Re: Roaring Seas [The Depths Stir - CITY ATTACK THREAD]

Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:12 am

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Guard Against the Rain

Laskt cast a worried look towards the nearby coast, feeling Yoshitsune and Ulv's energy spike sharply as they prepared to resist whatever dark onslaught was approaching them. The Vizard almost could feel something in the massive wall of water, but perhaps it was just his imagination. The raw force of nature was more than enough to destroy the city without any massive beast driving it forward.

The knight had more pressing concerns anyway, with a spiritual signature exceeding him in power appear suddenly, clustering with the being he could now see as a fairly young blonde-haired girl. The Shinigami's eyes snapped open, staring at her for a moment before sighing and dispelling the hostility in his gaze. The little girl simply seemed too talkative to be a part of this strange attack of nature, or at least that's what Laskt's gut said. The Shinigami rose to his feet in midair, returning his blade to it's buckle at his waist, his thumb ever so slightly leveraging it out of the sheath.

"Good evening Madame." Laskt said politely, raising his voice to include the new arrivals, "I am indeed one of zose individuals. I am Laskt Matiche of ze Fourz Division of ze Gotei Zirteen, and we have come to secure and assist ze populace in zis time of need. As far as ze mysterious rain and sudden tsunami, I am afraid I do not know much more zan you." He explained quickly, casting a critical eye over his new companion. She seemed as fidgety as Laskt felt, and was obviously ill-prepared for the inclement weather. A local out to defend her home perhaps? The knight shook his head, now was not the time for idle speculation.

The Shinigami's head snapped around as the news reached his ears, eyeing the small but intense battle with a worried glance before turning back to his duty. "It seems this is no ordinary natural disaster if Moby Dick over zere is anyzing to judge by. Watch yourselves around ze water." Laskt advised, channeling a thread of power into his Zanpaktou, boosting the heat of the tip just above the ordinary boiling point of water and thrusting it carefully into the nearest strange puddle.

As he spoke, the Shinigami grunts desperately fought for control over the panicked mob, trying to keep the evacuation orderly as long as possible....

Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:11 am

The Runaway

Jules Ash

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Julia had thought of sooo many replies to the newcomer’s ‘greeting’. From a sarcastic ‘oooh, you noticed my tits, how kind of you’ to simply ignoring him. After a moment she decided to just answer her question.

“I was just asking her if she was okay. Just trying to be friendly, Papa.” she threw back at him, folding her arms.

She observed the girl and her father for a while. Neither one had given her a name. Rude but irrelevant in the end. The pair was definitely not a normal father-daughter-team, at least judging by Jules’ own experience in that sector. But it also seemed that the two were not exactly ‘normal’ people. Well, at least they really seemed to care about each other.

“So, your dad, hm? He likes to make an entrance…” she said, turning to the daughter.

“And don’t worry, Papa, I can take care of myself.” she added, turning back towards the father and her voice took on a defiant and proud tone.

The thing was, she was not really entirely sure she could. Of course, she could just bolt and leave the people here to their fate. But that wasn’t really something someone with a conscience could do, right? The problem really was that it did not make much sense to fight water with a bow and arrow. Even if the arrows consisted of highly destructive reishi.
Out of reflex Julia’s hand went under her mantle and to her belt.

“Verdammt…” she muttered. Of course, in her hurry to get dressed and out of the house she had forgotten to pack her two Seele Schneider. Maybe they would have been of use, but no, she had to forget them. At least she couldn’t forget any Gintos since she neglected to swipe some of them when she left home. All in all it was not very much the young Quincy would be able to do against a force of nature, at least not how it looked at the moment.

The man in black, at least, had a name: Laskt. He spoke in a funny accent, sounding somewhat familiar. When he mentioned that he was a soldier of the Gotei ‘Zirteen’ Julia’s expression darkened somewhat. Of those she had heard, of course. Even if her education hadn’t been what it was...every Quincy knew the Shinigami. So, he was indeed just a muppet after all, and all his boys and girls alike. She could have done without them, but at least they were helping the populace.

