No Mercy For The Living

A new terror has come from Helena Lethe's forces. An Unholy Binder of dark armor, large size, and followed by similar armed forces with lance and tower shield.

They make their way toward the north and right in their path, is a town. A town this monster seems to have its unnatural eyes set on.

Can the Adventurers save the town before its to late? Or will the people become another group to join Helena's army of death?

Heed the call Adventurers and rise to the next challenge!

((This will be a combat scene. It will be using the Boss HP system. This Boss will also be set to hard mode.))

Helena Lethe
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        [ BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPWFYfcfu8A ]

    The calls went out for help, another village was under attack by the undead forces that have plagued the area. Smoke could be seen on the horizon, the smoke of war and the growing trouble...

By the time you arrives be by party or alone, the village in the distance was around set into flames. Crops burning slowly to ashes, homes devastated, and most of the people already gone.

However what can be seen amongst the flames, was the sound of clashing steel faintly in the distance. Two adventurers apparently arrived ahead; Two adventurers that tried to stop what was happening.

If they managed to save the people after all, is hard to say, but what is obvious is that the two are struggling against this new armored figure. An armored figure that fights with both tower shield and halberd.

    This monster was throwing out dark spells that would explode in a large aoe, catching both of the adventurers in it. Both being knocked back by the blast into a building.

As the two try to get back up on their feet, the massive seven-foot hulking figure walks up to them. Runes of red, etched into its armored body start to glow like crimson blood. It's massive claw hand reaches out and picks up one of the adventures by the neck, raising them up.

    The other tries to get back on her feet, but nearly collapses, she tries again, and attempts to swings her knives several times against the armored frame while yelling, "Let him go!!" And yet, the armored figure does not seem to care what she does.

Instead his hands ignite with dark, purple flames, and soon the Adventurer screams in pain! The dark flames consuming his body, pushing his already low HP to 1. The woman below pauses, as she starts to slowly back up. "Wh--what?!"

She takes another step back as she watches her friend's flesh slowly be consumed by the fire, what remains after is that of a skeleton with the armor that the adventurer was wearing, along with his weapon and shield.

Her eyes go even wider, as the skeleton is let go and it stands on its own, with its head slowly raising up and a flicker of red for a moment where the eye socket was. "No-- No no no! That is impossible! We are-- when we die--- we go... we go back to the-- How? How how how!? How can you become-- how are you---!"

However she has no time to finish her thoughts, as the armored figure reaches out for her. His hand clasping her, just as it did the other. She then screams out as the dark flames come for her, "I don't want to become a monster!!!" Unlike her comrade though, the flames wash over her and push her HP dangerously low, but thought it counts down to 1, nothing happens.

The flames subside and there was a frustrated rumble from the armored figure. With the unsuccessful transformation of the woman, the armored figure throws her aside like a ragdoll, flinging her past the flames and allowing her to tumble to the ground.

She struggles to get up, but she spots at least one, if not several of you. She tries to push up to her feet, before she yells out, "Run! Get out of here!" This however, causes the armored knight to slowly tilt his head and look in the direction of which she yells.

The Skeleton warrior, once adventurer also steps forward a bit seeming to look as well, before the skeleton's attention turns toward the female adventurer on the ground, and starts to make his way toward her. Weapon ready to finish her off...
Amalthea
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    "Odysseia Knights! Form up!"
    Amalthea is here. The old Paladin and Gardenia's right hand arriving, sword already in hand and shield strapped to her arm. Her face is set in a grim mask as she watches the village burn, fingers clenching tighter around the hilt of her blade at the sights and terror unfolding before her.
    "This can't be allowed to continue any longer. That's why we're here." She says, having rounded up any volunteers she could to come along to the burning village.
    Briefly. Ever so briefly, her eyes widen at what she sees. An... An Adventurer being Turned into an undead.
    ".... That's not possible." She says, a hard edge of disbelief and outrage coloring her voice.
    That can't be possible, can it?
    Yet she just witnessed it.
Merek
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    Merek was maneuvering along upon the Peko which he brought with him, while wearing his light black armor in addition to drawing the Shadow Eclipse while he takes a moment to place the shield which he wears about into a hand. When coming upon the scene of the people fighting the undead, he nods a bit. He's not seen that before, though it's clear he never really trusted people being killed before.
    "You!" he calls, then he dismounts from the creature while he begins to charge into the fight.
Giganpor
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    Giganpor was on his way to help out. His armor had changed a bit, and so had his weapon. Now he was more than ready for war against the undead. And he was more focused than he had been in a while.

    The sight he witnesses, though, gives him pause. And he stares at it before he growls. Adventurers being turned into undead? It shouldn't be possible. It just can't be. But the other... didn't? His fur is pretty much standing on end as he looks at it. "... I was right... this isn't a game any more."

    Being on his Nightmare mount, Giganpor does the brave thing. The thing that any hero would do. He spurs his mount forward and brings his weapon to bare. Giving a loud roar-like battle cry on the way is the most obvious thing to show that he's there, that's getting that thing's attention, and about to nail it.

    And he tries to smash the former adventurer away from the downed adventurer as he arrives astride his Nightmare. "You shall not have another this day!"
Setsuna
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    Setsuna had heard the call for help and heeded it , arriving with others as they gathered to defend. Staff in hand he raises it to acknowledge Amalthea's call, "Another wave of undead ready to return to ..." Setsuna's voice trails off however as his boasting falls flat. He wasn't exactly sure what he was waching but after what he just saw, any arrogance seemed to have left him. He hesitates and it takes watching people charge right in to battle before Setsuna can even snap out of it. "I summon the spirit of the wind to shield the woman." His staff hits the ground and a gust of wind flies towards the girl in an attempt to protect her.
Miho
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There had been a call for help had come out once more she knew how bad it could be with all these undead. So she would be quick to put her hammer down and go. She had no idea what was going on this time.

"Gods, it's not..."

She wonders what some of Scale would think of this? She's not even sure what to think on this day. Miho doesn't charge in as she beholds the horror she will draw her bow, and fit an arrow as she makes ready with her bow she'll move to line up not one but two shots as she'll take a shot at the horror going for the Adventurer still standing.

A simple thought goes through her mind whatever is behind this they need to be totally and utterly experimented without an ounce of mercy. She then fires...
Schneider
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Schneider has marched along with the rest of the party to the relief of the village, and pauses for a moment to take in the scene before him. He looks to Amalthea, and wonders, "How exactly are we forming up?" But what he's doing as he asks this is gathering up his magical energy, because it looks like there's about to be a fight, and while he has a pretty cool sword, cool for starter gear anyhow, it's not his main thing.

He looks over the adventurer that got turned, and the one that didn't, and wonders, "Do you guys think he's dead and it just animated his body? Or is he trapped in there and can't get back to the chapen to Rez?" Well, we'll probably have to fight the converted guy anyhow, so maybe the question is moot?

As the party begins to attack, he shrugs and will go straight into attack mode, flinging fire as a sort of soft lead in, a tentative attack before he pulls out the big guns. You always start off easy, in case it works. He picks Merek's target, because concentrating fire is better, and he shouts, "Guuuuunnn.. zennnn... RO!" A hugs gout of flame is released, striking the target with a satisfying reduction in the target's HP bar.
Kauchemar
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"Well this place is already toast," is Kauchemar's summary of finding the village and fields already aflame. "I hate to let a bonfire go to waste though, anyone bring marshmellows... wait, those aren't invented yet are they? Lame... I suppose we should look for suvivors and such." The Nightmare only gets a few steps towards the inferno before she stops as a very weakened woman is tossed out of them. Followed by a skeletal warrior that just sets off all sorts of wrong vibes, even to someone that dabbles in necromancy as it is. That was an Adventure? That should not be possible... should it? "He got boned..." She takes a step back to her spot, instead reaching for bound scroll tucked in one of the slots of her belt. As soon as her fingers touch it she gets a second glimps at what just happened, to be sure of what they saw.

