Adolphe's grip on his sword tightens, and he sidles in front of Aqua and Karlach on the ground protectively. He stands his own ground for a moment, but extremely hesitantly and uncertainly. Lucas doesn't scare him so much as worry him immensely.
He at least doesn't brandish the sword any higher aggressively.
"Just give her back," Adolphe tries carefully. "She can save everyone else."
[HELP do not be worried do not be afraid. Anyway this just sets off his brain soup even worse he really is going to end up attacking his own damn party at this rate. NO!!! NO SACRIFICING NADIA!!!!! He just kicked the shit out of and potentially killed the person who was trying to save her, he has no qualms killing the shit out of anyone who'd try to give up Nadia's life for any reason.
Which is to say, he'll support Nadia with one arm and withdraw his quarterstaff with the other, and then he just dashes at Adolphe with the full intent to just slam it into the side of his head with his full strength. HE SAID ONE CHANCE BINCH.]
Adolphe isn't sure if he can dodge the velocity of this kick. He starts to bring his sword up as fast as possible, but doesn't get there in time. The quarterstaff slams him, folding the sword and his hands against himself. It lifts him up off the ground and sends him flying over behind Aqua and Kalarch.
[STOP SCREAMING YOU DID THIIIIIS he's still holding Nadia very carefully with his one arm even though her quivering doesn't seem to register. Rather, he just approaches the other two with his quarterstaff held in front of himself, not striking yet but clearly ready.]
Aqua and Karlach are still a rocked heap on the ground. Aqua trying to sit up, and Karlach is struggling to at least get to one knee. Their gazes up to him are pinched, apologetic, but not free of guilt. Placating.
"You don't understand," Karlach says. "It could be all over. Everyone else would be okay!"
Hesitantly, but tersely, Aqua says, "If she's going to die anyway... Lucas--"
There are footsteps behind Lucas again, lighter this time, running hurriedly. Someone else is approaching...
Well he's whipping around as soon as he hears someone else but his soup brain has truly been activated by these comments. If she's going to die anyway. His blood is singing and he looks away from Nona just long enough to try swinging his staff into Aqua's head too GOD. HE'S JUST CRACKING MELONS OUT HERE.
Whether it hits or not, he'll also look past Nona since she seems to be running to see if he can spot anyone else, but he's also eying Nona up like he's about to start blasting her way too.]
Nona gets a brief exchange of glances with Nadia who lifts her head to peep at her from over Lucas's shoulder. But as soon as Lucas moves to swing, she gives a soft cry of horror and surprise and buries her face back into his shoulder.
Much to Nona's likely horror, Aqua takes a whole quarterstaff to the side of the head, blitzing her open. Most of the gore gets on Karlach, but she is already leaping up to try and charging Lucas head-on. As tanks do, you know.
she waves her singular arm wildly when lucas starts eyeing her, and well this whole thing is bad and she's wincing at aqua getting her head bashed but oh god they need to focus]
Aaaaaah, Lucas, it's me, Nona! You know, with Kate and Gojo? Who we should really find a way to get back to!?
[FOCUS YOU SAY???? HE IS FOCUSING!!!!! He's focusing on taking Karlach the hell out. POOR SWEET NADIA IS STILL JUST ALONG FOR THIS NIGHTMARE RIDE WATCHING HER SWEET BROTHER BASH HEADS LIKE COCONUTS. His goal is to protect the fragile life in his arms and destroy anything that might threaten it; everyone is enemy-shaped to his stupid soup brain ass right now.
But at least he's ignoring Nona for the time being!! He'll face Karlach in a way that covers Nadia even if it leaves him open to damage because they're just tank vs tank right now, feinting like he's going to whack her with the quarterstaff before going for another kick instead.]
Karlach is large, so it's a little ridiculous to try to stop the charging semi-truck when it's already at top speed. She's not agile enough in this moment to do anything except fall for the feint and watch the incoming kick fly toward her. It probably breaks a lot of her ribs.
She soars back and away and lands on top of poor Adolphe's body with a loud groan.
[WELL I'M SORRY NONA BUT AFTER KARLACH'S LAID OUT, IF SHE SEEMS TO BE DOWN FOR THE COUNT, HE JUST TURNS ON HER AND STARTS TERMINATOR RUNNING HER WAY TOO.]
AAAAAAA. Not the way Lucas is charging full-steam ahead. I really did this to Nona, MY GOD.
Nadia is clinging for dear life to Lucas's neck, as usual, as she has been for so long since his sleeper agent switch got tripped. "Don't!" he cries. "Please, stop! Brother!"
