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Grappling with Giants
Sept 24, 2019 16:26:20 GMT
MISSION NAME: Grappling with Giants CLIENT'S NAME: Odin's Spear CHARACTERS: Ivory Volkov Kasumi ItoMISSION BRIEFING: The scouts have spotted a couple of giants near the settlement, one of which had attack Shale town before it was repelled. Find these creatures and slay them. When it comes to humanoid flesh eaters, Kasumi had her fair share of experience. Zombies, ghouls...whatever you may call them she had purged quite a few. From regular ones that come straight out of fairy tail to those that have been genetically modified...if there was a zombie slayer achievement she would have gotten it by now. That said, most of these cannibalistic monsters are of regular human size...so with the proper countermeasure it would be easy to repel or even contain them until the proper mage would be sent to dispatch them.
No this one however. This bloody thing must have been at least 5 meter tall. The purplehead could stand inside the footprint of this creature and there's enough room in it to make a small toilet. It had came out of nowhere onto the settlement, grabbed some of the poor civilians and eat them up in such a way it would suggest that they tasted like finger licking good. Their guild have managed to repel it since but the scouts have reported there may be more nearby.
Fighting against such a huge creature would require firepower that she did not possess. And so she had make a request towards the underboss to join her for this mission to help her take care of them. In the meantime, she would be studying the wreckage the giant have made during the assault as she formulate how best to take care of the creature.
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Sept 24, 2019 19:54:07 GMT
An attack against Shale Town was an attack against Odin's Spear. Normally OS made men and women would've been able to defend against a magical beast attack to the extent of the beast not managing to cause a fatality. But this "beast" was rare and unexpected. A Giant. Sixteen to twenty feet tall was something that the basic foot soldiers of OS could not handle, and thus the failure in protecting the town. Even if they had had a mage dispatched with the guard, that mages power had failed to meet the quota of success.
Kasumi Ito had been dispatched next and Ivory Volkov was to join her, to ensure no more citizens of Shale Town would suffer. Odin's Spear was there to protect them, it was their town, and a loss of the town was a loss for the guild itself.
She'd arrived shortly after Kasumi had, in her demonness form, landing outside the town to join the woman in her investigation. "Where the fuck did these things even come from?" Currently there were no giants in sight, but given the various footprints, more than one had attacked even if only one had been slain. The rest must've retreated or, perhaps, been distracted by a traveler.
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Sept 26, 2019 6:27:37 GMT
Chewing on the nicotine gum, Kasumi lowered herself on the ground as she eyed the metal casings of the bullets. There were literally hundreds of them on the floor within the street that it was hard to miss them. Some of the buildings have grooves in them as if there were scratch mark made by the creatures and there were a few buildings that were now nothing but a pile of rubble safe for the foundations. Tracking the creature in question was easy enough...one merely need to look for the giant footprints and flatten vehicles. In fact there was enough in the place that she could recreate the whole scene of what happened inside her head as if she was a witness of what happened earlier.
Her thought was interrupted upon hearing the beating of wings followed by sound of foot landing on the ground. Even without turning to face her she could tell it was the Underboss as her inquiry confirmed her guess soon enough. Straightening up from the floor, Kasumi flicked the bullet casing away before turning to face her. She bore a serious expression on her face, her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Not sure yet, but if you meant the general direction then it's from the wasteland ahead of us. Bullets ain't gonna do the trick for this thing we'll need something with more impact. I suggest ballista or cannons...probably won't kill them outright but ought to slow them down enough to buy time for reinforcements."Kasumi explained, her mind already working on the countermeasures. She would then walk towards the part of the wall where a huge hole have been busted through by said giant.
"We may need to add caltrops to the list but make them as huge as possible. Looks like those giants were charging instead of waddling when they breached through this wall. If we can make them step on those caltrops, that would slow down their charge."she remarked after watching the gait of the footprint on the ground.
"That's all I can suggest for defense now Aneue. What do you think?"she finally asked.
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Sept 26, 2019 7:06:21 GMT
The fledgling vampire stayed quiet as Kasumi went through potential countermeasures, all the while gazing around, contemplating the wreckage. The fact that this event had occurred at all was unforgivable. "I agree." Ivory's lavender-toned arm waved one of the made men over, who was still trembling from his encounter with the ginormous humanoids. "Did you get all that? Head back to Asgard and get a group together to make it happen, eh?" She'd throw a hand out, to pat his back, "And don't worry. We got this."
