We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[Chungus]

Loki sighed when Ness entered through the hole. He contemplated cutting his losses and run, but decided walk towards the dome instead, meaning to catch Ness by suprise. As he walked, he reached for his pendant to contact Estella, requesting the fasted airship available be send to Holadino, explaining the previous airship had been destroyed.
[hr]
"Thank you for the information, ma'am." The soldier remarked after Jessica was done giving Rita and Loki's descrptions. Turning away, he reached for his earpiece and walked away from Jessica.

OoC: I'm off too.

 

[Furioso]

Ness would find that the inner dome was about 10 feet tall. Towards the bottom part of the shell, about 3 feet up, appeared to be cracks in the shell, though an attempt to use her RPG would likely end up in catching herself in the blast. As she searched around the top of the outer dome, weakened by her RPG blasts, crumbled away, the chunks not falling towards Ness. Outside Ness would be able to see the storm, now much worse, and might be able to see sparks inside the outer dome and around the vague area.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness rubbed her hand on her chin in thought as she paced around, keeping as far away from the small sparks as she could. [color=ff4599] ...Sooooo. One weakpoint... and there's probably no way to exploit it as it stands now, with me being so close. ...Oh, wait. We can fix that... [/color]

With a small smirk, she opened a portal, angled toward the cracks in the inner dome, that led back outside. She stepped through it and swung around after getting a bit of distance. With a wild smile, the girl charged her rocket with light magic and fired it into the portal, sending it toward the cracks of the dome. Once the rocket was teleported, she closed the portal, ran back up to cover and watched the dome expectantly.

The charged rocket wouldn't be that much more explosive than a normal RPG (still effing explosive though), but it would cause another disorienting flash and ear-grating sounds once it went boom.

 

[Chungus]

Still shrouded, Loki walked up to the dome. Once he heard ness fire an RPG, however, he stopped and stood still, not risking approaching the weakened dome in case the explosion would send debris his way.

 

[Kirke]

Tophat's mind was taking a hell of a beating as it displayed Loki's position to Jessica, Ness & the Rookie through the mind-link. It was able to do so because part of its mind was trapped with Loki.
(To Jessica, Ness & the Rookie: Priority target marked. Alert: Suffering breakdown on all centres. Five minutes until total collapse.) - It sent, it's mental voice as cold and monotone as a machine.

The Rookie groaned, and got up. He was then temporarily stunned by the sound and light from Ness's rocket, though his helmet eased it considerably.

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @Dot, is that the same cover she's been using for most of the fight?

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica smiled a little to herself as she heard the soldier's response. Well...that's all I've got for now... She fell to her knees in the middle of the street and started breathing more haggardly again. "Could I get some help too?...[small]Not doing so hot over here...[/small]"

 

[DotSlash]

@Furi: She's been switching around cover for most of the fight. I'll say she's in the same general area.

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @Dot, k

The rocket would blow a hole in the cracks, but it lead to solid rock. Rita was in the upper half. Ness would notice that once again sparks were sparking all around her, though now there were far more and she would feel slower, as if for her time was slowing down. Rookie would notice sparks start to pop up around him.

 

[Chungus]

Loki rubbed his temple with his left hand once the explosion resounded, his sensitive hearing meaning that even as he wasn't standing close to the blast, the noise still affected him. She could not posibly have been within that thing without being caught up in the explosion... Which means she has gone elsewhere again. Irritating. Knowing the chances of getting the drop on Ness were slim at best with her near constant teleporting, Loki instead turned his attention to Rookie, who he had seen getting up from his periphal vision. Aiming the staff at the Rookie, Loki fired a single explosive plasma bolt towards his center of mass, strafed to the side.
[hr]
The soldier who Jessica had spoken to previously was already out of earshot, but another saw her falling to her knees after leaving a building and dropping of a corpse. He rushed over to Jessica and examined her, seeing that her being injured.. "Hold on, ma'am, we'll get you some help. Can you walk?"

 

[DotSlash]

Given that she had been given herself a speed boost by going bloody-eyed, Ness' movement was now slightly faster than her normal without the eyes. Sighing at the sparks surrounding her, taking that as a note that her rocket hadn't killed the girl, she teleported back inside the dome and switched her RPG out for her black magnum. Noting the cracks near the bottom leading to solid rock, she aimed closer toward the top of the inner dome before unloading her clip and calmly reloading.

