Log:Rift Crisis II, Scene 4

Rift Crisis II 2019/02/08 Blok Copycat Jennifer Kaelyn Sentinel Wade Wesley

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Jennifer shouts out, "Avoid being hit by the glowing swords. Magic or somesuch. They cut right through anything except the glowing armor."

Copycat gets an alert on her smartwatch's Sentinel alerts. She keeps tabs on Griffin, just like he keeps tabs on her. This alert is from one of the kids having snapped photos of the incident and Sentinel fighting skeletons and getting injured. That...can't be right. That's not possible. But still, Copycat shapeshifts into the fastest person she knows and appears on the scene...as Sentinel. Briefly, before she shifts back into herself.

Wesley heads into the graveyard, jogging as fast as he can, arriving just now. He seems surprisingly unphased by the jogging here with his endurance, but takes a moment to catch his breath anyway out of habit. He stares at the scene of the skeletons with the swords with some fear, having never seen anything like this before. "...whoa."

Jennifer saw what happened to Griffin. Someone she admires. So she needs to make the glowing swords her priority. Not even trying to hide her whip use any longer she extends the whip to the nearest mounted sword wielder and tries to remove sword from him. If his boney hand comes too that's a bonus.

Jennifer snatches the sword away from the mounted skeleton. Seems he really wanted to keep it as he refuses to let go. She ends up with sword, hand, and forearm bones. "Ugh."

Wade sees the additional skeletons arriving, and decides he has to start fighting a little more defensively. "We need to get his wound looked at. I can do it, but I'm going to need breathing room." He steps forward and strikes at the skeleton in front of him with his shield, now that he has it finally turned on.

Blok says, "Blok can do, if allowed."

Wade bashes the skull in - and off. But the skeleton is still on its feet!

Wade groans a bit as the skeleton refuses to drop. "Seriously...what the heck does it take to finish them off?"

The arcane bolt seems to be particular effective. The whole skeleton cracks, and bits of bone fall off, though it maintains its general shape.

And another attacker! Well one attacking the skeletons that is.. A quick whispered word can be heard over the din of the fight as a shadow on horse back can be seen raising their hand, and suddenly a ghostly light blue bolt of energy rips lances out of the fog, blowing it out of the way as it zips toward one of the skeletons silently, before striking with a resounding smack, much like a heavy hammer striking hot steel as the thing cracks and hisses after impact.

As the fog clears some, heavy hoof falls can be heard, shortly before a person atop a headless horse? Nope, a person attached to a horse as there are two too few legs, and no horse head. Seems a centaur has joined the fray.

Despite the grievous wounds across his side and chest the SuperSoldier fights on, not daring to let the line fall with him for fear of the children behind being overrun.

It is fitting that those children would bring Copycat to his rescue.

He is still bleeding a strange mix of crimson and golden ichor, glowing with the cosmic energy he's stored up. It almost pours from his peirced flesh.

He's feeling the pain of his wounds- barely fighting off a true grimace as his bio-electric field glows with near untempered energy. Arcs of energy roil off of him, only to be recaptured by the field.

Surprisingly, even with that level of output (and looking a bit having gone full Super Sayian besides the hair) he's fighting very defensively to anyone with an eye for such things & the acuity to see him in action.

Copycat takes in the battle to see where she can do the most good. But seeing Sentinel's current state causes her to gasp. Aside from the fact that this is the first time she's ever seen him look wounded, especially grievously so, there's a scary realization of the danger these skeletons present if they can do that to him.

Deciding to take the high ground, Copycat flies up over the makeshift battlefield, fists glowing with a green charge of bioergy as she looks for the skeleton nearest to Griffin, especially if one is at his back or trying to outnumber him.

The SuperSoldier Sentinel would never strike an animal if it can be avoided, undead or otherwise. His attack is poised perfectly and his mystically-clad target is thrown from his horse.

He clenches his fists and brings them back up to 'starting' position as he pivots on his other foot- clearing his six.

