Jason's hoarde of angry nurses

[bashfulshifter]

Characters: You. Yes, you!
Setting: December 16th through 21st, all the places!
Format: Any!
Summary: Plague doctor panic shenanigans for the Into An Abyss event, day two and onwards until the pesky creatures stop annoying everyone. Or in the case of non-orange-collared people, maiming them.
Warnings: Monsters! Battles! Death! Orange collar badassery! The Tower! Too much to handle!!

[After a day of putting things into the strange portal on floor twenty-three, something finally comes out. Many somethings. And it seems they are not satisfied with only the stray finger to nibble on...]

PLAGUE DOCTOR BEHAVIOR GUIDELINES

- Plague doctors use physical attacks, ripping and tearing their victims to pieces with hands and teeth. They travel very quickly and, when slipping in and out of reality, can seem to teleport from one spot to the next unpredictably.
- Characters whose collars are yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet will be attacked if the plague doctors notice them.
- Characters whose collars are yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet cannot harm the plague doctors. They must hide or run.
- Plague doctors become more powerful the closer to violet the character they are attacking is. A plague doctor attacking a character with a yellow collar will be weaker than the same one attacking a character with an indigo collar.
- Characters whose collars are orange will be completely ignored by the plague doctors unless the character directly attacks one.
- Characters whose collars are orange are capable of injuring and killing plague doctors, provided the means by which they attack are entirely mundane. They cannot receive enchanted items from other characters, for example.
- Plague doctors can only be killed by completely destroying the head. It has to be crushed into pieces.
- Plague doctors will carry any retrieval unit they notice into the rift they came from.

Label the date/time/location in the header, basic mingle stuff. DO NOT forward-date anything to Wednesday the 18th or later until further notice. Edit: Open from the 16th through to the 21st! Go nuts!

Comments

+60 EXP

[gradosfinest]

[Out of her fights with the Plague Doctors so far, this one is probably on the easier side at least so far. No less dangerous of course, but with it tumbling uncontrollably down the stairs at her and her weapon already drawn? This is decidedly much easier than the first time she fought one of these. Best to take advantage of an opening while it's there.

She's quick in ascending the stairs to meet it, and although for just a second it looks like it might right itself in time it's just a second too slow to keep Amelia from thrusting her sword straight into the back of its head with enough force that it pushes through the front of its... face? Sure, it's a face. And while it starts to flail wildly in an attempt to strike at Amelia, free itself, or some combination of the two she doesn't waste any time reaching up to grab the side of its head with one hand and then suddenly pivot, smashing it face-first into the wall as hard as she can.

Then again.

Then one more time to be certain, something giving as the monster suddenly goes entirely limp. Withdrawing her sword from what's left of its head she looks both ways, once up the stairs and again down them to be certain it's just her and Elena there now, although she doesn't bother sheathing her sword just yet, looking around for a moment before doing her best to scrap the gunk off of her sword with one of the stairs.

Her gauntlets and boots'll need cleaning after this too, but that can wait a bit.]

That... really could have gone worse.