NPF Avatars 5 - The Big Come Down

[Incendius]

I'll have you know, I haven't ENTIRELY abandoned my affinity to heat! I can still draw power from it if not become immune to it or control it! Thanks for the booster pack! Incendius sent again through his thoughtburst even as he used his mental powers. As he thought this, Incendius had surrounded himself with a wall of telekinetic force, even still the heat bled through and left charring marks, causing his mask to blacken in all places besides the third eye and his robes to become set on fire. This mattered not though, for as long as the one essential part of his body was still in place and not shattered, he was fine.

However, even as the heat touched Incendius, the result of the heat fed his powers. For Incendius, heat was the easiset and most direct route to accessing his full telekinetic powers; though other methods were possible. Enduring the assualt for moments, Incendius gathered up his force and expanded his telekinetic shell, even as he unwrapped himself from Pyros. The expansion of the telekinetic shell was forced out in all directions, in happened at roughly the same speed as the nova. With hope, it would push Pyros back, and others close by as well.

Even as he did this he sent another thought to Pyros Wait... where exactly is Raiden placed beside me in the family tree again? Its wierd with gods I know, is it no relation or...?

[PhoenixFlame]

"Hee! Indeed, Messie was never one to let a tactical nuclear weapon spoil her day." Phoenix giggled back to Pedro, taking another sip of her wine and generally enjoying herself.

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A sliding bear, a few stray plasma shots, and a dying Krylo, Phoenixbot decided to withdraw for a moment and... Assess the tactical situation, much like well over half of the other NPFers had been doing up until joining the fray. Juxtaposition powers activate!

"Farewell, Krylo. May we meet again." She bid goodbye to her opponent, and quickly zipped off skyward, propelled by her fortunately still functioning thruster array.

Right arm cannon trashed, and unable to reconfigure without immediate repairs, Phoenixbot modified her still functioning left arm into a fusion torch, and proceeded the short process of rigging the system back to functionality.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Rhiya was most definitely still rampaging, although there wasn't much to rampage about. She settled down to chewing bits of bull when the burn spell from RBM hit her in the rump, causing her to yelp in surprise more than pain and turn around aggressively to search for the offender.

She spied RBM, and her draconic visage twisted into a snarl, before she launched herself around in a 360 and charged towards the offender-of-butts. Her mouth opened wide, her chaos-diamond teeth gleamed. Then...

*CLONK*

Hard diamond connected with metallic Übersnake head, and the two gigantic forces reeled back in stunned surprise.

But only for a moment.

Rhiya recovered first, and growled angrily at the Übersnake.
"He's MINE!"

The Übersnake Monty hissed back angrily as well, "<Not for a longshot, Dragon! He hurt us first!>"

And so the argument continued - two collosal monstrosities towering over the tiny RBM, snarling and growling at each other as to who would take first choice morsels of the mage.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

[OOC- I'm using "YellowGreen" to represent Serpentongue because it's vaguely less annoying, I think, than the "<>" brackets.]

The sudden stop of Monty’s head sent Raven slipping off his smooth, metal surface and flying across the arena. She spread her wings to fly but was angled all wrong, and ended up skittering across the floor painfully.

“Ow!” was the simplistic response, as she flexed her wings a bit to see that they were alright. Looking back they way she had come, she saw her pseudo-sister and Monty glaring each other down, metal snake versus diamond dragon. Monty hissed, but Raven couldn’t understand why.

"Oh yeah, Dragon girl?! Well-," Monty started in his low steam-hiss, which was apparently an accurate form of serpentongue. After this short hiss, Monty grew, not just slightly like he had been the whole time, but noticeably—widening and lengthening until he visibly out-sized Rhiya. "I’m bigger!"

Raven wondered why Monty seemed to be so pleased with himself.

[PyrosNine]

Pyros dug into the ground hard with all four grabby appendages, embedding hands and huge toenail claws into the ground. He was no longer a cat, but from the sight of him some cat attributes remained. He was dragged upon the earth as the force pushed him, but he held his ground.

