In the year 2012, a mysterious illness began to sweep the globe. In its wake, those who survived it were left with immensely powerful supernatural abilities.
As the number of people capable of wielding magic powers increased, they began to organize and seize control of the course of history. Using their powers to travel between parallel universes, these mages forge empires of a scale never before seen. And at the center of it all is the Academy, a neutral institution founded for mages to share their knowledge with each other.
Mages struggle against each other to impose their will upon the multiverse, but there is one threat that unites them all together. In recent months, mysterious entities have appeared. These entities wield power far greater than any one mage, and they seem determined to annihilate all of humanity. The mages will have to set aside their differences in order to beat them. The fate of the multiverse depends on it.
What was the guy in the wall even doing? Diana snorted. She wasn't quite sure what she was expecting, but dazed and delirious wasn't it. Watching that rabbit try to maneuver through the maze he created was truly entertaining. There were upsides and downsides to having a power unsuitable for getting into the nitty gritty of a fight and this was one of the upsides. It meant she could sit back and watch all of the shenanigans while not compromising her own effectiveness. This was certainly quite the show.
Diana was content to watch until she felt a rumbling in a building and heard a rather unsettling creak. Whatever they were doing to this building was starting to take its toll. Meaning, she probably didn't want to stay in here longer than she needed to. Some of the rubble around the hole made it difficult to get through, but it wasn't anything her enhanced spear couldn't stab through. At the very least, it probably wouldn't take too long for her to open up a hole big enough for her to squeeze through. From there, it was just a matter of scaling the building. She did need to be careful though. She learned from her first battle with the pale lady that she didn't want to attempt too many fancy aerial maneuvers and that she should always have an escape route in mind.
If life had taught Crew anything, it was for him to be prepared. Time and again that lesson had saved his life, and this time was no different. He'd been focused on the wannabe witch looking girl, allowing a small smirk to cross his face as he watched his attack hit its mark. Despite the fact that walls of concrete seemed to keep springing up around her. What the hell was that anyway? It didn't seem like it was her power, considering how confused she looked.
His train of thought was broken as he felt something... go through him. It didn't hurt or anything, just it always felt kinda weird, like goosebumps. Looking around, he found the source of the feeling, as a sphere of red flew right into his face, and disappeared. Another mage. She was flinging these things at him, clearly to no effect, with pretty good precision. No doubt had he been anyone else, he'd have been in a shallow grave.
"Wasting her time." He said to no one in particular. Right then the walls would cave in on him, though Crew would make no move to avoid them. In reality, the rubble that looked to fall on him seemed to disappear completely, leaving him and the ground his stood on untouched.
Rira froze when she noticed her hits were producing little to no reaction, let alone damage to the boy. Her spheres were flying right through him as if nothing, something the woman has never witnessed. For a moment, she tensed up taking an involuntary step back, her mind stopping. Quickly, however, she regained her breath just to have it get cut again.
With as fast reflexes, and as fast of a reaction Rira managed, she let her arms fly up to shield her against the punch that would collide with her. Fortunately, she had managed to block the punch, eyes not closing for a second. It was just as she caught a glimpse of something dancing around the knuckles of the boy that she felt electric discharge alarm her. Her body flung back in return, her feet and the ground separating for a good second before she managed to land again on her ground. It was a miracle that her heels had not intervened with her balance and let her land safely on them. Still, the shock had managed to surprise her and have her body waver for a small moment. After recovering her posture, she glanced up at the Isabello. She smirked.
"Was that it?" She mocked. "How disappointing. After all that and you didn't even manage to trip me." She had been caught off guard, that's for sure. Still, she would never let the look of vulnerability show on her face. Even when Faye returned to her side did she continue. "I'd say we're more than alright. All three of us, right?" She glanced at Jack as if to ask him indirectly, before placing a hand on her hip, refusing to give in to the discomfort in her body.
Post by Serpentarius on Jul 10, 2018 12:00:45 GMT -7
Reaching Rira, Faye would pat her on the back, a small red star appearing on Rira's skin. "There! Now I can follow you wherever you go and help you out whenever!" She speedwalked around, trailing her hand across more piles of rubble, her dimension was beginning to run out of ammo, despite already having a fair amount of rubble she have already collected from several destruction of buildings.
"Just tell me if you want me to move you to another spot and I'll do it once nobody, including yourself, is looking at you, like this rubble! Also, I'll tell you if there's attacks coming for you, since I can sense you and all that!"
Prediction (Sense) on Rira
Jack watched with some disappointment as it became clear that his allies' attacks weren't having much effect on their enemies. It seemed like he might have to take matters into his own hands. Jack mercifully stopped trying to help Faye and turned his attention to what seemed to be the most stubborn target: the guy who just phased through any attacks that were thrown at him.
Within a few moments, the floor beneath the target's feet began to crack and break apart as Jack began sabotaging the understructure, creating a very real threat of falling right through. It might be hard to actually hurt this guy, but if he could be distracted enough to stop helping his allies, then that would have to be good enough.
Interference (Corruption) against Crew
Things didn't seem to be going too well for their would be attackers. It made her wonder why they bothered attacking at all if they were this unprepared, but it did give her another idea. If she didn't have to fight them too seriously, it meant she could afford to play with them a little. In particular, things seemed to be going really badly for that rabbit, and she seemed so weird and insecure that it'd be easy enough to exploit. Right now, Diana was interested in seeing her true fury, so she tried to prep for that. Unfortunately, she couldn't read that girl very well, so she just tried some things that she thought might piss her off.