That most certainly -did- happen. It should not of been possible, but it did.

"Oh ho ho." The arcane gaze fades as her eyes shift to their normal only slightly psychedelic color. "Shit just got -strange- all up in here. This is a nightmare even by -my- standards." She is trying to be her usual dark humor snarky, but there is a hint of actual concern at the back of her voice. "Though why could she not be..."

She shakes it off, watching as several New Worlders dogpile on the bone Barbarian. "Tch. Only because I want to get some answers out of this...." She unfurls her dark whip and slings it at the Barbarian, trying to grab one of his arms and hold it back from touching any of the Adventurers coming after him. "No more Bad Touchs for you!"
Mizuki
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    When Sam was a little kid, he ran everywhere. Why walk when you can run? If you want to be somewhere, why not be there as fast as you can?

    But running itself just wasn't as interesting as the things you could do sitting still, like reading books and playing videogames, and by the time he was in college, he was a few dozen pounds overweight. Running winds you -- and as an adult, if you trip and fall, the injuries are more severe. Walking is still a painfully slow way to get anywhere, though. If you have to go more than a few blocks, may as well drive...

    Adventurers are a little bit superhuman, and were fangs even moreso. Which is fortunate when you have to walk everywhere. And especially when you have to run. Mizuki runs when she sees the smoke, ninja scarf trailing behind her. She runs like a normal person, not an anime ninja, though, because she's actually in a hurry, not putting on a show.

    Until she gets close enough to see that there are no landers to save, and slows to a walk. Until she sees the adventurers and speeds up again. But it's not enough. She's still out of maximum range for her attacks when... the monster turns someone into an undead?! That... that CAN'T be what it looks like, right? It's got to just be an alternate death effect instead of the gravestone. Exploiting a 'corpse' to make an undead doesn't mean the adventurer's mind is there and not... respawning.

    If it comes down to it, though, Mizuki's not sticking around if her HP gets low.

    Hearing the others talk is concerning, though. "All we saw is an Adventurer's body replaced with an undead! It might just be an alternate death effect. We'll know in 24 hours! Until then, don't assume the worst! ...But be careful."

    Ugh, why do there have to be so many undead? Ninjas are for stabbing weak points and claws are for tearing, but that's no good against hard bones! As Mizuki reaches the edge of range, she casts Frost Bolt, chunks of ice appearing over her head and flying at the skeleton. They may not be able to cut or freeze, but they can still do impact damage, right?
Uta
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    The key asset of a martial artist is awareness.

    Awareness of your opponent. Awareness of your surroundings. And most importantly, awareness of yourself.

    Uta has this down to a pat.

    She's perfectly aware she's a squishy newbie who's allergic to dying, so she practices the ancient Spriggan art of moving from shadow to shadow, from tree to tree, hiding behind bushes and moving quickly and noiselessly.

    Like a ninja.

    A very squishy newbie ninja who's allergic to dying.

    It is in moments like these, however, that what little experience she has gathered in these months start showing in little details.

    Detail 1, she does NOT hum the Pink Panther theme to herself while sneaking. She learnt that lesson that time with the Murdergrowlers.

    Detail 2, she stands still, unseen, and immediately realizes that this enemy is no match for her alone. She therefore does what she does best: a medical examination.

    She pulls up a Pharmaceutical inspection, and stares in disbelief. She rubs her eyes. Looks like what she's seeing on status effects is about as shocking as what she sees live.

    Detail 3, she resists the urge to make a grand entrance. She flicks her menu closed and holds her breath.

    Holds her breath...

    Menu is flicked open again. A healing potion shimmers into existence, and is silently flung through the air to the dying adventurer.

    "Curse me!", she whispers to herself. "I'm too much of a softie. This is going to get me killed one of these days..."

    That is when she runs out of hiding. Still silently. Still like a ninja. Still like a squishy newbie ninja who's about to murder someone. Hoping that the tossed bottle will provide a distraction from her sortie, still standing at a distance, she twirls her staff and begins intoning a quiet, sneaky, subdued tune, which makes the staff resonate with it and shoots tendrils of darkness towards the monster.

    ...Wait, is that the Pink Panther theme?
Helena Lethe
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    The Undead Barbarian is coming up on the female adventurer. What people would notice about her, is that her name is red; She is a pvper-- and so was her friend. Though for whatever the reason, the female adventurer didn't turn, like her friend did. Keeping her alive /might/ give some answers; Or at least give her a chance to run for it then get answers later.

As such, Setsuna is quick into action, as she quickly casts a protective spell over the female adventurer on the ground. This causes the Undead skeleton's attack to slam against the protective spell of wind, before repelling it back. Which is perfectly timed given that Giganapor comes rushing in to knock the Undead right off its feet with a good hammer slam!

Merek is not to far behind, taking advantage of its downed state with a good swing of his blade! As the Undead Barbarian attempts to get back up, the skeleton warrior is slammed with flames from Schneider, but races forward through the fire, seeming to be aiming its sword to slash directly at the mage! Before seeming to turn around just in time to avoid Miho's attack which the arrow skims by where the adventurer's nose /would/ have been.

    This sets up the undead warrior to send a dark blast of magical energy right for Merek! Then Kauchemar manages to catch his shield arm, yanking him nearly off balance as she does. The Undead warrior then turns to look at her, before his blade lights up on dark flames and swings a wave of dark energy her way!

However, holding the was-an-adventurer in place lines up the perfect impact from Mizuki! The freezing bolt slams into the undead warrior causing the creature to lose its balance and cause red, cracking effects in the armor that the undead is wearing. Though as Uta suddenly pops up and sends out a dark wave, the Undead tries to move aside and once more, comes skimming close!

    Meanwhile, the seven-foot armored binder stands, watching the group. There was no eyes in that helm, just floating armor on an unseen body. Dark energy moving where flesh should be seen.

The Harvester takes a step back, its Halberd blade moving ever so slightly, as dark energy can be seen starting to charge up on the blade and a magical runes on its armored form starting to glow. It was prepairing something...

[ Merek, Kauchemar, Schneider Evade/Defend vs 8 ]
Merek
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    Merek would notice the blast of magic coming his way, then he twirls his weapon while he lifts up a hand, rocks coming from the ground to form a shield, which would take all of the assailing from it. His weapon still seems to be shimmering with flame, while he takes a moment to sheath it, then he would lift up a hand, taking a moment to place a hand to a wrist, then aiming that at the barbarian, "Watch it everyone, it looks like the Harvester will be preparing, if we get enough in on them, try to keep it delayed!" A nod along with the party, "Firebolt!" The magic flame would begin to form and blast at the barbarian.
Amalthea
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    "By walking in formation, lad." Amalthea replies to Schneider. "At least until the fighting starts." Which technically it has. Sure, the Odysseia Knights are mostly a guild of independants and solo players, but she can at least hope they work together well enough in groups. Still, she frowns deeply.
    "There's no way to tell what just happened, just yet. We'll see in twenty four hours and hope for the best." Muttered at Schneider's question about whether or not the Adventurer will resurrect or not.
    She can only hope.
    As the others rush in to save the Adventurer, Amalthea's gaze sweeps the the armored figure... How it glows alight with runes and ever so subtly shifts grip on its weapon.
    "--The big one. It's doing something." She hisses. There's little time, as she rushes into action, breaking into a full out sprint.
    "Focus on saving the girl." She calls over her shoulder as she rushes, building up speed and takes a massive flying leap, intending to slam into the armored bulk shield first with breakneck speed and impact force.
Miho
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THe Undead Barbarian is still coming, she sees they are a PVPer that isn't really much of consideration right now. One she may know more, and second off they don't deserve something like this. She calls out to the still living PVPer.

