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

[Incendius]

Enough games, these robotroopers don't have a powerful enough interference field to stop me from accessing, and shifting their circuitry, and I have found the source of their electronic commands. I do want to leave some relatively intact after all. As he thought this, Incendius surveyed the battlefield, to find situations where he could help out most. With a negligible mental push, Incendius crimped the miniscule electronic pathways that lead to the main processor, of the enemies that were currently firing at him.

TBM is cutting a swathe through the troopers, as is Melfice. However, upon calculations, it seems as if Nikose's efforts have done the greatest amount to speed up the pace of this fight. I shall lend him assistance. Incendius thought as he sent a thought transmigration out towards Nikose. If you wish to employ your electromagnetic pulse effect again, I will aid what energy I can to the effects, as well as attempting to dampen the resistance fields of the robots. Just think your reply back and I will aid you.

As soon as Incendius sent this message, he started to gather energy to himself. Normally, when gathering energy, Incendius would siphon off a tiny, unnoticable amount of heat from the atmosphere, but now, the air around him grew a degree colder. A considerable amount of power when one considers how heat is distributed. As he did this, Incendius sent a query to Rei. Will I be allowed to claim salvage rights in the tower, with paperwork or otherwise? I do not intend to take any machinery native to the tower itself.

[mauve]

Originally Posted by Ecurt

"Um, Mauve, I don't want to sound like an ungrateful cameraman or anything, but I got this job to get away from an employer who took me into dangerous situations. Can I at least be assured that I'll get a paycheck when this is over, something Pyros never did? Ever?"

"Sure, Ecurt," Mauve said pleasantly. "I have the budget to pay you standard wages for the average public news broadcast camera man."

Before the Tuxedo-wearing camera operator could ask Mauve exactly how much that was, the Mage was off hurling purple-black fireballs into the ranks of robotroopers, trying to clear a path to the stairs without getting shot.

[POS Industries]

"Attack them while they're distracted by me."

Rei was already on it, rearing back behind her energy shield into an almost feral stance as her internal artificial gravity coil began to hum, lightening her weight considerably as she sprang forward toward the group of robotroopers, her hands coming down like claws upon her targets.

"WOLF FANG FIST!!"

Quick as lightning, Rei shredded through the intruders, landing next to Narc as she took a moment to shake away the wires and metal scraps that hung from her hands. "Thanks bunches!" she giggled, before addressing the rest of the group, "Hey guy! This way!"

"Will I be allowed to claim salvage rights in the tower," Incendius asked her, "with paperwork or otherwise? I do not intend to take any machinery native to the tower itself."

Rei shrugged, looking up the stairs as she considered the best next move, "It's just scrap metal to us. Go for it."

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A bear impacts a near immovable wall rather painfully, as it turns out. Smacking against the thread, the bear collapsed onto the ground, dazedly coming to its feet as it rubbed its poor aching snout.

[PyrosNine]

Ecurt sighed. That was too much and too little information already. He would be paid, but whether or not he would be paid a buck fifty or jack squat was up for grabs.

Perhaps if he helped out a bit, he'd do more than convince Mauve to actually pay him something worthwhile for a standard public news camera man.

Putting the camera down for a few seconds, Ecurt worked his plushie making skills and created an army of Raiden plushies. They were as 'meh' as the real thing, and would work suitably because of it. Following them, he made a Suijin plushie, which was just annoyed that it had to tag along on such a silly adventure with the Raiden plushies.

In a move that would make Captain Olimar proud, Ecurt hurled the plushmen into the fray, starting with the Raiden plushies. He threw them into a specific pattern however, interweaving them with the myriad of cyborgs, yet not hurling them too far apart from each other.

The cyborgs that noticed them and attacked found themselves hit with annoyed blasts of thunder, but that wasn't the true intent of this attack. When each of the Raidens had been properly seeded into the foe's groupings, Ecurt seized the Suijin plushie, and hurled her at the nearest Raiden plushie.

"Raiden, YOU JERK!"

"Hey! Don't! You know how I react to wa-"

The resulting electric surge traveled through all the Raiden plushies like a chain, each one emitting a powerful burst of electricity to fry all who were nearby, which in this case was the cyborgs.

"Who said cameramen had to just be observers?" Ecurt quipped, grabbing his camera and chasing after Mauve.

