It's Terminal (Boss)

[Shirako Tachibana]

”I'll heal, if necessary.” Shirako calmly responded to the blonde's inquiry. The lack of fear or hesitation with her response was intended to provide the full response. The fewer words that were shared in a fight, the better. More noise meant less of a chance to catch what really mattered, after all. All that mattered was that she could provide the service, should it have been necessary. What came next was that tiger Shadow from the battle at the full moon. So there were two enemies. Then that was just another target, should she have to attack. More noise came from the one dressed as a maid. She watched the enemy. First came a power thrust of the scalpel. That was directed at the blonde. Then a sweep of the saw. So Pierce for the first, and, going by both the attack's style and the fact that it did nothing to her, Slash. The enemy concluded by unleashing a poisonous attack. The woman felt her pulse throughout her body- on her cheeks, at her finger tips. It was similar to having been hit with a Strike attack, but not as bad.

And, to think, once upon a time, she was never affected by that type of attack. She had gotten rusty.

The poison would wear away her, yes, but she was otherwise fine. The blonde had been targeted the most, and, on top of that, even showed symptoms of being poisoned. The question was whether or not that one participant really demanded a heal. No. She needed to stop assuming the worst with these people in terms of combat capabilities. That last battle might have been sloppy, but no one died. That would not have been the case, had these people been weak. With the enhancing effects on the group, there was no reason to doubt her well-being for the time being. Perhaps in the next round. Instead, feeling it to be fine to focus on the offensive, she willed for Deathbound and recalculated the best point of origin.

The Persona shot forward and twirled, sending out a wave of slicing decimation at the doctor and the tiger!

Action: Deathbound (+50% due to Slash Amp accessory)
Note: 3x Suku; 2x Raku; 1x Taru

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If 1, Critical on doctor.

No roll for Gin, who nullifies Slash.”1-4”

[Alouette Pendleton]

Luckily, Ally's attack seemed to be rather effective. Looks like she didn't need to switch weapons. At least, until she ran out of bombs. It hopefully wouldn't come to that. The doctor attacked everyone with a bonesaw. The attack likely would not have affected her had it hit, but Ally managed to dodge it without a problem. The other blonde girl seemed to be hit with an extremely powerful piercing attack. The was something that Ally definitely had to look out for. I have a heal as well. I'm going to focus on attacking for now though. Her attacks were doing quite a bit of damage. Why stop now? It also seemed that another enemy decided to join in the fray. A tiger. It seemed to think that it was "helping" by fighting the users. She didn't even know who the hell this thing was supposed to be. Was this shadow an idiot then? With a sigh, the girl ignored it and simply tossed another bomb towards the doctor, hoping to land another powerful attack.

Action: Level 3 Strike

Crit Roll (1-3 crit)

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[Holly Mason]

Holly watched everyone's attacks carefully and the reaction that the shadow (soon to be shadows) had to them.  As luck would have it, both of the poor bastards were weak to strike, so that girl in the maid outfit would rip them to shreds.  The short girl would do well too, but it looked like she could only hit one at a time.  It was a pain Holly knew well.  It looked like there were a fair amount of healers here too, though only one spoke with any amount of confidence in her skills.  Holly just gave her an affirmative nod.  She would focus on weakening the enemy for now.  Considering the doctor's big attack was pierce-based, she would likely switch to healing after.

Speaking of the big attack, it certainly looked powerful, but Holly wouldn't know.  Her increased speed allowed her to side step the attack with relative ease, and she was able to chain that step into a duck and a spin to avoid the slash attack as well.  Unfortunately, it was impossible to dodge a poison mist like that, and the poison took hold on her.  Fortunately, it looked like only one other person was hit with it, so most everyone would be fine.  The regeneration on her cancelled out most of the effects of the poison on her health, but it still made her feel sick.

"I'm afraid I can't do anything about this poison.  If someone else can that'd be great because I think the doctor is enjoying this way too much."

The other shadow attacked as well, though it only hit one person.  The person that attacked him at the last full moon.  Great, she was going to have to listen to this argument again?  Well, whatever.  The shadow was helpful at the last full moon, so maybe it just had a weird misconception about what 'helping' actually was.  She doubted it, but if it was going to stick around and attack them it was going to do that regardless.  It's not like talking to it would hurt.

"You're not helping.  Go away."

Then, it was time to further weaken the enemies.  It was a strong ability, but sometimes it made battles a little repetitive for her.

