Vini Completed vs Bang~Bamg~Zera
FIGHT!
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Vini Completed vs Bang~Bamg~Zera
FIGHT!
A construct of the realm of technology infused with the might of mana was born into this realm once more, white metals stained with the crimson lifeblood of those crushed under his weight in a previous fight. A point on the ground at the northern gates seemed to bend and warp as if being sucked into the ground, the surrounding area warping, bending, and stretching as it was drawn to a point of infinity. With a rush of wind and a spray of earth and sand a single figure came into view. He was a towering behemoth of at least seven feet in height, pure white save for glowing blue optics and crimson stains, armored joints, and the two hilts rising from his shoulders. From the neck down he seemed to be a tall human in almost seamless armor, but his head had avian features, the optics and shape of the face given birdlike qualities. He even had a beak. His optics flared to life as he began running his programming.
...C:/Combat/assault/slaughter.exe ...Program online... ...Diagnostics running... ...Optics: Online... ...TN Core: 25%... ...Mana Ports: Closed... ...AI Core: Online... ...AISlave1: Online... ...AISlave_2: Online... ...Opening Mana Ports... ...Begining Mana Curve Calculations...
The "toad" leaped out of the halls and into the sandy pits after completing its survey. But, something was quite strange about this "toad." Instead of looking like a normal toad, it appeared as a radiant orange tortoise with the grand bubbly albino toad as a head tucked away within the shell. The relationship is symbiotic, and the tortoise is not decapitated, but its head is hidden with its shell; along with other stores of things, such as animals that live within its body acting as an ecosystem. The toad's bubbly stomach possesses one of these ecosystems as well, and timespace is slightly bent (but not to a disruptive degree) to accommodate more beings within their gullets.
The shell was in a normal shield shape, not the saddle back. It is very durable and tough; able to survive the hardest of impacts, whether they be physical or metaphysical. The shell seems to have seals and runes painted onto it, acting as a sort of defense against attacks, as well other things. It appears to have some spikes/spines jutting out of it, as well as some smaller hooks imprinted into the shell at a microscopic scale.
The rough orange limbs and arms stretched out rather wide, but remained strong and muscular. Long claws of some sort of metallic composition jutted out of the rough paws of the tortoise body, hinting at some notes about the internal composition of the body. The limps appeared to be capable of multiple joint locks and were extremely flexible. The tortoise walked on its toes, and was capable of bipedal movement, but it preferred this mode for now. The arms let out rays of luminous light of blue, revealing the massive amounts of chi within the beast.
The tail was long and slender, like that of a lizard and was completely covered with spines. The skin was very rough and covered with many cultures of poisonous algae and fungi as well as hoards of adapted bacteria. In fact, the entire body was covered with this mixture of magically-engineered bacteria and completely immune to it. These bacteria could feed off of inferior viruses and bacteria, as well other illegal objects within the body or on the body.
The white toad face looked towards the combatant with its large purple eyes and with its mouth ajar. There did not appear to be any teeth in its mouth, however a strange irradiating orange tongue floated about within its mouth with some sort of bird, possibly a fiery orange parrot scouting the area with its own supernatural senses fixed to the toad's own will, system, and energy.
The tortoise also had another defining feature, large bronze feathery wings jutting out of its shell and also appeared to have some sort of covering made of marble and affixed with a rune, covering his anus simply.
Some sort of random bits of machinery covered the beast in random places for the most part, except that it was mainly concentrated on the limbs. A sort of scabbard for some large blade was affixed to the shell, as well as a bit of some sort of added "steel" armor.
For a moment the metallic monolith stood and regarded what appeared to be his opponent. A battery of scans began examining the creature, cycling through aura sights, infrared, MagRes imaging, lifesign readouts, and a sort of semipsionic analyzation of thought patterns. A resounding -=CLACK=- filled the air as his nanopistol slid out from his leg and the mana ports across his body opened to begin drawing mana. A slow and steady advance would begin, the firearm lifted from its holster with a tether running back to his power systems. A 3D representation of the combat area beganb to forumalte within his AISlave1 while AISlave2 ran through carious targetting programs. The AI Core was focused on the daily activities and minor mana calculations as three shots rang out. Each were propelled at railgun velocity at the revealed head. Based on the presense of magical energies and scribed runes they were granted a Magebane quality, which generates an antimagic field, thus nullifying magical defenses and enhancements.
The fiery parrot remained still for a moment as it read the mechanical monolith through similar organic scanning mechanisms. Most animals have the ability to read and follow the magnetic field quite well, and this scout had particularly compounded upon that ability. It could read the signals as a simple image of colors, while wasting almost no processing power while it converted it to that pattern of colors. The specific signals emanating from the the gun had given hints to that it utilized magnetic accelerator technology, and would give the toad ample preparation for a defense.
Alchemical processes ran rapidly throughout the beast, particularly working in synchronized order with the other mechanisms attached to the beast, working to produce energy in an indirect way as well as amplify whatever it was preparing for by producing specific materials which induce that said effect. It bypassed the antimagic field slightly, as an antimagic field will not usually negate an alchemical conversion nor an already set in spell (such as a golem creation) just by coming in contact with an object that exhibits such magical properties.
