• 63 HP
• 70 EN
Zone 6

For a wonderous, comfy, and slightly unnerving moment, Celly held the life-sized doll in her arms and hugged tight. It reminded her of childhood days where she'd imagined dolls to be alive, and it was ever so much better having this one actually hug back. Plus the whole 'sentience' thing was also pretty cool. It didn't even cross her mind once that these were just crazy-advanced neural networks and not real doll people.

"H-hey!" Cel released Sixteen for a brief moment as she was suddenly struck by a magical jolt of friendly fire. Glaring at the maniacal tyrant, she stuck out her tongue before suddenly getting swept up in a series of... "attacks." Thanks to @Alphabet Chocolate 'Sprinkles' she didn't even register the minor stinging as attacks until she realized what was going on, and instantly sprung into full drama mode.

"AAAAAHHHH! The pains! Pleeeease! Stop the pains! I will do any of the things, just make her stop the bringing of the hurts! Hehe~" This was accompanied by several over-the-top gestures and flailing that might've actually been convincing if Sixteen's attack looked like it'd done more than a glorified scratch. Unfortunately, the show was only as convincing as its weakest actor (and clearly Cel could be the next Leo DiCaprio with her fantastic acting).

"W-wha--" All of a sudden, Pinkie unleashed a crazed barrage of death their way, without even bothering to avoid her, and Celestine stared up from the floor at Sixteen with admiration as her beloved dollfriend took the brunt of the attack for her.

This just couldn't stand. "Hey! Watch where you do the aim!" Celly glared daggers across the room at Pinkie before they were separated by Icecream's giant wall. Given that none of the three seemed particularly aggressive, this was a great opportunity! Time to diffuse all the hostility (if there even was any) and make an adorable doll friend!

Celly was just about to release her totally perfect lines to convince her when the straightman loli doll interrupted. "Aww... you are like the sisters...?" She actually paused a moment. "I was always wanting the having of a little sister..." For a moment, she was actually distracted from the goal at hand, but it was still a pretty tense us-vs-them moment for Sixteen. 'No spacing out, Celestine!'

"Waaaait... I am having the idea. You are not wanting to do your sisters the betray, right?" Celestine interrupted Sixteen's thinking process. "We are supposed to try to do each other a kill for the shinies behind the door over there I am thinking. You are good at doing the stabby-slashies, but I am also good at doing the zaps because I am Celestine: the Zap Mage! Here, watch:"

To illustrate, Celestine spun around to point to a table in the middle of the room with a finger gun and chanted a quick spell, releasing a powerful bolt of lightning into the table. "So we could do each other the slashy-stabby-zappies until one of us does the bucket kick. Ooooorrrrr, we could just do the leave of the place together, and it would be like we both did our team a loyalty. It is like you are getting rid of the deadly zappy mage for your sisters!"

Celestine ran up and took Sixteen's hand(?) trying not the cut herself by accident. "It could be fun! Just the you and me, doing the friend things. We could go do a search for that ice cream Sprinkles did the hide of, or hide behind the trees and pop out to do the Stokbon travelers a scare. It will be fun! No more of the boring basement-ing!"

Zap the Table
76 + 50 = 126
Roll /Tracker​

 

• 71 HP
• 52 EN
Zone 16

Blank grimaced as she flubbed her lines. Spellcasting was supposed to be a complicated matter, but she had always felt it was rather dull. To flub a line, now, however, proved the dangers of relying on recited lines to cast a spell. Despite her fears, Blank's ice wall did appear, and despite its flaws would suit Blank's purposes. Or so she thought. With little warning (ok maybe more than a little), the dolls moved into actions. Except they were faster than dolls. They couldn't be dolls or little girls. They had to be androids. Yes, there was no debating the fact, as Android 15 began to shoot out a variety of laser blasts, some of which, slammed into blank sending her toppling backward with a gasp.

Ignoring the irreversible damage done to her wall, Blank forced herself to her feet, trying her best to catch her breath. Deep down inside of her, she knew she felt the same terror that would typically claim her. However, it was tucked deep inside of her soul as rage poured through her. Forget her flub, forget standard spell casting. She wanted to kill that damn android.

