destinystrings | The 13th Hour

Who: The Eleven
Where: Scorpio Ward
Summary: Boss Battle.
Warnings: NOT SAFE FOR WORK FLASH It also has some music (But there's a play button so no worries)

You all somehow found your way to the Scorpio Ward. Was it earlier today? Or just due to the fighting? Does it really matter?

Let's get to work.

[OOC - Alright so there are 3 groups. The creature is so large that they will need to attack from FRONT, LEFT and RIGHT sides to defeat it. Think of it as attacking three parts of a boss in a video game.

Above your tag, please make what your character is doing: ATTACK, SUPPORT SKILL, GUARD, ITEM, HEAL|STATUS SPELL. If your character is Attacking either by Persona or Item, please also add the type of attack it is (PHYSICAL, FIRE, WATER, etc). So a tag with someone using a water spell would have ATTACK | WATER on top. Once in a while Q, Ideo and Reiko will pop up with aid.

If you SWITCH Personas during a tag, please mark this as well. You can switch Personas during the tag no problem, but the last Persona used will be the one counted when the monster attacks.

Also IN YOUR FIRST TAG, PLEASE LEAVE ME AN OOC NOTE TO YOUR CHARACTER'S PERSONA CURRENTLY ON HAND. I will need this for the battle to know who is immune to what.

Keep your hands inside at all times, and please enjoy.]

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The blood just drained from Santa's face and he stood watching what he thought he saw. This was actually the worst thing he had ever seen and if he wasn't already on edge from this fight then he would've probably thrown up without a second thought.

When he heard her shouting to make it stop - and he remembered Atsuro and his fire attack earlier (or did he? His mind wasn't too clear right now) he didn't even have to think twice about what he had to do next. He threw a hand into his pocket and yanked out what was inside which - if the fact that he had just summoned his Persona didn't manage to distract you - you could see that he was now holding onto a rather deadly looking golden revolver. He wasn't aiming it at anyone. Not yet, anyway.

"What the fuck do you think your doing?!"

Don't answer that guys, it's obvious you're setting his sister on fire don't even try to deny it.

"Santa; chop that fuckers arms off of his shit for brains body!"

Santa didn't event bother waiting for the attack to land, get blocked or even be dodged completely; he's already got the gun pointing towards Atsuro and he's leveling one hell of a glare at him.

"Put the fucking fire out right now."

Kaito did not expect this! He lets out a muffled distressed noise as he's being smothered by tits that would put Dolly Parton to shame. He struggled, trying to get out when he sees the crushed black bird. For a moment he stops, he tries to reach down, maybe pull it out with him.

He blinks, biting his lip to swallow an angry cry as it cast a spell on him instead of trying to help itself. Nononono, not again!

Water and Ice won't work, and he's no fighter... but this place is soft, almost distractingly soft but... it should wield. Trying to find a brace, he squirms and swung his legs kicking as hard as he could against Skorpios.

Thankfully she didn't have to brace herself for the ice attack, but she turned to Atsuro with a growing look of concern. "I can try, but... there's something about this spell that doesn't seem like a normal Charm skill!"

With those floating hearts, it was obvious what it was-- but she'd never seen one work like this before...! Which was just about confirmed when Santa started talking nonsense and lofted a gun at them.

She turned to the COMP on her wrist, summoning her oddly garbed Jack Frost.

"That's no proper way to act, hee-ho! You need to learn some proper manners, like hee-me-ho!" The Frost bounced around in front of Santa's view and cast a Patra spell on him with an upwards gesture. Reiko wasn't sure if it would work given the odd nature of the spell, but it was worth a shot...

"Just keep attacking the monster, OK?" She called to Atsuro, while keeping her attention on the delusional gun-toter.

[Santa, it is up to you if the spell worked in healing him or not, I'm okay with either!]

Kaito's kick connects, and it does take damage, but the skin's fat absorbs most of the shock. The fleshy mounds move along as it attacks the other groups, but nothing to smoother him with quite yet, and it doesn't seem to be trying to harm him otherwise. There's just the risk of it dying with him stuck under her...

It then did a series of spells in rapid succession; a Sabotage+ spell that halved their attack, defense and agility, then a Crimson Reign on itself to boost its own attack, defense and agility. If that wasn't enough, it then cast a power charge on itself, meaning that its next physical attack would be two and a half times stronger. There was a soft hum to everything, foretelling of terrible things to come...

Whatever Skorpios was planning for, it was definitely going to hurt a lot if they didn't do something...

Your move.

"If you had a gun, why the hell weren't you using it earlier?!" Atsuro feels his own strength depleting slightly as he performs some quick mental arithmetic in order to determine the full efficacy of -- Alright, no, who was he kidding he had no idea how all the boosts and dispels balanced out. The only thing he knew for certain was that he still felt significantly more powerful than he had before, courtesy of Reiko's Matarukaja and his own 'Fire Charge'.

It seemed he was the only one with any useful attacks amongst the lot of them. From the looks of things, they needed to bring the enemy down fast. "Just calm down and -- " A flinch as the ridiculous-looking Santa Claus rushes towards him.

...But never reaches.

"Behold! Thou gazest upon the deepest anguish of thy heart with beclouded eyes. And thy answer... In thy powerlessness, thou seekest to inflict suffering just as great." The red-armored, metallic angel had appeared out of nowhere to catch the blow. Though seemingly unaffected, its stoicism masks the damage it had incurred. "Such is the weakness of man. Fear not; the LORD's grace shall prevail."

The Lord's grace apparently involves gliding forward with spear outstretched for battle. Atsuro breathes a sigh of relief as he allows Reiko and the Power to deal with the crazed Santa.

"Here goes...!"

Windows 8, activate! ...That is, Persona, go! There is a glint in the Persona's eyes this time as it appears; the keystrokes ensue with much more vigor and enthusiasm. A brief pause... and then -- a tremendous fire erupts underneath Skorpios.

He'd tried to aim back behind the abdomen, away from, er, Kaito's prison.

Santa felt a wash of reality wash over him as he came back to his senses and, along with his senses resurfacing, his Persona quickly vanished again. He took a good hard look at Skorpios and eventually shook his head - he'd have to make a note to kick himself later for actually falling for that one; there was no way that was Akane.

It did cross his mind to inform the others that he'd been cured; but that was probably obvious by the change in his actions; right? If not then fuck 'em they could figure it out in their own time. Meanwhile he would answer that question about his gun as if the answer was the most obvious explanation ever.

"Didn't I say I didn't want to attack that thing until it was totally ignoring us? Why the fuck would I shoot it before that happened?"

Kaito jerks, trying not to suffocate as the monster's huge tracts of land absorbed some of the shock of his attack. What now? What now? He pondered as he tried to think of something - ANYTHING to keep it from attacking.

...He groans one idea came up.

Guess he'll have to live with the risk of being seen as a pervert. The Vocaloid tries to find good leverage... and starts to rub his hands against her breasts to try to distract it.

God, he'll need a dozen showers after this.

The 13th Hour - BOSS LOG

Attack | Arm Chopper | (Atsuro)

Attack | Physical

SUPPORT | PATRA (SANTA)

SUPPORT | SABOTAGE+ (ALL), CRIMSON REIGN (SELF), POWER CHARGE (SELF),

ATTACK | FIRE

Pass - but thankfully un-charmed

Attack | Physical...?