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

[sassafrisk]

Frisk.bin pulls their scarf over their mouth and their hood over their head as they outline the plan to Frisk.exe--they made the effort to learn signs after they made up with their partner in crime, as sort of an olive branch. Now seems like a good time to show off the fruits of their labor for the first time.

I scouted out the tent from the outside. Disguises are h-e-l-l-a useful. Ninja training isn't just about the n-i-n-j-i-t-s-u, you know. Anyways, the hoard should be somewhere in the back. We cut in there, use the bags we equipped to our spare gear sets to steal as many as possible, then make out like literal actual bandits. That sound good?

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe mimicks the motion of tugging the scarf up, smiling a little behind it. They give a thumbs up, then shifts into signing back.]

Sounds good. Any backup plans, or do we play it by ear?

[sassafrisk]

If we don't play it by ear, then we have to legally turn in our Frisk badges. That's the rules. With that, Frisk.bin nods, and begins skulking through the night, towards the tent with the three lalafells. With their [Quiet Steps] and Frisk.exe's [Levitation], neither of them make a sound as they reach the back of the tent, where Frisk.bin has estimated the lalafell brothers are keeping the crystals.

They cut into the fabric using their thief sword, crafted from Bahamut's corpse, then step through the hole to hopefully greet the riches within.

[hatejakku]

> Fire Mastery
Power to control the fire element and focus it into single-target attacks. Potency grows with experience.

It might scare the two as an outright attack when fire engulfs the tent but the flames don't get near them. Rather, it traps them.

"Huey, look what I've caught!" a happy Lalafell says behind both Frisk's, stepping into the clearing. The one in blue with the mage robes.

"Stay sharp," another speaks to your front. You turn the find the red one, the one in heavy armor.

> Eidolon's Will
Raises attack and defense of all party members by 10% and lowers the attack and defense of all enemies by 5%.

He pulls on his helmet, looking serious. "Louie, hurry."

"I know, I know," the last one mumbles to your side. He adjusts his glasses, flips through his book, and grumbles about all the unnecessary fire for a second. Then:

> Bio | Single Target: Frisk.bin
Afflicts a single target with the poison status, reducing their health mildly each turn.

"There, okay," he mumbles again, flipping through the book. "Dewey, I-"

The blue one, Dewey, just starts laughing and waving around fire in his hands. "No one steals from us, Heroes!"

[sassafrisk]

Frisk.bin whirls around as each of the lalafell close in on them with their sibling comedy schtick, doing their best to look surprised and worried... but they can't keep it up, and soon collapse into amused laughter. Faux-wiping a tear from their eye, they choke out, "Oh, wow. And I thought we were dweebs. C'mon, let's show these capitalist pigs who's boss."

They begin signing, disguising it as a complex jutsu. We're robbing these idiots blind. Follow my lead, literally. Just keep on using Imitate until I cue you to stop. Then, Frisk.bin vanishes into a [Smokescreen].

> Smokescreen (Frisk.bin | Single Target)
Turns invisible. Effects remains for two turns or vanishes when hit by an attack.

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe doesn't even bother to look surprised, face flickering briefly into an impish grin before leveling out to something totally blank. They glance over at Frisk.bin's motions, and tilt their head in acknowledgement of the plan.]

[Their hands flicker through a series of signs as well, just gibberish to disguise the way they pull up an illusion to [Imitate] the smokescreen, and they vanish right after.]

[hatejakku]

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 98.74% poison
Frisk.exe: 100%

Huey: 100%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 100%

---

Dewey and Louie looked stunned by this change of events, blinking where the Frisks once stood. Dewey even drops his hands. "Um-"

"Wait. Don't underestimate them." Huey raises his spear.

> Champions of the Just
Medium light-aspected spear and shield combo, hitting foes with a blast of light that dispels one beneficial status effect.

Unless the Frisks are able to somehow prevent or mitigate the effects of the attack, they'll be seen again.

Whether they are, though- "Go!" Huey tells the other two.

> Focus
Sacrifices a turn to double the potency of the next spell.

Dewey does nothing, growing serious and standing his ground. "Buy me some time!"

"I've got it!" Louie shouts back.

> Dark Abyss | Single Target: Frisk.exe
Weak single-target dark spell. Afflicts target with the blind status.

[sassafrisk]

Well.

Shit.

