NPF Avatars 5 - Part Vampire, Part Warrior, Carnivore and Voyeur

[mauve]

"What would you do with a pink mage's hat, anyway? I mean, it is a fantastically wonderful and spiffy hat, but I really don't think it suits you," Mauve said to the plushie Pyros who was currently seated atop her head. "Oh, by the way: You even try to make off with my hat and they'll be picking plushie stuffing out of every corner in the building for weeks on end. Mmmkay, now that that's cleared up, get out there and start destroying things!"

She forceably removed Plushie Pyros from her hat and released him into the wild.

That being taken care of, Mauve returned to matters at hand. She stared straight ahead, her eyes unfocusing as she put her attention into her spellcasting. She had already used some magic energy to reinforce Rei's shield, but Mauve had to concentrate in order to keep her part of the shield functional. She also had to concentrate in order to cast any other spells, such as the fire and ice necessary to help the Plushie Twins disable the wiring. Mauve was one of the few mages in the party, and right now was one of the few instances in which strength in magic was actually highly beneficial. She couldn't pass this up.

Mauve extended an open palm towards the shield. The mage felt her MP levels begin to drop slightly as her energy went to repair and replenish parts of the shield. Okay. That's taken care of.

Her other hand stretched towards the wall. She had to kind of multitask now, dividing her concentration between maintaining the shield and hurling out attack spells. It was difficult, but not impossible. Just as long as she wasn't interrupted--

"Woo, shiny." A glittering blue crystal at the mage's feet caught her attention. It wasn't too far away from the place where Nikose lay, after being attacked by the guns. He must've dropped it. Mauve couldn't leave this spot to give it back to him without losing her hold on the magic shield, so she stuck it in her pocket for now.

"All right, this time for real." Slowly she raised her other hand, testing the waters as she moved from one area of concentration to another. So far so good. She stretched her free hand towards the wall where Pyros and Celsius had gone.

"Combust," she commanded. A burst of flames exploded from the wall. Mauve's part of the shield flickered slightly, but remained in tact. It was working. Yaay.

"Freeze. Combust. Whee. I'm multitasking. Go me." she said. Hopefully this would help warp the wires, and hopefully said warping would happen relatively soon. Mauve wasn't sure how long she could split her concentration like this.

[Melfice]

Melfice was feeling rather helpless... Indori would be of no help, the bullets would make his shieldform simply explode.

It was frustrating. Despite having heard what could be done, he couldn't help with his strategic insight either. These building and technologies are so... alien. So weird.

He had learned to adapt to much of it, but was still at a loss to anything more complicated than a computer and games console, much to the thanks of Slightly Above Average Man. And things didn't get more complicated than this tower, it seemed.

In his eye's corner, he noticed Nikose running by, screaming like a little girl.
Sure, he couldn't take much anyway, but this was horrible enough to allow for an excuse.

An evil grin came over his face, as he thought of a video game he recently played. He hadn't liked it, preferring Real Time Strategy games, but he had played a few rounds with SAAM.
"Indori, thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yes, I do Melfice, and I didn't know you had it in you. I can also just create a po-"
"Bah, he'll heal anyways. Besides, I still need to get back at him for the hat. Hehehehe."
"Okay, no problem"

Indori reformed into a small blade in Melfice's palm. It also seemed attached to a rope of sorts.
"GET OVER HERE!" Melfice shouted, while throwing the blade at Nikose's chest and pulled him back to the main forcefield, with the aid of Indori.

[PyrosNine]

The plushie Pyros and Glacius/Celsius ventured into the room, each using the protective shield provided to them by the other guys. The Plushie Pyros shot intense heat at the left wall, while GlaCel started freezing the right wall, and after a suitable amount of time, they swapped walls, performing the task they were given efficiently.

The metal began to bend and sag, showing signs of distress under the intense heat and cold as the two continued switching sides. Even the hardest metal would be brittle within a few moments.

Ecurt had heard Incendius's comment and nodded. "Yeah...that sounds pretty good. Celsius, what do you think?"

"Meh."

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Surprised, a bit knocked back by the sudden glomp, Arhiyara struggled to focus both heads on Pyros ineffectually. Giving up, Arhiyara gave an angry twin roar that shook the air. She did not like her prey eluding her, and, despite the fact that to Rhiya, the chibi Pyros is the least she wanted to hurt, Arhiyara would think no such thing.

Being the double-headed, double-tailed dragon she was, and being still quite rather confused at what was happening and why there was a strange, fuzzy feeling emanating from deep within, Arhiyara knew what she had to do.

"Gerroff us, ya pipsqueak!" There was a rattle of spikes as twin tails whipped around, gouging deep furrows into the earth as they gathered momentum up and forward, firing in between Arhiyara's head and aiming to impale chibi-pyros upon spike doom.

Simultaneously, Arhiyara's double heads split as far as they could from each other, allowing passage for her tails to get through and hurt Pyros as much as possible.

One would need to learn not to hug a love-sick dragon.

[Nikose Tyris]

"EEP!" Nikose shrieked as his chest was peirced from behind by Indori, and pulling him back towards Melfice.

And then something interesting happened.

With a sudden burst, the wires to the lights above snapped- the lights directly above the group of NPFers, granthing them a penumbra of shadow. Nikose grinned suddenly as Indori pulled out of him as he landed next to Melfice. "Shadow cut still works... Guys, can you take out the lights? I can try to shadowscythe them, if they aren't too far away- depending on the density of the shadow." Then he scratched his chest where the hole Indori had made had been. "Damn, that'll probably be my first scar in a while."

"Oh, and Nenyel? I may need you in Whipsword form."