When he nodded and fumbled away, she'd shift her demonic gaze back to Kasumi, her wings stretching, preparing themselves. "While they do that, I say we go track the fuckers. We haven't had giants around here up until, so there's probably not a lot of them. If we can kill them now then we won't have to worry about the countermeasures failing and can instead focus on repair."
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Sept 26, 2019 7:30:07 GMT
Kasumi watched as the man who had accompanied her earlier made his way back towards Asgard to fulfill the request they made. She knew that feeling all too well...the crushing self loathing feeling when you questioned the value of yourself upon failing those that you swore to protect. Ivory suggested tracking them down and she nodded in agreement. There was no time to waste, the sooner they take care of these creatures the better.
"Understood. I'm expecting a delivery though but we can immediately head out after that."Kasumi replied and no sooner than she had said that, the sound of a lacryma powered bike greeted their ears as another made man rode up towards them. He immediately got off it and pass her what appeared to be a rucksack. The female mage gave him her thanks before putting it on immediately. She glanced towards the bike then Ivory, remembering her pegasus form last time. A moment of consideration passed before she move closer towards the bike instead.
"I shall be riding this vehicle then. It would be less exhausting than running."
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Sept 26, 2019 7:39:17 GMT
"Sure thing, Kassypoo."
Even if the situation was weighed down by the gravity of concern, Ivory still managed to throw some light-heartedness into it. Her face didn't have a massive smile drawn upon it, but it did don a small smirk after her term of affection for the reinforcement mage. She considered the woman a trusted friend now. Someone who needed a few corrections of mentality here and there, but, outside of that, she knew Miss Ito was someone she could rely on. Someone the Guild could rely on.
When the rucksack was delivered, Ivory's ebony brow quirked, "Bringing along some dynamite?" It wouldn't surprise her. The purplelette was always using conventional weaponry despite her surpassing abilities.
"Very well then! I wonder which of us can go faster?"
The giant tracks could not be missed. So there was no chance of them to get split up and lost. For that reason alone Ivory would decide to play a little bit more; her wings kicking up dust as she suddenly took off into the sky, following the giant imprints in an attempt to "best" the bike Kasumi had elected to mount.
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Sept 26, 2019 8:03:30 GMT
Kassypoo?
Kasumi's cheek grew slightly pink at that though she maintained a neutral expression. At least while they are still in front of the other made men...her "sister" really does love making her embarassed. Even though they were not blood related, she had enough respect for the woman that she had considered her as one of her own blood. When the girl posed her the inquiry upon the content of the bag, Kasumi chuckled slightly in response.
"Not quite, it's something more experimental."Kasumi replied as she get onto the bike. When Ivory proposed a race, Kasumi flashed a small smile. Perhaps the lightheartedness was what she needed...she's gonna fight a giant. Possibly more than one of them. If it weren't for her training she would probably be shuddering with fear right now. But right now she was shuddering...with excitement.
"You're on Aneue."Kasumi replied as she revved the bike she had hopped on. The mount would tore off across the road carrying the mage at full speed. It was slightly slower than her own sprinting speed but she needed to conserve her energy to fight this creature. Tracking the footprint of this thing was quite easy...only a blind man could miss them. In fact, it only took within 10 minutes of riding the vehicle across the wasteland plateau they could what looked like a giant tower in the distance. She had known the are around Shale town enough to know there was no such structure built lately...not to mention the tower was actually moving.
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Sept 26, 2019 21:54:42 GMT
Their little race had been fun. Ten minutes of nothing but tracks, terrain, the beating of wings and the sound of the bike rumbling being her sole focus. It had been mindless enough to be numbing, edging her away from the discomfort and acknowledgement of OS' failure at protecting the Town. She imagined the footmen had felt it even worse, and after she slaughtered some of these overgrown humanoids she'd be sure to cheer them up with a gift of a giant's decapitated head and some booze.
Even so, Ivory's typically predictable facade made way for confusion upon what they found. "A.. tower? Since when?" It was huge. Huge and new. They were still far enough to not be in view of any of the inhabitants that might be accompanying it, and she'd stop, coming down to the ground to stand in one of the beastly tracks.
She turned to Kasumi with a look of alarm. Had these monsters fucking moved into their backyard? How many of them were around?
"Hopefully my blasts combined with your experimental something can decimate that tower. We can't have them thinking they can live here."
