KAIJU FIGHT #2

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KAIJU FIGHT #2

CONTENT WARNINGS: electrophobia, body horror, death/injury, gore, violence.

▶ 001. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

On the 1st of April, Outsiders will be rudely awakened by the sudden voice of Captain Yamakawa:

"Angels of Lilith. I require your immediate attention. Through your efforts at extracting information from our captives, and intel collected by our intelligence team, we have located the culprits who have stolen our specimens and are conducting illegal experiments. Your mission briefing will arrive shortly. Take caution, however. The Neo Tokyo Meteorological Agency is reporting strange abnormalities in their readings. We will look further into this. For now, stay sharp and be prepared."

The alarm will sound in the base, urging all Outsiders to suit up, bring their weapons and get ready for the mission. A location pin will then be downloaded into their implant, along with an associated mission briefing. The location will lead to an abandoned amusement park that might be familiar to some - Tokyo Disneyland. The brief will report that according to intel, there is an unauthorized research facility hidden within the premises. Outsiders are to locate it, storm it, and seize any lab specimens they can find.

To get to the theme park, characters will be able to take trains to the edge of Neo Tokyo where they can then be transported by armored trucks through what remains of old roads. Eventually, when the terrain becomes too destroyed and overgrown with brush, they’ll have to travel by foot the rest of the way. However, they will have to be careful because it looks like someone has laid out traps. Some of them are designed to capture animals but others are clearly booby traps meant to deter intruders.

From the outside, nothing looks out of the ordinary in this old park - there are classic attractions such as Cinderella’s castle, the Haunted Mansion, Alice’s Teacup ride, the Western River Railroad, and many, many more. While most of the rides are weathered down and no longer functional, there are plenty of old gift shops and carnival game booths with prizes to take home for free (if you don’t mind a really old Minnie Mouse doll).

LILITH was not able to pinpoint exactly where this secret laboratory is hidden within the enormous park, and it’s now up to the Outsiders to find it. All implants will be fitted with a heat-seeking function to allow Outsiders to detect anomalies within the park.

The first part of the mission is simple: Scour the rides and attractions and find the entrance.

Outsiders may encounter more booby traps while searching the park. Traps will range from making parts of attractions and buildings collapse on intruders to more elaborate and high-tech ones like electric fields or explosive traps. Players are more than welcome to come up with their own traps so long as it fits the setting.

▶ 002. BOO WHO?

Eventually, Outsiders will find themselves drawn to the Haunted Mansion, where there appear to be several abnormal signs of life. While the mansion would hardly have been scary to anyone but children several hundred years ago, centuries without any sort of maintenance have turned the place into a real nightmare. Pitch darkness, decrepit fake graves that look like they could be real ones, and the mysterious chatter of – is that a ghost? There are flickers of life within the old animatronics, and ever so often you might see a skeleton or zombie twitch. They might even take a swing at an unsuspecting Outsider.

The deeper into the mansion you travel, the more power it appears to have, until the Outsiders reach a door that appears to be heavily guarded by a group of humans holding vicious chimeras on a leash.

Once LILITH receives this intel, the next order is given: Storm the lab immediately!

▶ 003. LET'S GECK-GO!

As the Outsiders infiltrate the lab, the air buzzes with electricity and everyone's hair begins to stand on end not from fear but from the sheer amount of energy generated. There may be a lot of machines generating a lot of power and some of it may be spilling excess electricity into the air but this feels different. It feels more potent.

Suddenly, the park comes to life. Old generators buzz to life, staticky music begins to play on the worn out speakers, and the lights begin to flash. From the overgrowth surrounding the park, trees begin to topple over. It is obvious that something is approaching and whatever it is seems to have a lot of energy. From the trees, a giant, gecko-like creature emerges. The air around it sparks and each step it takes generates a wave of electricity that follows the many wires and systems laid out underground.

The energy at the park seems to be drawing the unknown kaiju towards the park and more geckos appear from the forests behind it. They move quickly through the park and climb over the buildings and attractions. When they see a hybrid or a person nearby, they will stun them with their electric fields and try to eat them. As they begin to swarm the park, they go into a feeding frenzy that infects the air around them. Rides begin to spin faster, the music grows louder, lights explode, and the more electricity and power the geckos absorb, the bigger they become when they shed their skins.

One gecko in particular grows faster than the others. This one will keep growing with no apparent end in sight and begins climbing over the highest rides until they topple under its weight. Outsiders will have to avoid collapsing rubble and climb over ruined attractions to take down this kaiju while also stopping the other geckos from growing to the same size.

