RECORDING 17: THE FINAL DAY.

[foundationmods]

It's the final day, before the night when the massacre begins.

You've all talked and planned - and as you wake up, on the last day you have allotted to you...You know, instinctively, it is now or never.

That today, you either break free...or die trying.

The hallways are seemingly empty of ghosts, even the vessels themselves having gone silent. The Miasma hangs in the air, as if waiting for your decision.

There is 12 of your number left.

How many will be alive by the end of the day?

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[foundationmods]

[The fourth wall goes down, but yet again, another wall remains.

How much longer do they have to go?]

[sageking]

[ So nothing happening with ripples just yet.

But at this point, Gilgamesh was going to bring forth a ton of ice and earth magic, just blasting and hitting at the wall non-stop. He's not going to shut off the magic if there's another wall behind this one too. ]

[zweivoltage]

How many more?

[His shirt is looking a little red in the shoulder, wheezing slightly from his mistake - but he doesn't look like he's close to tiring or giving up. He held his free hand out, creating another arrow of lightning]

Stun Edge!

[noneforall]

[The effects of the MJBK grow ever stronger, increasing the likelihood of attack timing failures and misfires. But at point blank range perhaps that's not as much of a deterrence as it could be. It seems that after the green barrier, there aren't any other impediments of that nature here -- at least not from Subete's neck of the woods.

They probably have a clean shot at the fifth wall here.]

[white_camellia]

[Seriously, where is that MJBK? Nanaka is going to continue focusing on that for the time being. Her role is to be the finisher, after all. Until then, she will keep operating as support and trying to find where that thing is.]

[noneforall]

[She'll be able to find something mixed up in the miasma now that she's further in, because the magical effects are growing ever-stronger. Looks like this MJBK is hanging out further within the walls. You'll have to keep up the batter-ramming.

I forgot to note this but she will also be able to ping something else similar, but there's a lot going on in that core room so overall that's all she's getting.]

[sageking]

[ Well okay, since they've got a clean shot at the fifth wall, let's continue that ice-earth magic barrage while we're at it. ]

[foundationmods]

[The fifth one goes down, and behind that, there is a sixth one - that also goes down to their onslaught.

When the Core is breached, it comes apart with a harsh screech- And there, in the center of the room, is a massive amount of webs, along with what looks like a single black widow spider in the center.

Is this...it?

Is this....Her?]

[noneforall]

[Of course, they'll be viewing all of those webs and that singular spider through a distorted lens: that of a shimmer in the air very similar to the one they saw behind the first wall. It seems like instead of shoring up the defense for every last brick, Subete and his MJBK have pulled back here to the center.

And indeed, there he is, somewhere near an edge of the room -- no wall-leaning today and not least because every wall is draped in sticky webs. It's very inconvenient. All the same, Subete raises a hand in a slightly sardonic wave. His other hand is preoccupied with a singular teacup full of tea, and there's a book under his arm. Looks like he was just relaxing here while all hell broke loose outside...?]

Welcome to the core. I hope you had fun warming up, because now you're really going to need it.

[A word, two and his usual barriers shimmer over him in addition to the layer in front of their eyes: green on green on something like purple thread, while something else lurks in his shadow. The MJBK effects are stronger than ever here--

No, rather: Two somethings lurk behind him. One of them is distinctly larger than the other, and now that you're in the center it's easy to feel the tangled mass of their influence. The coordination issues and friendly fire danger are at their peak, and they're mixing with the insidious hum of an entirely different effect: something like the low grumble of thunder at the backs of their consciousness, like the whisper of miasma behind their eyeballs, and the entire room seems to distort to some extent.

Ready for the showdown?]

[tangentlion]

ATTENTION ALL WHOLE NUMBERS!! ITS TIME TO GET DERIVED!

[You know the saying, dead but not gone. Well, it turns out you aren't double dead and gone, either. Sho reappears at the end of the hallway, swirling with miasma]

Man oh man... You know we can't let you go any further, right? Your numbers get crunched here. Now.