"GET CLEAR!"

She'll notch more arrows as she continues to take aim at the undead Barbarian as it heading for her allies she'll open fire on the Barbarian.

"The other one is prepping something!"

With another arrow set she opens up followed by several more as she tries to rain bolts down on the Undead Barbarian.

"Someone stop the other one!"
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar pulls her whip free and recoiling to her hand as the bonehead barbarian turns towards her while charging up some likely unpleasant counter-attack. She is ready though, and at the same time as it release the wave of darkness she does the same, though in her case the shadows wrap up around herself to disperse the incoming attack. The whip is reslung on her belt.

"Tch. So passe." She glances aside and only the briefest of nods is given to the paladin charging past before she turns back towards skeletal barbarian. "I think you're better dealt with from a distance." The sword and shield are pulled from her back, but then immeadiately let go, the shield simply hovering at her side.

It's the sword that springs into action, blade crackling with ghostly sparks as it levels point towards the calcified warrior and blast forward at blurring speed and a minature crack of thunder in its wake.
Mizuki
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    Okay, at least her fellow adventurers aren't paniccing. Amalthea agrees with 'we don't actually know this guy won't respawn'. Good. Mizuki can focus on the fight and not trying to keep her fellow adventurers from freaking out. She's kinda bad at that, anyway. Whatever the harvester is doing is... concerning, but Amalthea's got it.

    Mizuki keeps her focus on the skeleton for now. Still staying at range. Some martial arts moves bring a pool of water up from the ground, Mizuki trying to guide it to cling to the skeleton, then following it up with ninja hand signs and breathing out magic frost instead of fire. If water gets in between the bones and freezes, does it pull them apart? Worth a shot, right?
Setsuna
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    Setsuna takes a breath as his spell holds and he breathes a sigh of relief as his attack holds and looks at Amalthea, " Girl is safe for the moment but we need to draw ugly's fire. " He shouts back, the question being which one is the ugly one. Setsuna is already running though to try to put himself between the barbarian and the girl. Mid run he begins to cast a simple earth spell, maybe it would do damage, maybe it wouldn't , the entire point really to gain the ex-adventurers aggro.
Uta
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    "I saw it! I was inspecting them! He lost the wings icon! He got the monster icon!", Uta blurts out. "Her HP is down to one, we must do /something/!"

    She points her staff at the one-HP girl, and intones a melodious chant, tendrils of light and color interwining with the notes and spiraling towards the near-dead adventurer.

    "Should we even try to kill the skeleton? I mean... can't monster tamers capture a monster without killing it? Or is it not advisable in this case? I'm not one, so I wouldn't know..."
Giganpor
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    Passing by after his attack, Giganpor turns the obvious big target. Much like a tank in mind, he guides the Nightmare into leaping through the flames. It's like an action movie practically as he charges straight for the seven foot tall binder and brings his new weapon around. The buckler on his arm glows green as he approaches.

    Instead of slashing like normal, however, Giganpor brings the weapon around to charge with the spear tip. He's obviously aiming to ram the binder and take it with him. Straight for whatever handy big, large object is nearby that he can rush into. Even if it's just a wall.

    The Earth-like magic fades after the hit or miss, but Giganpor roars out, "Where are you, Auther!? You would dare turn people into this! Your kind will be burned to the ground and your kingdom dust in the wind by the time I am done!"

    Without a doubt, Giganpor is very, very mad. And very, very pissed off. In a way that no one has seen him before. A way that shines through his cloak as an angry, red vibrant glow envelops him.

    That and he's so obviously calling out someone only a few know of. It's definitely not the same Giganpor that most know.
Schneider
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Schneider peers worriedly as the undead warrior attacks the badly wounded player, but there's a shield. He looks around at his allies, he ohs. He hadn't realized we could do that. He looks to the scene unfolding with a worried expression, nonchallantly flicking up a shield against the incoming power, which splashes off it, nearly consuming it before the power fades and dissipates. The other one's casting, but before he can figure out a counterspell, bam, he's interrupted, so Schneider dodges in towards the enemy. Staying clear wasn't a safe option, it seems.

With a word, his sword is utterly engulfed in superhot fire, and he strikes with that fire brand, several punishing blows that further sap its health. It's a bit easier to avoid accidentally incinerating his allies with this than using the fire at range. The effect of the firebrand seems pleasing to him, and it looks like the party is doing okay with this plan. If they can keep it distracted while Uta rescues the injured player, that'd be perfect. Drawing fire doesn't seem to be a problem, they've definitely got its attention now, or so it seems.
Helena Lethe
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    As the Undead Barbarian goes to shift his weight for another attack, he see's Merek raising sending up a magical attack in his direction. While the undead attempts to raise his shield in time, he fails and is knocked back slightly by the impact.

Miho's arrow flies true behind Merek's attack, slamming directly into the eye socket of the skeleton, it rips it out and chucks it to the side in what /might/ be anger. Though such an action would have been better spent, defending himself from Kauchemar's whirling ghost blades as they slash and try to lodge themselves in such ways to make moving even harder for the skeleton warrior.

However, as Mizuki goes to cast magic, the water does in fact impact the Skeleton, but the undead warrior moves up on her quickly with a leap, and then a downward slash with the impact, trying to cancel her spell casting. Though this action lines up perfectly for Setsuna who knocks the undead warrior /right/ off his feet!

Though as the undead picks itself up and tries to get bit of distance. It is seen also casting a spell and seems to return the favor /right/ for Setsuna, as it slams the shield against the ground. This action however might be a bad call, as Setsuna sends a fiery blast for the undead warrior, that cause the newly made monster to nearly stagger back down to the ground, where it slowly rising back up once more...

    [ Mizuki vs 7 | Setsuna vs 8 ]

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    The Harvester is indeed channeling up for a large attack, thankfully as Amalthea comes rushing in, she slams into the armored figure, which cancels the magical attack.

It slides a bit from the impact, and slowly turns to look at her, before shifting its stance. The armor groans and creaks, the magical energy shifts in its unseen body.

Before the hulking armor can make a move, Giganpor comes with the rage of 500 armies! Slamming into the armored being and trying to knock it back. While the heels do slide, the armored figure does not fall over. Instead its hand shifts and with an oddly fast foot work for something so large and so heavy, it swings the halberd around, attempting to catch the two directly in its attack!

    [ Giganpor & Amalthea vs 8 ]

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    Uta manages to heal the female adventurer. She is shaking like a sacred kitten and her eyes are wide in terror. "Th--that shouldn't be possible." She whispers out. "Th-- That can't be possible... I... I need to get back to.. to my other guildmate.. I..."

She doesn't give a thank you, but at least now with her health in better shape, she /does/ make a run for it!
Merek
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    Merek looks to the one that was saved from the Harvester along with the barbarian, then he takes a look back to the two, nodding. He then draws the Shadow Eclipse while he points that to the barbarian, "Twin Dragons!" The man sweeps along to strike at the barbarian. No shield, he wields the weapon in both hands while he begins to dance in the fight.
Kauchemar
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"Good job, Uta. Keep being useful like that." That's.. actually a sincere gratitude and not the mischevious Were Fang's usual back-handed complimenting. She must be in serious mode. Her expression is definately serious, ghostly fumes snorting from her nostrils as her eyes narrow and her ears flick back. One hooved foot scrapes the ground, and then the Nightmare is off running, proving to be quite fast as one would expect of a horse despite a short distance.

The posessed sword returns to its master, meeting her mid-rush to be caught in her hand. But it is drawn back to keep her balance rather than strike.

