War of Dragons - Mac Anu I

The ships of the Fourland Dukedom shift, adjusting their approach. There's just two of them, due to the risk of drawing the ire of the Leviathans, but they're fairly sizable battleships. The current Team is upon the one being led by the leader of the Sumaragis.

Most importantly however, is that both ships are being drawn by /sizable/ looking sharks - Megaladons.

Standing upon the bow, as they approach the first of the Palace Land blockades, stands Sumeragi Youta! His katana burried within the wood of the bow, his overcoat rapidly waving in the winds. The bold leader of the Sumaragi Dukedom lets out a yowl of delight at being upon the ocean.

"Let's fuckin' drop these shitheads dead!"

Hardly the kind of call to arms one would expect from the leader of one of the Dukedom's primary Dukedoms. Yet, he is joined by the navy officers behind him with a loud and resounding; "Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, let's drop these shitheads!"

Ahead of them, in the midst of the sun, lie a foursome of 'parked' ships which each have their mage emplacements aimed at them. Lightning and large balls of earth and flame already come their way, seeking to halt their approach. But the Fourland navy stops for none!

Keeping speed are the Undine waterforces jumping up and down at the surface, bringing up rapid screens of protective magic to halt any of the attacks from coming in!

The ships rapidly approach, splitting up right between the four ships - creating a twin division. Until the Megaladons crash through the midst and force the Fourland ships right between each two of the. Massive anchors are immediately being launched, as Humans use Earth Magics to create vines to connect the various ships. There are no planks, so people will have to Jump or Rapel!

The Palace Land troops immediately come at them with their Shield Bearers at the forefront, and their mages at the back, flinging spell after spell upon their position!

Since the reclaimation of Shibuya, Rylen had felt the shift within Yamato. After completing his training, he had bid farewell to Ninetails and joined the forces gathering near Eas in order to take back Mac Anu. The Beastmaster may seem a bit out of place on a boat, but he seems comfortable enough, clinging to some of the rigging and whistling to a raven which flies overhead, getting a view of their surroundings before the real fighting begins.

As the ships come together, he slides down, avoiding a couple of attack spells on the way and lands heavily, joining with the mages who are utilizing their earth magics to bring the ships together.

However, he isn't just doing that. No... as the enemy forces start to try to cross between ships, he shifts hands and feet, miming out attack motions which are followed by vines which lash up, knocking some of the fighters off into the waters below with something akin to the 'Wilhelm scream'.

The Beastmaster gives a cry of challenge, raising his arm and whooping enthusiastically. "Enjoy your swim!"

Kaydon has worked with Youta before, and as such isn't un-used to his particular brand of language. He is, at heart, a sailor after all. And Kaydon is a Marine, so ship boarding is one of the things he is actually trained to do.

Unfortunately as the attacks start raining in, Kaydon throws himself in front of one of the other sailors abord the ship in order to take the hit from one of those wave artes, the fire scorching his fur and leaving him a bit worse for wear. But never the less, he's going to go into battle calling out a warcry. He grabs a rope and leaps from the ship, swinging across towards the line of warriors, crashing into the group with all the force he can muster like a were fang cannonball.

Schneider has joined the Naval assault in this phase of the fight against the Palace Landers. He's not a melee guy, he's mainly ranged DPS, or so he considers himself, so hanging in the back of the crowd is fine. Let the big, hairy macho dudes whack it out with swords, he's the suave hero with magic. Well, they have magic, too, of course, it's not like it's a limited resource, and when he sees spells incoming, he activates his Armor of Fire, a coat of flames that consume the attacks aimed at him, leaving him standing there looking defiant.

Well, he can certainly return fire, and he does so, chanting, "From the Silver Mountain to the Gates of Babylon! Feel Rainbow's Mystic Arrow!" He draws back a bow made of magic and fires an arrow made of fire, and fires shot after shot into the massed enemy forces trying to board our ships. His flaming arrows strike each target, burning away HP, and the Exploder Wizard the gives a shout, "The battle is joined! Die, scum!"

Planks? Where we're going we don't need no stinking planks!

No, seriously, when the watercraft started closing in on their targets the first think Kauchemar did was jump ship. Literally.

But it's not a bail out. It's so she can use the water-striding effect of her Tidal Gallop technique to approach the Palace Land ships much the same manner as the Undines are, living up to it's name by galloping across the surface. Essentially going right under the responding attacks. Until she gets close to the target, and a surge of water erupts beneath her hooves to launch the Were Fang upwards. Kauchemar clears the railing with ease, landing on the deck with a clatter.

