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Swords of Rest and Guilt
A sliver of rainbow light cuts through the air of the park. Literally. It's like a splinter of light in the air, in place and throbbing like an open wound.
Nya?
A catgirl who was searching the park for something the light and tried to follow it
The light stays in place. It looks as if there's something behind this "tear."
Nyaha! I got you, funny looking thingy!
Noe recklessly tries to open it from the back. What she was hoping to accomplish was a mystery.
With a wet tearing sound, the rift opens up, revealing a bright red landscape beyond. It's a forest, populated by trees with leaves of red... it's not even autumn, though.
Oohh! I found another dimension, nya!
Noe attempts to squeeze herself into the rift. It probably helps that she's small. In hindsight this was probably dangerous.
Another girl follows behind Noe with closed eyes, stumbling and tripping over everything but eventually getting to the rift and entering behind!
The world inside has a gentle breeze, yet it also carries a metallic scent. Despite the peaceful atmosphere, there's definitely something off. Fallen apples have something moving beneath the skin. Mounds of dirt lie in random places, covering something.
Hmmm? This place looks dead, nya. Like a bad future...
Noe noticed the girl stumble in behind her and pointed.
Nyahaha! You fell in!~ you're clumsier than me!
"Oh, what a wondrous sight my vision has set upon me! A beautiful ray of light! Oh, how this world truly is magnificent!"
Owain yells to himself as he gazes on the tear from afar, before noticing... people going inside it?
"By the gods, what are they doing? Is it a pocket dimension? A tear in reality? Aha, what adventures await!"
He laughs to himself before charging at the tear, throwing himself into it behind the other two.
Upon entering, he takes in a deep breath, expecting fresh air.
"Hmm, that smell... the faintest hint of the essence of the forge... Interesting.
Oh?"
Owain bends down and picks up an apple, poking at the little moving things beneath the skin. It's probably gross.
The girl follows behind silently, not speaking a word just yet as she looks around, eventually noticing Noel notice her, making her smile
Hehe!
The girl then spins around as she opens her eyes, revealing yellow pupils as she places a mask on her face, pulling a laser sword as she bows
Justice had appeared before you! Pancake Knight at your service! Lady Noe! Great to see you again! What are we doing here? I didn't fall in! I am here to investigate!
A blue tracksuit wearing man, carrying a wooden baseball bat that’s resting on his shoulder along with a black one-strap backpack slung across his back, wanders around the park before coming to a halt as he lays his eyes on the rift, with the people going inside it.
Hm...
Shrugging, the man squeezes through the rift, scanning the eerie landscape once he gets in.
Shortly after Noe and PKetsuna find themselves on the other side of the rainbow rift, a girl with lavender hair and glasses steps through.
"This time, for sure," she says to herself. "I'll get an answer out of him."
She approaches PKetsuna and taps them on the shoulder.
"PK," says Rosie. "I, um, should apologize for attempting to force you to retreat the other day. I just didn't want Hazama to break your Eyecon."
The very small things under the skim squirm away from the foreign touch and burrow deeper into the apple.
Anyone paying attention would notice a sudden slash in the leaf-littered ground.
Noe looked overjoyed upon hearing the name Pancake Knight. She suddenly started bouncing up and down and hugged him, making a loud purring noise.
Yay! PK-san really is safe!!! The future changed! The future changed! Nyaaaa~ I'm kinda mad I didn't get to help out though!
Noe pouted as she separated, but looked happy regardless. She was happy about the new arrivals too. Yay adventure!
She looked at Rosie kind of funnily, though.
Is she your friend, PK-san? She looks really old!
Noe's ears picked up a sudden movement, causing her to lean down and examine the slice that had appeared.
Nya nya? What's this...?
She tried sniffing the mark to get some kinda clue about it.
While she waits for PK to respond, she feels a presence. Shit, this is...!
"Everyone, get back!" she shouts, drawing her rapier and one of her Dapple Dualies as she dodges the attack.
[A young man in a grey and black outfit with blonde and red hair enters through the rift, and, after seeing the landscape before him, adjusts a thing on his wrist]
"This place is pretty weird."
[He then turns to the others]
"So anyway, who are you guys?"
The hell’s that?
Noticing the sudden slash that appeared in the ground, The Scout walks over to it, squatting next to it. Taking his bag off of his shoulder, he hovers it over the slash before lightly tapping it twice.
"Stay back dude," calls Rosie to the new arrival. "There's something hostile under these leaves."
She gets close to Noe and attempts to signal her to be careful in case the thing strikes again.
Owain laughs as he tries messing with the little things inside the apple, having them squirm around as he puts his finger in different parts around the apple's surface.
He puts the apple back on the ground, now seeing everyone gathered around a strange mark in the ground.
"Hmm? Has there been an attack? Hah, no need to fear, the blade mage, Owain Dark, is here to slay any who threaten the people of this realm! The dark power sealed within my bloodline reveals itself to my foes!"
Owain quickly unsheathes a curved blade from his left hip, grabbing a tome with his left hand from the bag as well. The tome begins to float in his hand, flipping through pages as Owain brings it up towards his face, still keeping his eyes on the possible battlefield.
[Throwing an irritated glance at the lavender-haired girl, Yukyo takes a few steps back away from where the slash occured, and takes a playing card from the thing on his wrist]
"This is pretty weird." [He looks directly at the card] "Think you could come out and investigate, Eridan?"
[Suddenly, a water-like shape emerged from the card]
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/442127988818051082/Eridan.PNG "Sure thing, boss!"
[The shape then moved towards the location of the slash, trying to identify what it was before returning to Yukyo]
"Beats me."
"You did your best, Eri. I'll call you again if I you're needed."
[PK seems surprised that Noe would hug him but hugs back anyways, smiling][/i]
Hehe! Well it turns out that I don't actually have a timer! So for the time being I'm controlling someone else till I get my body back! I'm safe for now though!
PK then turns to Rosie and smiles at her, responding to Noe before Rosie
Oh yes! She's a good friend of mine! Say hello Rosie! It's okay! I forgive you! Really! You should leave him to me though! He and I got history to settle!
PK then stares at Rosie confused, there was something there? His reaction too slow
"Yeah, that's great Owain," she says. "Now get behind me and have some sort of wind spell on the ready to smoke out this bastard on my signal!"
Her eyes briefly turn from hazel to a glowing golden-yellow as she searches her soul for a Persona with wind skills.
Owain huffs, before moving in front of Rosie rather than staying behind. He looks back behind himself and shoots her a smirk.