They were really hurting for Papyrus's Job Lore right now. Even though their invisibility means they didn't actually get hurt by the combo, that Focus guaranteed some serious pain coming their way in a few moments. Gritting their teeth and bracing themself, Frisk.bin crosses their arms, summoning the hexagonal barrier of the modifier skill [Buster Shield] and indicating Frisk.exe to do the same.

> Buster Shield (Frisk.bin | Single Target)
Uses turn to halve all incoming damage..

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe hisses through their teeth as their vision dims, darting a little behind Frisk.bin and pulling up another [Imitate]. They duck behind the shield a little more than is strictly necessary, bracing themself against the ground.]

[hatejakku]

Damage Summary:
Poison | Frisk.bin: 1.26%
Champions of the Just | Frisk.bin: 5.81%
Dark Abyss | Frisk.exe: 2.11%
Champions of the Just | Frisk.exe: 6.45%

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 91.67% poison
Frisk.exe: 91.44% blind

Huey: 100%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 100%

---

> Ultima
Non-elemental ancient black magic. Deals severe damage to all enemies.

Dewey lays down the fire, but Huey tsks, getting into a fighting stance. "They put up a shield! Don't waste your attacks!"

> Might Blow | Frisk.exe
Medium spear and shield combo that can knock down one target for one turn, leaving them vulnerable.

"We need to handle them fast and get them out. Louie!" Huey barks at the remaining one. "Immobolize them!"

"I'm not going that far unless we have no other choice. You saw what good Ultima just did! It should be- Ah, never mind." Frustrated, as they all are, he attacks again.

> Morpheus's Embrace | Frisk.bin
Afflicts a single-target with the sleep status. Causes them to fall asleep until they're hit or for three turns.

"That'll help, right!?" Louie looks up from his book, worried. "Did all that get through the shield?"

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe weathers the initial attack, and as the shield fades their eyes dart up half a second before the second blow comes at them, a warning from their [Soft Prescience]. They leap up to hang in the air over Huey, then glance at Frisk.bin for direction and bite back a swear as their double starts to fall asleep.]

[Before Frisk.bin can hit the ground, Frisk.exe [Teleports] back to their side and slams their knee into Frisk.bin's back. If it bruises, they can feel guilty later, for now they grab them by the shoulder to keep them steady and hiss into their ear.]

"New idea. Get past in any way."

[sassafrisk]

They weather the Ultima thanks to the shield, then dance around Huey's blows due to their [Soft Prescience], although he still manages to get a few grazing hits in. Then, the Morpheus's Embrace hits.

"GAH!" Frisk.bin's eyes dart open when Frisk.bin's knee impacts them, and they shake the grogginess out of their head. Ugh. Tacticians. Slimy little bastards. "And I was having such a nice dream too," they grumble, then begin making a series of complex jutsu, once more weaving in signs with their actual spellcasting.

We're not going anywhere until we take out that Tactician. Focus fire on him. Deciding to fight fire with fire—literally—Frisk uses [Hellfrog] on all three of the brothers.

> Hellfrog (Huey, Dewey, Louie | AOE)
Severe fire-elemental damage to all targets.

[hatejakku]

Damage Summary:
Poison | Frisk.bin: 1.26%
Ultima | Frisk.bin: 34.08%
Might Blow | Frisk.exe: EVADED
Ultima | Frisk.exe: 35.66%

Hellfrog | Huey: 26%
Hellfrog | Dewey: IMMUNE
Hellfrog | Louie: 52%

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 56.33% poison
Frisk.exe: 55.78% blind

Huey: 74%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 48%

---

Huey grunts against the onslaught of fire, hiding behind his shield just enough to still see Louie get the brunt of it. "Louie!" Instead of going to his brother, he focuses on the Frisks.

> Payback | AOE
Recover from an attack and lash out with a blow equivalent to the damage sustained against nearby enemies. Strengthens by 10% once Champions of the Just is learned for sweet, sweet revenge.

"Dewey!" Huey shouts out. "Change jobs! Help your brother!"

Dewey grunts, shaking off the embers. He doesn't look damaged but he sure looks angry. "No, we can handle this if we keep it up!"

> Electricity Mastery | Frisk.bin
Power to control the electricity element and focus it into single-target attacks. Potency grows with experience.

"We can do this one at a time, right, Louie?"

