[The Organization Invasion] Sandborn Skirmish

[Rocket!]

[ ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!

Few things before we get started!

ONE: There are new Faction rules in place regarding who is in a thread. Four per team, per thread, as a max.

SECOND: I do hereby motion for team turns-- one Faction side people will post, and then the other. If you're for it, please wait for Homac to post after this post. If you're not, go ahead and post. xD

But let's keep to the posting order, okay? ^^

THIRD: People who wanna jump in, please post before an ally of yours is to post. This'll keep things clean for both teams' plans or whatnot.

Well.... I think that's i---

Ah. Rebuttal! >3

(It should be noted that I am notoriously avid about these sorta things-- if I come off as rude, feel free to slap me upside the head and tell me I'm being a jerkwad, an' I will promptly stop for maybe a round or two. I don't mean it, I swear! ^^;; I just get into it so much...)

RYU!
As Absolute Zero is passive, it's a no go for copying it with Blue Magick. The multiple uses variant on it is a side power, a bonus of it being Strong level, and not the ability's true nature or core.
As for automatically copying Strong abilities in the same Blue Magick ability, it says quite clearly that passive abilities aren't capable of being copied, and that the autocopy for Strong ones are without consent-- nothing about ignoring previous constituents laid down in the same ability.

Also, I'm fine with the Vexen accidentally ramming into Seira-- but you'll notice his shield was glowing blue at the time.

Ergo, frozen Seira. Please see Vexen's profile for more information on the Frozen status.

So, NO COPY FOR YOU!

Also also, given Seira's moving ability (which is five kinds of cool, and will be shamelessly used in a similar manner when I get around to upgrading Vexen's moving ability) doesn't increase her speed, and Absolute Zero halves speed and reaction time, she'll be going at about walking pace with everyone else or so, right?

BREZZEN!
Lysander's profile is ollllllllllllllllllld.
Ah, I'm jus' messing with you. ^^

Telekinesis-- given it's stated in the rules that an ability cannot cancel another out, and Vexen's shield's ability to do the en masse telekinesis bit with Raging Aegis, I think the Frozen Pride is off limits.
However, they'll definitely work on Vexen's Redoubtable Reverence constructs! They only move laterally or along the ground, though, so if you try to move them vertically and stop halfway through to let them keep on going, expect them to rebound against the air and go back to normal. Make sure they're lateral before letting 'em loose.

ROLT, DEFENDER EXTRAORDINAIRE!
Love the passive abilities.
Please see the Strong Ability Data Collection Field for more details, and note that while within 20 feet of Vexen (while he has Absolute Zero in effect), Vidrel will be moving at around walking pace.

Okay, battle rebuttal done. ^^;;

*cough*

So, uh, rumbling! ]

Speeding along at no scoffable speed, the Chilly Academic raised a curious eyebrow at the sight of another person coming to join the fray. He couldn't say that he cared-- what's one more target, if frozen?

So the blond Nobody allowed the charge forward to continue, and ram into the belligerent teenager. In a flash of hazy blue light, ice encased her from heel to toe, rendering her immobile.

[ Frozen Status-- after one round, an ally may attack your icebound prison to free you. If a physical attack that free Seira, than she'll get some damage on top of what getting rammed in the face with the shield. If freed by magic, then you get a freebie on the "being freed" damage. Being whacked in the face is still being whacked in the face. If not freed, the ice will melt away after 5 rounds.
Abilities and so on a no-go while frozen. ]

"A pity, to be so foolish..." Vexen gave a hollow chuckle as he lightly flicked the captive enemy's forehead in celebration of his superior intelligence. A faint tingt[/size] could be heard.

[ NOT AN ATTACK XD ]

The scientist looked up from the frozen enemy to the gunslinger, his green, emotionless eyes boring into Lysander's own.

At this close range, the Nobody could think of naught to do but snort at the pitiful appearance of it all. An Organization member, bothering to extend himself and defeat such woefully weak foes by hand?

No, that wouldn't do at all.

Drawing back from the frozen one, Vexen raised his left hand into the air, drawing his glowing bright blue shield close.

