This time, Maria had to restrain herself from charging forward - she remembered the incident the lich was referring to, and in a much less calm manner than Claire. Oooooh, I'll rend your bones from one end to the other, you creep! But, still taking her cues from the former shrine maiden, the blade dancer just growled and stood her ground, waiting for the first move to be made....
(melee, delay attack, lich; she'll move after Claire)
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"YOU! You're ugly, you're creepy, and you ruined my dance! I don't care how big your hammer is, you're going DOWN!" SpecTraining(polearms) --SigWep(polearms 20%) Ele.Def.(Water) == Slow Learner (2pt) == Frail (1pt)
Edsel nodded her thanks to the human summoner, then twirled her staff in a series of quick arcs...it was the thought process more than the actual motions that was important. When she was done, her staff positively quivered with energy as she pointed it at the lich. Addressing the undead, she raised her voice. "I don't know if you're guilty of attacking any other cities...I don't know if you had anything to do with the Mist's return...but I do know that you don't belong in this world!" At the last word, she unleashed the forces she'd held in the staff up till then in the form of a shrieking gale.
(ranged, aera, lich; unlike Claire and Maria, she isn't waiting to attack)
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"I don't know what Ediaru and Claire were doing at South Gate, but there's no way I'm letting you mess with our souls!" Frato retorted, before leaping to the sky. "Mess with this you scum!"
As he shouted his insult, he hurled his spear at the lich.
(Jump, Lich)
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"Blah blah blah, are all o' you evil-types bloated windbags?" Dan calls to the lich with a sneer. He knew only a little about liches, and none of it was pleasant. Hoo boy, I don't think a few iron spikes 'll be enough drop this sad sack of glowing bones. Reaching into one of the pouches at his belt, the mechanic took out the small box of Rainbow Shells he bought before boarding the ship. Yeah, these'll do the trick. Holy stuff and undead nasties don't mix too well. He slung his rifle onto his shoulder to free up his hands and loaded the inscribed colorful ammo into his revolver, then snapped the cylinder shut. "Here's a lil' somethin' special t' deflate ya!." With a wicked grin he took aim at the undead terror and pulled the trigger.
(Ranged, Rainbow Shell, Lich)
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Powerfully launching herself into the nearer cluster of skeletons with a flying side-kick, Hellena executed a series of turning round kicks and elbow strikes; attempting to damage every target within arms reach as quickly as possible before darting back to a more friendly position.
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Moving back, Drake re-centered his spear before finding his balance, adjusting his weight backwards... "You are going to need to look up your definition of practical, this looks more like suicide on your part..." He said to the floating specter of undeath. fulfilling his obligation of battle banter before taking a leap into the sky.
Frato's legs sprang into action as he lept high into the air.
Skelewarrior D swung his spear at Claire in a wild frenzy, the undead warrior failing to land a single blow on the former shrine maiden. (missed)
Skele-archer B noched back his bow as he fired upon the party with a barrage of arrows - two struck Claire and Edsel for 209 and 336 respectively, while the third flew past Hellena, missing her completely.
Maria stood her ground as she waited for Claire, her spear raised and ready to strike.
Skelewarrior C lunged towards Dan with a menacing growl, the tip of his spear slashed at his arm for 129 damage, leaving a scratch on the mechanic's arm.
Skelewarrior A's weapon glowed a soft blue as he swung it around in a circle, the energy arced off as it hit Edsel and Melody for 198 each.
The lich sneared as he held out his palm, a small ball of fire growing in his hand until it was about the size of a football. He then casually tossed the fireball at Claire, incinerating the shrine maiden for 302 damage, leaving behind a few nasty burns. "A mere taste, a tickle, one last chance to stand down!" His voice, terrifying and callous, boomed out as he made his threat to the party.
As Skelewarrior B charged towards Edsel, the undead fighter tripped over a small gap in the decking, tripping up as he landed with a loud satisfying crunch, dislocating his right arm - which, unfortunately, was the one he was using to carry his spear. It will take a full turn to reattach his arm if he were to attack again.
Drawing in a deep breath, Claire notched up an arrow and pulled back on the bowstring, lining up her shot at the lich as she took careful aim at the enemy.
