[THIS GROUP IS A DINGDANG MESS. Sakyou's absolutely looking at Catra with open confusion at that, though.]
I should be asking you that. You were the ones they fired on out there.
[He has none bullet holes as they can see, while Catra has bleeding leggy. Then, to Claude:] "Yet" as in, we aren't out of the woods until the mission is complete.
[That said, when he's done looking over Catra's injury to make sure it's not Critical, he will make his way to the compartment of neat toys. He's absolutely taking gun unless he's stopped or someone else grabs it while he's looking over at leggy... Then back to Catra's side he goes, but he's distracted by SIEG. EVERYONE'S HAVING A BAD TIME HERE. HE'S LOOKING BETWEEN THE TWO LIKE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO. To the other two, since Catra's addressing him directly:]
[ Claude is just going to pocket the smokebomb for himself, conveniently not noticing that Sieghart is near death until he's already made his choice. ]
Okay, it looks like— What's the matter with him?
[ He'll wander over, carefully looking at Sieghart's collar to check if he's been poisoned at all. ]
When he feels Claude's presence nearby, his eyes flutter open and dart frantically side to side before shutting closed again. He's no longer clammy, but full on sweating. His knees buckle and he quickly rights himself to turn away from the group.
There isn't anything off about his neck or the collar.]
[buddy. bro. pally. bud. you don't look okay, and Catra squints at him as she pushes herself back to her feet to limp around. her leggy still hurts but it's bleeding less due to FIRST AID so she can move towards the compartment and grab. idk. the pocketwatch]
[she also picks up the syringe but that is for Sieghart]
Since you did it within one tag round, amazing wonderful, you get a treat - and that treat is that instead of just being suddenly attacked because you weren't paying attention, the clouds on the rear side of the window panes will part. It seems that another airship is following, and it's orienting itself so that it can attack.
As a reminder of your inventory, you have the items you just took as well as: - Gatling Gun - 2 Parachutes and only 2
A look at the navigation will reveal that you are not yet at the destination, but you're getting closer since Claude hit the Boost button. You wanna try to hit another one?
[Oh boy just what he wanted A THIRD THING TO WORRY ABOUT!!
Sakyou's attention snaps to the window the second the clouds start to shift, and he doesn't look at all surprised to see another airship appearing. THEY ARE ON THE RUN. Clowns on the run... With a soft curse under his breath:]
Get ready—! We can't allow them to claim victory, not here!! The ship is armed--
[With BOMB. And also FREEZE. And also their gatling gun that's trapped on the first floor... But so sweet Sieg isn't entirely abandoned when Claude blows us all up, he'll run over to him.]
I'll handle this.
[HE'LL HANDLE SIEG?? It's fine he's just kind of corralling him back from the windows most likely to get taken out first.]
[Sieghart drags his feet. He doesn't want to be up here! He wants to go downstairs, where it's just a little closer to the ground! So he opens his eyes (HNNNG) just long enough to locate and reach for the ladder.]
[oh my gooood they're being followed? Catra lets out a low snarl in the back of her throat before she too scrambles (LIMPS) towards the ladder to make her way down. with. . . great difficulty, but hey, she's trying]
Hey, Claude! You've got weapons, right? I'll do the fancy flying!
[SHE WILL DO HER BEST TO DODGE WHILE CLAUDE HITS BOMB]
[Fancy flying while also trying to launch a bomb is an interesting combination. Doing both at the same time admittedly does release a bomb in the direction of the other airship - it's similar to a cannonball, soaring through the air. The other ship was just barely able to get into position time however, and fires a round of bullets in the direction of the bomb - resulting to an impact midair.
Hopefully Sieg doesn't get airsick as well, because the resulting explosion makes their airship rock a little bit. The other airship takes more of the damage from the bomb, but it nonetheless shoots one more rocket at them, trying to knock them right out of the sky. Claude won't be able to deploy another weapon, however - it seems like the system's fried after two shots, overheating. Maybe you should've taken the airship that Impey wanted you on? It sounded fancier.
I'm going to need Catra to roll on her fancy flying. :) ]
[SIEG YOU BINCH JUST ACCEPT HELP says no one in this group full of people who don't accept help, probably.
Anyway this tag is largely useless, Sakyou will seat himself at the top of the ladder so he can get the view through the full spread of windows on the second floor as everyone else is currently on the first. They've got the navigation and now-defunct weapons systems covered, so he's just keeping an eye on the movement of the ENEMY AIRSHIP.]