Instead Kauchmar puts the shield in front of her, channeling elemental energy into it. Water spills from the center of the shield and flows backwards, streams cascading around her as the equine charges upon the barbarian like a crashing tidal wave.
Giganpor
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    With the stab from Nightmare-back not working so well, Giganpor yanks his weapon free. Then twists his horse around as he sees the thing's own polearm coming around. Bringing his shield up, a blast of white light shines out from it as he pushes on the halberd at the same time to change it's arch. Even then, he notices the dip in his HP from it.

    He quickly calls out, "Come forth, Granit!" The summoning circle appears over his head before dropping over him as he shifts to his Were Fang form. And out of that circle comes an ape-like earth elemental. It looks at the angry red glowing Giganpor in a brief bit of confusion before turning to the Binder. Giganpor gives a small grin before causing his Nightmare to rear back. "EARTH--" The Nightmare's hooves come down at the same time as the Earth Ape leaps up and comes down with it's two large fists. "--PILLLAR!"

    A massive column or rock suddenly shoots out of the ground from the twin impacts, aimed to smash into the Harvester with stampede-like force.

    Giganpor calls out again, "Show yourself, coward! Come out, Auther! You and your queen wanted this war! I'm going to end it once I find you two again! I don't care if you are more powerful, I'll bury you again and again until you cease this madness!"
Schneider
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Schneider is going to twist his neck trying to keep track of everything that's going on. The Harvester's been interrupted, though, and the undead barbarian is attacking others, so he grins as he wraps his sorcerous powers around him, calling out his next spell, "Dragonforce!" as the flaming sword he's using gutters out.

The sword is still as hot, though, and flames erupt as the weapon hits, springing from the blade to singe the undead with each blow. He scoots around, trying to eye which way the next attack will come, striking again and again. His mane of hair swirls around him as he attacks the undead barbarian, and his boots scuff the turf, or would if this were the real world. He grits his teeth as the firey blade strikes its target, each hit sapping that HP bar, which is shrinking slowly but steadily.
Amalthea
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    It's a good thing that worked. Amalthea didn't want to know what the massive armored bulk was planning to do up until she slammed into it. But now she's faced with a new problem. The Harvester is turning its attention onto her. But this doesn't deter her.
    It's a Tank's duty to hold aggro.
    Thankfully she won't have to do it alone, when Giganpor comes rushing to her aid, furious and raring for a fight.
    "Alright, let's do this; Giganpor, we'll swap aggro back and forth, let's juggle this hunk of tin and hold him off until the others finish the other one off." She says, flipping her sword in her hand to grip the weapon by the blade.
    Then it comes.
    "Jesus, he's a fast one." Amalthea grunts as she brings her shield up just in time for the great halberd to ring off the heavy armor plating. Even with pain dulled she can feel her arm go numb from the impact, but that doesn't stop her from lunging in to hammer at the massive armored figure with the blunt end of her sword. But her DPS isn't doing so hot for the time being.
Miho
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The fight goes onward and it's far from over the Barbarian keeps going. She was able to give some warning and Amalthea is able to crash into the caster keeping them tied up. Giganpor is about as enraged as Miho is, he's just expressing it better as he goes right after them directly. Thankfully she's been mostly left alone, as she got a chance to line up another shot. She'll draw her bow and fires another bolt at the undead Barbarian followed by a second one. They need to go down so the party can focus fully on the target. She sees the female adventurer is running good she's getting clear. Miho clearly isn't messing about, she'll have to track the lady down later...
Setsuna
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    Setsuna stops infront of the barbarian to put himself infront of the girl and she turns and runs away. " Thats gratitude for you. Hey Uta, you said you were inspecting things. Any chance you got her name ?" He shouts out as he places a buff on his feet allowing him to barely move out of the way of the skeletons attack. So barely in fact if someone looked where he had been standing moments ago they would see a few strands of hair dissolving back into pixels.
     Standing strong Setsuna takes note of the shield, "One thing I always appreciate about the game is the realism." Setsuna's staff gains an electrical charge as he lashes out at the shield, hoping to use it as a conductor for the attack to hit the skeleton it self. If nothing else though, he had its attention.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki's combo is interrupted, and she has to change up the second part, instead summoning a shield of ice to block its attack with!

    They saved the adventurer, but she's running for it! "Uta! Friend her so we can chimlink her after!"

    The skeleton is down, but getting back up. There has to be a way to take advantage of that while it's in a bad position. Claws and teeth aren't much good against bone, and she probably doesn't have the raw strength to just pull bones apart... Still, there must be SOMETHING. It's using a weapon. Would it be as much of a threat without it?

    Mizuki pounces, trying to pin the barbarian's arm to the ground and grab at that sword! Even if she can't take it away, perhaps the grapple will give it trouble attacking or make it easier to hit?
Uta
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    "Well, yes, Setsuna, I do have her name from when I've inspected her earlier," Uta comments while looking at the woman who, by now, is disappearing in the distance. ". It was colored red, and it read... uh.. it was... uh... er... I... I'm sure it'll come to me, later." Mizuki's urgings startle Uta, and that seems to jump-start her brain again. "You're right! I can do that! Why didn't I think of that?", she exclaims, and quickly navigates her air-menu. The frantic tapping implies that the jump-starting was, indeed, effective at jogging her memory and digging the name out of it.

    "Thanks Kauch! You seem to be doing a good job yourself. Everybody is," Uta says as she closes her menu and turns again towards the whole team, "So... uh... no response about the capturing? I guess we don't /capture/ it? I mean, if the guy doesn't respawn, tomorrow, we might be killing him... maybe... we can cure him if we capture him?", mildly worried. Time, however, is of the essence here. She notices an opening, so she makes a dash for the Undead Barbarian, leaps in the air, and swoops down, swinging her staff at it.
Helena Lethe
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    The Barbarian is slow to react to the attack coming in, perhaps already from the extensive damage that the skeleton warrior has already taken. So, even though it tries to parry Merek's attack, the Shadow Eclipse slashes against the undead, leaving a nice gash in the armor.

Though as Kauchemar calls forth the tidal wave, the Barbarian breaks from Merek and raises up the ground to act as a breaker from the massive water. Before shoving that very same wall of earth directly for Kauchemar!

The Arrows come, just as Schneider races in. Between the arrow shots, and Schneider's own flaming blades, the Barbarian can't parry them all and their attacks each find their marks. In this, the Undead attempts to sweep Schneider off balance to get some breathing room, and sends a dark bolt of energy right for Miho to also back her off!

    The undead does in fact, raises the shield against Setsuna's electrical attack and just starts racing right for Setsuna, moving to slam that shield directly into their face, before having to turn their focus quickly on Mizuki, who tackles the undead and away /from/ Setsuna.

The two grapple a bit, before Mizuki manages to unarm the undead, with the sword being flung to the side. With that success, what does she get in her brave efforts? A headbutt from the undead warrior!

Yet here comes a bird, no a plane, NO! It's a Uta slamming the undead directly in the head with her staff from the air! Which knocks the skeleton down to its knees for the moment.

    [ Kauchemar vs 9 | Miho vs 12 | Schneider & Mizuki vs 9 ]

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    Meanwhile with the Harvester, Giganpor sends out a massive shockwave of the earth thanks to his summon, which the large binder almost gets knocked over by, but the massive being corrects itself just in time to meet Amalthea.

Her attack slams hard against the tower shield, which the Harvester holds her at, before using the shield to shove her back once more away. This time, the Havester slams the butt end of teh Halberd into the ground, which sends out a shockwave around it of dark energy for the both of them!

    [ Giganpor & Amalthea vs 12 ]
Giganpor
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    After his slamming of literal earth into the Harvester, Giganpor moves his horse warily towards the side away from Amalthea. At least that is what lets him see the incoming attack in some ways, "Granit, mount up!" The Earth Ape hops on the Nightmare by Giganpor before he raises his shield as it glows blue. A layer of frost covers him, the Nightmare, and Granit. Even then the wave shatters the ice rather than any other effects and the Nightmare rears back.