Fed by the energy and the machines built onto the beast, a sort of fluctuating electromagnetic field was quickly melded into a rather unique shape. Two strips of highly polarity had been formed about twenty feet ahead of the beast and ended about three feet behind the beast's head, however, they did not ever touch the beast. Instead, both strips were angled away from the beast, in a rather gradual line that quickly differentiated away from the straight line. Such lines would attract the rounds towards them by matching their polarity and would be strengthened by the Earth's own magnetic field. Quite simply, the lines would pull the rounds off course, at least to a degree which might only cause them to graze the beast.
A small alchemical maneuver had also taken place about twenty feet in front of the beast, creating a strange state of concentrated fluidity within the air, causing a slight wall of pressure to return force into the accelerating rounds and stop them or at least cause them to rapidly decelerate. Compare to a mimic of the levels of the upper atmosphere.
Regardless if the beast had been hit or escaped completely, a serious of small chi blasts (compare to weak spirit guns) had been directed towards the machine, coming out of the tortoise's arms.
The orange tongue shot forward through all of this chaos, flinging the fiery parrot into the air, while rapidly extending towards the machine as a little bit of juice was flicked off the tongue as it continued to elongate in a rapid whip. (This action may appear slow due to perhaps my bad word choice, but is meant as a very quick and sudden attack.) (It went directly through the area where the line of fire used to be, in an attempt for a surprise attack.)
Detecting magnetic fields would leave the beast in complete disarray at the MagRes imaging system's scans, and would disallow knowldge of the weapon type employed. Thus the attempt to block the weapons would not be possible as the creature had no way of distinguishing the magnetic field of the weapons, which was almost impossible to detect in the first place, from the Magnetic Ressonance Imaging system. Just how much damage had those 3 shots done?
The blasts of energy sail towards the grand beast of steel and simply die upon his armor, snuffed out leaving no traces they had ever been. When the bird is launched at Vini three more rounds would launch at the creature which was still some considerable distance away. I mean hell, it had to be at least 250 feet, give or take a couple, so it didn't matter how faster the bird was thrown. Not even half way across it would be a splattered mess as the projectiles continued on. Mana curve calculations continued...
(Query on this "Magnetic Resonance System;" it is quite ambiguous.)
And why was that so? The gun would simply have rounds with some magnetic capability, thus weakly activating the ferromagnet and constant magnets because of their present electromagnetic field. Even if the gun isn't firing, the technology and field is still in place; even if, again, weakly. Besides, even if the toad was not able to see such a mechanism, like you said it wouldn't be able to, it would still have a natural sense of reasoning. What sort of weapon would a mecha be using to even hope to damage a beast that large? There were not many options to which could harm the beast in such a small package. The most probable would be either plasma or a magnetic-accelerator cannon, or even some sort of high caliber weaponry. And such rounds would be suspectible to such a magnetic defense to as which the beast had used to defend itself. Plasma is highly affected by magnetic fields, as are most metal rounds to some degree. Besides, even past that, the atmospheric-esque blocker was also a reasonable response, just in case the weapon did not meet those characteristics. Lasers would slightly by stopped and as photons are bosons of the electromagnetic force, the fields would also slightly mess with their passage.
(I calculated a slightly different range, I mean, 250 is what, 25 floor-to-ceiling distances? I don't think it was that far separated. 100, at the most.)
The bird laughed within its mind even to face the punishment, as it had done quite a service to its master by directing the foolish titan away from the real threat and that since it was headed towards the sky, not directly towards the man in a sort of "ball" position, the rounds would have either a low accuracy, but in particular, a low precision.
Lawl. The chi was meant as a test and not as a projectile object, but as an object to infiltrate the internal mechanisms and the mana wells by creating various seals to disrupt the absorbing process, and general internal wiring chaos.
Now, now, the tongue was the real threat. Swinging out with a strange elasticity contained with this rather strange polymer-melded device, it would soon feel its own swoosh of alchemy as certain parts of the tongue's tip were altered as to give it molecularly-sharpened blade, and to simply increase the amounts of the "juice" present on the tongue. As the blade tongue would strike the beast, wonderful amounts of ACID would splash onto the pistol and be etched into the body and metal lattice itself as the swift, utterly sharp blade would directly deliver the acid into the metal. Oh, how much of the metal would corrode and .. burn off? How much gas would clog the internal mechanisms and disrupt the relative vacuum needed for proper functioning? Yes, acids do produce quite a bit of gas when they contact with metal. smile This was no weak acid; in fact, it was particularly strong, so particularly strong that it was isolated within the toad to prevent it from actually touching the carbon. It was stored within a slightly plastic container surrounded with a constant mana seal that served as but a final resort to protect it from causing internal damage. However, most of it was produced on the spot.
The tongue would continue its quick whip by quickly sliding over the the left arm, and then quickly slashing through the chest and right arm on the return recoiling motion back.
