Snake-crashin' at Elian Price's!

[massivescale]

Hello and a heads-up to participants in the farmhouse assault meeting log dated for today (January 25th)!

The snake statues are about to enter - as warned by Sophie, there will be five of them, each one to have its own new thread in the log in which to confront it. Feel free to plan your groups and course of combat/defense to this post!

Also know that, if your character has not yet encountered animate snake statues since David Proud was captured, they are eligible to receive their plot Echo from doing so through this log.

Comments

[songoftimaendtimeagain]

Luke'll be on the front lines! He's got a shiny new sword he's itching to try out, and his plan will probably be 'Keep them busy till everyone gets out of the basement, then bombs as he retreats.

Because bombs are always applicable.

I hope you wanted your basement remodeled Elian.

ETA: If anyone who doesn't have a lot of combat skill echos wants Luke to charge in to protect them he is going to be on the look out for people who seem to need help.

ETAAgain: He also has deku nuts which are capable of stunning the snake statues for a few moments. He has a very limited number of these though so he probably won't use them unless he or someone else is really in trouble.

[metalbent]

Sophie has earthbending and can at least throw up defensive earth walls and that sort of thing. :|b and throw rocks. She'll be sticking around for the battle so if anyone wants to team up with her do please let me know! She can see well enough with her foot-sight to keep out of the way. She has intermediate-levelish earthbending and beginner's metalbending, so. Please let me know if you want her anywhere, too; she can throw up defensive walls for other people, not just herself.

Aria will have enough telekinetic power to move herself around and anything of that weight and will uh hang back and try to assist from afar and/or try to get herself out eventually if it gets to the point where it's too hot to handle.

Sierra is getting the hell out of dodge, but may stick around after to heal anyone up if they need after (she just can't...fight). She has Cure, Curasa, and Esuna, which means she can at least be of semi-use for the healing part of stuff. JUST...NOT THE FIGHTING PART AND THIS MEETING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE AND SHE IS NEVER GOING TO ANOTHER MEETING EVER. If you want to set up some sort of post-battle healing thing with her, lemme know.

[chalicejoker]

Hajime is perfectly willing to go horrible giant bug on any of the statues in order to give everyone a chance to escape. He's got super strength and heals pretty fast, and he'll attempt to punch them into submission until someone's got to haul a punch-drunk roachman out of there.

Arthur hasn't yet Echoed back anything that will help, and so he's going to be focused on helping the others get out of there. He's big and pretty strong for a normal human, and he will carry people away if he has to. (He does not think summoning all the silverfish in the area will do something, and clearly Elian should've had some beachfront property so he could do more to help at this point.)

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Okay, so Lily is going to try and make a break for it with Danny but I'M IMAGINING THIS WON'T WORK OUT?

Also, ECHO REQUEST HO, this is about to get a lot more interesting on my end~ BASICALLY SHOULD THAT GO THROUGH... You should be getting Cure Moonlight, and she can definitely help fight then, if anyone's up for that.

PRECURE PEOPLE: Lily's contacted Annie, Winter, Russel, and Jasmine. She didn't send to Cerise because... at that point in time she's not going to be asking her to come running into danger, but maybe someone can grab her if Remaix wants in there??? And of course, she doesn't realize what Harper is yet.

With transit time I'm not sure if anyone would make it in time, should that not work for whatever reason, but it at least felt necessary IC for her to send the message out.

[gogoghostpowers]

Danny is on escape/rescue duty! He'll be making trips back and forth in and out of the house to get people out if they have no fighting abilities OR if they are injured and need help. He offered here and if anyone wants out at any point, commenting there (with a quick note that it's pre- or post-snake attack, just for clarity's sake?) is a good way to get Danny on it. (Alternatively, ping me OOCly and I'll jump in wherever you want, this is not the most organized of fight logs!)

If anyone wants, he can also be on defense duty! As in, if someone's about to get hit by a snake statue and can't block or dodge, he could pop in and turn them intangible to spare them from the blow. Again, ping me on Plurk or here or PM if you want this!

TL;DR i'm offering intangibility on request. C8

[dominateartimus]

Xander can escort people out physically or one by one by the shadows. Although he can't be of much help in a fight since he has no offensive abilities that will work against the statues (and not harm himself in the process). He'll be echo-ing back some immortality that allows him to function if he loose some limbs or organs (what is missing is replaced by a 'second skin').

[hawaiianheir]

Mac has a huge and hefty metal hammer thanks to Sophie and will be echoing back wind powers, so he'll be on the front lines using those to wreck the snakes and protect people. He's already trying to coordinate everyone to get the hell out if they can't fight for themselves, and basically keep things from going all pear-shaped.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Ideally, failing to get Lily out of there is something I'm going to want have crop up~ At least so that she encounters them directly.