    Giganpor calls to Amalthea, "Incoming!" Then he looks to Granit, "Shake things up, Granit!" The Nightmare's hooves come down before it twists around and tries to unleash a literal Nightmare kick on the Harvester, even as Granit comes down on the ground and pounds the ground, causing a tremor to shake the ground under the Harvester itself. Footing on unstable ground surely isn't good, right? Especially when it's shaking!
Uta
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    Uta does not waste time. This is martial arts, you do not give your opponent respite. He's down, time to keep the pressure coming, and by pressure we mean the pressure of staff against cranium. She leaps back at the Undead Barbarian, and thrusts the tip of her staff towards his head.
Amalthea
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    With the repelling forces split, the best Amalthea can do is hope she and Giganpor can hold off the harvester long enough for the rest of the group to finish the Barbarian and come to their aid. Though her blade does little against that mighty shield, ringing ineffectually against the heavy plate, she wails on it anyway until time fore reprisal comes.
    As that dark wave lashes out, the old Paladin braces.
    "I see it!" She replies to her fellow Tank's warning as she readies for the dark wave. And counters it with a sudden mighty flare of bright light that erupts from her body.

    "ANCHOR HOWL!"

    It's a loud, ringing, clarion declaration as she soaks the force of the wave and stands her ground.
    "Giganpor, we can't put a scratch on this thing if it's just us. Save your big steam for when the others get over here or you're going to have nothing left by the time they do!" She cautions him as she continues to wail on the armored bulk with her blade.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna braces himself to be tackled and got help it seems as Mizuki saves him from the skeletons tackle. "Man that must of hurt, and getting your weapon stripped. For shame." He mocks the skeleton Barbarian as he steps back. At the call to capture once again though he looks at the others. "Fine if that is the preference we will see what happens. Everyone else get ready to attack it if this fails. " A magic circle appears under him as he activates the magic art, " I call upon Nature itself to seal this creature and bind it into the earth. " He slams the end of his staff into the ground and thorns come up around it trying to grapple the creature and seal it. This would work on any other normal monster after all.
Kauchemar
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The watery force slams into the updated barrier, while foam sloshes around her hooves as Kauchemar skids to a stop, mane flicking as she turns to look back to Uta. "You have to weaken a monster before you capture it, of course." When the stone barrier is shoved her way the binder shield flips in front of her and spins itself edgewise, slice through the stone like a blade to send the pieces scattering around without actually hitting her. "Besides, I'm not familiar with this kind of necromancy, I don't know if I can break whatever control is over him."

When Setsuna, the actual Necromancer tries, that's enough for her. "Still can try beating him into submission!" She draws on some of the elemental energy lingering from her last maneuver, and sends a frothy ball of seamfoam hurtling at the bone barbarian.
Schneider
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Schneider quickly raises a repelling shield, taking the sweeping blows, and is pushed back, though not off balance. He looks to the others as plans go around, and winds up changing attacks back and forth, as our tactics change before he finally goes back to his forte. Unfortunately, somehow in the distraction and confusion, he's lost the bubble, and his fire bolt goes wode and does not hurt it at all.
Merek
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    Merek looks then to the barbarian while he takes a moment to think about it, then he would lift up a hand, while he begins to charge the flame energy. "I call upon the Power of the Burning One, let it shine within and take the form of magic." Then magic circles begin to appear about a hand, "Ragnarok's Wisdom: Unlimited!" Then he strikes the barbarian to weaken it, they need to try to save the person, they need to do what they can. Then he strikes with the power of a full magical strike, his fist swinging into it with a blast of power that would alight all in that flame.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki's hands are free, so she can just hold onto the sword for now, or maybe send it to her inventory. No sense leaving it around for the skeleton to maybe pick up later. She's seen enough movie scenes where people fight over a gun!

    But apparently the skeleton doesn't need a sword, it can just SHOOT DARK MAGIC. "Oh come on!" Hopefully that ability at least has a cooldown! It probably does, or why would the thing try to headbutt her? She turns it aside with the ice shield from earlier. Speaking of which... hmm.

    Well, it works for Giganpor, right? Mizuki braces her right hand and the hilt of the stolen sword against the shield -- she's not sure whether that does anything since it's a magic spell that's just floating in place a couple inches off her left forearm -- then crouches, preparing to pounce, and with a ROAR she leaps against the skeleton with all her might, trying to bash through it with the ice shield like a mini-Giganpor! ...Or at least keep it off balance, even if this isn't a way to do much damage!
Helena Lethe
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    Uta tries to keep the monster down, by slamming it on its head. This does seem to work, as the undead barbarian can't get back up. Merek also adds to trying to break the will of the Monster with its massive attack.

At which when it is hit, the undead warrior is nearly paralyzed in place by the attack. This means attack after attack, even though they don't seem to do much, helps pin this undead warrior in place. So, when Setsuna tries to capture the former adventurer-- It should work, shouldn't it?

    As Setsuna calls upon nature itself, the thorns come up from the ground. They start to wrap around the undead warrior. Everyone trying to hold it into place... And yet-- Yet somehow-- It just /isn't/ enough.

The Undead Barbarian breaks free with a large shove of its body, before seeming to clasp the sword and shield close to itself and then /sinks/ directly into the ground.

The once adventurer is gone. A stunt that Merek has seen before-- It is going 'home', or at least to its now new 'home'. However, that just leaves the massive binder that Amalthea and Giganpor have been dealing with...

Undead Barbarian Retreats...

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    Giganpor's nightmare shakes the very earth, but the armored knight does not budge, instead it slams down its shield and counters the impact like a barrier. Once the nightmare is done, the tower shield rises and the Harvester stares at Giganpor.

Words speak, but they are a hallow, deep ringing. "T h e r e. I s. N o. A u t h e r."

The monster turns to face Amalthea, and as she brings down her blade, the heavy armored binder goes to block her blow, but she manages to land a light slice against the thick armor hull. Then like before, it swings that Halbred around to slam them both with its sharp blade.

        Amalthea & Giganpor vs 10
Merek
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    Merek would look to the undead when it retreats, "We will save him when we can," he notes, then he takes a moment to take Shadow Eclipse into both hands while he begins to maneuver along forward while he sweeps the weapon into the Harvester. There's a dark mist which follows that weapon while he swings up into it.
Uta
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    Uta stands there, in a dramatic stance, fists clenched, staff firmly held in one. She looks down at where the monster was, and pants. "He's undead, Jim," she mutters to herself, before wiping her mouth with her sleeve.

    She turns the other way, reaches into her gi, and pulls out a small metal flask. "Miho, emergency healing potion. Catch!" She throws the flask up in the air, swings her staff back, focuses on the vessel, and... *SMACK*

    She hits the flask as if it was a baseball ball, sending it flying in the direction of the diminutive smith.
Miho
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Miho is forced back for a bit she's hit hard so very hard she's unable to act for the moment as she takes some time to recover once she does however she's back in the game seeing the undead horror flees there nothing can be done about this, they need to hunt it down. As if it's a status effect it either needs to be broken or they need to be taken out. She'll notch her bow again as she looks at the monster facing Amalthea and Giganpor she'll line up the shot and shout out.

"BURST SHOT!"
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar just points a finger at the spot where the skeletal ex-Adventurer sinks away. "That is probably something we should be concerned about... When there's not other pressing matters to deal with."

