We're more than carbon and chemicals

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: Fighting Third Party
When: 26th, 27th, 28th, 1st, and 2nd
Where: The Southern Farmlands
Summary: See here for overall details.
Rating: Probably gonna be gorey in places :|a

DOESN'T NEED A CUT. People should know how this works, if not, just follow other people's lead. I'm gonna set up some strategist threads at the top, for the four strategists to use if they want to, otherwise people should start their own threads.

((Mod Note: Since this has been asked a few times, just fyi, the livestock do not talk. Happy hunting!))

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Defensive Post (Sokka) + a little bit of anywhere. Any day

[goldenglasses]

[Vash will be keeping himself busy. He’s going to try and behave himself, sticking with the defensive group and making sure the ones who can’t fight or are busy giving medical attention are well protected. Quickly taking out any Third Party member that foolishly thinks of coming nearby those he considers under his protection. His aim is cool, calm, and deadly precise. That of course would be if he was aiming for killing blows.

Instead Vash targets for the legs, arms, and ONE of their wings. He’s insanely fast. Able to shoot off four rounds if he must, but your character will only hear one or two of the shots. While medics may tend to those one their side, Vash will be taking his small med kit and doing what he can to stop the bleeding of any third party members in dire need of healing.

Yes, that may mean stopping you from your bad ass finishing move.

Of course. He can’t just leave them laying around on the battlefield. That’s just asking for more trouble. During lulls in action Vash will be taking still living Third Party Members and moving them away from the group. Hopefully the rope he’s brought with him will at least slow them down from trying to get back up.

Any time that isn’t spent fighting and taking care of Third Party Members, Vash is going to be rather restless. Even if he can’t see them he knows there are people dying out there. He should be doing something! When he’s sure that the defensive group has enough cover he may be venturing out on his own. Trying to protect any one he can or pick off any Third Party member he may find.]

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

[Bernkastel is easy taking care of any soldiers that come near her, slashing her scythe and letting her cats chew on their flesh once she's disabled them.

But, when she notices Vash going around trying to heal and rope Third Party Members she sneers and comes closer to him.]

You know, they wouldn't heal you if you needed assistance.

[goldenglasses]

I know that.

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

Then why are you bothering to help someone who wants to actively kill you?

[goldenglasses]

Because, if no one tries to stop the circle of violence, it will never end. [He's going to keep right on bandaging one up while he talks.]

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

[She won't stop Vash, but rather she will create a blue barrier around them in order to stop anyone who tries to attack them during their talks.]

One person cannot stop violence. Especially not on a battlefield.

[goldenglasses]

[Vash appreciates the barrier. Makes it a little easier to concentrate on his "victim."]

It has to start somewhere. [Quick, short answers for now. A little distracted to make speeches.]

[blackenedchaos.livejournal.com]

[At some point while Vash is tying up a Third Party member he might notices flashes of light in the air and then the body of another Third Party member comes tumbling down in front of him.

You've been trolled again, Vash.]

[goldenglasses]

[JHEirhaihreiahrea. He doesn't need this right now. Shouting as he turns because he knows who it is.] YUBER!

[blackenedchaos.livejournal.com]

[He'll see the demon nearby in his black armor. Of course, he wasn't exactly the one who killed the soldier. Nah, the demon is instead finishing one off himself and Vash can see how covered in blood his swords are now.]

[goldenglasses]

[It isn't exactly easy to piss Vash off. Throwing dead bodies at him twice is a pretty good way through.

But as Vash knows, even the best armor has weak points. With a cold calculating eye, even from a far distance, Vash should be able to spot at least one. Yuber is going to hear the sound of one gun shot, but there are now four bullets racing towards the weak points Vash could find in that armor.

Vash. Is. Pissed.]

[blackenedchaos.livejournal.com]

[And because Yuber knows very well that bullets hurt, he'll be teleporting behind Vash once he hears that sound. Of course now that Vash has attacked him, he can attack back.

But the demon has a better idea. He really doesn't want to annoy that interesting brother of Vash's by doing anything to the gunman so instead he's going to teleport Vash into a nearby field.

A field that is full of cows. Right in the middle of it so his escape will be blocked by the black and white livestock. And then he'll teleport away.]

You're welcome to say Vash's aim was just a tiny bit off and hit armor. Just, yeah, he's scary angry

[goldenglasses]

[Yuber may not want to teleport away so quickly. Because there's a damn good reason Vash didn't fire all six shots. He's delt with you enough to know you're cowardly enough to stoop so low as to try to teleport behind him. The same trick doesn't usually work more than once on Vash. More so when he is as angry as he is right now.