After dealing with the gecko kaiju for some time without any information, a report will finally come in:

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: Yamadenki
HEIGHT: 3 metres- unknown (does not stop growing)
WEIGHT: 1,500-70,000 kg
CLASS: Dangerous
LOCATION: Kanto, Japan
ABILITIES: Stores electricity within its body. Uses static electricity to climb up and stick to objects. Can use electric shocks to stun and injure prey. The more energy they absorb, the bigger they grow. When close enough to a human, it kills them by biting into their flesh and absorbing the electrical currents within the cells, disrupting the heart rate and nervous system. It then eats the flesh.
WEAKNESS: Attacks to the head and body. Ice and extreme cold (they are cold blooded).
EXTRA NOTES: Can regrow appendages. Their severed appendages and bodies can retain electricity for an unknown amount of time so proceed with caution.

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Cut off the supply of electricity at the park by disabling all generators
✖ Bring back the Yamadenki (alive or dead) for research purposes
✖ Bring back the hybrid specimens
✖ Capture all suspicious persons for interrogation

█ █ █ ATTACHED PHOTO:

The Outsiders will have to cut off all energy supplies to stop feeding the newly named Yamadenki and then defeat them.

▶ 004. A RIFT IN SPACE-TIME

"MAYDAY, MAYDAY! Unknown energy signal detected! Reaching maximum output! Our sensors are detecting a breach in the inter-dimensional fabric!"

An hour into battle, Outsiders will receive a sudden warning signal, urging them to complete their mission and eliminate the Yamadenki before it’s too late. All that concentrated energy generated at the park is being corrupted by the Yamadenki, and it’s not long before a rift bursts through from beneath the Haunted Mansion, causing a huge explosion and a rain of rubble and mysterious energy. It’s the first of its kind. A rift has never opened this close to Neo Tokyo!

Energy from the rift seems to affect anyone standing too close to it, transforming any unprotected human into a snarling, groaning, human-reptilian hybrid. These hybrids have electrical qualities similar to the Yamadenki and are just as ferocious. The plugsuits issued by LILITH should protect characters against any nasty transformations (unless there is some damage to them or they have taken them off), but exposure to the rift can still result in increased headaches, vertigo, irritability and impulsiveness.

The rift is growing larger by the minute, and from the other side of it - the growling of a number of unknown beasts can be heard. Even the higher ups within LILITH are anxious about this. The only way to stop the rift is to cut off its power supply.

"Angels of LILITH! We must act fast! Disable all generators and subdue the Kaiju before it’s too late!"

▶ 005. AFTERMATH.

As the Outsiders shut down generators and take down the Yamadenki, the rift shrinks in size until finally it closes. Everything at the park goes still now that there is no more power to run things. Some of the corrupted humans and hybrids still linger and will have to be taken down or captured but they are in weakened states now that the rift has closed.

Outsiders will be tasked with capturing the Rift-infected humans who will then be transported to LILITH base for treatment... if they can be treated, that is. Outsiders will also need to report for treatment. Characters may experience the lingering effects of the rift such as the vertigo, headaches, shorter tempers, and impulsive behavior. The LILITH medics aren’t sure what to do other than prescribing bed rest and maybe offering some medication for their headaches. The worst cases may be prescribed sedatives.

Normally, LILITH would order the Outsiders to retrieve specimens from the field but given the events that unfolded, they are told to standby until a special research unit can inspect the area for contamination and give the all clear.

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our second Kaiju log! As before, all prompts are highly encouraged but OOCly optional. ICly, any characters suffering negative effects from the rift will recover within a week, though you are welcome to determine the severity of their symptoms during that time.

Feel free to NPC your characters' fights with the smaller kaijus. The main fight with the largest gecko will be determined via a HP-based system (See below).

All tags in this log count for 2 reward points each. Ask any further questions below!

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March 7th | Honkai Star Rail | Redemption

[bowtography]

BUT FIRST, WE PUTZ

a. the shops, the prizes, the dust

[ She may be in a (very form-fitting, not the comfiest) plugsuit, instead of a cute date outfit, but March 7th is not about to be fully deterred by things like Work.

Well, no, that's not true, she is diligently scouring the park for signs of weird heat signals and other mysterious things, but if she just so happens to find a dusty bag that she has been gradually filling up with things acquired at prize stands and abandoned gift shops, isn't that just multitasking? Pretty impressive, actually, if you ask her. Feel free to ask her if that Mickey Mouse headband with eight layers of dust would go well with your eyes or maybe join her as she dubiously studies a massive rainbow lollipop and gives it a testing tap against the counter. ]

What's the expiration date on this thing...? Do they even have expiration dates?

