[ I also love Mob. Hua Cheng is so tired of this. Also, the static is still annoying, but enough people have forgotten their names around him that he's not dumb. ]
Fine. Go quickly, and stick together. They have to prepare their attacks, so don't give them the time to aim at you if they see you. I'll hit them if they get too close.
[ So he just reaches out to herd Izumo into the group in front of him with Mob and Ange, not touching her with his left hand as he does. He can move his arm and fingers and everything, but he's just going to avoid touching anything with it as a precaution. Also, the sword is glowy. Guide us, sword.
Preemptively, a 16 and a 5 have been rolled for attack/dodge success. Take your pick on how that works out if we get found out. ]
[ izumo has a lot of doubt in mob's plan but she also isn't paying too much attention to is since she's playing hot and cold with a sword right now. she's aware enough to acknowledge that she's being herded but that's about it. ...which is funny because she has noodles for arms and one of them is broken. (and if this is the sword of [redacted] then it's extra funny.)
either way, she'll raise it to the right for a moment then to the left.... kind of gauging where they need to be shuffling towards. and just to make things easier for rolls of dodging or whatever in the future, the dice has spoken that her next dodge is to be weighed against a 12 (for disadvantage tch)....
i sincerely hope someone is keeping tabs on izumo because she really will be just focusing all of her attention onto the sword because everything else hurts. ]
[ Luckily, it's not too impossible to locate themselves with Izumo's sword guiding them, though they may have to backtrack once or twice because whoever designed this place had absolutely zero sense of logical architecture. What an idiot, whoever that is. I am also rolling for encounters so they manage to get quite a few hallways before someone realizes they don't belong here when they quite literally run straight into two armored guards who look at each other in a clear pause of alarm before they raise an electrified baton. Because that's what you guys needed. Electricity.
They don't seem concerned that Ange and Mob are children, and go straight for them without hesitation. Damn. Rude.
Mob is busy trying to figure out the message on his tablet, and while he can't find the actual place to open it, fiddling enough will give him an option to send to nearby participant device. Hm. That is clearly normal. Anyway, that's about when they run into the previously mentioned duo, so Mob gets stun baton'd for his troubles. The tablet is sturdy and doesn't break when he inevitably drops it because he was just electrocuted.
Ange dodges the initial strike without being able to help shove Mob out of the way at the same time, and gets tackled by the second guard for her trouble. Her head will bounce off the floor and not feel great. Also, she's like, tackled by a guard who's holding a stun baton, that's safe. Izumo, likewise, will manage to get out of the way of the two guards without being able to help too much, but at least she didn't get more damage? -2 hp for the constant pain on half her body.
Hua Cheng can keep his low dodge roll for later because he was last in line and there's only two guards, so, here's a blanket he'll succeed on his attack. He's tired, he's injured, but the three kids are in the line of fire so. Might want to get the guards away before they can call for reinforcements, which they are moving to do. ]
Trying to keep track of Mob and Izumo and everyone when those guards are coming at them really does not work out in Ange's favor; she hits the floor hard, and is far too dazed to do anything about the guard who tackled her and is holding a stun baton.
That's all she's got too, I rolled a 5 for her trying to get out of that situation so she is Not. She tries to kick the guard off of her, but she's probably too dazed to even connect.]
Hua Cheng moves around Izumo, thinking better than to try and hit something that has a lot of electricity in it with his sword as the first move, and instead goes to full on kick the guard on Mob in the side with the end goal to punt it into the guard on Ange. (Rolled a 17 on that unless the low roll gets to be used now, rip Ange)
Either way he's going to keep moving after to attack, because that gives the kids a chance to recover. The guards might not have anything against attacking them, but that just makes him all the more aggressive in a followup attack. ]
[ well given that izumo's came out rather unscathed compared to mob and ange, she's not going to double back and make herself into a target now. if anything she's going to look back down at the sword and confirm the path that they need to be taking. (also she is going to assume that hc will continue to handle those guards while giving them the chance to escape.) no one enjoys being beaten with an electrod but sometimes that happens? i guess??
but minding that mob and ange both make it out okay with the help of hc, she's going to keep pressing forward following the sword (and constantly taking -2 hp dmg). sadly her spatial awareness isn't the highest due to the pain and anything that comes her way can be weighed against a 5...because. yeah. ]
[ Well, Mob manages to send a message, though he didn't write anything? He will, however, hear a notification on his PHS. Which he will have time to check, considering HC manages to kick a guard into another guard. They're not that heavy or talented, so. It works? They're in a pile? They seem dazed and HC continues his attack, which, I guess Snow can decide if he knocks them out or kills them. It's fine.