Before she could answer him something happened. In the same moment his head snapped around her phone went wild again. She took it out and saw the few seconds of live feed.

“Jeez...you might be right about not being natural. There’s something biiiig inside the wave…”

Now even Julia could feel the waves of power coming from the coast, like ripples in the very fabric of the world. Hopefully those powers were on their side.
Presently Julia tried to zoom in on the footage when suddenly her phone sparked and started to smoke. With a curse she threw it away, only a few seconds before the battery went up in flames.

“Nooo…” she yelled. “My music...it was all on there. Scheiße!”

She wanted to add some more profanities for good measure, when she fell silent as suddenly as her phone had gone up in smoke. Looking down she noticed that streetlights, cars and many more things electrical showed the same fault. Sparking, flickering and even some violent bursts began occurring everywhere, causing even more panic and accidents than before. And she noticed the water. She was no specialist, but if she remembered her school physics right, and she was sure she did, water didn’t behave like that, pooling together in an unnatural way.

“Hey...uhm...I am normally not one to meddle in other people’s affairs, but I really have a bad feeling about this. Maybe we should lend a hand to the mup...I mean, Shinigami and get the people out of here.”

This was what she said out loud. In her mind, however, Julia began to ask herself if this was really the time for altruistic moods or if she should let the muppets handle it on their own. but then again: conscience.

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>Julia Victoria von Aschewald<

>>Julia's Timeline<<

Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:35 pm

Something terrible was happening.

The rain had suddenly worsened, becoming physically harmful to the unprepared, any panicked citizens wading through the rising torrents getting struck with these would likely sustain surface-level wounds, however the sheer number of drops would increase the number of wounds quickly to a harmful degree. The waters shimmered dully with a blue light, as the tides would suddenly stir unnaturally…

A giant tendril would suddenly form from the waves, ungracefully slapping down onto, wrapping, and pulling down a building not too far away, the falling debris crashing down. This wasn’t the end; It was at most two to four, but they were pulling entire buildings down with them, some buildings harder and taking longer to pull down than others. Any unlucky enough to still be on the fully blacked out streets were caught in the torrent, the pooling water now swirling like massive tides beneath. Pipes had likely burst and only further contributed to the water collection below, any who were in or on buildings now merely potential victims to being torn down into the watery torrent.

Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:26 am

The Runaway

Jules Ash

Somehow this took a turn she did not expect. but at least she knew a name now.

“Wooah, wait a second, Adam, I was joking.” she hurried to say and held her hands up in a defensive gesture.
“Took me long enough to get away from one father, I don’t think I can handle another one. I’m fine on my own, thanks.”

She dismissed the suggestion lightly after that. Adam had been joking...she hoped.
However, she was grateful when Adam used powers to urge the humans to flee the city. She didn’t live long here, had almost no personal connection to anyone and always told herself she didn’t much care about others. But seeing them so frightened...she couldn’t help but feel for them.

When the girl spoke she couldn’t help but grin and giggle.

“Heh...Hubert...I like that.”

The giggle suddenly died in her throat when the rain worsened from one moment to the next. Not only did it worsen, but it began to actually hurt.
What was that? That was no normal rain anymore! The way it gathered in the streets and flooded them way faster than it should. And now this! What the heck happened here? Julia activated a light form of Blut Vene to protect her from the rain. The lines on her skin that would give it away were all covered, so that none of the others could see it.

‘Unglaublich!’ she thought ’Jetzt muss ich Blut wegen ein bisschen Regen benutzen. Was kommt als nächstes? Riesige Krakententakel?’*

Just as she finished her thought a giant tendril formed from the water, not far away, and destroying a building terrifyingly fast. It came crashing down in pieces, splashing into the water on the street. The cracking noises were so loud....

’Ernsthaft?’** she thought.

And then more of them appeared. Alway two, three, four at a time, wrapping themselves around buildings, pulling, tearing. She could see people in the streets getting caught by falling debris or being swept away by currents of the rising water. It was horrible to watch and for a moment Julia felt herself gripped by the terror the scenes invoked in her.

