You have just entered room "hotbuns."
blender_bunny@mac.com: ARE YOU BAD ENOUGH DUDETTES AND DUDE TO SAVE THE WORLD?!
MischiefMink: ...eeto... maybe?
Lithaladhwen: Tassi's a righteous enough bird to follow Ode's orders.
Leviathan Bound: Hopefully. I spent a bunch of XPees./
MischiefMink: Hm... I may need to do some more of that before we go go.
DancerVeiled: I spent my XPees too.
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
Jukkaimaru has entered the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: When last the brave heroes were seen they had decided on a valiant, if not suicidal, plan to delay the terrible fate that was theorized as happening with in the next few hours.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Mean while they left Ode and Tassi behind to fix this mess, well at least their pants wouldn't be dirty if the world did ignite in flames.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu walked onward, his two swords clanging on his back. Sadly, though he loved his swords, he did not believe they would see much action.
Raiden sparx: He stared down at his gauntleted hands, flexing them slightly. A creature of darkness like a Yozi called for...something special.
DancerVeiled: Ayame walked silently behind Tomasu, completely devoid of a cape.
DancerVeiled: Yet, her gleaming grand goremaul hung over her shoulder with equal gusto, vowing silently to itself, as an item, to put down a Yozi yet again.
MischiefMink: Ode took a deep breath, staring at the various controls of Kaiser's manse. To others it may have appeared she was acclimating herself to the controls, but what she was really thinking was ...just what the hell am I supposed to do?
Leviathan Bound: At the head of the wistful warriors that were so solemnly marching to their deaths sauntered Kaiser, cracking his neck from side to side every so often more out of nervous energy than necessity.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi watched Ode, and kept an arm around Hiyoko's shoulder. There wasn't a whole lot she could do until Ode thought of something, because she was fairly certain her friend was more familiar with this situation than she was.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu reached to his armpit, tightening one of the bands there on his Lamellar. "So...anything you know about this Yozi? It have a head? Two heads? A tail?"
DancerVeiled: "Well, it's a demon." Ayame says, "It can probably look however it wants to."
DancerVeiled: "I imagine it'll be a handsome young woman, to lure you into a false sense of security." She laughs, "So don't let your guard down, Tomasu."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: it's her, slash her throat and drink the juice in her eyes.
Leviathan Bound: "Suppose we should prepare ourselves. Who knows what it's already let loose into the Swamps." Kaiser tossed the words back over his shoulder as if they were an after-thought, which
Leviathan Bound: they were. His already pulsing muscles began to ripple with arcane energies that quickly escalated within his massive frame. His sinews and bones tore themselves free from their prisons while his form
Leviathan Bound: grew twice over and assumed the shape of a monstrously huge Sloth, it's thick hide covered in practically invulnerable Moonsilver carapace bone plates. Foot long talons of pure
Leviathan Bound: Moonsilver ripped their way free of his fingers and toes with the sickening sounds of tearing flesh before transformation was complete.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu raised his hand in a thumbs-up. "If it's the form of a beautiful young lady, you better ju-" He stopped.
Raiden sparx: "Ummm....Kaiser? What the hell, man?"
DancerVeiled: "I really don't like it when he does this." Ayame groans.
DancerVeiled: "Because he generally becomes a mindless killing machine that forces us to kick his ass."
DancerVeiled: "No offense Kaiser, but you did it the last two times."
Leviathan Bound: "Just... being prepared." Kaiser's voice was now rather animalistic and about eighteen times as loud as it was before, but at least he hadn't gone batshit insane yet.
Raiden sparx: "No, not that. What you just said."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: He's going do it again, he's going wear your skin like a coat.
DancerVeiled: Ayame looks around in suprise, "What was that?"
Leviathan Bound: "You don't believe the awakened Yozi may have already summoned things into Creation to assist it? I don't imagine it'll be laying helpless
Leviathan Bound: at the center of the Geomantic Matrix anylonger." Kaiser trudged forward with his unnaturally long gaite.
Raiden sparx: "I don't know, but Kaiser said something about slitting your throat. I'm wondering why the hell he said it."
DancerVeiled: "Yeah, and then you said he was going to wear my skin like a coat?" Ayame looks at Tomasu, "Hey, it isn't funny, man!" She adds, "Stop acting all freaky, it's bad enough as-is."
Leviathan Bound: The gigantic, Moonsilver armored tree sloth raised an eyebrow in confusion. "I did?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kaiser: It's already on the move it's gone, your late the women they must know the truth, they didn't come with you.
