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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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Yeah. Just not the same kind. [But there's no time to draw those distinctions, as his eyes catch something above them. It could be a bird... but how many of those have they seen around here. He motions Katara into silence and points above them.]

[She sees it. And turns to the side, giving Sokka her back because if there's one thing she's noticed...] There.

[It's that they don't travel alone.]

Edited 2010-07-31 04:34 (UTC)

I see him. [And he can see that there teammates are a little further ahead. He quietly pulls out Boomerang, before glancing over his shoulder.] Want to call in backup?

[She pauses, scanning the sky for any further sign of them. Just the two.] I think we've got this.

[A nod. In that case, time to get their attention. He tosses his boomerang out into the treetops. There's too much cover above them to even hit one of the TP's, but it's enough to snap a few branches before flying back to his hand. It definitely gets their attention as two of them descend, one male and one female.

In the meantime though, there's plenty of time for the two of them to take cover behind the trees. No sense losing the element of surprise, after all.]

[Katara peers out from behind the shelter of the tree, looking for a clear shot. It's fortunate that their wings are so large. Her hand goes to her waterskin and she quickly glances at Sokka before she moves to take her shot.

Unfortunately, the female TP cried out a warning. Katara's water made contact, the male had turned at the last instant - she'd only frozen one of his wings. He screamed anyway, pure bloody fury, and Katara got ready to send out her second shot.]

[A slight misfire, it just meant thing would be slightly more difficult. His boomerang was still ready for another go around, this time aiming for the male's frozen wing. Now frozen, the wing shattered as the boomerang passed through it, clipping the second wing in the process.

The impressive thing about these guys was their tolerance for pain. Any one in Luceti would be on their knees in agony at having lost a wing. This one... he was just pissed and had already reclaimed his weapons and was making for Sokka's direction, as was his female companion.]

[The Third Party members just made two mistakes. One - they should have spread out and two - they were heading for Sokka. Katara's eyes narrow and she steps away from the cover just long enough to perform a quick move. A large tree behind the TP members cracks and water rushes out towards them in a wide jet.

Why waste time with a frontal attack when she's surrounded by the ability to get them from any side? Their wings are her target and the one who's already wounded doesn't have the time to escape - his remaining wing is drenched and in short order, frozen. That doesn't stop him from reaching into the pouch at his side, drawing out a fist full of senbon.

But even though Katara'd connected, and frozen parts of the female's wings, they weren't completely iced. She drops to her feet, unleashing a feral cry, and starts running towards Katara, weapon in hand.]

[For the moment, Sokka had no time to catch his boomerang, allowing it to simply plant itself in a tree trunk on its return journey. In the meantime, his sword was drawn and he was going after the male. In the dark cover of the forest canopy, it was difficult for Sokka to even tell if any weapon had even been drawn. Nor did he feel anything when needles went flying towards him. His sword blocked most of what had been heading towards him, but they were too small and fast for him to properly deflect all of them.

The male brings up a sword to block the next blow, but it's clear he's too weak to make a proper defense. He fends off two more blows before Sokka's foot gets him in the side, forcing him to the ground. It makes shattering the wings with his blade all that easier. With that one down, he goes after the female. Unfortunately she's fast, too fast for Sokka to overtake.]

[Katara has no intention of allowing that curved sword anywhere near her. A hard water jet to the chest knocks the Third Partier back, though she regains her feet underneath her quickly enough.

Too quickly, maybe, because it's just in time for three foot long ice spikes to head towards her torso. The Third Party member manages to bat one away, but her balance is still compromised from Katara's first push back. The other two drive into her - one in her stomach and one high in her chest - and she's knocked down but still twitching, still spewing violence and hatred and still trying to stand up again, her hand still grabbing on to her weapon.

Katara has a moment to feel sick before she sets her face to approach and finish the fallen enemy off.]

[With the other one down, Sokka comes to a stop.He crosses his arms and brushes himself off. His finger runs over one of those needles, which had lodged itself in his armor, just below his exposed neck. He holds it out and frowns at it before dropping it to the ground.]

Needless... that's a new one for them.

[The Third Party member is still flopping uselessly, like a fish, and hasn't let go the grip on her sword. This is the part Katara hates the most, when they're wounded and she just has to finish them off.

The woman's spewing out hatred and Katara's eyes narrow when Sokka pulls off a needle that's so close to his neck. It gives her enough resolve to keep herself hard and she makes the kill clean - a third ice spike through the heart - and tries not to think about it.

She turns to Sokka instead.]

Are you all right?

[He goes over himself again, making sure none of those needles are still hanging off him. Looks like he's in the clear. He glances up at her, then nods.]

I'm good. What about you?

Edited 2010-08-04 19:47 (UTC)