[Sunday, October 26th. 2:40 PM] [In our last episode, our her- group of costumed people had successfully driven off the Sewer King and his legions of mutated vermin. Eew.] [There is no rest for the relatively rightous, however, as no sooner had they neared finishing getting those injured during the attack clear and into the hands of EMS when a curvy, seven-foot tall woman, dressed as a luchadore in a purple one-piece bathing suit with a picture of a ram, purple wrestling boots, and a decorative mask (with a ponytail sticking out the back) jumped off a roof into their midst.] [She calls herself La Gigante. Or, rather, LA GIGANTE! A woman that large speaks with capslock on. And that's not the only lock she seems to want to put on, as she drops into a wrestling stance and advances on you!] [Session Start] [The woman grins down at Jacky. "I do not think you carry the kind of equipment that would interest me, chica."] * Abby glances over to Jackie and half-smiles, before murmuring, "Can't work every time, Jackie." * TheRedcoat takes advantage of the woman's grin at Jackie to...continue smoking and wiping off her coat, for now. * Jacqueline scoffs quietly as she tightens her grip on her gun handle. "I am one of the smartest people in the world," she mutters, "you would be /surprised/." * Christian sighs into the comm. "Call ya back." He puts it away and then focuses on La Gigante, gesturing slightly with his fingers. "Alright then. If ya wanna bring it, bring it. But I ain't startin' this fight." [LA GIGANTE! grins at Christian... then leaps to the side, with surprising speed (and hangtime) for a woman her size, flying at Redcoat with an old-fashioned wrasslin' dropkick!] [The attack goes awry, though, and as she flies past Redcoat, LA GIGANTE! lands, plants her feet, and leaps back, feet first, towards Horus!] * TheRedcoat sash-dodges onto a fire escape, barely managing not to lose her cig in the process! [Horus doesn't move in time, and LA GIGANTE! wraps her thighs around Horus' head! Her skin sizzles somewhat from the heat of Horus' shield, but she still manages to make three rotations around Horus, spinning her around, before wrenching her body backwards and launching Horus head-first towards Christian!] [Christian tries to catch her, but she's coming in a bit faster than he thought, and the two go down in a crashy, tangled, bruised, slightly burny heap.] * Horus oofs as she burns Christian. That looked painful, probably because it was a bit painful; at least she turns off her aura once she realizes what's going on. * Christian 's eyes go wide for a moment, but he doesn't have time to get out a "shit" before he's bowled over. [LA GIGANTE! lands. Curiously, her legs don't seem particularly burnt. More curiously, she seems... taller.] * Horus climbs off of Christian. "Sorry 'bout that," she says while helping him up. She looks at LA GIGANTE! curiously for moment and... doesn't attack. * Christian accepts the help and gives a "s'cool" look. "Me an' my big mouth, eh?" * Horus grins. "Like always.�E * Abby looks at the woman a moment, then says, "If it's all the same, we're gonna keep a little distance between you n'me." She gestures in a circle with the staff as she floats upwards, then points it towards the sky with a slight jangle. A powerful wind blows by her, obviously, and almost seems solid as it swirls in front of her. Almost. * Abby 's swirling mass of air coalesces a moment, and then there's a shreiking sound as a portion of the the visible wind blows right past, over, around, and through LA GIGANTE! and then disappates into good old fashioned normal air once it's well past her. [LA GIGANTE is buffeted by the gale-force winds, and is slammed hard into the front of an eight-story building, cracking the brickwork. You can see her body distort slightly as she grows, now standing almost fifteen feet tall. Dusting herself off, she grins through her mask at the lot of you.] * TheRedcoat glares at the continually growing bitch and whips her way (almost literally) up fire escapes until she is standing (for now) at a level above our luchadora. * Jacqueline , with a soft 'kk-chk' sound, shifts her gun from its normal homing dispersion mode to something else entirely. As it's levelled waaaay up towards La Gigante's face, she forcefully calls out, "She is /absorbing/ the energy turned directly on her--I am /hoping/ that this will not contribute." She fires, with that, and a pair of shiny points of light fly from the gun barrel to explode blindingly before the luchadora's eyes. But if allowed to grow much /larger/, she will likely rupture from the inside out, and it would be all over the papers. * Jacqueline lowers her gun, exhales softly. "I would like /not/ to lose my chance at endorsements by killing this woman; the square-cube law is a harsh mistress." [Nope, LA GIGANTE! sure doesn't absorb that. Well, yes, her eyes do absorb a bunch of