Log:New Year's Eve at Chyoode's, Scene 2

New Year's Eve at Chyoode's 2021/01/15 Artemis Ascendant Chen Chyoode Evander Magda Wade Wayne A'al 	 E'el Y Malingromastavaksiumalaikaosingsonsillys Garby Zwixy 2

The scene: a crowded party at 11:30pm on New Year's Eve. In this student shared house are crowded a many students, and a few heroes and aliens, the latter including two of the hosts (Chyoode and the sheep-girl Y) and Chyoode's twin brothers, A'al and E'el. (Apparently the third host, Dan, is about somewhere, likely upstairs.)

Into this increasingly merry crowd have teleported Garby and Zwixy, from (according to Magda) their overhead flying saucer. "Hand over the twins, A'al and E'el - they are ours!" they said. At which point the twins made exits in two different directions - one through a window and one through the front door. They also made a considerable mess, forgetting that they have super strength on Earth, and the crowd screamed as splintered window and door exploded. Chen's r4esponse of "By what authority and right do you make such a claim?" is as yet unanswered. 

Chen waits to see if she gets an answer. Ignoring a knock on the doorframe. That's for the residents to deal with.

Garby eyes Chen. "Why - what are they to you?"

Chen says, "The same as most everyone else at this party. Friends of my friend."

Magda looks towards the companion she showed up with, another woman from the Indian subcontinent, who looks to be backing warily away from the scene. The two exchange a look, and the Indian woman nods. Magda -- or rather, Korkoro, since she's in the body armor -- turns back towards the teleporters. "On Earth," she suggests, a lifting of both hands floating her a foot or so into the air.

"Then you have no claim to them?" says Garby to Chen.

The Stranger is quite naturally chatting up a hu-man female, testing out his latest hu-man model with a surprising amount of success when the sound of the door and windows exploding gets the Godflora's attention from across the house.

He frowns and says to the young woman who will be much better off without the godling in her life, "Excuse me."

The of course he jumps into the action- by going out the back then around the building and becoming his 'normal'- Ascendant self as he steps through the wall.

He says, "This Party is under the protection of the Godflora. Stay your force or I shall remove thee. Decline this appeal for peace at your own peril."

Chen says, "Claim? No. We don't do slavery in this great U.s. of A. Protect them against such claims? Yes."

Zwixy sneers. "We are not claiming them as slaves. We claim them as our mates!"

The Ascendant raises and eyebrow in surprise.

Wade and Wayne both hadn't heard the initially demand. Wade says, "That...wasn't what I was going to guess. I would have said bounty hunters." Wayne nods, and points to Wade, "Yup. Absolutely."

Chen is flabbergasted for a few moments. Then mutters, "You aren't related to praying mantises are you?" as she considers the rapid exits.

NNS eyes the females, recognizing the species all too well from his youth. He laughs aloud.

"The Youth are fools- didn't they know Entactelite females claim all who join them in their beds as territory? This may not be a job for a Godflora- I am not Messenger of Love & Lust you know!" He says- not specifically to anyone just out loud.

Chen hears Ascendent's comment, and laughs. "OH!"

Chyoode looks horrified. "Honestly, A'al, E'el? You didn't!"

Wade raises a hand. "Guild law doesn't recognize any such claims, though. And certainly Earth doesn't either."

Zwixy nods. "We know. This is personal. Don't get in our way..."

Artemis may be a goddess of Love and Lust, given her knowledge of entities and aliens across the universe. Or at least of Battle Lust. She chuckles at knowing of their ways, having experienced it first hand once upon a time. "Hail, Entactelites! Thou knowst that such claims be not legal as Friend Wade has announced," she motions to him. "In truth, even on thy planet, it is not always legal, and 'tis not recognized beyond thy planet, much as thy loins demand such. Fret not! Thy urges will refocus when next ye mate. Such was so with the Entactelite whom pursued me across the stars."

