To Hell With Gattai
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
Lights out, guerrilla story post! Wake this thread up!
***
A part of you, deeper and more primordial than the council of Yous, wants to go full baka. Run in and start cracking skulls in an explosion of glorious violence. Your hand grips, white knuckle, onto the hilt of your newly granted sword.
But then you get a rush of brains to your luxuriously-coiffed head.
You have Bridgette. A friend and blood sister willing and eager to be your shield. One who, under her brassy bluster and edgy attire, feels useless and stymied. One who has a lot of frustration to work out.
One who could probably use the punching bag these Slimes provide more than you do.
"Hey Buri?" You whisper to Bridgette.
"Can't I get a cooler nickname than that?" She asks you.
"When I come up with one," you reply. "Wanna be my shield so we can bumrush these Slimes?"
"Shit yeah I would!" She slams her gauntlets together and lets loose a battle woop, drawing the Slimes' formless eyes upon her now charging form.
"Welp," Lily says, melding into the shadows. "Guess we're not doing stealthy. Pls don't let them geek me."
You give her a quick nod, a firm pat on the shoulder, and your cheeky monkey smile, before running off behind Bridgette.
She's gotten faster than you remember, but you weren't the Golden-Eyed Orion for nothing. You catch up to her in a bakers dozen strides close enough to hear her giddy chuckling behind the same peek-a-boo stance she first used against you.
There's a twinge of sympathetic energies between the two of you, your blood pact thrumming in time with both your hearts. On shared impulse, you draw your sword as she slams into the crowd of Slimes. One by one, she pops them up and you rend them into travel-sized pieces. She makes a game of it, juggling them high into the air with hits that would crush bone if they had any. Bits of Slime slide slickly off your enchanted hair and dress as the two of you work in tandem.
The two of you turn to view your handiwork. You step beside Bridgette with a flourish, sword out, her covering your side as a readied shield would. The candied carcasses of your foes glitter in the noonday sun.
"Man, that wasn't even a warm-up," Bridgette says airily. "Good thing Slimes can regenerate."
You're struck dumb by flashes of the combat mechanics of Fall From Grace. Slimes made great grinding fodder because they weren't very dangerous, but they came back like zombies unless you pounded them into paste or hit them with Water magic. And since they came back, you could train skills all you wanted!
"Hey Buri, wanna see me do some really cool stuff?"
"Cooler than you already are?" She asks. "And stop calling me Buri. Say I'm your noble shield or something."
"How about my No-Buri Shield?"
She turns to you, face scrunched in cringing consternation. "Anything but that."
<Artsy> "Hmmm, guess we've hit a creative block with nicknames..."
***
[Name Entry: Enter Bridgette's new nickname here]
[ ] Write-In
[ ] Default: BURI
***
[Name Entry: Enter Bridgette's new nickname here]
[ ] Write-In
[ ] Default: BURI
***
"Anyway, what's this cool stuff you wanna do?" Bridgette asks.
You let your grip on your sword loosen in the way Camille taught you. "Oh, you'll see. Watch my back, okay?"
She nods and hunkers back into her peek-a-boo stance as the Slimes reform themselves. "Gotcha."
The Slimes, noting you as their slayer, turn their vacant expressions to you before rocketing forth with un-Slime-like velocity.
Your cheeky monkey smile turns into the fierce, fanged grin of competition. With a woop of your own, you spring off of Bridgette's ready gauntlets into an arc of death, slicing through the Slimes as they pass under you. Technicolor goop splatters against Bridgette's guard as you land in a crouch facing her.
The Slimes reform, you cut them down. They reform again. You skewer them, then flick your wrist, popping them open against your blade with the ease of unhooking a bra. They try to encircle you, you slice them apart with the mechanical precision of a weedwhacker.
You can feel Camille's subtle guidance on your hands, your feet, your arms and hips. The drilling of proper posture giving you a killer's poise. The muscle memory of your former Kendo and this new art go hand in glove. The free expression of your talent, your dominance spreads your foes across the canvas of this grassy forest knoll.
For the first time since you've been here, your muscles sing.
Once you feel you've shown off enough, you sheathe your sword and smile at Bridgette. The both of you are streaked with Slime stuff; Bridgette on her gear, you on your dimpled cheeks and button nose. The two of you look like kids who got into your art teacher's paints.