the light that explodes in front of her face, blinding her for the moment, but not in the useful way.] Oh, is *that* what's goin' on. How the fuck do we stop it... * Christian rubs his head. "Yeah. I'm pure energy right here. Man, capturing's *so* not my style..." * TheRedcoat raises her eyebrows, grins, clenches the cigarette between her teeth, reaches her hands into her pockets, and draws out two handfuls of...things, which she sends winging towards the exposed parts of LG. Well, do what you /like/, but I'll be trying to maintain deniability, when she's killed, or maimed, or what have you. For the reporters, of course. [Several darts stick into LA GIGANTE!s back! She wobbles momentarily, but then pulls out the darts and continues advancing on the group.] * TheRedcoat stops grinning at that. Looks dour. Takes a long drag. * Abby mutters under her breath. "Great. Force is out. Force is most of what we do." She tilts her head to the side a moment. Of course, but I don't know what I can actually do to hurt her that don't mean puttin' energy inta her. Keep blinding her? That seems to be working. Porheps she vill knock herself unconscious against skyscraper, or something. Yeah, property damage'll go over *real* well with the publicity we're gettin' now... * TheRedcoat rolls her eyes expressively. * Jacqueline glances sidelong at Horus as she says, "Well, if you were of a /different/ deity--I would imagine that freezing her might help..." We could blind her, then trick her into become that politician's girlfriend. That would kill anyone's spirit. * Horus blinks. "Freezing her, huh?" And she takes to the air, her golden feathers turning to silver and the daylight diming around them. "The moon's cold." * Christian rubs his head and sighs. "Fuck it, I know. Whatever the hell works. This is all *I* got." He rushes forward towards El Gigante and slams his fist a good distance in front of her to create a crack in front of her charging path. It does look like he's specifically trying *not* to hit her directly though. [The force of the impact knocks LA GIGANTE! off balance somewhat, and chunks of pavement pepper her, causing her to grow another two feet. But she stays upright for the moment.] * Horus rises, and as she does, the air grows dark. And cold. But not nearly as cold for everyone else as it is for LA GIGANTE!, as ice creeps up her feet and legs while freezing winds descend to surround her. [LA GIGANTE! shivers and turns a bit blue as the air around her turns frigid. This has a predictable effect on a seventeen-foot tall woman in a bikini, but we'll not go into details.] [Blinded and chilled, LA GIGANTE! rips through the ice binding it like tissue paper, stumbles against a lamppost... which she rips up out of the ground, and throws in the general direction of Christian and Jacky!] [She then stumbles into a mailbox, which she similarly rips up out of the ground, and throws up towards Redcoat!] * TheRedcoat flips easily out of the way, onto a higher escape * Christian crouches down low as the lamppost wings blindly overhead, eying her as she snaps through the ice. "Just fuckin' perfect." * Jacqueline follows suit with Christian, and after a sidelong glance murmurs, "She's stumbling about like a graceless buffalo, now; sadly, I wouldn't use that adjective." * Horus reaches out a hand towards LA GIGANTE!, now freezing the woman's hands and arms together. If anything, the air gets even colder. "Just keep her busy an' distracted, guys," she murmurs. [LA GIGANTE!s lips are turning an unhealthy color, and she's probably really regretting her wardrobe choices right now. She does seem to be stumbling around a bit less.] * Christian calls idly up while keeping a close eye on the luchadore. "Hopefully we figure out somethin' soon. Otherwise, I'm just gonna pound her until she's the size of a skyscraper." * Abby sighs and murmurs, "Alright, fine, you were right." She then says more loudly, "Kami, let's take the air she's given us and keep it going." She just holds her staff out in front of her as the visible air joins Horus' cold air for more colditude around LA GIGANTE! [Yup, La Gigante sure looks cold. Brr.] * Jacqueline reaches into her coat to rustle around, and at first, it's pretty much an absent-minded, purposeless thing. Before, that is, she murmurs to herself, "Ah, yes--the fire nullification--yes..." and draws a small lipstick tube from a pocket. One twist later, and impressive amounts of off-white foam are spraying up towards La Gigante's face. Intense, eye and nose-burning foam. [LA GIGANTE! gets sprayed in the face with the stuff, but her mask blocks enough of it that it doesn't have the desired effect.] * TheRedcoat jumps down from her perch and tries to tie her sash between two lightpoles to trip LA CAPSLOCKA. [It's a good idea, but LA GIGANTE! is just too strong, and though Redcoat keeps from getting pulled off her feet, she can't