A swirling vortex emerged from Edsel's Aera spell as it flew towrds the lich - but before it obliterate him, Skelewarrior A jumped in front of it's master and held up his shield, a strange glow emitted from it. Edsel's spell struck hard, but thanks to the effects of that magic field, it cut the damage done in half - Skelewarrior only took 727 damage, instead of what would've been a nearly lethal blow.
Claire let go of the bowstring, her arrow soared straight towards the lich at an incredible speed. Bue before it could have a chance to pierce it's target, one of his minion's jumped forward and took the blow with his magic shield, the force of the blow knocked him back slightly and dealing 344 damage instead of the usual 688. If both Edsel's spell and Claire's arrow had hit the lich, he'd have been done for.
Maria sprang into action and swung her pike towards the lich. Once again, Skelewarrior held up it's sheield and took the hit for it's master - 332 damage. Half of what the delicate lich would've taken.
Skele-archer A pulled back on his bowstring firmly and fired one off at Drake, the arrow planting itself firmly in the dragoon's thigh between armor plates as he took an impressive 413 damage from the blow.
There was no Quivering Palm; so Hellena darted between each Skelewarrior delivering a powerful roundhouse kick to each of them for 200 damage.
Frato came down with his spearhead pointed towards the lich. Yet again, the minions protected their master efficiently and effectively - Skelewarrior C held up his shield and took 415 from Frato's spear, half of what the lich would've taken.
Despite the wound in his leg, Drake focused hard to ignore the pain as he too lept high into the air.
A loud shot rang out as Dan's holy shell fired at the crowd, intended to strike the lich. Instead, it did 319 damage to Skelewarrior D.
Drake landed, but instead of spearing the lich he impaled Skelewarrior B for 536 damage.
The lich stood as he watched the party struggle to land a single blow on him, chuckling menacingly at them. "Did you really think it was going to be that easy?" He asked in a smug tone. "No matter how hard you will try, my minions will soak up every blow you throw towards me. And now, children, you will learn the most important lesson in life, the moment when you should all just give up - Futility!"
And with that, he waved his arm around as a shimmering bubble encased each of his skeletal minions. The splinters and damaged pieces of armor and weaponry gradually disappeared until there was hardly any notable damage left... each of them had been healed for 1000 a piece.
"Now, what will you do? Will you continue with this meaningless fight, or will you step down and allow us to destroy you quickly and painlessly?"
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Drake landed, grabbing his leg and looking at the arrow before breaking the shaft, it was interfering with his movements… The pain he felt converted to anger towards the enemies… “Hit me you cretinous bag of bones, because by Reis, if you don’t kill me now I’ll enjoy dousing your Phylactery into every holy water well from here to Gulag!” He yelled, before moving into a defensive stance, ready to dodge or deflect what came at him.
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Dan grabbed at his arm, wincing slightly at the pain. Ngh, just a scratch. As the Lich healed his minions, the mechanic spat on the deck in anger. "You've gotta be kiddin' me!"
"I'll use yer bone's as th' ship's figurehead b'fore th' day's over!" he called out defiantly. Taking aim at the nearest Skeleton, he let loose another Holy Bullet.
(Ranged, Rainbow Shell, Skelewarrior A)
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Frato growled angrily as the lich mocked them, before undoing all the damage they'd dealt to his comrades. Dammit! He can heal them!?
"Feh! You really think we'll just stand around and let you kill us? You really are a fool!" Frato scoffed. "If the choice is fight or die, no matter how tough the fight, I will fight! Because a Dragon Knight is not frightened of any challenge!"
Hrm, I guess we'd better try and take these undead out one at a time then if that lich can heal them...
The hybrid glanced at his comrades, trying to determine who they were likely to go after, before taking to the skies.
(Jump, Skelewarrior A)
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Edsel remained silent, simply examining her own wounds and those of her companions as quickly as she could. That hurt...but as long as they don't knock me out, I think we'll do ok. I really hope the gunners finish taking out that artillery so they can help us out here...hmm. Her hands glowed green as she waved them at her ranged compadres.
(cura, ranged)
Once she was done casting, she turned to Melody. "If you can help me keep everyone alive, I can scan that lich for weaknesses - if he has any."
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