Darius smirked "All according to plan!" The bullets shot by Darius pass through the rubble as it is being destroyed, either by Typhons acid or Albert spell. Through it pass the four explosive bullets Which fly towards the cannons. Behind them, as it was fired later, was one mundane bullet carrying one not So Mundane young man and his murderous rabbit, a save and calculated distances behind the explosive rounds, the shoots planned in such a way the explosion would have ran their course by the time Valiard lands.
Meanwhile, heading the cannonshots, Remi turns to the passengers with guns and weapons. "Alright, we need to be ready for anything. Stay inside the train and get ready to fight if you have too. I'll be back if we win. If we don't, you've got bigger issues." He runs towards the tunnel.
Darius yells "Now Arche!"
Darius points his gun upwards fires 4 rounds (he had switched clips before entering the tunnel) while Typhon breathes in and fires globs of acid to open a hole to lessen the rubble, making it easier for Elizabeth to deal with. As planned, the group converges. Now Elizabeth can make shield, deflect the rocks or just lessen them.
Honestly, that part was up to her and her companion.
Elizabeth deflects the rocks into the ship, prioritising hitting the base of the masts with the largest, the insides of the cannons with those that would fit, any cleats or chocks visible with the sharpest and the windows with everything left over.
She puts a flexible force-field around each person, in the hopes of bleeding the momentum out of fast or heavy impacts.
She sets fire to everything powdered in the vicinity of the ship and moves any of those powders near party members toward halyards or clockwork joints.
Mina is using long tentacles to bat away the smaller rocks, mostly in the direction of the ghost ship. Larger rocks she is attempting to break apart with her blows.
Courtesy of primarily Albert's Trap Jammer card, the rocks halt their descent in midair, never quite reaching you. Then Elizabeth calls upon her expertise with the Solid Arts, applying kinetic energy to the several tons of stone to send it flying right at the strange ship.
The ship is having none of this, as its masts extend and flex in a disturbingly organic manner, allowing it to easily block the incoming stones with its sails, backmasting one particularly large boulder and sending it flying into the darkness elsewhere.
The explosive rounds Darius fired blast some holes in the sails, and it is through one of these holes that Valliard has managed to get on board, landing on the deck. There are no hatches to get below deck, meaning you'll need to get creative if you want to enter.
At this same time, you hear a loud "RATATATATATATATATA" s an autocannon fires behind you, blasting you with incendiary shells. Fortunately, it's Darius and Mina that take the brunt of this damage, from a small group of clockwork crew lugging a salvaged autocannon from the gunboat.
That's not all though, as the monster points the tips of its masts at your group, one reaching off into the darkness to brace against a rocky outcrop. Energy concentrates at the tip of each mast, before shooting off as a massive beam of energy. Elizabeth's force fields are holding for now, but it's taking everything she's got to keep you all from being instantly disintegrated.
What now, my dear Bound?
The explosive rounds Darius fired blast some holes in the sails, and it is through one of these holes that Valliard has managed to get on board, landing on the deck. There are no hatches to get below deck, meaning you'll need to get creative if
Valiard grows out to normal size, before using the Bio-Belt to increase his density. His weight increases due to this, as physics determines. He tries to push his weight as far as it will go.
"That's it? Oh, fine. My Evv'See's done far more. Far more" Albert muttered, glaring at the ship.
A moment passes.
"You asked for it." He declared, simultaneously invoking the Pre-Ass Kicking One-Liner Trope.
He then takes out his Grandoise Staff, invoking Magic Staff while at it, and then proceeds to cast a trope-augmented Flame Strike (As a Druid) on the stupid ship.
Courtesy of primarily Albert's Trap Jammer card, the rocks halt their descent in midair, never quite reaching you. Then Elizabeth calls upon her expertise with the Solid Arts, applying kinetic energy to the several tons of stone to send it flying right at the strange ship.
The ship is having none of this, as its masts extend and flex in a disturbingly organic manner, allowing it to easily block the incoming stones with its sails, backmasting one particularly large boulder and sending it flying into the darkness elsewhere.