Raiden sparx: "I didn't say anything, Ayame. I've been waiting to hear why kaiser was saying stuff like that."
DancerVeiled: "... Wait, wait... But..." She looks at Tomasu with confused eyes, "I didn't hear him say anything."
Raiden sparx: "What? He told me to slit your throat! How could you not hear that?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: His skin, it's crawling with worms, eat them.
DancerVeiled: "!!!" Ayame looks at Tomasu and says, "No it isn't! Impossible, he'd have a visual reaction!"
Raiden sparx: "...wha? What isn't?"
Leviathan Bound: "......" Kaiser, wondering what in Luna's name was going on, turned to the group and stopped the march forward. "Ayame? What's the matter?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kaiser: Blee blee blee blee blee blee blee, the sky is going rot and the hills are going burn, somebody fix the curtain.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The voice is hollow, it doesn't quite sound like Tomasu and it doesn't quite sound like Kaiser, but Ayame can't quite say they couldn't be either of the men.
DancerVeiled: "Which of you said Tomasu's skin was crawling with worms?" Ayame asks, with a freaked-out look.
DancerVeiled: "Cause it wasn't me."
Leviathan Bound: The monumental Sloth pawed at his head a few times wondering if he was saying that... or one of them was. The thought hadn't occured to him quite yet that there was a possibility none of them were actually speaking.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu and Kaiser hear the voice as a something, it was neither familiar nor strange, it wasn't even quite a voice it was more like the lack of one, the kind of voice that would come from something that could and couldn't speak.
MischiefMink: This is insane. For all my knowledge, I have no idea how to fix something like this. Ode thought. All I really know about are spirits and... spirits and... hm... that just might work. But it still won't fix the leylines...
Raiden sparx: ".....it's not us."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: help him, he's drowning! He's drowning!
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kaiser: save me! I'm drowning!
DancerVeiled: "... It isn't? Who is it, then?" Ayame asks.
Raiden sparx: "Someone's drowning?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: Your drowning! The water is in your lungs! The fish want your eyes!
blender_bunny@mac.com: You are not drowning.
blender_bunny@mac.com: In fact no one seemed to be drowning.
DancerVeiled: "... I'm not drowning! Get the fuck out of my mind!" Ayame yells.
DancerVeiled: "Alright, let's kill this bastard before he keeps this up."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: Get out of mine
DancerVeiled: "You first!" She replies.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: No u!
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser, despite realizing that the words in his mind were naught but the trickery of the Yozi, couldn't help but be disheartened and demoralized by their unwordly nature.
Raiden sparx: "Ayame, settle down." Tomasu put his hand on her shoulder. "It's...something...is playing with us."
Leviathan Bound: "Stop, demon. Your words are nothing to us.... Chosen of both Luna and Sol Invictus." Perhaps religious rebukes would solve the problem. A long shot, but if ever there was a time for prayer, it was now.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kaiser you are treated to a mental feeling similar to having been dragged through rose bushes.
blender_bunny@mac.com: You can safely assume that this was a no.
Leviathan Bound: A howl of pure agony escaped from the chest of the great beast. The shock of it set Kaiser off his balance and ended with him crashing through a small mangrove tree and into the murky waters of the Swamp.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's eyes darkened. "Wanna play this game? Fine."
DancerVeiled: "In the name of cute, fuzzy squirrels from heaven, I command you cease this mental mindfuckery!" Ayame commands, raising her right fist.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu brought his hands together. "Incarna above, strike back against he who wishes to assault your chosen."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: ...
DancerVeiled: "Little Chogos, hear my prayer... Come forth, and protect us from the forces of malfeas..." Ayame prays.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: We are not bound by the will of children anymore than you are by the will of the sun.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Did you hear that?!""I heard it!""It's our call to action!"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ode and Tassi your treated to some celestial WTF'ery
Raiden sparx: "Fine. You do not wish to leave my mind?" He turned toward where the Yozi was awakening.
Raiden sparx: "Then I will hunt you down, find you, and TEAR YOUR ROOTS FROM MY BRAIN WITH MY BARE HANDS."
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser only now was struggling to pull his massive frame from the muddy pool into which he'd collapsed when the Yozi'd used the spiked dildo on his brain.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Ode we gotta help!""Do something!""Yeah your smart!""Make something happen!""Something big!""Something impressive!""Why can't it be asleep anymore?!""If it was asleep then nothing epic would happen!"
DancerVeiled: Ayame sighs, "They're not coming, are they?" *Re: The Chogos*
Raiden sparx: Tomasu is still frowning in the direction of the Yozi. "Do you want to wait for them? Because I want to go stab a chaos in the eye."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "What's wrong with them D:?!""They're losing faith!""That's bad!""And it's saying bad words!""THAT'S WORSE!"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: I'd like to see you find it!
