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He nods at the android. "Did you think they would send us something else? Let us see if this creature is an opponent of any worth."
He moves to the middle of the arena armed only with his claws and the black mote that orbits his head. Raising his arms he keeps his eyes centered on the Crest Eater "SILENCE! I am DAMORO THE DEATHDEALER! Is this creature the best that is offered as first sacrifice! Witness what is done and then you will speak my name in whispers only!
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Yuta - or as he's currently known, Requiem - momentarily freezes when he catches sight of the creature. Carnage? Crowds? Slaughter for entertainment? What am I doing here?
He tries to shake it off and imagine what a professional gladiator would do, and one thing comes to mind: an impressive entrance. So he performs a somersault out of the entryway and tries to come up in an dramatic fighting pose.
His grand entrance comes out more like a glorified stumble.
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Line remembers that A crest-eater’s bite delivers a magical venom
that dissolves certain minerals in its victim’s body, liquefying
that creature’s bones. She also remembers that it can spit the same venom with similar results. A crest-eater’s sense of smell is keenly
attuned to the minerals it needs to survive. It can sniff out natural deposits of calcium, and it gains blindsense (scent) against creatures that have taken Constitution damage from its attacks in the past hour.
DAMORO THE DEATHDEALER also remembers that cresteaters have darkvision as he tries to get the crowds to shut up...their initial reaction is one of shocked silence before they start to roar! Did you hear what he told us to do! The guts on that one!
As the crowd is still reeling from being told to shut up Serrarra manages to impress them even more
"She's going to drink blood! We haven't seen that since Selena the blood drinker did combat here!"
Hadir draws his pike in one pair of arms and his hunting rifle in the other. He brings the hunting rifle up to the eye of his mask and sights in on the creature.
Yuta can add that a cresteater also has low-light vision in addition to verifying some of what the others already knew.
His impressive entrance and somersault out of the entryway and attempt to come up in an dramatic fighting pose almost causes him to land flat on his face...the crowds burst out in laughter
"..that didn't look like he intended to do that./.did you see that?.."
DICEBOT activates his rotational mechanicsm, and spins a few times around his axis. He draws his chopping blade at the end of a swirl...which looks impressive enough that the crowds let out a collective awwwwwwe noise.
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After relaying what she knows about the Crest Eater, Lynn begins to hum quietly. The intonations of her humming gradually fade into silence, but not before a mental connection is established between herself, Yuta, and Serrarra.
As her allies jump out immediately into the arena, Lynn takes a few moments to check her references for Rei's lines on her datapad. She stows it and pulls on her headset. She holds onto it with both hands and ♫♪hums to herself♫♪, bending light around her and her gear.
The energy ripples cover her and her gear, giving it the appearance of Rei's loose beige desert dweller garb. But beyond that, it disguises her rarely used weapons, giving them the appearance of far more powerful armaments. Her pistol takes on the look of a paragon class semi-auto pistol. The bigger change is to the dinky knife she carries along for emergencies. It takes on the look of a blue-star plasma sword: the exact same one used by Rei in the series!
Preparations complete, Lynn takes advantage of the lull in volume from the audience (courtesy of Damoro the Deathdealer) and strides on out, weapons in hand.
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Rei strides out into the arena, the picture of righteous self-confidence. She raises her plasma sword high and shouts out "The Time Has Come!" to draw attention to herself. Slightly quieter but still in a tone applicable for such a large arena, she calls out "I sense a grave DISTURBANCE IN THE LIFESTREAM!" She levels her plasma sword towards the crest eater. "Agent of the dark side! You are a poor imitation of your dark master, the great Rathtar! By this light-blade, I will protect the Resistance!"
Its almost a word for word adaptation of the most recent Stellar Strife vid.
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Stepping forwards into the open, Lynn uses her vocal modulator to recreate the classic light-blade humming sound with her own voice. She swings the plasma sword in an elaborate spiral, spinning into a dance within the line of sight of the crest eater.
She nods towards Hadir and moves into position, spreading out as he suggested.
To Yuta and Serrarra, she telepathically sends "Hope you two are feeling comfortable about fighting this thing. It looks... a little scary now that we're out here." None of the concern in her mental voice shows at all on her face.
