EVENT #03: WAR ORDER - EXTERMINATION EXECUTION LOG

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EVENT #03: WAR ORDER - EXTERMINATION EXECUTION LOG

The Imperial attack strikes like a thunderclap. In the traditional sense, a Legion is comprised of 1,000 men. In the Imperial reckoning, each individual legion holds a variety of troops - while some may have their own specialties, all legions are formidable and versatile fighting forces.

The legion that sweeps over the mine is an artillery-focused legion. A flight of airships descend upon the mine and starts raining devastation upon the facility. While the mine itself is left intact, an airship with heavy shock troopers lands in front of it, the soldiers immediately entering the mine and sealing off the entrances and exits to preserve the facility and slay all within.

The legion that attacks Flotsam is an Armor Legion, and the flight darkens the skies as carrier airships and a swarm of armors descend upon the floating city. As the Corsairs launch their coordinated counterattack, they know in their hearts that successfully mounting this defense will be among the most difficult things they have ever done.

ALL CORSAIRS

Mine Defense Gunners: Corsairs will need to man the defense arsenal installed in the mines to strike back as much as they can against the Legion, before retreating to safety.
Conflict: The Legion will do their best to destroy all present artillery, characters will need to dodge the shelling.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read MINE DEFENSE GUNNERS.
Region: Hesaeth

Mine Evacuation and Destruction: Corsairs will need to evacuate any remaining personnel to the tunnels before collapsing them, as well as ensuring that the secret of the Corsair submersibles is not given to the Empire.
Conflict: The mine is crawling with Heavy Shock Troopers with orders to kill everyone on sight. Corsairs will need to evade or fight these troopers as they evacuate the final remaining personnel and bring the mine down on their heads.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either MINE EVACUATION AND DESTRUCTION.
Region: Hesaeth

Defense of Flotsam: Flotsam is under heavy fire from the Legion, they must be fought back here and now. This log can take any number of permutations depending on how a character chooses to fight. All captured Armors will be made available for PC use for this fight, and can be claimed in this thread. All Flotsam airships will also be active in this fight and may be incorporated into the log. Flotsam’s sea ships are all generally armed with a hodgepodge of weaponry which will be utilized in this attack.
Conflict: A Legion is trying to destroy every last ship in the fleet and send you all to the bottom of the Eternal Ocean, and they have the firepower to back this up. The Legion consists of 7 carrier airships and 200 armors, as well as 800 general crew and landing forces. It will take all of the Corsair’s might to beat them back.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read DEFENSE OF FLOTSAM.
Region: Flotsam

Imperial Witch: A young girl with flowing green hair and empty, soulless eyes descends upon Flotsam. Upon her head rests an ornate bronze crown, and her Armor is like a ferocious beast. At her command, fire rises to her call - and she leaves naught but devastation and ash in her wake.
Conflict: This is a villain plot with a PC villain character - up to 4 characters may sign up for this plot on a first-come first-serve basis and the PC Villain will control the flow of the log. In general, the PC Villain will tag after all active participants, or after 24 hours have passed, whichever comes first.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, post in the sign-up thread and tag into the appropriate top level. The first 4 players to sign up may take part, and these players will receive lower priority in the next villain plot until all players have had a turn.
Region: Flotsam

Players will generally have free reign to narrate the event’s occurrences as they wish. For the Execution phase, please refer to the Conflict descriptor to get an idea of the kind of narrative difficulties you will encounter and feel free to make use of them as much or as little as you like to make the thread interesting.

Characters are free to use single large threads or multiple smaller threads to meet the character threshold at the player’s discretion.

If you wish to deploy a Gambit during your mission, in the subject line of the reply you’re using the Gambit in type GAMBIT: [NAME OF GAMBIT]. Using Gambits isn’t required for the success of a thread, but doing so will be taken into account when we factor out the successes and failures of the mission.

Due to the coordinated nature of the attack, characters may only participate in logs in a single select region for this mission as they are occurring simultaneously.

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[esperbuthuman]

The lines of the cracks on the shield deepen as Terra looks up at them, emotionless. Her hands move stiffly across the armor's control panel.

"Bio Blast," she intones, as a wave of noxious gasses spreads out to envelop the area. While this is happening, flames begin charging in the armor's open maw.

"Fire Beam."

The flames erupt forward, causing the poisonous gas to ignite and explode up the area. Even Terra herself is caught up in the attack, even with her own shield protection, a single pained tear falling down her otherwise emotionless face as the crown on her head continues to glow an eerie red.