DancerVeiled: "Yeah, so do I." Ayame shrugs, "Those stupid squirrels couldn't help us anyway."
DancerVeiled: She hefts her goremaul, "Let's go!"
MischiefMink: "...I'm trying..." Ode mutters, "You three, go and help them, if you can. I don't think you'll be any use here."
Raiden sparx: "THEN I'LL MAKE ONE!" He yelled out into empty space.
Leviathan Bound: "Indeed. We should continue on." The sloth was finally out of the muck, though his previously pristine Moonsilver carapace was now covered with the filth of the Swamp.
DancerVeiled: "And you told me to calm down..." Ayame sighs.
Raiden sparx: "The thing is pressing all the wrong buttons to live..."
MischiefMink: 'Looks like the only plan I have is a shot in the dark... but it's better than nothing, I guess,' Ode thought. She sighed deeply, then looked over to where Tassi was sitting. "Tassi."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi looked up. "Ode."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu began to move once again toward the awakening Yozi.
Leviathan Bound: Naturally, said Sloth was equally mobile in the direction of the unspeakable horror.
DancerVeiled: Ayame too, follows inexorably behind the men, goremaul ready.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: Hello Tomasu.Remember us?The dead ones.The ones that couldn't be saved.That couldn't serve.We all think Capes suck.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu sent a strong mental image.
Raiden sparx: It was an image of his hand.
Raiden sparx: His middle finger was sticking way, way u.
Raiden sparx: *up
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu recieves an image, it's off his mom, her face is falling off.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu sends back another image. It's a picture of a chaos god being.....well, I can't really say in mixed company, by a Lunar.
Raiden sparx: When we beat you, we'll make sure Kaiser has fun afterwards.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: That hurts.... that hurts on the inside.
Leviathan Bound: ......
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser isn't entirely alright with this.
Raiden sparx: Yeah it will.
DancerVeiled: Ayame is wondering what all the mental combat is all about.
DancerVeiled: She seems perfectly fine.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu picked up the pace, his hands out to his sides ready for creating something nice and pointy for that Yozi.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Mr. Tomaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasu!" the squeeky voice can be heard from the distance as fuzzy orange heads become visible from within the muck in the swamp.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu stopped. he looked. He turned around, then paused and looked again.
DancerVeiled: "Oh my... They actually heard me."
DancerVeiled: Ayame is happy and horrified.
DancerVeiled: At the same time.
MischiefMink: "...I think I have an idea of what we can do," Ode said. "I don't know what we can do about the leylines... probably nothing.
MischiefMink: But, I should be able to summon enough of the spirits of the swamp and send them after the yozi...
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser strongly considers face-planting, but figures that things couldn't possible get worse, what with the Chogos showing up and all.
blender_bunny@mac.com: They are wearing tiny capes, it is the most heart shattering thing ever seen.
MischiefMink: It should buy them--and us--enough time to run the hell out of here before the leylines meet."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu raises his hand to wave them over. "Hey guys! I thought you were staying back at the manse?"
Leviathan Bound: "Are we actually going to go and try to stop the end of Creation... or would you two like to stay here and play with the furry little demon things?"
Lithaladhwen: Tassi tilted her head. "Well.... I... can do a couple of things, if that's what you want." She took a deep breath. "The first principle of ritual magic is that you often need more than the energy in one person. So....
DancerVeiled: "Well, the demon things are from heaven, right?"
DancerVeiled: "So... Reason being, they can help us." Ayame says.
Leviathan Bound: "Supposedly. It remains to be seen."
Raiden sparx: "Besides...they're good luck charms."
Lithaladhwen: "Perhaps if you find that you're reaching the limits of your abilities in the process of summoning all of those... I could be your reserve. Further..."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "We're lucky!""Super lucky!""The luckiest!"
Leviathan Bound: "Wonderful..." Kaiser snorted.
Lithaladhwen: "If you really want to attract their attention, I believe I may be able to make you stand out a bit, as well as looking fairly intimidating." Tassi chewed her lower lip.
DancerVeiled: "Can you fight?" Ayame asks the Chogos.
Lithaladhwen: If I flare with her nearby, it should extend to her. Perhaps if she seems intimidating enough... she thought. Then perhaps... they'll be more inclined to do as she says.
MischiefMink: "...hm. While that wouldn't be my personal choice... it's probably the best option we have right now." Ode nodded. "Let's get started."