So as soon as you vanish in front of him he's spinning his gun around behind him and firing again. Don't doubt that he can't find those weak points in that armor again, even without looking. It will be tricky, but he'll try for it. He thinks he had the spots memorized as to where they should line in contrast to what your body build is without it.

For someone who can calculate ricochet shots in less than a second. Figuring out where you'd stand behind him and where those weak points would have moved with you is easy. That is, if he had the distance of how close behind him you'd pop up right.]

[whichwayagain.livejournal.com]

[Things start out innocently enough, or so much as they can, given that Mihai is currently trying to murder flying members of an approaching army before they can kill him or any of the people sheltered in the defensive center. But the shots he's attempting are clean, guarenteed kills. The targets should only experience a fleeting moment of pain at worst, most going down without so much as realizing that they've been hit.

Should. In actuallity, Mihai is missing his shots, frequently enough that his reputation might end up in the gutter if this were his home. As it stands, Mihai's left wondering about the cause. The riffled he's using worked fine the day before, and nothing should have happened in the brief period since. But when it keeps happening even after he switches to his familiar colts, Mihai knows that there's more to this than equipment malfunctions.

It takes several more test fires to realize just what's going on; gunfire that would easily be attributed to background noise actually sounds as more of an echo of his own, and Mihai's intended targets are being hit by a second shooter--one not going for vital points. Experience points Mihai in the right direction then, until he finds a blonde man in a red coat.]

Do you mind? I'd really rather not be wasting bullets.

[goldenglasses]

Eh? [Vash points to himself in utter confusion. And... nearly shoots himself in the foot in the process.] AHHHHHHHH! SCARY!

[whichwayagain.livejournal.com]

[...maybe it's finally happened. Maybe his age has caught up with him at last, and Mihai's losing his marbles. Or his eyesight anyway; even just eyeing the angle of the shot from a distance is normally enough for Mihai to figure out where it came from. It has to be, given how necessary the skill is for Mihai's continued survival. But this guy doesn't seem capable of making those shots--so what the hell is going on?

Well, one way to find out for sure. Mihai eyes the man, still skeptical, then takes quick aim for an approaching Third Party soldier. It's still far off enough to be of minimal risk, and Mihai fires at it's head, in what will definitely be a lethal shot--should it land.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash appears to see something in the distance and starts shouting to someone and waving his gun like a moron.] Hey you over there! Be car-[Opps? Did he just fire his gun?] WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! [As Vash falls backwards to the ground from "shock and surprise" Mihai may find that his bullet found the Third Party member's wing instead of his head.]

[whichwayagain.livejournal.com]

[Congratulations, Vash. You have officially created a more unbelievable sight for Mihai than when he watched a nicotine-deprived PI mow down a mafia family, all for the want of a cigarette. On the surface, this situation is absolutely ridiculous. The guy is screaming and flailing like he doesn't have a clue, and randomly firing his gun at that.

But Mihai is watching for that shot, and when it sounds he does indeed look in the direction where it has been aimed. Yet another miss on his part--but can it really be for the reason he's thinking?

It's an obviously stunned old man looking in Vash's direction now. Mihai's good, with skills developed over the course of a long kill-or-be-killed career as a hitman. But shooting to deflect bullets isn't even something he'd try without being fairly desperate. This guy, though? Has done it multiple times without a single miss.]

All right. Why? [Although he's got an idea, Mihai wants to hear it from this guy's mouth. Hell, he almost needs to in order to believe it.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash blinks in utter confusion before pointing at his gun.] I think this thing is broken or something! Hey, mister! Could I use yours?

[crisisrain]

[Now this is interesting, despite being Vash's drinking buddy for like a year, he's never seen or heard that Vash could use firearms. Actually, he's surprised. Shooting, but without a single kill shot.]

What kinda pacifist uses a gun?

[goldenglasses]

Hey, usually I don't even have to fire it to stop a fight! I think that's a pretty good use for a gun right? [I'm going to say that this is early enough that Vash hasn't seen TOO many people killed that he's not completely emo yet. 8Db]

[crisisrain]

Are ya whipping them with yer gun? [For some reason, that thought amuses Raven.]

But yer not killin' them, why are ya helping our enemies?

[goldenglasses]

Killing is never the answer to solve problems. I'm suppose to protect the people here and the farms. I can do that by stopping them instead of killing them.

[crisisrain]

Then let me kill 'em. If ya leave them like this, they're gonna kill us all.

[goldenglasses]

If I was to just stand by and let you kill them it wouldn't be any different than if I had killed them myself.