As luck would have it, the android seemed to feel the same way about Blank. Quickly maneuvering towards her. "Perfect..." Blank muttered as she thrust her staff forward summoning forth as much mana she could force into it, as a pale blue magical circle grew out from beneath her. Normally she'd say her line and set forth the spell, but instead, she crouched backward, as her hands tightened on their grips. "More...." she pleaded, as she forced even more mana into her staff, expanding her spell circle slightly, as it began to shimmer ever brighter. She wanted to overcharge the spell further, but with Android 15 coming down upon her she was out of time. With a click of her tongue, she screamed, "Let the ice take you!" before releasing the spell and feeling her lifeforce recoiling from the spell.

The magic circle suddenly disappeared from beneath her, suddenly appearing beneath Android 15. It shined brightly for a moment as Blank stated, "Flash freeze!" and in a heartbeat, the temperatures around the android plummeted as if she was dumped into a vat of liquid nitrogen. Meanwhile, Blank fell to her knee as she gasped, in an attempt to recover from the attack.

Cast 'Flash Freeze' using 50 mana, 20 health, and taking a forced recovery round next round
7 + 35 +25 + ??? + ??? + ???
(Roll)The Prism Collector of Stokbon/ The Prism Collector of Stokbon
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• 63 HP
• 43 EN
Zone 10

The attack had Comet releasing her weapon temporarily to shield her body with long arms, as she instinctively crouched. That hardly negated the amount of pain created - never did battles fail to rattle her brittle bones due to the realistic system - or damage taken. She was even quicker to position herself back into battle. Swiftly moving from one zone to the other the Archer planned to take down Fifteen. And, it seemed everyone else did too. The taunts were annoying... and worse, the purple-haired doll was betraying the trust of her own comrades. If Celes and Alpha were actually onto something perhaps the fight could end relatively without loss of a multitude of things. "Please, be careful!" Comet shouted to the Felis (@Celestine) anyways, out of concern. The more teammates the better her own chances of survival. Plus seeing such innocence - albeit a frustratingly spontaneous and confusing innocence - destroyed wouldn't be pleasant.

"Don't wear yourself out. If you need me I can cover you!" she also found her voice reaching @Blank, who she'd been in battle with before and somewhat trusted, because desperation ran high within her heart. Being reminded of how weak she happened to be, after all the time spent on working towards strength, sent Comet into a bit of a rage. She was a powerhouse in the moment. The arrow soaring through the air would strike Fifteen as precisely as possible, a direct blow.

Ranged Attack on Fifteen
96+10+25=131
Roll / Tracker​

 

• 26 / 100 HP
• 70 / 180 EN
Zone 10/Beyond Ice Wall

So....much,.... fun.... teaching.... FAILURE!

Dark arrows flew until a stupid ice wall appeared and cut off 16 from Tenebris. The room had a ceiling so leaping over it or firing over was out of the question. Nyanko would get her way at this rate... although that wasn't the worst thing.

When 15 stepped forward and unleashed a attack greater than anything Tenebris, and Magi for that matter, had ever faced. Her magical girl senses kicked in. Even in this state, Tenebris had a high magic affinity and she could feel just how strong that dolly's magic was. Were they all that way?

"Aaaaaaargh!"

She refused to hit the ground. If she was a failure... she would fail later! This was a lesson she had to teach these know it alls! Her knees bucked and she gasped as her dress received several tears from the blast.

It would not stop her. She was too busy shooting to care.

Yes...

Even as Blank worked to defend herself....

Yes.....

Urgh....

Why... was... she... slowing down...

The agony of the attack. The explosion of mana. The power of the cosmos... It gave so much grief to her! She needed more power. That's it, what better way to show how the world worked then to stab them with their own?!

"Uuuuurgh.... Y-You think you're special?"

Her bow vanished as one hand shot to the right, the other the left.

"You're....hehehehe....j-just another... loser... JUST LIKE ME!"

"Magia power! Salving grief, curing pains, Love's going to smother you right into that light!"

Shooting her hands forward with the palms outwards. Tenebris' miasma would gather around 15 and attempt to do a 'Power Transfer' to suck as much out of her as Tenebris could. Then using what she may acquire as a energy boost she went straight into a Shadow Step to Zone 10 on the other side of the Ice Wall.

She would appear with Gertrud in hand and a arrow ready to fire at her current fav victim, 16.

"15's power is mine! Hehehehe.... do you wanna be taken care of.... Red Red?"