Like the thing she really wants to actually investigate. The Nightmare Were Fang does a twirl to face the other direction and trots a few steps closer to where the two tanks have been keeping the armored form at bay, though she grabs and sheaths her two posessed weapons as she does. She doesn't want to risk her own Binders getting snatched away from her. Then rubs her hands together. "I was wondering if these still existed in-game~"

She pauses, tapping a finger to her chin. "I think it's time to try something new." She draws her hand back from her face, snapping her fingers. Little sparks fly as she does and a corona of energy forms around her hand, that with a few waves in long flowing motions takes form into... Is that some kind of monsterous eel? Whatever it is, Kauchemar summons it and then hurtles it at the Harvester, where it tries to latch on and release several rapid discharges of electricity.
Schneider
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Schneider grumbles as the undead barbarian retreats into the earth, his own attacks too slow and too late to prevent it. The flames lick off the turf where it vanished. He looks around, back to Amalthea and Giganpor as they fight off what seems actually to be the main villain here. Well, they'd forced the minion back, so now it's time to concentrate on their main target. He peers at the harvester, and holds his palms facing each other in front of his chest, forming a red, crackling ball of energy between them.

"OK," he says. "Lets do this." He takes a deep breath, and seems to hurl the spell energy like a beachball, but the flames condense into a narrow dart and pick up speed as they head toward the target, striking it and sapping down its HP.
Mizuki
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    The undead... retreats? "Hey!" That... is potentially bad, if they need to defeat it to free the adventurer.

    They'll know in 24 hours... if they can find out from his friend where the adventurer was from.

    Mizuki turns towards the undead-maker. Did it say 'There is no Auther' or 'There is no author'?

    Of course, a suit of armor filled with energy ALSO presents a problem for traditional ninja tactics. Although, pretty much any attack does damage in here. So maybe thinking in such terms is useless...
She wonders though -- how does that dark energy react to fire? She looks for a gap in the armor and darts in quick, trying to breathe flame inside it and then leap back, just to see how it interacts!
Amalthea
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    There is no Auther?
    Concerning. Especially how Giganpor had been shouting that name at the start of the battle. But Amalthea simply files it away for later as she scores a hit. But her DPS isn't the best without aid from the others, and she spares a quick glance over her shoulder at the fight with the Barbarian. It retreats, and the others rush in against the Harvester.
    On the one hand the aid is greatly appreciated. On the other, it's a pity the thing had gotten away, but she's not going to scold anyoen over it as that halberd comes down again and rings off her shield, she retaliates, swiping her blade at that heavy armor.
    "-Now- you can go big, Gig."
Giganpor
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    Giganpor brings his shield up again, calling out as the Nightmare stamps a hoof and Granit slams a fist on the ground, "Rock Cradle!" Pillars of earth shoot up, sending the halberd upwards as Giganpor ducks close to his Nightmare.

    Frowning at the fact that this thing has such good footwork, he then pauses as it talks as well. "What the hell?"

    The speaking even gives him pause, "You're actually able to talk?" He looks towards Amalthea briefly to see if she heard it, too. Then he decides even if it can talk... "Granit, Fierceness of Earth, dismiss! I'm going to need someone else for this!"

    Bringing his own weapon around, Giganpor tries to smash in the Harvester's armor and hook it with the hammer or the axe as he tries to make it lose it's footing in a way others can hopefully do something to it. Maybe. The darn thing's large, tough, and agile. Not something Giganpor is happy to be facing right now.
Setsuna
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    "Pity," Setsuna says as the barbarian sinks in to the dirt and he even takes a moment to kick the dirt where it was just to make sure. " I wanted to see if he could join my army." Setsuna turns towards the harvester and smiles. "Seems like he is the only one remaining. We should give those two a break from doing the hard work I think. " Setsuna's staff glows with a black aura that shapes into an orb of energy, raising his staff up the orb launches forward at the harvester as Setsuna calls the attacks name, "Orb of darkness."
Helena Lethe
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    The rest of the Adventurers can at last turn their focus to the /larger/ problem, that being the Harvester, who has entertained Giganpor and Amalthea.

Merek is the first to rush in, swinging the sword to catch the seven foot heavy armor binder in the back. With Miho taking aim and firing off a powerful bow shot, that slams against the hulking armor.

Kauchemar comes in flings an electrical eel, which attaches itself to the armored form. The electrical energy charges across the dark armored form, causing the rune to flicker crimson red for a moment. As it goes to swing around to look in her direction, it is blasted in the face, not once, but twice by Schneider's attack!

While it does not cause the armored binder does not falter, the attacks are trying to chip away at its health. Mizuki adds in with breathing some fire at the seven-foot monster, while Amalthea can now get her own voice in by her sword slash once more across that steel hide.

    Giganapor, slams down with some authority, attempting to trip up the massive armored figure, while Setsuna launches dark balls of energy that explode on impact. Though after all the attacks and impacts, it at last causes that HP to fall a bit, but the Harvester suddenly shifts its stance.

With so many now gathered in, it slams the butt of the Halbred once more into the ground, sending out a dark shockwave across the battlefield toward everyone; including knocking a few close by back a bit.

Everyone vs 12
Setsuna
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    Setsuna had attempted to channel the extra darkness from his staff into an aura around him, using it to escape the wave and buffer the darkness. That only worked as well as letting him get hit midjump as he is knocked to the ground with a thud. That hurt , even for reduced pain levels, that hurt. Getting back to his feet Setsuna begins his counter attack as a s magic circle appears under his feet, "I call upon those who have fell in battle. Rise up and return to the battlefield. Strike down this enemy." He slams the butt of his staff into the ground, letting the magic seek out the corpses of those who have fallen long ago in past battles and rise out of the ground. " Go get him." He sends a pack of skeletons towards the havester, maybe not as beefy as the cowardly barbarian, but they make up for it in spirit and eagerness to please their summoner. Also the extra numbers help too.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki doesn't get time to think. Something about the way that halberd is moving triggers a subconscious gamer reflex -- ground-shake attack coming, JUMP! So she does, Stone Catapulting herself high in the air just in time as the earthquake ravages the party below her.

    She repeats the attempted skill combo from before, this time doing the ninpo hand seals in the air, then holding the charge as she lands behind the Harvester and bends some water against it, trying to get it into those joints before spewing another freezing breath!
Giganpor
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    Giganpor, being not quite ready when everyone else arrives, ends up using water to try to slide away. Unfortunately, Nightmares are not good at water walking. Something Giganpor probably forgot. And ends up with Nightmare and rider going down even as Granit dismisses himself before the wave.

    Rolling to get a kneeling position, Giganpor stands slowly from that. "Depths of the ocean, freezing winds! Heed my call! Come forth, Rane!" A serpent-like water elemental appears out of the summoning circle that circles around him. "Give me some cover, Rane."

    Giganpor brings his weapon around to lay against his shield as he takes a stance before charging forward and swinging as the weapon and shield both glow a bright blue. Water envelops the axe as he tries to chop into the Harvester with a massive two-handed strike hopefully. The Nightmare meanwhile, gets up, and waits as if trying to figure out what to do.
Merek
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    Merek is swung back by the halberd which swings at them, then he tries to shift back into a stance, nodding a bit. The man begins to shift forward while he takes a hand up, "Flame Pillar!" He then swings the tornado of flame into the Harvester while he watches the party.
Uta
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    Uta's reaction is lightning fast, she keeps jumping from spot to spot, minimizing contact with the ground, until she manages to sort of get in a line of sight with Amalthea.

