A-NET is the search function of G-system. Both are products of hypercapitalist post-singularity society of webcomic "Romantically Apocalyptic". A-NET finds stuff. If the stuff does not exist, it just searches time and gives you something that will exist, or could exist(I.e., A-NET makes it). So for example, if you want a pocket laser that can be seen across all of space, A-NET will allow you to buy one. In story, it was exactly what happened, the pocket laser was purchased(as a kid's toy, by a kid, to impress facebook firends), and on use, accidentially anihillated Andromeda galaxy. The kid was subsequently sued into bancrupcy by astrologers who now had to redraw all space charts.
EDIT: Speaking of fun, blame Captain Clever for this fight's theme music.
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A holographic HUD fills your vision, feeding you information on key targets and your allies, keeping an eye on how many people are still up- oh, wow, one down already-, general information window, and a Function list for easy queueing.
You don't even need to think about who you're targeting first. Without a word of warning to your compatriots, you immediately queue up a Jaunt() function and space begins to warp around you. Remembering to close your eyes as you remember that viewing folded space as a purely 3-dimensional being is not a good idea, and you're suddenly in the lion's den.
Behind you, you know Xanadu is taking the shock to his system that is, exactly what you just described.
{Less chance he has to get moving, the less chance he can just bulldoze- bolt!}
You let Transistor-enhanced senses guide you out of the crossbow bolt's way, turning to face Saff as you do.
"... You know if the wind changes your face is gonna stay that way."
You're apparently not even worth a coherent response because you don't get one. No, you just, you just get another crossbow bolt going for your face.
… Rude. You dodge that one too, and, aiming as best you can for both him and Xanadu, run a Crash() instance.
Crash() primed.
You heave your sword up, blade held high, before cancelling the antigrav effect for a moment, angling it just right…
The tip drives itself into the sand, and the world in a 5 x 2 metre line fractures, the Transistor performing a deep scan of everything in its path with all the subtlety and delicacy of a hobo with a sledgehammer- you're not sure where that particular analogy came from, but it works-, tearing things apart to scan them then deliberately pasting them back together ever so slightly wrong, exacerbating any weaknesses already present and creating new ones. Armour, weaponry, Aura, people to an extent, though you deliberately limited that part as best you could for good reason...
All weakened. All analysed. Enough faults scanned and created to completely fill your vision ten thousand times over sorted into a folder attached to the objects of interest with one tag.
Crashed.
You watch them both stumble as the effect passes over them, their very atoms shuddering, and queue up a Breach() to follow up.
A hot sting hits your back, and you realise that the other half of their team has finally caught up with you, and one of the two has remembered they're holding a gun.
Aura:146/150 and dropping. Ignoring attack will result in disqualifiable Aura levels in 10 seconds. Recommend evasive action.
You cancel the Breach() and queue up Jaunt() instead, this one aiming directly behind the one shooting you. You close your eyes, spin on one heel, and suddenly you're where you want to be, facing his back as he struggles to contemplate the wonders of what amounts to being inside a wormhole without protection- wow that sounded better in your head-, leaving him wide open for a good ol' backstabbing.
"... Ah dun' feel too good." You hear him mumble in a slurring Agricultural District accent.
Cute.
Breach() primed.
You don't do cute.
{...}
Shut it.
{I'm not saying anything. Just that well, you know, I've seen your search history...}
You sigh through your nose, and instead raise your sword again, letting it charge for a second before bringing down into the sand again. A veritable wave of charged particles flows over Xanadu and the guy shooting at you-
Ok, name?
{Oliver Clair.}
Thank you. Yeah, that shithead that was shooting at you. Xanadu takes the brunt of it, lopping off 45 points of his Aura, while Oliver takes 20.
For Oliver, that's actually a decent amount of damage.
Xanadu?
... You think you just made him mad.
Queue Jaunt()?
{Queue Jaunt().}
You queue Jaunt, and again, making your way back to your allies. Creme is holding off a girl with a pair of hook swords, actually managing to deflect a fair few strikes with her hammer, but very much on the defensive. Lumen, on the other hand, is keeping a guy with what looks like a chain with weights on the ends off pretty well, his one-edged sword dancing between the weights to smack his opponent across the ribs or jab at his throat or face, always dancing away before the weights can hit hi-
Ooh.