"You'll have to talk to Raiden about that one, kiddo. But I think you're his cousin's dogs's trainer's slave's aunt's mother's BFF's son's Niece's nephew's long lost grandson on the father's side."

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

"OH, IZZAT SO?!" Rhiya roared in response. She spread her limbs, bracing the ground, and snorted chaotic element through her nostrils.

Then she inhaled. And grew.

The effect was something very similar to that of inflating, if it weren't for the fact that Rhiya was actually trying to draw in the ambient chaotic nature of everything around her into her to fuel her growth spurt.

"Ha! I'm bigger now!" she roared triumphantly, towering a good few feet above Monty.

[POS Industries]

"Eight competitors have fallen and eight more eliminations are needed to complete the first round," Rei called out to everyone, "Time to begin.... THE LIGHTNING ROUND!!"

Suddenly, a large red holographic arrow appeared over IC's head, then moved to Hawk's, then Rhiya's, Raiden's, two over the boxes the remaining Keyman Newbs were hiding under, the bear, and so forth. As the crowd looked on in confusion, Rei explained, "Now that half the necessary fighters have been eliminated, we've decided to speed things up with a bit of roulette! The arrow you see is moving fast now, but it's gradually slowing down. When it stops, the fighter standing under the arrow will be automatically eliminated! The only way to safely avoid the fickle hand of fate is to fight as hard as you can and try to end the match before your number's up! Good luck!"

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"Sir? The trojan horses are in place in all of POS Industries' systems. We are ready to initiate the first phase on your order."

The shadowy man in his shadowy lab nodded in response to the robot lackey's news. "Good.... excellent! Yes, begin the attack. Once their defenses are weak enough, we will begin Phase Two!"

Maniacal laughter echoed once more through the laboratory. He really seems to love his work. You have to admire that in a man.

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Back at the spa, the eliminated contestants were finally getting a chance to relax. This really was the life. Pools, hot tubs, almost too-perfectly beautiful women offering the best massages anyone could ever ask for. In fact, Fenris was being treated to one at that very moment.

Feeling better than he could ever remember, he barely even noticed the masseuse's hand moving around his neck, almost falling asleep before she giggled, "So, are you ready for this?"

"Mmmm," the hobo mod groaned, "ready for what?"

"READY FOR YOUR DOOM, MEATBAG!"

Fenris opened his eyes to see what so many of the other NPFers with him were witnessing: hordes of gorgeous resort staff fembots, eyes glowing red, moving in to tear him and his friends limb from limb.

[Arhra]

OOC: Quick note: that weapon explosion didn't happen or something (possibly it unexploded) - there was a miscommunication with the GMs. It has other drawbacks worked out.

In the aftermath of the KSR 9000 firing, Arhra's expression was one of pure joy, tears coursing down her cheeks. "Death surrounds me, yet, in my head I hear something that sounds like angels! Lo, I have found the holy grail of firepower! Mine eyes can but weep as they bear witness to the majesty... the KSR 9000!" You could feel the love. And the hyperbole.

Meanwhile, after tipping over elephants, Inbred had decided to take Arhra down, the chocobo-man making an unholy alliance with an ursus arctos horribilis via the medium of steaks! Who could bear something so terrible?! The first Inbred Bear Cavalry was bearing down on Arhra at high speed, intent on subjecting her to a grizzly fate! Arhra was a terrible person.

"Let loose your volley of death, Inbred, you struggle in vain!" Arhra cried, a manic grin on her face as she ran away from him at high speed. She ran backwards, deeper into the arena, trying to line up a shot on him or his noble steed.

And then it proved to be entirely redundant, Inbred and Bear getting jumped by a crazed angel, a giant metal snake set on constriction and a crazy gun-women attempting to shoot the bear. Someone up there was looking out for Arhra!

