We Are Our Avatars XI (Open)

[Gearhead mk2]

Candace retracted her blade, realising it was a fake, then saw the golem slowly attacking her. She ran away, taking a second to reload her gun.

Lambda kept focusing on the field, keeping it at its current strength.

 

[Furioso]

Raz kept trying to slow the Golem with laser blasts. "Anyone have anything that can hurt a rock guy?"

 

[Silence]

Blue held up her hand, creating a magic shield, similar to the ones the other mages had, only much more powerful, deflecting Yauna's golden energy. For a short moment, Yauna was free, but Blue got back right to holding her down again.

The golem and the soldiers tried to walk forward through the gravity field, much slow.

"Nope." three of Blue's illusions called to Raz, to mess with the heads of the group. Together, all of them managed to create a solid rope of water, which now closed in on the people fighting.

The two mages threw an ice- and a fireball, the iceball targeted at Raz, the fireball targeted at Shana.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Yauna cast another spell, which caused her physical form to shift and split into four Yaunas. There would be three illusions, and one real Yauna, each of them constantly switching positions with each other like a magical shell game. The copies, and Yauna, all began walking around the room, moving in unison.

 

[Slenn]

Shana was already sprinting to and fro to try and meander through the mess of water ropes. So the fireball would probably miss. While they didn't grab her, they were occupying a lot of her attention. She dashed over to Yauna to try and sever the rope with her short sword.

"The golem will take too long to handle!" She yelled to Raz over the commotion. "Focus on the ones that are easy to take down. They are the ones causing the most chaos!"

OOC: Rule of boss fights in WoW: Ads first, tank later.

 

[Furioso]

Raz stopped firing at the golem, and focused his mind on the incoming iceball. Using his pyrokinesis he dramatically increased the temperature of the ice ball quickly. If successful, the ice ball would turn to water before it struck him, and Raz would then focus his pyrokinesis on the clothes of the mage that attacked him.

 

[Silence]

Seeing Yauna split, Blue concentrated on controlling the illusions, and strengthening the rope of water, for now. Shana was able to slash through the rope - only for it to grow back together immediately.

One of the soldiers now attacked Shana, while the other attacked Candace - both were still slowed down, but were slowly passing the slowing area of effect. The golem walked through as well, still slow.

The mage who had thrown the fireball on Shana now threw one on Raz, while the one, whose ice ball had melted, created water, to fight the flames forming on his clothes.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Yauna and her copies moved towards Blue, casting a spell as they went which surrounded their hands in dark energy. They would then start clawing at Blue, the magic causing the same kind of necrosis Yauna had induced in Green's tree giant earlier. Only the real Yauna's attacks would actually do anything, the others were simply illusions. The shell game nature of the spell meant that this didn't help with identifying where Yauna was, however.

 

[Furioso]

Raz ducked down as a psychic shield enveloped him, protecting him from the fireball. Once the fireball hit, Raz fired a laser blast at the mage who's clothes he had set on fire.

 

[Slenn]

Shana dived away from the attack and turned to face the side of the soldier. She proceeded to strike the leg of the soldier with the powered knife.

 

[Silence]

Blue cast a spell, quickly. Blue energy rose from the ground, hitting the dark energy Yauna was casting - then it turned against Yauna and her illusions instead, both the fake and the real energy, each one against the one who had cast it.

"Not a good idea."

The mage Raz shot at was hit, he fell down, trying to cast another spell, slowly.

The fire mage threw another fireball at Raz, this time seemingly brighter. If it hit Raz psychic shield, it would explode, engulfing the area around Raz and flame, and hitting the one near him.

The soldier's leg was cut off. He threw down his sword, then tried to crawl back.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Candace tried cutting through the water tendrils Blue was projecting.

 

[Furioso]

Raz, having no reason to try anything else, did use his shield, and stayed shielded while the fire raged.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

The counterspell failed to have an effect, since Blue didn't successfully target the real Yauna due to her constant switching. Yauna and her copies then leapt at Blue and clawed at her.

 

[Drakmorg]

[color=ff9966]Guess we'll handle the appetizers first...[/color]
Nina, who had been standing by the entire fight to channel energy, felt it was now time to act. She raised her hand, pointing her palm towards the mage throwing fire at Raz, and launched a stunning bolt of electricity from it aimed at him. Regardless of whether this hit or not, she would try and charge for the mage's position, forming a ball of flame in her left hand and tossing it at whichever Blue-clone link in the water-chain was closest. The fire would burst on contact, and the resulting heat would be more than enough to quickly evaporate water.

 

[Silence]

Candace could hit the tendril, even go through, but it did not seem to do anything. The rope closed in, touching several people now, and feeling solid.

The mage managed to raise a magic shield in time, rendering Nina's attack mostly useless, but bringing the mage backwards. The blue-clone Nina was targeting evaporated - the visual illusions closed the gap however, making it more difficult to see which illusion could cast. The rope of water seemed to be unaffected - the other water clones stopped also had no connection to it anymore, it seemed to move on its own.

The other mage, the one using ice, looked towards the Yauna's, and shot for ice spikes at each, dissolving the illusions and hitting the real Yauna in the back.

Blue was hit by the real Yauna for a second, then how she felt was different - she seemed out of water now. Behind her, the real Blue stepped backwards out of the illusion. She then brought her hands down heavily, controlling the fluids in Yaunas body. As her illusions (probably) had none, only the real Yauna was affected and brought down again.

The golem saw Nina attacking, and now raised his fists, and slammed them down hard, on where Nina stood.

 

[Furioso]

Assuming the fire had subsided, Raz got back up and resumed firing at the ice mage.

 

[Drakmorg]

Nina had taken the opportunity to hop through the rope while she had made a gap. Seeing the golem's slow attempt to strike her, she whistled. A Dark Arm surged out of the ground below Nina and intercepted the golem's swing, buckling slightly as it caught the golem's arm. This arm seemed much less substantial than the others Nina had called, and dissipated into smoke as Nina had kept running, giving her just enough time to get clear of the attack before it came down. Unless something else got in her way, Nina would try and tackle one of the mage's, her supernatural physical strength making up for her tiny mass to still give her tackling ability of a large, strong man.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Yauna, by some fairly good luck, was hit square in the small of the back... right where the hole in her torso was. The spike grazed against the edges of the wound, causing enough damage to make Yauna lose her focus. And then she got slammed into the floor, which just made things worse.

Yauna would force herself to roll over onto her back, using her levitation to lift her body when necessary, and looked up at the assembled fighters.

"FIGHTING IS JUST GOING TO GET YOU ALL HURT, SO STOP!" she yelled out, layering her voice with magic which would compel everyone, even her allies, to lay down their arms. The only exceptions would be those with the willpower to resist the spell, and those who couldn't understand her.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Candace kept cutting at the water, not really knowing what else to do and hoping to buy some more time.