[He's just reached the base of the ladder, his feet firmly on the first floor, when the explosion rocks airship. The more rational part of him hangs tightly onto the ladder in order to avoid falling over, and the irrationally fearful part of him decides that it's best if he stays where he is. Something to grab onto is good.
Jumping and crashing are both bad, but in line with their luck.
As much as he'd love to help, he's literally paralyzed by fear.]
[Catra is ignoring most everything else happening in this ship in an attempt to maneuver the thing out of the line of fire! don't blow us up, please! she's doing her best!!]
The other airship is slowly falling out of the sky, but the downside of this roll means that the missile they launched manages to rip right through the upper half of the deck that they were on. They aren't immediately destroyed by the missile, but it does mean that their floor suddenly faces a lot of destruction as it's separated from the air balloon portion of the airship.
[if i had actually had him stand near the windows to look like i initially planned this would have been so fucking funny holy shit
But since he's at the top of the ladder leading into the first floor, he fortunately has time to see the wholeass incoming missile and jump below deck for cover. i'm kind (???) enough to leave him alive but i'm not kind enough to leave him uninjured so after a roll, he's spraining his right ankle in the drop and also probably getting a blast of hot debris on his way down. It's fine, he's got the pain tolerance of a tank and barely even seems to flinch as he tries to regain his bearings which HE CANNOT BECAUSE NOW THEY'RE PLUMMETING TO HELL.
He acts fast, immediately rushing toward where the fuckin parachutes are and strapping one on. Somehow, he seems to know exactly how to wear it??]
Here—! [HE'LL THROW THE OTHER ONE toward whoever will catch it,, and then fucking grab Sieghart come here grandpa let him gently embrace you with his steel arms from hell.] Get ready to jump!
[From like the ramp or something it's fine. Their whole ship is crumbling there's surely some hole to fuckin jump out of. WHICH HE WILL DO ONCE HE FINDS ONE, WITHOUT PAUSE?!]
[ The next attack hits and the ship just explodes into the chaos that this CYOA team has been demonstrating all along. Claude doesn't manage to stay on his feet this time, going flying across the deck until he slams into—something, a console, his head spinning and his ears ringing when his head collides with the wall.
And then the ship lurches again, this time distinctly Down, though he's so out of it he hardly notices. He thinks he might be bleeding, and his vision is blurry when he opens his eyes. ]
We need to jump.
[ He's like, really out of it, but he manages to crawl to where Sakyou throws the second parachute, though, like an idiot, he prioritizes finding Catra instead of pulling it on. ]
[The sound of the airship's demise doesn't fill him with dread as much as that terrible, terrible sensation of sinking. He nearly loses his heart when he feels Sakyou's landing in front of him. Some of the hot debris cut his hand on the way down, but superficial scratches are nothing to falling.
His eyes snap open as he's embraced, allowing the parachutes to be taken from him. His breath catches and he nearly passes out right then and there when Sakyou jumps with him in tow. He clings with one hand like his life depends on it, because it does.]
[well, the impact absolutely sends Catra flying and then crashing against one of the panels of buttons. she slams into the panel with enough force to knock the wind out of her, for stars to briefly leap across her vision. when she shakes her head and comes to, she can feel bruises across her ribs, and the white hot pain of her leg injury is back]
[motherfucker!!]
[with a loud hiss, she scrambles up onto all fours. she knows the parachutes are around here somewhere, but last she checked Sieghart had them-- oh, there's Claude, searching for her]
Put it on, you moron!! Now!
[she skids towards Claude and reaches for the parachute to yank it from him and hook it properly over his arms and back, before she just. clings to his shoulders like a koala with claws. speaking of claws, those are totally digging tightly, fearsomely, into his skin]
Metal groans and rings as the airship falls apart, all four of them scrambling to put their parachutes on. They'll be falling faster given the added weight, but as they get out of the airship, they will be able to notice that there seems to be an island not too far away -
But they'll have to be pretty careful as they're about to make a water landing. The initial impact will be hard - can all of you even swim? We're about to find out.]
Anyway Sakyou can swim, but he sure is going to have a time swimming in salt while covered in shrapnel wounds. The impact against the surface also further busts his ankle, fracturing it! He can have a fractured knee as a treat too, rng is being so kind to him. He will continue to tank his way through this through sheer righteous determination.
WAIT ACTUALLY DID SIEG PASS OUT. Please, the hilarity of Sakyou having to carry this baby koala all the way to shore. Regardless of how conscious his koala is, he'll call out to the others first after resurfacing with sputtering out spits of nasty ocean water. He's quick to shimmy out of the parachute, disentangling himself from the cords and fabric as it bogs down heavily with water.]