"That cool enough for ya?" You say, hand on your hip.
Bridgette stares at you in abject awe. "...'Sblood, girl, what was that technique?"
You giggle. "Cool stuff, like I said!"
"Can you teach it to me?"
"I am but a student," you say to her, stroking an imaginary beard. "But I can see if my teacher's willing to take on another disciple." You turn back to the shade where Lily is hiding. "But first, let's regroup and have that pic-"
Your words are cut short by the cool, slimy sensation of Slime stuff sliding off you. Rivulets of gunk ooze into the grass, coating the ground with little jelly gems. You see the stuff flow off of Bridgette too, she squirms and yelps as it flows inside and down her outfit.
You fear the slime will puppet her, but something far weirder happens. The rivulets turn into rivers, as much more Slime stuff than you felt you cut through starts to coalesce. First in a puddle, then a pool, then a pillar, before forming into something you knew quite well.
A humanoid mecha. Gigantor in gelatin, towering over the two of you.
A panopticon of blank eyes and doofy smiles all focus on you and Bridgette.
You don't remember this being a part of Fall From Grace or Our Bloody Valentine. Something like this wouldn't slip your mind, no matter how booze-addled.
***
[> GRACE COMMAND]
[ ] FIGHT
[ ] Tag-team it with Bridgette
[ ] Rejoin Lily and Chiaki
[ ] Run like hell
NAME
Kid A Grace Claudius, Age 13
AVATAR GRADES
Brainy: Average (+3)
Artsy: Average (+3)
Flashy: Good (+4)
Sporty: Good (+4)
Sensible: Good (+4)
ACTUALIZATION SCORES
BRN 48 ART 48 FLA 67 SPO 97 SEN 55
STRESS 40
DESTRUDO LEVEL
Elevated
LORES
<Heavenly Magic Lore L1>: Can learn and cast Heavenly Magic, spells that call upon the power of Sophia, the Sevenfold Goddess of this world.
<Bloodpact Lore L1>: Can learn and cast Bloodpacts, Heavenly Magic in its most primal form.
SKILLS
<Minor Bloodpact>: Can make minor oaths and pacts, backed up by blood and the power of Sophia Madim, the Forgemother.
<Blood Sisters> (Bridgette Alteisen): Gain minor stat boosts when you or Bridgette act to protect or assist each other.
<Teflon Cherub>: When dodging accusations and foul rumors, or convincing people of your moral character, you may roll twice on a Flashy or Sensible check and keep the higher result. People generally trust and like you more unless they already hate you, you're actively harming them, or you're pissing them off.
STUFF
Enchanted Dress xN
Justine's Old Sword x1
PRE-CAPTURE ROUTES
Camille Asuka
Lily Valentine
Prince Bryn Alteisen
CAPTURE ROUTES
Bridgette Alteisen {Blood Sister}
AVATAR GRADES
Brainy: Average (+3)
Artsy: Average (+3)
Flashy: Good (+4)
Sporty: Good (+4)
Sensible: Good (+4)
ACTUALIZATION SCORES
BRN 48 ART 48 FLA 67 SPO 97 SEN 55
STRESS 40
DESTRUDO LEVEL
Elevated
LORES
<Heavenly Magic Lore L1>: Can learn and cast Heavenly Magic, spells that call upon the power of Sophia, the Sevenfold Goddess of this world.
<Bloodpact Lore L1>: Can learn and cast Bloodpacts, Heavenly Magic in its most primal form.
SKILLS
<Minor Bloodpact>: Can make minor oaths and pacts, backed up by blood and the power of Sophia Madim, the Forgemother.
<Blood Sisters> (Bridgette Alteisen): Gain minor stat boosts when you or Bridgette act to protect or assist each other.
<Teflon Cherub>: When dodging accusations and foul rumors, or convincing people of your moral character, you may roll twice on a Flashy or Sensible check and keep the higher result. People generally trust and like you more unless they already hate you, you're actively harming them, or you're pissing them off.
STUFF
Enchanted Dress xN
Justine's Old Sword x1
PRE-CAPTURE ROUTES
Camille Asuka
Lily Valentine
Prince Bryn Alteisen
CAPTURE ROUTES
Bridgette Alteisen {Blood Sister}
Last edited:
