[Event] Invasion!

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Characters: OPEN to everyone!
Location: All over Death City
Rating: Various
Time: February 2nd
Description: Witches have invaded and are attacking the city!

The attack, when it comes, happens quickly enough that Death City would have been caught flat-footed had there been no prior warning, but it's not completely unexpected because of the city's heightened state of alarm the past day. Warning sirens start sounding to alert the citizens and guests the moment a dark, slow-moving mass out in the desert to the south-east of Death City is spotted by Shibusen sentries. There's even time for civilians to run and hide before the mass is identified as an army of what looks like decaying, shambling corpses. The city's defenders are slow to move, however; most of them are distracted and are having trouble dealing with the black blood in their bodies. While agents are gathering to head out to deal with the zombie threat, that's when the witches make their move.

Portals begin opening in the skies above the city, disgorging hideous familiars: bulbous spiders and leggy ants the size of dogs. They drop hundreds of feet down into the streets and alleyways of Death City, and scuttle off in search of victims. The spiders are poisonous and can spin copious amounts of web to capture their targets, the ants spit acid that cause agonizing, paralyzing pain. Their masters bear down on the city in a cloud of black shadows--massive ravens strong enough to carry off adult men. There are five witches, women on broomsticks, beautiful if not for their crazed grins and obvious glee at the chaos descending upon the city. At some unknown signal--maybe the cackling from a couple of them--they dive in concert and disappear into different areas of the city.

Their masterful plan has begun!



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[shiromadoushi]

'If we run, someone else will have to fight it...' Bakura reasoned, relaxing at the squeeze. Leo was with him. As long as they were together, they'd be fine. As long as he trusted in his friends, everything would work out...

[lionborn]

Leo himself had doubts about this way of thinking, but they could as well take this chance for all he cared. Taking a square stance opposing the ant that would hopefully make it difficult for it to spit its poison at them, he tossed the die on the ground.

"Then let's see what the bones will roll for us!"

[shiromadoushi]

There was an art to rolling dice in Domino. The soul of the dice that responded to your own... every time, Bakura couldn't help but think of that moment, the feeling of reaching out and shaping the future with the strong will of wanting to protect the people who believed in you, who had reached out to you--

He never could tap that force that the Other Yuugi could to make the dice fall how he wished from the outside... but from inside, when the die was him, spinning in seeming slow motion in air as it tumbled towards the ground.

Dice respond to the strong will of the heart, and Bakura's weapon form was no exception. A bounce off the pavement below as he turned reaching up to lift the result he wanted upwards as he arced back down.

0

Critical.

In an instant, he was arching back up into Leo's hand, starting to glow a brilliant bright white.

[lionborn]

Leo had barely the time to react and take aim (or what he hoped was the right aim, he could have been targeting his own head for all he knew) when the roll succeeded.

He felt a short tugging on his part of their resonance and then the attack came already out.

[shiromadoushi]

It was always an indescribable feeling, almost as a piece of himself was being launched, yet he was still whole at the end, just more tired than he had been, more thin. It was some part of him that released, barreling out to slam into the ant with a blinding flash of light, but not a part of him that was solid. Converting his HP to MP to cast his spell, but with that HP slowly regenerating instead of needing to be healed....

[lionborn]

Leo let out a whoop as the die glowed and then shot the ant with some sort of weird energy laser. He was just about to comment on their luck when-

he suddenly dropped his hand and made a face as if he had bitten into a sour lemon. "Bakura."

[shiromadoushi]

'What...?' Bakura asked, refocusing to talk with his friend properly. It was still far too easy to lose himself in some parts of this. Just because he had gotten over the trouble transforming back to normal didn't mean he had it utterly worked out yet.

[lionborn]

"Don't start fancy introspective monologues in game-speak in the middle of a battle. It confuses the hell out of me." Nicely put.

[shiromadoushi]

'Aaaa.... you heard that...?'

[lionborn]

"Yep." Thank god there had been only one opponent because it had been really distracting.