"Hah, this dark being takes orders from no one! My job is to protect, and that I will do! Now stand back, for my sword hand shall slice this foe in two the moment it shows it's demonic eyes!"
Niko was wandering around the park trying to catch a break from all the crazy things that happen in the world... Then he comes across the tear.
"Well, we all know I'll get roped into an adventure I don't want to have part in... I mean, it might be nice to experience. Then again, curiosity killed the cat..."
He decides to enter the tear anyway.
"...But at the same time, satisfaction brought it back."
Now that the narrator has finished their journey home...
The slash comes again, a long-range dash with a tail poking out of the ground in a blur. It disappears as soon as it struck, but it could hit anyone to the left of the first slash.
Niko yet again sees an unusual scene: a red forest with some land shark tail thing slashing at people. Just a normal day.
(edited by Hundred-S)
Nya!?
Noe quickly dodges the strike with her catlike quickness. Suddenly, the small catgirl pulls an assault rifle out of seemingly nowhere and looks around, listening with her ears and tail standing on end.
Hissss~! there's something trying to mess with us! come out and show yourself you big edgy sneaker!
Niko simply just stares.
"Of fucking course."
He sighs.
Luckily, Owain was right of the first slash, letting him act undeterred. As fast as lightning, to him at least, Owain's sword whips through the air at the tail of the slashing creature, although the tail disappears a moment later. He thinks for a moment, before backing off and switching his tome for another one, this one a light blue with gold trim.
"If it's too afraid to show itself, then we must force it! Now, to wait for the perfect moment, then my secret art can be unleashed..."
Whoa!!
Due to his extreme speed along with his quick reaction times, The Scout avoids the slash with ease. Twirling his bat twice, he gets in a batting stance while looking from left to right, preparing for any incoming attacks.
[Yukyo takes a few seconds to think. Then he takes out the same card as earlier.]
"Eri, do you know anything about ground sharks?"
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/442127988818051082/Eridan.PNG "I know a lot of things, Boss. This ain't one of them. I say we get the hell out of here."
"Eh. Good strategy. Well, it's been truly edifying to hang out with you people, but I think I've got my fair share of dimension-travelling for the day. Good day to you."
[He goes back into the right, and back into the real world.]
A child with pale skin and hair would begin aproching the tear. Their expression showed no surprise at the event as if it were something he had seen similar cases of time and time again.
After a moment of staring at it with a more curious than emotional expression the child would finally show some suprise. They'd begin speaking to themselves in their usual alien manner, a habit they had seen others do and thus concluded that it was normal.
"Such an event shouldn't be occurring here. How strange, it seems I shall have to investigate for the sake of the light. Perhaps this is a unknown realm?"
They'd follow the others before through the tear as if hoping to find something that would require their attention.
"Nice to meet you, Noe," says Rosie to the seemingly-overcaffeinated neko. "I gotta talk to you after this. You too, PK."
She turns to Owain after dodging the next slash.
"For fuck's sake," she cries. "Do you wanna return to your home dimension in a casket? Then I strongly suggest you follow my orders and back me up! How would your loved ones feel if they knew you failed to protect your comrades at the cost of your foolishness?"
She turns back to PK as she opens fire on where the creature's tail was.
"No chance in hell I'd do that," she says. "When I got my Persona, I swore to use that power to save you so your killer can face the music. Even if you made a deal with Setsuna-chan, I'm willing to fight by your side if the need arises. Your murder is now my problem as well, so I refuse to back down, dammit!"
The new arrival feels the rush of air as another blade-tailed slash cuts through the ground, only somewhat damaged. While it's hurt, its strike is still strong for anyone in its path. Its main body appears to be underground.
A slight rise in the ground nearby indicates that something else is moving beneath the earth... followed by a larger one...
Ack! What was that?!?
PK being a little too slow gets sliced across the arm and chest as he backs up, taking his laser blade in his hand and switching it to pancake form to munch on as it runs out of energy, putting it away for the team being as his wounds are mended
Yeesh! Sorry about that Setsuna! Here we go! I'm gonna borrow your power real quick! Jack The Killer! Lets slow him down a bit!
Jumping into the air he summons a skeletal figure that rains ice down onto the ground before spreading it slowly, hopefully trying to fence the attacked off or at least slow it down a little with freeze!
PK then turns to Rosie.. She had good qualities, loyal, unyielding, she would make a fine Knight, however this was one battle that he didn't want to involve anyone else
Heh! You got good values! But Hazama is only going to let one of us fight him before he escapes! Me and Setsuna stand the best chance at defeating him! Anyone else he'll hurt to get us to stop so please! Let me handle him when the time comes! I'm not wasting this second chance!
I got this, nya~
With a confident smile, Noe moves, quite quickly. Rushing ahead of Rosie, she ambitiously did a jump over the ground that was coming up and pointed her rifle downwards, opening fire at anything that was coming up, or lack there of. Hopefully some bullets could get to it even if it didn't rise completely.
Niko watches, he notices the Scout, but he's not gonna attempt to start conversation while there's a fight. Though he will do something... He yells to Rosie.
"Ay, the man doesn't have to follow your orders!"
(edited by InterNiko)
The child would continue walking forward as if unaware of the danger he might be facing. It was almost as if they simply didn't care that he may be hurt or perhaps that the concept of pain had yet to exist for them. Despite this, their eyes would glow brightly for a moment and they'd stop short of where everyone was fighting the tail bladed creature.
It was almost as if they had been instructed to stop by a being far more knowledgeable than themselves. The boy would look around at the oddities of the realm and at the ground itself, noticing how strange it was. Finally, they'd simply stare forward smiling as if content with the current situation without understanding it in any degree.
"Here it comes, you guys!" she calls out. Her eyes begin flashing again before returning to normal. "It's time y'all met my partner, Natalia!"
She sheathes her weapons and strikes her wrists on a pair of flint-and-steel bangles, causing blue sparks to consume her body in a flame-like aura. As she cries out "PERSONA!!", a phantasmal woman with red hair and a slotted butterfly mask emerges from the flames and takes her place by Rosie's side, ready to receive orders.
"I'll deal with the kid," she says, rushing over to Meian with some medicine. "The rest of you rain hell on this bastard once it pops up. Keep your distance! Natalia, standby with Megidola!"
If Meian is downed by the attack, Rosie would offer to help them back up.
