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

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Realising what has happening, Hawk did the obvious thing: He pulled all the air around him into a bubble and landed as quickly as he could. And not a moment too soon, he was already having trouble breathing. Damn, I was expecting auto-turrets, not vacuum forcefields! Well, can't just sit here, I better break free.

A sudden spark of inspiration struck him as a plan formed. Taking a few deep breaths Hawk prepared to let go of the air around him, holding in as much air as he could and closing his eyes just enough to be able to see what needed to be done. Hawk became human, slowly letting out a long breath of air as he he grew to his full sized again. Already he could feel the vacuum around him begin to pull on his body, the freezing nothingness chilling him to the bone. He had to work quickly. He reached for the Timelink, the device quickly forming a control panel on his arm as he typed as fast as he could. He hit the activate button and a red portal formed centremetres ahead of him. On the other side of the forcefield, a blue portal appeared and Hawk stepped through.

The portals closed once he was through and Hawk fell to his knees, catching his breath. "Note to self: Next time forget the stylish entry, just teleport instead."

[TheBlindMime]

"I guess not all of us share your wisdom Rei-chan." TBMoichi said as he stared up towards the explosion, not that he could see anything. He just didn't want to seem out of place from the other awkward stares up. "Well, I think that is enough of sight-seeing for me. Heh ha ha, yes, I'll be moving on, take care Rei-chan." Holding his katana under his arm he gently pat the robot's hands, then turned towards the tower and began his run.

His back was arched back as his legs kicked surprisingly quickly under him, it looked awkward at first but for a blind man needing to keep his balance it worked well. As the robotroopers kept their flurry of gunfire upon the forward regiment of NPFer's TBMoichi had a fairly clear run to the tower. Only a few stray bullets and a couple of robotrooper heads ever flew his way and those were way off.

Quickly he found the best place to stand, directly behind Melfice. As Indori very loudly took every bullet in stride and Melfice took swipes at the robotroopers TBMoichi mimicked every move from just behind, slashing into the already open wounds Melfice left and dodging behind the shielded fighter as the torrential rain of bullets fell upon them.

The pair moved in a perfect unison, Melfice opening up the robotroopers defenses and TBMoichi finishing the malcontent robots off. "Heh heh heh, between the two of us we have but one eye yet we see well enough to march through these halls unabated. Haha hah!"

[mauve]

Mauve looked briefly up at the robotroopers before stepping back a bit, out of direct range of fire. She was somewhat occupied at the moment. Ecurt's poor camera was laying upside-down, held between her elbow and ribcage. Her long fingers were delicately pulling colored wires out of the camera, one hand gripping several lengths between her fingertips and the other snipping them in half with a pair of wire clippers she magicked out of her Pockets of Near Infinite Holding. She shifted the camera's weight and gripped the wire clippers between her teeth to free up a hand, which delved back into the Pockets of Near Infinite Holding.

"Found ih!" she said triumphantly with the clippers in her mouth, holding up a strange device. It was an odd-shaped little metal doo-dad, about the size of a spark plug. It looked rather high-tech, and sported the POS Industries company logo on one side. This she painstakingly connected to the severed wires before cramming the whole mess of electric entrails back into the camera and closing up the panel. Well, taping it shut, really. The clippers went back into her pockets and she switched the camera on.

Back in POS Industries' private booth, a screen flickered on. Pedro O'Sullivan could see the video feed 10 seconds before it was "live" broadcast. Through REI, he could contact Mauve if there was anything being filmed that posed a threat to Kurosen security.

"Now that the legal issues have been taken care of," Mauve said, handing the camera back to her official cameraman, "I can go help stop the robot uprising. Fun, no?"

[PhoenixFlame]

"Well Pyros Nine, you are clearly the ninth Pyros. If eight of you have passed on, then you are clearly more mortal than you give yourself candance." Phoenixbot mused to her opponent, whom appeared to be waiting for her to make the first move. Interesting of him, for a fire "god".

Thus, the clear weakness of a fire god was ICE! Or music. Ice music?

Phoenixbot naturally did not have such silly thoughts, at least not conciously. Her right arm configured itself into a Series IV CryoBan 'Flamer', which was not a flamer at all, more of a glorified weaponized fire extinguisher. Although even so armed, Phoenixbot neglected to attack first.

"Or is it really you? How can I be sure Asheth won't try to take me by suprise with a duel of song and dance?"

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"You IDIOT!" Phoenix shouted at Hawk as he managed to suck himself outside the tower. "What the hell do you think you're trying to do!? Didn't you listen to me? You're not to DAMAGE THE TOWER!"

The technomagus took a long, deep sigh.

"Allow me to explain what I meant by damaging the tower, as I was obviously not clear enough." She began, in an exposition that she could continue regardless of Hawk's distance or subsequent movement, although it were still directed at him. "FIRST! I meant that, by not damaging the tower, you are not to PUNCH HOLES in it with explosive weapons! This is generally agreed to be a form of damaging the tower, in which you were instructed to refrain from doing, as not refraining from damaging the tower would indeed be, damaging it. Your mission goes so far as to PRECLUDE damaging the tower."