*snap*

A swirling swash of complex programming appeared across the ground, dull green light illuminating the ground with the sudden and bright inception of a single circle across the sand. A Nobody's insignia quickly made itself apparant from the varying data across and along the sands illuminated from some unseen location.

[ Strong Ability Data Collection Field is now in play ]

It was a huge circle, emblazed with the Organization's symbol. Hazy strips of data flew about with purpose within the 30 feet across area, skimming across, and for, and analyzing the nearest opposing force in the area.

That being Seira.

[ 1 SCAN -- SEIRA ]

"Come, then..." Vexen challenged coolly, throwing his hand high into the air as the Frozen Pride whirled about the Organization member at high speeds...

[ Weak Weapon Ability Levitation ]

...before smirking.

"...delay us as best you can."

===---===---===

SUMMARY
-> Allowed, as designated in her previous post, for Ryu's Seira to be hit by Vexen's shield. Promptly frozen for not seeing it was glowing, thus preventing her from copying the weapon.
-> Teased Seira about going straight for the shield, because Vexen's a jerk like that, by tapping her frozen forehead.
-> Backed away from Lysander and frozen Seira. Don't want to be a jerk because of the awkward opportunity to post twice before Brezzen can next post.
-> The shield is glowing again. No, it's not the same status ability. ^^
-> Brought out Data Collection Field.
-> Scanning Seira.
-> Hasn't noticed Vidrel.
-> Weak Weapon Ability Levitation in effect
-> One round cooldown for Prideful Impasse in effect

I'm also going to politely ask that Homac allow his previous post-- a slash and hack at Lysander's back, I think-- to act as his post after mine. Don't want to gang up and be mean like going for a no-miss hit. If that's fine by you Homac, could you post saying as much here? ^^; Keeps it clean and organized.

[Homac]

[OOC: I'll just go with Rocket on this. Shawn's slash is now headin' for Lysander's unprotected back.]

[Edit: Yeah, I moved.]

[lysander]

[Ahem. Rocket has made it clear to me that Homac has chosen not to move. As this is partially what has been holding up this thread so long, I'm just going to take this statement as the final decision. Also, @rocket: Status effects last a maximum of three turns. ^__^
So, for everyone's refreshment, as it stands we're all in a vague line. Starting from Homac we are: Shawn(Roof), Lysander(Roof), Frozen Seira(Ground), Vexen(Ground), and finally Vidrel(Crouching on a pole I think?). Make sense? Everyone clear on what's what? Good. Let's do this.
Also. Forgive the color pink. It's been Lysander's color for the longest time, and I couldn't bare changing it. I know how hard it is to see. Copy paste into google search bar?]

Pingt! The first bullet flew off and up into the air, just like Lysander's hope for an easy and lighthearted battle. And, little did he know it, at that very moment, had to change... Well just about every tactic he'd considered.

The sudden appearance of the shield-wielding scientist was a surprise if ever there were one. And out of the many varieties of surprise it was one that Lysander was surprisingly comfortable with; the sort characterized by the phrase "It was too good to be true". No, they couldn't assemble a large task force against one man, and focus on just him. Back up would come to his aid, just as ought to have been expected. Adapt. Adapt. Adapt.[/u][/i][/color]

Even as the bullet was knocked up and back, the opposite of it's intended direction (and thus back towards Lysander in its general direction), Vexen was already on a forward charge as if intending to knock down the very solid building upon which Lysander stood. And as the bullet that had been deflected ascended high into the air, a transparent force wrapped around it and the bullet, gradually began tilting upward in it's trajectory rather than down.

By the time this magic bullet had reached the peak of it's energy, and gravity was to resume control, two things happened that once again changed the game. Shawn made his approach (which Lysander had followed with his Tripwire ability* and natural awareness), and stepped forward, focused his weight, and took advantage of Lysander's exposed back. And Seira made a sudden dash from out of nowhere right into Vexen's path.

Bullet, Shawn, Seira, Vexen, Bullet, Shawn, Seira, Vexen, Bullet, Shawn, Seira, Vexen.

The bullet fell, as did the energy blade, and Vexen's advance, which left the frozen ice statue of Seira on the ground beneath him. And Lysander, whose reflexes, mental awareness, and speed of thought were all topnotch, reacted to each of these with a magical prowess and speed of body of the same sort which made his physical aims able to match his mental ones. What were those aims? Allow me to detail them for you.