[ If there was one on it before, it sure doesn't exist now, though at least the plastic seems to have miraculously held up. ]


b. the boob(y)

[ March is not graceful. She's working on it, truly she is, but sometimes you have to be an extra level of graceful to avoid booby traps and that sure is not her level. Instead, feel free to approach as the dust clears from the teacups, several of which have been blown sky-high, and.

Miraculously, there's the sound of a struggle from inside one of said teacups, overturned, as though someone is trying to heave it up.

Amazing. Splendiferous. You can probably see a glimpse of pink if you squint. And muffled-- ]

Seriously?

HAUNTED MANSION

[ All right, back to work (she was working before, she was, don't mind the bag now hanging off one shoulder)!

This isn't as... easy to tune out as everything outside, unfortunately. And March appears to be aware of it, bow clutched close more like a comforting plushie than an actual weapon. It's fine, she's ready to get it into position at a moment's notice, but as the floor creaks further down the hall, she tenses up immediately. Did she imagine a low, menacing cackle?

It's fine. It's fine!!

(Anyone can definitely scare her right now, though.) ]

Did you hear that...?

THE BRAWL

[ It has probably been hilarious for anyone who has seen March throughout this journey to see her go from chipper and mood-maker to Not Thrilled to Ready For Violence, though she's not bloodthirsty like. Some People.

She is focused on picking off the little (sorta) guys though with her arrows, the projectiles themselves apparently fashioned completely from ice, and she's doing her best to ensure that they're not crowding too close to anyone who looks like they might need it.

Regardless, she'll call out to anyone nearby-- ]

Need an extra defensive boost? I can give you a little more padding!

[ Alternatively, you can also go knock her out of the path of a lunging lizard, because she can't exactly fend them all off, you know? ]

THE AFTERMATH

[ Someone is very tired. She stuck around to help take down generators and capture a few lizard people, but from the looks of things, she's a bit of a mess. Splattered in blood (at least most of it probably is not her own), tentatively holding her other arm at the shoulder, and also kind of listing to one side.

All normal things. No biggie, actually.

But she blinks at you, then closes her eyes with a faint groan, nonetheless moving one hand enough to offer you a tired victory sign. ]

Go, team... could you maybe stop moving for a second?

WILDCARD

( If you want to do anything else or your own special starter, just hit me up! )

haunted mansion 👻 —

[hitokiller]

( the urge to poke fun at her is seriously tempting, with izou not being all that perturbed by the faintest breeze after that creak or even the eerie stillness of the leftover décor. )

Prob'ly just the wind.

( if anything, their being stuck together in the dark on another mission has him nervous for another reason entirely, leaving his heart suspended and stubborn as it fought against the need to thump upon his chest.

it wasn't like he was her caretaker or anything. it wasn't, and yet... an attempt to dissuade her worries tumbles out of his mouth anyway: )

Don't forget we got that heat-seeking tech or whatever.

[bowtography]

[ When being with March is scarier than potentially dealing with ghosts... he's right to Dread. ]

--Oh, right. [ Said on the breath of an exhale, because actually yes, she did forget. She should be able to notice a threat and the threat should have a heat signature, which means it wouldn't be anything surreal or supernatural...

Not that March is that afraid of ghosts, but the atmosphere has her on edge already. Time to try to act like that is Not The Case as they continue down the dark, dreary hall. ]

Kind of funny to think we were doing our first mission together only about a month ago, huh?

[ And now! They're friends!!!

(He still has not admitted to that.) ]

there will be brawl

[icyspicy]

[ WHAT ABOUT someone knocks a lunging lizard out of its path instead? Which is what happens when a blast of void-and-starlight catches one of the smaller geckos mid-leap, knocking it away from her. Two more blasts follow it, striking the creature while it tries to get back up. ]

I’ve got your six. Keep shooting.

[bowtography]

On it!

[ She's seen what these things can do by now, and she's not too interested in leaving herself open. Her arms will get tired eventually, but she's been in far too many fights by now to let the thought of that deter her, keeping the bow level as she fires off another volley of ice and takes two more down. Permanently, she isn't sure, but it gives them a bit of a breather. ]

Still, at least these ones aren't trying to burrow into your body...