    "Attempting another heal!", she announces, and begins singing a majestic hymn, tendrils of magic and color weaving with the sounds as they depart for the gem encased in the head of her staff.
Amalthea
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    And then things take a turn for the worse. That wave of darkness comes rushing forth again, and though Amalthea's shield glows with a white light, there's little she can do to brace it this time, getting flung back by the force, she grunts and remains on hands and knees for a beat before she pushes herself up to her feet, wincing at the chunk of her HP bar that's simply vanished from the attack.
    "Thanks, Uta." She says through gritted teeth. Uta is trying, but this deep in the melee Amalthea's HP crawls in comparison to the damage being done to her as she staggers back into the melee.
    "This is turning sour." She says, hands glowing white as she slaps Giganpor on the back, raising his HP by a chunk before she braces for reprisal.
Miho
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Things are just getting worse and worse the dark wave crosses the battlefield and there's just no stopping it Miho is caught in dark lighting for a moment screaming as her HP start to fall at a very scary rate. She will draw her Katana and get in close going in but as she does so she'll have her blade burst into flames as she attacks the undead caster with her flaming Katana! "I'm not done /yet/."
Schneider
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Schneider acks at the incoming attack and throws up his best shield, which shatters like an eggshell and as he goes tumbling, so too do his HP. So much for his defensive capability. He gets to his feet again, and attempts to flick off a quick attack, chanting, "Gunzenro!" and hurling a small ball of intense flame at the Harvester, which strikes it, and chews down it's HP. It's never enough, but it's better than nothing!

He looks around at the aftermath of the attack that seems to have hurt so many of the party, and he grumbles, "I hope he doesn't have too many of those left. "C'mon," he urges. "This is the home stretch! We can do this!"
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar scores a direct hit! She was hoping that armor would still have some conductivity in it. Though once it's released the discharge the giant eel disipitates back into the elemental aether. Kauchemar notices the rune flickering though. That's interesting.

So interesting in fact that she almost doesn't realize the thing is attacking. On reflex she jumps to avoid the tremors, but that's not the real attack and the energy shockwave catchs her on the way down and knocks her on her ass.

"Okay, being curious is going to have to wait," she mutters as she gets back onto her hooves. She did briefly consider divining the nature of that rune, but the fight is getting too hectic and if he's going to throw attacks like that around she doesn't have time to focus for very long. She dusts her dress off.

"Uh.. would it be bad time to mention I kind of want one of those. I mean, the haunted armor type monster." She jabs a finger at the Harvester. "Not this one." And slings one of her sparks of negative energy at it. "It's clearly subpar, if it couldn't take down two tanks while the DPS was busy elsewhere."
Helena Lethe
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    The undead forces that Setsuna summons go charging after the Harvester. They slam their attacks against that dark armored hide, slowly causing the metal to lose some of its mystical sheen. Mizuki attempts to freeze the armor, with her Ninja magic, which does seem to work, slowing down the armored monster just a bit!

Giganpor summons water around his weapon of choice, slamming hard into the Harvester, which the water slashes down, it attempts to freeze over thanks to what Mizuki had cast. Merek and Schneider have the same idea it would seem. Use fire, which causes the armor that has been frozen over to 'crack', or take the appearance of cracking from the sudden heat on ice.

For the first time-- The Harvester nearly stumbles and almost gets knocked back by Kauchemar's own flinging of magic.

    Miho comes charging in, only to find her flaming katana slamming into the massive binder's shield. The flames lick across it, trying to penetrate, before the Harvester shoves her back slightly.

The Harvester then slowly looks down at Miho, before the stance suddenly shifts. She would be the first to see it, the halberd is swung around, the blade moving to catch all that are /far/ to close to it. Then after the massive swing, it slams the butt down again, but this time those in the back have to suddenly avoid dark energy that explodes directly under their feet!

    [ Setsuna, Mizuki, Giganpor, Miho vs 8]
        [ Everyone Else vs 9]
Setsuna
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    Setsuna smiles, its almost like he is having fun at the moment, as the Halberd comes swinging at him he raises his arms and summons a barrier of rock infront of him to deflect the weapon" I agree, one of these things would be cool to have as a pet. However definiately would need to upgrade its equipment, raise its stats. Invest the time." The summoner takes the shield of earth that he summoned and redistributes the magic before flinging the pillar magically at the armor. "Best to find better stock to begin with. This one can simply return to the earth."
Uta
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    Uta screams back at Kauchemar and Setsuna, "Are you KIDDING me?! You call this sub-par?! I've never faced anything this terrifying in my life! I pray to the Three Goddesses that tailors don't have the ability to inspect status effects on clothes worn by adventurers, because I fear I'm /very close/ to developing a rather embarrassing one!"

    The Binder Strikes, and once again, Uta takes the approach of avoiding contact with the ground as much as possible. Air magic propels her steps, farther away, higher, and once she's there, flap! She spreads her dark wings and feather falls, extending the time she spends away from Earth. A series of air-enhanced leaps and falls later, she ends up pretty much unaffected by what the Earth is doing. "Well, what do you know. These wings are not completely useless, it would seem."

    The rumbling subsides a little, and Uta takes the opportunity to narrow her eyes and propel her air-powered steps towards the enemy. She swings her staff away, farther away than she's done before. Seems like she's preparing for something big, and indeed-

    ...ouch. That is one MIGHTY blow she's about to deliver.
Schneider
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Schneider is knocked from his feet by the shock of the dark energy that explodes beneath his feet, and his HP, already hurting, drops further, showing red now. "Ah, damn!" he shouts in alarm, and calls out to the others, "Good luck!" he shouts as he scrambles clear. So much for his legend of invincibility. Now it doesn't even exist in his own imagination! He fumbles at his menu for a few moments, but he's got way too much going on, and it takes most of his mental energy to get clear.
Kauchemar
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Dark energy erupts like an angry gyser from the ground! ... And Kauchemar just steps out of it, doing her best to mimic looking bored. But the sharper eye might notice the steam whafting off her from the elemental aura she conjured in the split-seconds needed to protect herself from the assault, and she's just hamming it up. Though not to the levels she normally would, because this is still a serious situation. Of course, Uta doesn't get it. "It's called trash talking, Uta," she snaps back. "It's a very important aspect of high risk battles."

But lets not get distracted this time. "Okay big fella. It's time to put an end to this." She sashays up, not quite into the front lines with the melees and tanks, but close enough for them to see the sinister shimmer in her eyes. "Let's get this situation all nicely tied up..." And she does that unnaturally wide unhinging open her jaws can do... But it's not to sing, or scream like she's done before.

Instead darkness erupts from her open maw, spreading into numerous barbed tendrils of shadow and entropy that are going to dig furiously into anything they can wrap around, even metal armor.

It's not EXACTLY the same technique, and she sure as hell isn't going to try and EAT the Binder Armor... But Giganpor and a few others might still recognize what morbid thing she's trying to recreate.
Merek
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    Merek looks to that Harvester while he takes a moment to lift up what looks to be a wind shield, before he swings about upon the hip, then he places both hands up while he focuses them forward a bit with the forming upon the magical energy.
Amalthea
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    There's that wave again. This time, Amalthea is ready for it, bracing behind her shield as she grits her teeth and it washes over her.
    "Just go, get to safety." She says to Schneider when he starts clearing out. "No one's going to hold a thing against you."
    This is when she reels back her arm-- and slams her blade into the ground hard enough to send an explosive wave right back at the armored bulk with a grunt, but once again her DPS is just lacking.
Miho
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Miho is knowing just how serious it is with the Harvester, they have to go down even as the party brings it's full wrath against it. The attacks come again however Miho is able to fend off the attack this time shifing her own weaponb to intercept the strike, before she tries to slip in and score a counter attack.
Giganpor
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    "Hah!" Giganpor brings up his shield, glowing with some power as it blocks the halberd, even if he's pushed back. The Were Fang growls at the Harvester, "Who sent you!?"

    Then he roars it out, "WHO BROUGHT YOU INTO BEING!?" The obvious thing is... that's not a normal roar. Especially whenever there's a brief visible movement of the air. Followed by a boom as Giganpor unleashes the good old Splitting Bark move.