The Battle on Three Fronts

Front 1: The Home Front
As Shawn approached from behind Lysander was able to follow him, along with his other tasks, rather easily, and judge from the body language and vocal tones that he was an aggressor. When the energy sword rose, Lysander's currently unrevealed (remember only one was out and aimed forward?) hand moved noiselessly beneath the poncho, making no visual clues as to it's change in location. The slightly-breezy winds of Agrabah further cloaked the fact that he was setting up for Shawn's downfall, and the din of the environment and of Vexen's movements down below helped with this two.

Lysander drew his other gun silently, as covered by his poncho, and aimed the barrel in such a way that there was no indication it even existed beneath the cloth. Nothing to clue Shawn off, even though he was already deadset in his path. It was better to be safe than sorry in such an occasion. Just as Shawn was dropping the blade, focusing his weight in his front foot, and torquing his swinging arm, but right as his stomach was most vulnerably, five consecutive (so quick they were almost simultaneous) gunshots rang out, burning holes through the cloth of the poncho at about waist level, and drilling into Shawn's stomach. In midswing, there would be no avoiding, no dodging, no casting a sudden abiliity to save himself. He would suffer all five shots, and because he had no passive abilities to increase his speed, evasion, fortitude or the like, he'd most likely not only suffer pain and damage, but a few moments of being stunned afterward, seeing as the bullets were aimed for the overly sensitive stomach.

Front 2: The Allied Front

The unveiled hand twitched as the chamber of his gun glowed silver-white for a moment firing a bolt of concentrated magical energy at the captive encased in ice...

Front 3: The War Front

Lysander used the recoil of his initial shot fired at Seira in a two-fold manner. First, it was to send a wave of telekinesis out to thrust a small wave of sand up into Vexen's face as the gun rocked back slightly in his hand. Second, it was to readjust his aim towards the chilly academic and send a series of four concentrated magic shots flying at his face. But all of this was merely a ruse. A tactic to distract Vexen, and keep him held down tight in the position that he had taken farther away.

Because something important was still on the field... Lysander's Magic Bullet. The one that Vexen had knocked up into the air at the beginning of the battle, which Lysander had discretely redirected. Halfway through it's freefall, the bullet experienced Lysander's glass hands yet again, as it was curved in place at high speeds to approach Vexen from above and behind. It's aim was his head, his shoulders, his upper back. Unless he had supernatural awareness by some justification, he would soon be feeling a sharp and sudden pain.[/size]

*In the Tripwire ability's write-up it says specifically that it cannot be used in battle. I justify this in that he has not actually entered a chaotic battle zone in which several things are happening rapidly around him. He only has to follow Shawn and as such, he's fine.

[lysander]

[Ryu-star!]

[ You need to calm down. XD. I was waiting for Homac to post. ]

She wasn't sure how it had happened.

She wasn‘t sure why it had happened.

But she had gone from moving freely to protect her quote-unquote ‘ally‘ to being frozen within a block of ice.

Oh joy.

It was rather ironic, really. She did have a tendancy to be called an ice queen.

Shrugging -- internally, as she was obviously unable to move -- the Baroness cast a glance her surroundings, trying to figure out how to break out of this blasted prison. In the meantime, she noticed some strange, unfamiliar symbol slide beneath her feet, giving her the strange feeling that she was being… watched. And not by anything she could see, anyway.

Pushing the thought out of her mind and looking around once more, her mind returned to thoughts of escape. Considering that she was unable to move, she could only assume that an ally would have to break her out. Which was totally unlikely, considering that they were all off doing god knows what.

But then a thought occurred to her.

Allies, eh?

At but a mental command, two bolts of light descended from the sky, revealing two cloaked teenagers, each immediately lowering themselves into a bow.

"You called, Mistres-" They didn't even get to finish their statement. Noticing that Seira was not standing before them, they quickly turned, looking for the Baroness.

Only to see her imprisoned with ice.

