Dungeons and Time Clocks; Choice 3 Team 1 Event Topic

So whoever's on Floor 3 gets stuck in a trap..  
Same deal as first round, you all can either choose to ignore them and move forward or kill a round and wait for them. I'll leave it up to you guys to decide who gets trapped.

No need to maintain post order, just as long as you guys post once a round is all.

Floor 4:

Emilia moved slowly enough that the others were able to catch up with her after they had their fun with the dogs. She gave the Naos a nod as they rushed past her. The ironic part was that had she not gone so slowly, she would have found herself in a very precarious position. Thankfully, the expendable clones found themselves in that position instead, as snare traps grabbed them up and began pulling them up to a furnace. She stopped directly underneath them, looking up at the clones as they argued about whose fault it was. "I assume you can all find your way out of this trap?" She asked, though she paused a moment and thought. She should probably save one of them to be sure, though she'd have to make sure to grab the original. It was going to be like one of those stories where you have to figure out which one is the doppelganger!

Unfortunately, Emilia didn't know the three Naos well enough to try to figure out which one was the real one, so she'd have to take a guess. She had a one in three chance to get it right. Those were odds that she could live with! She leapt up to the rope holding one of the Naos, propelling herself with a shockwave to grab hold of the rope. It made some creaking sounds as it began to stretch to its limits. With a single stroke of her sword, the rope was cut, freeing the Nao. Unfortunately, the Nao she freed wasn't the original that had summoned the others. With the clone free, she dropped down to the ground, landing beside him.

"Right, come on then. I'm sure your clones are expendable." She said, walking onwards, dragging the clone behind her. She had no clue if it was the right one or not, but she was confident in her ability to identify clones.

MP: 95%
Cooldowns: Rapid Step- 2 posts

((Freed clone 1 and moved on to the next floor))

Oh please.. Lord RNG.. please help!

The member 'Anastasia Isayev' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

Enjoy yourself. We're almost there! After this, we take the booty!

Emilia had reached the final floor, it seemed. She could see the key fragment. She looked down at her pet Nao and smiled as she dragged him up to his feet. "We're here, good... still, the lack of security is disappointing." She said, she took a few steps forward before stopping, sniffing the air. A grin grew behind the mask of her helmet. "So it's about time someone came to check up on this place." She heard footsteps behind her, and the sound of battle coming from further back. The Nao she had dragged with her disappeared, presumably to help with whatever fighting was going on behind her. Emilia turned to face the five guards that had come up behind her.

"Oh how I'd love to have a good, long fight with you all, but I'm afraid we're on a tight schedule." She said, giving Reaver a small flourish as she fell into a low Vom Tag guard. "Come on then, give me your all." She said, unafraid of being outnumbered 5 to 1. To be honest, this sort of fight was one her magic assisted greatly in, with the bounty of explosions and crowd control it provided. The five guards charged at her all at once. A good tactic, rather than try to take her on one at a time, overwhelm her with their numbers. Unfortunately, they seemed to have decided not to engage in ranged combat.

As they closed the distance, Emilia stomped her foot, sending out a pulse of force from the ground, knocking all five of the guards into the air, making them yelp in surprise. She swung downward at the one directly in front of her, the edge of her blade glowing blue as she, slashing him down the chest, the blue edge flying off and penetrating his body further, as though he had been cut twice with her single swing.

Then, the poor airborn guards suddenly found them violently pulled in towards the armor-clad woman as she cast another spell, only for their velocity to once more be rapidly changed as they were immediately thrown outwards, the sudden change in direction causing painful and damaging whiplash to ravage their bodies. The one that Emilia struck before was sent careening into the wall, his head impacting it with a rather nasty crack. Blood leaked from his wounds and the back of his head as he slumped over, quite dead.

The battle above raged on, explosions damaging the floor, causing it to collapse, bringing Emilia's allies and a multitude of other guards down on top of Emilia and the others' heads. Emilia channeled her magic to protect herself from the falling people and debris, a massive chunk of the floor impacting her shoulder, managing to injure her even through her magical barrier.

Catching sight of one of the guards that she had thrown, Emilia took a step towards her before using her magic to fire herself like a cannonball at the woman. The guard's eyes went wide as she was impacted by the 3/4 ton woman. She was pinned to Emilia as they were sent rocketing into the wall, where Emilia slammed into her with her own mass, finishing the guard off with a sickening to some, but satisfying to Emilia, splat.


The third guard that tried to confront Emilia beforehand now attempted to strike her as she recovered from splatting the second against the wall. He succeeded in his attempt, his mace striking Emilia's helmet. The woman let out a grunt as she allowed herself to be knocked about by the blow. He tried to follow up, but Emilia swung Reaver. The sword, empowered by the force of the section of floor that had fallen on Emilia, caught the man in the side and easily sliced its way 2/3s through the fellow before coming to a stop. Emilia shoved the man back now, pulling the blade from his body. The sword was spotless, not a single drop of blood on it. She turned to face the rest of the combatants, analyzing the situation to decide on a target to single out. With her allies around, she didn't want to risk hitting them with her own spells, the majority of which harmed and flung people in a large area, allies included.



Spells used: Up and At 'Em, Projection, Bring It In, Whiplash, Redirection, Bullheaded
MP: 48.5% (-70% from spells, +16.5% from Guts and Glory, +2% normal mage regen)
HP: 230 (4x B-rank damage taken, 2 blocked by Redirection, 12 damage blocked by armor, 31.275 healed by Life Hunt, 11.625 healed by Thirst of the Reaver. Healing slightly underestimated.)

3 guards killed.

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The numbers thinned out from all the fighting. The kingdom had lost a lot of men, and the guild had only lost one easily replaceable, and fairly insignificant Nao who had lost his life due to not actually being able to see. It was a small loss to the group, but not really to Nao who was used to his brethren dying at really stupid points in their lives. Despite not being the first Nao to exist, and there had been many born before his 2nd annual year. He had heard stories of some dying in quicksand, or in tar. Or getting captured and being used for horrific experimentation.

After the enemies had fell or left the Naos would begin to high five each other. They would also look at their fallen comrade and kneel down to check if he was definitely dead. A bunch of bullet holes through the torso and head would confirm the death of their Nao.

The team would reassemble as Ana and Julius sorted out grabbing the piece they needed. Julius used his watch to make sure that he can carry the timepiece. Nao would just nod as the man decided to carry it himself.

”Okay since you’re all clear here I’ll be taking the carcass back for a proper ritual to the Machine God. I’ll see you all back at the guild!” Nao would use his portal abilities in his magic to unsummon his Naos as he picked up the body. ”Come along now. Off to the lab with you little body. And with that he would leave the place.

(OOC: I'll leave you all to it. Nao is teleporting back to his home before meeting you all back at the lab)

The fight was... disappointingly easy to say the least. Sure, Emilia had taken a hit or two, but she was more than happy to keep on going. Unfortunately, it seemed that the remainder of the guards were not as Emilia and her teammates dispatched a large number of them withing a surprisngly short amount of time. Their opponents fled from the battle, Emilia chose not to pursue, since they had reached their objective. Still, she swung Reaver, firing a string of blue energy towards one of the fleeing guards, catching him across the back with it, leaving a painful laceration extending from his left should down to his right hip. "Bring reinforcements next time!" She taunted from behind before turning back to the group. The Naos had teleported out, because for some reason they thought it would be a good idea to abandon the team even though more opponents might show up, though the group probably could handle them on their own.

"Right, let's go. I'll take point." She said, jogging past Anastasia to lead the group out, unafraid of whatever Naverick had to throw at them to prevent them from leaving.