    Giganpor still looks very mad, but that is slowly being taken over by a more blue glow. It's obvious that he's calming down a little. "Was it Auther or the queen?" He growls.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki sees that halberd raised, and bends back with impossible feline flexibility as the blade swings by, where it would have cut her in half a split-second ago! She rolls with the momentum, raising herself up on her hands and pushing off the ground to fling herself in the air, spinning in midair to try and land on the armor's shoulders, before leaning down to breathe fire into that helmet point-blank!
Helena Lethe
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    Setsuna flings the massive pillar of earth directly for the Harvester, who raises up its shield with ease, swatting it away like a nuisance of a spell. Allowing the rocks to go flying into the nearby burnt building.

Uta charges in and slams hard onto the shoulder pauldron of the binder, causing it to dent just slightly from the force, before it shifts ever so slightly away from her. Which gives the binder a chance to use its halberd to cut away the tendrils as they try to get in close, with quick, simple, precise movements.

Amalthea sends a wave directly for the Harvester, who raises up his tower shield to block the strike, that impacts hard against the metal. When the monster goes to move though, Merek sneaks an attack right in there, that slams against the armored chest of the binder, causing it to dent inward a bit.

    Miho swings the blade and it cuts across the armor of the Harvester before the seven foot creature could return the attack once more. Mizuki then races up, leaping into the air, and blasts flames into the binder's face. The armor glowing hot red as it staggers back slightly.

Then here comes Giganpor comes in, with all his anger and rage. The hammer slams hard into the Harvester as it staggers to the side a little. While the Werefang answers his question only finds continuing silence.

The monster goes to bring up the Halbred, only for it to suddenly hold, as if something getting its attention or perhaps-- something else? Either way, it shifts its stance. The halberd locks behind the Tower shield, as both come to rest in the front and like the undead it created, it too sinks down into the earth.

Once more, another monster heading 'home', where ever home was, which continues to elude the adventurers.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar licks her lips with her demonic tongue and smacks them a few times. "Doing that still leaves a weird taste in my mouth." She needs to work on projecting that spell in that manner it seems.

The Binder Armor does like the bonebarian, but this time it's more noticable, since it stopped in preparing an attack to do so. Monsters under control only do that if...

"It didn't just retreat It was -called- back." She offers. "These superior type of undead are such a pain in the tail." Her tail gives a swish at the mention. "They keep doing things they shouldn't be doing."
Giganpor
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    Giganpor waits a second, ready to shield himself with his buckler. And then the boss starts to sink. Giganpor moves forward, spear and axe head scraping the ground before he charges forward.

    Bringing the hammer head of his weapon around as he leaps, there's a massive explosion of earth and stone as his weapon impacts where the boss was. Growling, Giganpor gives off a roar again. Not with the Splitting Bark behind it, but it's obvious he's very, very mad at what happened.

    Looking around, he calls out, "Clear the village of any undead. If you need healing, come find me." He pauses, and looks pointedly at the Scale Emblem members, "In case you didn't realize it, this isn't a game any more."

    Then he moves to his Nightmare mount and starts off down a street, looking for more undead to slay or people that need help.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna prepares for the next attack and gets ready to leap away when the monster runs. The damn thing just ran away. He blinks for a few moments unsure if it really left before he approaches the spot it disappeared. Looking around and not seeing the monster returning he does the only thing he can think of , he knocks his staff on the ground where it disappeared as well for good measure. " Whoever called it back really is not a good sport. Just because it was about to lose,oh no lets save it." It is possible Setsuna is a little arrogant and is basking in victory, until the sourpuss Giganpor begins roaring orders. Setsuna can't help but let the comment on top of his head slip though, " We could make it a game. Seems to always help chores go faster."
Amalthea
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    And...
    And there is goes.
    Amalthea clicks her teeth as the amored beast sinks into the ground and vanishes before the job can be finished, and curses under her breath. Jamming her sword into the ground, she takes a moment to catch her breath.
    "I'm already well aware this is no game, Giganpor." She says firmly. "Between the Landers and every threat that turns up, I am more than aware this is a whole new world we're trapped in and never said anything different." She mutters, dusting herself off.
    "I trust we'll have -much- to discuss tomorrow."
Uta
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    Uta props herself up with her staff, exhausted. "It... left? It... left?" She slowly, very slowly slides down, eyes closing more and more, until, all of a sudden, she is on her knees, looking up. "Thank goodness it's over. Thank goodness..." She turns to Giganpor and Amalthea, her head swimming. "...I don't know what this is anymore... I... I don't know..."
Mizuki
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    Mizuki smiles as she sees the damage pile on! They'll have this thing dead soon-- but then it runs away. "Oh, COME ON!" She makes a fist and yells at the ground it disappeared into. "No fair! You're not supposed to run, you're supposed to stay until we kill you! Okay, well, that's not what we do, but there'll always be more monsters..."

    Mizuki sighs, and looks around at the burning town.

    "Uta, did you get that adventurer on your friends list so we can contact her?"

    Mizuki looks at the sword she's holding, and tries to identify it. You never know! Just as with the synthetic oil, some detail of the name or description might reveal something important...
Miho
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Things are looking bad for the Party as the undsead horror is still going, yet something unexpected happens the undead flee? That can't be goods she lowers her weapon sigh and turns to Giganpor for a moment.

"Lets do a full sweap."

She will be making ready to ge to work but she'll pause at Setsuna fdor a momen her tail goes up ram rod straight and she stalks towards them.

"Game? Sporting? This is not a game did oyu not see just what /happened/."

There's a spurst or two of flame from her mouth.

"This is not a game and you need to learn that /fast/. We need to find that surivor and find out what that PVP knows... if anything." She then stalks off fuming still unless she's stopped.
Merek
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    Merek looks forward along to that Harvester when it's called back, then he nods while he begins to sheath the Shadow Eclipse. There's a look to everyone else, "... Between this along with the end times Moon Mirror being taken, I don't know what to think. The insect army, the undead army, now Cocytus." The man looks to the party, nodding to Giganpor.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar brays laughter at both of Setsuna's comments. "Isn't that the truth! I like you. And we seem to have a similar taste in certain kinds of monsters, as well." She opens her menu with the brief flourish to send the Necromancer a proper friend request this time.
Mizuki
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    "...It says it belongs to 'Ichiya'." Mizuki shares. "Other than that it looks like just a normal sword any of us would use." She vanishes it into her inventory and turns to look at Miho yelling at Setsuna.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki nods. "Was she in a party with him? Does he show up like a normal dead player now, or does his status readout on the party HUD look different?"
Uta
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Uta is still struggling to mantain consciousness. "Ichiya," Uta says, at exactly the same time Mizuki says the name. Oddly enough, Uta hasn't even been /looking/ at the sword. "The man who was turned into a skeleton... his name... was Ichiya." She shakes her head. "Let... let me check if..." Eyes swimming in and out of focus, legs and finger trembling, still kneeled down and limp, propping herself up with her staff, she navigates through the menu. "...Yes. Hammer accepted. She doesn't want to talk right now, but I'll arrange to have your messges delivered if you tell me what you want..." Her eyes close, and she appears to nod off. She raises it again, springing back to semi-attention. "...on the other hand... write things down as well, if you can. I might forget in my tired state."
Setsuna
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    Setsuna turns back as it appears his humor hit a sore spot with Miho and as the young Salamander berates him he simply stares her down until she finishes. " Yes I saw what I saw and you saw what you saw. The only difference between us that I am aware of , unless you know something more then I do, is how we are coping with it. You are getting upset and panicking, I am making jokes. You are letting fear control you and I am controling my fear. So before you get upset for me making a joke take a breath." He turns away from Miho as if to signal he is done discussing this with her and looks at Kauchemar putting a smile back on his face," Thank you , and I would agree our tastes seem to be similar in a few aspects to say the least." With the invisible hand waving that comes from menu interactions he happily accepts the friend request and adds Kauchemar as a friend.
     Setsuna turns back to the group, "She mentioned guildmates, they may be able to help explain a few things if the woman can't. At least about the guys tendencies." He hadn't just been listening to Miho it would seem.