Feeling the slight rise in the ground, The Scout would jump high into the air as well, avoiding the attack. While airborne, he looks over to Niko, having the feeling that he’s defenseless. Taking out a grey pistol from his right pocket, he spins it while still looking at the boy.i
Hey kid, catch!
The Scout throws the gun over to Niko’s direction. If he played TF2, he would realize that the gun he threw to him is the famous stock pistol.
A small, red haired girl was riding on her pink and round pig when she see's what was going on in the park. She gets off her pig and lays down her spear on the side and laid on the grass. She took a drink of honey water and took nap from where everyone was at, to enjoy the view.
Niko catches the pistol. The scout threw him the goddamn stock pistol. He inspects the gun, eyes wide.
"So this is what it's like. This is actually pretty cool!"
He keeps it close just in case the monster attempts to strike him.
Rosie reaches Meian faster than she had calculated. Apparently, they were not in range of the monster's attack.
"Kid, you ok?" she asks. "Listen to me, you gotta get outta here. It's dangerous. I don't want you to get yourself killed."
The blade-creature that had just attacked finds itself a little stuck by the ice freezing its tail. It thrashes around wildly underground.
While the larger mound stays back, the new smaller one is rather damaged by the bullets. In a fit of rage, a blue creature, with "wings" and a blade-like tail, emerges from the ground and thrashes wildly, the "eye" on its back glaring at Noe.
Niko glares at Rosie. They care about the weird child instead of the actual defenseless 11 year old who was here first?
"Hey, is it because I'm a catperson?!"
This feels oddly racist.
Chohi see's the action going on.
*Yawns* Wow, I thought this new world would be interesting but I guess they are just kids and adults playing with their "magic".
Chohi gets up from the grass, picks up her spear, the Black Viper, and practices her slashing, blocking, pericing, and other martial arts moves on a nearby tree, while her pig sits down and watches.
The child would simply look back to Rosie with a completely calm expression. They would almost seem to be smiling as if unrecognizing the urgency in her voice. They would be curious as to what exactly she was talking about as she presented a few concepts that were unclear to them.
"Danger? What exactly is danger? Also, you spoke of killing, I have a vague idea of what that means as sometimes the light wishes for another's physical form to be killed but I lack the true concept behind it."
The child's eyes would glow brightly but it was unclear if this had any significance or simply was a natural reaction. The light would, in fact, keep anyone from clearly seeing their pupils as any who stared too deeply into the light would feel a certain clarity in terms of their surroundings that would distract from the child's eyes in turn.
Noe lands, wearing a cocky expression as she found itself in the blue creatures line of attack. She was anticipating a followup, so she manages to bounce back, safely away from the bladetail onslaught.
Oohh, you're fun! let's have lotsa fun, Shark Guy!
Peeeersonaaa~!
Noe bounces up in the air cartoonishly. A woman in a kunoichi outfit with a cat tail appears, giggling to herself as she grips her kuunai. There was an additional bow on her back currently unused.
Burn it, Mochizuki Chiyome~!
The woman suddenly narrows her eyes in a haunting way and thrusts their hand forward, sending an Agidyne the creatures way.
If Meian doesn't understand what Rosie's saying, she'd point to the distant hill where a new girl was watching the fight play out.
"Go there and stay put until I come get you," she says. "Got it?"
She rushes back to the group and draws her naginata.
"Change of plans, Natalia," she says. "Rising Slash on the smaller one's eyespot!"
Natalia would strike at the "eye" with two blades in a wide "X" pattern. Rosie follows up with a vaulting slash at one of the critter's "wings." If the attacks connect, this would cause it to collapse on the ground, allowing for the others to wail on it.
The Scout quickly alters his attention to the giant blue monster that emerged from underground, smirking at it. Jumping again in midair (Or double jumping) towards the creature, he puts his bat in the strap of his backpack and reaches inside his backpack, pulling out a golden double barreled shotgun.
Hey dumbass, how would’ja like a hole in your eye.
After addressing to the monster with his never ending confidence, he aims the shotgun at the creature’s eye, blasting it once.
Aha! The enemy reveals itself! Time to strike!
PK smiling at the creature revealing itself, he takes his persona in sword form and lunges towards the eye and then spins around to slice and dice!
The poor creature is blasted and slashed to Hell and back. Its twin breaks out of its ice prison and lashes its tail, but doesn't strike yet once above ground.
The large bulge of earth begins to crumble as something moves. Something big.
(edited by Hundred-S)
OOC: Where'd Owain go? Did he log off for the day or something?
Niko gets tired of Rosie's racist shit, he takes aim at her leg with his new pistol... And fires. The gun kicks back and gets dangerously close to his face.
"So that's what that feels like."
As soon as Rosie left the child would simply continue watching, even moving close with interest at the new development of the battle. His expression would remain cam with the same smile as before and they would begin to speak to themselves once again but much more quietly than before.
"How unfortunate, I do not follow the instructions of any unless they give me a reason to. The only master I yield to is the enlightening power of the light. Perhaps if you weren't so...physical...I would sympathize more with your demands but a none conceptual would barely understand our way."
Nya!? something is coming!
Noe bent to one knee and held her rifle tightly, her ears and eyes listening and looking for anything that may burst out. She was too busy trying to survive herself than to worry about Niko suddenly shooting Rosie.
PK backs up from the destroyed creature and summons his own persona from the swords and applies a tetrakarn barrier to himself, careful of the oncoming sounds and looking around cautiously
Eh? Reveal yourself!
Chohi continues to do some martial arts moves until she felt like she had enough.
*Pants* That was fun! Okay, now on to some strength exercises.
Chohi laid down the Black Viper and did some pull ups on the tree branch, did some sit ups on the tree branch, and did some push ups.
She barely dodges the shot and shoots a look at Niko.
"Oi, watch it!" she yells. "i don't get what you're trying to do, but you better not waste your clip on me or anyone else because you're pissed."
She turns to Noe, realizing that she called her "old." Must be the glasses.
"Nice shooting," she says. "And I'll have you know that I'm a little more than a month away from the legal drinking age back in the US."
Landing on the ground on one knee with the shotgun still grasped in his right hand, The Scout spins his shotgun while pulling the lever at the bottom of the gun, loading one more shotgun shell into the gun. Staring at the large cracking bulge in the ground, he stands up, pointing his scattergun at the bulge, getting ready to shoot at whatever comes out of it.
Niko fires again, this time at Rosie's torso.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm shooting you because you fail to pay attention to people that aren't similar enough to your race. This is a good way to grab attention, right?"
