• 69 HP
  

  MAX 124 HP

• 36 EN
  

  MAX 116 EN

• 11 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone K

-25HP Acid sea | -5HP Acid rain

_____Nyx always battled her demons, any time she looked at herself in the mirror she saw the worst of her existence looking back at her. Not to mention the feeling of the acid coating her entire body sort of helped keep herself from shutting down as she struggled to get to higher ground couching up both acid and blood as a result.

_____Sure she still had about half her health, sure she still had a weapon to use but both had seen better days. Her detached sleeves all but gone, the acid burns over countless scars once hid by them revealed as she shaken stood up. Nyx was not going to allow this thing to keep bashing her down, she was gonna turn it around, that was her hope as she fell back down coughing up blood and holding her chest.

"DEATH, DIE, VANISH, DESTROY... DEATH DIE VANISH DESTROY... BLEED, ROT, SUFFER, REPEAT... BLEED ROT SUFFER REPEAT!!!"

_____The last screw keeping Nyx just on the edge of control falling into the darkness. Frame rose up once more, blood trailing down her cheek as she gripped her scythe with both hands and glared at the eye, her lips curling upward as she mumbled the same words between shattered laughter. Even without the dissonance she was in deep, but now it seemed she was lost and did not want to come back.

Extra movement
Zone I to Zone K

 

• 79 HP
  

  MAX 124 HP

• 12 EN
  

  MAX 157 EN

• 17 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone G

-2 HP from Acid Storm (Careful last cycle), -10 HP from Dissonance Damage
-10 EN for Attack
+1 Dissonance Stack for any action

There was no rest for the wicked, they said, and they were right. Iván tried to take a few minutes off of punishing the eyeball thing, only for it to violently sink into the ground and shortly reappear behind him, but not before it doused everyone with some sort of acidic storm. The masked illusionist felt the searing pain but perhaps to a lesser extent than others, especially those who unintentionally grabbed his attention when they started screaming as acid levels in lower areas started rising.

He was caught between wanting to do something to help so many of them and immediately punishing the eyeball thing that had just burst out elsewhere and was already punishing other adventurers the only way it knew how: consuming them. Was that @Lucia Mierz ? He hoped not. He bore no ill will towards the woman despite the fact that her betrayal had led to the failure of his first mission for the Aristocracy. Water under the bridge.

It was pure and utter chaos, as the cat-faced tentacles darn it, Astor! made sure it would continue to devolve that way. Thankfully, the queen of Falderen finally snapped out of her affliction, joining their side. She was cured now, wasn't she? That's holy light, divine light, something Titanius should not be able to force her to use on account of magical rules.

"I think the queen's finally joined our side..." Iván deadpanned without turning to @Rias beside him. "We should---" His words were cut short when apathy then anger took control of him. His first failed mission for the Aristocracy... The expedition down in the Spire... Joining the Witch Ops... His Zalrisis... Everything that he has experienced so far was unearthed, along with things that he had no knowledge of before all this. Are these... Titanius' experiences?

Thankfully, the one-eyed Ynglar Brother snapped him back to reality. Iván shook his head in a bid to regain control over himself. It worked. Filled with calm fury, the masked illusionist focused on the task at hand. He was going to take out his frustrations on the eye. There was no way he was going to let that invasion of his privacy go. There was a reason why he was clothed from head to toe. He did not appreciate being read like an open book.

Attack on Gargantuan Gaze
20 + 25 + 20 = 65
Tracker / Roll
Titanius: 4617 / 16666 HP

 

• 68 HP
  

  MAX 153 HP

• 23 EN
  

  MAX 103 EN

• 13 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone G

Moving from C to G
+1 Dissonance for attacking Gaze
-10 EN for Attack
-5 HP from Acid Storm
-15 HP from Tentacle Slap
+15 HP from Vambrace of Embers (Missed last time)

As always, things got worse and worse as time went on. That didn't mean that Velka was about to give in however, she would fight to her last breath as she always had. She was fortunate to avoid getting soaked in acid too heavily, though she could still feel a slight sting as it sizzled against her armor. Regardless, she was alive and focused enough to continue attacking despite the terrain hindering her movement. Many were in worse condition than her and the portals provided a worrying threat as they would further divide their numbers.

Regardless, she dashed forward and struck the Gaze with her offhand lance, her mainhand weapon failing to connect. She held back on the flames as her energy was getting dangerously low and falling unconscious into acid would be... unfortunate. Their numbers were vastly dwindled than what they originally started with, especially since the arrival of Astor and their relocation to the stomach. She was worried that they wouldn't have enough manpower to finish the fight but continued her assault anyways. There was no time for doubt or retreat in the belly of the beast.