((Magnetic Ressonance Imaging...MRI. You've never gotten a CAT scan or or known someone that has? It works on the same principle but at a distance and through an area as a whole. The magnetic fields pervading the area of the arena as a whole would mask the weapon's firing mechanism.))
((As for range, I started at my end of the arena and you started at yours. I did not move and you did not move. The arena is 300ft across. The 50ft fudge factor is to compensate for vague descriptions on how far each moved from the gates.))
The chi blasts would not be able to affect the alteration of mana flows within the metallic monolith nor would it be able to affect the wiring within. This was quite simple because the blasts never entered his form, nor did they ever even touch him. The tongue would bounce off the armor of the metallic monolith, the acid doing nothing to his pistol nor to him. It seemed as if he went well beyond having incredibly strong armor, some other force interfering with physical damage, even on the molecular level. As it whipped by, however, Vini's arm would lash out and grab it, squeezing it as a torrent of unstable mana began to flood down the line, though the link was established on first contact. Alteration of the flows of this mana would be impossible as an encryption factor was coded into the mana. Analyzation of the mana force and decryption would take a supercomputer 18 seconds to unravel.
Oh look, Vini had takern 18 seconds to build the code and unleash it, guess that means it was pretty damn sofisticated. Sending the mana flow back to Vini would be impossible as one would first have to decode the stream and then force it back against a steady stream pushing the opposite direction. In short, this toad was going to fry from the inside. Any organics would quickly be scrambled by the encoded mana, life force would combust, and large amounts of chi/ki would quite literally cause a creature to implode.
Guess having all that fun chi energy wasn't a good idea...
Three more shots were fired down the line, these not being Magebane bullets but instead looking to be larger and bulkier. Each one was a magebane grenade and were quite capable of detonating at a signal from Vini.
Hahaha, yes, it took whoop-pee, sixteen seconds to code at less than full power? Hm? The author stated that the Slave AI's were working on different tasks, furthermore, computers can be quite "quick" problem solvers, but for robots, it's quite a different story. Robot minds are not specialized on one task; however, a computer usually is specialized on one certain task. This robot mind has to focus on motor movement, regulation of its own wires, regulation of its weaponry, utilizing the information from the slave AIs, synchronizing with the slave AI, maintaining the slave AI, making sure any sort of seal, magebane, and mana wells, cognitive function, creativity, oh, how much more? Even with those claims, its function could not be that much higher than the beasts. Why? It would roughly become rather close to a human's intelligence, except perhaps even lower with EVEN more internal manteinence deal with. What fun! Fun fun fun! Hell, you could say since the beast is larger, has more "slave minds" and therefore has a higher brain-mass ratio as it didn't have much of a need for reproduction, it could perhaps meet a supercomputer if it turned down its processes for a second to focus on one. The supercomputing! excuse holds really no grounds, this is a supernatural fighting land. Har, that robot seems to be focusing on holding up that barrier, too. Oooo! That barrier that somehow disallows physical strikes.
Oh, and the blasts DID touch the armor. Where did they vanish, too? I would like a little bit of a more decent explanation instead of just randomly doing things like that.
Anyways, such a barrier against such physical assaults would come from the monolith's strange internal willpower, something that could easily be matched by the frog. Cool. Was not the robot already dealing with coding that, dealing with the chi, firing at the bird, oh and what not else? Keeping its reflexes at some uber level? Ooo. Its power was muy spread-out. Cooooooool!
Oh look, 250 feet of tongue separating the beast from the machine. There was one law enforced within this frog, and that is the balance and control of energy. Unstable mana would have the power to damage other mana; however, it also is really a matter of a bit of conversion, too. However, please make note that this is within a instrument of the beast's body, and if the magebane rounds were launched after the grabbery. There were various seals located on the beast, specifically noted on the shell; the array adding to the forced balance within the instrument of the beast. The mana was forced to be balanced because if it was not, it could be altered by the inhabitants making a residence within it. There was already a steady stream within the tongue; and there was ample resistance to the damaging code's effects to the stable mana. The field would be stuck at the tip of the tongue and would not be allowed to pervade any further.
One final note : 18 seconds; how many of which have passed? I mean, for the code to have even a slight chance, Vini would have to penetrate into the unreleased mana (which would alert the beast) and actually study the encrypted code and array used by the toad itself.
The bird in the sky was stripped through the tail, however, it did see those rounds, oh those big boys. It would draw energy from the toad and quickly cause a anti-anti-magic seal to be placed on the anti-magic seal which would ironically have to use some sort of magic or magic affiliation itself. Quite simply, the rounds would be engulfed in a storm of conflicting positive and neutral energy.
Even with all the multitasking the AI Core was not set to its limits. Furthermore, as it was elsewhere explained the monolith's Core AI was much more powerful than a supercomputer and the simple action of calculating the mana curves was taking the chunk equivalent of a supercomputer. The means by which the chi blasts were eliminated and the strike deflected were not one and the same. The ressonance field eliminated the chi blasts and the golem-like nature of the armor defended against the bladed tongue. Was it not obvious by explainations herein and elsewhere that this was no simple machine?