{That's gonna bruise. That's gonna bruise hard.}
You watch him fly back and his Aura take a brutal hit. Much like his face.
You look at the guy.
The guy looks at you.
You queue a Spiral(), he starts swinging his chainweights around before one opens and THAT'S A GRENADE JAUNT() JAUNT() FOR YOUR LIFE-
For the second time in as many minutes, you cancel an attack in order to evade, something which is getting really annoying. You hear the explosion, feel the force against your frame, no doubt knocking a couple points of Aura off, but there's no heat, which is... curious.
"Hey, yo, dickweed!" You hear Lumen yelling. Mr Party Favour looks his way, distracted just long enough for you to charge a Spiral() in relative peace. "Catch!"
As you hear that, a... you think it's a crystal of some sort, Dust, maybe, hits him directly in the face.
Warning: Internal temperature of unknown substance= 5,000°C
Wait, what?!
As soon as the thought passes through your mind, the crystal explodes, sending your mutual opponent flying backwards into someone else, earning you a 'dude, what the hell?' look from their opponent, before she's dragged into another fight.
... Come to think of it, how many people are left?
{27. 3 more and you're safe.}
Fantastic.
A hot wind hits your face, and the smell of burning and charcoal travels with it. You look back at Lumen, and even from this distance, you can see his eyes are horribly dilated. It's like his pupils have expanded to the very edge of his irises, leaving nothing but a thin band of colour around them.
"... So, where'd you go?" He asks almost casually, as if he's not in the middle of a war zone. You watch with some mix of curiosity and mild horror as his pupils contract again, revealing an eye colour that... the name of doesn't come to mind right now. You put it to the side to deal with more important things.
Like, being in a warzone.
"Wanted to screw with Saff and Xanadu." You admit freely.
"That's fair." He looks over at Creme, as do you, and you find her still on the defensive, and looking even more desperate now.
"... You run distraction, I'll go in for the kill?"
He nods, and the plan is agreed upon.
{'Plan.'}
It has distinct roles and a goal, it's a plan!
Before you can argue your point any further, Lumen's rushed in, holding his sword in one hand and a... glob, of something red in his other. An obviously telegraphed attack gets the girl with the hook swords to hop back.
Which lets Lumen throw the glob at her face in an almost too perfect straight line, letting it splatter all over her mouth and nose where it seems to stick and block off her airways.
"Now!" He yells back at you, and you queue a Spiral() at her while she scratches at her mouth, trying to get rid of the sticky red substance, and only succeeding in sticking her hands to her jaw.
You heft the handle onto your shoulder, bringing the blade up to your hand like you're aiming a rifle, or a rocket launcher, more like, and at the edge, a ball of energy that to this day you are completely incapable of analysing in any decent detail, beyond the fact that it goes fast and has enough potential energy to blow the planet off its axis, were it to not act in a very specific way, and fire it at the girl.
The ball of blue-green energy zips off, the recoil almost taking you off your feet, flying straight and true to hit her right in the stomach. There's the characteristic moment of resistance, before...
Yep. There she goes. Spiralling up into the air like a firework. Fighting all over slows down a little, not stopping, but they're definitely watching the show between trying to fake-murder each other.
... Six, seven, eight...
Just long enough for her to hit the ceiling before it dissipates. You watch her begin to fall, before something flickers and suddenly she's being sat in one of the bleachers by Professors Moss and Teal, each making sure she isn't too hurt.
... You should apologise to her later.
For now, though...
Current Status:
Aura: 150/150
Current Loadout: Crash(), Breach(), Jaunt(), Spiral()
Turn() Status: Ready for use
User input required:
Turn()?
[] Turn().
[] No Turn().
Targets?
[] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[] Ain'tbroke()- Don't fix it. Saff, Xanadu, beat that drum until it bursts.
[] Anything()- This is meant to be a test of your abilities! You're not gonna do that pursuing a vendetta and sticking with people! Go out there, pick a random fuckhead, and beat the shit out of them!