Chen says, "Sorry, girls.. I assume girls... getting in the way IS what we do."

Garby grins. "Fine. We don't mind fighting for our men, do we, Zwixy?"

Chen rubs her hands together, glances at Chyoode, "You really know how to throw a party."

Garby swings at Chen with her power flail, which hums into life, without further ado.

Zwixy stands guard, eyeing the crowd in case anyone else chooses to oppose them!

Chen twists to try and lessen the impact, which just sets her off balance ands makes for traveling further. The wall exit is regrettable but at least she sailed up enough that the ceiling was damaged but nobody else was hurt. "Idiots. You could have hurt someone here!" she rages.

Indeed, a number of screaming partygoers only avoided injury by throwing themselves to the floor.

From outside, there's a cry of dismay. "Damn! They've got a force field all round the house!"

Chyoode starts trying to usher her guests away from the fight.

Artemis looks to Chen where she yells beyond, then back to Garby and Zwixy. "Oh cowardly act! Thou did not issue a challenge before striking! If thou both wish to fight for mating rights, take this beyond these walls," she decries them. She hasn't got her shield or sword with her, but her dress has splits along the sides to allow for some movement. She flies suddenly toward Garby, then loops up and over in a twist-flip to maneuver behind her and attempts to grab her before flying further out the door.

Close quarters aren't great for such a maneuver. Her attempt to surprise Garby was well broadcast, and her hands fail to close on her target as she flies through the door and halts outside.

Close quarters aren't great for such a maneuver. Artemis' attempt to surprise Garby was well broadcast, and her hands fail to close on her target as she flies through the door and halts outside.

Zwixy lashes out at Artemis with her baton, her tentacle "hair" affording her good reach. "We made our intentions clear! And she made it clear she was opposing us!"

The psionic field generated by the baton shock Artemis!

Artemis cries out in actual pain from the strike, clutching her head after.

Wade sees Artemis get hit...and closes the distance to Zwixy quickly, trying to drive his foot into her side. He does have his shield bracer with him, but he needs to pull his jacket off first. He manages to get the jacket off mid-strike...but doesn't manage to get the shield turned on just yet.

Zwixy is no slouch herself, and dodges the blow - by a whisker.

Magda looks, for a moment -- disgusted? Contemptuous? -- of the actions being taken by the alien pair, but while the two are being engaged (read: distracted), she swoops out of the house, then above it, to draw the power being supplied to the force barrier surrounding the house to herself instead.

The force field is hardly affected, so strong is it!

The Ascendant considers the situation and comes to a landing. "I shall not interfere in the wooing rituals of Tauborn- but I am a Messenger of Ritual Madness & Festive Merry-making, so - I can't have thee breaking up a perfectly good party. Or as I'm told the hu-mans would call it a good 'shin-dig'. What a altogether charming word. Words like that are one of the many reasons I have chosen to stay on this world. I like that one especially. It is just is so ... 'cloppy' and quaint. 'Shiinnn-diiiig'." He remembers himself and straightens up as Garby tries to seperate Chen's head from body. He sighs as everyone piles in.

A brief flash of bemused anger flashes across his perfecgtly sculpted face when his Noble Sister is struck with the baton. He's about to act in her defense when Wade leaps in right away. This seems like an excellent opportunity to him- so with a knowing smirk he relents on his tirade, pausing to watch his Bloodbound's favored mortal with keen interest. As he does he plucks a pastry treat from the table nearby and putting it into his mouth.//Hold, since there's no salvaging the party- also the groceries just arrived, so this will give me an out to deal with frozen stuff and be back hopefully in time for my turn.

The teen takes a pocketwatch out of his hoodie pocket and opens it. And as he does, he fades from most people's senses. The teenager then takes an acrobatic leap to get closer to whichever one the 'aggrieved' aliens is closest.

Evan thinks <Great day to elave most of the toys at home. Well, let's see what I can do, these gyus are endagnering the sheeple...