That's when he sees that beautiful bio-energy thrust, telling him Copycat is here.

Copycat blast the left leg off the skeleton, sending it back tumbling head over heels some 16m.

No entry for 'skeleton receives multiple fractures as it tumbles across the ground.'

Copycat calls down to Sentinel, "Got you covered, Big Guy!" She tries to put on some bravado and hold it together until the fight's over. She's been training hard to try and not let emotions get the best of her in the field. That's when mistakes are made. And she's made a lot. Since today she's wearing the green and black variant of her costume with a charcoal gray jacket to match Sentinel (though she's lacking any gold accents), she has to do her best in representing his sidekick or whatever the news calls her now.

The headless, ribless skeleton tries to grab Victory!

In vain.

Similarly, Jenn's *first* disarmed opponent tries to grab her.

In vain.

The unhorsed 'knight' stands up and starts hopping back into the fray.

The knight that Jenn disarmed tries to run her down.

Sentinel can't help but smile seeing his backup arrived and in her matching variant costume no less. He knees wobble as his body fights his will directly.

"You're a sight for sore eyes, Copycat! I could use a few seconds... to... get myself patched up. Think you can hold the line for me?" He shouts back to her.

But Jenn easily evades that.

The skeleton Cat attacked is so damaged it spends its whole Phase standing up on its remaining leg.

Copycat smiles and gives Sentinel a snappy salute. "Copy that." She doesn't even realize the pun until after the words leave her mouth, as others may be able to tell as she cringes on a delayed timer.

A damaged skeleton with a glowing sword charges Griffin....

But luckily this one misses!

The one Kaelyn attacked charges her to return the favour!

But it misses.

The other skeletons swarm the heroes, but ineffectively. Some can't even close with them.

The riderless skeletal horses, as if directed by an outside force, both try to run down Jenn.

Jennifer easily evades the charing skeleton horses. She worked for a time in Undermoon as a stablehand. Charging horses aren't anything new.

Wesley gets over his initial apprehension quickly as the skeletons attack him and he shields himself with his arms, thankfully deflecting them all with his scales. The last hit does seem to make him skid back a few inches, but not even a mark is left on him. He maneuvers a short distance to find a good spot with a glowy sword skeleton and as many normal skeletons as possible, including the skeletons on him, without hitting a hero. He then takes a brief deep breath, before unleashing an inhuman roar. A massive bolt of blue mana shoots out of his mouth, creating what looks like a bolt of lightning, but penetrating and burning anything it touches with raw fire magic.

The archer's arrow catches Copycat below her left collarbone, the arrowhead going clean out the back. It certainly doesn't feel like it, but that's a good thing. It also doesn't sound like it as Copycat clutches the arrow shaft sticking out of her with a cut off cry of pain.

Six skeleton go tumbling, each taking a various sorts of damage.

Blok swings at the closest skeleton, trying to send it To The Moon.

Blok draws back his foot, intending to launch the skeleton high and far, but it sidesteps at the last second, and his foot whooshes past without touching it.

Jennifer reaches out as the second horse races past her and grabs the reins. Then she mounts the horse with a bounding leap and attempts to turn it to move toward Sentinel's back. "I've got your six, Sentinel. Get some healing if you can. Nobody's allowed to die on my watch. I've had that happen too many times already, you hear me."

Wade knows enough about Blok's background that he figures the licensed EMT might be a better choice than himself to look at Sentinel's wounds. "They have to be led by someone or something. This was too organized. I'm going to check, and draw some of them off." He tries to vault over the line of skeletons to make a break for where the charge came from.

Kaeln smashes in the skeleton's face, but the attack was less effective than the previous magic one. The skeleton is still active.

Kaeln smashes in the skeleton's face, but the attack was less effective than the previous magic one. Still, it's enough to take it down.