keep the sash taut enough to trip to huge woman up.] * TheRedcoat rolls her eyes again, this time with extreme prejudice. But not against Spanish speakers. That would be racism. * Christian sees what Redcoat's doing and then is over there in a flash. He works on pulling the sash tauter so that the Gigantichica can fall down harder. Or at least just fall down. Assists for the win. [Christian's attempt meets with similar results. She's just too strong, alas. As evidenced by the Hyundai she throws at Christian and Redcoat, and the dumpster she throws at Abby!] ( EDIT note that she busted through the ice restraints again ) * TheRedcoat tries to dodge, but is all confused what with all the assists and teamwork and gets clipped by the Korean-made car! "Ow!" she says in a tone of mild surprise and outrage! * Horus maintains concentration and at least keeps the freezing wind following LA GIGANTE!. And the ice, which now wraps around her shoulders and neck, locking her arms against her torso. That can't be comfortable. * Abby gets hit by an _entire dumpster_, and it pushes her back in the air a good ten feet before it slides off of her with a gesture of her staff. She exhales noisily and says, "Today is disgusting." * Christian manages to narrowly avoid the car and yells. "Redcoat!" He growls at Gigabitch. * Horus doesn't look in Abby's direction, but she does respond: "Nooooo shit, Mizuki." Yeah? [No, LA GIGANTE! sure does not look comfortable. And yet, somehow, she seems fairly... chill.] * Abby floats back forward, gesturing with her staff. She and the air kami are pretty much doing the same deal, so nothing _looks_ much different! Who knows if any of it's working? * Jacqueline fires another pair of blindingly bright bullets towards LG!'s face, as while killing or maiming someone publically is problematic, everyone understands accidental property damage, deep down. [LA GIGANTE! is off-balance, and is actually blown away by the winds before the cold can take much more effect.] ( EDIT move that before Jacky's action ) [The lights go off right in her face, but LA GIGANTE! doesn't appear to have been affected.] * TheRedcoat sighs, pulls out another double-handful of her little darts, and tries again. [They hit, but that's one tough broad, and it doesn't seem to slow her down.] Christian, porheps you could trip her if you were to try and lift her by the foot? * Christian looks at Redcoat strangely. "I'm *fast*. It ain't like I can lift a fuckin' buick." Hand me your sash though and maybe I can do somethin' Oh. * TheRedcoat blinks, shrugs, and tosses it over. * Christian takes the sash and stage mutters "What kind of wrestler throws things all the time anyway?" and dashes around her really quickly, tying up her legs together with it. He ends up dashing off to the side when he's done and skidding to survey his handywork. [Christian manages to wrap up her legs, but as with the ice, she's just too strong for it to really inconvenience her much, and she powers her arms and legs free. Frrom inside the crater she's created in the side of that building, she reaches down and touches one boot. "If you are not going to provide me with the power I need... I shall take matters into my own hands!" And suddenly she goes stiff as she's consumed in an explosion of crackling energy!] [When the light fades, a big chunk of the ground floor of the building is missing, and about four floors of the front have been sheared off. In their place is forty feet of angry luchadora, her bathing suit ripped just enough not to reveal anything while revealing pretty much everything else.] [She then roars and leaps into the air with a front flip, shoulder dropping towards Christian, a huge fist towards Redcoat, a rather large tuchas towards Jacky, and an enormous boot towards Abby!] ["TOPE CON HILO!"] * TheRedcoat gets a map of Dodge and GETS THE HELL OUT OF IT, aiming up up and away onto the nearest sets of fire escapes! Only afterwards does she wrinkle her eyebrows trying to figure out what the fuck La Gigante thinks she's trying to say. * Jacqueline , meanwhile, gets what will probably lead to A.) a very long soak in ice later on and B.) a very eccentric letter sent anonymously to some stag magazine or another; her force field, at least, keeps her from being outright crushed. * Christian gets ready too late to counter her, and probably wouldn't be a good idea to make someone grow *larger* when they're trying to body slam you either. There's just too much luchadora mass to get out of the way and he ends up getting smashed by the shoulder. Ow. * Abby gets booted, knocked in an ungainly spin for at least two and a half rotations before she hits the ground. She floats upright with a groan and a, "Took her... long enough..." [As LA GIGANTE!!!! gets to her (huge) feet, towering over the lot of you, and those of you who were just smushed try to collect yourselves...] [Session End]