Leviathan Bound: "Are you seriously forming a battle plan involving those things?" Kaiser, figuring that the forward march had been
Leviathan Bound: halted, possibly permanently, leaned up against a nearby tree and scratched himself a bit - Moonsilver bone plates were itchy.
DancerVeiled: "... In Lookshy, anyone who can bear arms stands capable of being drafted in a crisis. If they can fight, they may as well try to save the world, no?" Ayame asks, rhetorically.
DancerVeiled: "You're all honorary... Savers-of-the-world." She says to the Chogos, "So look sharp and do yourselves justice!"
blender_bunny@mac.com: If the circle would direct to their sight directly to the left, over the towering trees something sinister can be seen, it resembles a crumbling tower, no a wall, no a dam, no a hornets nest, no a door.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu turned his sight directly to the left.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "JUSTICE!""BEAUTY!""DESTINY!""HOORAH!"
Raiden sparx: "....we're taking them. We'll find out what they can do later. I'm ready to take that thing down."
Leviathan Bound: Generally leftish was where the Sloth's eyes turned mostly immediately.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu:...you have to be fucking kidding me.
DancerVeiled: "FALL IN!" Ayame says, marshalling the chogos into a cohesive fighting force.
Raiden sparx: You insulted my place with the Incarna.
Raiden sparx: You showed me pictures of my mother.
DancerVeiled: ... Okay, maybe not cohesive.
Raiden sparx: not only that...you insulted my cape.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: But those what are you? A sadist?
Raiden sparx: You scared of three little heavenly servants? Big bad chaos being like you.
Leviathan Bound: Having more or less decided what role he'd fulfill, at least for as long as he was able to keep the Yozi from turning his skin inside out, Kaiser trudged forward making sure to keep Ayame as close to him as possible.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: No I'm insulted.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu followed, his fight with the Yozi going on in his mind as he walked.
DancerVeiled: Ayame was too busy marshalling her battle-chogos to turn to the left.
Raiden sparx: Good. It just wouldn't do to put you back down without leaving a little emotional damage.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Ayame: You can keep your sanity if you kick the boy in the shin. It's a good deal, just one hard kick.
DancerVeiled: "Chosen of the Sun never betray their comrades for mere things like sanity!"
DancerVeiled: "Do your worst, and I will respond in like manner!" Ayame raises her goremaul, inspiring the chogos to do the same.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The chogos raised their assorted sticks and stars menacing looking rock with something squashed on it.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu gave a sigh, looking up at the tower one more time. "No more waiting." With that, he ran full speed toward the awakening Yozi.
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser, a bit unsure of this particular line of action, raised a furry brow at Tomasu charging off towards the door, falling castle, etc.
DancerVeiled: "I don't think that's the Yozi's physical form..." Ayame whispers to Kaiser.
Leviathan Bound: "Me either..."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The giggling began slowly and then generally grew, Tomasu notice that this is not inside your head but is using real physics...sorta.
DancerVeiled: "Chogos, do you see the Yozi?" Ayame asks.
DancerVeiled: "Maybe they have essence-sight..."
Leviathan Bound: "But I imagine it'll be easier to fight as a group after Tomasu gets eaten by the... door... castle... thing."
MischiefMink: "Allright," Ode said, "If we're going to do this, let's do this. Tassi, back me up... and take care of Hiyoko. She'll be safer with you than anywhere else, It hink."
DancerVeiled: "Maybe..." She sighs.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The chogos all pointed at the swelling mass. "That's it.""Yep pretty yoziriffic""It looks like a boat kinda."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: You never met my friend. He is quite a nice fellow after I had a chat with him.
Lithaladhwen: "I can do that. If you start getting low on power, draw on me if you can. I'll try and attract as much attention to you as I can, make you as imposing as possible."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's eyes darted around. "Oh really?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: That man from before, Marius was leaning against the trees. He didn't look any worse for wear, in fact he hardly looks like he had been stumbling through a swamp all day.
DancerVeiled: "It's that guy!" Ayame says, pointing at Marius, "We knew he was bad news, didn't we?" >.>
Leviathan Bound: "Actually, I sort of liked him... he called me Oyama-san and fed me." X_x
DancerVeiled: "Then you tried to kill me."
DancerVeiled: "Face it, he's bad news!" Ayame affirms.
Leviathan Bound: "If he's serving the Yozi? Then yes, I imagine he is. Though... I'd rather you or Tomasu kill him - if it comes to that."
MischiefMink: Closing her eyes, Ode turned away from her friend and brought her hands together, forming a triangle.
