Slightly More Confidently Wasteful Trip [Mod]

[Chidori Tsukino]

Having recovered from her last foray into the outer circle, the brunette knew it was time to gather up her wits about her and get going again. Grabbing her shock & water proof camera, along with her needles, a notepad and a small backpack of supplies (and a little more room, in case she found anything along the way), Chidori consulted her partially-drawn map, from the last time. Well, actually, she consulted a copy of her original map - something more rough and less valuable that she could take in the field until she completed a bigger portion of the cartography. As she approached the sewers after slipping carefully past the faux military blockade, the brunette retraced her previous path, planning to use a simple dead-end cycle technique, where she followed her routes to either a dead-end or a separate exit/entrance, noting it down and then tracing back to the most recent fork and following it through, until she had exhausted all of the open forks and tunnels. Then, and only then, would she begin investigating the different exits/entrances, just in case she got lost from there.

Besides, it gave her plenty to do whilst she explored.

After her last experience down here, the mute was on guard from the get-go, her customised outfit holding needles with ease of access whilst she methodically took pictures of the unexplored portions of her route. She'd quickly navigated to her furthest point of exploration, where the battle with the mage-shadow had gown down, and continued on, pressing forward with a determination that had begun to build. She would do her best to investigate the mystery, and perhaps one day contact her family again. If nothing else, her burning desire to help other aware, and even the unaware, people escape whatever this mess of a situation was, drove her forward. Lucia's presence in the back of her mind kept her calm and collected, ready to act should she stumble across a shadow. Between her notes, photos and memory, Chidori would even be able to gather information on the enemy - to the best of her ability at present anyway. 

Of course, she still rounded corners cautiously; a lesson learned from the last encounter.

[Erithania]

Beware, the Desu Equalizer has appaeared!


Glimmering Tiara

Skills
Agi
Assault Dive

Resists: Fire
Weakness: Ice


Muddy Tiara

Skills

Cleave
Mudo

Resists: Dark
Weakness: Light

[Chidori Tsukino]

Thanks to the caution however, Chidori managed to keep her cool when she took the left hand fork around a corner, only to find her path barred by two bizarre looking shadows - they were like floating masses of hair with a kind of tiara on top; the masks were attached at the main clump of 'hair'. Unfortunately for her, simple numbers made the matter more difficult, and she hadn't really had all that much experience so far. Nevertheless, she was forced to keep her cool for her own safety. She didn't know of their strengths or weaknesses, nor did Lucia subtly provide any information on them. Gritting her teeth, the brunette figured it best to summon her straight off the bat and make the first move - she couldn't really afford to play defensive against two of them.

As the shimmering light around her summoning subsided, Chidori quickly made her decision whilst encapsulated in the bubble at the persona's hem; she would strike the glittering shadow first with her needles and then see if she could follow up with an attack from Lucia - with two of them, she had to pace things so she didn't exhaust herself too soon. Flinging a volley of pointy objects at the somewhat surprised Shadow, she noted that it only stumbled slightly, whilst the other, dirtier-looking one began to advance, summoning up the darkness within it to unleash a Mudo spell. Fortunately for the mute, Darkness was not quite so effective when she had Lucia around, and the attack didn't even faze her. Not wanting to let up on the other Shadow, she pounded away at it, throwing another barrage of needles whilst she commanded her persona to blast it with Hama. Still unbalanced from her first attack, the Glimmering Tiara became practically stunned by the combination attack, promptly collapsing. It didn't seem to be out just yet, as it did not begin dissipating...but it also laid still, not moving.

In the meantime, the other Shadow was advancing, and in her haste to finish off the other one, she'd let it get far too close; with an almost evil shriek, the Muddy Tiara lashed out with a vicious Cleave, slashing at her with a very sharpened whip of 'hair' - her luck had run out, apparently, since Slash was her weakness and the blow hit hard. Staggering to the side, a large cut sliced across Lucia's dress, tearing off a portion of it. As if to reflect the damage to what was essentially a facet of herself, another cut ran across Chidori's leg, bleeding slowly with each heartbeat. Her natural fear of sharp objects kicked her into overdrive; chocolate brown eyes full of fear and even a bit of anger, the mute switched her focus to the closer Shadow, unleashing a double-burst of Light. Much to her surprise, the Tiara shadow practically exploded from the second strike, and the rational part of her mind noted that it seemed weaker to Light-based attacks.

Adrenaline still pumping, Chidori returned her gaze to the other Shadow, which was only now getting back up. Not willing to let her assumptions lead to another mistake but also knowing she needed to keep some of her spells back in order to heal herself, the brunette simply showered the remaining enemy with a hailstorm of needles; soon enough, it too dissipated, leaving the mute alone once more, panting for air. Shaking her head at herself, she eventually managed to regain her composure, solemnly healing herself with a quick Dia spell before slowly, and somewhat tiredly, making her way back out - she'd fought two shadows today, using a few spells and taking a nasty hit in return. It was time for a rest.

After she documented her path, of course.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

Success!

You defeated the enemy!