"My... my heavens! Who has done this to you, lady?" Cried the crimson-eyed one, Leonidas, making his way over and resting a hand on her frozen form, as if to try and free her by sheer force of will.

"That one committed this atrocity, brother. And for that, he shall pay." With that said, the pair both fired off magical blasts of energy at the man, hoping to draw his attention.

He would pay the ultimate price for even daring to harm their mistress.

[/size]

[Rocket!]

[ Ummmmmmm...

Frozen Status
Player characters caught in ice can break free from it in their next following turn using physical force due to it weakening in strength over the course of a round. Characters trapped in the Freeze status receive damage only if their prison is shattered by a physical attack. Magical attacks will only cause the ice encasing them to be dispelled, freeing them from their bad status. The damage dealt when a physical attack breaks their ice prison is considered magical with the attacker's physical attack power boosting Vexen's magical attacking power. No damage is dealt unless the ice is shattered with a physical attack by someone or something. People or objects frozen but not freed by an attack of some kind have the ice simply melt off of them after five rounds.

So, you can't be freed from the ice until after a round's passed.

Also, my mental dictionary of the rules is telling me that all Statuses have a cooldown of three uses, not duration... because the rules states that the cooldown after used begins after the status ends.

But I'll go doublecheck that. ^^

Also, what the heck with magical bullets?! Thought the telekinesis moved the bullets, nothing more... ]

[Rocket!]

[ Alrighty then! I recommend a Leave of Absence thread in the Hello and Goodbye area then. ^^

When you get back, you're up to post! ]

[lysander]

//Status effect abilities ARE allowed, but will be moderated closely. They cannot be coupled with Physical or Magical attacks. It must be possible to dodge them somehow and the effect can only last 3 rounds max.

Also, I'm not going to help you skim Lysander's profile.

[Rocket!]

[ I SWEAR I READ THE PROFILE AND I SAW NO MAGICAL BULLETS

But now I see the technicality of "magical energy". Fufufufu, you're so evil.

ALSO, do you plan on making a duplicate thread of Lysander's older profile so that we can continue with this, or should we all take this moment to make some quick updates? ]

[lysander]

[I'm going to open a shop thread and get all of his abilities back to normal. Well, he'll be a little stronger, but he'll simply be a beefed up version of what he is now. What updates would you like, because in my eyes, it'd be easy if he just played the part of toying with ya'll.]

[Rolt |The Immortal|]

Vidrel was still unnoticed at this point- Perfect for him. He could get a first strike in if he played his cards right... Then again, why would he be pulling himself into this fight? With the Rogue Armada disbanded, Vidrel could form his own fleet and take the world for himself later. He looked down, making sure there wasn't anything dangerous below him, and dropped from the pole to the ground below. Huh. It'd be stupid to rush in there alone... Hopefully they off each other so I don't have to worry about them later... Vidrel took one last glance towards the battlefield to make sure nobody had seen him, and headed back to the Dragon's Disgrace.

[Homac]

As the bullets impacted with Shawn's stomach, he let out a cry of pain and collapsed.

As he lay on the ground stunned, memories flashed across his mind.

"In this business, those who stay down, lose everything. Are you just going to lay there!? Get up, you wothless ass!"

Memories of his Somebody's teacher played over and over, giving one message: GETUPGETUPGETUPGETUPGETUPGETUPGETUP!!!!!

With a growl, he forced himself up slightly, enough to see his enemies, and note their locations.

"Let's see," he said in an undertone, "how you fare on the other side..."

The Nobody put his hand to his chest, where his physical heart was located, and released the darkness that he could wield.
[Darkside Mode, activated]

When he did this, a dome of dark energy spread out, twenty feet in each direction, engulfing everyone around him.

In this darkness, he stood up, his normally white energy blade glowing the same angry red as his sunglasses.

"Let's see who can survive now!" With that shout, he rushed towards Seira's summoned allies, the the afterimage of his blade leaving an eerie trail in the dark as he swung at them.
[Note: Shawn is now both faster and stronger.]

[Rolt |The Immortal|]

[OOC: Regrettably; I must retreat from this invasion. The Rogue Armada is no longer around, and as such, Vidrel has no other reason to be here. Sorry guys! I also edited my post to reflect this.]