Action: Debilitate
I'd also like to note that we have x2 Tarukaja on us, not x1 and we also have Regenerate 2 and Invigorate 2 on us

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[Pyxis]

It was plain from how the shadow reacted to them that it, too, was weak to Pyxis's attack. She gave a small smile at the sight. With that, the fight was almost certainly in her favor. The enemy could likely do heavy damage to them, but it would only be of so much use when, from the sounds of it, they had at least one healer more competent than her.

The light adorning Elpis's body faded as her charge was expended, but it still remained noticeably bright. Meanwhile, the shadow attacked the group, first stabbing the blonde girl with its scalpel (or rather, failing to), then hitting all of them with the bonesaw. Pyxis was right about its cutting power, but even after that she was still in good condition. Her armor was much stronger now than it had been in the past, after all. Her course of action seemed set now. Leave healing to those who could heal better, and attack the enemy with the most devastating moves she had.

For that, though, she'd need to charge up again. Focusing her energy, she concentrated another charge through her Persona, causing Elpis's hair and dress to regain their initial brilliance.

[Action: Power Charge]

[Gin Takemoto]

Gin grimaced; he had been attacked with a powerful Strike attack. It was easily the strongest attack he had been hit with, and he needed to deal with that. One woman tried a Slash attack, which was useless; another was actually nice enough to bluntly tell him to leave before weakening him. The tiger shook its head at the woman before turning to the doctor.

"My diagnosis," Gin jokingly said, "is that you're not going to leave here alive. I know of these humans, have fought with them before; they're pretty strong. Best thing I can do is keep you alive as long as possible. Have fun, because I'm not going to be able to do much."

With that said, Gin healed himself and the other shadow. He knew there was no winning this fight, but he might as well make it a challenge for the Users.

When his spell failed, the tiger looked at the girl who had actually landed an attack. He tried to speak, but his words were starting to mingle and become jibberish. Thus he knew what it was. He started to scream curses, although none would know exactly what he was saying. Then he felt the pain, and realized his spell had done the opposite of what he was trying to do. He had hurt himself in the confusion.

((Mediarama for the Shadow side hurt himself))

Confuse Roll:
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[Bossu-senpai]

Their ability to keep themselves healthy hasn't been demonstrated yet. That piqued a bit of curiosity within the Shadow; how did they maintain their body image? They all looked well... save for the few who were poisoned by his accidental overdose of shadow-brand, specialized anti-bacterial spray™.  As he took a small break from his various acts of malpractice, another series of hits made contact. There was little variation from the types of attack from before. The effectiveness was still the same for each of the types. Strike abilities were still especially effective upon him, and them slashies were still neutrally effective. He was far from exhausted, though. Overall, more pounding, but a little less than before. There were small signs of weakness, however. They were strong, but the operation must continue.

Skillfully, the good doctor spun his scalpel between his fingers. A little idle playing with blades couldn't hurt, right? It kind of did. The surgical tool flew off and was sent directly downwards upon Tristan, dealing severe pierce damage on his poor soul should it make contact. Crap. He pulled the blade out of the ground and very nearly had it slip again when he flipped it back onto its correct side. Thank the gods that it didn't.

Hm... they didn't look cut-open enough. To remedy this, the doctor attempted to call in the bonesaw. The arm, however, malfunctioned for a few sweet seconds. Instead of the intended horizontal slice, it went for awkward vertical chops. It didn't even come close to hitting Tristan and Pyxis, but everyone else would be dealt major slash damage if they didn't dodge.

If that spray from before didn't work as he had intended, the next course of action was to use another spray. A mechanical arm carrying an obviously-toxic bucket  lowered itself so its long nozzle was level with the Users. A green gas was, once more, sprayed onto the battlefield. It was the same damn anti-bacterial. The arm was withdrawn with a whir, and shame fell upon the Shadow. Ally has been poisoned!

These mistakes were building up! He'd get fired for sure, wouldn't he? There was still some pride burning inside of him for making them, though. He smelled the recently-applied 'perfumes' upon the three victims, and continued to suffer from both physical and emotional restoration by seeing their sick and unwell selves. With a third, this joy only increased.

[Tristan Carter]

Tristan was mad. Not only was the doctor unaffected by the exhaustion from his attack, but Gin was completely unaffected by any part of the attack. Then he was almost hit hard by the scalpel if it wasn't for the buffs applied.

