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Who: All Draftees
What: Killing Third Party members and taking names
When: 7/26 - 7/31
Where: Sirry Crags
Summary: Mass-interaction for those out on the battlefield. Feel free to make team threads along with individual ones or however you wish. Action tags are fine here along with prose. For those plotting mischief, this is the place to do it.
Rating: R for the likely violence since killing will most definitely happen, but this is more for interactions during the battles.

[And early on the 26th everyone gets sent out. Thanks to Caesar's organization, most everyone has been placed in groups, even if some people plan on leaving their groups at some point. Check out this post for the details. If you haven't posted to this post and want your character on a team, please do so.]

Special note: Ignore the comments that said there would be 400, that has been retconned and we were told 1200 Third Party members from the start. Enjoy killing them off and taking names.

Special note 2: I asked Akai if any of the Third Party will be coming and dealing with their incapacitated allies, and they will. So assume that unless something is done to prevent this, those injured Third Party members may come back later healed and ready to attack again (though possibly not as effectively).

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[Ah yes, Flare looking fire based, but is non-elemental, still, Yuber will very much be avoiding anything with fire now because he only has so many rune scrolls available until he goes back to the dorms and using them also takes time away from attempting to kill. His armor will only help so much against fire, so avoidance is best when possible.

Once the abomination shows up, Yuber will be teleporting behind it. Put simply, his plan is to use the creature as a meat shield, because it really is pure brute force. The creature isn't the smartest, but it makes up for that in strength and ability to withstand a great deal of damage before it goes down.

So Yuber will avoid the main amount of the magic and the abomination will be hit full on with it while it attempts to attack Golbez by smashing its body into him (and twice at that, the creature is somewhat speedy and in game gets two attacks a turn). In trying to avoid that though, Yuber is going to be unable to attack for now, but that is not a big deal, he'd much rather let one of his servants do the work for now.]

[The more abilities Yuber demonstrates, the more Golbez wants this battle to end quickly. Evading the spell and causing it to strike the clearly sturdy monster instead tempts him to charge up a harder to dodge group spell instead, but there's no time, as the beast is upon him.

Golbez lifts his arms into a guarding position for each of the creature's blows, weathering the impact admirably but feeling definite crushing power even through his armor. This thing needs to fall, and it needs to fall now.]

Come forth, creature of shadow!

[He'd been holding this ability back, but if ever there was a time for his summon it's now. A large black serpent materializes around Golbez, curling about it's master protectively as the two begin to levitate. Its mouth opens.]

Binding Cold!

[The creature's breath is not flame, as one might expect of a dragon, but instead a chill so deep it freezes one's ability to act, resulting in full-body paralysis to all enemies on the field.]

[OOC: The Binding Cold ability was never fully explained in the main game, but if Dissidia is to be believed it's the Shadow Dragon's breath attack, which explains why it's used as soon as the creature is summoned. Depending on how paralysis works in Suikoden, this may be the end of the fight, with Golbez taking advantage of Yuber's immobility to grab Kain and escape. Your call.]

[ooc: Status effects in Suikoden are similar to FF, not likely to affect powerful creatures except in rare cases, but for the sake of story and to make things work out as planned, I'll let it work for long enough to do what Golbez needs to do: get Kain out of there.]

[So another summoner, not that that was surprising, it seemed to be a common enough ability from what he could see over the journals. Yuber tried to get away from the breath attack, but it covered enough area that he wasn't able to get away in time.

Both he and the abomination were unable to move for the time being, and that just had the demon enraged because such things usually didn't work on him. He's cursing the Malnosso greatly now for messing around with his body and his abilities and sending him off like this. And if this caused serious injury or death, he was going to be even more upset about this.

He knew he should have just gone and killed the dragoon while he had a chance rather than dealing with the immediate threat.]

[As Yuber and the abomination are frozen in place, Golbez glares down at them for just a brief moment.

But instead of attacking, he lunges over to Kain, lifting the dragoon up and tucking him under his arm, then begins to fall back, muttering a last Blizzara to cover the ground in between him and Yuber's group, hoping the slippery surface will help hold any pursuit off once they shake off the paralysis. The shadow dragon fades away as he withdraws.]

[Kain has become increasingly out of it. But though he's barely there, he's aware enough to know that Golbez has him and is taking him somewhere... Which is exactly what he DOESN'T want to happen. It makes him despise Golbez more than usual. Too bad he's too hurt to move and can't speak a word in protest.]

[Yeah, guess who doesn't care that you're pissed at him, Kain.

At any rate, they seem to have escaped by now, so Golbez slows just a little to a more maintainable pace, intending to return the group quickly and get Estelle to heal him.]

[And that anger is just going to deepen over the week, since it's the one time he's hoping not to be saved. He deserves that fate more than Cecil. Looks like any progress toward tolerating Golbez will be shattered for a while.]

[Kain moves further and further into his own silent little hell, as they move on. Hard to say if the physical or mental pain is worse right now. Not to mention the humiliation of having Golbez carrying him off the battlefield. But fortunately enough for him, Kain passes out, unconscious for the rest of their return.]