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The first thing Chris did when the monster collapsed dead was make sure he still had everything -- weapon, sword, string… Well, the first first thing he did was breathe a sigh of relief. He had figured killing these things was possible, but the fact that there was now full evidence that they – the team -- could do so was nice to see. Second, then, was recollecting himself -- bracing his boot against the dead monster’s corpse to yank his sword back out, putting his daggers in their proper sheaths, and patting himself down to make sure he had his spindle and everything else. He also checked for any wounds he might have missed with all the adrenaline. He didn’t want to collapse in the middle of the second fight out of nowhere. Satisfied that he wasn’t going to die, at least not that way, Chris turned his attention to the second monster. Again, he was still terrified on some level, but the thing seemed so much more knowable now. Chris readied his string. He hadn’t gotten to enact his plan of tying the first monster up amidst all the chaos. Maybe the second one would be a bit more amenable to the attempt. Chris made his approach. He waited until he had passed Ziun to anchor his string, just to make sure that the bard was outside of the range of whatever shenanigans Chris was about to get up to. That was when he started to sprint, weaving his way around the errant tentacles and keeping sure the string unwound behind him. He managed one full, reasonably tight circle around the monster before it realized what was happening, but then it started to swipe at him. Suddenly, not only did Chris have to fight this second monster’s attacks, he also had to fight his instincts. How long had it been since he’d gotten this string? How long had he gotten used to its general use of pulling him out of danger? Now, he had to keep it out as long as possible, so he had to resort to other methods of keeping out of trouble. The classic solution: Chris ran. Well, it wasn’t spiritually running away if he was also pulling the string tight, Chris decided. And that was important to keeping the monster immobile. But he did physically run away from the monster, yes. At least out of swiping range. Of course, then he had to deal with the tentacles, some of which were no longer entranced by the siren song of Ziun’s lute. They weren’t quite coming his way, but they were reaching out in his general direction. “If we tie these down too,” Chris said, “like, for good, with web and string and whatever else, it shouldn’t be able to hurt us anymore. Then we can wail on it. The problem is-” He grit his teeth and jumped back to avoid a few exploratory swings from the tentacles. “The problem is we gotta tie these to something, and the best thing I can think of is itself? If someone’s got a good way to do that, or even just a better idea, that’d be- I’m all ears.”