[and he vanishes, reappearing beside Gil to slug him in the face]

[lightreaching]

[ Flayn appears next to him, staff in hand, to cast another heavy gust of her wind spells that duck around Sho and swerve to aim for Gil. Handy Cutting Gale. ]

Take no steps further!

[zweivoltage]

[He sprang into the air. The distortion glistening and weaving, but if he focused - remembering his training, his priority - he saw Sho and Flayn appear to attack Gil, as his sword glows with the violet light, making everything glow around him as it expands into a massive sword that he swung down at the ghosts]

STUN EDGE!

[tangentlion]

[something huge, furry, and black blocks Ky's slash. Sho, partially transformed into Leo Cantus, uses his Taboo-defended leonine arms to defend against the blade, the lightning causing his fur to stand on end]

And I won't let you hurt Flayn, either!

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[kaliedoscopes]

[ Not so surprisingly Subete isn't alone; tea drinking is a social activity after all and someone has to make up for the drab colors of this room. Hikage abandons his cup of tea and tucks a book of his own away into his cloak with a small smile. ]

Took you long enough to get through the dogs. [ He snaps his fingers and an absolutely unholy amount of butterflies fly out from his being, their wings dripping in miasma and making visibility an all time low; who needs a fog of war when you have a fog of insects? ]

I prefer butterflies, myself.

2/2

[eyeforai]

[And then from behind the thick veil of butterflies comes a salvo of 6 shots, all aimed rather accurately at the wall breaking crew despite the visual obstruction. They're nothing special -- just your regular run of the mill bullets here -- but it's more than enough to maim or kill someone if they hit the wrong spot.]

Let's just get this over with.

[white_camellia]

[It was time. With the magic she had been cycling through during the battle, she had been building it up, and now... She would end it.

She passed control over to her witch side. Even with the magic she was cycling, a magical girl is powered by her emotions, and in this place... it was her despair which was stronger by far. Psychic feelings of guilt seem to emanate off her, as black portals begin to form. This was her power, the power to reshape the world as she viewed it, create it as she willed...

Objects similar in appearance to brushes began to shoot out of the black portals, and black flame like objects began to fire out of the curtain, blanketing everything inside the core with physical and magic attacks. Amidst this chaos, six of the flame-like options mixed together in the middle of the room, and ...explode, sending out false flames burning with the desire fro redemption. Everything will be redeemed. Everything.

Clarification edit: This is an all-target water element "hit all enemies" bombing attack. Sorry for get into writing the stuff here.]

[carbide]

[Guess who else won't stay dead? It's everyone's favorite (by default) robot, looking no worse for wear.]

This ends here.

[Her eye is glowing, ready to fire another beam.]

[deadanimemom]

[Yuri, in a corner, doesn't say anything. But the demon cat is back, a snarling rush of fur and teeth and claws that rushes forward, five feet tall at the shoulder and all feral muscle and rage.

Better hope you're not alive right now, because it's going after the closest living person it can find.]

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[sageking]

Do you believe you've any right to interfere?! KNOW YOUR PLACE!

[ So the stars aligned with luck here. While Gilgamesh didn't have time to deal with the sucker punch (Ky had that handled), he had time to deal with the rest.

Suddenly he's speedcasting. Everyone was buffed attack/defense at 20% again for four turns.

Then he immediately casts a tornado of ice and light and all that jazz straight into the room, from his spot where he's been levitating keeping his distance to avoid being caught in friendly fire. That part was easier enough.

And despite the effects of the creature...his mind was startlingly clear. As clear and focused as it ever had been. It was time. ]

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[sageking]

[ Those ripples became more than just ripples in the next moment. They became golden portals...and not just a few. There were hundreds of thousands of them. And a reminder that some of these portals completely surrounded King Gilgamesh himself.