Since everyone ignored the newly-emerged creature, it dashes forward using its "wings" to push itself across the ground, swinging its tail with a purple aura at the scout. It's a regular slash damage-wise, but could also inflict Despair, driving the victim's soul into the depths of hopelessness.
The large mound bursts. Like the past two creatures, this new larger being is of their appearance but larger and with slight differences. The tiny mounds nearby shake a little as it prepares to fight.
Natalia moves in front of the bullet before Rosie recalls her.
"Well, you didn't seem interested in bringing down the monster and its little buddy until Scout gave you that gun," she says. "And shooting people for little or no reason is a HORRIBLE way to get their attention!"
Niko facepalms.
"I'm saying that you seem to not care about the wellbeing of other people that are not human."
Niko fires yet again.
"Before you ask, I'm doing it for fun at this point."
Rosie was too preoccupied with disciplining Niko that she couldn't save Scout from the tail-strike. If he is inflicted with Despair, Rosie would summon Natalia to cast Amrita Drop and dispel the ailment.
Noe nods to Rosie.
Thanks, nya~! I learned from the best! I can't drink yet but it seems fun!
Noe notices the creature appear and aim for the Scout. Unfortunately, she wasn't a support type so she couldn't assist if he got hurt; she could certainly stand out and do damage, though.
Ooh, there's more!~
Noe reloads her assault rifle and aims her sharp cat eye through the barrel of the rifle, opening fire on the creature once again. In particular, she aimed for the creatures mounds as they seemed the most vulnerable, going with the strategy of picking the larger enemy apart piece by piece.
"That kid I sent away didn't seem human, though," she says as the next bullet grazes her elaborate ponytail while she turns around and opens fire on the monster. "As a matter of fact, I do care about everyone, human or not, as long as they don't out-and-out oppose me."
Grinning, The Scout dashes to the side, avoiding the incoming attack while getting two potshots at the creature with his Australium Scattergun. Looking over to Niko once more, he sighs.
Just don’t listen to that idiot. Arguing with a goddamn child...
(edited by Blu_Scout)
Niko glares at Rosie.
"How would YOU know?
He sighs and nods.
"You're right, Scout, this isn't worth my time."
Words come to the minds of those present.
"This... is mankind's first sin."
The smaller creature pushes itself back, nearly dead, then tries its Despair strike again.
"Man created swords to kill, and was in turn killed by swords. Don't you see? Man has always sought ways to achieve death."
The larger one, comparable to a Queen of these monsters, takes the hit. It seems upset as Noe's shots destroy the hidden eggs, so it lashes its tail to hit her with a Despair-inducing attack of its own.
"This comes back to man as kyriaki."
The child would continue to focus on the battle at hand. They were close to the field of battle but not yet close enough to suffer from any attack unless they ended up aimed at their path. Their eyes would continue glowing brighter and brighter as if they were thinking deeply about something. Yes, their thought followed a concept and a question.
Was this entity the others were fighting sentient? Were they simply a beast of instinct? Perhaps they might make for a suitable servant for the light or at very least perhaps they could be freed with the gift of self-awareness. These thoughts occupied the child's mind as they watched the creature.
After Chohi was done doing her exercises, she drank some more honey water from the jug she had and picked up her Black Viper.
Okay, I'm done now. I'm going to go home now and get some sleep before everyone here tries to destroy the world from the fighting.
So, Chohi got on her pig, kicked the side of it and then, the pig and Chohi rode out of the park and back to their home so that they can get some shut eye.
"I know," says Rosie. "'What goes around, comes back around,' as the old saying goes."
She summons Natalia once more to hopefully finish off the smaller monster with Ziodyne.
"But some of us choose not to let the past haunt us," she continues. "We take the bad with the good and move on with our lives. Karma is a bitch, I'll admit that much."
Natalia moves to strike the larger monster with Megidola as Rosie signals for the others to follow her lead.
"By the name of the most devilish Morph, I call upon the ultimate power of Ice! Fimbulvetr of Entombment!!"
Suddenly, from above, a whirlwind of frost encircles the larger monster, before it bursts outwards in an encapsulating block of ice. Owain then somehow don't question it I just need a way to randomly return drops from the sky, smashing the ice block to shards with his blade. He lands on the back of the creature, before back-flipping off of it, landing with his hand over his face, dramatic as ever.
"Haha! The chosen hero returns! I, er, may have gotten lost when I went chasing after a spectre I believed I saw. Turns out it was just my eyes playing tricks.
But don't fret, for the Avenger of Righteous Justice is here to cut these enemies down to size!"
Noe ceased her fire as she saw the attack coming for her. It was too quick for her to take it with her, so she reluctantly dropped her rifle and leaped up onto the creatures tail, landing on the outer blade.
Why despair when you can enjoy yourself in life!? if you have the tools you should try to be happy, nya! and guns are better than swords anyway!
Noe steadied herself on its tail, her catlike stability probably helped. She began running up the tail, drawing two pistols from the holster under her skirt and firing them in succession at the Queens eyes and head as she tried to ascend.
Yeah... Just don’t get into stupid arguments with unreasonable people, ‘kay?
Sliding under the smaller monster’s attack, The Scout spins his Scattergun once more, before aiming it up at the monster’s tail, shooting it once more.
If Owain's ice spell does freeze the entire large monster, Rosie would summon a Persona with Nuclear skills to inflict technical damage.
"You can go on and on about the sins on man for all I care," she continues to the entity in her mind. "But you'll be damned if I hear a single peep out of you about how the world should be purged of sin!"
The smaller monster falls, leaving only the Queen.
The Queen's bulky form can sustain more damage, but the strong blows impacting its body are numerous. It burrows underground, leaving three eggs on the surface, before dashing forward with multiple slashes in a triangle shape.
These beings, to Meian, are driven on instinct rather than thought. Like a simple organism, they live to survive and spread, acting only on hard-wired genetic code.
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The child would walk off to the side of the battle both to avoid getting hit by the queen's onslaught should it continue past the others and to further try and approach the eggs the queen left behind. The child would try and approach without entering the battlefield directly, slowly trying to get closer and closer to one of the eggs.
They would be keenly observing the egg they wanted to approach without taking their eyes off it. Their eyes would seem to dim down as if their thoughts were lessening but their focus was sharpening.
"Noe, Scout, deal with the eggs," she calls out, dodging the slashes. "Owain, you're with me! I have a plan for defeating this bastard."
She scatters a trail of concussion grenades, hoping to lure the Queen out of the ground with the shockwaves.
Despair, huh? Heh, if only they knew.
