destinystrings | The Underground Bull: Taurus Battle

The creature wasted no time. At the sight of the five, it pushed back a heap of gold-colored items it had gathered and the piles of vegetables and meat which had since started to rot.

Snarling in defiance, its hooves dug into the ground as it moved it's four hands to cast a spell, forming a strange silverish barrier. You have no idea what it is...yet.

Your move.

Edited 2013-04-25 02:13 (UTC)

There waiting and guarding paid off.

Mere minutes later, the golden metal began to melt and fuse on the tunnel ground below, forming into lava before quickly cooling off to become glass and entrapping everything that had been there. Who knows what would have happened if they'd been near it...

The pent up energy that the creature had was not lost either; and in an enraged snarl at its plan failing, it threw the attack that had been meant to be used when it was still covered in its protective cover. taura didn't seem to enjoy doing it either, as a hundreds of meteor rocks appeared, before slamming right into the ground and near them...and itself. Rocks fell upon its back and cut open the skin.

Thanks to their stance the damage was minimized (but it still did hurt, especially if they were weak against either wind or earth), and the creature was unable to do anything else, as it needed to gather up more energy before being able to attack again. It stretched out its front arms almost as if it was offering itself to the reddish moon.

>ALPHA TAURA IS CHARGING UP! 3 ROUND REMAINING BEFORE THE ATTACK!

Edited 2013-05-03 22:44 (UTC)

With each hit, the creature is unable to do anything but scream in anger and soon even those scream turn into silence. There is so much smoke from the bombs that it is impossible to see anything, before a large head appears above.

It seems it's back for more...

Or actually perhaps not, for when the air allows the smoke to clear from their combined attacks, all that is left is the bull monster's petrified head floating in the air, the rest completely obliterated into a fine dust. The disembodied head falls as gravity calls it back, right into the large water pool, splashing them with the water as it enters, steam pouring out as it slowly sinks.

The entire body of water turns red as it becomes lava then into hard rock, leaving nothing of the crater but a bad memory and the destroyed landscape around them. On the top, they can find five large scales, as big as an open hand, gleaming and noticeable in the reddish moon's glow.

MONSTER CLEAR!

With only five minutes left before the 13th hour is over, they had cut it quite close.

I figured some of you might want to see my notes for the boss battle. There were a few more attacks added during the battle, these are my first notes. This post is just for informative purposes.

Taura is a typical normal battle. Nothing special here.

TAURA
Destiny Strings Original

LVL	Arcana	Heart	Alignment	Traits	HP	SP
Max	The Hierophant	Dark	Law	Forceful, Gloomy, Snappish	Large	Medium

Fire	Lightning	Earth	Water	Ice	Wind	Dark	Light	Physical	Mind	Almighty
-	-	Ref	Wk	Wk	-	Null	Wk	Str	-	Abs

List of Skills
Skill/Spell	Element	Effect
Sexy Dance	Mind	(30% chance of inflicting the Charm ailment on all targets \| all allies.(2 turns))
Sandy Lover	Earth	Deal high Earth + Dark damage to all targets. 30% chance of charm.
Stone Rampart	Mind	Blocks one Water and one Ice attack (2 turns)
Terra Punch	Earth	(Inflicts a medium amount of Earth damage on all enemies with a 20% chance of Confusion .)
Spilled Blood	Earth	(User becomes covered in rocks for 3 rounds causing large earth damage added to attacks. Destroyed with a wind/ice/light attack)
Bull Charge	Physical	(Large Physical damage to one target)
Bull Charge	Physical	(Large Physical damage to one target)
Element Zero	Mind	(Nullifies all positive affinities for three turns on both sides.)
Demon's Kiss	Dark	(Inflicts a medium amount of Dark damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of Fear.)
Mind Charge	Mind	(The next Fire, Ice, Water, Earth, Lightning, Wind, or Almighty magic attack will be 2.5 times greater in power. Self.)

Rewards
Rare (1/100)	Piece of Taurus Hair (Permanent Strong Bonus against Earth Types)
Rare (1/20)	Marble (Massive Earth Attack (usable once))

No one won any of the prizes in that round when I rolled for them.

TAURA PRIME
Taura Prime, being the 2nd form has a unique boss quirk that its weakness changes when the character with the birth element uses the attack, and the others nearby use a similar attack. If 3/5 people use the same element, it will still work and combine together. Once it has done a 4 element rotation, mutation skills will be unlocked for all, and the creature will be weak to everything but those four elements, allowing for a final attack.

Otherwise it goes into a 3,2,1,0 countdown and resets its health to full after causing a massive attack, turning all targets into either children or seniors. No matter how powerful the attacks, it is essentially unbeatable if the pattern isn't found as its health is too high.

If other characters that aren't the birth character use that attack, the effect will not cause a weakness. Only the birth element character and pierce that weakness even if she has a wall up for that particular element. The others using it will boost that power.

The extra character (Xellos) needs to be the final one to attack when all the weaknesses are given, otherwise the final attack will fail.

If players cannot figure this out, Q and Orpheus will come in to enlighten / give clues / help / keep the flow of the battle intact.

TAURA PRIME (GIANT)
Destiny Strings Original

LVL	Arcana	Heart	Alignment	Traits	HP	SP
Max	The Despot	Dark	Law	Forceful, Gloomy, Snappish	Insane	Insane

Fire	Lightning	Earth	Water	Ice	Wind	Dark	Light	Physical	Mind	Almighty
Str	Null	Abs	Wk	Null	Str	Null	Null	Str	-	Abs

List of Skills
Skill/Spell	Element	Effect
Sexy Waltz	Mind	(50% chance of inflicting the Charm ailment on all targets \| all allies.(2 turns))
Mamagnadyne	Earth	Deal high Earth damage to an target group.
Sandy Lover	Earth	Deal high Earth + Dark damage to all targets. 30% chance of charm.
Taurid Shower	Earth	Large Amount of Earth Damage (All)
Stone Rampart	Mind	Blocks one Water and one Ice attack (2 turns)
Terra Punch	Earth	(Inflicts a medium amount of Earth damage on all enemies with a 20% chance of Confusion .)
The Child	Mind	Turns characters into children for 1 turn
The Crone	Mind	Turns characters in an aged-up version of themselves for 1 turn
Spilled Blood	Earth	(User becomes covered in rocks for 3 rounds causing large earth damage added to attacks. Destroyed with a wind/ice/light attack)
Bull Charge	Physical	(Large Physical damage to one target)
Bull Charge	Physical	(Large Physical damage to one target)
Element Zero	Mind	(Nullifies all positive affinities for three turns on both sides.)
Demon's Kiss	Dark	(Inflicts a medium amount of Dark damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of Fear.)
Mind Charge	Mind	(The next Fire, Ice, Water, Earth, Lightning, Wind, or Almighty magic attack will be 2.5 times greater in power. Self.)
Please smile for Me...	Mind	(40% chance of inflicting the Happy ailment on all targets.(2 turns))

Rewards
Rare (1/100)	Silver Tear (Permanent Reflect Bonus against Earth Type)
Rare (1/20)	Birth Stone (Revive ally with 50% of HP (usable once))

Everyone wins a Marble by default if they don't roll for the Tear (which no one did). Two characters won the Birth Stone.

Edited 2013-06-11 00:55 (UTC)

ATTACK - BARRIER (MIND)

ATTACK | WIND,EARTH (ALL, SELF) 1/2