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revenance_rpg2014-02-26 12:14 pm
revenancenpcs) wrote in revenance_rpg2014-02-26 12:14 pm
Eternal Night [Open]
Characters: Whatever's been causing that really long night, the new bearers of the Elements of Harmony, and you.
Content: BOSS BATTLE
Location: Ponyville, just outside of town, towards the Everfree Forest. There's a certain clearing with a certain statue in it.
Time: Night. Because it's been night for days.
Warnings: It's a boss battle, guys. You know the drill by now.
Continual night is only supposed to be the default state for Traverse Town. When it happens anywhere else - say, Ponyville - it's worrying. That's exactly why you're here to check it out. Maybe you're now a bearer of an Element of Harmony and you feel a sense of responsibility. Maybe you want to take out whatever's causing it. Maybe you're just curious. Either way, you're still in Ponyville in time to see dark clouds swirl in the sky from seemingly nowhere and obscure the stars and moon.
Those clouds all rolled in from the same direction, though, and that's the direction you head in, towards the Everfree Forest. You stop in a clearing, empty except for everypony else who had the same idea as you and a rather creepy statue. You hesitate as a force field shimmers into view around the clearing and abruptly fades. For better or worse, you're stuck here for a while.
It's then that the clouds break long enough to shine a single beam of moonlight onto the statue. White-hot cracks begin to spiderweb over the statue until it shatters, exploding outwards. As the dust settles, you see something else standing where the statue was just moments ago: a pony matching the Princesses in stature, black as the unnaturally long night. The blue mists of her mane and tail swirl around her, failing to obscure the deep red of her gaze. Emblazoned across her flanks is the Nightmare symbol.
She pauses for a moment - either to regroup or for dramatic emphasis - before gathering searing teal magic at the tip of her horn and firing it at you.
[This isNightmare!Nightmare Moon, and - surprise, surprise - she doesn't like you. This will play out in the same style as the other boss battles, with successes and failures being decided by D&D-style dice rolls (all taken care of by the mods). Please only tag in if you can keep up a pace of one tag per day; otherwise, your turn will be skipped. Additionally, this is a required event for anyone holding an Element of Harmony - if you can't tag in for any reason, please let a mod know. Ten characters total, meaning four non-Element characters can also tag in; no tag order; start a new subthread after every boss battle; have fun~]
Content: BOSS BATTLE
Location: Ponyville, just outside of town, towards the Everfree Forest. There's a certain clearing with a certain statue in it.
Time: Night. Because it's been night for days.
Warnings: It's a boss battle, guys. You know the drill by now.
Continual night is only supposed to be the default state for Traverse Town. When it happens anywhere else - say, Ponyville - it's worrying. That's exactly why you're here to check it out. Maybe you're now a bearer of an Element of Harmony and you feel a sense of responsibility. Maybe you want to take out whatever's causing it. Maybe you're just curious. Either way, you're still in Ponyville in time to see dark clouds swirl in the sky from seemingly nowhere and obscure the stars and moon.
Those clouds all rolled in from the same direction, though, and that's the direction you head in, towards the Everfree Forest. You stop in a clearing, empty except for everypony else who had the same idea as you and a rather creepy statue. You hesitate as a force field shimmers into view around the clearing and abruptly fades. For better or worse, you're stuck here for a while.
It's then that the clouds break long enough to shine a single beam of moonlight onto the statue. White-hot cracks begin to spiderweb over the statue until it shatters, exploding outwards. As the dust settles, you see something else standing where the statue was just moments ago: a pony matching the Princesses in stature, black as the unnaturally long night. The blue mists of her mane and tail swirl around her, failing to obscure the deep red of her gaze. Emblazoned across her flanks is the Nightmare symbol.
She pauses for a moment - either to regroup or for dramatic emphasis - before gathering searing teal magic at the tip of her horn and firing it at you.
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Perhaps some of the more specific details of Amaterasu's meaning didn't fully get through on Chell, but she could tell well enough what meaning the dog was drying to get through to her. She couldn't say she bought it much, but she got it. Didn't change that Celestia's spirit had nearly gotten blasted apart coming to protect her unasked, and she wasn't about to adhere to this idea that she was more worth protecting than any other who'd showed up here.
Chell didn't know much about unicorn magic, but she knew lifting up two other people while on unsteady ground had to be nigh impossible. "You too," was all the warning she gave Jeeves, before hooking her hooves around and lifting him off the ground herself. It was awkward, but not as impossible as you'd think for a pony.
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It seemed Aqua was also having trouble with her Element. "Aqua!" How could she put this? "Your Element isn't just magic - it's the magic of friendship!" Which was all the further she got before a chunk of earth rose quickly in front of her, and she had to dodge quickly to avoid hitting it head-on. A quick glance around told her that Spike had been picked up, at least. She owed Cube a cookie when this was all over.
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However, neither Luna nor Celestia's attempts to stabilize the earth work as intended. If Nightmare Moon is able to cancel out the magic of the princesses, she is doing so with Luna's attempt; either way, Celestia's own attempt is no more successful in stopping the quake. It does, however, manage to lessen the severity of the earthquake and in so doing help keep protect some of those still attempting to get off the ground; Jeeves and Chell both succeed in their own attempts, leaving both them and Pinkie Pie unharmed. In addition, Setsuna's own attempt at steadying the ground around her also succeeds, mostly likely as a result of Celestia and Luna's partial success.
The same, however, cannot be said Chell's bat - although he does his best to lift Spike off the ground, the two of them fail to avoid another suddenly erupting pillar of earth. In both cases, the damage isn't severe, but they are both knocked back to the ground.
Down on the ground itself, those who have chosen to not take to the skies are met with varying success. Chu, Kanji, and Kanji's Persona all manage to stand their ground even despite the fact that the earth is still shaking; Rarity likewise manages to both keep her footing and dodge the chunks of earth. Fortunately, perhaps, the lessened severity of the earthquake means only Kanji ends up getting hurt; Chu, Rarity, and Kanji's Persona all manage to come through unscathed.
Nightmare Moon, however, doesn't seem to take kindly to having her earthquake lessened and while she doesn't surface again, she does summon another wave of Nightmare Komory Bats while she redoubles her effort to shake the very ground apart, in the hopes of overpowering Celestia and Luna's magic.