Titanius Gaze
34 + 25 + 35 = 94
Tracker / Roll
Titanius: 4523 / 16666 HP

 

• 84 HP
  

  MAX 109 HP

• 20 EN
  

  MAX 107 EN

• 12 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone G

Moving from Zone B to Zone G
+59 HP from Bradwynne's Heal
-5 HP from acid rain
-15 HP from starting in Zone B
-10 EN for Attack

As Sean writhed from the noise, he began to relive one of his worst memories: Being impaled by a skull-faced goblin at Rugome Fort. On the outside, small fires shot up inside Sean's eyes, but on the inside, more was taking place.

In Sean's mind, a new desire arose. Not the desire to protect, but to harm. To get revenge for everything that happened to him. Today, he will sate his hunger for revenge.

Sean dashed out of the acid that had risen up to him-not that he noticed it-right at the eyeball.

My desire for revenge is overflowing! I must sate it! CRUST MY BLADE!

Sean reeled his sword arm back and jumped. "DIE!" He yelled, slashing his blade into the eye.

Attack on Gargantuan Gaze
96 + 15 = 111
Tracker / Roll
Target: 4412 / 16666 HP

 

• 32 HP
  

  MAX 102 HP

• 3 EN
  

  MAX 108 EN

• 20 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone D

Moving from B to D (Creative)
-15 EN for action
-15 HP from Dissonance Tentaburst
-5 HP from Acid Storm
-15 HP from Acid Sea damage
+13 HP from Heal

The once safe spot was suddenly very unsafe as a wave of acid submerged the place, barely able to avoid being swept away in the tide, Ceres scrambled onto relatively dry land. Seeing a beacon of protective light, Ceres pushed onward as best as she could to relative safety. Barely making it into the barrier, she took the moment to lean against the wall and resist the tiredness that pervaded her body. She was running dangerously low on energy, low enough that it was a battle just to stay awake but she couldn't do that now. Not when they were so close to the end. A small break to recover her energy however, was in order. She didn't want to nod off in the middle of divining the future, there was no way that could end well.

Heal @Ceres for 13 HP
2 + 8 + 3 = 13
Tracker / Roll

 

• 115 HP
  

  MAX 115 HP

• 101 EN
  

  MAX 111 EN

• 11 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone D

Starting in Zone D
Safe from Acid Cycle Damage
+10 Dissonance
Moving from D to G
-10 EN for Attack
+1 Dissonance for Attacking

Vas was one of the more late one's to join the fray but given how hard everyone was fighting and how close everyone was to victory against this horror, he couldn't just stand by when he could help. It was time to put his speed as a Caenis to use, by crouching down onto his hands and feet, Vas was almost like a wolf. He placed a throwing knife between his sharp teeth and his tail stood up at attention as did the black canine ears on his head.

It was a pulse of movement, a sharp dash across the landscape into dangerous territory, away from the safe zone with the beautiful almost angelic woman as he got closer and closer towards the gazing eye. Once he had moved into a new area and got just close enough for him to get a solid mark onto his target, Vas lept up into the air, pushing off from his hands and feet.

A spin of his body and he pulled the knife from his teeth, grabbed another from his clothing and swung his arms outwards towards the eye with full intent to do some piercing damage with each blade. Speaking of blades, both of their movements arc'd around the body of @Sean Poteitoku to meet their mark. As the boy lands he speaks out.

"Nice strike! Keep it up!"

Attack on Gargantuan Gaze
88 + 10 + 10 = 108
Tracker / Roll
Target: 4304 / 16666 HP

 

• 124 HP
  

  MAX 129 HP

• 185 EN
  

  MAX 195 EN

• 11 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone D → H

Moving from ZD to ZH
-10 EN for attacking
-5 HP from acid storm
+10 dissonance
+1 dissonance for attacking

Dead and back... dead and back. Rat left the Soul Path to return to the more mortal of the two fights, leaving the giant epic Gurran Lagann nonsense to others who could handle that sort of thing. She preferred something more... mundane, and as she stepped through a portal and onto the battlefield, she looked about at the chaos. Only, it wasn't her that looked. As far as anyone could tell, it was... Lady Saya!