That tongue would be burnt all to hell, to say the least. Furthermore, the mana conflicting around the tongue would begin simply erasing the balanced mana for the simple reason that the mana burn was intended to do just that. One plus negative one equals zero. The toad was actually helping the process alone by giving a perfect compliment to the encoded mana and allowing it to do that much more damage. When the three grenades landed around the beast they did not detonate, but not because of the anti-antimagic seal around them. That seal would do nothing at all because it was assumed that the antimagic was based off of a magical effect, which it certainly wasn't. When it was time they would detonate, but for now Vini was burning this fucker.
It was then that the monolith finally began to move. Mana curves continued calculation as he fired off three more rounds at the beast. These were not magebane grenades or even magebane ammunition. Instead they were of a larger size that the previous grenades, filled with a sticky white substance. These too had the detonation sequence tied to Vini. It would be noted that the machine blurred as it moved, some force causing it to move disproportionately to the timeline.
There was no indication of any sort of mana-burn in the previous post, only ambiguous unstable mana; but no matter. If the tounge would be burn to all hell, so would a good chunk of the monolith, as from what you are saying, the entire length of tongue shall burn, but the monolith would not be able to avoid punishment just like that. It is true in some circumstances that 1 + -1 would equal zero, and because of that, all that would happen would cause a rather strange distortion of both the resonance field and part of the beast's field and cause them to occupy the same space for a while. All that would happen would be a rather funny little stalemate at the tip of the tongue and the palm of the closed hand. This, of course, is ignoring part of the impossibility of the mana-burn itself, which could easily be forced to collapse as it was regarded as unstable. A rather simple form of kinesics would force the unstable mana to implode itself, something that could in-fact pour the beast's own energies into the beast, partially distorting and ruining the resonance field, and allowing a rather fine disruption to the "mana-curve calculations," which would ultimately leave Vini open to quite a few magical attacks as his body was distorted into the beast's area of influence.
Regardless of that, the seals would indeed have some sort of effect, as magical affiliation can loosely be related to some sort of supernatural, non-technical form; but however, some of the technology is just as supernatural as the magic itself, and will seem to work by the same tenets.
The beast would laugh inside its mind as the tongue slowly glued itself and forced its way into the metallic lattice on the hand by feeding it enough energy to pierce via biochemical reactions and conversions. The tongue would quickly pull the monolith backwards by the same conversions and by the simple effect of kinetic energy on elastic materials (such as polymers, which the tongue was stated to be made of.)
The beast would coo the magnetic fields another position by using slight streams of plasma to stimulate them, combined with a forceful kinetic and general willpower manipulation on the magnetic fields as to cause them to simply layer over each other to create a sort of painful series of walls for Vini to crash into as it accelerated. They would cause an obvious distortion in light, using a similar mechanism to what the Z-Machine uses, but to a lesser scale and in a less controlled form.
Also, uhm, moving disproportionately to the timeline can mean two things : you are either moving at lightspeed or faster; backwards, or simply out of the simple timeline created by a single photon. Not good. If you did reach lightspeed, you would either exhaust all your energy somehow as you became but a bolt of some uberplasma, or a relativity harmless mass of photons. Either way, it could even count as a ring-out.
The bird continued to cross-reference on the objects, creating a sort of barrier over each the rounds that would reflect all signals from objects that were not inside of them; it however, would match the previously signals which kept the rounds from exploding. If that was not the case, well, still, the detonation signal would be blocked.
In a previous fight Cziri tried to argue that moving disproportionately to the timeline was a ring-out. He was laughed at and told to stop telling people how their characters worked. lol n00b?
Any mana directed back to Vini would simple rework into the ressonance field and do nothing, as the ressonance field had created the effect. The attempt to force the energies into Vini would fail, the kinesis involved disrupted by the ressonance field. One would have to stop and think whether or not the tongue would have the capability to even pull the metallic monolith whose weight surpassed 3 tons.
It was at that moment that the grenades around the toad detonated. The first three were antimagic and would have their fun dissolving his attempts at creating telekinetics and would shut down any and all magical effects around him. The other three were Web grenades, and would lock the beast in place in a large cocoon of sticky white webbing. It was hardly normal in composition, high tensile polymers and adhesives similar to those in use against Vini's hand locking the creature where it was.
Even if the toad could move Vini it would find its tongue quickly severed as the gun disappeared into its holster and a blade was drawn. The blade was constructed of similar components as was his armor, the blade refined to cut at a molecular level but also induced with a vibrational effect and a keen-blade enchantment. A quick alteration of his ressonance field would cause a burst of energy to roll over his form, the tongue dissolving away. On his own the monolith would begin a charge towards the beast, mana curve calculations running as an azure glow pulsed from deep within his body, the second blade quickly being drawn.
The thing was, the resonance field would be disrupted by the very own disruption of the resonating of the conflicting energies. Wavelengths of all sorts would be forged, neutral energy and sometimes a simple loss of data could occur by such a resonance. And such a field, an aura would not be beneficial to Vini at all, and his attempt at controlling all sorts of supernatural energies.