The explosive rounds Darius fired blast some holes in the sails, and it is through one of these holes that Valliard has managed to get on board, landing on the deck. There are no hatches to get below deck, meaning you'll need to get creative if you want to enter.
At this same time, you hear a loud "RATATATATATATATATA" s an autocannon fires behind you, blasting you with incendiary shells. Fortunately, it's Darius and Mina that take the brunt of this damage, from a small group of clockwork crew lugging a salvaged autocannon from the gunboat.
That's not all though, as the monster points the tips of its masts at your group, one reaching off into the darkness to brace against a rocky outcrop. Energy concentrates at the tip of each mast, before shooting off as a massive beam of energy. Elizabeth's force fields are holding for now, but it's taking everything she's got to keep you all from being instantly disintegrated.
What now, my dear Bound?
"That's it? Oh, fine. My Evv'See's done far more. Far more" Albert muttered, glaring at the ship.
A moment passes.
"You asked for it." He declared, simultaneously invoking the Pre-Ass Kicking One-Liner Trope.
He then takes out his Grandoise Staff, invoking Magic Staff while at it, and then proceeds to cast a trope-augmented Flame Strike (As a Druid) on the stupid ship.
Darius looks to Albert "I hope you realise you are talking to a pirate ship...that shoots lazer. Granted this is not the weirdest thing I have ever...seen." Wait...this is a wooden pirate ship that talks and shoots lazer and I have seen shit that makes this looks Mundane... " What is my live?" Darius asks himself. He Then shakes his heads and focusses on the situation. He looks over his shoulder to the gunnary crew. He removes the clips for his armour piercing rifle and shows them and the rifle in Rannoch's arms "Loaded clip has 4 shots, the clip With Then mark carved in has 3 shots and the third is full. 8 shots a go So 15 shots Total. I wil deal with the straglers" Darius turns to Albert and whistled while pointing at him "Typhon wil now listen to you Albert, use the whistle commands we established while making the plan, Ye?" He turns to Mina "...this is going to bloody suck isn't it?" He Then runs into the cavern, focussing liquid art on his leg So He can keep running while tanking the incendiary rounds. Good thing his clothes are fire proof (and acid proof...and Lightning proof...and water proof...Darius is not paranoïd as you can see). He Then Flips over the cannon, wounded as He is and tries to fight to crew there with sword and pistol.
Mina sighs, then slips into the water. The lasers will boil the surface, but she doesn't intend to be anywhere near the surface. Hopefully coming up from below will avoid any defenses.
When it comes to Darius vs a small group of Clockwork Crew... There's no contest, he shreds the lot of them. The ones he doesn't outright smash with his service pistol from range quickly meet a messy end at the tip of his cane sword, which rips through them like tissue paper.
Meanwhile, Albert's Flame Strike has slammed down towards the stern of the ship, leading the laser bombardment to suddenly cut off as the monster panics and begins to frantically use its sails to scoop water onto the inferno.
Valliard is still onboard the ship, ready to do whatever.
Mina is in the water, making her way towards the ship monster's underside.
"You believe water will save you." Albert muttered, to himself and to the monster both.
"You are wrong." The Bound said, eyes crackling with power, manifesting Control Flames on the newly-made Inferno to increase it's size by 3 steps, simultaneously Invoking Friendly Fireproof Trope on Valliard to make the knight immune to his own, coincidentally fire-based attack.
Seeing that he can't increase his weight to the point that he is too heavy for the ship's structure to support, he then decides to just smash his way into the heart of the ship. The Killer Rabbit assists in this endeavor, using it's speed to act almost like a fluffy murderous drill, grinding away at the ship's deck.
Darius smirks and starts to push Then pushes the autocannon into the cave "Some assistance If you will, miss Arche!" Darius yells as He pushes the auto cannon into perfect firing range.
Darius smirks and starts to push Then pushes the autocannon into the cave "Some assistance If you will, miss Arche!" Darius yells as He pushes the auto cannon into perfect firing range.
