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

[POS Industries]

What's PhoenixCorp/POS Industries' rule on filming in the facility?"

"We have nothing to hide," Rei answered cheerfully, "Filming the interior of the Kurosen Tower is not prohibited, so long as we at POS Industries and PhoenixCorp are allowed to review the footage and edit out anything that may present a security risk before its being shown to the public."

"I wonder what's inside? When she says not to destroy anything that belongs to this place, does he also mean that we should avoid damaging any independantly functioning security drones and turrets and stuff, or does this tower not have that?"

"Yeah, that stuff can be damaged and destroyed," the android nodded, "We would just prefer you be careful when it comes to things like walls and anything that might contain power conduits. A lot of areas are integral to the maintenance of the entire city's energy supply. Still, if you really need to blow something up, I know what's probably behind every wall in the place, so I could probably give you a good place to aim and an idea of how much force to put behind it. Anyway, let's move in, guys!"

The intruders had blasted their way through the main entrance, allowing the NPFers to come in through the same blown-out doorway with ease. The interior of the Kurosen Tower was both beautiful and haunting. The overhead lights had been cut off, causing the main lobby to be filled with a warm, golden glow from the energy being harvested directly from the Kurosen core itself and channeled through various conduits running throughout the building.

Suddenly, the displays on the two elevators on either side of the far wall began showing that someone was on their way down to the first floor. At the same time, there appeared to be some movement behind the information desk. As the elevators came to a stop, the doors swung open with a light chime at the same moment that the desk suddenly came flying toward the group of NPFers.

Charging out from all sides came several robotroopers, guns a-blazin'!

[Astral Harmony]

"Too bad we couldn't catch them napping," Armored mumbled and swung her Slashing Shard fast enough to smack one of the robotroopers with a Crescent Wave, slamming it against the wall and stopping its attack, but not destroying it. It was already raising its guns to engage the NPFers with its brethren. Knowing that she was only going to get in the way using her sword, Armored engaged her CosGear and transformed into the Soldier Girl, the only cosplay she could think of quickly that had long range potential.

...Well, that and the Elven Archer, but she doubted robotroopers would be susceptible to arrows, regardless of how fast or well placed the shots were.

Now armed to fight these things on similar ground, Armored hesitated only long enough to set it to full auto and remove the safety before letting the troopers have the clip's 30-round payload.

[Bailey]

The Keymen got out of the way quickly and began casting their buffs onto the other NPFers.

"DECIBEL!" Blue cried, aiming at the mages.
"OPTION!" Red declared, aiming at the melee artists.
"SPRINT!" Green intoned, directing his spell towards everybody else.

Blue's notes:
Keyman spells, largely being altered versions of other spells, tend to have similar names to their originals, although this is not always the case. Decibel has the effect of increasing the power and efficacy of any spell with verbal components. Option lightly boosts the striking power of a group of individuals, although not quite as much as Shift does. To make up for this, it also lightly boosts defensive capabilities. Sprint is a focused haste spell, taking all the speed provided by haste and pouring it into footwork. These three spells should probably never be cast on the same person. It wouldn't be BAD for them, per se, but you are likely to afterwards blink in confusion, look around, and say "But where did the walls all go?"

[Incendius]

Sorry for the late arrival my associates, it took a while for me too weed out the few pieces of quality. Incendius sent engimatically, as he arrived at the scene in his full form. It seemed obvious what Incendius had meant about a replacement body; his half destroyed mask was gone, and in its place was his usual black robes, and another mask with a slight difference in scale then the other.

As the Keymen started to do their assorted buffs, Incendius thought [color=darkred]As always, I seem to be alone. In any case, I do not think I need such things.[/color As if to prove his thought to himself, Incendius proceeded to halt all of the bullets coming towards him. They all hung in the air, not moving even a twitch.

The good thing at being able to manipulate mental energy, is the ability to take an opponents attack and turn it against them, with quite minimal effort. Incendius thought as the bullets, some still coming towards him, turned around to face the robotroopers. In an instant, Incendius' hold on the bullets was released. Since Incendius had essentially frozen the bullets with all their force, and not just stopped them in the air, the bullets immediatly shot off towards the robotroopers with full destructive force.

[Ugainius]

Ugainius charged into the robotroopers. Though his charge probably wouldn't kill more than a few troopers it did scatter quite a few of them. However there was more important things to think about, namely: "Is it pronounced Robo-troopers or robot-troopers? I can never tell."

[Long-Haired Narcissist]

"Cover your ears, guys. This is going to be loud.", Narc said before he started furiously playing Starserpent. He started playing softly but gradually got louder until nothing could be heard above the sound of the guitar. Some of the robotroopers went haywire from the loud sound as the ground rumbled and glass began to crack. After ten more seconds, the sound produced a force field that Narc sent flying at a group of robotroopers. Most of them were knocked back by the force field, but two lunged at Narc. He swung the guitar, and with a loud WHACK, the two robotroopers were beheaded.