The boob(y)

[afoolshope]

[Seriously, indeed.

Minato had approached once he heard the explosion. At the muffled voice within, he couldn't help but think the same thing. How the hell did this girl survive that and get trapped inside the teacup?

He sighed. He wasn't sure he was going to be strong enough for this but it was worth a try. Minato looked for a spot that he could try and slip his fingers underneath the rim.]

Over here, try to lift on this side.

[He grunted as he tried to lift the huge teacup, hopefully March found the same spot he did to also try and lift it up.]

[bowtography]

[ it takes her a few more seconds, but then Minato will find that it's not As Stupidly Hard to hoist, because March has indeed found the same spot and put her back into it. So to speak.

Through their joint efforts, the cup does eventually tip over, and March tumbles out, gasping. ]

T-thanks... that was way too close...!

the brawl!!

[bruisehaver]

[ Lae'zel is no stranger to battle tactics — it'd be a fool's move to leave a ranged fighter out to dry. She's lost count of the amount of times she's fended off enemies so that her allies could fire off a well timed spell or arrow, and this is no different from that.

That's why, when a gecko lunges at March from the back, it's Lae'zel who intervenes by putting her great sword right through it's skull with a loud battle cry. When she flings it back to the ground, it flops lifelessly, the blood spray getting on them both. There are more small ones coming this way, but Lae'zel doesn't budge from where she's standing, keeping her sword drawn so that the geckos will have to get through her first to get at the other woman. ]

Stay close to me!

[ She barks, shifting to a low and ready stance. ]

We'll need to eliminate these, first!

[bowtography]

[ Thanks, Lae'zel, you're a peach. ]

Fine by me!

[ On both counts! March works better with at least one other person at her side, preferably someone who can pull off close-combat a lot better than she can, and despite the... unfortunate amount of blood flying around right now, she can ignore it in favor of moving closer to Lae'zel.

One hand briefly leaves the bow to make a gesture mid-air, the air itself seeming to strengthen around her battle buddy to make her a little less easy to chomp. ]

I'm going to pick off the ones further back--I'm leaving any of the ones who get past to you!

[ There's too many to happily claim it won't happen, sadly. ]

haunted mansion.

[yuwon]

[ this is a terrain he was probably the least familiar with. back on earth, he never really felt the explicit need to travel to places so obviously catered to fostering closer relationships with people. that said, per usual he finds it easier to travel alone. except, considering that all the outsiders partake in the same missions— it's easier said than done. you can't exactly avoid everyone in the whole fray of things.

similar to now. unfortunately, despite being in a dimly lit environment, he doesn't really do much to make his presence known. he doesn't offer any words, instead he walks through silently some distance from her. it probably also doesn't help that he may have unintentionally been deploying some of his stealth skill.

it only seems to undo when he speaks closer, right behind her: ] It's probably in your head.

[bowtography]

[ I'm very sorry to Yuwon, because she probably did actually forget he himself was there, maybe just assumed it was someone she knew, or someone closer, but not close as in right behind her and so when he speaks--

March lets out a shriek, tripping over her own feet as she tries to whip around to deal with the Potential Scary Thing (this beautiful man) and you know what, that's.

It is what it is, she's going down. ]

brawl!!

[wheft]

[ ishmael's doing a good job so far, sustaining her sanity levels with snagharpoon as she pierces every gecko within reach. but at some point, she and march are close to being surrounded, and ishmael can't keep single-attacking them for so long. ]

You can do that? Gimme!

[ she's gonna need some time thinking on what E.G.O to use in the meantime... ]

[bowtography]

[ March nods, tracing some kind of unknown shape in the air and it's almost as though the space around Ishmael solidifies protectively. A bit of a barrier, it seems, shielding her from more of the onslaught by taking the hits instead. ]

I think I can buy you a little more time, but there's no guaranteeing it'll freeze enough of them, so brace yourself!

[ She's already forming another ice arrow as she speaks, setting it to the string and letting it fly up into the air instead of at the geckos directly. Ice rains down, striking several of them; as promised, some of them are instantly turned into ice sculptures, a fine mist drifting off of them, while others make irritable growls at the pain and creep forward regardless. ]

the aftermath

[penaltypoints]

[ Given the context, the picture of post-battle exhaustion that March makes consists of "normal" consequences, but the contrast is quite dramatic, after witnessing her intervening to lend her assistance, earlier. All signs point to her being the one who should stop moving now. It seems much quieter, at least — her abilities won't be called upon for a while.