Has everyone made it? Take care—!
[AGGRESSIVE SWIMMING TOWARD THE ISLAND TIME. If Sieg needs to regain his bearings, that's fine, Sakyou will support him with one arm and use his Remaining Limbs To Swim. He has twink otome arms of unnatural steel even if they're a bit busted, it's fine. Actually he might insist on helping even if Sieghart protests because they don't have time for sky ukes here, but he won't put up too much of a fuss if he really insists on swimming on his own.]
[ The fact that they even manage to escape and sail to the ground is a miracle thanks only to Catra, though the good luck is brief when a piece of flying shrapnel cuts through their parachute, sending them careening toward the water.
The impact is hard, hard enough that Claude's so busy being relieved that he doesn't snap his neck that he can't be too mad at the pain searing through his left side, his shoulder ripping from the joint.
Blood clouds his vision for a moment before he's sputtering up for air, embroiled in a pathetic struggle to escape the parachute so that he can really slowly swim toward the shore. ]
Catra. [ He does check to make sure she's okay before he starts moving. ] Catra, are you okay?
[If nothing else, Sieghart is glad to be in the water, far away from the sky.
The freezing temperature and adrenaline pumping through his body numb him to the worst of the pain when their harsh entry shatters part of a bone in his leg and dislocates his right wrist. The impact also rips the bandaid straight off his face, but nobody should be looking there right now.
Fortunately, they're in water. It does half the work of carrying their weight as Sieghart breaks through the surface with a gasp for breath. He separates himself from Sakyou with the push of his left hand against a shoulder.]
Don't mind me!
[Sakyou should take care of himself first. Sieghart transfers his sword to his left hand—he doesn't even feel the minor fracture in that arm—and makes for the island. A comminuted fracture in the leg isn't that crippling as long as he's careful.]
[THIS IS CATRA'S WORST NIGHTMARE?? the airship being torn asunder, their parachute being ripped into shreds during their descent, and a much-higher-than-what-is-comfortable-even-for-a-cat plummet right into. . . a large expanse of water!! fuck her life, honestly. fuck it dearly]
[she hits the water hard, pain exploding once again over her leg as the bullet wound is aggravated and as a bone cracks in her arm. she is pretty sure some of her ribs are fractured too?? this sucks!! this sucks a lot!!]
[nevertheless. . . despite the pain, she scrambles to surface, gasping for air once her head breaks water and gulping it down like a thirsty camel in a desert even though the movement sends streaks of fire through her torso. she hears Claude's voice garbled by the water and manages to sputter out a response]
I'm-- fine! I'm okay!
[she is not but who is counting?? her leg is bleeding again!! and a fractured arm + bullet wound in the leg + possibly cracked ribs means swimming is hard, but she is somehow managing through the power of pure adrenaline. ISLAND, HERE WE COME]
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- Pocketwatch
- Smoke Bomb
- A syringe with an odd liquid in it
- Handgun
You've got two tag rounds to make your choices!]
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I should be asking you that. You were the ones they fired on out there.
[He has none bullet holes as they can see, while Catra has bleeding leggy. Then, to Claude:] "Yet" as in, we aren't out of the woods until the mission is complete.
[That said, when he's done looking over Catra's injury to make sure it's not Critical, he will make his way to the compartment of neat toys. He's absolutely taking gun unless he's stopped or someone else grabs it while he's looking over at leggy... Then back to Catra's side he goes, but he's distracted by SIEG. EVERYONE'S HAVING A BAD TIME HERE. HE'S LOOKING BETWEEN THE TWO LIKE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO. To the other two, since Catra's addressing him directly:]
—Was he injured, as well?
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Okay, it looks like— What's the matter with him?
[ He'll wander over, carefully looking at Sieghart's collar to check if he's been poisoned at all. ]
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When he feels Claude's presence nearby, his eyes flutter open and dart frantically side to side before shutting closed again. He's no longer clammy, but full on sweating. His knees buckle and he quickly rights himself to turn away from the group.
There isn't anything off about his neck or the collar.]
N . . . no, I'm all right! Just l-leave me be!
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[she also picks up the syringe but that is for Sieghart]
You look like you're about to pass out.
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But everyone's got their items! Nice!
Since you did it within one tag round, amazing wonderful, you get a treat - and that treat is that instead of just being suddenly attacked because you weren't paying attention, the clouds on the rear side of the window panes will part. It seems that another airship is following, and it's orienting itself so that it can attack.
