XVI ❝From the Barricade...❞

[pitiedthefool]

Who: Everyone!
Setting: Floor 93 - The Barricade
Format: Any
Summary: A general mingle log for anyone who wants to camp out in the safety of numbers. However, this doesn't mean it's completely safe... Feel free to guard the sleepers on the barricade if you so desire. Feel free to date threads from the 16th of June, onward!
Warnings: PG-13 for possible monster attacks. Please include detailed warnings in your threads for the more faint of heart.

Distant cries and screams echo in the eerie night. The sounds of fight with monsters, enemies, maybe even friends dim even with the faint light given by the faint flickering of the fires. One thing is sure, though... You are safe here behind the wood and other miscellaneous materials making up the barricade. Perhaps even a few strangers as well. ... Well, for now. 'Do you hear the people sing?'

Comments

[withak]

[Katsuya can't get a good shot like that, so his Pesona attacks with fire again, circling around to the monster's other side.]

[themonsters]

[The fire sears at the monster's body, and the laughter rises as it tears away from its target in agony, stubbornly trying to take the spear with it. Whether or not it's successful, it skirts around Ken to try to get him between it and Katsuya.]

[miseris_socios]

[Ken tugs on his spear, trying to hang onto it. That spear's important to him, but the strength of the monster makes him slide along with it. He can't grab his Evoker like this, and so he just keeps tugging, trying to get it back.]

Let go!

[themonsters]

[The eerie laughter continues as the monster viciously pulls at the spear, dragging it and its owner along and further away from Katsuya.]

[withak]

[Seeing Ken's obvious distress over the spear, Katsuya directs Hyperion to attack again with a Hama spell (light instant KO, little less than half) while he comes closer to help hold onto the lance.]

[themonsters]

[Whether the spell doesn't hit or simply has no effect on the monster is not obvious, since it twists away from the light and fights Ken for the spear. But as Katsuya nears, the monster abruptly releases the weapon and lunges at the other man's feet with both teeth and claws, high-pitched laughter following in its wake.]

[miseris_socios]

[Ken growls, and summons Dike for another burst of electricity. He doesn't really care if he gets hurt, as long as he's still able to fight.]

Go away!

[themonsters]

[While the spell doesn't stop the monster's lunge, it does stun it. Instead of attacking Katsuya with its teeth, the monster ends up barreling headfirst at his legs.]

[withak]

[Katsuya is knocked backwards, but quickly regains his footing and fires a bullet toward the monster's head.]

[themonsters]

[At such close range, the bullet shatters the monster's skull even as it lashes out a claw at Katsuya's legs. Blood and gray matter explode outward and streak the ground, the monster's laughter ending abruptly as it collapses like a puppet with its strings cut.

Blood continues to pool around the black body long after the monster's breathing stops.]