IN THE FOREST OF THE LOST

[beathollow]

it's all too perfect.

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[fullmoonmutt]

[ Paranoia! Before Eli can turn and attack anyone else (2), Arven hits him with an Energy Shower. What...? He pauses, confused momentarily, left feeling uncertain thanks to the remaining unease.

But he has had a chance to see what's going on after the initial attack. Fray attacked physically, only to be blocked. His spell went through, though. Well, Eli's low on ranged magic, which means he refocuses on a different target: the glass coffin.

The Queen already cracked it so thoughtlessly... and so Eli goes after the coffin, only his punch to it doesn't do much this round (6). ]

...tch. Damn it.

[beathollow]

The Queen gasps and smacks Izou away, affronted-

You BRUTE. Get back!

... But their plan works, and the Marionette is back within the team's custody while Jesse manages to shoot the Queen! The Party will feel an increase in their defense. ... The heals help her deal with the pain, as well.

The Queen wails. Mafuyu! Come back!

... But the fight's not over, either.

The Queen casts Brain Jack, inflicting Brainwash upon Haruka, Izou, Aubrey, Yoon, Richard, and Yi Sang.

Yi Sang immediately tries to steal back the Marionette and manages to get her in his grasp (14).

Bring her back to me and crush them all! The Queen orders, before casting Atomic Flare against Argenti... landing a Super Effective Critical Hit (20).

[moodwrecker]

[And there's that feeling again... Her thoughts cease to be her own, and all she can do is listen to the Queen's orders and follow obediently.

Which means she's going after Yi Sang for the Marionette, though her swing misses (4)]

[cirquedesang]

[...Okay, so Yi Sang steals the Marionette back.

But that just frees Celeste's hands to wind and play the music box to cleanse everyone at once.

Fuck you, Mafumom.]

[strawsandals]

[ Oh. All hail the Queen. He looks at Fray with uncharacteristically angry eyes, aims to strike -

and completely eats shit by tripping on the ground and landing face first (1), dealing damage to himself.

WELP. HE WAS NOT LYING ABOUT NOT HURTING ANYONE HERE, APPARENTLY? ]

[bloodweapon]

[oh no...........

Well, hopefully Celeste's music box will cleanse that, and Fray will offer Yoon a hand up.]

Are you alright?

[townmusician]

[Crushing those who get in his way? Not the first time he's been compelled to do that by an authority figure, but this time feels... Well. He doesn't really have an opinions on it right now.

Well, fight fire with fire. In the literal sense, obviously, as Maragi (18!) damages Soujuurou, Jesse, McGillis, and Celeste. It's light fire damage, but, well...

Some of you don't like fire very much at all, do you?]

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis is hit by this fire damage right as he tries to cast Garula at Mafumom, which means he winds up totally missing (5)... rip... ]

[cirquedesang]

[He sure does not!

...At least he doesn't try to flee, but ow that hurts, and now he's also singed.]

[emptyself]

[ ugh, fire. the burn smarts, and soujuurou has to shield his face from it. he definitely has some light burn damage on his arms though. ]

Haruka!

[goei]

[Izou shudders a little as the brainwash hits, and then he turns to Eli, raising his sword as if to take a swipe at his neck-

Only to trip over Yoon and fall, cutting his own chest as he falls on his sword. (1)]

[emptyself]

[ he might be nursing his burns from haruka's attack but-- ]

Looks like The Queen's not very good at controlling anyone that's not her daughter.

[vogelfrei]

Izou!!

[ AT LEAST GO DOWN TO AN ENEMY??? That said he's actually coming to rush over. ]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ ...Eli didn't even notice until Izou eats shit after tripping. ]

Izou? What the fuck?

[strawsandals]

Wh- Izou?!

[ BRUH, HOLY SHIT ]

H-hey...! I'll patch you up!

[ledbythewind]

[Was Richard doing something? He can't remember. All he can hear now is the Queen, ordering him to...

... lash out at Jesse with a rapier strike (10), though fortunately it misses its mark.]

[privatedomicile]

[Jesse only barely manages to evade getting stabbed.]

Yo, get ahold of yourself!! [He can't cast, but he is gonna attempt to slap Richard.]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Meanwhile, Eli is still trying to fight an inanimate glass coffin and somehow still losing (9). ]

[beautifulknight]

[ ...

So. That pretty much hurt, a lot. Getting slammed with a critical hit and elemental weakness? For once Argenti lets out a pained gasp, feeling an immense amount of pain. It's basically nothing but searing agony, before he realizes he is having to pick himself off of the floor.

...And guess what? He looks pissed.

Argenti is hurting himself at the Queen with a Giant Slice (18) aimed to do some good damage! ]

[bloodweapon]

Argenti!

[Here's a Diarama, fired off immediately even as Fray moves to Argenti's side. Healing his bf is far more important than attacking, okay—]

[finalmix]

[ slides in as if I was here the entire time (haha)

but ok that crit nat20 has Got to Hurt so joshua (not a healer) is casting media on argenti mostly to help with that, although izou and haruka get a bonus heal due to multitarget rules yay ]

[beautifulknight]

[ He looks surprised but he will then grant a grateful glance. It's appreciated ]

[supherb]

Mafuyu!

[Good thing Celeste is winding up the music box to deal with that. One, because now Yi Sang won't want to return Mafuyu and two, because Arven can't even imagine having to try to cleanse and heal all of this brainwash + brainwash damage.]

Get it together, everyone!

[He uses Media, healing Argenti, Celeste and McGillis.]

[privatedomicile]

[Oh god, everything happens so much. As carnage continues, Jesse is going to cast Media on Eli, Soujuurou, Yoon, and himself.]

[emptyself]

[ honestly with all the damage and mental fuckery going around today, it's no surprise that soujuurou's punch to the queen misses (7). he lives to disappoint! ]