MischiefMink: Muttering softly under her breath, blue-violet light began to glow around her, and then flared brilliantly as the sorcerer began her spell.
MischiefMink: That was what was visible. On a more ethereal scale, Ode stepped slightly out of the world as it was and into what might be called the realm of the spirits;
MischiefMink: the place she had brushed up against before while looking for the spirits' footprints. This time she extended her awareness even further, stretching it out to the very borders of the swamp.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "I hAd qUItE A wOndErfUl cOnvErsAtIon wIth OUr frIEnd hErE."
MischiefMink: She makes no attempt at subtlety now; glowing brightly, she reaches out to everything within that area, and /commands/ it, demanding that it draw closer to her.
MischiefMink: Ode can feel her own anima flaring and crackling around her, and somewhere outside her head she says, "Now, Tassi!"
Raiden sparx: "I thought you might."
DancerVeiled: "Me, kill him?" Ayame says, "... Well, okay. He doesn't look well. I don't imagine brains are exactly easy to fix, either."
DancerVeiled: "Poor sod."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "lOl, yOU'd bE sUrprIsEd hOw EAsY It Is."
Leviathan Bound: "Indeed. Save him if you can, but I'm not sure some tea and a good night's rest is gonna fix whatever he has. Ya know?" Kaiser stomped forward a few steps to take a closer look at Marius.
blender_bunny@mac.com: 'I'll trY mY bEst on yOU <3"
DancerVeiled: "..." Ayame looks at him with a weird one-eyed eyebrow raise.
DancerVeiled: Then back at Kaiser, "Nawh, he ain't fixable."
Raiden sparx: "So, should we all take on this puppet, or only one of us remain behind?" Tomasu looked at the others.
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser pondered for a moment, but when Marius opened his mouth and a heart symbol came flying out that pretty much wrapped up the internal debate. "Yeah. Wack his ass."
DancerVeiled: "Right!" Ayame yells, hefting her goremaul, and leaping at Marius.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "I fIxEd lOts of thIngs." He clapped his hands and out of the shivering and shifting mass come shapes, it wasn't quite fair to call them people anymore as that would insult what it was to be human.
blender_bunny@mac.com: At least you know what they were using the people for now.
blender_bunny@mac.com: MArIUs Is jOInEd bY mOOks!
Raiden sparx: "Creatures of Darkness....I thought I would run into you. I don't believe you're worthy of my true blades...but this should be enough to entertain you."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu held his right hand out to the side, his fingers open wide. As essence began to course through his arm, his cape waved and flapped in the air.
Raiden sparx: The large golden fabric on his back seemed to begin to dissolve, the glowing particles filled with light and essence now moving to Tomasu's hand, slowly conglomerating
Raiden sparx: together to form a long rapier of a fine golden metal.
MischiefMink: Tassi's anima flared around her own, turning Ode into a veritable beacon. Slowly at first, then more quickly, they began to gather around her.
MischiefMink: /I'm probably going to regret this,/ Ode thought as they surrounded her.
MischiefMink: But her mask gave away no hint of emotion, and when she spoke, her voice was deep and firm. It demanded obedience.
MischiefMink: "I'm sure all of you are aware of the yozi in the swamp. It has woken when it should be sleeping. Attack it, and drive it back into sleep."
Lithaladhwen: (The following takes place before the big Ode-block, as I was typing at the time.)
Lithaladhwen: Tassi held Hiyoko closer to her and lowered her head.
Lithaladhwen: If she was here for nothing else, if she had her power for no other reason... she would protect her new allies, and she would protect the mortals who would die needlessly if they failed.
Lithaladhwen: She rested her chin on Hiyoko's head, hoping to shield the child from the rather frightening consequences of the plan she and Ode were going to attempt.
Lithaladhwen: If they succeeded, Ode would be commanding an army of ghosts and spirits, bullied into her service. If they failed...
Lithaladhwen: We can't fail, she thought. We're here to protect them, and we were not given this power and placed in this situation... to fail.
Lithaladhwen: With that, Tassi released the natural restraint on her essence, pulling it out of her and surrounding Ode and Hiyoko with its power.
Lithaladhwen: A murky slight began to force its way through Tassi's skin and out into the air. It grew brighter, turning from shades of yellow and gold into a blinding white aura around all three of them. They would not fail.
DancerVeiled: "Fucking Namek!" Ayame sighed as the camera panned away from the scene...
Leviathan Bound has left the room.
DancerVeiled has left the room.
Raiden sparx has left the room.
Jukkaimaru has left the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com has left the room.
MischiefMink has left the room.