Emergence 29: Quick Draw
Flairina
Least Omnipotent Goddess
- Location
- The next infinity over
> Try the runes-to-Japanese method again.
You have roughly zero desire to fight this girl, especially since you only just concluded an entirely different one, so you'd very much prefer to deescalate this situation before all hell breaks loose. Unlike with Saar (why do you know that name), you imagine this girl might actually understand writing, so you suppose you'll give that another shot.
You start creating the runes you need to construct your message. Unfortunately, the moment they begin spilling out of Novella, the top-hatted girl reacts by finally snapping out of her bewildered state and thrusting her weird looking pen-brush thing towards you. This was apparently either some sort of command, or just a dramatic physical gesture to go with a mental one, as the entire flock of birds suddenly begins flying up at you like a living storm of flechettes.
You move backwards, alarmed, and hastily prepare to defend yourself. Okay, so starting with something that both looks like an attack and has a slightly long prep time may not have been the best idea...!
Having learned from your earlier fight against an enemy swarm, you quickly start turning the shatterwords you just formed sideways — only to pause as a different, potentially better plan occurs to you.
Grabbing words from multiple places in your orbit, you aim them all at the rough center of the flock, and toss them out simultaneously. As expected, the birds simply swerve around them to avoid being hit... causing the multi-pronged attack to meet in the middle, where the words collide with each other at high speed. The resulting fragmentation explosion rips through the group from the inside, tearing a large number of the birds apart.
You internally celebrate, but only for a moment, as the remainder of the birds reach you and immediately disperse to all sides, darting in to attack you from multiple angles. They strike quickly before immediately retreating, not doing all that much damage, but moving too fast to effectively evade as they jab at whatever parts of you are in reach. It's like being stabbed by a swarm of flying pushpins.
Meanwhile, the enormous peacock flaps its wings, rising into the air to match your current height upon the hill. The girl perched upon its back starts sketching something long and thin in the air in front of her, which rapidly begins to take form...
[-] (Belatedly) Put your hands up in surrender. Better late than never!
[-] Give telepathy a try. You may have lost your other abilities from your time as a magical girl, but this isn't one you could really test before. Maybe you still have it?
[-] Weaken her, and create the vortex that will- Shut UP! You really don't need this right now!
[-] There's a weird feeling in the back of your mind... something wants to be used.
[-] Write in.
You have roughly zero desire to fight this girl, especially since you only just concluded an entirely different one, so you'd very much prefer to deescalate this situation before all hell breaks loose. Unlike with Saar (why do you know that name), you imagine this girl might actually understand writing, so you suppose you'll give that another shot.
You start creating the runes you need to construct your message. Unfortunately, the moment they begin spilling out of Novella, the top-hatted girl reacts by finally snapping out of her bewildered state and thrusting her weird looking pen-brush thing towards you. This was apparently either some sort of command, or just a dramatic physical gesture to go with a mental one, as the entire flock of birds suddenly begins flying up at you like a living storm of flechettes.
You move backwards, alarmed, and hastily prepare to defend yourself. Okay, so starting with something that both looks like an attack and has a slightly long prep time may not have been the best idea...!
Having learned from your earlier fight against an enemy swarm, you quickly start turning the shatterwords you just formed sideways — only to pause as a different, potentially better plan occurs to you.
Grabbing words from multiple places in your orbit, you aim them all at the rough center of the flock, and toss them out simultaneously. As expected, the birds simply swerve around them to avoid being hit... causing the multi-pronged attack to meet in the middle, where the words collide with each other at high speed. The resulting fragmentation explosion rips through the group from the inside, tearing a large number of the birds apart.
You internally celebrate, but only for a moment, as the remainder of the birds reach you and immediately disperse to all sides, darting in to attack you from multiple angles. They strike quickly before immediately retreating, not doing all that much damage, but moving too fast to effectively evade as they jab at whatever parts of you are in reach. It's like being stabbed by a swarm of flying pushpins.
Meanwhile, the enormous peacock flaps its wings, rising into the air to match your current height upon the hill. The girl perched upon its back starts sketching something long and thin in the air in front of her, which rapidly begins to take form...
[-] (Belatedly) Put your hands up in surrender. Better late than never!
[-] Give telepathy a try. You may have lost your other abilities from your time as a magical girl, but this isn't one you could really test before. Maybe you still have it?
[-] There's a weird feeling in the back of your mind... something wants to be used.
[-] Write in.
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