Wayne seems to freeze entirely, remaining standing still, facing the two aliens.

The partygoers - those that haven't already thrown themselves on the ground to escape being squashed, crushed, blasted, or similar - rush away from the fight. Some run upstairs. Some run out the holes which were once door, window or wall. Many push into the kitchen. Unfortunately, speaking of sheeple, the latter stampede triggers Y's natural defense of extremely rapid hair growth! The doorway to the kitchen (and so, alas, the drinks) is now blocked by a massive woolly ball! Which saves Y from bring trampled, but unfortunately cuts off escape for several people. Worse, three startled students are now entangled in her hair itself!

Chen stands being careful not to knock over or impede the flleing partygoers. She shifts while standing into an elderly Shaolin Monk. "Now what was it? Tiger style? Scorpion? Uh, yeah, that was it. Drunken Master Style. The Monk wavers seemingly unsteadily with arms waving randomly. One arm elongates, taps Garby on the left shoulder, then curls to the right and forms into a classic double gourd shaped Chinese wine container. Chen then attempts to smack Garby hard over her head with the fake wine container.

Garby's force field flashes as it deflects much of the blow; still, that clearly hurt her.

Chen snarks, "Have a drink on me."

Artemis still has her wits about her as her hands lower from her temples. "Thy clubs sting the mind with surprising intensity. And I see thee can withstand a blow from the Mighty Chen Li! Then I need not hold back in this battle," she grins excitedly. "Should thee wish to forfeit and plead mercy, we can end the violence. Merely say that ye yield!" Offer given, she flies toward Zwixy and above the ground enough that she ends above the alien as she draws back her arm to unleash a mighty punch downwards at her.

Zwixy gives a cry of pain and is knocked off her feet (though she catches herself with her tentacles).

Wade turns on his shield bracer, and then spins, switching targets. He takes a swing at Garby, using the edge of his shield to strike with.

Garby doesn't seem much hurt by that, but, to her surprise, she is knocked off her feet. "These Earthers are much tougher than I expected!" she comments. I though this planet was supposed to be 'Mostly harmless'!?"

Ascendant is not one to give up easily, so while he watches and mulls over the situation he chews thoughtfully.

"This Mortal truly is a master craftsman. I shall have to have him deliver his decadant delights to my door regularly." He says aloud when an idea strikes him.

He turns his attention to Garby- summoning his Spiritbrand - a spear, though much smaller than usual due to the tighter confines. Then he hurls the compressed willpower lance at Garby.

Zwixy nods. "Better turn shields up to full."

Garby looks confused. "How on Entactel did A'al get outside the shield?!"

"It looks as if you might want to hurry and let these Hu-mans free, and leave the home of Chyoode in peace, lest your quarry escape thy affections." The Ascendant NNS says to Garby with a wry smile before casually leaning against - well nothing, but he certainly sells the lean.

"No wait - some sort of illusion! These Earther have unsuspected powers," says Garby. "We'd best just grab the guys and run!" So saying, she turns moves a control on her wrist, causing her force fiels to brighten, lifts herself to her feet with her tenttacles and runs out of the front door in pursuit of A'al, stretching a tentacle forth to stun him with her baton.

She delivers a perfect head blow to her erstwhile lover - who, to her astonishment, remains conscious, if not coherent!

Zwixy follows the same course of action, other in that it's E'el she pursues.

But she fails even to stun her target.

Chyoode meanwhile is acting as a non-human shield for those trying to get up the stairs.

E'el says, "Doh! We have superpowers on Earth! Hey, A'al! We don't have to run! We can fight the girls off!" So saying, he charges at Zwixy.

It's not clear exactly what E'el attempted. But whatever it was, between unfamiliarity with his powers and drunkeness, he misses Zwixy entirely, and then fails to halt in his high-dash, running straight into the house and onward....