Fluch Der Liebe

Reckless Drain (Whatever Can be Acquired) on 15
15+25 +67 + 82 = 189
Roll / Tracker​

 

• 87 HP
• 98 EN
Zone 11

Alpha looked over at her injuries with a hint of dismay. Although there was no pain to be felt, there was some sort of phantom sensation that stung her to the bone---which wasn't a pleasant feeling. Coupled with Fifteen's biting words and general cantankerous demeanor, Alpha didn't feel particularly remorseful as she lifted her dagger up high, planning to bury it deep in the doll's body. The others didn't seem to care much either, with Magi sliding further down the deep edge. She certainly didn't think it was possible for the deranged girl to get any more unhinged but she supposed it could all be fixed with a congratulatory visit to that Skittle Fruit Smoothie place that Magi had introduced her to (by word of mouth) during their original meeting on Druuk Island.

A glance over at the struggling Blank and the rambling Celestine merely solidified her plans to take them to a girl's night out after all of this; with Comet and Sixteen in tow, of course. Comet was more like a motherly figure than a buddy to hang out with but Alpha was flexible. If she could bring two homicidal friends, a meme buddy, a killer ginger puppet thing, and a bloodthirsty wolf to a party, she could definitely squeeze room in for a lady of an ancient, older age. She shivered, imagining Comet with wrinkles, a cane, and white streaks flowing through her pinkish hair, yelling at all of them to be careful and to come back home before curfew.

As she grew closer to Fifteen's position, performing unnecessary acts of acrobatic finesse to cover the distance, she snapped out of her thoughts. Hector was off to the side, sticking his tongue out to taste the ice wall that Blank had made. She wanted to shout and tell him that he'd get his tongue stuck there (Alpha had learned the hard way) but, unfortunately, she couldn't seem to call out a warning before she was within reaching distance to Fifteen.

"Ah well," she shrugged, leaving Hector to his fate as she raised her dagger above her head. "Don't ya worry! It'll be quick," Alpha promised. And, just as she was about to bring her dagger down, a ring of light traced itself around Fifteen's form. "Wait, what?"

Alpha's eyes widened as she moved over to dodge the sudden attack, a sudden chill vibrating through the area. Quickly, she kicked the ground and pushed herself back. "Wow," she breathed, a tad bit shocked at the unexpected event. She took a moment to catch her breath, completely oblivious as arrows darted through the sky. She looked at her dagger, then at Fifteen, and then back at her dagger again. She did it a few times, actually, as a barrage of ranged pointy objects found its mark.

As the new influx of information flooded her mind, it took her a while to sort through everything. And then all the pieces clicked together. Alpha stomped her foot hard onto the ground, giving a little pout. She tossed her arms in the sky, dagger gleaming from the light reflected on the glacier the Blank had created, and whined: "Seriously? Do you guys always have to take the spotlight?"

A bit of electricity sizzled in the air and, disappointed that her attack on Fifteen wasn't as pizzazz as everyone else's cool moves, she slumped over and, walking towards Fifteen, lifted the dagger, poked it into whatever material the doll was made of, and then sulked on over to the intersecting wall which divided Celestine and Sixteen from everyone else. Hector was already there, his tongue frozen to Blank's creation. He looked over at Alpha, slightly panicked.

She gave him a pat, smoothing down his ruffled fur before she sat next to him. "It's okay, buddy," she muttered sadly. "One day, we're gonna get super cool rainbow dance moves like everyone else. We're just...late bloomers, is all!"

Stabs Fifteen!
5 (roll) + 35 (mastered pierce) + 20 (great equip) = 60
(Roll)The Prism Collector of Stokbon / The Prism Collector of Stokbon​

 

• 63 HP
• 70 EN

Celestine nodded, sorta understanding Sixteen's counter-argument. She was pretty smol and squishy: something she was particularly proud of, and also something that typically made human people very cuttable and stabbable. Good logic. Luckily, her offer seemed to be going through with some success, and Cel began to smile when the wall suddenly smashed with an explosion.

She only really got a glance at the chaos on the other side, before Pinkie caught her attention. She was lookin' very aggressive, to say the least, which was odd, cause there were definitely no aggressive dolls on the other side of the broken down wall, and these three didn't seem interested in attacking them at all. Something she'd rather not change.