"Hey pigeon killer!" she shouted from the side of the building, her voice still amplified. "Glad to see you're trying to upgrade from pigeons to actual people! I didn't think you had it in you! Maybe then you won't be as worthless a liability to the people you're trying to help as you were to me and my medical research!"
If she showed any signs of anger, an eye twitch, a dark look, a pause, looking down, whatever, Diana would amplify that anger. If that didn't seem to do anything interesting she'd try something else instead. Maybe like, disappointment or insecurity? That seemed like it might do something.
ACTION: Interference (Illusion) on Faye
Rira's eyes wavered back to the Isabello that had struck her. It was evident that he, out of the three, would fire first and while he had successfully taken her off guard, it was Rira's time to attack. She stopped for a moment, her mind wandering. Deep inside she felt nostalgic about Faye being next to her while they fought this guy. It was the irksome kind of nostalgia. It felt as if the day would repeat itself. While it was true that her intentions were different back then, it felt as bad this time.
Quicky, she forced her thoughts away and instead started whispering in a language long forgotten. Her short chants managed to summon liquid from the ground bellow Vieri as it would mould into large spiders and cradle his legs, stabbing their sharp legs into his in turn.
Action: Aggression (Disruption) on Vieri
Wait a minute... Crew realized something, as if train of thought had just smacked into the side of his head. That kid from earlier, he was at Shanghai before too. Along with the human battery and his know-it-all girlfriend. He'd thought that kid was behind whatever was happening back then, or at least knew who. He never got the chance to find out, but this time, it seemed his stance was crystal clear.
He was here help in the the further destruction of the city. He'd show him quick how wrong a decision that'd be. (Crew unleashes another shockwave of compressed space toward's Jack.)
Aggression[FIELD] on (Jack)
Aggression (Force) against Rira
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Interference (Corruption) by Jack Mason against Crew results in SUCCESS, +10% combat advantage
Interference (Illusion) by Diana against Faye Popescu results in SUCCESS, +10% combat advantage
Aggression (Force) by Crew against Jack Mason results in PARTIAL success due to suppression by the lesser Interference (Corruption) Jack Mason used, +10% combat advantage
1. Return immediately to conducting your business as usual. This isn't such a big deal, after all. +5 Zenith, +55 Impact, Shanghai becomes a chaotic place where mages act in the open
2. Modify your city planning to stand up better to the occasional errant mage attack. You've made too many enemies to ignore. +15 Zenith, +35 Impact, Shanghai becomes an orderly place fortified against mage and mundane alike
Post by Vieri di Adatto Isabello on Jul 11, 2018 19:26:38 GMT -7
Vieri had pulled back a short ways after his first punch. Chain lady could make chains, but besides that he wasn’t all the way sure what she could do. On first glance it looked like an absurdly specific power that wouldn’t do much of anything, at least compared to other mages like Frosty with his army of walking weapons or Diana and her ability to blow anyone else’s ability out of the water. What was she going to do, stick metal chains in front of people who could blast their way through steel? Keep them in one place while they just started attacking from a distance? He could truly feel himself shaking in his boots.
He knew better than to underestimate a mage, though, and he wasn’t going to start believing one got slapped with underpowered abilities today. Especially not after she’d used those chains to yank a giant hole in several of his buildings.
What had been getting a bit of space between her and him to prepare for another electric swing at her face, however, quickly turned into one of his fears. She was indeed trying to trap him in place, and something weird was coming out of the ground.
“The fucking hell?!” He shook his foot at the odd goop coming up from the street. His alarmed shout quickly turned into a yell of pain as the spider… things dug into his legs.
Vieri responded like he was being climbed on by a giant spider. Electricity burst out from him, still none exploding but acting like someone had taken an axe to a large power generator. Despite being grounded via metallic spider, a large bolt of electricity arced out from his outstretched hand over to the chain caster, strong enough to leave black burns on large patches of skin.
He flailed against the spiders a little more, trying to push and kick them off of him. “The hell even are your powers?! Look, Twirls, get you and your friends the hell out of here or I’m going to keep zapping you. You’ve got three seconds to get your ass moving, and three seconds after that I’ll zap your friend over there.” He gestured with his head towards the pigeon killer. His attempt at commanding the battle was somewhat lessened by the wince of pain on his face. “And get these goddamn spiders off of me, would you?!”
As she tended to do in these kinds of things, Diana took her spot next to Vieri to back up his threatening words. Because someone had to or there'd be maybe a 50/50 chance that he'd be taken seriously. Though this time she didn't get too close because she didn't want to be poked at by the spiders, instead only getting close enough to lightly tap them with her spear to gauge their hardness. Were they as hard as the chains, or would they be more stabbable?
She didn't have much to add to his speech. Diana figured she'd wait for everyone to leave and then he'd ask her to go patrol around to make sure no one was trying anything or something while he cleaned up the remains of the business meeting. Or maybe she'd go survey the damage instead. Normally she'd be more annoyed about it, but she was happy to have any excuse to get out of that stuffy meeting room for the time being. Though odds were still high that she'd just ditch him for something more entertaining at this point. Tolerating that meeting was a serious drain on her patience.