What springs out into being when Nona casts the summon is a large dire wolf. It lands in the path Lucas is charging down, already prepared to jump into an attack of retaliation. Now we roll d20s like we're Beyblading with spinning tops.
HE DOESN'T EVEN HEAR NONA OR EVEN REALLY REGISTER NADIA AT THIS POINT HE'S JUST IN FULLASS ATTACK MODE INCLUDING THIS DIRE WOLF THAT'S ALSO GETTING READY TO ATTACK HIM BACK. He'll try to use his quarterstaff like a fucking spear but if the wolf gets too close he's temporarily abandoning attacking to make sure Nadia is fully shielded.]
[assumes that's his sister she's not 100% sure but who else would it be. DOES THIS WOLF UNDERSTAND HER WHO KNOWS anyway i rolled an 8 oh dear. while this is happening nona does her best to awkwardly pull her cloak of invisibility over herself with one arm.]
Ok, now it's in the right spot. Well, I rolled a 9, so that's about how this thread is going.
The dire wolf lunges at Lucas's legs. It snaps the left ankle in between its jaws and bares down through the skin, though doesn't get very far in the effort before the end of the quarterstaff just impales it straight through the body.
Instead of dying as a normal animal would (or like the cats...), the wolf disperses suddenly into magical dust which vaporizes into the air and disappears.
The only thing left now is Nona, but she winks out of existence.
[NONA........... the way i'm once again playing a character who would just walk on a broken bone. This is a hard thing to do with a snapped ankle but neither this nor the sudden magical dust dispersion or this attacking wolf nor Nona just disappearing seem to rattle him out of his sleeper agent state.
Anyway he just throws his quarterstaff like a javelin where he last saw Nona my god. HE CAN'T TERMINATOR RUN EASILY ANYMORE AT LEAST (can he still terminator run at all) maybe he's scary.]
[me like can i use animal friendship on terminator lucas
she ducks, thinking over her options. if there's any chance she can locate kate or gojo (unaware that gojo has LEFT) or if her only option left is to fight lucas, potentially to the death. going over what she has in her arsenal, if so.
after a moment of deliberation, she tosses her explorer's pack at lucas and then darts off to the side, keeping her cloak wrapped around her. then, she will attempt to stealth her way towards him so she can stab him in idk somewhere that looks vital but where nadia isn't in the way.]
Lucas really was going to spear Nona like Moby Dick, wow.
Nona has time while she's quiet, while Lucas is distracted momentarily by the pack. The invisible cloak gives her an advantage on sneaking, though she passively has an upper hand already as her own class.
From this angle, the lower stomach is likely the best place. Nadia is young, but in Lucas's arms, she takes up a lot of room on his chest, obscuring it from attack. It happens swiftly, the blink of an eye. Nona is stabbing, and then the world is caving in on itself.
The entirety of the edge of the dimensional Plane begins to quake and shiver. It rumbles then, loud, the sound of something like paper shredding. The edges of reality start bending over and tumbling down and away, being sucked into a distant vortex by some unfelt gravitational force. The two of you can feel yourselves get squeezed, not unlike spaghetti, not unlike the very soul of you getting unraveled.
It takes everything with it. It takes them, too. Nona, Lucas. It takes you along with Kate, too.
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He at least doesn't brandish the sword any higher aggressively.
"Just give her back," Adolphe tries carefully. "She can save everyone else."
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Which is to say, he'll support Nadia with one arm and withdraw his quarterstaff with the other, and then he just dashes at Adolphe with the full intent to just slam it into the side of his head with his full strength. HE SAID ONE CHANCE BINCH.]
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Adolphe isn't sure if he can dodge the velocity of this kick. He starts to bring his sword up as fast as possible, but doesn't get there in time. The quarterstaff slams him, folding the sword and his hands against himself. It lifts him up off the ground and sends him flying over behind Aqua and Kalarch.
Nadia is quivering in his arms...
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Are you trying to kill her...?
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Aqua and Karlach are still a rocked heap on the ground. Aqua trying to sit up, and Karlach is struggling to at least get to one knee. Their gazes up to him are pinched, apologetic, but not free of guilt. Placating.
"You don't understand," Karlach says. "It could be all over. Everyone else would be okay!"
Hesitantly, but tersely, Aqua says, "If she's going to die anyway... Lucas--"
There are footsteps behind Lucas again, lighter this time, running hurriedly. Someone else is approaching...
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she is running over here as though fleeing from something.]
—Lucas!? [looks between him and the others.] ... Is now a bad time...?