"Do a back off, Pinkie!" Celestine shouted in her direction, repositioning herself right in-between the crazed Pinkie and her new doll friend. She didn't make any move to attack, but her grimoire was in-hand and open, ready to do whatever was necessary to ensure the doll made it out intact.

"All of the cutes are belonging to me, so you can not be doing her a hurt! Let us just get the shinies for Verm and do a leave, since none of the dollies are doing us an attack. Or will we need to do her an explain that we did a failure because you are having the mind of jellies?"

 

• 66 / 100 HP
• 40 / 180 EN
Zone 5

"..."

Tenebris pulled back a bit more as if daring Nyanko to go through with the threat and fight her right here in a glorious bloodbath of grief. Her wild eyes quivering with madness. She owed her a petting after all.

"...Hehe."

She quickly turned and fired the arrow right next to the cowering dolly in the corner.

"See that...? Scared? That's what life is like. Whether you win and stay down here, or we win and you obey us. Either way... you are failures. That leader of yours..."

Tenebris lowered her bow and gave the frozen16 a glare.

"Couldn't escape that could she? Best to enjoy it though. Hehehehe..."

She shrugged and stared into Celestine's eyes.

"I will help them, I will help you, I will help everyone. ...But right now you're right. Just get the shiny things and get out of this place. I say we at least send off the one who blew us up... c'mon!"

A almost look of pleading appeared on her face. She didn't get to save any dollies herself! She hated when others got to and she couldn't! More importantly what if she thawed. Tenebris took care of the frozen girl above but if this one was let go it would cause trouble right?

"They only give up because she is gone. She unfreezes... hehehe, we'll be a in big trouble❤ . Vermy wouldn't like it if we left any witnesses!"

Wait a minute... who cared about vampy's success. What mattered was...

"Oh... nevermind. I could care less about this. Let's get the chaos and go."

Tenebris then turned her focus to the quiet 13. She slowly walked over to her and kept her the mana in her hand channeled. Once she was several paces away from her. She spoke.

"You... can read minds or something right? "

Her teeth gritted.

"You think you know me.... I'll tell you what. I know you too. ... more than you think unless you can read that in my head too. Gee whiz, guess you're a piece of trash locked in this basement with the rest❤. Heheheh...hehehhe... You tell me how you do that. Then stay the hell away from me forever. Or I won't care about the things I lose in the process of tearing you apart. ...Okies❤?"

She kept her voice low and it was up to 13 how to react.

 

• 102 HP
• 88 EN
Zone 11

Alpha's ears perked up, tuning into Magi and Celestine's banter. Alpha, still disappointed by the lack of attention she had received from her performance, straightened up her back, no longer content with imitating a wilting flower alongside Hector. Her eyes flickered between the bickering pair, trying to keep up with their argument. "Wait, wait," Alpha rose up to her knees, hands held up in a placating manner. "What about a compromise?"

On any other day, she'd have let the two duke it out but, with the mention of Vermilion and the presence of foreign company, she felt like she had a duty to make sure none of them embarrassed themselves in front of their new friend, Sixteen. The doll was currently prancing about, in glee from her newfound freedom. Even Alpha couldn't stifle the mischievous smile that threatened to split her face in half when watching the pure elation and enthusiasm the red-head girl possessed. She could just imagine the countless adventures they'd have: eating crayons and vomiting rainbows, searching for mythical creatures a la Ghostbusters, and maybe kidnapping Astor and holding him for ransom (at a heavy price of thirty-two triple-layered cheesecakes).

"Like, how bout we get the thingies and then we, uh, take her limbs," she pointed to the frozen figure, "for Magi, y'know? Just the fingers or arms or whatevs! See? The power of politics! We get the stuff, we don't really hurt them...limbs grow back, right? And you're both happy!"

To be quite honest, Alpha wasn't sure if limbs grew back or not (she ditched biology class too many times to remember) but she supposed it didn't matter much. She looked between the two, hoping that there wouldn't be a civil war or a dangerous confrontation going on. Beneath her confident veneer, however, held a mind that was currently brushing through bibliographical sources to make her argument more reasonably sound. Alpha had a neat English tutor at home a few months ago who stressed the importance of evidence and sources in persuasive essays; if the words didn't reach Celestine and Magi, then perhaps cold logic will.

