Endgame: This is the Way the World Ends - RUANA

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those who want to fight Ruana
Setting: the lower administrative levels
Format: action, please!
Summary: It's time to take control of the Tower.
Warnings: physical and psychological horror, violence

When everyone is assembled, Zo opens up a portal--rather, he rips into space violently, as if doing anything less will cause it to snap back shut again. The way the portal quivers and shakes at the edges, it really might. He'll hurry everyone through--and they'll all step into a bedroom. The bed in the center is decorated in pink, with a large canopy and curtains surrounding the bed itself. The curtains are closed. It's silent, but the pressure is so thick in the air it's a living thing all its own. It's completely silent.

Comments

Team Action Platformer, open to teamups

[warriorscribe]

*When the bed melts, Enoch is quick to put some distance between himself and Ruana, falling back to stand with others.*

Are you blaming us for Dax's death, then?

*If it's a guilt trip she's after, well...she'll succeed in making him feel guilty considering he's been doing it to himself all along, but it certainly won't stop him.*

[brbtalkingtogod]

[At the same time Lucifel would pull anyone standing too close to the bed away from it if they haven't stepped away yet. He turns to look at Enoch.]

Don't let it get to you!

[Better remind the other that they shouldn't allow themselves to get distracted.]

I have no intention to keep playing your games anymore!

[notagiraffe]

[Gohran growled, not moving away though he did look at Enoch. He wanted to attack but Taiki had asked that he listen to Enoch, that Enoch knew what he was doing.

He only had so much patience though, he wanted to attack.]

[animusnpcs]

You're the ones who taught him all those nasty tricks.

[The air around her crackles with electricity, though she doesn't send it towards them.]

You don't have a choice. We're always playing!

[She brings an attack from behind, extending film up from the floor in whips that fly forward to try and ensnare the fighters while she speaks to them.]

[warriorscribe]

We taught him nothing. *He brings up his Arch in response to the crackle of electricity.* He saw-

*He's distracted by the false attack and the accusations. A whip coils around him and he twists to try to sever it with the Arch, a wild swing behind him that he's never had to do before.*

[notagiraffe]

[Gohran stayed silent, the why's and hows did not interest him. All that interested him was that Ruana was dealt with.

He growled at the electricity and then, as Enoch tried to block the attack coming from behind Gohran leaped at Ruana, claws outstretched towards her, trying to shift his form to avoid the electricity]

[animusnpcs]

[Electricity pulses through the Arch even as the whip is severed, though the remaining end still twists and twitches like a newly-removed tentacle from a sea beast. The rest of Ruana's film tendrils melt into one as Gohran charges. He'll find it like plunging into very thick, suffocating water, though it's possible to claw through with a bit of work.]

[notagiraffe]

[Gohran slowed as he hit the film, claws moving as he tried to claw his way through the thickness to the woman behind. He growled, angry at being caught like that.]

[warriorscribe]

*Well, electricity probably can't travel through energy beams but it sure as hell can arc to his hands. It doesn't immobilize him like it would if it had struck him proper, but he does growl and stagger in pain as parts of his armor crack to defend his body.

Pain has never stopped him for very long - it can't, or he'd die. He whirls to see Gohran trying to claw through to Ruana and hurries to help, using the Arch's reach to try to help cut through it without plunging into it, himself.*

[animusnpcs]

[Hitting the wall of film is like sinking the weapon into mud. The resistance it poses to the Arch is almost gelatinous.

Ruana laughs at their struggles to break through. As soon as Gohran is able to tear through the film, she backs away before he can reach her, a blur of inhuman speed in her retreat.]

[notagiraffe]

Gohran growled louder, angered at her laughter and the effort it was taking to get through the film. As she blurred away he followed, not as fast but a single leap in her direction, tentacles emerging to try and grab her.

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch pulls to yank his weapon free, and if he's successful he'll try to run around the wall. Can she maintain it on two sides?

Of course, if he's not successful, he's still trying to pull it free.*

[animusnpcs]

[Enoch can pull it free, though Ruana catches him in motion and gives him his own obstacle; a moving shield, pulled from the walls into razor-sharp ribbons that twist perfectly in sync with Ruana's motions and leave very little opening to strike.

This same shield prevents Gohran's tentacles from getting too close, though there are occasional openings in the flurry of whips if timed correctly.]

[notagiraffe]

[The tentacles retreated a small amount away from the razor sharp shield, but he moves, following her movements, trying to find an opening, learning how the whips are moving.

He looks over at Enoch, to see if the man has any plan of how to get through this shield, it looks like they must work in sync if they are to be successful.]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch's first instinct is to rush the shield with his Arch, trying to cut the whips down, though careful not to get closer than he absolutely needs to.

More often than not, his weapon proved to be the best tool for solving a puzzle.*

[notagiraffe]

[Rushing her then, that worked. Gohran was used to human plans being a little bit more detailed but he could work with this. Tentacles and scythes made an assault on the shield, trying to break through.]