[IC Board] All the World's a Game - Season II

[Kristia]

Banished Library - Gensokyo


Nera charged her ice punch and started dealing attacks to freeze the goo like statue. After freezing it, the lucario pushed it while the settings were changing, every time the goo managed to get out of the ice, Nera made another series of ice punches, with each loop of the process her body was getting affected by the ice lowering her temperature and burning her paws with the chilling ice.

"Come on you ice cube.. just a bit more.." Nera was already shivering as her arms and upper chest were almost frozen because of the ice. With a powerful growl, the lucario reached the tile and kneeled trying to recover her normal temperature

[NeoFox]

Michigan - Detroit

Prometheus grew an even more sadistic look on his face at Lisa's response? "Quiet bug! Know your place in the world!" He said as he then began spinning his scythe in front of him, creating an intense barrier of energy from his scythe to protect him from the barrage of bullets. He managed to block the first two barrages, but was too slow to stop the third. The bullets impacted him in the chest, knocking him back. It shown to hurt him quite a bit, but instead of a look of pain on his face he got a look of excitement. "You worm... I must say you are the first person to fight me on even grounds. However I have yet to fight at full power!" Prometheus proclaimed as he saw Lisa get launched into the air due to one of the fire pillars. At that very moment Prometheus grinned and teleported right above Lisa. He held his scythe as though he was ready to deal a massive finishing blow...


Unfortunately for him though he got too caught up in the fight against Lisa, and forgot all about X... who was charging up his X-Buster to max power. His X-Buster was crackling, and surging with energy as he prepared to fire the charged shot.

"CHARGE SHOT!!!" X yelled as he fired an incredibly large blue blast from his X-Buster. The blast was so powerful that the recoil actually pushed him back a few meters.


Right before Prometheus could deal the "finishing blow" he turned to his side, and came face to face with a large blue blast that struck him directly. Creating a massive explosion of energy, and leaving a large dust cloud.

[WriggleRid3r]

Banished Library - Gensokyo

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Patchouli once again collapsed. Her flask was empty. Breathless, she looked towards John with heavy breathing and said: "One more... statue."

[S121]

Banished Library - Gensokyo | Day

John saw that Patchouli was exhausted, and Renamon was not faring very well either. They were both tired, but John had an idea. Despite him still recovering from moving ythe metal statue, he activated his thrusters and flew over to Renamon.

"Hey Renamon, I have an idea, but I'll need your digivice. I'm going to give you a boost, which will revitalize Patchouli, maybe bring her back to full physical condition. Is it okay if I have it for a moment?", John asked Renamon.

[Kristia]

Banished Library

Renamon looked at both Patchouli and Nera, then at her flask which only had just enough for two. She walked to Patchouli and made her drink it and then walked to her partner.

"Are you sure about this? its the last drink until we reach a bonfire" Nera asked holding the estus flask

"Don´t worry about it, I got another battery for both Patchouli and me" the fox assured the lucario while taking whatever energy was left on the digivice to make her evolve to Taomon

"Ok then.. with this we will manage. Patchouli, I´ll share my own life energy with you, with our souls bonded, the reaction will create enough energy to do it" she asked to the magician.

Looking at the spartan, the Shaman declined his offer "It would be better if you recover your energy John, we don´t know what lies beyond this room and I prefer having you atleast at full capacity for it" she said with a tired smile and when she turned her back from the spartan, she barely mumbled "I don´t want to use the other alternative yet.."

Reaching the magician Taomon produced two paper talismans "The moment you hold this talisman, our souls will bond for some moments, you will have a heavy load of my energy, but remember, it will be only for five minutes tops. After that, the talisman will burn severing the bond. Are you ready?"

[WriggleRid3r]

Banished Library - Gensokyo

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"Five minutes. Okay." Patchouli snatched the talisman and immediately followed up with a blast of mud-like energy at the statue. The statue of the golem began to shudder, and with an echoing voice, began chanting: "Tremor, tremor, tremor..."

[Kristia]

Banished Library - Gensokyo

"You want tremors? I will give you tremors!" Nera growled as her arms and feet were glowing with aura, not blue this time, but red as her energy was passing her limits. The lucario charged her punch and slammed it to the floor in the direction of the golem making it move tile to tile.