But, to her surprise, Magi yielded. "Ooooh, never mind then! Everything's a-okay, and the power of friendship triumphs another day! Hooray!" she gave a thumbs-up to everyone in the room. "Okie dokie! Now that that's all over and done with, it's time for an intermission! A commercial break! Cue!"

The vambrace that adorned her wrist glowed a light red and yellow. And, from it, small bearded men, with wispy beards of flame and portly bodies, began to march onward and crowd the room. "Go, my minions!" Alpha grinned, watching as they tended to her wounds. Hector, unsurprisingly, pawed at one of the incorporeal creatures.

Satisfied, Alpha turned to Sixteen. "So, uh, welcome to the group! As you can see, we are so much cooler than those guys," she said the last words like she had tasted something particularly putrid. She stood still for a moment, contemplating on what else to do. Unfortunately, there wasn't much else that Alpha had planned (she had thought her speech to Celestine and Magi would've lasted a tad bit longer) and, at a loss as to what to do next, she slowly lowered herself back to the ground and laid prostrate, on her back, with her eyes staring listlessly at the ceiling above.

She raised her hands up and down, dropping them by her sides before lifting them up again, clapping her limbs together. "Gah, now I'm bored," she groaned, speaking to no one in particular. "Hurry up, let's find something to do alreadyyyyy!"

Uses Vambrace of Embers to heal @Magi Heart @Blank @Celestine @Comet by 15 HP
The Prism Collector of Stokbon​

 

• 26 HP
• 2 EN
Zone 16

Blank grimaced as her spell launched, feeling the recoil in every inch of her body, as every one of her muscles seemed to contract and contort with sudden abandon. For the moment she couldn't move, much less collapse into the ground as she was forced to watch the android tear forward seemingly only burdened by her spell. How was it possible that such a monster could exist? She had given almost everything she had in that casting; it should have frozen her where she stood. And, yet defiantly the girl strode forward, laughing as she did so. With a sudden flurry two blades appear in her hands, and with a quick few slashes, Megan could feel the telltale burning of a deep gut wound.

Her legs gave out as she slumped to the floor, her UI screaming at her due to the variety of afflictions she was experiencing. As her blood escaped her stomach, blank, moved her hand gripping the wound pressing down on it with what little strength she had left in her. She was going to die here. There was no doubt; it was only a matter of time until the android delivered the second, blow. She couldn't do anything but wait.... and hope she'd take mercy upon her. "This is is...." Blank gasped, "My first death...."


And then nothing happened.

No second blow.

No fatality.

With a groan, she forced her eyes open and looked forward. Her vision was hazy and doubled, but she could make fifteen out reasonably clearly still. She stood there as if frozen in time. It seemed Blank's spell had work after all.... just like she had predicted... only much much later. Mumbling to herself, Blank vowed to go on a more defensive angle next time but otherwise resigned herself to the possible continuing conflict as she laid on the ground curled up, clutching her slowly healing stomach wound.

Forced Recovery
The Prism Collector of Stokbon
​

 

At first Tenebris thought to get to it and cure this Dolly. She was a creepy cute sort of thingy that felt nothing even if Tenebris cured her, she wouldn't care.

She was cute in a creepy way.

She was apathetic to the world.

She didn't care about right or wrong.

She only existed.

In a way. Tenebris was the same. It was only grief that pushed her on. She certainly wasn't doing this for Vermillion. Debt or not. If she was ever even remotely freed from that invisible chain... Tenebris would cure Vermillion herself. Along with all the others!

This thingy had the ability to cause quite the grief... hmmmm.

"...Hehe. Wowzers. I can't get any griefful enjoyment saving someone if they don't even understand it."

Tenebris put her bow away. A creepy smile of her own crossed her face. Although it was difficult for someone with Wendy's face to match the ghastly face of 13. At least right now anyway.

"If you get that you're a failure, then I don't have to grind it into your head anymore. Not until you forget it of course hehehehe."

She took a step towards the 'girl'. She was a doll so she was fake, like that Ner person always with Xsune. Although she was unsure if Ner was a doll,. They gave similar silent vibes. Like Crystallized Zalra in a way. This one could be useful some day. Maybe she could teach her how good those grief powers of her's were.

"You're gonna come with me okies? If you don't care about what I do with you, that shouldn't be a problem right? I will show you the world too. My world."

Of course if the doll refused. Tenebris could just use her magic and beat her until he couldn't escape. That would be more fun after all....

@Skyswimsky