Ange probably has a concussion now, but it's fine, she and Mob can get off the floor and everyone can scramble after Izumo's sword pointing, which leads them further. I keep not rolling encounters, so they can sneak by quietly for another stretch.
Should he check his PHS, Mob will find he transferred this off his tablet. If they want to discuss it in their quiet wounded stretch while the building vanishes behind them a little faster. Otherwise they manage to sneak past a bot so long as they don't deliberately bump into it. ]
[ There's no hesitation: the guards die. Hua Cheng has no mercy and no patience, and if they live, they call reinforcements. Mob and Ange are moving after Izumo already, once they're up, anyways, so he's more than willing to run them through in the pile with his sword.
Onwards, following the children, once he's finished with that. Good luck us not running into anyone else. ]
given that ange is suffering from a concussion, mob is preoccupied with the tablet, hc is behind them, and dice gave me a 5 previously... yeah. izumo's going to walk right into the bot. she had no spatial awareness about her, okay? everything hurt and she's just doing her best. just following glowy sword and ignoring how everything around them is going to crap.
( they should really get the fuck out of this place but at the same time... )
[ Oh, well. That sure is a terrible bot to walk into. Slightly different from the others in both shape and size, more of a half sphere with a head and with cables to give more range to its spiky appendages, this bot wastes no time when it notices Izumo, firing it off a more powerful purple laser straight at her leg. It'll, uh. Go through! It scarcely misses the bone, but someone isn't walking on that anymore.
It seems to hone in on the sword in her hand and reaches for it, so maybe the other three will have more of a shot? ]
[Mob is a good boy. Ange... does not want to deal with that thing at all, so she's not going to attack it. It's a giant robot and she's a schoolgirl, what do you want from her?
So, while Mob is helping Izumo, and Mob's dinosaur is distracting the thing, Ange is going to try to hurry to their sides as well to help support Izumo from the other side.
Since I rolled a critical fail this time finally, though, Ange doesn't get there at all before the robot thing swipes at her with its spiky appendages and sends her tumbling.
Whoops!
At least she was sent tumbling, like, down the hallway towards where they have to go.]
[ Goodbye, Ange. Hua Cheng watches her go tumbling, but at least she's out of the direct line of danger - and Mob's providing an extra distraction, with his raptor. He seems to have Izumo, too, and they can't let their attention get split in fifty directions, so he'll focus on hopefully getting rid of the robot.
He sees the robot reaching for the sword. Considering they kind of need that, he's going to follow the raptor and its distraction to get in the way of that reaching hand. Does it put him directly in the line of fire for that earlier low roll? Yes. Does he care? No, he's not going to let this shitty hunk of metal be what takes him out for good.
He takes his saber, regardless of what damage the robot does, and goes to take its head off its half-sphere body. ]
[ maybe there's something a but surreal about having a lazer blast right through your leg and then looking down and seeing a hole where tissue should be (is that her bone), but izumo's just going to be at a loss for words as she looks at her leg for a whole ass moment.
does she even notice the pain? who knows. adrenaline is probably keeping her from going into shock right now, let's be real. but good job mob...let... let a girl have some time to mentally recover from seeing this. which is to say that it's a VERY GOOD thing that hc dispatches(?) the robot because she doesn't even realize that it was honing in on the sword.
someone wanna carry her across to the finish line? the death grip she has on the handle of the sword is not going to loosen any time soon. ...and apparently we're so close. ]
[ [pikachu voice] this is copyright infringement. Anyway, the velociraptor is a GREAT distraction for the robot, which saves Ange from getting a lazer after being thrown halfway across the hall and crashing into a wall. It does not save her from being thrown, though, and the good news is, she's still conscious from that despite the clear concussion! The bad news is, she is still conscious when she hits the wall directly with her shoulder and arm with a loud crack. The shoulder bone connects to the... hm, to the nothing, it looks like, going by how her arm dangles immediately. Ow.
At least Mob gets Izumo out of the way? He is no longer jacked, but he can drag her out of the way at least. Probably.