Now as the haste effect had just started up and as the tongue had continued its merciless assault, the toad's area of influence would pierce directly into Vini's, only helped by the rapid motion of the pulling tongue. As Vini would rapidly speed up, he would expand slightly, but the tongue more so as the area influence was so pumped into Vini. Such a spike of influence going against the resonance field and its attempt at generating static, distortion, and negation would only be stopped by the alternating field of neutral energy fluxes, and by the nature of the controlling mana itself. Now, now, such a time length of even that generated by the first wave generated by the conflicting energies would allow the beast to begin processing its defense mechanisms, which allowed it to manufacture its wavelength's more securely and disable such static from entering the various states it could possess in the wave by means of simple repulsion. Just as the coded monster changed, the same process could be predicted to a slight amount by the beast itself, allowing the static to be repulsed and utterly ignored or eaten by the energy itself. The beast had looked into the energy and partially into the planar matrix of the area, but had not altered it, in order to gain a natural sense of the codex in effect. It even could be disabled by the flow of wavelengths themselves as the beast allowed the naturally present mana in the atmosphere and area to act as a buffer and potentially revealed it.
Now, as the area of influence had penetrated the monolith, it would rapidly start to simply fuck with the hasting mechanisms within the beast and force them to go haywire by rapidly disrupting the disaster prone electrical signals as well as causing a rather simple separation by magical means of the hasted and now slowed part by a simple wave of pure mana and mana particles to cause the monolith to fall into disarray. Such a process could hope to damage and destroy the machine named Vini. Such enchantments would fall into uselessness as well as the very uber-metal falling into corrosion as the flow of the machine's own energies were soon being cut off.
One extra field was formed in front Vini as it accelerated, and the monolith surely could be pulled as, the toad is over maybe, 50 tons? Also, biochemical energy was being converted into kinetic energy to allow the quick acceleration of Vini. Ooo, double haste. :O The magnetic fields sandwiched even closer together as their own polarities fought, but utterly forming an even denser wall of energy and force.
With all the effects and the simple speed, and in fact the motion necessary to shift from throwing, aiming all over the place, and the growing distortion web, the hand would not be able to slash the tongue as all the shit would seem to overpower it.
The grenades already had the presence of the bird within them, so what would be faster, a detonation signal, or a quick second sealing on the grenades. Also, the seal should've worked due to Tacitus' own mechanics.
The other three web grenades were stated to have been fired at, or extremely near the toad. They were not detonated in the past, giving the toad an easy change to do the same. The antimagic grenades could not be far from the web grenades, so the follow-up effect could attack them from that close range, as well as the natural aura could process the same effect onto the nearby web grenades.
If that field alternated further from the already constant alterations within it, uhm, it just made the attempt even easier. Oh, the magnetic fields have but a simple hole within them to allow the tongue to pass through, and tongue is a polymer as well.
Wee go calculations in the growing chaos, go go go storm marcher of dooom wee wee weeeeeeeeee!
The toad made one simple error, hell, he had made many. He assumed the hasting effect had only just begun, when in truth it had started the moment the mana ports were opened. Since then he hadn't moved more than an inch aside from the motion to draw his sword, so there was no visible cues to give that he was being hasted. If Vini had moved it would have been obvious, but, in short, he hadn't needed to and thus had not done so.
Furthermore, there was the assumption that the ressonance effect could be overwhelmed by the influence of the aura of the toad. While it was true that it was a steady effect and perhaps that this toad could increase his aura, the reactivity of the ressonance would be disrupting the creature's aura into a chain reaction to cause a cascade failure the more it was pressed upon the ressonance effect. In short the more he pushed the harder the field would push back, utilizing the 'neutral energy' and such surges being described.
Vini would move halfway across the arena and then simply stop. Space between himself and an inch right in front of himself would fold one inch to the left. A thunderclap and a rush of wind would accompany the differential of space being filled and copressed over itself. The tongue would be in two places at once, the connection no longer existing as it was torn apart by a rift in space. Streams of azure light would blaze through Vini's armor as a long series of effects began to trigger. A sort of antigravity effect would begin to take over while a flight spell was enacted and spatial fold technology began to encapsulate his body in a field that could loosely be equated to the "Warp Bubble" from Star Trek.
An extension of his hand would be all that was required as mana spikes flooded the area around him. The outer edge of his "bubble" was wreathed in mana as visible spikes of eldritch might covered the surface not unlike a sea urchin. And then everything would go to hell. The ground exploded from beneathe him, the entire arena falling away to leave no ground level within the circle ringed by the spectator stands.
50 tons? Pfft, he's that bitch is going to fall nice and fast. Suddenly there isn't any ground under him and he only has ten feet to fall. Even Vini would have a hard time reacting to the ground disappearing under him to not get a Ring-Out that fast. Oh, and lets not forget the vaccuum of space that just appeared under them both. Hope the toad has fun with that.