"I have no comment on this situation. Unless you want me to be hypocritical."
He does the most sarcastic voice he can.
"Despair is soooo bad, guys."
Owain quickly brings his sword up to his chest to attempt to block any major damage, but since it leaves most of himself open, he gets some nasty cuts along his legs and arms. Despite this, he simply grins and bears it, deciding to sheathe his sword and pull out a second tome, being a deep yellow.
"Sure thing, but I've got my own plan for taking it out once it shows up! Oh yeah, by the way, Ms. Blue Haired Lady, I want to respond to what you said before. "
Owain simply smiles and give her a thumbs up, with none of the cheesiness he's normally be exuding.
"I've got no worries putting myself in harms way to protect you all. In fact, it's because I have friends and family back home that I'm fine with doing it. I'll never stop protecting people, but I'll also never stop driving myself to see them again. So I'll be there to shield every last one of you all, even if I get hurt in the process, because I won't let myself die. And, after all, protecting this realm and it's people is the reason I'm here. I've got no right to fail in my mission!"
Owain decides to cut his act and go serious. He takes hold of both tomes, the magical power of both in his hands levitating himself off the ground, along with objects around him. The magical power of the two would begin to build on each other, sharp winds of frost mixing with jolts of thunder. Owain would simply float a foot or so off the ground and wait, tracking the movements of the Queen beast with his eyes.
The Scout jumps up once more, shooting a small glare at Rosie.
And who put you in charge again? Huh? Anyways, I was just gonna do that myself.
Stuffing his Australium Scattergun back in his backpack, The Scout reaches inside his left pocket, retrieving a black pistol that Niko would recognize as the Pretty Boy’s Pocket Pistol. He aims the pistol at the eggs, and starts firing at them.
Niko won't be laughing once he gets hit with one of these attacks. It may seem petty of Rosie, but perhaps she should let him get hit once, wait until he's about to collapse, then heal him. She needs to prove to him that she doesn't just care about other humans.
Noe successfully lands on her feet after the retreat, waiting for the next attack. The sudden dashing slash, however, caught the young catgirl off guard. She's knocked back with a loud "nya" of pain, rolling several feet behind. This results on a noticable wound on her head, as she slowly picks herself up and shakes like a cat getting wet. Ouch.
Nyaaaa... Lucky shot!~ Mochizuki Chiyome...!
The woman appears once again behind the wounded catgirl. She casts Tetrakarn on the party, including herself, allowing one physical shot to be reflected. Hopefully this would serve useful to herself, which was a glass cannon, and the others.
It seems Rosie's tough words got through to Owain. Seems he could be a valuable member of her team. All he has to do is swear on his mother's life or something he'd learn to work with others.
She turns around and sees Noe bleeding out a bit. Again, Rosie feels the need to prove Niko wrong about being racist.
"Noe, you good?" she asks. "I got some medicine if you need it."
All eggs are destroyed except one, which twitches at Meian's arrival. Its feeble shell breaks open, letting the baby kyriaki emerge. It scrambles around for a second, getting used to its new limbs, then tries to burrow like its parent.
The Queen would normally not emerge as it swiftly charges at Noe, but...
The grenades and Tetrakarn stop it in its tracks and break the surrounding dirt. Its tail whips around wildly and blindly to strike nearby foes, but it's open now...
Niko raises his eyebrow, it seems like Rosie is trying to act good just to prove him wrong.
"Do you think I'm a moron?"
The Scout attempts to jump onto the queen’s tail while keeping his balance on it. If he succeedes, he’d run up the tail with his black pistol still in hand, shooting at the back of the creature with it.
"Dammit! Scout, kill the hatchling!" shouts Rosie. "Everyone else, focus down the Queen!"
Rosie switches to Trumpeter and casts Debilitate on the Queen.
"Owain, try to immobilize the tail," she says. "Noe, aim for the eyes!"
Niko gets next to Rosie.
"Wanna see something cool?"
He shoots at the queen then runs, hopefully it starts focusing on trying to hit Rosie.
Taking his attention away from shooting the queen fr a few seconds, The Scout looks back to Rosie.
Listen, whoever you are. I don’t like followin’ orders unless Miss Pauling tells me to do somethin’ for her. Either way, just let me do my own damn thing, please!
The Scout goes back to shooting the Queen.
"Okay, now you're just being spiteful," she says. "No matter, it's gonna die anyways."
She uses another Persona to cast Heat Riser on herself. It looks like she has something planned for the Queen...
I-I'm fine! I just got caught off guard a bit!
Noe seems too proud right now, but it looks like she needed it anyway. At any rate, she manages to back far enough away from the blades to avoid being hit. She smirked.
It's open! Now!
Mochizuki Chiyome appears again and rushes towards the Queen, swinging her Kuunai. In Persona terms, this would be Cleave.
The child's eyes would once again glow brightly as they speak.
"Worry not, little one. I shall set you free of the shackles of instinct and give you the gift that only the light can provide. I will need the light's aid to do this properly though."
Meian's eyes would glow with a bright light until the light became blinding. Their presence was completely overtaken by that of the Light as they began to try and have the light stick to the burrowing creature.
They'd raise one hand forward as energy seemed to swirl around their hand. The energy would quickly identify where the creature was and try to reach out to it. If it succeeded in reaching the creature it would crawl along its skin until it was able to reach its head and phase into its mind.
The light would attempt to wake something new within the kyriaki, a new perspective, their first perspective separated from their instincts. The Light would speak through Meian, even the voice of the child would now be changed. It would speak with absolute clarity and in a way that any who heard its voice would understand.
"Awaken to your new self. You shall from now on be free to choose how to feel and think. Let nothing hold you back as I present you with this gift."
She'd hate to waste her plan on a hatchling, but she can't afford to deal with any complications. She summons another Persona to try and uproot the hatchling, then blast it to kingdom come with Natalia's Megidola.
A young man in a red and blue suit rushes through the air, lines of webbing blasting from his wrists as he swings from tree to tree through the park. Upon spotting the odd gather of monsters and people, he'd quickly swing by and get closer. Seems the big one has people on it. Instead, he'd quickly rush by the smaller foe and aim a line of webbing toward it, firing to latch onto the center of the thing's back and then quickly aiming to yank it upwards. Assuming it worked, he'd then tie the web line around a branch of a tree and begin blasting his foe down with more to try and restrain it fully.