And sends the gush of water arcing over her head and down onto the shieldbearers. A gush of water filled with tiny but extremely toxic jellyfish, that can squirm under their armor to get at their tender flesh without having to get through those obnoxious shields.

Haru has been in less than a chatty mood during the boat trip over. The past few days have been long with the necessity to push the initiative being part of it. Resting has been the priority as being tired only invites ill advised mistakes. He will need to be at full force at Mac Anu. That is all for the future, the clatter of war is upon us. He steps out as the sea wind whips his silver hair about his face. It makes his navy blue jacket billow. The hood is drawn up as he summons out four floating stones around him. Small, like that of golf balls, glinting like quicksilver and glowing until they form red embers. "Ignis. Pluma. Ambiente. Ardeat. Nos."

The Ioun stones rise up, leaving red streaks as they move to outline the figure of a flame sprite in dire birb form. With the last word the lines erupt into fire and hot wind is added to the chill mist of the sea. Haru points out at the caster as it dive bombs. What would make sense is to protect against fire, but that would be the Enchanter's trickery. Drowning. The air is drawn out around the casters to hamper their lungs, their chant-boxes for Wave Artes, as the summon engages in combat.

    Merek takes his time to walk to the side of the boat while he lifts up a hand, sending a firebolt into the caster line, making the preperations for them to dismount from the boat. It looks like he will be supporting that. He wears a hood which covers his features at the moment with that beltcape about the waist and shifting in the wind.

And so it begins. The naval battle for the reclamation of Mac Anu has entered its first stage. Of course, the necessity of all of this is... questionable; After all, there are certain plans in motion. But then again, securing control over the waters surrounding Mac Anu is potentially critical for the success of that /other/ operation.

So it goes.

Spells and missiles crash against the battlefleet. One ship in particular sails with particularly piratical livery. The Scale Emblem's main flagship rides into battle alongside the Dukedom's navy, piled high as expected with Undines and smattering variety of the other races. Among them is Prophylaxis himself, the doctor of Tolbana. As the Palace Land's attack pours in, he lifts his staff, conjuring a dome-shaped wall of frost over the top deck. "Keep pace with the Dukedom's fleet," he instructs his captain. "If the opportunity arises, capture as many as you can. Otherwise, don't worry about mercy."

The enemy gunners and spellcasters begin to bring out their heavy weapons. As a skilled caster in his own right, Prophylaxis knows just how important being able to aim is to using those attacks properly... And so he casts a simple enchantment on the enemy magi. Several that were in the midst of conjuring powerful spells suddenly find their vision obscured by flashing, flickering, painfully bright electrical lights.

And should their spells misfire as a result... Well, that would be quite nice.

Rylen sends one of the heavy geared Human Warriors overboard, straight into the drink. Multiple Undine rapidly jump into the water from the Palace Lands side, greeted by the combined Lander and Adventurer forces of the Yamato region. There's light soon welling up from within the waters as a battle springs up within the waters. Some of them try to get people who are thrown overboard back up with castings of Water Geysers and the like!

"Cut the chains!" Sumeragi demands, followed by the loud rattling of massive chains being released from both ships. The enormous Megalodon monsters break loose, and turn to enter the mix. And just as Rylen's warrior is about to hit the water, he gets snagged by the enormous jaws of the Megalodon, taking a bite out of warcrime!

Kaydon leads, swinging to the other ship amidst an explosion of flames. Singed, but coming out on the other side. Joined by two large Cait Sith monkey types of their side, standing in opposition to three chunky looking Humans wielding Cutlasses - coming right at him!

Swords lock! As a blaze incinerates another series of warriors right behind them. The arrow of fire washing over two unfortunate Undine that were just coming up onto the deck in order to deal with the boarders!

Kauchemar comes up, helped by some of the Yamato Undine forces as well, catapulting her up with a Geyser of water to save her on some mana. Water spills over and rushes to the opposite side, waterboarding some of the warriors and casters, revealing Jellyfish that are still stuck to them. The warriors try to pull them off, while the Casters have a bit more luck with electric magic shields that paralyze the critters - but not before taking some nasty damage!

