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tiredcharmer ([personal profile] tiredcharmer) wrote in [community profile] melodiesofeternity2019-06-14 10:33 am

Heroes of Light, Battle! The Ultimate Golsaucian Tournament Begins!

Who: The Heroes of Light!
When: June 16th-19th
Where: Sparks Golsaucia
What: After weeks of getting hounded by the press, corporations, and prospective fiances, Octavaux Dairesault offers the Heroes of Light a way out: by participating in this year's Golsaucian Gauntlet, taking the form of a fighting tournament.
Warnings/Notes: Tournament arc, congoers.


An Offer You Can't Refuse (Prelude)
It starts not long after June begins. Maybe somebody proposes to you in the middle of the street. Or you're bumrushed by a horde of solicitors who want to use your image for whatever product they're peddling. Or maybe a reporter literally busts down your door to get an interview. Whatever the case, the Heroes soon find it's impossible to find a semblance of peace and quiet in early June. Around every corner and in every building is somebody who is just dying to talk to you, or more commonly, several somebodies, each at cross purposes. Even your homes aren't safe, as a few particularly nutty fans are willing to break and enter to get your autograph.

You have to deal with all of this for a week, until you're contacted by Octavaux Dairesault, organizer of the previous year's smash hit Golsaucian Gauntlet. He's noticed (and perhaps orchestrated) your plight, and offers you a way out: simply participate in his tournament and/or the events around it, and the attention will lessen. Considering how things get worse every day, you don't have a lot of options...

Sparks Golsaucia HeroCon 20XX
As it turns out, the events around the tournament that Octavaux casually mentioned are really a huge, city-spanning con. Cosplayers are everywhere. Artist alley takes up two entire districts. You can't take two steps without bumping into a merchandise stall. Thankfully, the limos Octavaux has provided means that you don't have to fight your way through a horde of ravening fans to reach the centerpiece of the whole debacle: the arena. A massive Colosseum with bleeding-edge technology to allow for the creation of stages drawn from... something. Octavaux refuses to elaborate on that. Whatever the case, you finally have the respite that you need. There's delicious food, cushy bedrooms, exercise rooms... pretty much whatever you want. And best of all, nobody prying into your business. How will you spend your precious, precious free time?

Of course, the tournament isn't all some of you are here for. Maybe you've decided to host a panel, in which case you're contractually obligated to appear among thousands upon thousands of fans and give a spiel. And give autographs. Lots of autographs. With really weird requests too.

Whatever the case... the tournament is about to begin!
wind_in_my_ears: (laugh)

[personal profile] wind_in_my_ears 2019-06-17 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Klonoa throws his arms up, not that anyone except very much Red is around to be disadvantaged by this. "Wahoo, BB-8 is joining in on the fun to take revenge against the doors! So, Red, how come the doors keep hitting people? That's one of the arena traps, right?"

Klonoa blinks, looking closer at the fight taking place on the roof. "Uh oh, that standoff didn't last long at all! Good luck everyone, beat 'em! Yeah! Yeah!!"

Red is further inconvenienced by the pantomime punches Klonoa is making next to him.
Edited 2019-06-17 16:15 (UTC)
defenestraighttomyheart: (haunted)

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[personal profile] defenestraighttomyheart 2019-06-20 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit.

Richard recognized that his exuberance to smack people in the face with doors may have endangered Tyzias. It's not 100% clear who each of the figures are, since in Crosslink you only really get a silhouette, but he's pretty certain Tyzias is on the roof since she's the only one here with visible hair.

The detective lets off a sigh. Herein lies his motto. You got yourself into a bad situation by being dumb. Now get yourself out by being clever.

He takes the coffee cup, the coffee machine still oozing hot coffee into the plastic grate after the half-empty cup was removed, and started taking big steps to the hidden passageway into the service elevator.

2. 3.

He checks his phone. He feels the shadowy figure getting closer to Tyzias. A 2-on-1 is his idea of a good fight, but only if he was on the side with two. As it was, he recognized his role was to even things up. Which was not his preferred method of combat.

4. 5.

He leaned against the side of the elevator. A little instinct - nobody ever checks the sides of the elevator when one opens near them for some reason.

6.

Ding.

The lights go out on the floor. A little trick, Richard rigged the elevator buttons to respond to the floor 6 lights.

Richard slinks out of the side, hoping someone, anyone is still there. He hears footsteps heading up the stairs. At first, his heart stopped dead in his chest. He's too late...
defenestraighttomyheart: (serious)

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[personal profile] defenestraighttomyheart 2019-06-20 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait.


There is one plan that could work. I mean, he's going to the rooftop. It's not friendly at all to whoever it was heading up, but...
Edited 2019-06-20 17:43 (UTC)
defenestraighttomyheart: (angry)

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[personal profile] defenestraighttomyheart 2019-06-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The freelance spy shadowed the sound. Waited for it to be relatively high up before he started to make moves. He didn't even prime the door to open on him, thinking that worst comes, he's trained him to be super suspicious of doors in general and given what he did to the last one, he's probably going to blow the hinges off this one, too.

Richard didn't mind.

Richard just waited for him to reach the top, and then when the probable racket happened, he got ready to head up via cover of explosion. He waited for him to get up there.

And then he planned on chucking some seriously hot coffee at whoever that was, and then illustrating in visceral detail, as he heard in his head that tell-tale click click click thrumming in his mind as though it were actually in his legs, what a seven-story goodbye was.

He hoped that's how it went.

> Tackle (Finn | Single Target)
Deals low damage to a single target but closes the gap. Unlocks the first and second Chakras.
Edited 2019-06-20 17:57 (UTC)
mech_and_mutt: (NOM D'UN CHIEN)

[personal profile] mech_and_mutt 2019-06-21 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, quit it--OW! Watch the eye!!"