A nearby steamroller rolled by and stopped on the street outside the Kurosen tower, as if to emphasise her point. A large packet of throwing knives were strapped to one side, in a remarkably odd, and inconcievably surreal fashion. Phoenix daintily stood up, and waltzed over to the steamroller, drawing a single knife, and twirled it with one hand.

"Secondly... Just, don't damage the tower, okay? It has a significant dollar-value attached to it."

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC had instinctively jumped off of the bear's back when he noticed something was coming out. It was a good thing too, since spikes came rising out of the bear's back. IC was stunned. He could not remember a time when bears could do that. "I am starting to see why you got into the top eight at least." IC said to the bear, but he doubted it could understand him, so he was probably wasting his breath.

Now IC had a slight problem. He only got 6.8 seconds on his ride, and he was aiming for that full 8. Now what was he going to tell the folks back home? Then again, he had more immediate problems as well. He needed a way to defeat a bear with spikes out of its back. Then it struck IC. So IC closed in with the bear, went to grab hold of the base of the spikes, and then sling the bear across the room. One good thing about spikes is that they are pointy only at the ends.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Arhiyara swung both heads around, eyes crackling with disappointed energy.
"Aww, no cake or Twiddy," one of the heads sighed. The other one, obviously much more perceptive than the other, looked around.

"Hey! We know this place!"
"We do?"
"Yeah. Only, we thought we'd disposed of William."
"Huh... how come Willy's back?"
"Dunno. Maybe it's because he'll give us cake?"
"Oooh! Who's this edible thing?"

Arhiyara swung both heads down and suddenly, Renee found herself under the pupiless scrutiny of two dragons.
Snorting a bit of vaporized smoke, Arhiyara giggled. She pulled out P-bot's donated gun, gesturing with her other claw towards her opponent's rather smaller-looking grenade launcher.

It nestled within one of her forepaws like a pistol, despite its large size.

"Ours' is bigger," both heads chorused, cackling madly.

[PyrosNine]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlame

"Or is it really you? How can I be sure Asheth won't try to take me by surprise with a duel of song and dance?"

Pyros looked hurt. "What? Attempt to surprise you? You think I would stoop so low as to -FIREBALL IN YOUR EYE!!!"

Pyros hurled the fireball mid sentence and leapt back, knowing that a fireball in the eye wouldn't stop the robo-phoenix. With one eye on his opponent, and the other on the device he'd been given, and a third eye mystically watching Arhiyawhatever. He had to keep tabs on all three at this point, as all were liable to cause him trouble in the near future.

"Now....lemme see what this cosplay thingy can do, ya?"

[POS Industries]

Terrified and confused by the sudden transformation, the bear wished to revert back to normal, but not before IC could grab the spikes and send it flying toward the wall. The pendant glowed and the spikes receded, followed by another change as the bear closed its eyes before impact.

The bear's shape shifted yet again, forming into a large, grey ball just before striking the wall. The bouncy bear ball compressed against the metallic surface, and then shot back down the hall toward IC as the bear reverted back to normal in midair, bearing its teeth and claws as it soared on a collision course toward IC.

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Meanwhile, Rei was at a bit of a stalemate with the robotroopers before her. The energy dampening field wasn't terribly strong on the lobby floor, but the combination of it and her orders to cause as little damage to the tower as possible was making it difficult for her to gain an upper hand. She could keep her forcefield up, allowing her to remain safe from enemy fire, but the enemy fire was thick enough to keep her from moving any further forward without risking serious damage to herself.

"Okeedokee, guys," she called out the others, "The elevators probably aren't too safe, but I think we can make it to the stairs, but we have to get past these guys, and we don't have any time to waste!"

[Melfice]

Melfice heard what Rei said. Considering his options, he quickly made up his mind and discussed it with Indori.

"TBM- whoever you are now, find shelter!
Indori, engage the plan we just discussed. I'm sure you're able to do this."

Indori removed himself from Melfice, forming a wall big enough to allow Melfice and TBM to find initial safety. As soon as both of them had found a temporary shelter, the bullet hole ridden Indori oozed to the ground.

What rose up was a magnificent, huge, black wolf, with such an imposing mane anything human would be either be afraid or in awe of it.

The Robotroopers, however, were not human and kept firing at the madly dodging wolf, that was gaining ground quickly.
Indori tore into the robots, who quickly found themselves learning something.

Fear.

Melfice, hiding behind a pillar in the lobby, felt a little bit of blood trickle down his arm. A near miss hadn't missed at all. However, it had only grazed him, and would heal quickly.

[Long-Haired Narcissist]

As soon as Narc heard Rei, he literally jumped into the group of robotroopers while trying to build up a force field so he could safely land atop them. He landed on them and crowdsurfed to the stairs. When he got on the other side of the robotroopers, he started swinging his guitar at any robotroopers that came within five feet and occasionally deflecting bullets off the guitar. To the rest of the NPFers, Narc yelled, "Attack them while they're distracted by me."