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Well he's whipping around as soon as he hears someone else but his soup brain has truly been activated by these comments. If she's going to die anyway. His blood is singing and he looks away from Nona just long enough to try swinging his staff into Aqua's head too GOD. HE'S JUST CRACKING MELONS OUT HERE.
Whether it hits or not, he'll also look past Nona since she seems to be running to see if he can spot anyone else, but he's also eying Nona up like he's about to start blasting her way too.]
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Nona gets a brief exchange of glances with Nadia who lifts her head to peep at her from over Lucas's shoulder. But as soon as Lucas moves to swing, she gives a soft cry of horror and surprise and buries her face back into his shoulder.
Much to Nona's likely horror, Aqua takes a whole quarterstaff to the side of the head, blitzing her open. Most of the gore gets on Karlach, but she is already leaping up to try and charging Lucas head-on. As tanks do, you know.
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she waves her singular arm wildly when lucas starts eyeing her, and well this whole thing is bad and she's wincing at aqua getting her head bashed but oh god they need to focus]
Aaaaaah, Lucas, it's me, Nona! You know, with Kate and Gojo? Who we should really find a way to get back to!?
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But at least he's ignoring Nona for the time being!! He'll face Karlach in a way that covers Nadia even if it leaves him open to damage because they're just tank vs tank right now, feinting like he's going to whack her with the quarterstaff before going for another kick instead.]
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She soars back and away and lands on top of poor Adolphe's body with a loud groan.
Nona........
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Seriously, what is going on!?
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I don't want to fight you, Lucas...!
[BUT SHE WILL IF SHE HAS TO OR RATHER SHE'S INVOKING SUMMON BEAST TO MAKE SOMEONE ELSE FIGHT LUCAS]
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Nadia is clinging for dear life to Lucas's neck, as usual, as she has been for so long since his sleeper agent switch got tripped. "Don't!" he cries. "Please, stop! Brother!"
What springs out into being when Nona casts the summon is a large dire wolf. It lands in the path Lucas is charging down, already prepared to jump into an attack of retaliation. Now we roll d20s like we're Beyblading with spinning tops.
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HE DOESN'T EVEN HEAR NONA OR EVEN REALLY REGISTER NADIA AT THIS POINT HE'S JUST IN FULLASS ATTACK MODE INCLUDING THIS DIRE WOLF THAT'S ALSO GETTING READY TO ATTACK HIM BACK. He'll try to use his quarterstaff like a fucking spear but if the wolf gets too close he's temporarily abandoning attacking to make sure Nadia is fully shielded.]
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[assumes that's his sister she's not 100% sure but who else would it be. DOES THIS WOLF UNDERSTAND HER WHO KNOWS anyway i rolled an 8 oh dear. while this is happening nona does her best to awkwardly pull her cloak of invisibility over herself with one arm.]
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The dire wolf lunges at Lucas's legs. It snaps the left ankle in between its jaws and bares down through the skin, though doesn't get very far in the effort before the end of the quarterstaff just impales it straight through the body.
Instead of dying as a normal animal would (or like the cats...), the wolf disperses suddenly into magical dust which vaporizes into the air and disappears.
The only thing left now is Nona, but she winks out of existence.
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Anyway he just throws his quarterstaff like a javelin where he last saw Nona my god. HE CAN'T TERMINATOR RUN EASILY ANYMORE AT LEAST (can he still terminator run at all) maybe he's scary.]
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she ducks, thinking over her options. if there's any chance she can locate kate or gojo (unaware that gojo has LEFT) or if her only option left is to fight lucas, potentially to the death. going over what she has in her arsenal, if so.
after a moment of deliberation, she tosses her explorer's pack at lucas and then darts off to the side, keeping her cloak wrapped around her. then, she will attempt to stealth her way towards him so she can stab him in idk somewhere that looks vital but where nadia isn't in the way.]
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Nona has time while she's quiet, while Lucas is distracted momentarily by the pack. The invisible cloak gives her an advantage on sneaking, though she passively has an upper hand already as her own class.
From this angle, the lower stomach is likely the best place. Nadia is young, but in Lucas's arms, she takes up a lot of room on his chest, obscuring it from attack. It happens swiftly, the blink of an eye. Nona is stabbing, and then the world is caving in on itself.
The entirety of the edge of the dimensional Plane begins to quake and shiver. It rumbles then, loud, the sound of something like paper shredding. The edges of reality start bending over and tumbling down and away, being sucked into a distant vortex by some unfelt gravitational force. The two of you can feel yourselves get squeezed, not unlike spaghetti, not unlike the very soul of you getting unraveled.
It takes everything with it. It takes them, too. Nona, Lucas. It takes you along with Kate, too.