"I shall make it so, hun." The sword tinkled proudly, as she shifted slowly, almost sensually to show off what to her was an artform.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Hawk looked around at his surroundings. "Hey, this isn't where I intended to end up". He was back outside, just by the open front doors leading into the lobby. Must be something bouncing my teleport signals away. Ok, just have to take the scenic route. He made his way inside, through the now desserted lobby, past the lifts (probably NOT a good idea trying to go up in one of them, even if they are working) and up the stairs.

He soon heard the sound of over-powered gunfire from somewhere above and quickened his pace, passing TBM on the stairs without a word. Eventually he arrived on the first floor and surveyed the scene before him. It seemed the group was pinned down under unceasing machinegun fire.

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

"Shadow cut still works... Guys, can you take out the lights? I can try to shadowscythe them, if they aren't too far away- depending on the density of the shadow."

"I can do that", Hawk answered, pulling out his .45 and taking aim at the lights running down the corridor ahead of them. A few precision shots later and most of the corridor was plunged into darkness.

"Now has anyone got a flashlight?"

[PyrosNine]

Sufficiently warmed by the cutesy hug of love he gave to the horrid crime against all that is right in this world, Chibi Pyros looked at the oncoming tails in innocent fear. "Oh you're calling me names and trying to hurt me, you're so mean and I'm so fragile, it's the worst possible thing that could happen it's...it's...


WRONG!!!!" Pyros's chibi hulked to an incredibly beefy hardcore size, with a crazed berserker look on his face just to further the message of wrongness.

With an angered determination, Pyros bunny-leapt out of the valley between the two heads almost faster than they eye could perceive, thanks to the hood's power, and he readied up a massive kick.

A brief targeting mini-game occured, where Pyros made 3 swinging pendulums line up at the right time to kick at the proper angle at full power. Having played kitty cannon's third iteration "Let's calculate Kitty's directory using every possible statistic variation possible cannon", he sinked each of them with ease.

Aiming for the left head, he aimed to see if he could send one head into the other!

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Holy crap!

This was pretty much the only thing going through Renée’s mind, here. KP, for his distance, was a bit more quick witted.

“Duck!” KP yelled.

“That’s not a duck i-”

“Move or die!” This was all enough to snap Renée out of whatever gigantic-dragon induced stupor she may have been in. She flung herself forward, twisting in midair, and landed hard on her back. As the massive, twin dragon crashed spectacularly to the floor, Renée slid, just barely, past its twin tails, propelled on some unholy, chaos-paint slip ‘n slide.

The bigger they are...

It was becoming a theme already.

Renée barely avoided Arhiyara’s twin tails by taking to the air again. She didn’t want to know what kind of damage could be done by appendages that large—or, really, any appendage attached to that sin against whichever God—least of all, to her own, personal body. But, if the part where they played nice was over, then it would be over hard! Renée aimed her weapon at the back of the gargantuan beast, and fired.

This time, the grenades were contained within matte grey shells.

This time, that diamond hide wouldn’t protect her.

[Arhra]

Seconds after having shown off her several hundred foot wingspan, Arhiyara crashed back to the floor, making the ground shudder. Her legs skidded precariously on the paint, trying to avoid any more embarrasing slip-ups. Not an easy task, as she was still favouring her injured foreclaw. She was paint smeared enough as it was.

As Arhiyara got her bearings, Renee shot her with anti-soul munitions. They went off with dissapointing, tiny explosions of ghostly blue flame. The real fireworks were happening on a spiritual level. The dragoness yelped in pain, momentary twin images, one light and one dark, seeming to come slightly out of phase with her as she jerked. The twin RFS thermometers whizzing irregularly around her heads collided in a shower of sparks.

She whirled around to face Renee again, spiked tail scratching along a gold laden wall as she whipped around. Somewhat to Renee's surprise, the angry dragon didn't immediately attempt to rush her again. Arhiyara's eyes narrowed slyly. "Does the annoying little morsel think she's smart?" the dragon's two heads hissed quietly in concert. This was a change in behaviour.

"We'll show you how much you are annoying us!" the dragon roared. Angry yelling, on the other hand, was somewhat more expected.

Both sets of jaws gaped wide, twin beams of light streaming from Arhiyara's mouth. The heads swung, sweeping the beams together to hit Renee, the shining brilliance leaving an inexplicable shiny residue behind on whatever they touched. Just before they converged, Renee shot up in the air with the levitation bracelets, getting up safely out of the way.

On colliding, the beams seemed to implode, sucking the remainder of the light stream into an orb of darkness. The ball expanded, emitting stray beams of light. Sinking slowly towards the ground, it pulsated unsettlingly, as if a thousand spiders were trying to get out.

It popped and then ten thousand captive demons spilled out.

The palace was suddenly filled with a pestilence of imps. The tiny demonic creatures hopped around with frantic energy, some briefly taking to the air with ungainly bursts of their leathery wings. Anything that looked breakable they tried to smash. Anything shiny, they tried to steal. Some swooped down on the paint soaked floor and flung the stuff around. They mobbed anything that looked even vaguely alive, scratching and biting. While not especially dangerous, they were very annoying.

Undoubtably, Willy was not amused.

Arhiyara hadn't yet seemed to register the biting fiends swarming over her body. It remained to be seen if she was ticklish. Renee, well, it was like watching starlings mob a larger, less agile bird. Except this was a bird with a gun.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Okay, so the bear is a freaking spider now." IC said, and started walking towards spider-bear. "What else is this stupid bear going to do? Become human?" IC was getting really annoyed. He was just going to walk up and yank the amulet off the bear's neck. Take the straight approach. Lets see what the bear would do in response. It was busy eating a steak anyway, what is the worst that can happen?