Yes, Rat was Doppelganger-ing the great Saya, to try and boost morale and mess with the party. Of course no Doppelganger cloning was perfect. There was always SOMETHING that went wrong with the mimicry, and she contemplated this issue with mild amusement as she twirled her handlebar mustache. She continued to twirl it, as she stepped out onto the battlefield, burned by the storm of acid that rained down. Yes. THIS was her scene!

"Friends! Comrades! Fanfic shippers! I've come to tell you that your bravery is not wasted in this place! The fight against the vile soul of Titanius rages even as we speak, where your comrades try to undo the spirit of this wretched fiend. But triumph though they might against its spirit, the body is of its own mind! It will always HUNGER and CONSUME, and so we must defeat it here and now! Rally, and to me! Let's show this horrible creature what for! There may be no I in team, but there is US in Titanius! And also two I's! It's like... yeah! We've got this, people! Teamwork, teamwork, rah rah rah!"
Raising a hand, Rat fired off a bolt of magic at the eye, almost groaning out loud at how pathetic the strike was.

Attack on Gaze
3 + 60 = 63
Tracker / Roll
Target: 4241 / 16666 HP

 

• 82 HP
  

  MAX 100 HP

• 50 EN
  

  MAX 100 EN

• 12 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone G

-10 EN for Stable Attack
-2 HP from Acid Storm Damage (Careful previous Cycle)
+1 DST

Finally the Queen was at their side as @Iván Carl pointed out and she protected everyone around her as much as she could creating a smile across Rias lips, looking away from the battle field to notice the actions of D'Vangelline and her barrier the archer realised that she wanted to become as strong as her, jealousy filled her body and soon anger that erased the smile from her expression. Evil thoughts filled her head, things she would never think about just because of admiration of someone who is better than her...what was this feeling...? Her hands clenched in a fist frowning her eyebrows, something pushed her to fight against her own team and her actions were mostly directly towards the Queen. Previously her bow was facing the direction of Titanius but now, it was clearly pointing with her arrow at D'Vangelline. "UGH! Stop it already!" she shouted unintentionally to herself moving one hand against her head. It was obvious that something tried to control her actions so she threw the bow away from her hands and landed on the floor with her knees. It seemed like forever while she tried fighting the voices and feelings inside her but after a while Ivans voice snapped her out of it and she started coming back to herself.

"What a horrible feeling...how can you feel so much hatred towards something? It is so angry...why?" she wondered looking at the eye while still on the ground, her mind couldn't accept the idea of someone being lead to this by their own will. "Ridiculous!" she shifted her body and slide back to grab the bow and stand up, she was pretty angry at how many surprised this fish gave them! And what does it thinks it is!? "OI! How about simply discussing your issues instead of fighting everyone around you?" her eyes piercing Titanius Gaze as she started taking out her bows. "You think that can help?" the arrows started flying his way while she spoke angrily "Maybe you should consider some new methods?!"

Stable Attack on Gargantuan Gaze
18 + 9 + 5 = 32
Tracker / Roll
Gargantuan Gaze [ 4.209 / 16.666 HP ]

 

• 84 HP
  

  MAX 109 HP

• 40 EN
  

  MAX 107 EN

• 12 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone G

+20 EN for Recover Energy

The shackles binding his rage were off. He was able to hit with all his might.

Sean might have thanked this giant demon for allowing him to finally release his built-up anger, but he was too enraged to even think about it. Bouncing off the eye, he landed on the ground with a slide. "I must get revenge... I will sate my hunger for vengeance!" Sean's vision started tinting red. I remember when this used to happen. I used to get so enraged that I couldn't even think... He was visibly shaking on the spot, looking about ready to go insane. He only had one thing on his now empty mind: REVENGE.

Recovering Energy
Tracker

 

• 32 HP
  

  MAX 100 HP

• 10 EN
  

  MAX 100 EN

• 18 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone C

Moving from ZB to ZC
-10 EN for action
-15 HP from Acid pool
-2 HP from Acid Rain
-5 HP from Hentai Suprise

The female fighter (@Portia Ahrens) seemed to relax a bit and after a moment of catching their breath, spoke to him again.

''I know it was me who was about to hit the ground, but you seem like the one who's spacing out...''

Her head titled as she examined him from top to bottom far too closely. Just as Raid was about to get uncomfortable enough to say something she asked,

''Are you new?''

Of course, an experienced player not in the immediate thick of battle would be able to realize quite easily how sparcely equipt Raid was.

A bit.

