Plot || The Star Wars Vaikuntha Special

[hatejakku]

Who: Open
When: June 8-14
Where: Everywhere
What: The race for the crystals is on!!
Warnings/Notes: OOC Post


Crystals have fallen out of the Dream Width in a beautiful meteor shower and scattered all over the world! Due to their origins and mysterious properties, the Curti Center is interested in gathering as many as they can for researching purposes. To incentivize the public in helping out, O'aka has donated a few silver coupons to those top few who collect the most crystals. There's also a rumor that the one person (or more if there's a tie) who collects the most, wins something marvelous and mysterious~

The hunt for these crystals have taken storm across Vaikuntha and they're suddenly worth a lot. It's all anyone talks about anymore! The locals have gone crazy with it! If you weren't interested to begin with, surely the madness that is this new fad has sunk its teeth in. Besides, who knows what the crystals can actually do? Are they gifts? Curses? Dust collectors? Only one way to find out.

NAVIGATION
❄️ Snow	🔎 Shadow	🔥 Flame	🌼 Flower	☔ Rain	☀️ Sun	❤️ Love	🌵 Arrow
🎭 Sword	🎶 Chime	👻 Grey	🥚 Egg	✉️ Chrome	🏁 Rainbow	🐹 Plasma

LEADERBOARD
Character	| Crystals
Klonoa	| 08 ❄️🔎❤️🌵🎭👻✉️🐹
Kuja	| 07 🔎🌼🎭🎶👻✉️🐹
Frisk.bin	| 06 🔎☔🌵🎭✉️🐹
Uendo	| 05 ❄️🔎🎶✉️🐹
Corrin	| 04 ☔❤️🌵🎭
Red	| 03 🌵🎭✉️
Okuyasu	| 03 ❄️🌼🐹
Tyzias	| 02 ❄️🐹
Megatron	| 02 🌼🐹
Maul	| 02 👻🏁
Sephiroth	| 02 🌼✉️
Naoto	| 02 ❤️✉️
Adrien	| 01 ❄️
Castor	| 01 ✉️
Selphie	| 01 🌵
Pidge	| 01 🥚
Minimus	| 01 🌵
Kenichi	| 01 🐹
Papyrus	| 01 🔎
Naomi	| 01 🌼
Ovelia	| 01 🌼
Asriel	| 01 🎭
Kanji	| 01 ❤️

Comments

Chrome Crystal - Von Oktavia

[hatejakku]

There was a post on the network about an hour ago from some Moogles who work at Mognet Central. They said that there were tons of crystals at their offices that they were handing out for free, plenty enough to go around! So, naturally, you made your way over expecting a crowd.

You didn't expect this. Geezards are all over the place! They're hoping across desks, sending paperwork flying, knocking over printers, making Moogles run screaming. Even worse, there aren't any crystals like they advertised!

A Moogle floats over to you in a rush. "Oh, please, kupo! Help! HELP!" He pulls on your sleeve, pointing at the chaos like you just haven't noticed yet or something. "They even took all the crystals, kupopo! Help us!"

Welp.

[ooc: Just pick some targets and start attacking. There are an absolute butt load of enemies here, and every 1 out of 50 has a crystal. Based on your attacks, I'll calculate how many you've destroyed and what loot you got, if any. Feel free to farm this area.]

[whirluendo_of_puns]

Patches rolls up his sleeves. "Don't worry, everyone! I have a plan!"

'We are not summoning Ifrit inside an office building full of paper.'

"I have another plan!"

'No Leviathan either.'

"Plan C?"

'Ramuh would wreck all the equipment.'

"...Stop telling me how to live my life, Kisegawa. Gawd."

> Full Summoning: Diamond Dust
Summons the goddess of ice. She freezes all of the enemies before breaking the ice, thus dealing high damage to all of them. There is a 10% chance the targeted enemies will shatter in pieces, dying instantly upon being unfrozen.

+5

[hatejakku]

Patches and Shiva manage to take out a whopping 100 geezards!!

They get 100 gil and 5 Chrome Crystals. Nice.