[] Allies()- {This is not what I meant when I said you damaged people more when you backstab them, Jaune.}
[] Writein()
Plan?
[] Writein()
Adhoc vote count started by Prok on Jul 9, 2017 at 10:44 AM, finished with 218 posts and 13 votes.
[X] No Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Turn().
-[x] Find the toughest motherfucker giving you troubles
-[x] Get behind (jaunt or walking)
-[x] Crush () up to x3 (backstab)
-[x] Breach () (backstab)
-[x] jaunt () into safety
[x] Repeat it until nobody left.
[x] Rely on your allies to keep your safe during Turn() recovery.
[x] And if they screw you, than you are the one stupid enough to not recognize they can't be trusted. Learn from it.
[X] No Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here. -[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them --[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
Adhoc vote count started by Prok on Jul 10, 2017 at 2:25 PM, finished with 225 posts and 14 votes.
[X] No Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here. -[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them --[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(),Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
[X] No Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Turn(). [x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here. -[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them --[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
[x] Turn().
-[x] Find the toughest motherfucker giving you troubles
-[x] Get behind (jaunt or walking)
-[x] Crush () up to x3 (backstab)
-[x] Breach () (backstab)
-[x] jaunt () into safety
[x] Repeat it until nobody left.
[x] Rely on your allies to keep your safe during Turn() recovery.
[x] And if they screw you, than you are the one stupid enough to not recognize they can't be trusted. Learn from it.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(),Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
No plan yet since I'm on mobile so other plan people make good plans to keep us in the game!
Edit: On a side note I really love Jaunt() and I really wanna see what function combo upgrades we can put into it in the future.
Edit2: Saving Turn() till 3rd round of combat.
Edit3: Going with DreamerGhost's Plan.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
Think we should save turn for at least another round.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
Agreeing with Red Bovine, lets hold off on using Turn until we really need it.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
[x] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here. Edit: vote changed.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
Crash(), here, is the subatomic scan equivalent of...
Ripping a flower out from the roots to get a better picture of it. It works, it serves its purpose, but it's highly damaging on levels that, admittedly, don't really translate to individual cells most of the time. Hence why Xanadu's liver is inside his body and Saff's heart isn't pumping backwards. Also Aura.
... You know what, yeah, yeah you did. I fucked that one up because I wanted to be lazy, so you get a little bonus out of it as my punishment.
Also, all of you do realise that, so far, your plan is 'stick with Creme and Lumen but don't have anything planned,' right? I mean, at best, I improvise, at middling I reuse the old plan, at worst, you stand around like a dead fish.
[x] Turn ()
-[x] Find the toughest motherfucker giving you troubles
-[x] Get behind (jaunt or walking)
-[x] Crush () up to x3 (backstab)
-[x] Breach () (backstab)
-[x] jaunt () into safety
[x] Repeat it until nobody left.
[x] Rely on your allies to keep your safe during Turn() recovery.
[x] And if they screw you, than you are the one stupid enough to not recognize they can't be trusted. Learn from it.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(),Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
It's about the average of what Jaune could come up with using that C+ in Problem-Solving. Short, simple, my only suggestion would be to add something after Crash() to take advantage of the damage boost.
Also, just for fun- anyone wanna guess what Lumen's Semblance is based on?
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
It's about the average of what Jaune could come up with using that C+ in Problem-Solving. Short, simple, my only suggestion would be to add something after Crash() to take advantage of the damage boost.
Hmm. Crash doesn't seem to do damage to targets with aura, Breach might hit other people dragging them into the fight and Spiral is a bit too flashy. Breach is probably best, the empty space is plentifull.
It's about the average of what Jaune could come up with using that C+ in Problem-Solving. Short, simple, my only suggestion would be to add something after Crash() to take advantage of the damage boost.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
Think we should save turn for at least another round.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(), Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
[X] Ally's()- no, not actually Creme and Lumen. Just stick around with them, help them beat off whoever comes to beat them off- up, up. Freud has no power here.
-[X] There's three of us, find someone solo or away from their team and wreck them
--[X] Jaunt(), catch target's attention, Lumen backstab, Creme flank, Crash(),Breach(), beat the target until "dead", repeat.