He shrugged uncomfortably as the player continued to look at him. It was unavoidable that he would be recognized as new but he would prefer to not be noticed at all. The player's eyes widened at his response and gave a big smile.

''Oh, well, in that case... Welcome? You picked a tremendously good time to join us?''

Raid gave a short chuckle.

Heh. Quite.

Well she seemed friendly enough, it felt refreshing to just be able to chat with a person even for a moment.

Suddenly, the world grew dark. He felt it. Titanius digging into his mind. Into the places he kept locked away for his own sanity. Zin saw his father then, the man that had tormented him for years and made his childhood a living hell.

The crushing words and feeling surfaced. Memories he had wished to be wiped from his memory were now forced before him as if it was the day they happened. He saw himself saying awful things with his father looking over his shoulder with a sadistic smile. Useless, stupid, dumb, ugly, loser, dog, worthless, better off dead, die, die, kill yourself.

NO!

He cried out.

Get out! Get out! That's over! That's not my life anymore! Gaahhh!

Flames quickly engulfed Raids body as he struck out at Titanius. The flames were wild and untamed, threatening to burn him rather than the terrible beast Titanius. Raid breathed heavily, he knew he had to control himself or things would end badly. The flames died down and Raid instead began to set up his protective runes once again.

As he had struggled the Acid had caught up to him and was now raining down as well. He gritted his teeth and turned to the small player near him.

C'mon we should keep moving! Time for talk later!

Careful Attack on Titanius
17=17 Total
Tracker / Roll
Target: 4192 / 16666 HP

 

• 69 HP
  

  MAX 124 HP

• 16 EN
  

  MAX 116 EN

• 12 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone K

-15EN critical attack | -5EN Damage supplementation

_____Nyx drew her weapon and began attacking the monster's eye without a moment longer spent resting. Scythe chipping away from the acid and strain it was under from the aggressive attacks it's wielder wanted from it. Nothing was likely to stop Her even as her energy began to start warning her to stop and rest for a moment.

_____Five attacks, five with no real resulting effects, five times Nyx's temper was allowed to rise along with everything the monster had done thus far to further push the girl to only seek her own self destruction. Biting her lip before coughing up more blood and swinging her weapon once more at her target. 'Just a little more' was all that rang in her head outside her chanting and laughter.

Critical attack on Gaze
44(Roll)+15 (Weapon) +9 (DS)= 68
Tracker / Roll
Target: 4124/ 16666HP

 

• 105 HP
  

  MAX 145 HP

• 70 EN
  

  MAX 130 EN

• 14 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone C

Moving from Zone B to Zone C
-5 HP from acid rain
-15 HP from acid pool
-15 EN from single-target heal

Bradwynne watched as the giant eyeball retracted from the middle of the area. He knew that it was because the players kept on targeting that eye that it retracted from that position. However, he did not expect that with the loss of that eye, a gaping hole was formed, which then spewed acid that fell on everyone within the area, melting portions of his clothing, As the rain was continuing as he tried to shield himself from the rain with his arms, the level of acid suddenly went up, submerging his feet and removing whatever protection left on it.

"Damn it, now I look like a beggar," he muttered as he went away from the enlarged pool of acid. But as he was going away from the pool of acid, he then noticed another person being affected by it. After a long stare he then knew that it was one of those people that accompanied him in the mission for the inverted spire. He then chanted a spell to generate another ball of light, and then, his mind controlling the ball, it went towards the woman.

Healing @Portia Ahrens for 45
5 + 28 + 12 = 45
Tracker / Roll

 

• 89 HP
  

  MAX 100 HP

• 45 EN
  

  MAX 100 EN

• 12 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone B

+20 EN for resting
+44 HP from @Bradwynne
+12 HP from @Lycia
-15 HP from Acid

Libitina noticed the hesitation in the brunette's eyes @Milah as she offered to watch over her sibling. She was not surprised nor was she offended. She herself would have been on guard if a random person just offered help. But this was a battlefield and every person is valuable.

"Do not worry. I will not bite"she answered as she watched over @Lycia.

The girl was just thinking about how low her HP was when the nice female offered her a heal. She watched as her acid burned hand was slowly starting to heal until the point it left only a small scar. Before the girl could even thank the girl for her generous action, Lycia took it upon herself introduce herself and her sister. 'She is really kind and seems to be too trusting' she thought as she noticed how friendly Lycia was. the contradiction between the two siblings made her slightly amused.