Incoming Skeleton! As the undead gets closer and lunges for her, Kae rears, getting that bit of body out of the way, then while up turns slightly and lashes out with her forehooves, attempting to use her mass and well bruit force and heavy hooves to try and smash the skeleton apart... As the skull is crushed and the thing falls over... She blinks and then hops up again, smashing with both hooves a few more times, just to make sure.. She then glares down at the thing and pauses a moment... "Dammit Loki? really whole equine fighting instincts?!?!" She calls out and shakes a fist... Yeah, she gets a ghostly chuckle... And the woman moves to where she can shoot at various undead again, with whatver it was she did instinctively before.. "Now to see if I can like conciously control it this time..."

Sentinel nods as Copycat, Jennifer, & Wade all come to his aid- defending him. He doesn't like being caught in this position, but he does love having a team (makeshift or otherwise) to fall back on. It was one of the defining things he learned in the military. If you want to win, you work as a unit. He concedes to that now for the sake of victory.

"Just give me 5 seconds. That's all I need." He shouts before the energy in his field shifts subtly, reversing in polarity and then being drawn in.

Griffin, the Colonial Bay Sentinel begins glowing from the inside out. He spots Kat with an arrow in her shoulder.

He roars angrily as he pools and focuses his cosmic energy - changing the way it effects his cellular makeup.

His muscles clench and tighten all over as he charges up- using the fury of seeing Kat get shot to fuel his forced energetic reconsitution.

Griffin's Toriyama-styled yelling supercharges his body's natural regenerative abilities- healing what would have taken him days to heal otherwise.

His life threatning wounds miraculously stop their outpouring and shrink until they are little more than knicks across his skins. Still, he's looking pretty bloodsplattered and battered.

Copycat winces and holds out her good, yet bloodied, hand. Her wounded arm hangs at her side. Her palm glows as a blast shoots out towards the skeletons in a raking motion.

That green beam of bioenergy sweeps over the battlefield, scattering two injured skeletons right at the start. Their bones bounce along the ground in a cone away from Copycat. The other skeleton gets knocked onto its back, its eyesockets damaged and preventing it from seeing.

Jennifer has a sword held in her whip, and uses it to block the attack on Sentinel.

Jennifer leans far over the saddle easily avoiding the skeleton's attack.

Wesley freezes, not quite expecting them to like his attack THAT much. And one of the appearently dreaded glowing swords is near him now too, which he's not too keep to see the effects of. Being as not used to combat as he is, he barely even moves to react to the two swings, but they have little more effect than putting a couple of cuts on his clothes. Focusing on the one with the glowing sword, he lashes out with his draconic claws, simply focusing his strength entirely on taking out that threat as soon as possible.

Blok swings one foot up between the legs of the closest skeleton, trying to send it To The Moon.

Wesley's strength and the claws easily slice through the weakened skeleton's bone, sending bone shards away from Wesley as the sword clatters to the ground with the rest of the surviving bones. He gives a sigh of relief, even though he's still surrounded by six other skeletons.

Bloks kick sends the skeleton sprawling, but not as far as he'd hoped.

Jennifer drops one of the glowy sword at Sentinel's feet. "Copycat, take the archer. He's the only threat against you." she calls up. Then she wheels the horse around and gollops over to where Wesley is surrounded, and attempts to scoop him up from the circle of skeletons and set him down on the back of the horse behind her, "Hi. We haven't been introduced. I'm Jenn. You looked a bit crowded. Let's get you some space to work with."

Wesley blinks in surprise as he's suddenly lifted up and dragged, but seeing how it's one of the hero he clings onto Jennifer's arm and accepts the help to reposition away from the skeletons. "Ah! Thanks. Wesley," he says quickly, looking at Jennifer as he talks. Getting easily distracted from the threat of the skeletons instead of paying attention to getting out of the way of sharp things.

Wade seems to have drawn off only a couple of the skeletons, but he already sees a likely location for his suspected culprit. He keeps running toward what appears to be a circle of standing stones, slowing just a bit to make sure he isn't ambushed.

