Mosaic City, located along China's coast, is quite large city sometimes called the Crossroads Between Nations due to its diverse population. While it was once a large tourist spot, the city was placed under a blockade as the military appeared claiming there was a radiation leak. The true hazard, however, is much more sinister.
Post by John Nicholson on Jun 15, 2014 14:41:36 GMT -5
Curse these winds! The gale pulling at John had caused his shot to go wide. the shell had caused little more than some damage to the rollercoaster the drake was roosting on. To make matters worse, a shadow equaly antagonistic as the dragon suddendly entered the fray, spreading a putrid blast amongst everyone. John felt himseflbe affected by the poison but was soon provided relief by an allied user's healing abilities, the poison had caused little more than sme minor nausea.
John was unsure what target to focus on. The choice was made for him by a vicious blast of fire originating from the drake. John was rather painfully burned by the flames, and then thrown of his feet by the drake's violent takeoff to boot.
Another wave of healing washed over the battlefield soon afterwards though, and an invigorated John stood up from the ground. He looked up towards the now airborne drake, then towards the fiery giant. Unsure about what target to fire at next, John decided to instead blast both targets. He called forth his persona and sent a blast of force hurtling at both the giant and the dragon.
action: heat wave at tristan and the dragon
Last Edit: Jun 15, 2014 14:41:49 GMT -5 by John Nicholson
Looks like another Shadow just had to attack the entire party. Was that a fire monster that she just saw? It looked like one of those fire giants from Norse mythology. Anyway, the drake Shadow managed to dodge some of her cohort's attacks and also dealt some more damage, only to be healed of all injuries. It also looked like her poison went away thanks to one Persona User's ailment curing spell. The entire party would have get some buffs going, but there was nothing that they could do to get back some speed. "Another Garu!" The skeletal bird screeched again as he released another small green tornado at the dragon. There was only hope that they wouldn't get slowed down by the dragon's speed.
Post by Ringo Shiro on Jun 15, 2014 20:01:55 GMT -5
Ringo looked over at a shadow that appeared. Like last time, it seemed like they were going to have company. He winced as he endured the sword attacks. The flames were not helping the pain, however, Ringo is still able to hold on.
The dragon lifted back up into the air and once more unleashed a breathe of fire. Ringo tried to take cover behind all the junk and debris he created with his earlier attack but he could still feel the heat of the attack. The dragon started to fly off. Ringo looked up in the air and his eyes glowed.
Tokoy seeped out of his body and sent a jolt of electricity over at the drake.
Post by Amane Mana on Jun 15, 2014 21:37:00 GMT -5
Amane was not doing well. With being hit by the new shadow's attack, and also feeling the intense flames of the demon drake, she wasn't going to lost long if she didn't think of something new. Amane managed to get healed up by the other persona users. She watched as the drake started to fly off. Amane's eyes began to glow. It started to fly away but she can get it down.
'Garula!" Viviane appeared and sent another spiral of wind. She woudl like to deal with the shadow but the drake would be easier to take down at the moment.
Xain stood dumbstruck as a large, fiery demon appeared and started talking to the friendly shadow. Scans stated that the creature was a shadow, but... The android realized he had little experience with demons. He could be having difficulty differentiating the two.
Not that it mattered. The creature swung a giant, flaming sword and somehow poisoned some people. Then, the drake: dodged Xain's attack, breathed fire on him, slashed at him and some others, then went into the air. Luckily, someone quickly healed everyone.
With a sigh, Xain summoned Dominion again. He readied another Poison Arrow before launching it at the airborne dragon.
((Poison Arrow on drake)) Poison Roll: u7NP80xb1-4 1-4
Post by James Kamimaru on Jun 15, 2014 22:37:34 GMT -5
Well, shit... Kami realized that he wasn't just fighting against a giant fucking dragon. No, now he found himself fighting against a giant fucking dragon and a giant fucking flame demon. The demon, armed with a large as hell flame sword, swung and somehow created a poisoning effect with it. Kami, as soon as he was hit, started vomiting and screaming at the same time.
Then the giant dragon breathed out some fire, which hurt and did nothing to help with the screaming. Of course, it wasn't done. It then clawed out and- as luck would have it- fucking hit the only person who wasn't able to summon some freaky monster. Sill puking his guts up, the boy saw the dragon take flight.
He then felt winds buffet him painfully, and Kami's will broke. He drifted off to oblivion, unaware of what else would occur for the rest of the fight.