One of the casters is about to turn upon Kauchemar and engage her, believing their fire-enchantments to be up to snuff, when suddenly Haru's hidden cast stops them cold. That is, in cold sea water, grabbing hold of them and slowly drowning them! Multiple Undines nearby try to cast a Waterbreathing spell upon the caster, but it'll take time for them to recover - only for Merek's Fireball to drop right into their midst. None of them manage to put up any kind of shielding in time, thanks to Prophylaxis' interference; blinding them. As a result of the fireballs' detonation, multiple of them end up spilling outwards - some of them falling to their doom over the side of the ship.

The captain, a massive Walrus Shark Werefang, steps onto the deck amongst the Warriors, towering over many of them, and pulls a massive anchor onto his shoulder.

"What's this then, eh? Filthy Adventurer scum on my deck!?" He demands to know, as he begins to spin the massive anchor. Large waterspouts starting to rise around the ship as the Walrus Shark conjures up his magic - creating enormous 'dragons' of water, before he points his Anchor forward, and the enormous dragons of water come cascading down on the Adventurers and Landers of the Yamato Region -- risking swallowing them and slamming them into the unforgiving depths of the ocean!

Rylen looks over the edge just in time to see one of the Palace Landers be turned into a snack. He winces, before calling out, "Just bite harder, my friend! There is squishy filling on the inside!" He's clearly cheering on the Megalodon.

Racing across the pathways between the ships, he ends up scuffling with a few others, keeping him from getting into close range with the captain. It's likely for that reason that he isn't able to avoid the magical attack that slams him overboard and down into the water below.

He bubbles briefly under the sea water, the salt stinging his eyes, and then he finds himself brought back up out of the water by the Megalodon he had been cheering on just a moment before. Coughing once, he pats the creature on the side. "Thanks for the ride. I'll try to see if I can snag you another snack."

Pulling down one of the vines, Rylen starts to scale himself back upwards, even as he starts to pull algae covered stones up from the sea below. They hover above the enemy ship, circling ominously for a moment before the Beastmaster reclaims his footing, raising one hand and snapping his fingers with a performer's flare.

Despite being drenched, he still bears that smirk as the rocks burst into flames and begin to pummel down upon the enemy ships.

Schneider looks alarmed, first at a walrus-shark werefang, and then at that crazy attack. He tilts his anamolous-looking hat, the peko riding hat that was his prize from the first year of peko racing, and uses his racing insight to .... not respond quickly enough as a waterspout slams into him and dumps him into the water. So, for some fiery things, water is a problem. But Schneider and Sodium share one particular quality, they both burn underwater just fine. He doesn't know much about Class Delta fires, he only knows the A/B/C from fire extinguishers. No fire extobguisher works on class D fires, which burn underwater until whatever's burning is consumed.

Schneider is -not- consimed, but he -is- mad, and casts, his words bubbling from underwater, "Kaizard, aruzard, kisk! Hansay Glossik! Unleash total destruction! Sage of Hades use the seven keys to open the gates of Hell!" and then without a pause burbles up, "HALLOWEEN!"
From under the water, there's an eruption, and flames and hellfire surround the casters, searing them badly, burning the ship, setting rigging and sails on fire briefly as Schneider swims back to the surface belatedly to see that he didn't hit who he was aiming at, but at least he got some of the bad guys.

    Merek is struck by the wave that washes him away for a moment. He comes around and latches onto the boat to climb back up, while he grunts a little bit, then he takes a look as the Caster and Warrior line is taken on with success. He doesn't take the time to check his HP Bar, he keeps going up until he manages to take a new position, "Let's see you try that again, or anything." He then holds up a hand while he places a hand along his wrist, the strap which he wraps along his wrist glowing with a green light.
    He then shouts along into the skies, while he focuses upon the key word activation. MEREK_TEIWAZ_BANDIT_KING. From that hand of his a green circle of light begins to shimmer around it and his wrist before a green lance of light begins to aim for the Walrus Werefang. The circuit-like energy beaming into them if he can manage to make it target them. "DATA DRAIN!"

Kauchemar already has her staff out and ready.... not that it's necessary when Haru disrupts the mage that thought he'd have a chance of nuking her. She gives a brief nod to the enchanter in gratitude.

And then there's water dragons of water being slung across the ship. The Nightmare flickers with dark energies, managing to slip away from one, and then another... and then its the third coming between their paths than finally hits faster than she can Blink out of it's path, lobbing the Nightmare Were Fang off the ship and out to see and... wait, there's no thunderous splash. Where's the splash?

