We Are Our Avatars XI (Open)

[Silence]

The zombie monster did not seem to care much about Dalahar, as it was comprised of already two times dead people, but it was hindered in its actions.

Yauna's mix was as effective as described. The monster slowly tried to fall over, on Dalahar and Yauna.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Montreal Streets, Around Midnight

The mix would flow over the zombies, continuing the petrification process slowly.

Yauna ran away from the monster, so it would hit the ground rather than her body. The man in the car, however, would stay still and thus get crushed.

 

[Kirke]

Breakfast room​

Ella rushed after Dalahar, but stopped where he had crashed through a wall to get outside. She got out her blaster rifle, and then looked up. "Merde..." - She said, stunned by the sheer size of the giant.
[hr]

Inside the tree giant's leg​

The ETR squad kept fighting their way down towards the ground, and when they realised that setting the thing on fire was futile they instead all focused on slashing their way downwards.

 

[Vakra jal]

The Dalahar thing shudders violently as he dodges the falling monster. His hyperactive movement was much swifter than a normal astartes. He could react as fast and move as fast as even Eldar Warriors who were some of the most agile combatants on the battlefield

When the monster fell the Dalahar thing would seek to approach the monster before it could recover. Bloodlust overcoming any sense of awareness over the fact that as fast and as powerful as his strikes may be. There was no way to bleed a monster of corpses sustained by magic to death. The Dalahar thing follows
The basest of target priotity and aims to tear into either the neck or head regions or any joints it can.

 

[Silence]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 4th, 2025
- Streets of Montreal -
Around Midnight​

The zombie monster served as a good tank, slowly being petrified, and being slashed at by Dalahar.

Black started seeing the ETR-Squad, and cast a curse, at first on one of them, making him sick quite sick and feverish, pus forming.

The tree giant had enough of standing around and slashed at Dalahar with one hand, while he was busy tearing at the Frankenstein's. The giant attempted to impale, pick up, and throw Dalahar.

 

[Slenn]

Shana would make it to the fire escape, a series of metal mesh stairs adorning the side of the building. There were safety rails along the sides.
"Should we retreat to the top or the bottom?"

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Montreal Streets, Around Midnight

Leaving the slowly-petrifying zombie to Dalahar, Yauna made her way over to the tree giant, keeping herself hidden as best she could. As she moved, she cast another spell on herself, which enveloped her hands in inky black smoke. When she got close to the tree giant, she began floating up into the air, and attempted to tear at the tree. The smoke around her hands would cause the same kind of unhealing, necrotic wounds as the tendrils Yauna had wrapped around the tree giant earlier.

 

[Kirke]

The sniper doubled over, saying; "What the shit? I feel sick..." The medic hurried over, placing a hand on her shoulder. Her eyes started shining as she attempted to heal the sniper. Meanwhile, the lieutenant spotted Black. He pointed towards him, and shouted; "Hostile spotted! Open fire!" The heavy gunner roared out "With pleasure!" and then there was a cacophony of sound as the rest of the squad opened fire.

Spoiler: Basically to this effect

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Street level, outside the hotel​

Ella shook herself out of her shock and opened fire at the zombie abomination, firing two shots in rapid succession.

 

[Chungus]

Streets of Pointe Saint-Charles, Montreal. Noon. March 4th​

After leaving the portal station, Shana, Raz and Kuki spend some time wandering about town. Eventually, the three passed a basketball court. Kuki, looking at it, called out,

"hey!"

They then looked up to Shana, continuing.

"That seems like some good empty space. Think you could demonstrate your abilities, there?"

[hr]

Hotel, Pointe Saint-Charles, Montreal. Midnight. March 5th​

"What's the situation on the ground?"

Kuki responded to Shana's question, unable to see much, especially in the dark.

"Is there a escape route?"

 

[Vakra jal]

The most likely enchanted wood and force the blow are strong enough to damage the Dalahar thing, crashing into the fused armour-flesh of his body and spillong foul demonic ichor from the would. The wound is not deep enough to completely puncture him due to a last minute attempt at dodging, his head rotating st an unnatural angle to the incoming blow but the leap away was not enough to get him completely out of the way.

He skids across the ground, knocked back and tearing up the asphalt of the road with his jagged body, force of impact and weight. Enraged at being injured he thrashes momentarily from inside the burrow he had gouged in the ground before recovering, one clawed hand clutched its scarred chest, the disjointed bone and armour fusion splayed open. The wound seemed to knit back together slowly, great pain sustained daemons of slaanesh, even their own was ecstasy to them.