"Is there anything in particular you want me to do, other than shielding everyone from projectiles and inhaling large particles?" Elizabeth asks, without moving a step closer.
"Is there anything in particular you want me to do, other than shielding everyone from projectiles and inhaling large particles?" Elizabeth asks, without moving a step closer.
Darius stares at her "Wel, helping with this cannon would be nice. I am not a spry chicken anymore girls." Darius shortly devolves into grumbeling about 'damn kids' before chuckeling to himself and saying "This weapon is quite powerful, so we could try and use it against that boat, but your 'markmanship' to use girl" Darius smirks and continues "I think the monster is quite to busy to attack us now and quite frankly? It takes a bit more then large particles to kill this broken old solider." Darius ponders to himself 'She must be focussing on protecting Rannoch and Albert, how kind of her! If I didn't know any beter though I would say she is sca-oh yes that girl is scared of me, what did I do?!'
Darius has no time to think about that as he hears steps behind him and sees Remi, Darius turns to him and shouts "AH! Mister Lorenzo! How went the diplomacy? Mind giving me a hand in moving this canon? My bones are not as sturdy as they used to be!" Darius smiles broadly "Lets give this bastard a taste of his own medicine!" Darius can be distracted quikckly by friends...
or weapons.
Darius stares at her "Wel, helping with this cannon would be nice. I am not a spry chicken anymore girls." Darius shortly devolves into grumbeling about 'damn kids' before chuckeling to himself and saying "This weapon is quite powerful, so we could try and use it against that boat, but your 'markmanship' to use girl" Darius smirks and continues "I think the monster is quite to busy to attack us now and quite frankly? It takes a bit more then large particles to kill this broken old solider." Darius ponders to himself 'She must be focussing on protecting Rannoch and Albert, how kind of her! If I didn't know any beter though I would say she is sca-oh yes that girl is scared of me, what did I do?!'
Darius has no time to think about that as he hears steps behind him and sees Remi, Darius turns to him and shouts "AH! Mister Lorenzo! How went the diplomacy? Mind giving me a hand in moving this canon? My bones are not as sturdy as they used to be!" Darius smiles broadly "Lets give this bastard a taste of his own medicine!" Darius can be distracted quikckly by friends...
or weapons.
Darius checks the autocannon to see If He can man it alone. If He can, He is going to check it for traps or tricks. After that is done He points it at the point and aims for the masts.
"You believe water will save you." Albert muttered, to himself and to the monster both.
"You are wrong." The Bound said, eyes crackling with power, manifesting Control Flames on the newly-made Inferno to increase it's size by 3 steps, simultaneously Invoking Friendly Fireproof Trope on Valliard to make the knight immune to his own, coincidentally fire-based attack.
The inferno quickly begins burning completely out of control, crumbling the ship's rear section to ashes. Valliard is unharmed by this thanks to the flames always seeming to dance around him, enabling mister honero to do what he needs to.
Seeing that he can't increase his weight to the point that he is too heavy for the ship's structure to support, he then decides to just smash his way into the heart of the ship. The Killer Rabbit assists in this endeavor, using it's speed to act almost like a fluffy murderous drill, grinding away at the ship's deck.
Punching through the ship's deck takes mere seconds, before you find yourself in the ship's burning hold, coming face to face with a large green crystal. Said green crystal is very rapidly pulsing red, almost in time to every bit of pain your team applies to the ship.
Darius checks the autocannon to see If He can man it alone. If He can, He is going to check it for traps or tricks. After that is done He points it at the point and aims for the masts.
The cannon is clean of booby traps. Opening fire, the rounds quickly begin slamming into the ship, blasting it with incendiary rounds.
At this point, the monster seems to have had enough, as it begins crumbling away, the cavern fading to white as it does so. Soon, the entire cavern level has disappeared, leaving your group outside next to the crystal from below decks, now a dull grey. Monster Core ID#: 4361707461696e2043617665726e
Daniel hurries over and says "Oh good, I'm so glad that whole mess has been resolved. Now, let's go back to base and get some sleep. It's been a long night."