Yesod glances March over, perfectly still aside from that. ]

I don't think that will address the problem.

[ After a moment's pause, he reaches out, prepared to steady her. ]

[bowtography]

It should.

[ A little grumpily, but her eyes open again as he reaches out to steady her--which, honestly, she sorely does need. She's about as wobbly as newborn Bambi right now.

Thanks for being solid and not moving, actually. ]

We're... we're done, right?

Brawl

[keihatsu]

I'm fine!

[ Shizuka finding herself and March trapped in the middle of the smaller geckos. Shizuka thinks she can easily kill them all, but March being here, she feels the need to half her attention to protect her "friend", whose offer of help she just brushed off like that.

Instead, Shizuka creates an opening, lunging forward like a streak of light with quick slashes of her sword fending off any gecko in her path, creating an opening for them to escape the encirclement. Shizuka turns around while flicking the blood off her sword because she is one of those bloodthirsty people unlike March. ]

Here. Hurry!

[ She wants the big one. Let the others deal with the small fry. ]

[bowtography]

[ Ah, why does she know so many stubborn people...

March sighs a little, under her breath, but takes off running after Shizuka because if nothing else, at least she can help boost her defenses if she's going after the Big Guy, whether Shizuka actually wants said help or not. And it's not like March herself wants to stay behind in a crowd of zappy geckos. ]

You're not gonna be all that fine if you're picking a fight with Geckozilla over there, you know?

shops!!

[crisantemo]

I'm not... really sure.

[ Lapis is watching as March taps the questionable confectionery against the counter, arms folded and head tilted. She may also have her own little bag stuffed with dusty headbands and princess memorabilia. ]

It looks okay, and there's no holes in the plastic. So I think it should be safe.

[bowtography]

That's kind of what I was thinking too! At the very least, maybe as long as you don't try to bite it, it's probably fine?

[ Only heathens bite lollipops, surely. She'll just have to give it to someone patient though, just in case, and March tucks it into the bag with a decisive nod and turns to Lapis. ]

Thanks for the input!

didney

[frostfist]

[ So here they are browsing through some of the abandoned gift shops lining one of the empty amusement park streets, and here he is wearing one of the most unflattering shirts he's ever worn in his life. Which is saying something, given that there was a period in his life where his clothes were all hand-me-downs covered in grime.

He's trying not to think about it, but it's really hard when they pass by the occasional unbroken mirror and he's forced to contend with his reflection. ]

How long am I supposed to wear this again?

[ Please say not for the duration of the whole mission. ]

[bowtography]

Hmm... until we find the research facility? [ For motivation! ]

Or if you really like it that much--

[ No. She's aware he doesn't like it. But March personally thinks it's very funny. If anyone could pull it off, it's probably Wriothesley, so hopefully no one else decides to give the shirt a spin. ]

boobs

[assassinsgreed]

<sub>[ When it came to avoiding traps like this, Toji was a pro. He's long since trained his senses to be a little.. extra. Any slight change in atmospheric pressure, or any slight rustle or rattle from a trap about to go off is caught by his sensitive ears and sense of touch. The teacups were almost laughable as he evaded each and every one, but he pauses when he sees one rattling nearby and even more so when he hears it speak.

Despite being a lumbering, massive person, Toji is somehow magnificently graceful as he bounds in the air, avoiding a few more traps and lands right before the one that has seemed to caught someone underneath. Heavy things isn't a problem either as he bends down and seems to effortlessly lift the cup off of the person who ...

... seems to be a very cute girl. ]</sub>

What have we here? Someone who was a little bit too slow?

[bowtography]

[ Yep, there she is. A cute girl who was a little too slow, staring up at a massive guy who just lifted that giant cup off of her like it was no big deal.

She looks a little disoriented for a few seconds, clearly not having expected any of this to happen, but then she's staggering to her feet and peering a little more closely at her savior.

... Nope, she has no idea who this is. ]

Still in one piece, though. [ Still a victory. ]

But thanks for the assist!

brawl!!!

[newphew]

[ well, he'll do a little better than knock her out of the way! he's soaring in on his staff just like before, but this time, he's suddenly teleporting right next to her -- and tugging her onto the staff behind him! hold on tight, march!! ]

Watch out!

[bowtography]

[ Oh, she sure went from being on the ground to being on a staff and no longer on the ground and thankfully Hunter said something or she would have immediately fallen off in her shock.

As it stands, she latches on to him a split second later with a yelp. ]

Wh--Hunter????

[ Hi. ]