sorry to everyone in the room, but having an apparently cursed sword means he's jamming the blade just a little harder into claude's chest before ripping it out with little care for what happens to the corpse. manwol shouts and it helps him pinpoint a direction...not that he needs it, given he can feel the heat.
he flat out ignores her warning though and while the clone is (hopefully) distracted by the flying staff, he'll move out of the way as best as he can while he turn around and attempts to jam the sword into his clone, too. with luck both the staff and the sword will cause enough damage. if they have to fight their way out, fine. he'll put up a good enough fight.]
[The wires might do something, yeah! There is also a point in the center where something seems to be glowing.
While they do their thing, though, this machine golem is going to swipe a makeshift 'arm' at Rita. It's patchwork, jagged; this thing doesn't need weapons, it is one.
Fake Taichi... ducks the staff Manwol throws, because she did literally yell his name and tell him to duck! But he's not prepared for real Taichi and his cursed ass sword. He shouts in pain, reaching out to try to grab Taichi's arm with burning hands, but... in the battle of sword vs. soccer boy it's pretty easy to see who wins this one.]
Manwol, now weaponless, turns her attention to the golem trying to take Rita out. she's less fast before, her movements are hampered by the poison she feels still circulating inside her, but she runs forward too to try and catch the golem's attention. wow, if only she had her ghost powers!! sadly, all she has is her voice --]
[ ok manwol is running diversion this time. malik also has to get up because he will probably have to run again at some point - if his body is able to, but, whatever.
he clearly wasn't... clear... enough... and tries to be a little more helpful with his yelling demands at rita: ]
If you overheat the machine, it should stop working!
[ he has literally never played a video game in his entire life, he doesn't understand the importance of THAT GIANT GLOWING WEAK SPOT ]
[there's a look of revelation as she stares down the machine-ghost-beast.]
... There's a core! I'm going to--
[nope, instead she's going to get swung at. rita tries to jump back, but the creature's "arm" still hits her with enough force to send her flying. she crashes against the floor and rolls a bit, then lies there, stunned.]
[while all of this is happening...taichi's busy suddenly realizing that he truly let adrenaline take over and he's watching himself (?) die by his own hands. hm. that's going to be nightmare fuel for a while, but he presses the blade in a little deeper to make sure the clone stays down.
once he removes the sword, he fumbles a little to try and grab the piece of the staff to take it and the sword with him. this is about the time rita goes flying.]
Rita! [farewell! he doesn't move just in case she needs a hand getting up, but he does turn in the blurry direction of the machine.]
Take your staff back! [yeeting the staff! sorry to tsuyukusa. hopefully it's heading in the right direction, he's doing his best. but it's maybe something that'll help? he'll stay back just to keep an eye on things from a distance in case the ghost moves, and also to make sure he's close by to both malik and rita just in case they can't get up on their own.]
[Manwol yells for the ghost, and... it seems to draw its attention! The golem lashes out at her with some of those sparking cables, like a whip.
Malik is, for the record, in what seems to be a relatively safe spot for now, with the golem occupied. He gets to catch his breath a bit.
Rita likely comes up against one of those dropped pieces of machinery, stopping her roll before she's thrown too far out of the fight by this; Taichi should be able to help her if she needs it, thanks to that.]
[Manwol catches the staff in one hand in a very cool like moment that is immediately ruined by her throwing herself to the floor to avoid the cables, possibly banging her head a little. wow, self-inflicted injuries...
she staggers back on up, because Malik and Rita are talking things like "overheating" and overheating means something like her hair dryer burning out because she keeps on using it for too long, right?
she has to keep moving and force this golem to keep moving after her, preferably away from Rita and Taichi]
I'll send you on a bus straight to the afterlife!!
[ manwol is very cool and we all respect her. although you can literally just walk into the afterlife, it's fine, there's a door-- manwol there's a door? just walk through it?
anyway.
malik does appreciate the minute to breathe, since he can't do much else. actually, he can keep yelling, since that seems to be working out well enough: ]
[rita's still for a few tense seconds, but soon stirs with a gasp, and scrambles to get to her feet with taichi's help. she's unsteady, but she's up.]
Shut up already! I'm working on it!