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Kek guess I'm not leading this forward yet #sleepy. So it's your job tehehe. (Post 4)
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Sept 26, 2019 23:23:01 GMT
Kasumi had expected that they would be doing a bit of travelling before they'd spotted one of those things. Maybe she could just gauge how tall these things were and worked from there. Unlike her Aneue, she do not possess wings so she would be suffering from disadvantages from size difference so she would try and see if there were other ways to bring them down to her level.
When Ivory landed from above, Kasumi swerved her bike to a brake as well. When confronting something they do not know, it's best not to rush in. There's still some distance between them and that tower so she imagined they could still retreat if they have to. When Ivory proposed that they'd work together to take that tower from distance Kasumi nodded in agreement...though at the same time, she probably need to reveal to Ivory that her experimental wasn't exactly something of that sort. But first, she would whip out binoculars to identify what they're looking at.
"Aneue....you may want to look this."Kasumi said as she handed over her binoculars to her underboss. Should Ivory do so, she would notice that the tower was actually a giant tall enough to be mistaken as one. It seem to be sitting on an old ruins of sort. But that was not the part where she was concerned about. The giant was like a tall humanoid...completely nude and with exaggerated deformed body proportion. And it was helping himself to a poor traveler who had the misfortune to stay there, holding it up into an open jaw to gobble him up. Not to mention there were more than one of those things....they were small enough to have parts of their body concealed by the buildings but still big enough that they couldn't try playing hide and seek.
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Sept 27, 2019 12:04:27 GMT
Ivory squinted with concern but would take up the telescopic device, pushing it to her demonness orbs. What she was there was reliving on some level, and it issued her a sigh. It meant these things weren't building their own shit in their backyard, but it also meant there was one hell of an enemy to fight.
Perhaps it would squishy, though, like her. That would be nice.
"Well fuck. Guess that makes this a little easier. Don't gotta worry about blowing down a ridiculous sized structure anyways.."
She grinned, lazily holding the binoculars back to Kasumi.
"You're bound to close range for this fight, you okay with that?"
In the nearby treees something began to stir.
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Last bit = maybe a smaller giant slumbering in the trees nearby or something if you want, if you wanna wait we can wait too haha. I just felt bad for just reacting to your post, but I'm also feeling lazy still. (Post 5)
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Sept 28, 2019 10:20:13 GMT
"Yes, just a ridiculously sized creature. Piece of cake."she quipped though a chuckle also escaped from her lips. Adjusting the rucksack on her bag, she would offer her hand to take away the binocular should she offered to though she would not press it should Ivory decided to cling to it still.
"Well, close range is my forte. I'm sure I'll manage."Kasumi replied to her query when she saw the tree stirred. Her eyes would turn to face the shuddering tree which revealed another giant. She didn't expect one this close however at least not without any warning. The creature was smiling at them, showcasing a perfect display of huge white teeth which would make one wonder to what dental plan did this giant behemoth subscribe to? For now though, there was a need to evade less they would be thoroughly acquainted with those shiny white teeth.
"Move!"
Channeling magical energy to her feet, she attempted to leap out of the way as the giant reached out to grab them both to dine them in one go. For now, they would need to handle this creature before going to the ruined town. If they could find some sort of weakness for these beings then it would be a whole lot easier later.
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Sept 29, 2019 3:59:41 GMT
"Definitely." She smiled in return, her grin confident and self-assured. Frankly speaking, taking down a creature seemed a hell of a lot more easier than taking down some incredibly structured tower, after all! It was something she had grown accustomed to, at least.
She was proud to hear Kasumi had no concerns about her own ground bound self. Even if giants could theoretically smash you with a stomp - she assumed the female would be able to withstand it when her enhancement magic if necessary, and if not that she should be able to outrun it.
When the terrain trembled and plant-life swayed, Ivory would fly upward in reaction, albeit she kept her peripheral on the purplette just in case. She was able to dodge the beast that appeared, though, so she knew she had nothing to worry about. Instead she generated a large crimson sphere to toss at it's face, hoping to blind or decapitate it. Either way would tell her just how "tough" these things were.
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Sept 29, 2019 7:02:33 GMT
edited on Sept 29, 2019 7:28:25 GMT by Kasumi Ito
The gigantic hand that reached out missed Kasumi by a foot, though the rush of wind that accompanied said kicked off blades of grasses and dust up in the air. That much force would have easily overturned a parking car and she was glad she didn't take her chances to try and take the attack head-on without magically enhancing herself. Though their speed were slow, they could have easily caught one offguard should they failed to pay any attention to their surrounding.