Louie gets back on his shaking legs before getting into a firmer stance. "Right. I can still fight, brothers!"

> Disaster | Frisk.exe
Powerful single-target neutral spell. Afflicts target with the mini, silence, slow and paralyze status for two turns.

[sassafrisk]

Frisk screams with pain as Huey slams into them with incredible force and they're further punished by the Thundaga. Reeling from the assault, they intentionally play up the crack in their voice, hoping that a reminder of their youth will give the brothers some pause.

Then Frisk.exe gets hit with the disaster. Oh, shit. Things aren't looking too good for our heroes. Fuck, they can't let Papyrus find out about this! And there's no way in hell they're letting these greedy capitalist swine hurt their counterpart more!

A desperate plan forms in their mind. Picking up their newly-minified counterpart, Frisk tenses, as if preparing for an attack... then turns and runs through the wall of fire, perpendicular to the brothers towards what they know is an alleyway. Then they [Throw] a bolas down in that direction with enough precision to simulate the sound of running feet in the sound-dampening sand, and duck into an adjacent tent, wincing. Throwing their voice towards the location of the "running" bolas, Frisk.bin pants, lending further credence to the illusion that they've gone invisible and fled as they huddle down in the opposite tent.

There's no way they're actually running, though. After how much hurt these guys put the two of them through, they're getting some fucking payback.

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe would definitely yelp as Frisk.bin picks them up, if they weren't silenced and also still reeling from the Payback. As it is, they just hang limp in their double's arms, only their eyes darting around as they're carted around.]

[They look up, see the look in Frisk.bin's eye, and their chest tightens a little more— it's not directed at them this time, but Frisk.exe would like it if they never had to see Frisk.bin angry again. They open their mouth to say as much, but no sound comes out. But it's important— so they pull together every ounce of strength in their body, forcing their hand to twitch, tighten around Frisk.bin's shirt, then clumsily form a couple signs.]

Don't get hasty.

[hatejakku]

Damage Summary:
Poison | Frisk.bin: 1.26%
Payback | Frisk.bin: 34.48%
Thundaga | Frisk.bin: 46.47%
Payback | Frisk.exe: 36.21%

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 20.28% poison
Frisk.exe: 40.18% blind - mini - silence - slow - paralyze

Huey: 74%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 48%

---

Huey curses once the Frisks make their retreat. "Dewey, follow them."

"On it," the mage replies, sprinting down the alley and towards the sound of footsteps.

The Templar takes a stance, balancing his spear into the ground as the fires slowly die around them. "Heal yourself, brother. It's likely they aren't far. Keep your guard."

Gasping for breath, thankful for the reprieve, Louie nodded. "Right." He took out a slate and switched jobs.

Tactician >>> Astrologian


(ooc: I think I calculated health wrong last turn but I kept all my notes and everything's fixed now! Just letting you two know.)

[sassafrisk]

You huddle deeper into the darkness, holding your breath—literally—as you continue to shield your counterpart. Thankfully, you have a Plan B. What self-respecting child thief doesn’t? And of course it relies on temporal shenanigans, just to be on-brand.

You switch to [Time Mage], wincing as the poison works your way through your body and signing, Time Compression to Point B, just like we planned. Keep focusing fire on Louie, he’s why we’re in such terrible shape.

[waningsigns]

[Frisk.exe pulls a face. It's the plan, sure, but they're not sure they want to risk getting their ass handed to them again. They've got time to recover, but then, so do their opponents.]

Dunno that'd work. Real tough cookies. Also, trying to steal from them, not assassinate. What if you distract, keep their attention, I teleport to find crystals? Assuming not all stuffed in their pockets.

[Admittedly, it'd be one against three, but it wouldn't be for that long, right? Frisk.exe can teleport, it can't take too long to see where they hid the stash.]

[hatejakku]

Damage Summary:
Poison | Frisk.bin: 1.26%

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 19.02% poison
Frisk.exe: 40.18% blind

Huey: 74%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 48%

---

> Benefic | Self
Single-target medium healing spell. HEALED 11.76%

"That's better," Louie sighed.

"Keep it up," Huey encourages, distracted as he's watching for any signs of their enemies returning.

Meanwhile, Dewey's caught on to the ruse. His footsteps can be heard doubling back quickly, searching tents as he goes.

[sassafrisk]

Good plan. Need to KO Louie, though. Too dangerous.