[she sucks in a shaky breath, lets out sigh that's a mixture of irritation and resignation, and starts casting.
she squints and tries to focus on that glowing inner part she saw before, and aims her fireball at it. she fires at the machine! wherever it makes contact, it bursts for some extra damage.]
Why a bus? [that's not even important? he's still holding the sword but he helps rita to her feet, stepping back out of the way when she begins casting.]
Manwol, move!
[because rita is throwing a fireball into a machine and it's likely going to explode.]
[They can all do what they're doing! The important part here, though, is the fireball.
This is a pretty makeshift golem, so when the fireball hits it, it just sort of flails around-- anyone too close is at risk of being slapped with its cables or jagged limbs, and the fireball's burst causes a brief shower of debris.
For a moment, it seems like that might be it, as the core shorts out and ceases to glow, then bursts in a little shower of sparks.
However-- that ghost had Death Burst on it, and the central piece of machinery explodes, before a chain reaction starts taking out all of its other pieces. It's still pretty close to some of the other machinery, too, so they're going to have a pretty big explosion problem on their hands in... oh, a couple of seconds.
[OH BOY!!! Manwol throws herself out of the way before Rita's fire makes contact, and just when she thinks they did it, the whole place starts shaking. a jagged piece of machinery flies and buries itself into her left shoulder, and she swears out loud.]
Come on!!
[and she's reaching out to grab Malik by the arm so they can start hobbling their way towards the door sliding open]
[ he covers his face at the initial shower of debris, but that means his arms take the brunt of the damage. he grunts with pain as the shrapnel cuts him, but then manwol starts yelling and grabbing at him so it's time to go ]
You don't need to pull me!
[ taichi is probably fine with running because he's a mad soccer lad, but malik watches rita as he runs to make sure her short little legs can get her out of here fast enough. he doesn't care or anything but they can't just leave here in there. god. ]
actually no, kind of bad. that's a lot of explosions!
rita's taking off running, arms over her head. a few pieces of debris hit her, one of them heavy enough that she nearly loses balance, but she manages to keep moving forward.]
[well. fuck! taichi is probably fine because he's a mad soccer lad, except for the part where you know how when your vision's blurry you don't notice things are coming at you from the side until they're too close? because yeah, there's debris flying and he blocks with his arm which means machinery digs into his forearm and a little on the side of his face as he runs.
but, well, forward! forward and he's making sure all four of them are ushered into the next room to see what hellscape awaits them next.]
[You all make it out, in various states of injury! The next room is essentially blank, to begin with, just a big circular chamber, and the male voice says:
"Well, that was a bit better than we expected! Maybe we went too easy on you for that one."
And the other voice adds, "Now, why don't you smile and show your opponents how you're doing after that challenge they just gave you?"
One section of the wall turns into a screen, showing a group of four people standing in an identical room; they're all looking over like they can see you as well as you can see them. In that room all of you see Beauregard, Chung Myung, Gennai, and Alexei, who all seem like they're doing perfectly fine! They're just vibing here in Wonderland after they didn't have to do a fight at all.]
[Manwol, exhausted and poisoned, looks at the screen when prompted, and freezes.
...This has happened before, the more rational part of her says, but her eyes are honed in on Chung Myung -- looking alive and healthy -- and as always, her temper snaps. Is it because of the fight they just went through? Is it because she's remembering that it was her choice to hit trust over forsake, which led to the this? They're being yanked around, and Manwol's sorry to say that she falls for it --
in that she immediately throws Tsuyukusa's staff at the screen, it's fine]
[ while manwol is having a tantrum, malik glowers at the screen. it does take away from this immersive hateful experience since he doesn't even know who the other three are, but they all know who beauregard is. why the fuck is she even here?
honestly if malik had something to throw, he'd do that too. but instead he crosses his arms and huffs, before realizing that they're bleeding and ow, that actually kind of hurts, so he stops. ]
[the screen gets a cold look from rita. beauregard is... a weird one to see? and she's just kind of disgusted at the sight of alexei.]
... It's a stupid trick.
[she huffs, and turns her attention to a piece of debris that's embedded itself in her arm, considering whether or not to attempt to remove it. she winces... and decides to leave it. this probably isn't a good time to start bleeding any more than necessary.]
[oh. you know, it's a trick, and they're all aware this place is just messing with them, but also there's something about seeing this specific man that kind of makes his blood boil. the other group isn't speaking, still observing, and yet it's like he can just hear his stupid voice all over again.