Post by Gin Takemoto on Jun 16, 2014 0:58:24 GMT -5
Gin heard the approach of another shadow, who then spoke to the large cat. "I suppose that's a good thing to know. Although I don't intend on switching sides, even though it looks like you aren't sure of which side you wish to be on." The tiger grinned a large, toothy grin. He needed to focus on the dragon, who only succeeded in dealing minor damage to it's sole shadow adversary.
Gin prepared to launch more light when he felt another shadow approach. He turned to watch a man become an angel and attack the flame shadow. Good lord, this is getting complicated, Gin thought to himself. Still, he launched another ball of energy into the sky in hopes of the light shining down on the dragon.
More trouble quickly showed up in the form of another shadow. Or...Pyxis thought it was more trouble, but for whatever reason, it completely ignored everything else and went straight after the fire giant. Pyxis blinked a couple times, but quickly decided to just roll with it. It was pretty clear from past experience and her conversation with Sakuya a few months ago that shadows could have grudges against each other. Maybe that was the case here. So unless it turned against the rest of the group as well, Pyxis would let the angelic shadow do its thing, and deal with it later if necessary. Meanwhile, the dragon had taken flight again, so she directed Prometheus to conjure another star-like mass of light, that shot piercing bolts out in all directions. With how it was actively trying to evade attacks, the best she could do was hope for area saturation.
And, for that matter, for the fire giant to get hit in the process.
[Action: Star Tarantella] Confuse roll - Tristan wbNqMbPc1-41-4
Post by Jaelyn Callahan on Jun 16, 2014 1:59:55 GMT -5
"Good to hear. I'll...shit," Jaelyn started, before placing herself between Setsuna and a second oncoming fire attack from the dragon. Again, she managed to block it, but quickly recognized that staying here and trying to defend someone was severely limiting her options. Especially when the shadow followed up by swiping its claws at her, then creating a gust of wind as it took off. The wind, despite being her own weakness, wasn't particularly powerful. But it just served to hammer home the point that she was going to get herself hurt if she kept playing defensive.
"Alright. I'll be around if it gets really bad, but for the most part you're on your own from here. Try not to end up like that guy." She gestured towards one of the other people who ended up in the path of the drake's claws, and was now lying on the ground unconscious. "I'm sure you'll be fine, though." With that vote of confidence, Jaelyn turned her attention back on the flying black monstrosity, conjuring another massive star-like fireball high above the battlefield. It flared out in all directions, creating a gigantic explosion in the sky while the heat from the blast washed back over the ground. Not that she really expected the fire demon thing to be affected by it.
[Action: Tank fire attack for Setsuna +50% Trisagion]
Post by Ayakura Alisa on Jun 16, 2014 3:06:52 GMT -5
The battle raged on. The drake lunged back, climbing the roller coaster backwards (somehow) and tried to dodge some of the attacks. It began to inhale again before releasing a furious breath of fire on us, but again, the flames did nothing to me. It charged forth and slashed at a good number of us, before flying again and sending strong gusts, but they didn't really hurt at all. However, it was now airborne and only ranged attacks could probably hit it. I had my automatic crossbow so I was fine, though. It just occurred to me that one of the people who was attacked was also one who had no idea what he was doing here and ended up being knocked out after being brutally beaten senseless. I'd wager he was a civilian from how broken he was. That was a shame. To complicate matters, yet another Shadow appeared - some angelic figure - this one I didn't recognize again, but they immediately attacked the flaming demon, so I left them alone.
I raised my crossbow at the drake and began to open fire. I hadn't got much of a choice here to be quite frank!
(( Action: LV5 Pierce attack [Automatic Crossbow] on Drake ))
Post by Setsuna Hanamori on Jun 16, 2014 3:25:40 GMT -5
Once again, Jaelyn shielded Setsuna from the drake's fiery breath. While she was grateful, it didn't take a genius to know what this was not only leaving Jaelyn open, but also limiting the things she could do. Thus, when she chose to leave Setsuna on her own, she nodded. She didn't like it, but she understood. Setsuna needed to be able to hold her own, without someone protecting her. Besides, she wasn't nearly as fragile as she was when she first started out, when that Musha overwhelmed her with a single Agilao. Granted, both of them were caught off-guard by its appearance, but still. Setsuna was, if nothing else, determined to never feel so weak and helpless again. If she could manage that, she'd be fine.