A big portal also appeared in the hole they made re: walls after a certain Doppel fired her spell.

And he just fucking let loose, and by that we mean it was total mayhem of magic.

Targets were focused on Sho, Olympia, Yuri, Hikage, Date, and Flayn, but also the room that had been opened up, including Subete himself.

First it was mostly a volley of a holy combination of light, ice, and earth were targeted in the exact right spots. The staves in particular that he drew forth were all divine in nature, and what he'd use against ghosts/undead/whathaveyou, so this shit was going to also pretty much fucking hurt. They had specific lock-on targetting as well with Gilgamesh having an obscene amount of control of where they went.

Finally, one portal will open up deeper inside the room and blast where the mother spider inside there was (or where he presumed said spider was given the massive black widow.)

Also, he wasn't stop firing at all, preparing to push himself to the limit as he was pretty much going all out here magic-wise. So. Have fun with that. ]

THE SPIDER, DEFEATED...?

[foundationmods]

[The onslaught is terrible - and even with all the ghosts around trying to protect the spider, it's too much.

The webs are destroyed, and her body...like a speck of dust, is destroyed along with the eggsac under her.

There's suddenly a harsh shriek as the world around them breaks, the world of the mother spider popping like a fragile bubble, slamming them all back into the world they originally came from.

And then, there is silence.]

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[noneforall]

Hahaha. Now that's more like it.

[Subete doesn't move from his spot, even as Nanaka's massive attack batters against and through the barrier that his MJBK had set up around the core, even as more attacks begin to rain inside the room: no, what moves is the MJBK behind him, roughly the size of large dog and getting larger by the moment; the creature behind the distortion in the entire room. It becomes easily evident why once it begins its motion.

The MJBK whirls its 'eye' towards the epicenter of Nanaka's attack and begins sucking in the attack itself -- and not just one aspect of it, but all aspects of the attack are being eaten. Of course, it's small enough that it can't get everything, but it will lighten the effects of her attack on the room, even though there's still damage to the surroundings and especially the webs. Subete himself stays in the corner behind the creature, largely unscathed.

And then it's Gilgamesh's turn. For this one, the MJBK scurries back into Subete's own barriers and he puts up yet another, three-layered like the one he had in his last living battle, though the kanji on the second layer is different now: 壁. It will be enough to redirect some of the attacks, though they'll get pretty battered and fall one by one. On the other hand, the MJBK from before? Is going to fire a massive attack of pure darkness at the new onslaught, using it to redirect some of Gilgamesh's attack away from this corner.

At least until the core itself is destroyed. Can't protect everything at once.]

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[noneforall]

[And everything is so very quiet in the next moment, after the double onslaught, after the ringing tinny roars of the smaller MJBKs, after all the yellings and incantations and mysterious spidery shrieks. They linger in the air like static, like the miasma still blanketing every ghost and curling down to Subete's ankles like a cloak.

Fashion statements wait for no endgame, after all.

What does wait is his laughter, low and flat and unending in the newly cleared-out room. There are echoes. They're distorted as though underwater, even as he steps forward finally, singular barrier rolling back up in a wavering motion. He's used a lot of his abilities here, but he still has his MJBK and he still has some miasma fuel to spare.]

I wonder if you know what you just did?

Re: THE SPIDER, DEFEATED...?

[carbide]

And that is enough from you.

[Olympia used Cruel Stare!

Another red beam lances out from Olympia's eye, towards Gilgamesh. This one is at full power, and aside from being a deadly piercing energy beam, it's also very likely to stun.]

[sageking]

[ Once the core's destroyed, he's stunned because we could say the portals probably didn't cover every inch of him. So ... he couldn't move physically-speaking.

But portal-use didn't require him to move, so you know that didn't do much on that end. Though this wasn't a good position for him to be in since he couldn't move himself out of the way. ]

Nnngh! The rest of you fools go, NOW!