When finally something happened that turned her attention away from the streets she was almost grateful...until she fully realised why it had caught her attention. One of the tendrils had risen on a certain intersection, near a certain building, where a certain blonde girl had just recently moved in.

“Heey!” she cried out. “Not that one. All my stuff is in there!”

She ran to the edge of the roof they were standing on, placed her left foot on a low railing and stretched out her left arm. In a flash of light a black and silver, four-limbed bow appeared in Julia’s outstretched hand. With her right she drew the string back until it almost touched her ear. A glowing blue arrow of energy formed. She aimed for the base of the tendril.

“I said. Not! That! One!”

Then she let loose and sent her arrow flying.

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- Hanako Yamada -

= Hanako's Timeline =

>Julia Victoria von Aschewald<

>>Julia's Timeline<<

Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:20 pm

ENTER THE PRINCESS OF FEAR

Artist: FrostFM - Song: A Welcoming Smile [Remix]

Jenny flinched at the feeling of the rain suddenly falling harder on her head, and Kumu instinctively slid up to the top of her head, stretching outward to shield everyone around her in a moderately-sized umbrella. It was weird how the rain suddenly started getting worse out of nowhere, to the point where it was hurting, feeling more like hail than rain.

Taking a few steps to the side and looking down, she could see the citizens in further chaos, taking a small peek back at Adam, the Shinigami, and Julia before she saw the tendrils rising from the waves, reaching out and tearing down buildings with little care. Before she could say anything or even react, both the Shinigami and Julia shouted in French and German, respectively, before leaping into action, with Laskt practically teleporting away to combat against the tendrils, and Julia firing off arrows from a bow that she manifested out of nowhere.

Well, the little human not only didn't want to be left out, but also didn't wanna be one-upped by the others, Jenny wasted no time tapping into Acrophobia again, leaping off the rooftop and soaring down to the raging floods below, with the creature atop her head moving from her head to her hands, as multiple other creatures came to life in her palm, all sharing the same features as Kumu. All of them moved out, leaping from her hand as Jenny used a small bit of energy to form a pink shield around her body and clothes to keep herself from being hurt and her clothes from being damaged.

Couldn't go around practically naked in the rain at midnight, could she?

Ten (technically eleven, including Kumu) pink creatures began to stretch out and enlarge in size, forming several large walls over a distance, connecting to the buildings, and forming a minor blockade to try and reduce the flooding. However, she tapped into her energy once again, a long blade of energy forming around her arm as she whirled and spun around, firing pink needles into the tendrils that had erupted from the waves.

Each needle-like spear would deliver an excruciating amount of pain toward the creature, should it have been hit, and Jenny would continue to fire these in bursts, showering the tendril in thousands of needles as she flew in and morphed the energy on her arm into a scythe, lifting it over her head in order to attempt to cleave through it.

Maybe she had been too quick to call it Hubert, because, at this point, H.P Lovecraft would be having a damn field day with this thing, whatever Hubert, now the "Whale-spawn of Cthulhu," was.

Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:45 pm

The first tendril struck by an attack partially crumbled due to the strike of the arrow, releasing it's hold of the building as it temporarily fell apart, but soon would be forming back into it's original shape, moving instead to directly strike in the general area of it's attacker. However, it's movements were sloppy, water being constantly displaced and replaced, so if the tendril did manage to strike the building it's attacker resided on, it wouldn't be strong enough to bring the building down, rather the only threat being posed being the fact that several thousand gallons of concentrated water were moving to beat down on the Quincy and her cohorts.

The watery tendrils disposed of by Laskt and Jenny would too seek to attack them, however they suddenly dissipated while mid way to strike, as if the one puppetting them suddenly let go of the strings. In fact, all of the waters mysteriously went still for a moment. It was quiet, far too quiet for all but a minute or two, the sensation of a violent earthquake hitting the city as the massive creature was felled not too far away, causing shifts in anything not nailed down.