Wade takes the brunt of the impact on his shield and he's sent sprawling, landing over near Y.

Korkoro scowls up at the ship, at the defensive shield, and ruefully acknowledges that getting through the ship-projected barrier is ... probably not going to happen any time soon. Definitely different than the /last/ alien ship she had to deal with, but that one hadn't had people on it before they encountered it. She sighs, dropping down to see if she can't spot either of the 'ladies' who are here to 'claim' their 'mates'. Maybe she can reason with them in some manner or ... another.

Both A'al and Garby, to judge by their reactions, are blinded by the attacks.

Y, after almost being smashes into by an express E'el, becomes even fluffier! (And really hungry, having pushed her body's defences to about their limit.)

Ah -- Korkoro can spot the alien fem outside. While draining their tech would be a good move, she can't spread the effect so far as to start siphoning off from her allies, so she decides to pick one. Hey, the one that just got flashed is a good target ...

Chen is just a little angry at what happened to Wade. Yes, it was one of Chyoode's brothers but the cause was the alien females. She fuses two additional arms into a sharp hard point, summons all of the arger and strength, and looks for a field emitter. That will be her target if she can see one. If not, center of mass. That craft is history if she has her way.

Ascendant is impressed by Wade's sacrificial catch to return to the frey, inspired.

"By your sacrifice, Wade of Lockwood I am moved to intercede despite being certain it is not my place- yet, I cannot leave such a noble act unrewarded. I will not allow them to depart with their retrieved lovers." He says before going ghostly & taking flight once more. As he exits the house he looks to Artemis and asks her loudly, "Sister! Do you recall how we stopped the Laervon Invasion on Prais XI?!"

Without waiting for an answer he continues his flight flies up! UP! UP!!! As he goes he too looks up for the source of the shield & presummably their escape.

He flies up and attempts to breach the shield & the hull of the ship above. His plan is simple: break their mode of conveyance, from the inside. Then they are free to have their lover's quarrel in the front yard.

Ascendant solidifes on the inside of the ship and then looks for the clsoes control cluster so he can put his fist through it.

Ascendant has definitely slain that control panel. Which looks like it *might* be the shield controls, given the diagram showing above it.....

And indeed the panel was so labelled. Before it was smashed. The shields are now jammed on their current settings, it appears.

Artemis's head turns to Wade's heroic stance that rescues many. She laughs heartily. "Well done, Friend Wade! Thou hast saved the day and the new year by protecting the party goers!" She spies Wayne frozen in place, but unharmed by the charge. "And my Beloved!" she adds to the list of those saved. When Nohrbor reminds her of the Laervon Incasion, she looks up suddenly on concern. "Oh ye love-lusted Entactelites, ye may wish you surrender before mine Brother rains thy ship upon all our heads," she warns. With the ship still stable for now, she flies toward Zwixy and aims a speared hand towards her throat.

Zwixy makes a strangled cry.

This isn't going well at all. They;re not going to leave their men behind, but Garby is blinded, and someone is on the ship, according to an urgentlly flashing light! So Zwixy engages the autorecall for her and Garby. The two disappear in a Star-Trekish transporter effect. Then, seeing Ascendant ahead of her, Zwixy lashes out at him with her baton.

But she misses.

E'el wobbles over and apologises to Wade. "I'm sorry, man, I didn't mean to hit you... not used to having powers... *hic*!"

A'al gropes round blindly for his assailant.

Wade responds to E'el, now that he has his wits about him. "You could have killed people. Go outside."

It seems that this ship relies on its near-impenetrable shields for defence. Within them, it's only made of steel or something similar... Chen's fist easily smashes through the hull and the machine immediately behind - which, alas, proves to be the gravity drive. As it fails the whole ship begins to fall onto the house....

Chen glances scornfully at the craft, hoping the alien sisters can hear her. "Hello girls. Welcome to Earth. Looks like you'll be staying for a while."