She made her way to move around the dome again to check if her bullets had actually pierced anything. [color=ff4599] So Loki's still here and this girl doesn't feel like coming out to play. ....Such a pain. [/color]

 

[Kirke]

The Rookie rolled to the side to avoid the plasma bolt, then noticed the sparks. Since he did not know where Rita was, he decided to attack Loki instead. He ran low against Loki, firing off a shotgun blast before dropping down on one knee and firing off another three in quick succession.

(To the Rookie, Jessica and Ness: Alert: Four minutes until total collapse. Primary target will not be marked after collapse.)

 

[Furioso]

Ness would now feel even slower, likely below the levels of human speed at this stage. She would notice that one or two of her bullets had pierced the dome, but it was hard to tell if they had had any effect, especially due to the angle that the bullets had to have been fired at.

Rookie would begin to feel his movement being slowed as the sparks increased in number around him, but not nearly as much as Ness had been slowed.

 

[Drakmorg]

[small]"I think I may have lost enough blood to make that not a good idea anymore."[/small] Jessica replied to the solider who came over to help her in a strained sounding voice. The extent of Jessica's wounds weren't immediately obvious through her HAZMAT suit, though it was obvious that she was pretty badly injured from the stab wounds Rita had dealt her.
"Oh dammit...what's happening now?..." Jessica projected to Tophat, not being aware of the situation as she had left the scene.

 

[DotSlash]

Minding the sparks and feeling a bit sluggish, Ness growled under her breath before trying to teleport on top of the dome. A small warming message noting a mandatory cooldown appeared in her head and she calmly began to try and climb the dome the fastest she could. If she could, she'd continue to climb up onto the top, charging her magnum with light magic as she made her way up.

 

[Chungus]

The disntance between himself and Rookie, plus Loki's body density meant the shotgun rounds did minimal damage, the damage being the rough equivalent of scraping past a brick wall. Loki briefly wondered how Rookie knew where he was, but didn't think much of it. Loki ran towards the Rookie, and as he neared, slamed the end of the staff onto the ground, using it as a pole vault to leap over him. Landing behind Rookie, Loki attempted to sweep Rookie's legs out form under him.
[hr]
The soldier nodded in acknoledgement and touched his earpiece, requesing imediate medical assitance. "Alright... We'll need you to get that suit off." He explained, then went to help Jessica get the hazmat suit off.

 

[Kirke]

The Rookie twisted around as Loki swept his legs out. He landed on his back facing Loki, and fired a couple of shotgun shells in chest level, slower than before. However, when he tried to fire a third shell, it clicked. He rolled to the side and scrambled towards the dome, at running speed even though he was sprinting.

(To Jessica, Ness & the Rookie: All mind centres failing. 3 minutes until total collapse. Preparing memory centre for emergency transfer.)

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica nodded to the soldier and started trying to get her suit off. With only one arm and being injured, there wasn't much she could do apart from taking off the hood of the suit. She did her best to cooperate with the soldier and aid in getting her suit off faster. Once it was off, he'd see that she had several shallow stab wounds across her back that had been rather hastily bandaged up.
Damn it all... Jessica frustrated-ly thought to herself as she heard Tophat's announcement. [small]"Can you tell me what they're going to do about those nasty people in the mountains that attacked the city?"[/small]

 

[Furioso]

Rookie would find himself no longer slowed, in fact, all of the sparks outside of the dome were gone. Ness would once again find herself moving even slower, now to the point where she would barely be able to move. The entire ground in the area danced with electricity as purple waves began to radiate outwards from the inner dome as an intricate blue circle appeared that surrounded the dome. A loud humming could be heard that got louder and louder as if something was charging.

 

[Chungus]

With the way Rookie was slowed down, and Loki possesing speed and agility far above an average person, Loki was able to move to the side when Rookie aimed at him. Still, the spread of the buckshot rounds mean that a few pallets struck him regardless. Up close, these did a good deal more damage. Grunting, Loki took aim at the Rookie when he ran and fired two explosive bolts, the second aimed slightly lower then the first.
Noting the electricity building up around the dome, Loki's scowled. I cannot stand lightning...
[hr]
Not being able to do much until a medical team arived, the soldier applied preasure to the most severe punctire wound Jessica had sustained. "We'll try to take them alive, but there'll be a large enough force to make sure they can't escape." he answered.