Suddenly, beneath the shade of the pink creatures blocking out the rain, the waters glowed a furious blue, the water beginning to behave far more violently than before, once more were tendrils produced, however they were formed of water that looked like a swirling riptide, higher in activity and strength than before. Several hundred windows shattered from the sheer pressure of water and energy spiking in the area, any weak or old buildings that somehow managed to survive the original onslaught definitely had crumbled now. Any unfortunate enough to still be caught in the several feet of water that made up the streets below surely were dragged about, sentenced to a watery grave.

Laskt was the first one unfortunate to be a target of these empowered torrents of water, attempts to grab, slam, and otherwise attack the shinigami were made, as others moved to dispose of the barrier created by Jenny, directly attacking the cover they created.

Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:20 am

The Runaway

Jules Ash

A fierce grin crept on to Julia’s face when she saw how the tendril she had shot fell apart. So, it seemed like these things were vulnerable to her arrows…

Or not. After just a few moments the thing simply rebuilt itself. not only that, it somehow knew from where the attack was coming. How on earth could this thing know that? But on the other hand, it didn’t try to bring down her apartment building anymore and left it alone. It struck out, but only in the general area of where Julia was. Good, that gave her a chance to correct a mistake she had made when she had left the house.

Quickly she fired a weak arrow in the tendrils direction to distract it further. Then she pushed herself off of the roof she was standing on and vanished with a Hirenkyaku. One, two jumps later she arrived on the roof of her apartment building. At the moment it was tendril free. or at least there were none she could see.

In a haste she ran to the roof access. She dissolved her spirit weapon again and almost jumped down the entire flight of stairs. It was eerily quiet and dark here, with all the residents gone. In a sprint she reached the door of her flat and when she opened it the hands holding her keys were shaking from the adrenaline that raced through her veins. It slammed close again behind her and she raced through the living room, leaving a trail of wet footprints behind her, and into the bedroom. Wardrobe, suitcase...clothes were sent flying through the room as she digged through the contents to get to what was lying right there on the bottom: two oval tubes with elongated rings on one end, made from Wahrsilber. The Seele Schneider she had stolen from her parent’s household. She couldn’t tell why, but she had the intense feeling she would need them before the night was over. It was getting worse and worse and maybe she would even…

Something crashed in the living room, she heard the sound of glass shattering and something else cracking. She ran to the door just to see one of the tendrils retreating through the smashed window.

An unarticulated cry and a series of unflattering curses, each one of which would have given her father a heart attack, if he heard them from her, escaped her mouth. She began to run towards the window, picking up as much speed as she could in her small living room. Then she jumped, dived headfirst through the window. Something caught her mantle, ripped it open and from her shoulder in an ease that even in this situation Julia regretted the money she had spent on it.
In mid air she turned and stretched out her left arm. In a flash her bow reappeared and she fired one single arrow, before turning again and vanishing from mid air.

When Julia appeared on a nearby building she was only in her tight top and pants from her Quincy attire. Both pieces, including the high-shafted boots, were white with black trims. She didn’t really care much for those clothes, but they were robust and she could move in them. And since the top was sleeveless and cropped she instantly felt the temperature. On the inside of her left wrist a black quincy cross was tattooed in.

‘Wenn ich rausfinde, dass ihr ein Portemonnaie habt zahlt ihr für mein verdammtes Fenster!’* she thought towards the tendrils. Then she saw Laskt, who was also engaged with these things. And the situation was indeed getting worse.

The water began to glow and became far more violent, including the tendrils. Whatever had caused this was not happy that it had met resistance, it seemed.

’Zeit für etwas neues.’**

Julia raised her bow and aimed straight up into the air. She drew back the string and an arrow formed, growing brighter and bigger the longer she held it.

“Funkenregen…”*** she whispered and released it. It rose only a short way and then burst apart into ten single sparks of light. In Julia’s mind were the pictures of the tendrils and the sparks raced down, seeking out their targets. She knew it wouldn’t do much damage, but maybe it would distract the tendrils for a moment.

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Coding Altered From: [The Frost]

- Hanako Yamada -

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>Julia Victoria von Aschewald<

>>Julia's Timeline<<