The casino roof... it looked better than it did the other day when he was up here. It seemed to have the same amount of members here to guard it, so at least they were consistent with the numbering. Override made his approach and was stopped immediately by one of the members... oh boy... “Well, look who it is, the guy who tried to drop a chandelier on me. You’re lucky Tidebinder is more forgiving than I am. Even the old boss would never have let this happen.” "Simply doing my job, just as you were..." Override responded, rubbing the back of his armored head. "However, I am glad you managed to not get crushed by that... honestly, just glad no one did." He was definitely glad the the gentleman didn't escalate things further. “Alright, here’s what else we’re working with… The protocol for normal days is that anyone who tries to get into the casino through the roof has to deal with the nine or so guys up here, something that is generally enough disincentive to keep people from trying. If people do, well, all the important stuff is four or five floors down now, and starts to involve the second wave onward of security. Of course, the boss thinks today’s not a normal day, and that’s where you guys come in, I suppose. Extra help is already a boon, but you’re not going to be here for longer than the day unless the boss works something out long-term, which isn’t going to happen, so I guess that’s your main job. You’re a tech guy, right? You and the rest should tech us up something good.” "Hmmm, so brute force is generally the supposed deterrent for anyone breaking into this place." the armored hero nodded, pulling up a screen and proceeding to tap away on it. "For the normal side of things, that wouldn't be terrible... but if we apply this to a situation... say like the raid against Caesar the other day... then it goes completely out the window. What you need is a heavy deterrent for situations like that." He paused, before bringing out another screen with a few images. "By a show of hands, who got hit by the dampener that I launched on that day? I recall at least hitting two." He ended up getting one hand raise. "I think Greg was the other one. He got rotated to the Ave patrol." "Alright, so for the record... the power dampeners do just that. One had flight abilities and was grounded until they dropped from the roof and out of the range of the dampening field... ingenious move, albeit a little stupid." Override commented, as he tapped away some more. "A thought I have happens to be this... in the event of another raid type situation, initiate a power dampening field around the location. This would potentially disarm those caught in the field, as you would assume. It would also deter anyone from trying to break in as well, unless they want to have their powers dampened." The suggestion staggered some of the rooftop audience. "That seems a bit utopian," said one. "Why not just dampen the whole city if you've got the tech for that?" "Or make everyone sign a truce to fight in Goodale?" came another suggestion. A third asked, "Hey didn't Tidebinder beat you using her powers? Are you just trying to make sure that won't happen next time G3 comes knocking on our door?" "All good points... but you seem to be missing the point." Override sighed, swapping one holopad for a brand new one... this one showing a long list of those employed at the casino. "You aren't accounting for one specific detail. Myself with Legion's help, I wager we can attempt to account for each and every one of your genetic signatures to allow those within the casino access to their powers... if they aren't employed with the Gibbon's... the dampening field will nullify any resistance. In theory, mind you..." "Now it sounds like G3 wants our DNA!" someone laughed. "Well, if Legion is the one utilizing the Gibbon's database and doing it that way, then wouldn't be G3 at all." Override chuckled, but waved his hand away. "If that's not to your liking... perhaps this?" He flicked his wrist up and showed an image of one of the Gibbon's wearing belts that projected a bubble shield. "I did come across these... quite the nice design and elegant too. A bit of a work around here and you could easily emit a shield that covers you and will guarantee to nullify an enemy's power if they strike it. Grant it, the caveat here is IF they strike it. If it's something past a physical strike and hit, then you may need to utilize your own abilities." Someone who hadn't spoken yet raised their hand. "What does that do against Tinkers or Thinkers, then? Like you, for instance?" "...you ask me to tech something up... I get all this..." he muttered, wanting to rub the bridge between his nose at this point. "I'm fairly certain with Legion, this can be dealt with. Look, if you don't want these kinds of helpful ideas, we can always just say brute force it and that's it. I've just been asked to assist. Unless, one of you has a suggestion in mind." "Honestly, I thought you were just going to make us a really cool gun" Override was silent,not believing what he had just heard, before shaking his head and shrugged. "...very well, I'll cook up some schematics and send them Tidebinder's way to get them approved before working on them."