"Yay, I'm perfectly safe!" Arhra declared, having ended up a short distance from Red Mage Black, right between a giant angry snake and a giant angry dragoness, both looming ominiously over her and the object of their contestion. Right as Arhra noticed where she was, Rhiya underwent her growth-spurt, topping the snake's proportions. The shift in chaotic energies would have tipped her off anyway. Seeing this display made a lightbulb go off in Arhra's head.

Arhra pointed the KSR 9000 at RMB, "I would be shooting you right now, but I have just thought of the greatest plan ever! Farewell!" Arhra declared, palming throwing something to the ground. Inexplicably, though her hand was empty, there was a bright flash of light.

You'd have the wonder the point though - instead of ninja-vanishing, Arhra could very obviously be seen climbing up Rhiya's leg, the KSR 9000 slung on her back. Her mind was racing over her plan as she swiftly scaled Rhiya's hide. It was a thing of beauty. It went something like this:

Giant Reptiles + Limited Arena + ??? = PROFIT!

Safely ensconed on Rhiya's back, just below where the neck began, Arhra shouted up at Rhiya's head, "Rhiya! I just had the best plan ever! You and the snake, it is very important that you just keep growing!" Rhiya half turned, trying to keep her eye on her snaky opponent at the same time, one reptilian eye rolling around to fix on Arhra. It narrowed hungrily and she rumbled ominously, both a stomach noise and a growl. "Don't be like that!" Arhra said, sounding hurt, "I mean to ply you two with food!"

The rumble almost became a purr. Arhra quickly looked around for any enemies and then started concentrating very intently on conjuring up the promised food. It was very important that there be lots of food. Ring-outs would be difficult with insufficient size.

[PhoenixFlame]

While the statistical probability of being eliminated by the first roulette round was low, Phoenixbot judged that the system was geared to select out-of-combat individuals, much like herself now that she had drawn out to repair. Now that her right arm was again fully functional, and reconverted into a 12mm gatling gun, she resolved to return to the fray, but first, a target.

Mh, the boxes with the arrows looked good enough...

Shutting off her jets, Phoenixbot rapidly descended next to one of the Arrow'd!Boxes, used her descent-speed to drop to one knee, while fluidy seizing her weapon arm with her left, sweeping the weapon across the poor box as it revved up and began to spew 12mm hot death at a staggeringly rapid pace.

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"Priority Alert." The familiar voice of Raven, the Isparlian's Main Computer, (not to be confused with the Raven in the melee) came over Phoenix's hand-device. Simultaneously, the latter projected a small holographic scene of the Fembots attacking the spa-goers.

"Oh, bloody hell. What did I say-" Phoenix almost interjected.

"A FemBot[TM] Replicator system has malfunctioned at Coordinates thirty-two, thirty nine, zero. This system has recently stopped transmitting to all systems under POS or Phoenixcorp control. Additionally, all units produced by said system have activated defense protocol six, and keyed out all external commands to change state."

"about... abusing priority alerts... Oh." she meekly finished. "Well, that's odd. Pedro, do you know anything about this?" Phoenix casually remarked to the hazel-eyed, white capitalist as she sipped her wine.

[Red Mage Black]

Black was ready to shield himself from the attack from Monty until Rhiya appeared to interfere. He took the chance while they weren't watching to jet away. Black noticed he couldn't hold the fire magic under his feet too much longer.

He floated several feet above them watching for the next move. Even though his magic was pretty strong, he knew his limit against two fighters. Black formulated his own plan.

After listening to Ahra, Black was pretty disappointed at the lack of attack. He jetted away from Rhiya and Monty to take on a new opponent. Only this time he found himself near Rhiya once more. He watched Ahra climb up Rhiya's leg.

"I might piss off Rhiya but I at least I get my shot at you." Black concentrated fire magic into his fists as he approached Arhra. "Should've attacked me while you still had the chance." With that he charged up his right hand and let loose on her back.