[fish4science]

The flames billow around them, as Terra's attacks pair together to poison and burn any who stand too close. But there is another foe upon the field of the nearly motionless machine, her Armor, static and uncaring about the assaults upon it, now would face a third as the billowing flame was parted by a crashing wave, and Angelika arrived with a dual stab from below-but rather than soar on past this time, she bid her skill and the strength of her Armor to attempt to grapple with Terra's more bestial machine. No more allowing Terra to have it all her own way-now she would have to contend with, if nothing else, something of her own mass and height, something that was if not a peer than worth reacting to directly. With luck, her arrival might smash the shield to flinders and starlight, no more effectual than motes upon the breeze, and the smaller warriors might now catch something actually injurious within their weapons, or disable this woman.

And, if Link or Noctis was badly hurt, she might have arrived just in time to drop a dagger and catch them in a mighty hand instead.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link is, on the whole, very good at dodging. He's quick, nimble, and has a lot of practice.

But those skills can only go so far - and it's a rather hard to dodge a gas.

He tries, regardless. Link leaps to one, managing to at least avoid the full, direct force of the explosion. But he's still caught on the edges, and as Link lands into a roll the flames roll over him. His left side burns, and his yell transforms into a hacking cough from the gas that seeped into his lungs.

Link's had worse. But it's not a fun time.

With Angelika now getting in close, Link warp-throws off to the side, to get a bit of distance. Pulls out a splash fruit, and dumps it on himself. Then draws his bow once more, firing off several more arrows, this time fused with lizalfos talons for extra damage.

[singlemilletgrain]

From her position on the ship, a heavy dose of healing invigorates the warriors dealing with Terra more directly. Noctis is infused with strength the moment the Flare unleashes and through the exploding gaseous poison, there lingers the cool aura of Shu's Feranmut strength, mitigating some of the baleful effects.

The rainstorm picks up as a strong wind disperses the poison cloud to a negligible diffuse scattering of motes as quickly as it can.

[chosenkingoflucis]

"Thanks man, I owe you one!" He says to Link "Though I could do without the sticky next time." He laughs as he continues the assault on the shield and it slowly starts giving way.

What he's not expecting, is for the woman to unleash an attack with no concern for her own safety as he meets that blank gaze with his own cobalt as her tear falls.

Noctis is also usually one to dodge, but dodging gas is another story. The pain surges through him, clouding his thoughts and making it difficult to move.

But then a light of succor as the fog of agony clears a little and he's able to warp away until the gas is cleared. Thank the Six for whoever provided this wash of healing.

Angelika comes sweeping in in a magitek of her own and Noctis gives her a thumbs up as he warp-strikes from the flank and throws an ice aspected magic flask at any holes in the shield Angelika might inflict in hopes of freezing Terra's armor before she can produce more flames.

[esperbuthuman]

At long last, the combined assault of the attackers shatters the shield as the Armors clash, Noctis's ice and Link's arrows cause moderate damage, making the armor slow in response.

Terra stands for a moment, stricken, tears streaming down her face as it contorts into a look of fear. The crown's jewel glows an eerie, angry red which stains her eyes and her face once again returns to a neutral expression. A magical circle appears underneath the armor as it launches 3 missiles, one at Link, one at Noctis, and one at Angelika.

"Meltdown."

The entire world erupts into flames as it consumes the entire area. Even the ship Shu is standing on finds itself wreathed in flames, as Terra emits a single pained cry - not even she is safe from the effects.

[singlemilletgrain]

She didn't particularly know much about magic spells in this world, but she does think, if she had to make a guess, that 'Meltdown' sounds slightly more troublesome than 'Flare.' This idle thought is rewarded with a blazing infernal gale that consumes half the deck she is standing on.

New robes, I suppose...

Ji is never around when you actually need him.

It isn't especially surprising to her that she finds herself in the sea shortly after, and it probably isn't especially surprising to anybody else when a scattering of lily pads pops up to buoy her to the surface, coughing and spluttering. Another wave of healing pulses out from her in random directions.

She has one more idle thought, one that has perhaps struck her because she has had the fortune of viewing everything from a distance, as unto a scene in a theater, rather than desperately trying to duck away from attacks up close.

"That object on her head... It glows every time she uses magic. It seems to pain her."

[fish4science]

This close, there is no time for Angelika to dodge, no space for her to evade, no time to release the grapple she has finally got on her foe and shield herself against the blow that falls as she ought. But on the other hand, there is no way that Terra can evade it either, deny it either. They both burn alike, their screams a duet of pain echoing across the battlefield. Her only shelter is the Armor itself, and her woolly cardigan that burns first, before her flesh underneath can. She has the presence of mind to not breath in and inhale her burned skin and hair and clothes, but she cracks an eye open.

