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.

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[animusnpcs]

She backflips away from the strike, electricity arcing in the air after her and then cracking loudly as she sends a bolt after Loken to strike him where he has fallen.

[greyerrant]

Loken is knocked flat by the discharge, his limbs spasming, hand grasping at the suddenly wild chainsword as it carves aroud in a little circle on the floor, just keeping it from cutting into himself. He reeks of charred flesh as he struggles to rise.

"No worse than fighting an eldar..."

He grits, through teeth that are pinked with blood.

[animusnpcs]

"Really? You don't look so good."

The floor ripples underneath him like waves as she laughs. The spikes melt into the floor where they've fallen and then rise up in whips that will surely hold Loken to the floor if he's caught by them.

[greyerrant]

Loken rises into a crouch, whirling his sword around his body to cleave the incoming whips back, and laughs at her response.

"I fought one exarch for two weeks, before I throttled him with a piece of wire. Do you think your foolish games are anything compared to what I've faced?"

His scarred face twists into a mask of contempt as he tries to defend himself.

"You're just a child throwing power around. And that's why you'll lose."

[animusnpcs]

The whips crash apart like waves breaking on his sword--it blocks them, but they roll back and reform after a moment, ready to try again.

"Maybe I'll show you children throwing power around later."

[greyerrant]

"I don't think you'll have time."

He fakes another lunge with his sword, but at the last moment Torgaddon, his ghost brother, bowls a krak grenade towards Ruana, trying to immolate her in the blast.

[animusnpcs]

Ruana cocoons herself with the floor, bringing it up to protect her from the blast. However, before she can retaliate, the sound of tearing fills the room and the air begins to stink of ozone.