[neverbeamemory]

The moogle that pulled on Sephiroth's sleeve was shrugged off with enough force that sent it falling back in the air a good foot or so, such as to be expected when he was clearly already aware of the chaos going on -you'd have to be blind not to see- and was ticking over an efficient way he might be able to clear out as many of the Geezards as possible, as quickly as possible.

And if only a few of them have crystals, well, Sephiroth's hardly going to bristle at the slaughter that's necessary.

As Masamune was swept around from his standard reverse-left grip, Sephiroth strode deeper into the offices, on the hunt for generous-sized clusters of the pests. That he might dispatch multiple at a time with a few well-aimed swings of the over-long blade.

[Telekinetic Pulse], although the newest of the skills unlocked in his custom job and so not with much range, seemed to work in exploding the Geezards outwards away from him as an epicenter; certainly if not to kill them first, then to draw aggro into his waiting swordplay.

Not to mention, if perhaps too many come for him at once, losing a few turns now and again for a job switch and then [Hell Judgment] blasting larger packs felt immensely satisfying in its own right.

Sephiroth could continue like this for hours, no doubt; leaving behind quite a mess in the process.

+2

[hatejakku]

Sephiroth manages to take out 40 geezards!

He gets 40 gil and 2 Chrome Crystals!

[mech_and_mutt]

"...this just feels... wrong."

If not wrong, it was at the very least terribly unceremonious. Red just stood in the corner, high atop his perch in a suit of •Magitek Armor, with the DAHAK Mk. III's arms raised high.

Lines of energy darted and flickered across its surface. Flashes and flickers from its ports coalesced into Ice-element •Magitek Beams that soared across the room and struck down the Geezards.

...And it seemed to be working. And, against this many enemies, that was what he kept doing. And when more would swarm in through the doors, he'd do it again. When more would scramble out from under the desks, he'd do it again.

Even more than feeling weird or wrong, it just felt... boring.

"You guys got any coffee or donuts?" He murmured halfheartedly to a passing moogle as he pushed the button yet again.

+1

[hatejakku]

Red takes out 35 geezards!

He gets 35 gil, 1 cup of coffee, 3 donuts, and 1 Chrome Crystal!

[sassafrisk]

"Hey, so. This place is OSHA-certified in case of a fire emergency, right?" Frisk asks casually, rolling their shoulder and leveling their gauntlet at the swarming mass of geezards. They tweak a few settings on it as they prepare to start hurling Water Spouts with the other hand. "You know. Just out of curiosity."

MogNet wouldn't sue a kid for an honest mistake, right? And they have this under control! So many fire suppression skills that there's basically no danger.

...okay, they aren't that crazy. And considering the enclosed space, Comet's probably a bad idea as well. Frisk sighs, changing the setting on the gauntlet to WIND MODE, and uses [Leaf Blower] on the huddled pack of geezards.

> Leaf Blower (8 Random Enemy Geezards | Single Target)
Weak wind spell with 8 random enemy targets. Each hit slightly lowers attack.

+0

[hatejakku]

Frisk manages to take out 10 geezards instead of 8! Good show!

They get 10 gil but no Chrome Crystal. :( That's okay. Plenty more where those came from!

[sassafrisk]

Grumbling, they sit down, calibrating their gauntlet and locking onto each individual geezard. Hopefully, this'll be more efficient, and cause. Less collateral damage. Than if they just used the skill outright. They then fire a [Solar Flare] at the geezards, modified so that it splits into individual projectiles to hit the monsters.

> Solar Flare (All Genzards | AOE)
Medium fire spell that hits all targets.

[pishirogane]

To avoid making more of a mess than there already was, Naoto was going to keep to an easy and manageable way to dispose of the Geezards everywhere. No Magitek Knight, no Summoner, just Gunslinger with her trusty ammunition.

Taking her time to deal with Geezards, leaving her abilities to Trick Shot to make sure her standard hits didn't miss with Ricochet guaranteeing hits against the ones that eventually take notice. Slepnir followed with weak lightning attacks to other targets while her Magitek Bracelet fired three ice beams before going into cooldown.

+2

[hatejakku]

Naoto manages to take out 110 geezards somehow! Wow!

She gets 110 gil and 2 Chrome Crystals!

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa nods to the moogle, and starts rolling up his sleeves.