Speaking of ouch owie booboos, the kiguciraptor might distract the robot from lasering Ange, but HC running at it means he might dodge the main fire of the laser but the eyepatch side of his face (left?) and part of his hair gets hit with the weaker part of the laser. "how does that work" listen the important thing is the robot is scarring up his face and burning off his hair like it was using a light saber instead of a laser because i want it, don't @ me. HC isn't stopped by simple things like Pain, though, and so he lops off the head, effectively shutting down the robot. Y...ay?
the kiguciraptor doesn't get hurt because i'd be sad
Izumo's sword is pointing them to a nearby room. Or, well, nearby to Ange's thrown body, and so Ange will be the first to notice the absolute chaos of the room. There's an odd looking portal-like device currently turned on, electricity crackling out of it as the ground shakes and wind picks up from it. Items are levitating. Things are breaking.
There doesn't seem to be anyone there, but getting through the room might still be a problem. ]
[Mob would be sad, too. Be kind to kiguraptor. Anyway, hurrying as much as he can, still limping on his own leg and trying to help Izumo. He's going to try to shoot off one more message on the tablet if he can, too, just in case.
Let's go into that room and head for the portal! Maybe. . . the tablet has an app that shuts off the horrible lightning?]
[It is a miracle she's still conscious, but no time to think about that! Ange pushes herself up grimly, has to trust that HC can fend for himself, and staggers after Mob and Izumo into the room.
This is a nightmare!
She's going to try to cross the room and head for the portal anyway!]
Also it's the right side. And, for aesthetic purposes, goodbye a chunk of his hair - and also his eyepatch. But there's not any time to worry about the fact that there's an ugly scar under there like someone dug the eye out with very little finesse, because Ange is heading off and Mob is trying to drag Izumo away. ]
Shigeo. [ Hua Cheng comes over to take Izumo from him, because she weighs as much as a piece of paper to him and with Mob's ribs and leg she's probably a, ah, dead weight. ] I've got her. Get after Ange, let's go.
[ What terrible things await them in this room, as they follow with a blackened armful of Izumo! ]
[ if you think she has any real commentary or complaints about being picked up like this, then you'd be mistaken. she has no bite in her left when it comes to being helped. one of her (fore)arms is broken and now there's a hole in her leg. nah, izumo is going to let herself be carried like a good girl.
the only thing that she'll make sure to be aware enough to do is keep them all on the right path as she makes triply sure that where they're going is where the sword is pointing them to. ...which, uh, with the portal-thing on and making everything in the room look like it's going to hell.
...not exactly comforting. she still will have her wits (mostly) about her and she'll take a look around the room and hope that there's something to indicate what they could do with everything that is before them. sure things are all floaty and things are breaking but!!!!
[ The tablet does not have an app to shut down the lightning, Mob, and in fact holding a metal object when there is lightning in a room is a bad idea. It's a good thing he sent the message to his phs because that tablet is getting zapped. someone save him
The sword stops glowing once they get near the portal room, though the inside storm only seems to pick up its pace. Glass shatters around them as scientific looking objects slam into walls and the floor around them. Metal desks and tables are also floating and being slammed around. Between that and the lightning, it's a complete miracle Ange crosses the room nearly unscathed; only a few cuts from loose glass shards aesthetically on her face. It's for the drama.
HC and Izumo are behind a bit, and since Izumo is looking, she might notice a large lever switch near the portal. Which. Would be dramatic to reach except Ange did it by rolling an eighteen. Hilarious. ]
[Hua Cheng is still not his dad, but he feels pretty terrible, and he trusts him a little more by now, so he'll get no protests from him. He definitely gets zapped, but drops the tablet to the ground, so maybe the damage isn't that bad.
He - is pretty used to walking through rooms where all the objects are getting floated and thrown around, but usually he's the cause. This is - hmm. He'll just wait for Ange to pull the level I guess?]
This stupid miracle, ruining all tension at the end of this CYOA.
Regardless, it is a legitimate miracle she makes it across, but Ange carries gamely on, keeping her head down and with one arm dangling uselessly at her side. She only needs one arm though to pull the lever! Since it's right by the lever, I'm assuming she sees it the moment she pauses to glance around to see how the rest of her party is doing.
Imagine if both of her arms had been broken in this moment. Hilarious.
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Fine. Go quickly, and stick together. They have to prepare their attacks, so don't give them the time to aim at you if they see you. I'll hit them if they get too close.
[ So he just reaches out to herd Izumo into the group in front of him with Mob and Ange, not touching her with his left hand as he does. He can move his arm and fingers and everything, but he's just going to avoid touching anything with it as a precaution. Also, the sword is glowy. Guide us, sword.