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As the duo made their way down into the hull of the ship, Jacklyn let out a marveled, "oooooh," at the dark and foreboding location. They continued their search to find anything of import or interest, though after a bit of searching their efforts were to be found flat. As Quinn had tried to appease Jacklyn with their discoveries thus far, the girl gave her a raised eyebrow. "I guess? These aren't exactly the impressive secrets you'd come adventuring for, though." After all, there wasn't even a granola bar in that leftover wrapper. She, however, became far more pensive as they brought up the next part of their plan. "Oooh, I've never thought about that before. Normally I'm the one trying to find something but I don't think I've ever gone and left something for others to find. And then they'll see this later and think about what this all could mean!" As she was growing clearly more excited by the prospect, the girl then nodded saying, "yeah this is a great idea. And adventurers do leave behind their own marks on history after all, so maybe this is something that I've always been missing on my journey." With a beaming smile she exclaimed, "you're a genius ghost, Quinn!" Taking the marker, the girl was about to mark the wall with her own name's first letter, only to pause. Clearly this was something exciting and a true part of her adventure, but it was precisely because of this that she felt that there was something missing in this moment. "Right! Wait here Quinn, I gotta go get someone." With that Jacklyn bolted out of the room and made her way back to the deck of the ship. Making her way in a hurry the girl ran across the ship, pausing briefly as she was certain she heard a familiar voice speaking to someone else in a practically incomprehensible language before continuing on, and eventually spotted one of her teammates and called out, "oh there you are Anne!" Anneliese seemed to not recognize the name at first, before pointing to herself. "Oh, yes, that is me is it not." Jacklyn had to admit the name didn't come out of her own mouth naturally yet either. "Yes, hello, here I am." With a grin Jacklyn said, "well, what if were somewhere else. See, I was traveling around the boat when I ran into a ghost and then we kept exploring and found a cool place. So, as your adventuring leader and guide I thought it'd be a great place to show you too!" "Goodness, a ghost? Is it a sailor who was lost at sea?" "Hmmm, I don't think so? At least they said they hadn't been on boats a whole lot. I think they were actually trying to adventure to find a plane or something." "Oh my I did not realize that planes took people to the afterlife. Perhaps I can let them bother father's plane then." Jacklyn was not quite ready to take her own trip to the afterlife, nor let Anneliese go either. Though Anima was interested in ghosts so Jacklyn wasn't quite sure if she'd push for such a journey or not. And as leader Jacklyn would have to do her best to take her there. "I wonder if it works as a round trip?" After musing on this for a moment, Jacklyn will say, "well, maybe you can tell them yourself. For now, let's go!" Jacklyn grabbed onto Anneliese's hand, the girl herself seeming very excited about meeting a ghost, before dragging her along to the bottom of the ship. As they entered the dark area Jacklyn said, "see, me and the ghost found this cool area down here and decided to leave our own mark to be a beacon for other adventurers and the future. And because it was fun. So, I figured I'd bring you down here to be a part of it too! I should probably bring Anima- er, Ani down here too at some point. Anyway they should just be around here and - " The girl paused in place as she looked around and didn't see any sign of the ghost from earlier. "Huh, that's weird, they were just here." The girl looked up to see that Q that had left here earlier as well. "I was pretty quick too so...maybe they already passed on?" The girl looked to Anneliese, pensive on the matter, before her eyes seemed to focus to something in the back of the room. "Oh! There you are Quinn!" As she called out to the ghost the girl said, "I brought another person down here for our adventuring!"

god had to nerf me in pre-release because at full power i would have usurped the throne of heaven

I had an idea to limit the use of power cards in retro formats by giving them (mostly) the same rules as Pokemon Supporters. I've made 16 Supporters in total, with art credited on the card and some random royalty free backgrounds here and there. There are a few more cards I haven't gotten around to making yet. Obviously, which cards would apply for the Supporter Card treatment would vary depending on the format and whether or not people feel it's actually warranted. The rules would be the following: - You can only use 1 Supporter Card per turn. Once you use a Supporter Card, you cannot use another Supporter until the start of your next turn. - "Using" a Supporter Card means to play it from your hand or Summon it in some way. - The effects of "Serial Spell", "Double Spell", etc which duplicate effects allow you to break this restriction. Just for fun, "Graverobber" is also exempt from this rule. - If you go first, you cannot use a Supporter Card until the start of your second turn. Could use suggestions for a replacement Mai card, as well as any other cards you think should be added!

Kira bounced off of Melissa and tried to go right back for her once again. But Trevor had been close enough that when she bounced back from the impact he managed to slam right into her from behind. Kira bounced off the diamond and into the small circle and managed to right herself and turn back to hit Trevor again. The strike was a lighter one and both of them were able to regain control but were now within only a few feet of each other and Kira seemed to be waiting for him to move again. Melissa, Fen, and Valerie all collided at different times. Fen smashed into Valerie and the two of the were knocked apart. Before Valerie could go in for a counter Melissa came, seemingly out of nowhere, and struck Valerie and sent the girl back towards the lower right hand side of the ring. Valerie had to avoid Kasayee who was zooming straight past and into the wall but she ended up circling around and using the heart-shaped bumper to ricochet herself back up towards where both Fen and Melissa floated near each other between the diamond and four-pointed star. As Valerie came up from that side Kasayee had hit the wall with such force that she was now rocketing back the opposite direction. Suddenly there was a loud whooshing noise, as if something were going down a massive drain, and eight more whirlpool opened up. Two on the far left and right side, three in the middle area, two at top one at bottom, and another one between the pentagon and triangle. It seemed one was about to open up on the opposite side of the last one, right where four of the boats were converging, but evidentially the one overseeing things decided that would be unfair. "Two minutes left! Really let em have it last spurt go go go!" Tia's voice called out. And Kira suddenly pushed her boat into high speed, aiming to knock Trevor back into the original whirlpool.