Not stopping, the jackal kept making tremendous attacks moving the statue as the whole room shaked with each attack. If one could pay attention, small stains of blood could be seen from were the fist or foot make a tremor. Nera looked at her partner and her face color drained by the scene

Taomon wasn´t fairing well either, her body sweating heavily as she was already on her knee. The shaman´s paw barely grasping the talisman that was sucking her energy fast. The concentration on her face was one of steel as only her will was maintaining her from collapsing of exhaustion. Taomon noticed that Nera was watching her and she yelled "Come on Nera! Let´s do it!" she growled making a powerful push of energy towards the magician´s talisman

The lucario focused on her final punch, the fist practically crushed the tile as the seismic power moved the golem to its goal. Her arms and feet had small lines of blood caused by the extreme stress as she fell on her back panting in exhaustion

Taomon broke the bond as she also fell going back to her normal form. The fox was on a kneeling position using her arms to stabilize from falling face down, breathing with the reserves of energy she could grasp

[WriggleRid3r]

Banished Library - Gensokyo

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"Alright!" Annie shouted as the enchantments broke. All statues were in the right location. The furnaces immediately turned off, resetting the ground to even floor. Behind the statues, to the far end, a door appeared and swung open by itself, leading the party to darkness.

"Good job team..." Patchouli cheered weakly, lying on the ground as well to take a break. "Everyone... take five..."

[S121]

Banished Library - Gensokyo | Day

John was happy that the puzzle was finally finished, and thanks to his Spartan enhancements, he was already fully recovered by the time Nera pushed the statue to its switch. After engaging the safety constraints on his armor, John looked over to Renamon and spoke.

"Do you need the energy now? I only need to pump my suit's energy into your digivice, which will then replenish itself in a couple seconds. From there, we can replenish everyone's energy and finish this sooner.", John said to Renamon.

It was evident that John wanted to move now and seemed slightly restless, most likely because the longer they waited, the less time Yuuka had. In fact, John had already pulled out his Barrett .950 JDJ and had already prepped it for battle.

[Kristia]

Banished Library - Gensokyo | Day

"Ok.. jusst let me take some air" Renamon nodded and got in her feet. At first she staggered trying to balance herself, but she managed to be stabilized

Taking energy from John with her digivice, the fox went to Nera and poured enough enerfy to make her recover to better health and she did the same Process with Patchouli

Noticing that the spartan was getting desperate, Renamon sighed and looked at the spartan "I know you are restless and that our time is getting shorter, so that´s why Im asking you this. If things get long and time consuming, I want you to take Patchouli and run to the vault no matter what. You are the only one who can teleport in seconds to another place and durable enough to withstand a long run. Nera and me will deal with whatever tries to stop you, just focus on running forward" she spoke with her calm yet dead serious looking eyes

[S121]

Banished Library - Gensokyo | Day

John listened to what Renamon said and noticed that he was becoming restless. To be honest, he couldn't help it, and perhaps Renamon could see that. Perhaps that's why she told him to take Patchouli and run if their progress was impeded again. If it happened again, that was exactly what John was going to do.

"Understood.", John said as he nodded at Renamon and put his gun away.

After he put his gun away, John pulled out a small stack of cards. Based on their design, they looked to be spellcards, each one with a letter depicting what difficulty they were. John looked them over and quickly came up with possible scenarios where he would need them. Just in case, John also decided to give Renamon one of them.

"Here. Use this if things get bad.", John said to Renamon as he handed her a card with a green "N" on the back of it.

"This spellcard is called 'Perception Sign ~ "Spartan Time"'. It will allow you to go into 'Spartan Time' for thirty seconds. It doesn't seem like much, but thirty seconds can be all the time you need to turn a losing battle into a win. Just be sure to return it to me later, when we get out of here.", John explained to Renamon.

[Kristia]

banished library

renamon nodded and took the card and walked towards her partner

[WriggleRid3r]

Yakumo Estate - Gensokyo

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At the feeling of being watched, Yukari jolted herself awake to find that it was just her daughter from the future. Sighing heavily, she laid back to the bed frame and asked: "What is it?"

[S121]

Yakumo Household - Gensokyo | Day

Takoizu came into the room to see Yukari asleep, but somehow she knew that she was being watched and shot up from a laying position. It surprised Takoizu a little but it was nothing too bad.

"I wanted to see how you were doing. You scared us all back there.", Takoizu said to Yukari.

"So how are you feeling?", Takoizu calmly asked as she approached her.

[WriggleRid3r]

Yakumo Estate - Gensokyo

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"I'm alright. The headache's gone." Yukari touched her forehead, brushing her bangs aside. "I guess sleeping was the answer to it."