As a reminder of your inventory, you have the items you just took as well as:
- Gatling Gun
- 2 Parachutes and only 2
A look at the navigation will reveal that you are not yet at the destination, but you're getting closer since Claude hit the Boost button. You wanna try to hit another one?
Also is Sieg gonna be okay?]
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Sakyou's attention snaps to the window the second the clouds start to shift, and he doesn't look at all surprised to see another airship appearing. THEY ARE ON THE RUN. Clowns on the run... With a soft curse under his breath:]
Get ready—! We can't allow them to claim victory, not here!! The ship is armed--
[With BOMB. And also FREEZE. And also their gatling gun that's trapped on the first floor... But so sweet Sieg isn't entirely abandoned when Claude blows us all up, he'll run over to him.]
I'll handle this.
[HE'LL HANDLE SIEG?? It's fine he's just kind of corralling him back from the windows most likely to get taken out first.]
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[ Claude immediately drops his concern for Sieghart like a hot potato (no jk), shifting to glare at the windows.
At least Sakyou is quick to respond. ]
All right, take care of him. I'm going to see if I can give the weaponry on this ship a shot.
[ So he's hopping back down! BOMB here he comes! ]
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I, I said I'm all right!
[Sieghart drags his feet. He doesn't want to be up here! He wants to go downstairs, where it's just a little closer to the ground! So he opens his eyes (HNNNG) just long enough to locate and reach for the ladder.]
I'm going d-down, too!
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Hey, Claude! You've got weapons, right? I'll do the fancy flying!
[SHE WILL DO HER BEST TO DODGE WHILE CLAUDE HITS BOMB]
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Hopefully Sieg doesn't get airsick as well, because the resulting explosion makes their airship rock a little bit. The other airship takes more of the damage from the bomb, but it nonetheless shoots one more rocket at them, trying to knock them right out of the sky. Claude won't be able to deploy another weapon, however - it seems like the system's fried after two shots, overheating. Maybe you should've taken the airship that Impey wanted you on? It sounded fancier.
I'm going to need Catra to roll on her fancy flying. :) ]
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Anyway this tag is largely useless, Sakyou will seat himself at the top of the ladder so he can get the view through the full spread of windows on the second floor as everyone else is currently on the first. They've got the navigation and now-defunct weapons systems covered, so he's just keeping an eye on the movement of the ENEMY AIRSHIP.]
—They've fired again!
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[ And pressing on the Freeze button does nothing.
He looks over at Catra, stumbling as the ship struggles against the attack. ]
If you can't get us out of the way of those things, then we'll need to jump or risk crashing.
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Jumping and crashing are both bad, but in line with their luck.
As much as he'd love to help, he's literally paralyzed by fear.]
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[WELL]
[ANYWAY]
[Catra is ignoring most everything else happening in this ship in an attempt to maneuver the thing out of the line of fire! don't blow us up, please! she's doing her best!!]
[how badly is this going to go!]
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The other airship is slowly falling out of the sky, but the downside of this roll means that the missile they launched manages to rip right through the upper half of the deck that they were on. They aren't immediately destroyed by the missile, but it does mean that their floor suddenly faces a lot of destruction as it's separated from the air balloon portion of the airship.
Uh oh, sisters.
You're in free fall.]
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But since he's at the top of the ladder leading into the first floor, he fortunately has time to see the wholeass incoming missile and jump below deck for cover. i'm kind (???) enough to leave him alive but i'm not kind enough to leave him uninjured so after a roll, he's spraining his right ankle in the drop and also probably getting a blast of hot debris on his way down. It's fine, he's got the pain tolerance of a tank and barely even seems to flinch as he tries to regain his bearings which HE CANNOT BECAUSE NOW THEY'RE PLUMMETING TO HELL.
He acts fast, immediately rushing toward where the fuckin parachutes are and strapping one on. Somehow, he seems to know exactly how to wear it??]
Here—! [HE'LL THROW THE OTHER ONE toward whoever will catch it,, and then fucking grab Sieghart come here grandpa let him gently embrace you with his steel arms from hell.] Get ready to jump!
[From like the ramp or something it's fine. Their whole ship is crumbling there's surely some hole to fuckin jump out of. WHICH HE WILL DO ONCE HE FINDS ONE, WITHOUT PAUSE?!]
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And then the ship lurches again, this time distinctly Down, though he's so out of it he hardly notices. He thinks he might be bleeding, and his vision is blurry when he opens his eyes. ]
We need to jump.