(Clean up, plz. Clean up clean up!)
The parrot scout found itself in a rather painful position, but it was not out of commission. Though these beasts are animals, they are also quite different. For the most part, they lack reproductive systems, and have altered hormone and generally body systems. Most of the digestive system has also been trimmed down and replaced with either a mana-storage or conversion chambers for digesting such supernatural energies. The bullet tore straight through the wing, but did not remain within, not totally disrupting the mana-system for the time being. However, the bird did not use mana to retreat, but rather rapidly converted stored energy and released potential energy as it quickly rocketed into a small arena column, taking a resting position as it scouted the arena from this position. Height is about fifty feet.
Something rather strange came out of the parrot's mouth, some sort of moth that was held in the stomach adorned with runes and arrays. It appeared to be a moth, however, this one was completely modified to act as an organic machine. It was partially supernatural and infused with outer plane elements. However, it wasn't exactly dependent on mana or chi, and for the most part it did use organic conversions with an overall analog base to allow for efficiency. As in, while it moderated its energy levels; effects would take place instead of waiting for a digital signal. Such a process allows for quite efficient methods if preformed properly. (Such as, it would raise its body heat, and would cause something to the effect of a sonic wave; it already has sent the signal and the necessary ignition energy in such an action. [Not what the moth does, just an example.])
(With a change of strikes and such, an anti magic effect was applied, however with that, a defense is also allowed.)
With the shells impacting directly into the shell, the complex runic arrays would quickly counteract many of the actions of the antimagic field with a the already present magic resistance field of itself. The arrays were meant for a variety of purposes, one such would be to avoid magical attacks and alterations to the beast. The attempt to push such mana out, destroy, or convert it would ultimately be overcome by the wild mana fluctuations taking place on the shell itself. The attempt to form an anti-magic field was simply overcome by the already present and fully-fed arrays.
The tortoise simply would appear to barf out these strange moths out of its mouth, as well as releasing moths from various patches and runic seals placed onto the beast's paw and other parts of the body. Particularly, moths were also flying out of the beast's ass (through the runic door) as well as the shell's own arrays. Another specification of these moths is the high amount of strange compounds, such as iron as well as other magnetic materials, as well as ones wrought from a mixture of supernatural, natural, and synthetic means. Spit carrying some micro-organisms also appeared to come out with the barf.
The moths seemed to form a shroud over the beast, but that was not all they were meant to do. Soon, the beast rapidly went into a process of changing and adapting, quickly changing their signals away from whatever was logged within Vini. The beast had been sent into the simple flux of life and so altered it. However, to hide such a process from Vini and waste his memory banks and keep him on edge, the moths had started their main effect on plan previous to the alteration of signals. The moths would mass-produce all sorts of waves on a variety of levels, firstly creating a extremely large spike of electromagnetic waves and creating a so-called forced-void wave that would seem to rapidly absorb signals. Supernatural waves would be created as some of the planar energies were released on a minor scale, as in they were clogging the airspace and utterly disrupting the return signals of the waves or even preventing them from getting to the area. The disruption would continue as the moths continued both natural and enhanced-alchemical maneuvers, creating a wide distortion of these such waves and naturally distorting the overall shape of the arena as waves were bent like so. Optical light was no exception to the spike and rapid alteration to the electromagnetic spectrum, neither were the sonic energies set into a rapid flux. Many signals would soon be cut off; however, the toad had a remedy for itself, and possibly a poison for its enemy.
Just as the moths had spewed out of the runic arrays on the toad, they have activated and pulled the trigger for a brewing reaction, rapidly mixing together wild mana and releasing its own unique mana as well as cooing large amounts of astral and ethereal mana pools to spray out into the area, and filling it with a strange altered wisps under the commanding control of the array. A codex and encryption was created under the flux of the array, forcing the mana to steer away from such normal fields of predictable mana and forcing them into complex arrays to that of particles and unique wavelengths themselves, compounds of such and generally unique phenomena were formed. The mana in the area was now under the control of the beast and was also corrupting many of the other mana signals in the area and/or conquering them. This would disrupt mana-senses as well allow for even more precise and manipulative control to disrupt the area, as well as giving the beast an actual mean to view the area as it was also subject to such a great disruption of signals. The moths would constantly produce these signals, some would arrange themselves as wave-devourers, as in, they would completely absorb the wavelengths, as well as another wave of reflectors which would arrange itself in behind of the absorber moths. Some of the moths were strengthened by the flow of the runized mana, combining such complex "particles" and using them for the process of such destructive alchemy which used their bodies as a base to amplify the effect. The mana was overflowing the area to the extent, that the bird could also see the mana as it simply touched all the growing chaos and brewed it accordingly. The mana was not ordered simply though, it was arranged chaotically throughout the arena as well.
The tortoise would begin to flap its wings slightly under the shroud of the heavily disrupted motion, changing its position by maybe a foot as the moths followed. However, the effect was applied to the whole area, and as said, the moths were all over the place, not just concentrated around the frog.