Preemptively, a 16 and a 5 have been rolled for attack/dodge success. Take your pick on how that works out if we get found out. ]
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either way, she'll raise it to the right for a moment then to the left.... kind of gauging where they need to be shuffling towards. and just to make things easier for rolls of dodging or whatever in the future, the dice has spoken that her next dodge is to be weighed against a 12 (for disadvantage tch)....
i sincerely hope someone is keeping tabs on izumo because she really will be just focusing all of her attention onto the sword because everything else hurts. ]
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They don't seem concerned that Ange and Mob are children, and go straight for them without hesitation. Damn. Rude.
Mob is busy trying to figure out the message on his tablet, and while he can't find the actual place to open it, fiddling enough will give him an option to send to nearby participant device. Hm. That is clearly normal. Anyway, that's about when they run into the previously mentioned duo, so Mob gets stun baton'd for his troubles. The tablet is sturdy and doesn't break when he inevitably drops it because he was just electrocuted.
Ange dodges the initial strike without being able to help shove Mob out of the way at the same time, and gets tackled by the second guard for her trouble. Her head will bounce off the floor and not feel great. Also, she's like, tackled by a guard who's holding a stun baton, that's safe. Izumo, likewise, will manage to get out of the way of the two guards without being able to help too much, but at least she didn't get more damage? -2 hp for the constant pain on half her body.
Hua Cheng can keep his low dodge roll for later because he was last in line and there's only two guards, so, here's a blanket he'll succeed on his attack. He's tired, he's injured, but the three kids are in the line of fire so. Might want to get the guards away before they can call for reinforcements, which they are moving to do. ]
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. . . When he's able to, from the ground, he'll try to send out a message as quickly as he can - HELP.]
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Trying to keep track of Mob and Izumo and everyone when those guards are coming at them really does not work out in Ange's favor; she hits the floor hard, and is far too dazed to do anything about the guard who tackled her and is holding a stun baton.
That's all she's got too, I rolled a 5 for her trying to get out of that situation so she is Not. She tries to kick the guard off of her, but she's probably too dazed to even connect.]
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Hua Cheng moves around Izumo, thinking better than to try and hit something that has a lot of electricity in it with his sword as the first move, and instead goes to full on kick the guard on Mob in the side with the end goal to punt it into the guard on Ange. (Rolled a 17 on that unless the low roll gets to be used now, rip Ange)
Either way he's going to keep moving after to attack, because that gives the kids a chance to recover. The guards might not have anything against attacking them, but that just makes him all the more aggressive in a followup attack. ]
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but minding that mob and ange both make it out okay with the help of hc, she's going to keep pressing forward following the sword (and constantly taking -2 hp dmg). sadly her spatial awareness isn't the highest due to the pain and anything that comes her way can be weighed against a 5...because. yeah. ]
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Ange probably has a concussion now, but it's fine, she and Mob can get off the floor and everyone can scramble after Izumo's sword pointing, which leads them further. I keep not rolling encounters, so they can sneak by quietly for another stretch.
Should he check his PHS, Mob will find he transferred this off his tablet. If they want to discuss it in their quiet wounded stretch while the building vanishes behind them a little faster. Otherwise they manage to sneak past a bot so long as they don't deliberately bump into it. ]
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Ange is listing a little, but she's carrying on with grim determination nonetheless!
Onwards, following Izumo's sword. They're not dying yet, that's a win.]
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Onwards, following the children, once he's finished with that. Good luck us not running into anyone else. ]
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given that ange is suffering from a concussion, mob is preoccupied with the tablet, hc is behind them, and dice gave me a 5 previously... yeah. izumo's going to walk right into the bot. she had no spatial awareness about her, okay? everything hurt and she's just doing her best. just following glowy sword and ignoring how everything around them is going to crap.
( they should really get the fuck out of this place but at the same time... )
either way, hello bot-kun. ]
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It seems to hone in on the sword in her hand and reaches for it, so maybe the other three will have more of a shot? ]
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[He'll stop messing with the tablet and instead. . .
Velociraptor, I choose you! He's going to send out his sweet raptor in a dino kigu to fight the bots. I should have remembered this much earlier.]
Help her!
[He's going to try to grab her to pull her out of the way while the bot is distracted by the others hopefully.]
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So, while Mob is helping Izumo, and Mob's dinosaur is distracting the thing, Ange is going to try to hurry to their sides as well to help support Izumo from the other side.