Ziun was delighted to an extent that they were able to defeat one of the creatures... the problem remained though... it was one of the two creatures. He spat some of the blood from his mouth out on the ground, as he looked at the remaining leech creature. Same issues persisted... and yet, he felt like they were at least ready for this one this time. "O-One down... one to go..." Ziun huffed, before giving both Chris and Lana a thumbs up. "I think I got something... got one little melody to potentially start on this last creature." He stood upright, rolling his shoulders slightly. "Just jump in the song wherever you see fit." With that, Ziun grabbed his lute... a bard's "weapon" of choice... and began to strum a few chords on it. Suddenly, he slammed the strings of the flute down and proceeded to play some horrid sounding chords, but the sounds this time weren't specifically coming from the lute... no, instead, they were coming from the right of the creature... and yet... nothing was there. A cacophony of sound came from nowhere and seemed to disorient the creature as it started moving in the direction of the sound, lashing it's tentacles that way. "Perfect... who's up next?" Ziun asked with a smirk, glancing back at the other two.

I am below the power of God.

This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name: -Jeremiah 31:35 (NIV)This time, the computers in Melissa’s head had to warn her verbally. Behind you! Accelerate! they said. And even that wasn’t enough to trigger Melissa’s reflexes in time before Kira slammed into Melissa, sending her skimming across the water and right up to the barrier. It also sent another wave of water pouring into Melissa’s boat, pooling at her feet with all the water she had been dripping off of her body for the last, what, five minutes? Melissa sputtered some more out of her mouth as she regained her bearings. The tide seemed to be turning against them -- Trevor had ended up spiralling around the whirlpool, and, just to the left of him, Fen bounced off the diamond bumper. Fen rebounded back alright, sure, but that didn’t stop the other team from scoring. Melissa groaned. “Turning the tide.” That was a pun, wasn’t it? She really did need to focus. “Okay.” Of course, just as she said that, Trevor finally escaped from the whirlpool and sent himself careening Kira’s way. Hopefully, Kira was still recoiling from the hit she’d just delivered Melissa, because if so, that meant she could turn her focus a bit more towards what was going on just behind the near diamond. She rounded the corner on the north side. It was a little away from the action she’d just seen, though it meant she was ready to heed any calls for defensive maneuvering this time. Kasayee was nearby, as calm and/or enigmatic an opponent as Melissa had come to expect at that point. Melissa considered giving chase, but Kasayee hadn’t exactly slowed down since they last encountered each other. There would hopefully be other opportunities. And just as she had the thought, Fen and Valerie clashed again, and very close this time. As much as Melissa had faith in her teammate and captain’s ability to handle things, she couldn’t resist also shifting her boat into high gear and trying to follow up Fen’s next attack with one of her own.

I am beyond the power of God

what you will and get a summer 2025 waifu

Greed does something to a person... and that something, in this instance, happened to have been for Trevor... being sent on a head on collision with the whirlpool in the center. The sorcerer cursed under his breath quietly, hating how he was finding himself like this, but he did understand that there was no reward without risk. It was simply a matter of... the calculations were off and he wished he was better at mathing it out. "Okay... so now what, Masters?" Trevor muttered, seeing that Kira was going after Melissa. He glanced back at the whirlpool that was currently before him... raging about as much as it would be allowed. That's when something clicked in the sorcerer's mind. "Perhaps... go with the flow..." He decided to put the peddle to the meddle and go for the outer side of the whirlpool, but rather than pull away from it... it instead, was driving the boat in time with the current of the whirlpool beneath him. Once he did, he was swept up in the whirlpool's pathing and flow. It was a huge gamble he was playing with here, but at the same time... again... no risk, no reward. Around he went, making one full rotation around it... and then... there she was. Kira was back in his sights, and now was the time. Trevor rounded that curve in the whirlpool and immediately slammed his foot down to boost the accelerator. This action, plus the immediate force of the whirlpool slung him out of it and straight towards Kira.

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