destinystrings | Protect the civilians!

Who: Ludwig and YOU! Open!
Where: Libra district/ward, in front of the apartment buildings.
Summary: Ludwig has made it his sworn duty to protect the civilians and prevent the scorpions from reaching the apartment buildings (well, any more than they already have). He could really use some help...
Warnings: Fight scenes, maybe cussing? Not sure.

Ludwig was on the case when it came to defending the civilian population. These scorpion creatures were clearly out of control, not to mention a threat to anyone they encountered. Determined to do something, he made it his mission to do a little pest control.

Now might have been a bad time to test out a new Persona, but for the time being he had switched from Siegfried to Vulcan. Vulcan had a multi-target physical attack that was doing quite well against the beasts (but why oh why couldn't he have Maragi at a time like this?!).

Currently, Ludwig was standing outside of an apartment building in the Libra ward, a swarm of scorpions headed right for him. He had just finished escorting a terrified civilian to safety, but that wouldn't quite be enough. There were more out there that needed to be saved. As soon as he cleared out this swarm, he'd go looking again...

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"Atsuro!" Ludwig called out to his fighting companion as soon as he was visible. "We've arrived! What you you want me to do first- handle the scorpions or watch out for Masks?"

"T-The scorpions would be nice...!"

Atsuro is panicked enough that he barely glances in the direction of his savior, continuing to stomp as hard as he could in the middle of the mass of things. The Power calmly observes, its duty done.

"I shall attend to the humans. My spear shall be as of a piercing lance of conviction into their hearts."

"Understood! Watch where you're standing!" Ludwig summoned Vulcan and used rampage, sending a chunk of scorpions flying. "My Persona has a multi-target attack- it'll help clear out the horde a bit faster!"

Atsuro is enjoying his time playing hopscotch quite a lot, but he's slightly relieved when they begin to scatter.

"Phew. ...Thanks, Ludwig. 'Buried alive by scorpions' isn't exactly what I want on my obituary."

He crunches a few on the head as he gingerly tries to step away.

"What're we gonna do about these guys?"

"The scorpions? Aside from kill them till they don't get in our way, I can't say I know." Ludwig Rampage-d a few more clusters of scorpions out of Atsuro's way so he could get through. "There doesn't seem to be any real end to them. We're going to be fighting for a while, to say the least."

"Er." Atsuro glances up from playing Whack-a-Scorp. "These guys are just monsters, but I was talking more about..."

His sentence isn't finished as an unidentifiable Persona rushes out from one of the masked civilians and releases a Maragi on the both of them.

"Oh, the Masks? You should have specified-"

The Maragi hits Ludwig like a truck, and he hits the ground hard. "Dammit... my weakness...!" He struggles to get up, holding his side as he does. "Atsuro! Do you have any incapacitating skills?" Because Ludwig sure didn't.

"I was thinking if I hit them on the head enough times, they'd be incapacitated...!"

This is probably not what Ludwig means at all. Atsuro rolls away from the scorpions towards his ally while the angel engages the other masked civilian in combat, leaving them to deal with only the one.

"I don't want to hurt them, but we can't just sit here and take a beating, either..."

"Not the head! We don't want to give them brain damage!" Finally, Ludwig managed to get back to his feet after nearly being fried by that Maragi. He then realized his oversight- he had allowed Vulcan to become inactive for just that one moment. Had he kept Vulcan active, he would have blocked that attack completely. "Use the lightest attacks you have. Enough of those should tire them out." Using Vulcan, he launched an Agi at the oncoming Mask, hoping that it would have minimal effect.

"It's not like hitting them lightly a hundred times isn't going to give them damage, either..."

Atsuro sighs slightly as the fireball strikes the masked man with limited effect. It appeared that his element of choice was fire...

"...What about the mask? You think we can get it off?"

"Minimal damage is what we should focus on," Ludwig said, flinging another Agi. "He doesn't seem to be absorbing fire, so maybe enough light fire hits will disable him. As for the mask... I don't know, but we can try."

"Alright..."

In the background, the Power seems to be thrusting his spear without much concern for the enemies' overall safety, the will of God apparently involving vivisections.

"A little less enthusiastic over there!" Atsuro steps forward now to bring his own Persona to bear again. "Enki! See if you can't be a little more persuasive...!"

With the familiar crackling sound, the Persona sails forward and... flicks the man sharply in the forehead.

"Uh."

Protect the civilians!

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Whoops, Ludwig should have blocked that attack since Vulcan was active... drumming up an explanation

Aha, don't worry about it!

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