There is one, because as she's flung into the air Kauchemar flicks her fingers against the vial of darkness strapped to her belt, and a pair of large Spriggan-like wings of darkness sprout from her back. They glimmer like twilight as they decrease her downward momentum, allowing her to glide back down instead of plunging harshly into the cold depths.

"Nice trick, but not quite." Once she's back into position Kauchemar raises her staff over her head as waifs of darkness ripple from the death metal skull's eye sockets. "Now it's my turn!" She makes a dramatic gesture with the staff and then points it forward, it's jaw clinking open to unleash a burst of negative energy at the warriors! This caster has a lot of tricks to deal with heavy armored foes it seems.

"Well," Prophylaxis huffs grumpily, the sight of the water dragons erupting from the surf momentarily giving him pause. One of the animated serpents snakes towards him, chasing even as the Scale vessel turns hard to avoid the attack. Just as it's about to land, however, the doctor suddenly rushes forward, thrusting his arm /into/ the watersnake's gaping maw...!

...As what appears to be an umbrella extends from his mechanical gauntlet and unfolds into a canopy of strange, scaly slats. Water shatters into foam and fog as a network of green hexagons explode from the umbrella's tip, expanding into a protective dome that disperses the captain's attack entirely...!

"That was rude," Prophylaxis huffs, slamming his staff into the deck of his ship. Several barrels of dirt stored conspicuously nearby begin to tremble and shiver before erupting in geysers of dry soil. Each one gathers together and compresses into tight knots of superheated earth. With one more gesture, the doctor sends each clod of cracking, glowing mud at the Palace Landers like a veritable rolling cannon barrage...!

And just like cannonballs, these clumps of earth explode on impact, erupting into blasts of shrapnel and flame!!

Haru gives Kau the thumbs up for the support cast. Then he sees the tidal attack coming. Dragons of water like streams of force. Area of effect locations that make a thin window of timing between them if he doesn't want to be washed away. Being in cloth armor helps with his speed to get away from the first gush, but the followup of a watery tailwhip sends him over the edge of the Yamato ship he was on. The concentration breaks on his Fire Sprite as the bird is doused in the water dragon's assault as well.

The Artificer catches onto the edge of the ship, hanging there by the edge of a porthole. He struggles to get on through, notable to his low Physical stats, and double tmes it to get back topside of the Sea of Thie-- Landers. Once he gets topside, he is drenched, pulling his hood back and shaking the water out of his hair. Away from his purple monocle. The four stones around him begin to rotate slowly in a lengthy cast. They sing in a metalic hum, like medicine balls orbiting each other. A tune not of Haru's voice, "Rrha yant ga guaysu fowrlle yorr." The slow rotation stops, as if Haru's Arte did nothing. Except it begins snowing. Thick, downy snow. Did Haru summon a White Christmas spell? No, it is thick volcanic ash, whipping about and sticking to the enemy in a beautiful display of nature's wrath.

Now it seems that Kaydon has his sea legs, as the ship rocks back and forth, he maintains his footing. Storms be damned, he's going to accomplish his mission and clear this deck. He breaks out his gunblade once he is on the deck, and looks to his fellows that are helping him face off against the cutlass wielding humans, "Cute." He says, as he looks at one of their weapons.

As soon as one rushes, he swats it away with his gunblade, and then shoves past that guy to strike at the second sailor with his gunblade, aiming to try to get him to block it, so he can try to shatter the blade with the wave arte explosion from the Jaeger Gunblade. Maybe he'll even get lucky and it'll just kill his target outright, but as usual Kaydon is aiming to smash his way through his target with overwhelming strength.

"Lauch the Waterfowl!" Sumeragi Youta demands, right before the secondary ship launches... blue fuzzy critters!

Blue feathered Pekos take the waters, being ridden by humans, racing rapidly through the water and diving down into the waters, as they go chirp and cast Waterbreathing upon their riders!

One of them jumps onto the side of the ship, grabbing Rylen and Schneider by the arm as their making their way halfway up, helping that last few yards into the air before landing on the deck themselves and engaging with the warriors, cutting through with a lance.

Rylen's stones begin to pelt and catapult down upon the enemy ships, flaming bursts detonating upon impact. The ships are clearly made to withstand assaults of Fire, but the stones are doing severe damage, and crushing mage emplacements! With Schneider's flaming eruption adding onto the damage, weakening more and more of the anti-fire protections of the vessel!