Tristan noticed that nobody had tried fire yet. In fact, it didn't seem anyone had actually try any magical elements. With a small shake of his head, Tristan summoned Ifreet. He was doing relatively little damage with his Slash attacks when compared to the others; he might as well try something else.

He fired his spell, hoping that it would work on one or both of the shadows.

((Maragion))

Dodge scalpel
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[Shirako Tachibana]

It seemed as though her slashing abilities were of no use against the tiger. A shame. In other words, she was only useful against the doctor as far as her offensive capabilities were concerned. The enemy used another three-way combo; a Pierce attack on one person, followed by an area-sweep of Slash, then a poison cloud. Again, the Pierce was directed elsewhere. She didn't bother avoiding the Slash, taking no damage from it. As for the poison. . . well, she was already poisoned. Not much else could be worse in that fashion, for the time being. All in all, there was little for her to do. They were effectively holding their own. Still, the poison would prove to be bothersome, and there was no telling when the enemy would manage to unleash a powerful attack. For that reason, she opted to heal the group while the option was available.

Yaksa dropped back from the front of the battle. Then, lifting his blades, he reacted to the woman's will. With two clinks of the blades, the entity produced a healing wave that washed over the Users. It would be the only way she could battle the poison until it wore off.

Action: Mediarahan


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[Holly Mason]

Holly rubbed her forehead as the cat refused to leave.  While she wouldn't exactly call the group of people that showed up to fight the enemies on the full moon a 'team,' having someone of questionable allegiance there would make the entire thing more complicated than it needed to be.  Now she was just wondering why he bothered showing up and helping them during those fights at all.  Well, it was a discussion for another time.  The image of the boy and this shadow fighting each other was just still fresh in her mind, so it was difficult to not think of at least a little.  At least the kitty would be more of a danger to itself than it was to them for awhile.

The doctor shadow managed to hit her this time, but the wounds were almost immediately healed by the other healer.  It felt like her heal was on par with her own, which was nice.  They could switch between attacking and support as necessary.  Holly's regeneration buff was doing a good job of keeping the poison damage at bay at least, even if the poison was still just making her feel pretty shitty.  For her own action, she cast the final stack of Debilitate on the enemy.  Now it was just a matter of deciding whether or not it was worth stacking the last few buffs they needed or if she should just go on the attack.

Action: Debilitate

Dodge dark
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[Gin Takemoto]

With a smile, Gin felt the confusion recede momentarily. He hoped it was long enough to say what he needed to and cast a spell. He looked at the Users amassed. Tristan didn't seem to be able to do anything useful, as his attacks had no effect on the tiger; the women, however, all seemed to be able to do something to benefit the group.

Impressed, Gin spoke. "Well, at least most of you guys can act in a beneficial way. I've got to say, the confusion's a bitch though. That fucking hurt," the tiger laughed. "That said, I'm more than a bit pissed. I know this spell has low odds of working, but.... Well, I should probably do it now, before the confusion sets in again."

With that, the tiger expelled a wave out from him, drowning out the sounds of any it touched.

((Foolish Whisper))
Silence on:
Tristan
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Ally
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Pyxis
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Holly
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Shirako
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[Alouette Pendleton]

Ally's attacks continued to work on the main enemy. Evident by the attacks of one of the other combatants, her attacks would also be extremely effective on the other shadow as well. She seemed to have picked the perfect fight to get into. The doctor slashed at the group once more. Ally knew that it wouldn't do much of anything to her, of course. Not good enough. Pulling out a bomb, the girl rolled it over towards the shadow where it exploded moments later.

As the girl backed up though, she noticed a green gas enter her general vicinity. Inhaling some of it, the girl began feel a little sick. The black haired girl managed to heal everyone thankfully, but only after Ally managed to be afflicted by the poison. Not that it would have done anything about the poison in the first place.

Action: Level 3 Strike

Crit Roll (1-3 = crit)
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[Pyxis]

This time, the shadow doctor didn't even come close to hitting Pyxis with the bone saw. Nor did anything else come her way. But then the tiger kid did something phenomenally stupid. He tried to silence everyone, and from the looks of things, Pyxis was the only one who it actually worked on. That was...troublesome, to say the least. There didn't seem to be anyone among them who could cure ailments, like Chidori had before. If they could, they would have already done so to deal with the poison. That just left Pyxis to deal with it on her own. She did have one thing she could do, and it was of extremely high priority considering their enemies' weakness to strike attacks.