[ He's like, really out of it, but he manages to crawl to where Sakyou throws the second parachute, though, like an idiot, he prioritizes finding Catra instead of pulling it on. ]
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His eyes snap open as he's embraced, allowing the parachutes to be taken from him. His breath catches and he nearly passes out right then and there when Sakyou jumps with him in tow. He clings with one hand like his life depends on it, because it does.]
Ugh!
[He really wants to cry.]
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[well, the impact absolutely sends Catra flying and then crashing against one of the panels of buttons. she slams into the panel with enough force to knock the wind out of her, for stars to briefly leap across her vision. when she shakes her head and comes to, she can feel bruises across her ribs, and the white hot pain of her leg injury is back]
[motherfucker!!]
[with a loud hiss, she scrambles up onto all fours. she knows the parachutes are around here somewhere, but last she checked Sieghart had them-- oh, there's Claude, searching for her]
Put it on, you moron!! Now!
[she skids towards Claude and reaches for the parachute to yank it from him and hook it properly over his arms and back, before she just. clings to his shoulders like a koala with claws. speaking of claws, those are totally digging tightly, fearsomely, into his skin]
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Metal groans and rings as the airship falls apart, all four of them scrambling to put their parachutes on. They'll be falling faster given the added weight, but as they get out of the airship, they will be able to notice that there seems to be an island not too far away -
But they'll have to be pretty careful as they're about to make a water landing. The initial impact will be hard - can all of you even swim? We're about to find out.]
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Anyway Sakyou can swim, but he sure is going to have a time swimming in salt while covered in shrapnel wounds. The impact against the surface also further busts his ankle, fracturing it! He can have a fractured knee as a treat too, rng is being so kind to him. He will continue to tank his way through this through sheer righteous determination.
WAIT ACTUALLY DID SIEG PASS OUT. Please, the hilarity of Sakyou having to carry this baby koala all the way to shore. Regardless of how conscious his koala is, he'll call out to the others first after resurfacing with sputtering out spits of nasty ocean water. He's quick to shimmy out of the parachute, disentangling himself from the cords and fabric as it bogs down heavily with water.]
Has everyone made it? Take care—!
[AGGRESSIVE SWIMMING TOWARD THE ISLAND TIME. If Sieg needs to regain his bearings, that's fine, Sakyou will support him with one arm and use his Remaining Limbs To Swim. He has twink otome arms of unnatural steel even if they're a bit busted, it's fine. Actually he might insist on helping even if Sieghart protests because they don't have time for sky ukes here, but he won't put up too much of a fuss if he really insists on swimming on his own.]
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The impact is hard, hard enough that Claude's so busy being relieved that he doesn't snap his neck that he can't be too mad at the pain searing through his left side, his shoulder ripping from the joint.
Blood clouds his vision for a moment before he's sputtering up for air, embroiled in a pathetic struggle to escape the parachute so that he can really slowly swim toward the shore. ]
Catra. [ He does check to make sure she's okay before he starts moving. ] Catra, are you okay?
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The freezing temperature and adrenaline pumping through his body numb him to the worst of the pain when their harsh entry shatters part of a bone in his leg and dislocates his right wrist. The impact also rips the bandaid straight off his face, but nobody should be looking there right now.
Fortunately, they're in water. It does half the work of carrying their weight as Sieghart breaks through the surface with a gasp for breath. He separates himself from Sakyou with the push of his left hand against a shoulder.]
Don't mind me!
[Sakyou should take care of himself first. Sieghart transfers his sword to his left hand—he doesn't even feel the minor fracture in that arm—and makes for the island. A comminuted fracture in the leg isn't that crippling as long as he's careful.]
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[she hits the water hard, pain exploding once again over her leg as the bullet wound is aggravated and as a bone cracks in her arm. she is pretty sure some of her ribs are fractured too?? this sucks!! this sucks a lot!!]
[nevertheless. . . despite the pain, she scrambles to surface, gasping for air once her head breaks water and gulping it down like a thirsty camel in a desert even though the movement sends streaks of fire through her torso. she hears Claude's voice garbled by the water and manages to sputter out a response]
I'm-- fine! I'm okay!
[she is not but who is counting?? her leg is bleeding again!! and a fractured arm + bullet wound in the leg + possibly cracked ribs means swimming is hard, but she is somehow managing through the power of pure adrenaline. ISLAND, HERE WE COME]
Are you?! Can you swim--?!
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