"Tch..."
Her eyes would trace her surrounding before locking onto the body figure of her senior. Kasumi let herself breathe out a sigh of relief, she was worried that the woman would have decided to take that attack head-on. A crimson sphere of energy growing at the tip of her finger causing the purplehead to stop in her track. She would observe as Ivory launched the energy sphere straight into the giant's face. A huge explosion followed afterward as crimson ball of fire engulf the giant's face. A perfect shot like that, would have incinerated a human being completely and even weaker magical beasts to boot. Surely any moment by now, they would have toppled backward and crashed to the ground.
Yet, the creature didn't fall. His face was completely singed by the attack to the point that she could see burnt flesh underneath but the creature didn't fall. Smoke could be seen from his face...smoke and steam. Then before their eyes, the creature's flesh would slowly mend back towards how it was before. It's regenerative properties was no match compared to a vampire but it was still visible enough to make her grow wary of the creature before her. Even worst, it had just taken a direct hit to the head and survive. No wonder their made-men had trouble facing such creature.
"Fire again! Blow it's head off!"Kasumi requested as she moved around to flank the creature. She would have done so herself but felt Ivory's method would be a safer approach when probing creatures of this caliber.
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Sept 29, 2019 20:36:59 GMT
"Fuck." The force of her blast hardly made a dent; the giant didn't even sway under the impact. With it's flesh seared and smelling up the air with that of an aroma similar to burning hair, Ivory would snarl.
Maybe a concentrated beam would be more effective..
The thing had began to regenerate, slowly turning blackened flesh and ruined eyeballs back to normal, as if nothing had touched it to begin with. She knew then that the made-men who had failed at their job had nothing to be ashamed of. Something this uniquely powerful was not something non-mages could deal with. How fucking satisfying it would be to take it's head back to them, a vengeance and comfort to their dis-ease.
"Sure thing boss."
She smirked as the woman began to circle the beast, then funneled magic into her arm, a lava-liken glow appearing beneath her lavender skin as it pooled there, growing more and more intense in it's sheen. She let it build up for a few moment as the thing stomped after her, trying to grab her from the air, but her deft wings easily out maneuvered it's awkward gestures.
Then she fired, all in one narrow and concentrated beam aimed directly between it's eyes, hoping to sear right through it's brain and exit the other end of it's skull. It was angled intentionally as to not hit Kasumi behind, but had it broke through it'd definitely of penetrated through the row of trees far beyond.
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Sept 29, 2019 21:45:37 GMT
Kasumi watched as the creature regenerate itself, calculating the time it would take for it to recover from full blast. 7 seconds...a vampire would probably have regenerated in easily half that time or less but the giant had also more mass to cover which she considered to be quite impressive for it's record.
As the giant chased after her senior from behind, she would take a position directly behind the creature. Despite resembling a human, Kasumi noticed that the creature's anatomy appear to be similar to a doll. Perhaps that's a good thing as it didn't even wear a single shred of fabric on it which would have meant that any junk it possess would have been at full display. Still, it also means that the creature lack one of the three main weakness associated with humanoid.
As Ivory charged her energy beam once more Kasumi would rush in from behind and enhance herself so as to ram against the creature's thigh, in the attempt to throw the creature off balance. The beam manage to penetrate the skull easily carving a huge hole inside it's skull before it was sent crashing down onto the floor by the impact of her shoulder leaving it prone onto the ground. Whether it was dead immediately after the shot or right after the crash, she couldn't tell...but she was glad that Ivory accompany her for this job.
"Nicely done~"
With that the girl didn't waste time jumping onto it's chest. Her hands were like claws as she rend the giant's flesh apart. At first it appeared as if she was taking her anger on the creature as as the flesh was ripped off mercilessly and violently but soon she had stopped at where the heart would be. The flesh was thick...thicker than most magical beast she fought with but they were not particularly hard either. That it was no longer beating which was a relief though the fact that it was in the same position a human being would have means it's also a difficult target for her to reach in close combat fight considering it's height from the ground.
Size disadvantage and regenerative properties...and disadvantage of numbers to boot. A small doubt grow in the back of her head whether they could challenge this creatures in numbers without involving more mage from the Odin Spear but she decided to banish the doubt to the back of her mind for now.
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