Even as the metallic monolith's weapon was replaced within its holster a metallic fluid seemed to coat the damaged portions of his body, specifically his hand and the light damage done around his torso. Sections of his 3D grid began to show anomalies as mana streams and energy concentrations began to shift in density and alignment. The shift of life signs and scrambling of frequencies in the area would be detrimental to Vini's targetting systems and 3D terrain representation, but he would soon adapt. The amount of mana within him, not only stored inside the neural net but literally swimming around his systems gave him plenty to work with.
Turning back to the arena doors that had been placed for entry he took hold of the two and quite simply spun around his axis. The doors were torn from their hinges and launched through the air at incredible speeds at the last known location of the frog. Seeing as it had taken but a mere moment, its not like the large frog could get very far anyhow. Azure streams of light burned around Vini's mana ports as if they were being starved for energy. However, deep within calculations were continuing and a new force began to stir up the mana deep within. Subspace carrier signal began transmitting from him to alternate locations, and as they did not fully pass through this realm the signals would not be detected and not be disturbed.
As the doors rocketed foward and unfortunately demobilized a small part of the moth swarm, both the toad and the swarm would find a solution. The moths sat upon the two doors of cast iron with most of their bodies partially squished, and in an act of desperation, they destroyed all their means of locomotion in order to strengthen the signal so by giving it much more energy to work with.
The doors would strike at the lower portion of the beast, particularly the claws as only a second gave him a less change in altitude.
(I believe I already explained why the signals would have bad reception and in fact use, most of the area is temporarily glazed off from view from observers who aren't directly in the area and allowed to sense it. There's not much you can gain by perhaps taking a picture of a plane or a small bit of information from the motions of dimensions.)
The distortion just seemed to spread and spread as the array was given more time to arrange itself and properly produce similar arrays. The moths started given less of their energy to their own senses and just gave it the cause of glazing the area.
((Could have PMed me to tell me you actually posted...))
The sound of blaring klaxons tore through the arena before the air seemed to energize and reality began to shift. As suddenly as it had begun it had stopped, and there was now a rather large cannon building itself next to the Venificus Compleated prototype. The signal sent had been a requisition for heavier weaponry, and in return Vini was sent a rail gun. It wasn't one of those normal 'railgun' type weapons one holds in their hands and fires like a thug on crack. No, this was one technically designed to be move around on rails, as in transported by train.
The moment it arrived by spatial fold technology it had begun to charge, even before it was fully constructed. If there was one thing that the massive amounts of unassociated and unstable energy in the arena did it was give this piece of work a jumpstart. The True Negativity core was sucking up huge amounts of energy from the air, reorganizing mana streams and heatflows by the massive pull it exhibited. The True Negativity core was essentially creating a quantum singularity that gathered all the energy in the area to it, but then trapped it on what would equate to the event horizon. In this case that would be the surface of the substance known as True Negativity. While the cannon was not yet active and ready to fire, the sudden appearance was fun enough. You just can't beat clearance high enough to ask for some minor heavy weaponry and get a mass driver.
Within Vini the stored mana, completely isolated from the fluctuations occuring within the arena itself. His hasting effect was continuing to grow in strength while arcs of azure lightning began to surge around his internal systems. On his surface the damage dealt to his torso and hand seemed to be regenerating at a rapid rate, as well as the degredation to his pistol now stored in his leg, Robocop style.
The energy was not unassociated if you read closely, and the energy wasn't exactly unstable. The energy was currently forced into a chaotic state, however, the arrays within the air and the complex mana "particles" themselves exhibited some sort of ownership and control. The normal mana arrays based on seals and the arrangement of the complex mana were no exception to it. Really, all the energy in the area had been activated to some extent, and many objects were now releasing their potential energy, whether it was existent as a mana well on the higher planes, or as a something as simple as a flower.
Such energy had indeed covered the area with such a shroud, and it even had shrouded most of the area within close proximity to Vini with such a shroud. Such a shroud would greatly interfere with Vini's ability to call in such strikes, as his own haste and the great distortion had the power to even interfere with the ability of identifying spatial coordinates. Such an uncertainty would greatly distort spatial fold technology and greatly lower its effectiveness. If the True Negativity core made it in, it wouldn't be exactly arrange as planned as the field is even exhibiting an effect on higher planes and transition planes (though not exactly as much as Ertai would with planar psionics, just a little bit of the extension of teleportation fields and mana fields.) Such a distortion had the power and would even greatly stop any teleportation in as the beast's arrays had currently conquered the power of the arena, and would give it the opportunity to direct its own spatial coordinates. Even more so, the uncompleted device could be penetrated by the waves of mana and fatally damaged as its attempted to build itself together by combining certain core parts. Even more so, the True Negativity core would have to compete with the Thrice Bond of the beast, which was essentially exhibiting the same effect except with the arrangement of the mana.
