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KAIJU FIGHT #2

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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▶ 001 A. house of mouse;

[ as hunter skulks through the themepark, looking for their enemy (flapjack on his shoulder), something compels him to check out the rides. is it because they look fun? is it because his soul is owned by disney? no, of course not. clearly an enemy could be lurking anywhere. he turns to whoever his companion is, or a teammate who just happens to be in the vicinity. then he points dramatically at!! big thunder mountain! ]

Come with me. I'm going to commandeer that vehicle so we can get to a higher vantage point.

[ and off he goes to the the ride! this is definitely not going to horribly backfire, right? ]

▶ 001 B. model citizen;

[ hunter has somehow come into this adorable stitch plushie. in fact, he looks kind of embarrassed to be holding it. surely someone wasn't slacking off on their mission to play a game and win a little prize, were they? ]

[ he notices his teammate's eye as they catch him in the act--- and his entire face goes red. he shoves the plushie at them ]

Take it!

▶ 002. (muffled hollow mind in the distance) (limit 1 please!)

[ at first, the obviously fake animatronics didn't impress him. he'd walked through the so called "haunted" mansion (please! it's not like he's afraid of spiders or skeletons or fake graves!) with a snort at every jumpscare. but the deeper he goes, the more it starts to be more than little unnervingly familiar. it isn't long before he's lost. before he sees his own reflection somewhere and it looks --- wrong. he thinks he sees his old golden guard mask reflected back at him, and as he tries to back away from it, something grabs his leg and he trips, falling down on his knees. there's just a hand protruding from the ground, and he looks around and sees scattered skulls. real? fake? he doesn't know. ]

No, no, this is just.... some kind of amusement park... it's not real, it's not...

[ he starts hyperventilating, still trying to yank his foot free and fumbling because his hands are shaking too hard. this is quite the sight to walk in on... ]

▶ 003. flapjack express;

[ wow, that gecko is getting massive! and dangerous! there's sparks in the air, and along the ground. it's getting very unsafe to be out here, especially for those who don't have a convenient way to avoid shocks, or huge gecko appendages stomping through the park! luckily (????) hunter is here to help, flying in on his palisman staff! yee haw ]

[ whether or not you need a rescue -- or simply a lift, his hand reaches out for yours with surprising strength, pulling you onto the staff behind it. it's also surprisingly sturdy for being essentially a stick. ]

Hold on tight!

[ once he's sure you're secure, he's soaring into the air with you behind him! ]

Where to?

[ attack? or just higher ground? ]

▶ 004. i can give you a real makeover (into a lizard)

[ surprisingly, the reptilian hybrids are probably the most familiar and normal sight to hunter's eyes. including the irritability and vertigo. not including the actual transformation from human to not human -- that part is a tad horrifying. he's in the thick of it, using flapjack's staff form to dodge swipes, hit them with earth or ice magic, leading them into traps, and overall keeping them occupied. ]

[ to whoever is with him, he barks an order: ]

Get to the generator! I'll hold them off!

[ as one of them tries to take a chunk out of leg but just gets a bit of his plugsuit. wuh woh. ]

▶ wildcard;

[ plotting comment here! but feel free to hit me with a wildcard or request a custom prompt! ]

[ it's chaos out in the streets. every time they strike down one of these gecko creatures, another pops up. hunter is a trained soldier with flapjack's magic, but even he's starting to get a little worn down. still, he's just cleared this particular area, and moves onto the next, taking a moment to catch his breath ]

[ ... or, more like a quarter of a moment. he catches sight of lae'zel actually struggling with one of the larger creatures. it seems like she's injured it quite badly, but in the process has gotten bitten. the gecko sinks its teeth into her, and hunter remembers what he read about how the geckos kill their victims. lae'zel isn't human, but her electrical impulses probably work the same way, so without a second to lose, hunter's gripping flapjack!! in palisman form!! and teleporting over to shoot it through the head (careful to avoid hitting lae'zel) with ice spikes ]

Get away from her!