"How did they get in here in the first place?" He asks, slightly bewildered. Well, whatever. They're here now, and it's his job to make that statement no longer be true!

"Okay, everyone clear out--I'll handle this!" He says, holding the Wind Ring triumphantly ahead of him. To some, it may be clear that wontonly attacking things might be a bad idea given potential collateral damage. This, however, does not occur to Klonoa, who begins spinning around rapidly as a tornado forms, kicking up pages, paper, and geezards. The rainbow lightning when it lances across the room is pretty, at least.

[Lightning Tornado]

+0

[hatejakku]

Klonoa manages to take out 100 geezards! Yippee!

He gets 100 gil but not a single Chrome Crystal somehow. :( That's okay! Plenty more where those came from!

RNG giveth, RNG taketh

[wind_in_my_ears]

Oh. Well. That's somewhat disappointing.

...But it's fine! Klonoa's raring for more! He might not be able to handle more rainbow lightning, but what he can do...

He takes out his imog slate, changing job to White Mage, charging up a bright scintillating white ball of light in the Wind Ring moments later.

He can still do this! [Holy]!

[acapriciousreaper]

Kuja stares, for several long seconds, at the assorted riffraff. "Are you actually serious?" There's an annoyed glare focused at the moogle who'd approached him, who slightly wilts for a moment, before he sighs theatrically, rolling up his sleeves. "Fine. Excuse me for a moment, and stand back." He spends some time [Focus]ing, and then steps on air to hover over the crowd of Geezards, gathering magic-

And then he casts [Ultima], using the power of [Spellshape] to guide a hundred bolts of arcane fire unerringly around obstacles, avoiding furniture and equipment, and directing it at his real targets- the beasts currently ruining the carpet.

+3

[hatejakku]

Kuja manages to take out 220 geezards!! WhAT!

He gets 220 gil and 3 Chrome Crystals!

[littlemhigan]

Castor lacks the AOE effectiveness of some of the other Heroes of Light, but she is strong, determined and fast and she goes to town with simple Bootshine Combos trusting simple and well-practiced moves to mow through the mob of beasties.

+1

[hatejakku]

Castor takes out 100 geezards! Great job!

She gets 100 gil and 1 Chrome Crystal!

[rivieran]

Ena, unfortunately, lacks efficient AOE skills that wouldn't also trash the entire office. Her rapier isn't much for slicing through swathes of enemies, either. So she takes her seldom-used staff and just swinging it wildly as she moves through the horde, hitting as many Geezards as she can and trying to avoid making a mess of the office.

+0

[hatejakku]

Ena takes out 30 geezards with that staff!

She gets 30 gil but no Chrome Crystal. :( That's okay. Plenty more where those came from!

[rivieran]

How unfortunate! With a frustrated grunt, Ena makes another swing!

[last_son_of_dathomir]

"Oh, please, kupo! Help! HELP!" The moogle pulls on Maul's sleeve, pointing at the chaos like he just hadn't noticed yet or something. "They even-"

is as far as the Moogle gets before the Darksaber ignites and with a feral-looking grin, Maul leaps forward into the fray, unleashing a [Savage Strike] upon the nearest group of geezards, leaving a slightly dumbfounded (and rather unnerved) moogle to watch.

Does he actually know they have the crystals?

Savage Strike [Geezard | Single Target]
Attacks with overwhelming fury, dealing moderate physical damage, and a 20% chance of inducing Fear (attack strength reduced for one round)

+0

[hatejakku]

Maul takes out 20 geezards thanks to a few of them being staggered by fear! Good job!

He gets 20 gil but not a single Chrome Crystal somehow. :( That's okay! Plenty more where those came from!

[last_son_of_dathomir]

Grunting in annoyance, Maul changes tacks. Engaging [Force Mastery] he tosses the Darksaber at the large crowd of geezards still before him, guiding the blade with the Force as it cuts a wide arc around him, spinning through the air, before returning to his hand. The [Saber Throw] is a simple but effective tool for crowd-cleaning (though his saberstaff would have been even more useful a tool).

[Force Mastery: Saber Throw | Multi-target]
Maul tosses his lightsaber in a wide arc, slicing multiple enemies in front of him before it returns to his hand.