Alright. Let's go stupid. Disaster should be wearing off right about now, you should have your abilities back. Compression in 3, 2, 1—

> Time Compression (Frisk.bin | Single Target)
Reverts an ally or self to a previous state within a two-hour window. Restores health and energy, erases buffs and debuffs. Memories are not reverted. Cannot be used if target is dead.

A flash of gears, a swirl of prismatic light, and Frisk is gone. They reappear at a location adjacent to the tent that they'd picked especially for this location, back at 100% health, not poisoned, and with [SOUL Buster] as their active job. Hiding in the shadows, they begin taking aim at Louie, eyes narrowed.

[waningsigns]

[Frisk gives a thumbs up, their strength already returning to them. Their own [Time Compression] is a flicker of golden light in the palm of their hand, and they don't waste any time relishing the feeling of being able to move before they dart away in the opposite direction of the brothers.]

[They'll circle around, moving as quickly and noiselessly as they can. If they can manage it, they'd like to get to the opposite side of the large tent without any more magic, but they're prepared to vanish the second it looks like they've been caught.]

[hatejakku]

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 100%
Frisk.exe: 100%

Huey: 74%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 59.76%

---

> Helios | Friendly AOE
Applies a regen effect on three allies for five turns, healing 3% of their health per turn.

> Redistribute | Friendly AOE
When receiving healing in excess to full health, can choose to redistribute the remaining healing energy to an ally, rather than letting it go to waste. (Dewey's 3% goes to Louie.)

"We've got this now, brother," Louie says happily, brushing his hands over his Astrologian robes. "No one can still from us, anyway."

"Just because no one has doesn't mean that anyone can't. The Heroes shouldn't be underestimated," Huey says reasonably, still keeping an eye where the Frisks vanished to. "Why isn't he back yet?"

Meanwhile, Dewey had just run up on the Frisk that was aiming for his brother. Cocky and smirking, he shouts, "Hey!" before unleashing a spell.

> Water Mastery | Frisk.bin
Power to control the water element and focus it into single-target attacks. Potency grows with experience.

[sassafrisk]

Frisk lines up a fingergun with Louie, their expression dead-serious. And with their [Soft Prescience] alerting them to the incoming Waterga, they have just enough time to pull off a really slick maneuver.

Jumping into the air, Frisk attempts to cartwheel out of the way of the Waterga (SS Speed and [Soft Parkour], dawg) so that the trajectory of the projectile lines up with who they were aiming at: Louie. Regardless of whether this maneuver works, a brilliant, prismatic light begins shining from Frisk's index finger as they hang upside down in the air.

"Bang."

A massive beam of white light, ribbons of rainbow energy swirling in and outside it, streaks towards Louie from Frisk.bin's index finger.

> Buster Beam (Louie | Single Target)
Single-target extreme nonelemental spell.

[waningsigns]

[A bright light flashes from the direction of the other Frisk and Frisk.exe just runs faster, fumbling out their iMog to quickly switch back to Illusionist— it wouldn't do to try and teleport farther than they actually can in an emergency.]

[They only slow again as they approach the back of the tent, listening intently for any remaining guards, traps, anything they can pick up. They're not walking into another ambush if they can help it.]

[hatejakku]

Damage Summary:
Waterga | Frisk.bin: EVADED

Buster Beam | Louie: 122.4% OVERKILL

Health Summary:
Frisk.bin: 100%
Frisk.exe: 100%

Huey: 77%
Dewey: 100%
Louie: 0%

---

[Louie is defeated! He drops an uncommon item: Three Vials of Poison!]

> Helios | Friendly AOE (3 more turns)
Applies a regen effect on three allies for five turns, healing 3% of their health per turn.

> Redistribute | Friendly AOE
When receiving healing in excess to full health, can choose to redistribute the remaining healing energy to an ally, rather than letting it go to waste. (Dewey's 3% goes to Huey.)

"Louie!" Huey cries as the youngest brother is thrown back from the blast. He turns back to his opponent.

> Wrath of Heaven | AOE
Summons a blinding pillar of golden light that stuns and temporarily blinds foes. The effect is greater against demonic forces and those who use black and illusion magic, dealing moderate damage.

Dewey curses and ducks for cover from the blinding light. Or that's his excuse, anyway.

> Focus | Self
Sacrifices a turn to double the potency of the next spell.