Since I rolled a critical fail this time finally, though, Ange doesn't get there at all before the robot thing swipes at her with its spiky appendages and sends her tumbling.
Whoops!
At least she was sent tumbling, like, down the hallway towards where they have to go.]
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He sees the robot reaching for the sword. Considering they kind of need that, he's going to follow the raptor and its distraction to get in the way of that reaching hand. Does it put him directly in the line of fire for that earlier low roll? Yes. Does he care? No, he's not going to let this shitty hunk of metal be what takes him out for good.
He takes his saber, regardless of what damage the robot does, and goes to take its head off its half-sphere body. ]
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does she even notice the pain? who knows. adrenaline is probably keeping her from going into shock right now, let's be real. but good job mob...let... let a girl have some time to mentally recover from seeing this. which is to say that it's a VERY GOOD thing that hc dispatches(?) the robot because she doesn't even realize that it was honing in on the sword.
someone wanna carry her across to the finish line? the death grip she has on the handle of the sword is not going to loosen any time soon. ...and apparently we're so close. ]
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At least Mob gets Izumo out of the way? He is no longer jacked, but he can drag her out of the way at least. Probably.
Speaking of ouch owie booboos, the kiguciraptor might distract the robot from lasering Ange, but HC running at it means he might dodge the main fire of the laser but the eyepatch side of his face (left?) and part of his hair gets hit with the weaker part of the laser. "how does that work" listen the important thing is the robot is scarring up his face and burning off his hair like it was using a light saber instead of a laser because i want it, don't @ me. HC isn't stopped by simple things like Pain, though, and so he lops off the head, effectively shutting down the robot. Y...ay?
the kiguciraptor doesn't get hurt because i'd be sad
Izumo's sword is pointing them to a nearby room. Or, well, nearby to Ange's thrown body, and so Ange will be the first to notice the absolute chaos of the room. There's an odd looking portal-like device currently turned on, electricity crackling out of it as the ground shakes and wind picks up from it. Items are levitating. Things are breaking.
There doesn't seem to be anyone there, but getting through the room might still be a problem. ]
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Let's go into that room and head for the portal! Maybe. . . the tablet has an app that shuts off the horrible lightning?]
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This is a nightmare!
She's going to try to cross the room and head for the portal anyway!]
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Also it's the right side. And, for aesthetic purposes, goodbye a chunk of his hair - and also his eyepatch. But there's not any time to worry about the fact that there's an ugly scar under there like someone dug the eye out with very little finesse, because Ange is heading off and Mob is trying to drag Izumo away. ]
Shigeo. [ Hua Cheng comes over to take Izumo from him, because she weighs as much as a piece of paper to him and with Mob's ribs and leg she's probably a, ah, dead weight. ] I've got her. Get after Ange, let's go.
[ What terrible things await them in this room, as they follow with a blackened armful of Izumo! ]
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the only thing that she'll make sure to be aware enough to do is keep them all on the right path as she makes triply sure that where they're going is where the sword is pointing them to. ...which, uh, with the portal-thing on and making everything in the room look like it's going to hell.
...not exactly comforting. she still will have her wits (mostly) about her and she'll take a look around the room and hope that there's something to indicate what they could do with everything that is before them. sure things are all floaty and things are breaking but!!!!
sword is the key? yes? ]
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The sword stops glowing once they get near the portal room, though the inside storm only seems to pick up its pace. Glass shatters around them as scientific looking objects slam into walls and the floor around them. Metal desks and tables are also floating and being slammed around. Between that and the lightning, it's a complete miracle Ange crosses the room nearly unscathed; only a few cuts from loose glass shards aesthetically on her face. It's for the drama.
HC and Izumo are behind a bit, and since Izumo is looking, she might notice a large lever switch near the portal. Which. Would be dramatic to reach except Ange did it by rolling an eighteen. Hilarious. ]
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He - is pretty used to walking through rooms where all the objects are getting floated and thrown around, but usually he's the cause. This is - hmm. He'll just wait for Ange to pull the level I guess?]
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This stupid miracle, ruining all tension at the end of this CYOA.
Regardless, it is a legitimate miracle she makes it across, but Ange carries gamely on, keeping her head down and with one arm dangling uselessly at her side. She only needs one arm though to pull the lever! Since it's right by the lever, I'm assuming she sees it the moment she pauses to glance around to see how the rest of her party is doing.
Imagine if both of her arms had been broken in this moment. Hilarious.
Anyway she pulls the lever.]
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