In a rare moment of clarity Dalahar maneges to enforce a sense of place and location upon Kyrys so the daemon can inform its actions more. The targets presented to
It. Black and green: out of reach, despite being the highest priority targets. If they ever hit ground level he would be on them on a flash. The tree giant: no vital organs or susceptibility to bleeding or lacerating though the blade of bone on his left hand could slice through the branches he doubted it would accomplish much. The Frankenstein monster: resistant to the ferocious barrage also, having no vital spots or weakness to puncture of blood loss. The Dalahar thing could tear it to ribbons but that would take time. The still active zombies: laughably easy pickings, bearly a threat and even less of a challenge. However his fighting of them could buy others time to use the finesse required to fight either of the two giant creatures or present Black or Green to him. Without access to any of his weapons aside from the bolt pistol in his forearm, his ability to fight was limited to ripping and tearing.

The moment of clarity passes, the Dalahar thing shudders before snarling and skittering out of the furrow in the ground. Kyrys rage tempered and directed towards the zombies actively assaulting those in and around the hotel. He would wait for his chance to strike a vital blow when he could but for now his usefulness was limited to hopefully protecting the others. Dalahars infiuence is spent keeping the Dalahar thing from lasting out at any of the group he neared while fighting

 

[Slenn]

March 5. Hotel Fire Escape.

"There's a lot of zombies out in the front of the hotel. I don't know about the back." She searched around from where she was, using her night vision.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I say head up. Less walking dead and we may spot the others." Candace suggested.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Hmmm... Ohp, I got it!" Nina muttered to herself, having just clung to the tree beast as she thought.

Nina conjured a Black Arm on top of the spiky log barricade blocking her way forward, the arm seeming to burst out from the log, but causing no actual damage, simply appearing and sticking to the surface between some of the spikes. The arm stretched itself out and formed a fireball in front of its palm, then launched fireball in the rough direction of the ETR team. The fireball was purposefully aimed wide, and would only hit any of the soldiers if they actively attempted to get hit by it. The arm repeated this act, launching staged "attacks" at nearly everyone outside. Nina hoped this ruse would cause everyone to retaliate against the arm and strike the barrier, thinking that a combined barrage could inflict significant damage.

While she waited to see the outcome of her plan, Nina held her mouth slightly open. A black, smoke-like substance leaked out, but instead of wafting off into the sky, flowed downwards and clung to Nina's body. The smoke would cover her entire body and stick to it, until after a moment her appearance simply looked like a featureless black silhouette.

 

[Slenn]

March 4, Basketball Court

"Mmmkay. This should work fine." She took a breath as she began to think out loud. "I think I shall begin by showing the reactor sleeves." She knelt down to Kuki's level and brought her arms forward. With a closer look, the fabric didn't look like cotton. It had a bit of a metallic texture to it. "The fabric is composed of a heavy metal alloy. It flows like regular fabric, but its composition shields against ionizing radiation. When the sleeves come together, they become a rigid object and a series of electromagnets activate to hold in the plasma."

 

[Chungus]

Basketball Court, Pointe Saint-Charles, Montreal. Afternoon. March 4th​

After being set down, Kuki looked for a place with minimal snow covering the ground, sitting down there, facing Shana. They looked curiously as she began explaining, speaking once she finished.

"I wondered why I couldn't look through those. Isn't something like that uncomfortable to wear, though?"

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Hotel fire escape, Pointe Saint-Charles, Montreal. Midnight. March 5th​

"But if we go onto the roof, we'd have no place to run!"

Kuki called on at Candace's suggestion.

As a fireball crashed into the street below, Kuki jolted, and dived into the satchel as much as they could fit their body in there, shaking heavily, and saying nothing else.

 

[Silence]

Yauna's attack did not much.
The tree attempted a second slash at Dalahar, while he was hunting zombies.

It could not do much against Nina's plan.

Black was hit by some bullets and some beams. He laughed, while his armor absorbed most of the blasts, but some of it still melted.

The healer was able to heal the sniper, but slowly.

Black cast another spell, on the heavy gunner. He could feel his life's energy getting weaker, while Black seemed to heal himself.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Montreal Streets, Around Midnight

Yauna realised her attacks were having little effect, and so began floating up and around the giant. As she moved, she spotted the arm hurling fireballs around, and pointed at it. A blast of golden energy burst forth from her fingertip, towards the arm.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"What?" Candace asked Shana bluntly, not understanding any of what was just said.

 

[Vakra jal]

As the zombies fell apart around The Dalahar thing this time it saw the attack coming and was able to shift to one side and dodge the swing, brining his left arm in the attempt to sever a limb or at least part of the slashing limb with the 3 ft long bone blade curving for the back of bis hand.

Regardless of the outcome of the attack a fireball nearly hits him straight after causing his right arm to be raised violently towards the source, the bolt pistol embedded in his palm began firing. The usual boom of Bolter rounds twisted and distorted, sounding like the shrieking of some beast as the bolts were fired. The bolts burned with demonic energy but were no more powerful than standard bolts. never the less the bolts sail towards their target, carrying the same force as they normally would.

 

[Silence]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 5th, 2025
- Streets of Montreal -
Around Midnight​

A mile away from the fight, about at the same place where Kuki had first appeared, a portal opened and closed again. The red woman had stepped through, but aside from watching, and her eyes looking like they were aflame, she did nothing.