Wade sighs as he sees an open portal, instead of a person. "I'm going to get trapped. I can feel it. Is Harlequin or Raven likely to be around?" He continues running and moves through the portal.

"Raven can be," Copycat offers. "But what do you need her for?"

Sentinel says, "Underpromise and overdeliver.

Griffin does. He's back in the mix almost as soon as he is surrounded by his allies.

Outpace. Outclass. Outlast.

Griffin does. Everytime, but today its Jennifer Markham shows everyone how its done. Retirement hasn't slowed her down at all it seems.

He's in the midst of charging up his eyebeams to hit the archer himself when one of those devastating swords is dropped at his feet by Markham. He has half a mind to let her just run a clinic on the whole lot but that wouldn't be 'working as a unit'. This kind of teamwork makes him think of his secret coalition of friends, making him proud & confident that he & the city alike have other heroes like them to rely on.

He crouches and grabs the hilt of one of the glowing swords and leaps towards the Archer- still attempting to keep Copycat's aerial advantage secure.

Mid-air, Griffin radio's Copycat without ever reaching for his bracer. In fact- an astute eye might notice its not there at all.

"Kat! Are you alright?" His voice sounds strange- artifical & forced but its definitely his voice coming from her PowerPixie+.

Griffin lands in all his superheroic might, attempting to slash through the Archer in one fell-swoop."

Griffin Freeman's swipe is deflected a bit by the skeleton archer's armor but it bites through its bony arm with ease thanks to his super strength.

The arm drops to the ground, rendering the archer's bow relatively useless.

He turns, about to wink at Copycat when he spots her shoulder again.

Blood drips down Copycat's back and front, a few drops raining down on the ground beneath her. "I'm...I'm fine..." She murmurs. Her already pale skin goes paler, her clothes darkening as she changes into the scourge of demons, slayer of evil, Ms. Not appearing in this movie, Raven! She points a finger at the archer, a bolt of witchfire flying towards it.

Copycat/Raven strikes the shoulder, knocking off the other arm.

Griffin's voice comes from Kat's radio again. <<"Let's get that patched up. No--" He's naturally interrupted by Copycat's sudden shift into Raven. Her bright bio-energy vanishes from his energy sense as she shifts into the magical Raven.

The skeleton around Jenn and Griffin suddenly find themselves without a target. They move toward Blok, one of them picking up a glowing sword one of the 'knights' dropped.

The skeleton Blok knocked way gets up and walks back. The other one attacks,

Kae sees the incoming skeleton now, having just stomped one she shot before into the ground. "Ack!" She calls out, now well, moving to the side, or trying to, to extend some distance.. She can actually trot or run rather quickly. As she moves she raises a hand, pointing her finger like one might do a gun... She then whispers a word, and a bolt of ghostly blue arcane energy snaps out from her outstretched fingers, now sizzling at the incoming skeleton... "Oohkay, girl, youc an probably move faster and easier, lets try and stay on the move away from the undead..." (Half move, circling on the perimiter, to extend a bit of distance from the oncoming skele, also arcane bolt blast at em too. OCV 7 damage 10 dice)

Kaelyn blows away most of the skeleton's head.

The remaining free skeletal horse attempts to collide with Jennifer's.

Both horses are damaged.

The skeleton that was attacking Kaelyn.... just stands there. It watches Kaelyn, but since she's evidently not alive it doesn't attack.

Wesley sets himself back down on the ground after the sudden evacuation. He moves shortly to another location, figuring out a good place to hit as many skeletons as possible again. Before giving another roar, a powerful blast of fiery magic crackling through the air through more skeletons.

Wesley also yells to Blok, "Sorry about this, trying to help!" before blasting him. Aaaand the skeletons with glowy swords around him that might hurt him far more than his magic blast.

Blok stomps on the closest skeleton.

Block crushes both of the skeleton's arms to dust. Hence it is no longer holding a magic sword.