"Yo, thought i'd get out see how things are in this city ya know! But then I spot some monsters fighting this fine little band of people and thought, hey what the heck I might as well lend a helping hand right? Name's Spider-Man, and it seems as if I've shown up at a bad time, or a great one seeing as how I'm a superhero and all!"
The small creature pokes its "head" out of the halfway-dug hole, confused and crawling around. It flinches as it pokes a leaf, suddenly aware of the strangeness of it rather than just ignoring it. With its new awakening and being only seconds old, it's essentially a newborn child.
The Queen rumbles, covering its face with its wings as it swings its tail in another wide arc. One last all-out strike should do it!
Suddenly, the baby kyriaki is trapped in a web and flails wildly in distress. This keeps it safe from the Megidola and absolutely harmless.
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Niko looks at Spider-Man. This is getting interesting.
"Well, isn't this just perfect?"
The magic continues to keep Owain afloat, building higher and higher. Owain finally begins to move at the tail flails around, falling back to the ground and running towards the Queen, electricity running from his feet to the ground before breaking the connection, then rejoining as his feet reach the ground once again.
"Now, to end it! A storming blizzard approaches! The powers from within myself know not to contain themselves, so I unleash it upon you!
Thundering Hailstone Cannon!"
Shouting the name of his attack the top of his lungs, Owain skids to a halt a foot away from the Queen, thrusting his arms forward and down at her, sending a blast of ice and thunder at it. He takes multiple slash wounds from the tail, but the payoff is more than enough. A pillar of thunder erupts from the attack, sending jolts of electricity at the Queen as well as surrounding it with ice. As the attack concludes, Owain just falls to the ground, taking a knee and breathing heavily.
But that doesn't last long, as he quickly stands up, a little wobbly, and poses with all his might.
"The bloodlust of my fell hand has been quenched once more. No demon can face my swordplay, nor magic, and come out alive! For I am... about to pass ou- agh..."
Owain falls straight on his face, exhausted. But, although it's hard to notice, he has a smile on his face, as always.
Great. Now a superhero's joined the party. If Spidey can assist Owain with disabling the Queen's tail, then an All-Out Attack would be in Rosie's sights.
"Listen Spidey," calls Rosie. "See the monster's tail? We need to tie it down and sever it, but the aura around it is poisonous. It'll fuck with your psyche if you get hit. Now get to work, kid!"
The hatchling is successfully uprooted and dispatched with Megidola as Rosie had planned. She would then charge up for a powerful physical attack.
Noe looks at Spiderman in awe. A real superhero! wow! maybe she could be their sidekick!
Spiderman!?!? He's so cool!!!
I-I mean...! Here's our chance for all out attack, nya~!
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Noe rushes into the queen, beginning a potential multi-people anime dogpile to wreck the queen.
The hatchling is completely safe as stated in the bootleg edit.
The Scout gets of balance and almost falls off the back of the Queen, but thankfully, he uses his second jump to leap back towards the Queen once more. Putting his pistol back in his pocket, he reaches for his bat once more, twirling it. While still airborne, The Scout would raise his bat above his head with both hands.
Lights out, ya freak!
The Scout slams his bat down onto the Queen’s back with all of his might, hoping to do a major amount of damage.
Niko may not be powerful... But that doesn't stop him. He flips the gun around to make it more of a melee weapon.
"It's time..."
He rushes in, ready to strike.
Rosie tosses Owain a Soma, one she purchased from the strange vending machine near her apartment for 500 yen.
"Drink up," she says. "It's usually a rare find, but I got more on hand."
Suddenly a dome of light would seem to emanate from Meian. It would surround them and the hatchling and guard them against Rosie's attack. The light would stare at the Hatchling before lowering down with one hand and attempting to offer it to the creature. Suddenly, their eyes would begin to dim once more back to a reasonable brightness as they once again became Meian who would continue trying to communicate with the hatchling via contact.
That is until it's trapped in the webbing mentioned before. Meian would approach the retrained creature and begin trying to emanate a small pulse of light that would burn away the web without harming the hatchling.
At most the aura would simply just feel vaguely warm to it.
Instead, the light would seem to obscure into the abstract and use its brief moment of controlling Meian to somehow communicate with Rosie mentally. It would simply send one message to her in a clear way.
"Do not interfere with my work, mortal being. I have freed this creature just as I shall free all who live."
Wait, they downed the Queen? Well, better late than never to join in. Rosie draws both her naginata and rapier and proceeds to wail on the Queen. Then, she casts Revolution on herself and the party to boost their critical rates.
The Queen thumps its tail against the ground, shuddering as the electricity and ice course throughout its body. Its frozen parts are broken away by the others' strikes, until it finally collapses, slowly dissolving into shadow. Bit by bit, it fades, leaving only a light blue gem behind.
The hatchling lands not-so-softly on the ground, then crawls behind Meian to hide from Rosie as the voice from before echoes.
"This is the Blessing of Kyriaki... Whoever calls upon its power shall gain the boon and bane of using this sin..."
Niko quickly grabs the gem for himself.
"Shiny."
Owain is unconscious. Unconscious people don't want Somas, and they can't answer the question, "do you want a Soma," because they're unconscious.
Mortal being? Wonderful some high and mighty jackass.
"Listen, pal, do your work all you want. I just don't want the thing attacking anybody, and if your work means letting people die then I'll get in the way. Otherwise? I'm cool with your weird immortal being stuff I don't understand."
As for Rosie's orders, he'd simply keep watch over the likely possessed kid and the hatchling. Trusting his new allies to deal with the queen on their own regardless of his efforts.
"Who died and made you the leader of the Avengers? Last I checked my team doesn't answer to you uh... Random Person I've never met before."
He'd then glance toward the Queen for a moment, she's clearly done for. And as much as he hates killing, he'll make an exception from saying anything considering that it seemed like some mindless monster.
"Anyway, looks like we're done here save for the tiny one. So, anyone want to start explaining to me what the heck just happened?"
"Damn," says Rosie, sheathing her weapons. "And I was about to go to town on it with Yoshitsune. Great job though, everyone!"
She takes the crystal and inspects it.
"I don't think this is something we should mess with," she concludes.
Meian would once again place a hand to the ground to allow the creature to crawl on if it so chooses. He would smile at the creature, not only out of some sympathy he might feel for it having become sentient for the first time but also because of the feeling using the Light's power gave him. He was familiar with it now, maybe enough so to perform this thought giving process without assistance.
Regardless, he was a step closer on his path to becoming a proper vessel to the light and had hopefully helped in liberating another being from the shackles of pure instinct.
Niko kicks Rosie in the shin and takes the gem back.