So she pulled out the 'Amrita Soda' she had picked up awhile back and popped it open. She wouldn't be able to drink it, but that turned out to not be an issue. The moment she tried to pour out a drop to test it, the entire bottle's contents flowed out, dissolving into the air and washing over her. She felt the presence of her Persona return as she did.

Yeah, that would do.

[Action: Amrita Soda]
Dodge - Bonesaw
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[Bossu-senpai]

What ever happened to all of those attacks? They were repairing themselves, from the looks of it. Only two aimed to hit him, one introducing a totally new element. Could it be that this was where he would scream in agony at the most annoying attack of all? Nope. The fire was just as neutrally effective as the rest. Meanwhile, the sole strike attack hit him in a particularly bad spot, forcing him to bend forward a bit. To top it all off, he felt utterly horrible. Everything about him felt lame, and the condition of his tool-arms were suffering. For the first time, the doctor felt totally angry.

He was angry at the boy who shot fire at him, when throwing fire around (especially in a hospital) was unsafe to his condition. Do you know what they do to burn victims? The doctor had no clue. What he assumed was that they cut off the burnt parts with scalpels. He held the bladed end at the bottom of his grip, and stabbed down at Tristan for severe pierce damage.

Next off, he was angry at this damn buzzsaw arm for flinging about wildly like a 20s swing-dancer on a caffeine high. When he commanded it to swing, he ripped off the arm and slashed at the party with the buzzsaw, still attached to the arm. As usual, it would deal major slash damage to the every target. However, it missed Tristan, Shirako, and Holly.

Another thing that he was angry at was this gas that he always administered upon them. While effective, it had left much to be desired. A new arm to the battle rose above the party, shaking a spray with a yellow hazard label on it. The vial under the nozzle contained an eerily black liquid. The Shadow sprayed more than enough on his enemies, dealing moderate dark damage to the whole team save for Tristan. It seemed that it was supposed to have another effect, but the dosage administered appeared to be ineffective on all of them.

Finally, he was angry at those shapes that those little people would call upon. They were the ones hurting him the most. What were they, guardian angels? The only angels they'll be seeing are in the afterlife, which he was trying to keep them away from. The known-to-be-poisonous antibacterial was up next, the nozzle letting loose its green spray on everyone once more. Luckily, nothing happened.

There were still poisoned among them, saving him some inward happiness that continued to physically revitalize his body. The doctor still had plenty of fight left in him.

[Holly Mason]

Last round was a little messy since their biggest damage dealer was silenced, but it looked like she had the means to deal with it fortunately enough.  It was too bad no one could get rid of this damn poison.  Even if the regeneration buff she gave all her allies was handling the worst of the effects it still looked like just being poisoned was healing the doctor shadow.  Holly clicked her tongue.  Well, if it was going to heal itself it just meant that she had to hit it even harder.

The cat shadow didn't attack last round, so there was no damage done from that.  The doctor's main attack may have hurt one of the other users, but it looked like it missed him with the other attacks.  Holly herself managed to dodge all of his attacks, and it looked like his accuracy didn't fair much better against everyone else.  Healing was probably not necessary this turn, though if the other healer disagreed she could always do it herself.  With the debuffing done, and healing not being necessary for now, it was a matter of deciding whether or not to attack herself or making everyone else's attacks better.  Given how effective some of the others' attacks were, the answer was clear.  The team was enveloped in an orange light, maxing out their attack power.  

Now it was time to beat this thing into a puddle.

Action: Tarukaja
Users have:
x3 Tarukaja
x2 Rakukaja
x3 Sukukaja
Regenerate 2
Invigorate 2

Shadows have:
Debilitate x3

[Pyxis]

Pyxis took another hit from the bonesaw, and was in fact the only one to do so this time around, but that was of little issue. She was ready to attack again, and that was much more important. Elpis materialized again with a thought, still retaining the charge she had built up before being silenced. And with another buff from the blonde girl, she felt her power reach its peak. Perfect. Time to lay into these shadows with everything she had. She didn't see 'Gin' as anything different at the moment. He'd shown his true colors. He was an enemy, no matter what he was saying.

So Pyxis attacked again, directing Elpis to call down another rain of meteors. Falling rocks appeared in the air above both shadows, then came down on them in rapid succession, as though they really were just raining from the sky. Pyxis's charge faded as the rocks fell, with all the built-up energy being poured into the attack. From here, she probably wouldn't charge between attacks anymore. Not if Gin was going to continue trying to silence her.

[Action: Power Charged Agneyastra]
Dodges: Bonesaw, Darkness
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