Merek is punted back onto the ship with the help of one of the Undines in the water, before the Lander takes a stab by one of the Palace Land adventurers. Still, it gives Merek the chance to land on the deck and engage his Data Drain! The light grabs hold of the Walrus, whom is momentarily trapped by the light, before it releases and leaves the Walrus panting, trembling, and grimacing at Merek...

The deck continues to be a cascade of magics. As the Palace Land forces engage air based magic, trying to electrify the water on the ground and send a surge towards them, Kauchemar is already debuffing the warriors. Negative energy spills forth, rapidly sending the warriors to one knee as their strength is sapped!

Perfectly positioned for Prophylaxis to get a good aim on the Casters behind them! They clay detonations firing off, straight into the casters. Halting their attempts to electrify the deck and sending them slamming back into the wooden walls of the ship, and some of the masts!

Then... snow. The Walrus lifts a hand to take one of the first flakes into his hand, looking at it in confusion. But then it quickly begins to increase, 'snowing' in the warriors and casters in a thick pelting wave of ash that starts sapping their strength and ability to move!

The Walrus seems to start to get aggressively annoyed at this. And as Kaydon, right before his eyes, uses their Gunblade to /shatter/ through the life of one of his warriors, cutting him in half, he lets out an angry howl!

He then rushes the group itself, wielding his massive Anchor and tries to snag Rylen and Schneider by the neck as they get on the deck with it, and uses that same swing to try and launch them /with/ the anchor, at Kauchemar.

The anchor then boomerangs back to him as he jumps into the air, and descends down towards Haru and Merek and Prophylaxis. Notably, he's not using his magic all of the sudden. Trying to meteor-dive the trio instead.

At the back, some of the remaining casters and warriors rise, all taking out small 'rods', and throw them at the edges of the ship, right as a 'Lightning Net' grows, and threatens to capture some of those who get away from the initial Captain's assault!

Even drenched, Rylen is still remarkably agile. He weaves beneath the anchor as it swung towards his neck, rolling onto the floorboards of the ship and then propelling himself back up onto his feet with a dramatic backflip that looks as if it belonged more in oen of his circus performances than in a battle with deadly outcomes.

"Not fast enough, I'm afraid. You'll have to work on that." He addresses the captain, looking around at the others momentarily before he steps forward, stomping a foot down onto the floorboards of the ship. Nothing seems to happen at first.

That is, until Rylen clears his throat. "So, you're visitors to these lands of ours, and I thought it would be a shame not to offer you a gift of our hospitality." He points upwards. There is a whistling sound as a dark shadow spreads over one of the other enemy ships. This isn't the one they are fighting on, but one close by. A very, very large boulder starts falling towards it. A boulder that seems to have come from an area of land a bit further up along the shore which is now missing a chunk out of it.

"Welcome to Yamato. Now get the fuck out of our lands." Rylen grabs one of the vines and in true dramatic fashion, pirate swings upwards towards the Dukedom ships.

Schneider grunts as that walrus-captain charges, and he stands his ground, chanting darkly and summoning a shield of fire, which burns away merrily at a temperature of Far Too Hot, heating up the anchor chain very quickly as it absorbs the anchor's impact. He's not launched anywhere. He snarls defiance and casts again, the words familiar to his Alliance mates, it means this enemy is in for a hot time.

"Deep Doomsday. To the spirits of land and air, bound by the pact, fulfill your obligation now." Whoever the spirots of the land and air might be, when he shouts, "MEGADETH!" all hell breaks loose. A firestorm of intense heat and dark magic swirls, and enemy HP start running for cover, abandoning their owners. Schneider scowls, though, and attempts to look suave despite having been dumped in the water before. He /is/ drying out quickly, though. A side benefit of this much fire magic.

As the Anchor is flung in her direction Kauchemar decides to respond to the unstoppable force with a bit of immovable object. Well not quite, but she does summon her Binder Shield, which valiantly takes the position in front of her for the anchor to slam into, sending a ringing reverbration across the deck.

And in those few moments of disorientation from the hit ringing out, Kauchemar makes her move. Quick and nimble dexterity allows her to play her sort of tricks, seeming to disappear amongst the shadows. Only to re-emerge right behind one of the remaining casters, clenching a fist as she does that makes thorned vines curl across her knuckles. With the other hand, she taps the mage on the shoulder. "Hey, you have something in your teeth..."