Everything hurts. She feels like she's been roasted, she dropped her baton into the bottom of the cockpit, and her Armor is blaring multiple alarms, the engines about to shut down. She still is grappled to Terra's Armor, but she hangs from it like dead weight, the flight thrusters no longer firing. "Oh, gods..." she croaks, before Shu's words reach her. The crown-yes, it's obviously important. But Angelika doesn't like her odds if she tries to get out of the cockpit and reach Terra.

Instead, she casts her eyes about-for the young king and knight, locking down her own controls and leaving her machine to simply hang onto Terra's while she bends-ow-and retrieves her magic focus. "Soothing Waves! Divine Grace!" Healing spells and magical shields wrap themselves around both young men (Different watery healing than Link may recall, but yet familiar in type). "Get up, get up, Please get up, and get that thing off her!"

[chosenkingoflucis]

Noctis manages to throw up a shield around him and Link to block the missiles, but there's no escape from the flames as his clothing and flesh alike are seared and he grits his teeth in agony.

Luckily, there's another wave of healing that sends a shock through his system, revitalizing him and he summons the Royal Arms around himself, a myriad of spectral weapons circling him as he warp-strikes, lunging for Terra with aims for the crown. The weapons he controls with his mind and they fend off any oncoming attacks as he goes for his goal.

[newmemorywhodis]

The world burns, and for a moment Link is...somewhere else.

Guardians, all around them. A red dot on his forehead. A searing, white-hot pain and Zelda's arms around him, as everything begins to go dark...

...but then the wave of Shu and Angelika's healing power washes the vision away, along with the worst of the pain. No, Link's not dying again - not today - and if he can help it, neither is anyone else.

As Noctis lunges at Terra, Link moves to flank opposite him. And while the Noctis goes for the crown, Link goes on the attack. He strikes towards her face, her chest, her vital organs - he can't afford anything less, not with how dangerous she is.

[esperbuthuman]

As Link and Noctis once again close in on Terra, the armor pulls back, its thrusters roaring as it moves out of the floating ley line circle and away from danger. Her face once again expressionless, Terra raises her arms and the ley lines dissipate from their space in the empty air, reforming under her feet. A second magic circle, this one purple with a triangular pattern and the image of a magical crystal appears under her feet, both crystals rising into the air. Ether crackles around Terra as she raises her hands to the heavens.

"Blizzaga."

An enormous pillar of ice materializes between her and the warriors and begins pushing toward them.

"Thundaga."

A huge bolt of lightning descends from the heavens, targeting Noctis and Link.

"Firaga."

An enormous ball of flame locks onto Angelika and starts pursuing her at alarming speeds.

"Reclaim the girl and the armor."

A harsh voice crackles through the air as an enormous airship breaks through the cloudcover, approaching Terra as it lays down covering fire. As it approaches, the bay doors open and scoop up Terra and her armor, before the ship begins to climb in altitude.

[singlemilletgrain]

"They're retreating."

She isn't sure if they should be pleased or not. As far as the battle went, it wasn't even a stalemate. They hadn't managed to land a single blow on the armor that would be considered impactful. Indeed, they had barely managed to break through the shield. Meanwhile, the girl had slung out spell after spell of catastrophic proportions - even if it seemed as if she had suffered the costs herself.

She suspected the girl was not the one they wanted to suffer the costs.

As the final spells descend, Shu sighs heavily as she bobs up and down on the water and watches them seek after her companions.

"Myriad grains, everlasting, granting sanctuary to those who seek succor." Her final defensive power, offering a protective barrier to those in harm's way. "Let us regroup. There are many sailors in need of our aid."

The ships were still burning.

[newmemorywhodis]

The lightning strikes, and Link seizes up; his weapon falling from his hands and a strangled noise emerging involuntarily from his throat. By the time regains control over his limbs again, their enemy is gone - and Link's feeling much worse for wear.

But unlike Shu, he's very confident that their enemy retreating is a good thing. Any battle in which you don't die is a victory. And right now, Link might be burned, electrocuted, and bruised - but he's not dead.

So right now he's just...going to flop. Just for a bit. Then he’ll get back to work.

[fish4science]

The Firaga came straight at Angelikia-not at the Armor, at her. The Thrusters were still spooling back up to keep her aloft, not enough to juke the blast-especially not at this short range. She could only throw up a magical shield to block in tandem with Shu's and...it wasn't enough. It wasn't three-fourths of enough. She took the fire to the face her skin blistering and crisping, her hair burning, her eyes squeezed shut as she screamed in pain and loss, and lost control of her Armor-pinwheeling through the sky in exquisite pain.

She might have been able to recover, might have been able to right herself and get back into the fight given time-but by the time she was, bleeding, burned, and blackened, the fight was already well and truly over, and she could only let the armor sink to a ship and ask for a medic to help her so she could join in treating the wounded.