Heck, maybe given how sudden it is, she might well just trip as they're trying to escape.

[envisaging]

Sierra's cool to go out asap when the snakes break in (WHICH THEY HAVE I GUESS SO). She trusts you, Danny. :|b

[centurian]

Gerald will be trying to get as many defenceless people out as possible, because hey, he's a government agent and that's what they do.

HOWEVER, in practice, all he has is his FBI issued gun (his visor which is UNFORTUNATELY AT HOME) which will probably go over about as well as this. So... people helping him to fight off snakes/help others escape would be really appreciated.

[needsmorezippers]

Neku has his pins PLUS he has a thing that blocks telepathy so the snakes 'we can't be defeated thing!!!' doesn't work on him. He'll be fighting.

[gogoghostpowers]

Aye aye, noted! We can definitely have an accidental trip that leaves her stuck in the chaos, at least for a bit!

Also depending on if Proud meant that people literally can't leave during this fight, then uh the entire first part of my comment might be useless and Danny'd just straight up be on defense anyway, hahaha. But 100%, we can definitely trap Lily in there.

[professorwolf]

Lyall is here... even if I haven't tagged him in yet >.> I am strongly considering giving him wolf shifting back for this, which means... somebody's gonna need to contain him once he's tried attacking statues, because he's not able to hold off the anger yet. Thankfully, he still takes an hour or so to heal FROM the change, so he won't be terribly dangerous until then. So... there's that.

So. Angry, frightened wolf for you all, once the statues are dealt with.

[earnedmystripes]

Kotetsu has a little bit of his power, which makes him ten times as strong for...five minutes an hour. :|a He'll probably be up front fightan/as a distraction until his ability times out. AND THEN HE CAN POSSIBLY BORROW ONE OF OCTAVIA'S GUNS TO SHOOT AT THE THINGS/FURTHER BE A DISTRACTION?

[metalbent]

I would love having Sophie interact with him in some way! Either by being in the same snake group (I know I want her to interact with Toushirou but so far that's all I got) SHE CAN AT LEAST THROW UP SHIELDS AND STUFF. And throw rocks.

Earthbending is useful if you're in a location with lots of stuff to bend. :|b

[scramasax]

Neither Anthony nor Bill came armed nor will be given any additional advantages by the Echoes they'll be receiving - but they're not going to beat it, either. If anyone might like, say, a diversion, non-offensive backup, or someone to assist them to safety (and/or in dubiously-immortal Anthony's case take an emergency blow), either of them will be honored to provide.

[metalbent]

All I can offer up for the "containing him" is putting him in an impromptu earthbent box, if you want. POOR LYALL, THOUGH.

[centurian]

I was actually just about to ask if that's cool because he'd totally be all "KIDS, YOU NEED TO GET OUT IT ISN'T SAFE."

...And then.

...Oh. The kids totally are able to do more shit than him oops. :|

[hawaiianheir]

SUPER STRONG BROS PUNCHIN/SMASHIN SNAKES AND BEING HEROES Y/N

[centurian]

LET'S USE OUR MAGICAL SHOOTING POWERS TOGETHER OK BRO.

[stavros]

Kari came to the meeting and will be singing, but she has no defence yet, so keep her in the back! As for Tessa, she'll come if someone contacts her.

[metalbent]

Great minds!! I JUST LIKE HIM A LOT AND interacting more with him was on my to-do list so hey this works.

That is pretty much the best realization anyone can have, they actually have some of the more useful kids hanging around the meeting (or the ones with more canon power recurrences, I mean).

[vanisland]

This is basically Miranda's face right now but I have plan for her.

She hasn't seen a snake ever, not just since November, so she's echoing back her old Reyvateil body and an antenna that goes on the SH server at her house.

Together, these two things give her the ability to use Song Magic, but at the moment she has no songs to magic with that would be useful and practical. Or does she?

Question: Would the calming EXEC_HARMONIUS/. remove the psychic impression of "fight and die"?

Failing that, an extremely strong emotion can sometimes cause a Reyvateil to spontaneously create a new Song Magic - this is an extremely rare phenomenon but fear-of-death is likely to be able to cause such a thing. Although, I'm not sure what kind of Song that would produce, yet...

[peacefulwinter]

Winter has been summoned by Lily; she'd originally set tonight aside for homework, even knowing the meeting was tonight. She still has her base ice power, and her melee attack capability, but those aren't really helpful against snakes. Depending on what I commit to as an Echo, though, she might be able to do some damage until/unless she gets shot down, so that's a thing.

[hawaiianheir]

Mac will totally chat it up with the new FBI agent in the midst of casual danger dialogue while shooting windy projectiles at the snakes. :|b

I LIKE THESE TWO they seem like a good pair.