And as he turns to look at her in confusion Kauchemar slams a thorn-laiden right hook into his face. "MY FIST!"

    Merek follows up with the data drain, lowering that hand of his while he points to the Walrus, "I would suggest you surrender. We have no desire to kill you. You have until we finish with your team." He follows up the Geocrush of Rylen's, magnitudes more glorious than his own, with a Ragnarok's Wisdom, sweeping his fists along into the warriors on the deck and sweeping with kicks along each of the party of warriors that protect the ship.
    His sweeping kick into the Walrus only serves to take more of that HP from him, and he doesn't follow it up further, he hopes somewhere in him that some of them that are Landers will surrender, even any Adventurers. It doesn't matter, he doesn't want to take people's lives or memories. "WE'RE TAKING THE CITY, AND WE ASK YOU ALL TO SURRENDER! OR BE DESTROYED!" He pulls back the hood of his, while he ties his hair back into a spiky ponytail.

That sure is a giant bellyflopping walrus.

Once again, Prophylaxis lifts a hand and conjures a barrier. This one, though, is a little different than the last two. Not merely protective, this one is constructed from a series of interconnected lattices of light. As soon as the captain smashes into the wall, it bends and flexes around him before recoiling, sending the Walrus back into the air...!

The others can take care of him from there. The doctor has other business.

"You know, weather at sea can be rather unpredictable," he preambles, wind howling all around him, whistling as it passes through the channels of his favorite staff. The clouds thicken and darken, the sky swallowed up entirely by a roiling stormfront. "You'd best keep your eyes on the sky. Or else...!"

The magus taps his staff against the deck. As if on command, a blinding column of electricity crashes down from on high, slamming directly into the remaining enemy mages. If it doesn't wipe them out completely, it might just set several of those ships on fire...!

Haru's slowly spinning stones around his body begin to lose their metallic luster amist the falling snow. The vibrant blue drains from his jacket and his denim jeans. Even his skin loses its complexion until it is a light shaded doll, a monochromatic form with only his purple monocle and blue eye showing any color left. His body fades into the snowstorm like natural camo, moving at an eerie and unnatural way as if the frame rate has been halved on his avatar. Or he is lagging. He evades the attack from the captain, seeming to slide in stillframes away. A deft sequence. Something it hurts the eyes to follow. Once it looks like he is open to get swatted, his figure just isnt there. The confusion is snapped in jump-scare like horror as an obsidian pillar fires off like a jagged trap. The series of earthen spells fire off alongside of Kau next, seeming to punish any caster who tries to evade the nightmare's knuckles in a series of traps. You can get punched in the face or stabbed in the back. Either way, its not a good time.

Kaydon's gunblade is a well tuned machine, put to perfect use by the gnoll were fang. He does his best to live up to the bit of a reputation he's made among the Palace Landers, and he wants to make sure they all remember him.

He uses the gunblade to block the anchor strike as it gets too close for comfort, and then tries to return strike with the gunblade, hoping to catch the big walrus shark with the tip of the blade as he sails past. Even that could be enough if he gets lucky!

The Walrus grunts in anger as Rylen and everyone else manages to slip through his massive fingers. Grimacing at the acrobatic youth with a fierce glare, trying to bring his weapon back around.

"Just stand still and I will get you... ouuuu... what the?" The Walrus turns his head up, adjusting his hat to look up at the shadow coming down. "Is that a Leviathan?"

There's other Palace Landers that approach, watching the enormous stone. The ship above which the shadow falls, is immediately being abandoned by Palace Landers and Yamato-ans alike! Forcing the battle into the water not moments before...

CRUUUUUUUUSH!

Wood debris /explodes/, detonating in all directions as a massive rock CRUSHES the ship, and literally SNAPS it in half. Enough that the ship ends up sinking in 'two halves' down into the seas below!

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!" The Walrus declares, and tries to rush Rylen's position! But Rylen swings out of the ship. "GET BACK HERE!"

Only for his hat to get BLOWN OFF of his head, spontaneously combusting as behind him, Schneider has just eradicated most of his forces with the heavy wave of firepower that just eradicates them... and his hat. Also the back portions of his clothing just went up in flame.

Kauchemar then /decks/ one of the casters that was trying to rapid-cast a healing technique to save some of her allies and friends. Calling out names that sound distinctly Chinese right before the names sound distinctly like they are spoken with a /lisp/ accent instead, right before she goes down as Haru spears them with a pillar of stone from behind!