Ecurt heaved the Plushie-Raidens at the

[POS Industries]

"Hmm, this isn't good....."

Pedro stared glumly at the holographic projections of the various tournament matches before him, rather unimpressed so far by much of the action, the bulk of which so far was a lot of dramatic staredowns. He had begun to suspect that there would be about a week's worth of growling an powering up ahead. Still, the IC/Bear fight had managed to get underway quickly enough, and the Pyros/P-Bot and Arhiyara/Renee matches were beginning to see some action of their own.

However, he was beginning to wonder if the image of the Krylo/Mesden fight had just frozen. Mes had taken position behind her shield, which was all well and good, but Krylo had just been standing there motionless for what felt like at least a couple weeks. This was not helping the ratings at all.

"Say, you don't seem busy," POS said to the man sitting next to him, "Want to have a little fun?"

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Back in Santa's Workshop, the Rei hologram yawned and stepped between the two unmoving combatants. "Krylo Killian is eliminated on account of boring," she announced, "But we at POS Industries understand the public's desire for action and excitement, which no 'win by forfeit' can ever provide. With that in mind, we would like to present to you an alternate contestant for your viewing pleasure!"

Krylo suddenly flashed out of existence, more than likely sent off to join the group at the Kurosen tower. In his place appeared a large, muscular man with long white hair and blue eyes, a long red coat swaying gently in the draft of the workshop.

"Round Two: Mesia Denostaya versus Raiden!" Rei announced, "Ready.... FIGHT!!"

[Raiden]

Raiden's electricity filled eyes looked to the left. And then to the right.

"So this is what happens when you fry your hard drive. You get sent to Santa's Workshop."

His eyes turned and rested on Mesden, seeing her standing behind a shield.

"...they put US against each other? Who thought THAT was a smart idea?" He reached to his back, his hand grasping for his Damascus Blade. Imagine his surprise when his hand grasped nothing.

"What the-oh yeah...I'm back in the tournament now. They took my sword away. So what did I get?" A quick look to his hip revealed a longsword in a scabbard. The spirit energy wafting from the blade made it pretty clear who the sword belonged to.

"Heh...I got yer sword, sis." He drew it from the sheath, electrical energy pouring from his grip and into the hilt of the blade. The Ethereal Blade began to twist and grow, slowly taking on the form of the Damascus Blade, but with a more...spiritual tint.

[Mesden]

At first she looked a little starstruck by what had just happened, but just a bit, and with a calming sigh, she retook the grip on her weapons and fed more energy into her shield, watching the blades expand outward from it, filling the room and surrounding Raiden, curved to look like several massive, golden claws closing around him.

"I'm so going to punch POS for this, right in the face." she said just loud enough for Raiden to hear before breaking away from her crouching position, holding her sword out, and walking forward slowly, furthering the guillotining grip around him.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Hmmm. I now have two options." IC said after the bear had impacted. "I could remove the thread, and continue on our fight, it being fair and all." IC said, staring the bear down through a one word post in the thread. "Option B is that I be really cheap, and smash you into past between this thread and that wall behind you." IC put a hand on the thread. The bracelet gave a quick soft blue glow, indicating that IC's force would affect it, then stopped glowing.

"Option B it is." IC said, then started shoving against the thread, moving to squash the bear between a wall and the thread. Providing the wall held up. Not telling when what the integrity of this tower is. Shoot for all he knew, the bear could punch through the ceiling and go right over the top of this.

[Fenris]

Fenris finished bashing in the skulls of remaining robotroopers and regained his place right behind REI. "My job kinda depends on this here structure. Without it, I'm back to bein' normal, and that's no fun." He twirled the banstick and formed Irium into a shield.

A great big psychic shield of doom.

"Nikose, these things sure are handy," Fenris said.

[Nikose Tyris]

"You wouldn't know the half of it- they grow more powerful around things that echo of their own power- that's why Irium likes you so much, for your cleverness and wit. Melfice is a down to earth type of guy, (And he's been standing on firm ground continuously, aiding Indori), And as for Nenyel, well..." He grinned, and gently stroked his amulet. "She's amazing. She'll be what protects me when I get lost. Speaking on that! I'm not sparking anymore. Gotta assume it's part of the tower's defense grid."