Within the arena, under the influence of the toad, certain pools and distortions of timespace had begun to form. They were not exactly near the beast, more so near Vini, and actually moving towards him in accordance to the timeline of light and how they could alter and move across it. Some exhibited a strange slow down effect, while others exhibited a dangerous and energetic haste effect. These pools of distorted and bent timespace and light quickly began to home and close in on Vini, while remaining truly, utterly invisible. This meant that the mana array had actually taken a grip on the photons within the area and parts of the timestream.
The coordinates for the heavy weaponry were not given as spatial coordinated, but followed the signal back to Vini. The field did not affect subspace and subspace did not affect the field, and as such the toad could do nothing to alter the conjuration. Even if the toad altered the energy flows such that the device would be unable to draw mana to itself from within the arena, oh look, there is an entire half of a planet behind it. With a slight ding the device signalled it was ready, and that was when Vini picked it up.
Yes, something the size and weight of a locomotive, and Vini just decided to pick it up, and seemed to show no strain in doing so. The alterations to his body had increased his strength by flooding his body with strength enhancing enchantments from the inside, where the Toad could not affect them. Dropping to one knee with the other leg back behind for support he aimed the cannon in the toad's direction and fired.
What followed was nothing short of utter annihilation. The cannon produced two effects, the first being an incredible distortion of spacetime as the fabric of reality began to bend and shift. This shift would correct all timespace distortions as the area would technically be rewritten. From this a sort of gravimetic field accellerated a mass twenty times heavier than the heaviest periodic element known to man condensed into a 4ft diameter sphere. It was set with a subspace transponder to detonate when it was the correct distance from Vini, but the primary danger was blast wave that came before it. Everything in front of Vini and out for two miles would be obliterated, that which could not be destroyed was merely pushed to the end of the line where the wave stopped. At the appointed distance from Vini, which was about 10ft behind where the toad was last known, the sphere would detonate. The explosion would be minor, enough to level a house, but the main effect was the quantum singularity it created.
Lawl, blackhole gun.
Quite simply, the device would be unable to acquire any mana from the area around it. The field of distortion was noted to been tapping mana from the atmosphere. Also, one can't simply move such unassociated mana and such energies into the area by simply pulling them in; if such an action was undertaken, the mana flows would come in contact with the distortion field and indeed, only increase its power. The only other way would to be teleport such mana in, however, that would greatly increase the time needed to charge and to fire, as teleporting mana in is vastly inefficient and truly, more than likely, would fall prey to the field still.
The field did and had begun to affect timespace and the area around it, and therefore, it was free to alter the positioning of objects just as Vini could also quickly create spatial folds. However, the area of influence was already established in this case. And yes, the objects would not be allowed to form how Vini had wished. He did not expand the obvious repellent of a resonance field over the object, and also, not even addressed the fact that mana was seeping into the technology and distorting it. So, it can be assumed that part of the field's assault was successful.
Quite simply, the toad could resist the force of the blast because it had already inserted its influence into timespace.
Now, what was to say for Vini, now that two distortions of timespace were now touching him before the blast was even given the chance to fire.
((So the energy is in a chaotic state that can't be changed at all. Thats an oxymoronic statement. Chaos implies change, but now you're telling me it only changes the way you want it to and nothing else can ever effect it ever. I counter you "nothing ever effects it ever" with "baclhole'd, bitch."))
The simple mistake of assuming the cannon was drawing in mana, and only mana, was a simple one to make indeed. Energy was mentioned, not specifically mana, which the toad seems to change the definition of at a whim based on how it suits it. Heat, radiation, light, electricity, life force, the whole shebang. Mana was just the easiest to grab, and when you set yourself up the combination of the magical versions of a black hole and antimatter in a can, thats damned sure going to be able to fuck up energy fields, no matter how strong they are. Unless, of course, the toad was trying to imply he could defy a black hole just by saying so.
The cannon would form and form perfectly, the toad's influence nullified by the fact that the cannon soaked that bitch up and used it as energy. It was the same type of power core that fueled Vini, just so much bigger that it could power a planet if it needed to, and thus the absorption effect was increased exponentially. He could throw around his willpower and fields of influence all he liked, but those bitches were blackhole'd just like the rest of the energy in the area. Then of course that energy was used to fuck up every last thing the toad was trying to do by inducing a neutrality effect and then just dropping a black hole on the problem itself.
Yes, that means that this post and the one before it were untirely unecessary because cziri likes telling people what their own shit does, getting his own shit backwards in the process and deciding that what he doesn't like just doesn't work. A call for the Omi-machine?!?!?!
Now, where the fuck was antimatter? If you look closely, it's a resonance field somewhat like yours. However, this time, it is being used offensively, and really, if it was or was not in a chaotic state, doesn't really effect the outcome. It's a formation of mana using chaotic arrays. [more like a field using/creating resonance, but does that matter]
I believe if you look closely, I said mana and energy. neutral Ooooo, if da whole fucking physical enviroment is being bent, it's under my control via the mana arrays.)
(I'm not going to argue about the personal shit. Simply because this is an arguement about the battle. Call in the Ominator.)
In addition to Czorro being disqualified due to time-out, Tacitus has requested that his character be removed from the bracket as well. Match closed.