After attacking,the dragon took to the air, and even that resulted in some minor wind damage. It looked like it was fairly far away, meaning any sort of melee attack was now useless. Not that she had planned on charging after it with her wooden swords, but even so. However, she was pretty sure her Persona's spells could reach them. As such, she summoned Undine once again, this time having her launch a blast of lightning at the drake. The others seemed to have Tristan taken care of, so she decided to focus on the big one. She just hoped it didn't have some sort of ridiculous super-attack like the massive death-beam that the slime launched last time. That would kinda suck. So, naturally, just thinking that probably ensured that it would have such an attack.
Post by Tristan Carter on Jun 16, 2014 3:37:13 GMT -5
Tristan grimaced as he was hit by a heavy-hitting pierce attack. He traced its origins back to the User, one who was wearing a maid uniform, who had attacked Gin. He decided that a closer inspection of the Users would probably help. He spotted the girl that he had fought against a car with alongside Maria. She quickly healed the poison from his attacks, he noted. He also saw another who was garbed like a maid. He saw a few others he had never really met, and he saw... Isolde. Well, shit.
He couldn't bring himself to attack her. She was currently the enemy, but he wouldn't do it. If he had been paying attention he wouldn't even of swung his blade at her. And, of course, in order to fully complicate things even more, not only did the maid attack him with a heavy dose of his weakness, but a third[/s] shadow showed up. He, of course, without saying a thing, simply opened fire. "Gah, who the fuck are you?" Tristan asked. "I have no issue with you. But get in my way and you'll become just another target. Understand, brother?"
Tristan didn't care if he was understood or not. He needed to be able to avoid some of these hits. After a layer of Suku or two, he would go back on the offensive. For now, though, he needed to dodge.
Well, this fight was starting to devolve into a good old-fashioned furball. The dragon had taken off after breathing fire and swiping at a few of them, and a couple more shadows had showed up to join the fray. One of which...just went straight for the other. Okay. That was fine. Weird, but fine. If it kept the fire giant distracted, Anna would let the angelic shadow do whatever it wanted. That meant that Anna could hopefully keep focusing on the dragon. She looked up, tracking the dragon as it flew. It was still in range of slug shots, but she only had a couple more loaded. After that, if it didn't come back down she'd have to take off as well to fight at close range. That could wait until the time came, though. Anna loaded another shell so that she had a full magazine again, then took aim and fired up at the dragon.
Post by Layla Amare on Jun 16, 2014 6:47:15 GMT -5
Things had gone weird in the last few minutes. Following the fire giant shadow's opening attack, another one had shown up, just to open fire on it. The dragon had taken off, and was now out of range of all but projectile attacks. But, fortunately, there was no more poison, and no desperate need to take over healing, so Layla was free to attack. And attack she did. At her direction, Vajrabhairava raised a hand holding a vajra high, and a ball of electricity appeared in the air. Then, it expanded, and massive bolts of lightning shot out in all directions from it, more specifically aimed at both the dragon and the fire giant.
They weren't off to a good start. Tonight's battle had four enemies to worry about; even if some haven't tried to attack the humans, that didn't make it safe to ignore them. According to the pattern, the dragon should be the largest threat. Killing that one would neutralize the others. Previously Brynhild figured it'd be faster to focus fire on the main boss, but this time there's too many distractions. If everyone went after the same target, the lesser Shadows could freely take out as many humans as possible.
One boy in particular didn't seem to get back up after the last round of attacks. Too early to determine if he could stand on his own anymore. Brynhild assumed that she sympathized with his position. The same thing had happened to her approximately two months ago. By now she was stronger and better equipped. Even that damned wind did not hurt as badly as before. One of the allies used a recovery technique that healed some of the external damage. She would survive for now, and eventually this kid would learn how to take a hit as well. If he stayed down for much longer, she'd try to revive him once the situation relaxed a little.
First, one of these monsters would have to go. If the dragon is being left alone for the others to handle, then she had to choose between the other three. With such little information to work with Brynhild had a difficult time making a logical decision. She'd have to go for the obvious choice and hope for the best. The one that's literally on fire should be vulnerable to her ice spells, right? Or would the heat melt any attack before it struck? There's no way of knowing unless someone tries, so it might as well be her.
Brynhild pointed at the firey Shadow with the tip of her spear, commanding her Persona to attack. The Berserker pulled out a one handed axe and flung it at the target.