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Hadir waits for the creature to make the first move
Serrarra moves into the arena, taking Hadir's suggestion to spread out. Drawing her pistol, she takes a shot at range which enrages the creature as it scorches the ground near it.
Sovolok-Asnari waits defensively
DICEBOT moves to the middle of the arena and waits motionlessly, blade in hand.
Stepping forwards into the open, Lynn uses her vocal modulator to recreate the classic light-blade humming sound with her own voice. She swings the plasma sword in an elaborate spiral, spinning into a dance within the line of sight of the crest eater.
Seeing everyone else take up defensive postures Yuta does the same.
The crest eater struggles some more and you can see one of the handlers press a button. The only thing restraining the crest eater now is that it managed to get itself entangled in some of the cables.
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You guys
Crest eater (still entangled for 1 round)
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Lynn sends a burst of laughter through her mental link to Serrarra "I wish it WAS a big kitty! Instead of this big, angry... thing. Ah, get ready, here it comes!"
Though she continues her heroic posturing, Lynn isn't quite sure what to do with herself. She circles to the south, keeping her plasma sword pointed in the creature's direction.
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Yuta moves forward as if in a daze, trying to even out the left side of their impromptu formation. He cannot take his eyes off the restraints around the crest eater as they clatter and then withdraw. Suddenly there is very little at all between himself and that creature. He raises his laser pistol, which suddenly feels a little inadequate, and braces himself for the imminent attack.
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After the fighters position themselves around the arena the cresteater manages to free himself at last completely from it's straps shrugging out of it as it moves forward, sniffing the air.
It then hacks up a glob of almost fluorescent green goo that it spits at Dicebot
which splatters all over Dicebot
The crowds cheer and go ewwwwww, that's disgusting all at the same time
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Cresteater
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As the creature escapes its harness, Hadir squeezes the trigger on his rifle. But other then producing a little puff od dust some where near the creature the effects of the shot are negelectable
Dicebot moves forward and slices into the cresteater's thick hide almost slicing off one of it's bone spurs with his sword
After the creature spits at DICEBOT, Hadir fires off another round, which causes another puff of dust next to the creature on the ground.
Rei calls out "Your time has come! Haaaah!" and angles her plasma sword behind her, as if in preparation for a deadly swing.
She rushes forwards and fires her pistol at the creature.
Her shot deflecting of the creature's bone spures covering much of it's body before it can sink into it's meaty body.
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Yuta-133 lifts his chin, takes a firm stance, and fires off a shot with his laser pistol, being careful to avoid DICEBOT.
But he overcompensates to avoid shooting Dicebot in the back and his shot goes wild.
Serrarra advices everyone to shoot at the crest eater and takes her own advice hitting it in the shoulder.
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Cresteater
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Sovolok-Asnari activates his solar attunment and moves closer to the action.
The crest eater roars madly before trying to bite down into Dicebot
and a fort save DC 11 or take 1 con damage
It closes it's mauw around Dicebot's arm and clamps down hard, some saliva dripping into the wounds it's causing
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Cresteater
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Rei dashes off to the side, pistol trained on the beast, trying to get a clearer shot. She skirts past a pillar and fires!
Rei calls out with a "NOOO!" as CHOPBOT is badly mauled, her shot flying wide in the moment of panic. With dramatic motions, she readies her plasma sword for a reckless charge, when suddenly...
. The voice of Obi One Cannoli rings out across the arena, as if from a great distance! "Rei! Do not lose yourself to anger and hate, for it will lead you to the dark side! Trust in the Lifestream!"
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Serrarra encourages everyone to shoot where it hurts and then leads by example; hitting the cresteater just above it's shoulder
The advice seems to have effect as Hadir draws closer and fires another round from his rifle in almost the same spot Serrarra marked.
Rei dashes off to the side, pistol trained on the beast, trying to get a clearer shot. She skirts past a pillar and fires! But either she isn't paying attention to Serrarra's advice or she chooses to ignore it as he shot goes wide.
Sovolok-Asnari runs right up to the crest eater and attacks together with Dicebot who tries to extract some revenge on being bitter and slices his sword into the cresteater thick neck and almost slices it clean off.