...well crap. My reply didn't post apparently. *Makes a new one*

[shiromadoushi]

'I didn't realize. I thought you could only hear it when I thought aloud, like this...' It made Bakura wonder how much else Leo could hear when they were like this... Could he tell that--

He quickly buried the thought. The Voice wasn't real, it was just because of the Black Blood, he just had to ignore it and focus on the situation on hand!

'There aren't any others coming, are there?' He had at least 2 more turns before he started feeling tired, he was pretty sure....

[lionborn]

'Don't sweat it, it was just this time.' He calmed the weapon down, taking his time to take a good look around before he nodded. 'Doesn't look like there's any other at the moment. But be careful with the sky. Those damn birds love trying to get a piece of me.'

[shiromadoushi]

'A bird's revenge,' Bakura replied, tone a bit dry even as he joked. Too much tension, too much residual of the Blood in his head. 'If you see one, just roll. I'll do as much as I can to protect you and everyone.'

[lionborn]

Leo tsks at the comment, lips pulling into a wry smile. 'They're still a number too small to pick a fight with a lion and dream of coming out on top.' He takes a look around, feeling a little grateful for the offer. 'We'll see. Where were you heading to just now?'

[shiromadoushi]

'Out of the line of fire until I could find someone to work with,' There was the feel of a faint, grateful smile there. 'Let me help out until I start getting tired...?'

[lionborn]

'Alright,' he started heading towards the residential units. 'Then we help anybody who we find while trying to get our asses out of here in once piece.'

The decision was neither heroic nor classy, but he wanted to survive this, damn it all.

[shiromadoushi]

It was a good enough compromise, considering Leo's general outlook on these things. 'You think inside is safe enough? Or should we be trying to find a proper shelter?' he asked, trying to watch from behind Leo's eyes for any signs of danger, doing his best to ignore the nagging memories from Monster World that were trying to surface at the similar actions. He had been getting better at ignoring the flashbacks, knowing where they were from and that the were just that, flashbacks, helped a lot, but it still left him a touch more uneasy than he otherwise would have been.

[lionborn]

He grimaced at the question. having a secure shelter would be definitely better than some random room with a flimsy excuse of a wall, but there was only one significant problem with that. "Tell me where I can find a 'proper shelter' and I'll get us there."

[shiromadoushi]

There was a long pause. '...I'm not sure... Maybe a basement somewhere...?'

[lionborn]

"Don't bugs like basements...?" Not that he minded the idea of getting away from te crows, but getting swarmed inside some subterranean musty places by those giant pests didn't look like a very attractive way to spend their time.

[shiromadoushi]

'I don't know if ones like this would...' It was hard to figure out which set of tropes applied to this situation... the combination of creatures attacking made for conflicting rules! Ants you'd go high to avoid, but then the birds were there... and spiders could climb, but also liked dark corners...

'...maybe one of the apartments would be best...'

[lionborn]

"Yeah? You think so?" He looked doubtful for a moment, but in the end he couldn't help but agree. They needed a roof above their head if they wanted to avoid the birds and the zombies ought to have more problems moving within narrow places.

"A random one or a place that we know?"

[shiromadoushi]

'I'd think a place that we know would be better, we'd know what was on hand to work with, right? And we wouldn't have to break in.'

...and to be honest, he was a touch worried about Ulthar. Even if the kitten was pretty fierce, if Leo felt he didn't have much chance against these things....

[lionborn]

"Alright. To Casualty Communal it is. Want to turn back for the time being?"

He didn't mind resonating with Bakura as much as he did with others, but he still preferred to dodge tempting his luck for too long. The repercussions of failing at resonance were nasty, especially during such a life or death situation, and he wasn't exactly the best at keeping it up for a long time.

[shiromadoushi]

'You're better at running than I am...' Bakura pointed out, a little unsure. 'If we get surprised...' He trailed of slightly.

It felt safer this way. He would be ready if something happened, and he wouldn't fall behind if they had to run....

And if he were being honest, he'd admit that he felt more comfortable in his weapon form than as himself, despite the implications of it, especially in situations like this.