"That's mine, bitch."
Suddenly, teleporting in from nowhere...
YOINK
genm steaks the gem
Noe sighs deeply, Mochizuki Chiyome disappearing before she bounces up and down.
We did it, nya~! now that's what I call a good time!
Noe ceases her celebratory dance as she looks on at the light blue gem on the ground, making her eyes light up.
Ooohhh, treasure~! Firsties grabsies!
Noe attempts to reach down and tries to pick up the gem, but Niko manages to grab it first. She pouts and flails her arms.
Nyaaaa~! no fair no fair!!!
The Scout jumps off of the Queen’s corpse, landing next to Niko. He looks at his newly acquired gem curiously.
What’s that thing supposed to be?
The hatchling tries to join in and steal Gemn. All this accomplishes is the hatchling wrapping its wings around his leg.
"Hey, no worries, you'll get the other cool loot next time."
He smiles at Noe then looks at the Scout.
"I don't know, honestly, shiny isn't it?"
"Hey, haven't you ever heard of loot distribution!? Come on man, first rule is that taking things from other's boss fights is a major jerk move!"
Spidey would quickly aim some web shots toward Genm, 3 small blasts of it toward his face to try and blind the man with his left hand. And a normal web line from his right at the gem, aiming to snatch it into his hands with an inhumanly strong yank.
Meian would try and watch over the hatchling, more to ensure that nobody harmed it rather than to help it steal the gem. They had no interest in such things as a gem that could grant power, though the gem itself reminded them all too much of a crystalized conceptual but it was most likely different in nature.
After dodging all those bullets, Niko finally manages to get a hit on Rosie. She massages her shin for a bit.
"Hardy har-har," she says. "But seriously. If that gem represents one of the Deadly Sins, then we should seal it away if it can't be destroyed."
She turns to Noe, ready to finally ask her a few questions.
"I wanna confirm with you some rumors I heard," she says. "Rumors about who killed PK. Was it really a Goro Akechi clone? And did he use fire magic?"
Genm, as always, loses the Gem. First the Holidays and now this.
Hmph, fine.
He stares at the thing clinging to his leg.
I will take this instead.
I shall kill it and absorb it's data.
Toodles.
He vanishes.
The poor hatchling's going to have a wild ride today. He'll be fine, though. Maybe.
Niko keeps the gem really close to him.
"Look, I don't care because honestly sins are better than whatever law shit you believe in."
Eh, it doesn’t look as good as Australium though... But it’s sorta decent I gu- HEY!
Looking over to Spidey, who shot a web at Niko’s hand, The Scout yells at him.
He got that thing fair and square, buddy! So, let go of it!
Hmmmphhh.... I better get the good stuff next time!
Noe pouts. She really wanted that treasure, but oh well, no sense in dwelling on it!
She looked up at Rosie, tilting her head.
Nya? well, mama told me that it was someone named Goro Akechi who killed PK-san... But, I can't really interfere with that. I wouldn't even know where to look for him.
Noe looked to the side regretfully. It seemed she was hiding something, but didn't say anything.
Owain lays on the floor bleeding out, because he is unconscious. Please, take him to home or to a hospital or literally just heal him without attempting to toss an unconscious man a Soma. He really needs some assistance. This is not Casual mode.
Meian having lost the hatchling decided to simply leave. There was no further purpose in observing the bickering of the individuals who remained there and he had already gained valuable experience from this. Perhaps in the future, he would attempt to grant something sentience without the aid of the light. For now, the child would begin walking away and if nobody attempted to stop them they'd leave the tear and return home, wherever home was.
That confirms one suspicion, but...
"I also heard that some spiritualist tried to send you and a handful of others on some sort of treasure hunt to revive PK," continues Rosie. "If that rumor is true, has any sort of progress been made?"
While waiting for Noe to respond, she walks over to Owain and uses a Revival Bead on him.
"You did real good out there," she says, extending a hand. "Say, I've been looking for teammates to help me with this case. All I can say is that it's got something to do with these rumors I've been asking Noe about."
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PK-san is fine now! he shares a body with that pink-haired girl now. The future was changed, so I can finally go back home!
She nods to herself and smiles.
Umm... If I could find my time machine...
The young man walks over to Niko, holding out the small gem to the boy with a shrug.
"Here ya go, but I really hope this thing is reasonably safe. It's kinda on me that you have it, so uh if anything weird happens lemme know okay?"
He'd hand the kid a bit of paper, a contact number for his superhero crap to be exact. Not that it would lead to Peter Parker, but Niko would in fact be able to get in touch with Spider-Man if something happened.
Niko takes the gem and paper from Spider-Man, sweating profusely.
"Aha, thought I had the gem, thanks Pe-..."
He catches himself in the nick of time.
"I MEAN UH!... Spider-Man, yeah, woops guess my train of thought went of in another direction."
He nervously laughs it off.
Owain's eyes slowly open as he's revived by Rosie. He puts his hand on his forehead and shakes his head, before looking up at her.
"Wha..? Lady, listen, when you wake someone up from near death, please don't immediately ask them questions...
Anyways, I'm not interested in joining any teams. I'm in this for everyone's sake. If I end up aiding you, so be it, but I'm not yours to be commanded.
By the way, I'd ask for you to not refer to things I assume were being talked about before I came back up as if I already know them..."
Owain stands up, dusting off his clothes, before heading over to the entrance rift. He puts a leg through, before turning back around and giving Noe and Rosie a little salute, then returns home.
Rosie motions Noe over to her and Owain.
"That's great and all, but that still doesn't change the fact that the killer could strike again if he finds out PK's alive inside of Setsuna-chan," says Rosie. "If it were up to me, I'd expedite the quest and restore him in his old body. But then there's the issue of this Hazama dude I met a while back who's got a grudge against both of them. I can't afford to leave Setsuna out to dry if PK goes back to normal."
Teleports back in.
Before I forget, I've heard good things about you...
Genm points a blank Gashat at Rosie and absorbs some data from her before teleporting away.
The Scout was confused. Why did the Nikoget so excited when the weird jumpsuit wearing kid gave him that piece of paper? I guess he has only one way to find out.
You’re nervous about somethin’, aren’t ya?
Niko nervously laughs again.
"O-of course not..."
Pet-... This kid knows his name. How does the cat child know his name?
"Hey kid, wanna go for a little walk? See some sights, explain to me what's up with you being so nervous."
He'd begin walking off from the rest of the group, aiming to get well out of earshot, though still moving slowly enough for Niko to follow.