[Inbred Chocobo]

It seemed IC was lucky today. He had came up from behind the bear, and being somewhat ninja-y, the bear hadn't noticed him yet. IC wasn't sure he had to be careful. On one hand, its a bear. Big woop. Then again, on the other hand, a bunch of NPFers attacked this bear, and yet they all seemed to fail. That had to count for something right?

Ah well fuck it, IC snuck up on the bear, and jumped on its back. Time for a rodeo. Yee-Haw!!

[Melfice]

Melfice had previously been overseeing his teammates, shouting orders and strategic notes to whoever could hear them.
As usual, his team had persevered against the foes.

But he felt like getting a bit more pro-active now, and donned Indori again. The shard of Nenyel oozed over his body, from the little emblem it had been to his arms. It formed a longsword and a medium sized shield, and Melfice dove in at the robo soldiers, cutting into them one at a time. He wasn't doing much damage with each blow, but they didn't look good after each cut.

The bullets he blocked with his shield, but bits of Indori were chipping off, but luckily his partner was able to fill them up before a hole could be breached into it.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Choosing instead to just ignore Nikoses question, Hawk instead shot off towards the tower at record speeds, possibly blowing out Niks eardrums with the mini sonic-boom he created in his wake. Hey it was his own fault for coming within hearing distance!

Hawk now circled the tower, looking for a way in that WASN'T so obvious as the blown open front door. No doubt there would be an ambush waiting there for them all and a short while later it was confirmed, the sounds of battle echoing out of the door and into the ether. Well, these guys make a pretty good distraction, now if only I could use it to my advantage. Doesn't appear to be any other way in, place is locked up tight. Well then, I'll just have to MAKE it open for me!

Hovering in the air three quarters of the way up the tower, Hawk turned to face the building, as he shifted form again. As he began to fall he reached for the Omnigun on his back, quickly bringing it to bear on the tower.

"M20A1", he said calmly, as though suddenly finding oneself falling several hundred feet towards the ground was an everyday occurance for him, (coincidently, it actually IS).

Almost instantly the pure white, almost plastic looking rifle of the OG morphed and twisted and elongated, as if it was made from playdough. In it's place was now a huge bazooka. Hawk pulled the trigger as his fall accelerated, sending the HE warhead sailing towards the Kurosen tower. The explosion could be seen for miles. What had once been the smooth side of the building was now a sizable gap, big enough for two men to stand side by side and look out to enjoy the view. Hawk flew in through the new hole, already back in cursed form, the OG safely back with his other body.

Well that was easy, now to find a computer terminal. Just wait till they see what I do to the security system!

[POS Industries]

"INTRUDER ALERT IN SECURED LEVEL THREE, SECTOR ALPHA-EPSILON FIVE!! ENGAGING PRIMARY DEFENSIVE MECHANISM!!"

A digitized voice blared over the alarm klaxons as Hawk entered through his hole, within which a forcefield suddenly erected behind him. Suddenly, the sound of alarms and security alert announcements began to die away and Hawk found himself having trouble breathing and flying. It almost felt like the very matter in his body was now being pulled in every direction.

The area had been sealed, and all the air was being sucked out of the room. Hawk was trapped in a vacuum.

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Deflecting the Robotroopers' attacks with her energy shield, Rei suddenly felt the building rock from a large explosion overhead. Looking up, she scanned the source of the explosion as best she could, seeing that a second assault had begun a couple floors up, which was being repelled by the tower's security system. "Wait.... if Doukhobor's guy's are already in here, then why would they...?"

Whipping around to take a quick head count, Rei called out to the group, "Okay, so who isn't here with us? You know attacking any of the upper levels from outside is a really bad idea, right?"

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"...and so we basically were able to recreate the locations within a contained bubble of space-time. To be fair, Phoenix was the one that came up with the idea," Pedro explained to Raiden as they sat in the stands of the secondary amphitheatre as holographic projections of all four of the current fights were displayed before the cheering crowd, "but our people managed to figure out how to combine the reality bubble containment fields and our own holographic projection technology so that the audience could both watch from outside and Rei could properly officiate from within."

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IC had once again mounted the bear, but this time no bribes of steak were involved, and so the bear was not amused. Futilely trying to shake off or claw at the ninja on its back, the bear found itself quite displeased with the current situation, and fearful that it had suddenly found itself so vulnerable. Wishing for a way to deal with this new problem, the pendant around its neck suddenly began to glow and the bear could feel its body begin to change, however slightly.

And then three-foot-long spikes shot out from the bear's back as the morphing pendant took effect.