"He who fights monsters should be careful that he does not become a monster himself. If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
[A little bit of black smoke emanates from... everyone, actually, at their reactions! Also, the staff bounces off and hits Malik.
"Come along, and we'll show you," says the male voice, and the door ahead of you opens up. There's a hallway ahead, it looks like, lined with a few pieces of machinery, but if they're paying attention...
Taichi and Malik will hear nothing in this hallway. Manwol and Rita, however, can hear what sounds like a whisper coming from underneath one of these pieces of machinery. "Hey," it says. "Hey, over here!"]
[ig the staff rebounds and hits Manwol on the wrist, i'm committed. she'll pick it up from the floor though, because while she's angry and petty, she's not petty enough to just leave it here.
time to head to the hallway....
She tilts her head at the sound of the whispers, and then immediately grimaces.]
Don't listen.
[SHE OWNS A HOTEL FOR GHOSTS, GHOSTS DO THIS SHIT ALL THE TIME!!! just assuming that everyone else can hear this as it's happening]
[ the staff twacks malik in the eye. the black eye from week 1 is back! or will be, in a few minutes. thanks manwol. the fact that we're going down this hallway like nothing just happened doesn't endear malik to her when she says something. ]
[rita's kind of in awe at the staff managing to hit both of them. isn't she supposed to be the one with cursed luck? yeah, okay. luck is definitely fake.
she pauses, stopping in the hallway at the sound of the voice.]
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sorry to everyone in the room, but having an apparently cursed sword means he's jamming the blade just a little harder into claude's chest before ripping it out with little care for what happens to the corpse. manwol shouts and it helps him pinpoint a direction...not that he needs it, given he can feel the heat.
he flat out ignores her warning though and while the clone is (hopefully) distracted by the flying staff, he'll move out of the way as best as he can while he turn around and attempts to jam the sword into his clone, too. with luck both the staff and the sword will cause enough damage. if they have to fight their way out, fine. he'll put up a good enough fight.]
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While they do their thing, though, this machine golem is going to swipe a makeshift 'arm' at Rita. It's patchwork, jagged; this thing doesn't need weapons, it is one.
Fake Taichi... ducks the staff Manwol throws, because she did literally yell his name and tell him to duck! But he's not prepared for real Taichi and his cursed ass sword. He shouts in pain, reaching out to try to grab Taichi's arm with burning hands, but... in the battle of sword vs. soccer boy it's pretty easy to see who wins this one.]
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Manwol, now weaponless, turns her attention to the golem trying to take Rita out. she's less fast before, her movements are hampered by the poison she feels still circulating inside her, but she runs forward too to try and catch the golem's attention. wow, if only she had her ghost powers!! sadly, all she has is her voice --]
Hey!!! Look at me, you stupid ghost!!
[pot calling kettle tbh]
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he clearly wasn't... clear... enough... and tries to be a little more helpful with his yelling demands at rita: ]
If you overheat the machine, it should stop working!
[ he has literally never played a video game in his entire life, he doesn't understand the importance of THAT GIANT GLOWING WEAK SPOT ]
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... There's a core! I'm going to--
[nope, instead she's going to get swung at. rita tries to jump back, but the creature's "arm" still hits her with enough force to send her flying. she crashes against the floor and rolls a bit, then lies there, stunned.]
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once he removes the sword, he fumbles a little to try and grab the piece of the staff to take it and the sword with him. this is about the time rita goes flying.]
Rita! [farewell! he doesn't move just in case she needs a hand getting up, but he does turn in the blurry direction of the machine.]
Take your staff back! [yeeting the staff! sorry to tsuyukusa. hopefully it's heading in the right direction, he's doing his best. but it's maybe something that'll help? he'll stay back just to keep an eye on things from a distance in case the ghost moves, and also to make sure he's close by to both malik and rita just in case they can't get up on their own.]
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Malik is, for the record, in what seems to be a relatively safe spot for now, with the golem occupied. He gets to catch his breath a bit.
Rita likely comes up against one of those dropped pieces of machinery, stopping her roll before she's thrown too far out of the fight by this; Taichi should be able to help her if she needs it, thanks to that.]