The crowds cheer as Dicebot and Sovolok-Asnari are covered in blood and gore and the cresteater goes down.
As you still try to recover from the battle, a man approaches from the gate where the crest-eater first emerged.
An attractive, muscular korasha lashunta with reflective glasses struts through the northern door. He casually walks over the remains of the defeated crest-eater, stepping over the carcass with a skip. He lowers his sunglasses to reveal dilated pupils and flashes a toothy grin.
“Stellar,” the lashunta man slurs. He glances at the floor and his smile changes to a look of disgust. He takes an exaggerated step over the bare ground as though trying to avoid an object there and trips, falling face-first into one of the metal pillars on the arena floor. He immediately springs back up and dusts himself off.
“You killed two of those things? That’s amazing!” The man holds out a hand in greeting. “I’m Envar—Envar Tamm, you’ve probably heard of me. I know, I know, I’m way more handsome in person. It’s a pleasure to meet me, I’m sure. Now, tell me all about you; I want to know all about my new best friends.”
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Rei spins her pistol back into its holster and retracts the plasma blade of her sword. She gives the dying creature an intense, conflicted look, in lockstep with her character's reaction after she had been forced to kill the Whompa on Hoss. Her entire stance seems to be giving off the impression of a tragic hero.
Envar's entrance allows her to let up on the acting just a little, though she introduces herself (In her normal voice) with a "Rei Lightwalker in the flesh, Mr Envar. Once, I was just a scavenger on Akiton, but lately I've been following the Path of the Lifestream as its mysteries lead me to problems that need solving. Like these two dreadful monsters here."
Lynn is clearly counting on his drug addled nature to leave him suggestible to the idea that Rei Lightwalker is actually a real person.
"Ah! My master's cryptic advice makes sense! He said 'A lashunta whose bearing is glory lies in the shadow of the Sun, that man is key to the balance of the Lifestream!'. Could it be? Are you that lashunta Envar!" She stares at him with mock awe.
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Envar looks at the back of his hand intently before looking up at Line-04 blinking as if seeing her for the first time
'Yes, I know it's like totally awesome to finally meet me like in person..let's take a selfie to remember this for the ages to come"
He then moves next to Line-04 and takes a selfie with the both of them with his personal data pad that's attached to his wristband
"Say spaceworms!" Envar then giggles as he smiles for the picture
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Rei smiles somewhat goofily into the datapad's camera, leaning in towards Envar for the picture. As soon as the 'celebrity' pulls away she shoots the rest of her team a pained stare.
She mentally sends to Serrarra and Yuta "Ick, I think I can smell the pesh on his breath. This guy is all sorts of gross. Save me, please!"
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Envar makes a sshhhing noise at Serrarra's remark
"Don't tell like..anyone, but my mother like runs the corporation that's like totally responsible for the whole arena which to be like totaly humble was my idea..wait, what was the question again?"
"Let's take a selfie!"
Envar steps up next to Serrarra and puts his arm around her while he looks up at his wrist and smiles before a blinding light from his personal datapad almost fries out your eyes
Envar blinks a few times
"I might need to adjust that setting..a well, at least my millions of followers think I'm like totally stellar ..or at least they think i'm a blast" Envar laughs at his one remark oblivious to your guys laughing or rolling your eyes at him.
He then turns around and Smiles at Serrarra and asks "Hey..don't I know you? You sorta look familiar? Maybe we share some followers?"
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"Wow ..Soulforge the Implacable..that's like a whole mouth full of a name..let's tweet this for the masses..you know,,.so they can look up your name in the by lines and they don't have to remember it and stuff like that"
Envar takes a picture of Hadir and send it out into the cloud for his followers to look at
At Serrarra's remark he mutters"..not as big as my mothers..."
He then blinks a few times .."..unless that didn't mean an actual office and you're like totally implying something else..cause then I totally have a big office. Biggest office you've ever seen" Envar giggles
He winks at Serrarra
"Maybe I'll show you my office later?"
He blinks a few times and looks up at the ceiling and then swats at something only he can see.
"...why are we talking about offices again?"
"Hey, speaking of offices. While you’re here, do you wanna check the place out? My personal tour covers all the hot spots. If you want the VIP treatment, come with me.”