[x] Finish that creepy, giant, skeleton baby!
-[x] Just in case, throw another energy slash at it for the finisher, let's not get close and risk an injury.
It's time to finish it. The skeleton baby monster that's probably a witch looks like it would die to a gentle breeze. But as the saying goes about things being cornered, it's probably best to play it safe. Kishi would never forgive you for getting hurt because you were not careful, and she'd never stop bringing it up in situations like this.
Oh, and getting injured would probably suck too. Pain has an unfortunate tendency to hurt, after all.
You stick your sword into your shield, and draw up on what remains of your shield's energy charge. You'll finish this with another ranged attack, another slash at the creepy skeleton. The thing is already fumbling for another big thing to hurl at you, and you'd rather attack first.
[Tamiko attacks: 73 vs 73]
[Kishi attacks: 99 vs 19]
You draw your sword in a quick motion, sending a flash to the direction of the skeleton. At the same time, a hail of familiar rifle fire from Kishi's position strikes it. The thing lets out one final shriek, before it falls down in shattered pieces, dead.
You breathe out a sigh of relief and nod at your friends perched atop the giant toy.
'Good job, everyone!'
Mariko seems suspicious, however.
'No, this is not right. This-' You hear a crack behind you.
'Look out!!!'
It doesn't register to you fast enough, and confused as you are by the warning, you barely manage to register what's happening as you turn your gaze around.
[??? Attacks: 108 vs 40]
It also seems to slow down for you. You see shattered pieces of Mariko's barrier in the air, already vanishing into thin air, the attempt having done little good. Slamming into you is a shadow, darker than the night in the projectors' lights, its shape that of a claw.
And then you're grasped by its chilling touch, and forcibly pressed onto the floor. The hand drags you across the ground, shattering both it and your body. You can't even scream until it pulls to a stop at one of the walls you're slammed against. The only thing that comes out is a pained gasp for air.
You're fairly sure something is broken, considering the all-encompassing pain you're in. It's the deliriousness that keeps it from overcoming you as you settle in and let it fade. But it's also because of your state that you're forced to look down onto the disintegrating floor.
Pieces of what remains of the clearing's floor are floating in the air, some rising, some falling, some floating. Around you, the ground is coming apart and the stacks of toys falling and floating together with it.
Below of it all are new walls and floors, built into platforms that all have their own gravity. Floors are sideways and upside down, in all directions. Gone are the toys, however, replaced by shelves, books tables, chairs that cover the walls and floors, some floating in the air without directions… all grey and shadowed between the projector screens.
Living and swirling in the scenery is an indistinct mass of shadows, as dark as the appendage grappling you. The dark hides the shape's distinctiveness, but you can understand how it coils unto itself, eating itself in ways that hurt your eyes the more you look at it. And in that darkness you can see a thousand lit green eyes, which are replaced by another thousand as soon as you blink.
All of them are pointed at you.
Tamiko shield charge: 20/100
What do you do?
[] Write-in.
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...I had a lot of fun with this witch.
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