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she staggers back on up, because Malik and Rita are talking things like "overheating" and overheating means something like her hair dryer burning out because she keeps on using it for too long, right?
she has to keep moving and force this golem to keep moving after her, preferably away from Rita and Taichi]
I'll send you on a bus straight to the afterlife!!
[the way this only makes sense to manwol]
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anyway.
malik does appreciate the minute to breathe, since he can't do much else. actually, he can keep yelling, since that seems to be working out well enough: ]
Just hit the thing with magic! Overheat it!
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Shut up already! I'm working on it!
[she sucks in a shaky breath, lets out sigh that's a mixture of irritation and resignation, and starts casting.
she squints and tries to focus on that glowing inner part she saw before, and aims her fireball at it. she fires at the machine! wherever it makes contact, it bursts for some extra damage.]
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Manwol, move!
[because rita is throwing a fireball into a machine and it's likely going to explode.]
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This is a pretty makeshift golem, so when the fireball hits it, it just sort of flails around-- anyone too close is at risk of being slapped with its cables or jagged limbs, and the fireball's burst causes a brief shower of debris.
For a moment, it seems like that might be it, as the core shorts out and ceases to glow, then bursts in a little shower of sparks.
However-- that ghost had Death Burst on it, and the central piece of machinery explodes, before a chain reaction starts taking out all of its other pieces. It's still pretty close to some of the other machinery, too, so they're going to have a pretty big explosion problem on their hands in... oh, a couple of seconds.
The door across from them slides open.]
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Come on!!
[and she's reaching out to grab Malik by the arm so they can start hobbling their way towards the door sliding open]
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You don't need to pull me!
[ taichi is probably fine with running because he's a mad soccer lad, but malik watches rita as he runs to make sure her short little legs can get her out of here fast enough. he doesn't care or anything but they can't just leave here in there. god. ]
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actually no, kind of bad. that's a lot of explosions!
rita's taking off running, arms over her head. a few pieces of debris hit her, one of them heavy enough that she nearly loses balance, but she manages to keep moving forward.]
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but, well, forward! forward and he's making sure all four of them are ushered into the next room to see what hellscape awaits them next.]
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"Well, that was a bit better than we expected! Maybe we went too easy on you for that one."
And the other voice adds, "Now, why don't you smile and show your opponents how you're doing after that challenge they just gave you?"
One section of the wall turns into a screen, showing a group of four people standing in an identical room; they're all looking over like they can see you as well as you can see them. In that room all of you see Beauregard, Chung Myung, Gennai, and Alexei, who all seem like they're doing perfectly fine! They're just vibing here in Wonderland after they didn't have to do a fight at all.]
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...This has happened before, the more rational part of her says, but her eyes are honed in on Chung Myung -- looking alive and healthy -- and as always, her temper snaps. Is it because of the fight they just went through? Is it because she's remembering that it was her choice to hit trust over forsake, which led to the this? They're being yanked around, and Manwol's sorry to say that she falls for it --
in that she immediately throws Tsuyukusa's staff at the screen, it's fine]
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honestly if malik had something to throw, he'd do that too. but instead he crosses his arms and huffs, before realizing that they're bleeding and ow, that actually kind of hurts, so he stops. ]
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... It's a stupid trick.
[she huffs, and turns her attention to a piece of debris that's embedded itself in her arm, considering whether or not to attempt to remove it. she winces... and decides to leave it. this probably isn't a good time to start bleeding any more than necessary.]
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"He who fights monsters should be careful that he does not become a monster himself. If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
whatever.]
Fine. Challenge completed. What's next?
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"Come along, and we'll show you," says the male voice, and the door ahead of you opens up. There's a hallway ahead, it looks like, lined with a few pieces of machinery, but if they're paying attention...
Taichi and Malik will hear nothing in this hallway. Manwol and Rita, however, can hear what sounds like a whisper coming from underneath one of these pieces of machinery. "Hey," it says. "Hey, over here!"]
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time to head to the hallway....
She tilts her head at the sound of the whispers, and then immediately grimaces.]
Don't listen.
[SHE OWNS A HOTEL FOR GHOSTS, GHOSTS DO THIS SHIT ALL THE TIME!!! just assuming that everyone else can hear this as it's happening]
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To you? Alright, I'll keep that in mind.
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she pauses, stopping in the hallway at the sound of the voice.]
What is it...?
[she'll kneel by the piece of machinery to see.]
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