If you're trying to fight Hazama-san, you can't. People have tried to stop him before. As long as time flows forward, Hazama-san is gonna be around. All we can do is damage control, nya.
As for Goro Akechi... I can't help you. That's not my place. If I go back and there's something that was his fault, I'll come back, but otherwise I only came here for one reason. To help PK-san. Well, that and to have fun, too... But I can't help you in this matter, nya! sorry!
The usually playful Noe smiles apologetically at Rosie.
Niko decides to follow Spider-Man, he knows that he knows about his slip-up, hopefully they're understanding.
"Alright, sure."
He puts the gem in his pocket.
So much for trying to recruit Owain. Perhaps that Morgana clone Rosie met yesterday was right; she shouldn't cut to the chase at the wrong time. However, she certain that she'll run into Owain again, and when she does, she'll lay all her cards out to him and see if he'll reconsider.
"Actually Noe," she says after a while. "I gotta get back home. I only wanted to talk with PK, but shit happened, and I missed another chance to offer him an alliance."
She slips Noe a sheet of paper with her contact info.
"If you ever want to talk again," she says. "And share this with him the next time you see him, ok?"
She offers a handshake to Noe.
Right...
The Scout then realized that Niko called The Scout by his name even though he has never told the kid his name.
By the way, kid, how did ya even know my name anyway?
He then realized that he and the weird spider kid were walking away.
H-Hey, wait for me!
(edited by Blu_Scout)
Noe took the paper. She could read it well enough, sure, but she didn't bring her phone with her to this time... Not like it could get signal. How was she supposed to use this? she tilted her head, ears twitching.
This might be the last time we even talk, but sure?
She exchanges an awkward handshake with Rosie. She blinks. She wasn't used to this formality.
Hand holding is lewd, nya.
Spidey sighs, well he's not letting this army dude find out who he is or anything. But he can't just ignore what the kid knows either.
"Alright, I heard you start to say my name dude. So please don't say it while anyone else is around, but uh I'm kinda curious how you would know something like that. I've only just shown up in this city, busted some muggers, even stopped a bank robbery yesterday but that's my biggest exploit here."
He'd then look around a bit more, huh a catgirl? Well, that's a thing... Might go talk to that lot soon.
"Anyways, I can't exactly make you not know it. But the fact you stopped tells me you're not looking to shout my name from the rooftops right? So hey, I guess it's alright."
Rosie laughs a bit.
"So I've heard," she says. "See you around."
Rosie waves goodbye to the others as she steps through the rift, holding a glowing blue gem. It seems she had swapped the real "Sin Gem" for a similar-looking Swarovski crystal she had on hand for some reason when Niko had kicked her in the shin.
"I should take this to Tatsuya," she says to herself. "He might know what to do with it."
And so, she carefully pockets the gem as she hails an Uber to take her back her apartment, knowing that she WILL catch the Akechi who killed PK one way or another.
Niko sighs, he's gotta break the truth.
"Well, uh, you see... In my universe, I can access the internet of some universe of humans and uhh... You guys are fictional."
He's trying to sound as sincere as possible.
"Like, looking at Spider-Man stuff like comics and movies and playing Team Fortress 2, which Scout is from, helps me cope with something that happened to me in the past. Hopefully you guys don't suffer an existential crisis over this."
Scout looked confused as ever. How could he be a fictional character if he feels real? Also Team Fortress 2? If he’s from a sequel that most likely sucks because, you know, most sequels are terrible, then what’s the point of him being important?
Wait wait wait, slow down a bit, would ya? So let me get this straight, I’m not a real person?
God mods the gem away.
I call it the genm gem game
(edited by Genm)
ILLUSION!
The gem appears in the hands of a young man, of which there are several copies.
"Sorry, but I'll be taking this for safekeeping. Can't have someone go destroying it!"
Oh, well that's a thing. Speaking from the standpoint of multiverse theory, it only makes sense he'd be fictional in some reality out there.
"Huh... Well, I'll be alright, that's just how things must be somewhere."
He'd then look at Scout and shake his head, no they're as real as anybody else is that much is a given.
"It's like this, there's an infinite number of Earths out there right? This place has dragged bits of universes into one big mess, so it stands to reason in some of those worlds you or me or anyone could be just a story. But in our worlds we're just people, make sense?"
iOf course other things are possible, but Pete isn't going down that rabbit hole anytime soon.
And I wasn't gonna say anything, but yeah it's super gay to god mod away items like that. Niko got it first, it's his, that's how these things work.
Niko stops sweating and looks relieved.
"Thank you for being understanding, Spidey."
Niko smiles.
"Anyway, it was great to meet you both in the flesh! I guess I should get going now, though."
He leaves, this day was actually good to him for once.
He'd wave to both of them for a moment, eyes of his mask narrowing as he looks around for an exit.
"Yeah, see you around! Anyways, I'll take a bit more time to look around myself but it seems my work's done here!"
Bingo, Spidey slings a web onto the top of a nearby tree. Pulling himself away in an instant and quickly flying through the air, he'd continue like that for quite some time, being well out of sight from the park in a few moments.
but I'll still mention the gem in another RP thread even though it wouldn't technically be in my possession.Or you could not do that.
So after seeing the issues with people saying there was godmodding, and looking at another thread where this was talked about, I wanted to clear something up just in case because I'm not sure if everyone is actually sure what the problem is, or if they just wanted to jump on a hatewagon.
To clear things up, the issue had nothing to do with not refreshing, the thing everyone is taking issue with as godmodding comes from this single line.
Rosie waves goodbye to the others as she steps through the rift, holding a glowing blue gem. It seems she had swapped the real "Sin Gem" for a similar-looking Swarovski crystal she had on hand for some reason when Niko had kicked her in the shin.While it is likely that earlier, she took the gem originally without refreshing to notice someone else took it first, that is not what people were upset over, it was this quote here. This line of her last post at the time says that she swapped gems earlier, meaning Niko is holding the fake while Rosie made off with the real one, but there was no earlier indication of this happening. This line is trying to retroactively change an event so she has the gem, and since there was no earlier indication of this, that's why it is godmodding and why people were upset. I am not encouraging any riot, I just want to establish this clearly as it seems some people were not fully aware of the situation, and in hindsight it was very poorly explained to begin with. Again, I am not encouraging anyone to pile on hate, this is here to make things very clear so we know what the problem was, why it is a problem, and how it can be avoided in the future. and ffs if there is an issue again can we make it clear asap