear.] [Meanwhile, Ugg picks up a portable generator and throws it at Christian! "Ugg think you need more power! Get it? I throw generator, which produce power! HA! UGG MAKE FUNNY!"] * Christian gets slammed in the head with the generator and goes flying back, landing flat on the ground. He slowly picks himself up afterwards. "Not. Fucking. Funny." He looks...very unhappy. And bloody, as he tears the ring around his waist off and goes running in a blur towards Ugh, fist screaming towards his face. [Ugg, apparently too busy laughing at himself, really should learn to dodge these attacks if he doesn't want Christian to ruin his rugged good looks. As it is, he gets crushed by a leaping right cross, sending him crashing back into a news van.] * Jacqueline murmurs, "Don't think I wasn't watching, you horrific tart," as she thumbs a switch on the side of her gun to keep soldiering on rather than stopping to repair her charging mechanism. A solid, wavering stream of rainbow light issues forth to try slipping past at least some of Grenadeer's force field, with a careful eye on avoiding the crowd. [The blast blows right through GrenaDeer's force field, slamming into her side and knocking her head over heels through some chairs. She stands, but is looking a bit shaky.] [Mac shakes off the effects of the gunshot, looks around for Redcoat, fails, then chucks knives at Abby and Christian. ChakRam, meanwhile, throws a pair of electified chakrams at Jacky!] * Abby takes another knife, hissing as her teeth clench. She then shakes her head and remains flying. * Jacqueline goes flying low along the ground thanks to the undampened shock, and after several feet of travel she goes ahead and takes the few moments of relaxation that being dropped into a seated position affords her before shakily standing back up. * Christian turns around with his outstretched fist and smacks the handle of the knife, sending it off kilter and skittering on the ground. "Not this time." * TheRedcoat quickly goes up *into* another cover tree this time for her shot at Mac, changing her disguise (except for the gloves) to blend in as she does so. [By luck more than anything else, Mac avoids being hit with that shot. He's still having no luck spotting Redcoat.] [GrenaDeer, seeing the candidates start to get away, throws a grenade towards them! "Oh no you don't! We're getting paid a whole lot of pretty pennies to see that you three don't make it out of here alive! Especially you, Graham!" The cops nearby push the candidates behind some tables, saving them from the explosion, but a few of the cops don't get clear in time and take the brunt of the blast.] * Abby dives down behind the civvie-killing GrenaDeer, saying lowly, "You need to be put down," as she swipes in an arc with her staff, the ground itself jutting up beneath her to tear jaggedly into her. [GrenaDeer tries to sidestep the staff, not realizing the staff isn't what she has to worry about. Jagged shards of earth spring up from beneath her, tearing chunks from her sides and legs and tossing her aside. She manages to get up, but looks to be in really bad shape.] [Dog Pilum, meanwhile, glances over towards Ugg, who's still shaking the cobwebs out, then pulls out a long, thin pilum with a smooth point and throws it in a parabolic arc towards Christian's leg!] * Christian sees that one coming, but god it's coming in faster than even he can handle. The whole pilum goes through his thigh, pinning him there. He grits his teeth and wraps his arms around it as he tries to pull it out. * Horus scowls down at the scene below her as she concentrates her aura onto a weak spot in the ring. It melts away, and the ring (and chakram) fall away harmlessly. "That's fucking it," she says, forming a bow of light in her hands. * Horus fires an arrow into the crowd, and where it lands, a cold, ridiculously bright light bursts outwards, concentrated on Dog Pilum, Grenadeer, and Chakram - and fading as soon as it gets too close anyone else. [None of the three can escape the radius of the energy field. When the light clears, GrenaDeer is down for the count, and both ChakRam and Dog Pilum are fairly well singed.] [Ugg, having recovered his wits, picks up the news van he was slammed into over his head with a mighty cry, his thews flexing mightily with the effort! He turns to Christian, and grins widely.] ["I am Ugg the Barbarian What Throws Large Things At Heads..." He pauses, then turns and throws the van at Mac. "... OF YOU!"] [Session End]