"Nice to meet you too. My name is libitina cerin. I am new to this game as well, although I have played quite a decent amount of VR games. Thank you for the offer Lycia. I am very grateful"
The amethyst eyed girl shook Lycia's hand, her voice was rather monotonic, holding no emotion of gratitude but that was just how libi was.

Before she could talk more to her new found acquaintances, a sudden flood of acid came, causing her damage once more. She narrowed her eyes in frustration as she got up from the floor and was about to attack the eye, only to see it was no longer there.

While she was looking around the battlefield, she noticed another male @Bradwynne sending a light to her side. With furrowed eyebrows, the girl touched the light only to feel much better. Now, all her wounds were cleared, leaving almost unnoticeable scares. She watched her HP to see it was reflecting a bright green, meaning she was almost fully healed. She was about to thank him but saw he was heading off somewhere else, probably to get out of the acid zone.

"Thank you sir! After this battle is over, I'll offer you a treat!"she called out to the male, wondering whether he heard it or not. 'No matter, I shall search for him when this is over' she thought as she turned to the siblings.

"Lycia, Milah! I think it is best if we leave this zone quickly!" She called out to them.

Resting
No Roll
Tracker

 

• 70 HP
  

  MAX 100 HP

• 48 EN
  

  MAX 103 EN

• 11 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone K

-20 EN for Dispel
-5 HP from Acid Rain
-15 HP from Acid Sea
+1 Dissonance

"Rivers!" The Faerin looked at his friend, luckily he looked like to be in a much better state than Aristides. "Hehe, we are all together again!" He said, then turned to the Gaze. "Yes, it look like this thing won't take much longer. But we still need to strike it down as fast as possible!" He said while looking at the other players in their zone, everyone was in a tight situation... Though that girl that was restlessly attacking the Eye didn't looked like she was minding it.

That creature... It was just going to stay there and do nothing? 'I really doubt it.' He thought, clenching his fists.

Then suddenly The Gargatuan Gaze blasted off from his central location and moved to a corner, causing a huge Acid Rain that stinged Hanno and his friend's body as the Acid Sea spreaded through the Battlefield, wounding them even more. "GWAAAARH! W-WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" He tried to shake the acid off his legs, but it kept painfully tingling his flesh. He looked at his Caenis friend, that parasitic tentacle was still doing a huge mess.

The Faerin touched Aristides's back, making a bit of the infection crawl on his hands and frowned.

DISPEL!

Some of the dissonance slowly melted with the purifying wind going through his friend's back, it was going to help, but it wasn't enough to clean completely. And also... He looked at his hands, slowly getting more corrupted. Then turned to the Monster that engulfed the corner area. "WE ARE GOING TO STRIKE YOU DOWN!"

Dispel on @Aristides to remove 2 dissonance points.
Tracker / Roll

 

• 34 HP
  

  MAX 100 HP

• 60 EN
  

  MAX 100 EN

• 14 STK
  

  Dissonance

Location: Zone K

Moving from Zone K to Zone G
-30 HP from Acid Rain, Acid Pool, and Dissonance
-4 Dissonance from @Hanno Futaba
+1 Dissonance from Move Action

"Oh, River, you're still alive...thank God."

Aristides only managed to say that much before the screeching sounds of Titanius ripped through the air, and he raised his hands to cover his ears atop his head in a vain attempt to drown it out. It didn't work. Instead, he felt like he was falling, melting into the monster's consciousness, losing what sense of self he had. Giving up would be so easy. Feeding himself to Titanius would make the pain stop, would make the fear stop. Yet, it would mean throwing away his protection to his friends. They needed him. He needed to stay in the present, to not drown in Titanius' mind, to stay afloat.

Speaking of floating, the sting of acid bit into his skin again, and it snapped his eyes open. Shit.

"Futaba, hold tight."

Without saying anything else--even as he felt the tentacles in his skin vanish with a soothing gust of wind, he picked up the much smaller person and pulled him up onto his back once more, then ran as fast as his legs could carry them out of the acid. He glanced back to make sure River was with them before he kept going, only stopping when they were out of the pool and back on figuratively dry land. Then he dropped to his knees and gasped. His body felt raw. Even with the tentacles gone, he was in so. Much. Pain. It was more than anything he'd ever felt before; broken noses, fractured wrists, even everything up until now didn't hurt so badly.

Ah, so this is the real danger of this game.

Aristides sat there gasping for breath, but managed a shaking laugh.

I'm having way too much fun.

"Let me breathe...and then let's kick this thing's ass. Who's with me?"

Move Action with @Hanno Futaba
No Roll