"-ah-hem. Not so sure about the doors, Klonoa; I think we've got a clever fighter or two usin' a modern building like this to their advantage! Meanwhile, up on the roof, we've got an old-fashioned duel already in the works; they're close so far, but it looks like Maul's got some compan--

--OH MY DOG!! Richard comin' in out of NOWHERE and nearly knockin' Finn clear off the rooftop in a sneaky surprise attack! Now it's two-and-two on the rooftop, and--OW!!!"

"Seriously, cut it out!! Your ears are like little wrecking balls!!"
Edited 2019-06-21 16:57 (UTC)
hatejakku: (yeesh)

[personal profile] hatejakku 2019-06-21 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"WHAT TH- OOF!!"

That coffee/tackle combo was pretty surprising for ol' Finn. So much so, that he didn't realize the edge of the roof was there until it was there. Before he even saw his attacker, he was trying to figure out how Richard got up the building so fa-

... Elevators. Dammit.

Either way, he needed Conway off of him and to gain some ground. "Bee! [Heel]!"

The droid, after shrieking in surprise from the sudden attack, did what he did best: became an absolute nuisance.

> Heel (Conway | Single Target)
Makes the puppet entangle themselves around a target's feet, stopping their movement for a turn. (Does not work on bosses or aerial or aquatic enemies.)
Edited 2019-06-21 18:51 (UTC)
last_son_of_dathomir: (Seething)

[personal profile] last_son_of_dathomir 2019-06-22 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Finn needs assistance, Maul can see, but Tyzias is giving him no room to maneuever. If he had some space he could switch to his custom asterisk and perhaps use a well timed Force blast to knock Conway off the building instead of Finn, though it would be risky. For Finn, at least.

But he has to finish with Tyzias first. Fighting her again on a rooftop...this is an infuriatingly similar set-up to their first encounter, not that Tyzias recognizes that. Everything about her enrages him, and attempting to lock down his own rage while fighting her is a grueling battle.

But he's blunted her edge just a little, and he needs that after the pain of that attack. For a moment he was afraid he was about to lose another arm-possibly even his cybernetic replacement-but thankfully the tournament set-up prevents that kind of damage.

Now he needs to crack her armour. He has to finish this fight quickly; the longer it goes on, the greater Tyzias' chances of winning it become. As the Legislaceration attack ends, Maul responds in kind, with a storm of slashes of his own from the Darksaber, unleashing a [Flurry] of attacks.

[Flurry | Tyzias (Single Target)]
Medium sword combo on a single-target, reduces their defense by 10%. Cannot be stacked with another Swordmaster's Flurry.
defenestraighttomyheart: (angry)

[personal profile] defenestraighttomyheart 2019-06-29 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Richard was good at tackling people to the ground. He's made a career off of it. And this one went off pretty well, short of, you know. Actually pushing Finn off. When he was on top of him, he lifted up his fist. He saw blue on the tinges of his periphery. He felt his arm twitch with activity, but froze up when it came time to actually throw down fist.

Long enough for the little robot to tug at his leg and send Richard scrambling down in an undignified heap between Finn's thighs, and then between his shins. He reached up and tried to grab at Finn's leg to salvage the situation somewhat. His trousers, his boots, began to whirr and hum and glow bright blue along the seams.

> Whirlwind (Self)
Sacrifice a turn to reduce damage received by 50% and allow the use of two skills back to back next turn. Unlocks fifth and sixth Chakras.
hatejakku: (dotdotdot)

[personal profile] hatejakku 2019-07-02 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Finn dances away from Richard's hands, murmuring sorry's as he tries to get away. It just seems kinda mean, even if Conway was about to punch his lights out.

He gets some distance between them, though, putting Conway between himself and the building's edge. BB-8 gets in one more [Sic] move with his little taser on Conway before taking off after Finn, towards the fight between Maul and Tyzias. The plan is to summon someone to help them out, handle this quickly, but he has to get away from the building's edge first.

> Sic | (Conway | Single Target)
Makes the puppet use their default, weak attack.
defenestraighttomyheart: (haunted)

[personal profile] defenestraighttomyheart 2019-07-05 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
He'd be giving a good and hearty chuckle about how silly this picture looked if he weren't just given a zap and sincerely worrying about if he's not going to Gessler himself.

Richard tries to lift himself. The robot wasn't having it. He let off a sigh, and then stamped his foot on the ground. There came a upward, electronic portamento from his boots as he gives BB-8 a sidewards tilt of the head and an almost apologetic look.

"Look, no hard feelings."

He takes the robot, and then, with an explosive flash of [Holy Chakra] from one of his Gatecrashers, gives it a solid explosive boot; at first Maul's head, and then pinging off him to go right back at Finn.

This, of course, does not improve his situation on the ledge. He is, in fact, reeling as if he were just about to fall off, barely holding on by one foot. His face begins to break out into cold sweat. His lips begins to lose color as he bites the lower one.

Whatever's out there, please let this work.

There is a second detonation. Richard had heard tale of the elusive video game tactic.

The principle of the rocket jump.

He hurdles uncontrollably at Finn, looking incredibly worried. He eventually manages to tell his body to clumsily turn this into a [Tackle]. If he were the vocal type right now, he'd be screaming.

> Holy Chakra (All Targets | AOE) Holy-element combo dealing medium damage to all targets. Requires three Chakras to be unlocked and subsequently locks them back.

> Tackle (Finn | Single Target) Deals low damage to a single target but closes the gap. Unlocks the first and second Chakras.
Edited 2019-07-05 04:01 (UTC)