"We will never surrender your city! It is now part of the glorious Palace Lands!" The Walrus answers Merek. "And what, you think you get bonus points for 'not wanting to kill me', while you /murder/ my subordinates!?" The Walrus-Shark /scoffs/ at Merek's hypocracy - even as the flaming detonations eradicates some of his few remaining warriors!

Some of the mages, having gone overboard, are immediately bombarded with lightning. Even as they try to get away, the salt in the water ensures their doom! The lightningstrikes ZAPPING them and paralyzing them, stopping them from swimming or breathing, slowly sinking into the crushing depths of the ocean... and into the maw of the massive Megalodon that is feeding on Adventurers and Landers alike!

Kaydon then comes for the Walrus, and the massive creature swings his Anchor. The massive piece of metal SLAMS into Kaydon's blade, right as Kaydon engages the switch. And as he tries to sail past, he manages to cut through the Anchor, catching the Walrus with a heavy red streak along one arm.

The Lander grimaces at the young man, as another ship in the distance is crushed by massive tentacles that start to tear it down. Some kind of large... Kraken?

The fourth ship, still remaining, has been straight out captured by the Fourlands Dukedom.

"We will meet again!" The Walrus Shark captain demands, going by the name of Walpurgis, and jumps into the waters, swimming away at full speed as his magic returns to him, and he soon /jets off/ towards Mac Anu!

Followed by a loud cheering from on top the Sumeragi Clan ship, as victory is declared over the blockade!

    Merek will listen and watch as the Walrus moves away, he does consider the words which he says, although he watches as they retreat. "You know, his men would probably survive were they to surrender, as they would likely follow suit," he then sighs and pulls the hood back up, looking to the captured ship and nodding, "That is good. It'll be of service in the war." He goes back to the Adventurers, while he climbs away from the sinking ship.

"Ugh" Kauchemar grunts. "These Palace Land crossbreeds give Wuzzles a bad name." She'll be surprised if she's not the only one that gets that joke. She calls her shield back to her, and rests her staff against the deck. "That's right, you better swim. Get your anchors aweigh from here!"

Schneider glowers at the departing Captain, as if considering long range options. But he's fired his longest range magic, and so he will have to settle for a Megawatt glare that only metaphorically hurts people. It doesn't do anything about the remaining HP, but if looks could kill, the skipper would be nothing but a gravestone. "Well, they'll know we're coming, anyhow," he says. "Not that it'll help them..."

Rylen, in true performer fashion, blows the walrus captain a kiss as if he were bidding goodbye to a loyal fan, even as he swings himself up and over onto the Sumeragi ship. "I love a good show. I think I might have found a new member for my fan club." He grins, sliding down to land on his feet. The acrobat drains some water out of his hair then swings the white locks over his shoulder.

He seems to be relaxed, despite a few scratches from being thrown overboard. "I think our ocean friends deserve some rewards for their aid as well. Then again, they might be full from the Palace Lander buffet."

Haru stands on the deck of the ship. He doesn't have anything witty to say about the retreat. The idea of them holding on to Mac Anu is hubris. Plans are in motion already. "After Shibuya, it would be safe to assume they knew we were coming for Mac Anu next. They have nowhere else to go besides back home," the Artificer offers as the last of the snow falls and the color returns to his avatar. "Either way, good job. Looks like our losses were minimal this time," he says, taking a blue potion and a red potion from his inventory and kicking them back.

Prophylaxis watches as the walrus-man retreats. Walpurgis, that is. Wal(rus)purgis. Heheheheh.

Heh.

"Well, that's the first phase done," Prophylaxis says with a sigh. "Get the ship back to port," he orders, "We need to deliver that package and get back to the tower in time for the raid."

Victorious, the Scale Emblem once more sails off to accomplish their terrible and suspicious aims. Whatever it is they may be...!

As the walrus shark retreats, Kaydon hops up onto the side of the ship, grabbing the rigging with his left hand as he watches them retreat. He holds the pose there for a second (mostly because he's kinda always wanted to) and then he hops back down onto the deck, gunblade going back into the scabbard.

When the crew lets out a cheer, he joins in with them. But there's still plenty of work to be done. Then they can really push the Palace Lands back into the sea.

    Merek will take the time to check on everyone, and heal the people that need it, before he will take his time to get back to what he was doing.