[ Was she expecting to be helped? No, not really. But she wasn't going to let that stop her from ultimately prevailing against this beast — at least in her own mind. The bite is painful, but not enough to shred her focus entirely. Just when she's beginning to think she'll need to go to extreme measures to get the thing off —

The pressure on the wound suddenly lets up, and she feels a burst of cold air in the vicinity.

Hunter appears like a blur, and a surprising one at that. She allows herself one (1) single moment to be taken aback, briefly turning her head towards the sound of his voice, before fully cashing in on the distraction he's caused. It will surely die from the injury that was dealt to it... but she needs to remove her blade, anyhow. With a harsh twist and pull, she eviscerates the gecko in a graceful movement, now that she's facing less resistance, and guts join the brain matter that's been spilt from his attack. Slowly, the beast starts to slip off her and fall limp to the ground. ]

Hunter. [ Her eyes track him , drawn to that strange staff from before. ] For future occasions, you should know that it's best not to take prey from a githyanki warrior.

[ Which would've been much more searing if she wasn't... well! Impressed with his form. Instead, it comes out rather casually. ]

I'd hunt you next, were it not for your decisiveness in battle.

[ he's gearing up to finish it just as he was trained to, but unsurprisingly, she finishes it first ]

[ he..... prods it with the butt of the palisman staff, just to make sure, but it's pretty freaking dead. ]

You're welcome. [ he says in a huff, because they both know the gecko had the upper hand in that encounter. otherwise, he's fine to move on. the casual threat doesn't really phase him, since that's just normal emperor's coven stuff!! ]

There's more of them out there. Are you okay to keep moving, or do you need a second?

[ or, like, healing. but that much he can't offer ]

[ His dry sarcasm is taken in stride, while she reorients herself and shrugs off some of the tension the fight had brought out, tossing some of her blood stained hair back over her shoulder. She bears a wound from the bite, but she doesn't bear any outward semblance of pain or desire to stop fighting.]

We will keep moving. What I need is to continue this battle.

[ She answers confidently, first swiveling her head around to ensure they're not about to be ambushed by a second beast — before drawing her golden eyes back to him. She meets his eyes without an ounce of hesitation. To tell the truth, she's a little humbled to be helped by him... but as prideful as she is, she's also direct and blunt, true to herself and her feelings. She wouldn't dismiss such an action as meaningless. ]

But the carnage will be swifter if we collaborate. Come. I'd like to see more of these spells of yours.

[ Here's where she would usually tell people to fuck off and stay out of her way... instead, allowing someone to fight by her side is the best way she knows to communicate her respect. ]

[ he does appraise the wound as she tosses her hair back fabulously. it doesn't seem to slow her down any, and he's the last person who would ever doubt her battle prowess, but he does want to make sure it's not still bleeding. if it is, he'll procure some small strips of clothing to wrap it. but otherwise, he just nods to her when she talks about continuing the battle. he does seem to puff up a little at her approval, though. aww ]

[ he's also still holding flapjack in staff form, similarly scanning the area at all times. hashtag paranoid ]

Right. Those things are attracted to electricity, so the best place to start is one of those.... rides. [ pointing vaguely towards the closest ride, the carousel, because it's the funniest thing i can think of ] You specialize in close-range fighting?

[ awww not him puffing up.... she likes to see it. No use in not being prideful!! ]

Yes.

[ She confirms, letting her gaze wander over to the carousel, which is spinning just a bit faster than usual. ]

But I excel in ranged combat, as well. Or would, here, were I armed properly.

[ LILITH should have given her a free crossbow, that's all. She just can't help herself from saying a snide thing about LILITH whenever she gets the chance. Rather than continue to look at him, she keeps her eyes trained on the carousel as they move forward, alert for the first sign of an ambush. ]

In my experience, spells perform better at a range.

[ But she's listening, if he's about to tell her something different about his magecraft. ]

▶ 001. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

▶ 002. BOO WHO?

▶ 003. LET'S GECK-GO!

▶ 004. A RIFT IN SPACE-TIME

▶ 005. AFTERMATH.

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

hunter / owl house / everlight

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