Draft Log #3: During v. 2.0

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone on the draft
What: Day 3-5
When: August 27th-August 29th
Where: ONCE MORE INTO THE-- ...BEACH
Summary: Like it says above. The draftees reach the beach.
Rating: V FOR VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR!!


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[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain unleashes all his strength in battle, blasting with wind, jumping, stabbing, and overall savagely mauling the enemies. He doesn't hold back anything... he's used to how these drafts often go so he may as well give it his all while he still can. His focus is kept upon the sky, and should he see any Third Party members come flying in to target anyone- maybe your character?- he'll leap up to take them on. Double Jump gives him a great advantage there. The Shift Affliction is still a nuisance but he bears it, pushing himself to fight even with more and more random wounds appearing. By the end of the last day he'll look really beaten up- but he fights on anyway.]

[In the back of his mind, there IS a thought that something is missing, but he just can't yet place what's different about this draft. It's not anything that's bothering him much right now though. Something else certainly is different after all, but it's not anything he can allow to distract him now.]

[...and by now, Kain is used to more of these drafts going badly than not. So at one point during down time, he sneaks off alone somewhere, hastily writing up some notes for people, intended for... whenever he's going to die. Because he's convinced it's only a matter of time.]

Day 4!

[talontrot]

[You like dragons, right Kain? Do you like rescuing dragons?

What about cartoon dragons?

Because right now there is a green cartoon dragon wearing oversized white shoes that play music... sprinting almost obscenely fast across the sand.

Right behind her are a group of Third Party members, whose collective attentions have certainly been gotten. Want to lend a hand?]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Dragons are the greatest thing ever so of course Kain won't hesitate to help. Even if this is the first musical one he's ever come across. A dragon is still a dragon.]

[Seeing that it's a group of Third Party, Kain starts out using the Filial Wind, unleashing a steady blast toward as many as he can reach. Then he takes to the air, choosing his impending target carefully.]

[talontrot]

[The Filial Wind rips across the targets, scattering a few off the general pack of Third Party goons. One of them raises a rusted blade, hurling it at Kazooie's back - it strikes across her, scattering off her scales, and she lets out a decidedly un-draconic squawk of pain.

It doesn't draw visible blood, though - it just distorts her where it hit, though she seems obviously wounded.

However, Kain might be distracted in mid-jump by Kazooie suddenly half-crouching, raising her tail, making a rather comical noise - and then suddenly, launching a Grenade Egg from her rear. Don't ask how that works.

The surprised Third Party member is subsequently engulfed in the point-blank explosion that quite literally blows off his legs, and most of his torso, where it hit.]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain definitely has to wonder what kind of dragon this is, it's not like most species he knows of, launching its own eggs with such power. But the time to consider that is later. For now, he must focus on the battle. He turns to deal with other Third Party members, thrusting and stabbing at them, cutting down the enemies with ease.]

[talontrot]

[Kazooie whips her neck around mid-run, spewing a Fire Egg behind her to smack into one of the trailing grunts. The Third Party goon instantly goes up in quite-literal flames.

Kazooie ignores the screaming and the foreign smell of burning organics, and instead goes to batter another with outstretched wings, a whirling draconic tornado of blows as she tries to push out of the way.]

C'mon! Lay off already, you bozos!

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain takes on the ones immediately nearest him on the ground, getting a couple more of them down and taking the opportunity to jump after that. He leaps up into the air, heading rapidly skyward. Then he descends with some more fierce wind as he goes, coming in to stab down another target.]

[talontrot]

[All that wind is enough to knock several of the Third Party members aside, scattering them even as their attacks glance off of Kazooie's scales. She tries to pull in her feathery, incongruous Filial wings so they aren't as blatant of a target.

With a final loud "pah!", she spews a Grenade Egg in the face of the last standing Third Party member that's within her reach. It might be a bit overkill... especially because the Grenade does less than pleasant things to the Third Partian's face.

Kazooie shakes herself, trying to get rid of the viscera clinging to her scales.]

Gross...

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain finishes off the last one he's dealing with, tugging his lance free of that fallen enemy. Then he turns in time to see that... explosion. He looks approving of this method, though, seeing how utterly it obliterated that enemy. They deserve it, he figures.]

[talontrot]

[Kazooie turns her attention to Kain now that things have quieted down.]

These guys do really weird things when you hit 'em with Grenade Eggs.

[Because screaming, exploding, and in general actually behaving like real things rather than breaking into hilarious, bloodless bouncing chunks? That's strange.]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

['Weird things?' That earns a confused look from Kain. He pulls out something with which to write a question.]

Were they meant to do something other than explode?

[talontrot]

No, that part's normal. But they aren't supposed to bleed and stuff! This game's E-rated!

[... Isn't it? That's a sobering thought. NINTENDO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

... Never mind that she's in a war and that isn't exactly a children's topic either...]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[More confused staring. You are very strange, raining destruction one minute, going on about games the next. He'll write another statement out. Because he is Mr. Serious when it comes to this kind of thing.]

This war is no game.

[talontrot]

[... Yep, Kazooie's a weirdo that way.]

I don't mean just this war, purple jumpin' guy. I mean the whole game. Luceti and stuff.

[She shrugs her wings, a smooth motion.] Though you wouldn't be the first guy who didn't know what I'm talking about.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Aaaand here comes another utterly confused expression. Kain takes a wary glance around, but things seem clear enough so, he'll keep asking...]

Then what are you talking about? How can you see our prison as a game?

[talontrot]

'Cause I come from a game. I'm a character. [She says this rather matter-of-factly, with a touch of the same condescension one might use for somebody who's stupid.] One of the heroes, actually!

[Her tone sobers slightly as she looks around the battlefield, at the corpses at their feet.] Though I've never done anything quite like this.

It's less gross, for one.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain stares back incredulously. A game? But someone from a game of some kind couldn't possibly exist, could they? Oh irony.]

You may have come from a game, but this entire world in contrast, is no game. This is reality.

[Though to be fair, he knows that many people aren't used to or ready for the realities of war out here.]

I doubt anyone is ever prepared for what to expect.

[talontrot]

... Reality? [Kazooie has never known life outside a game. To her, Luceti is a game too - just another kind of game, a new game that isn't a sequel.] What the heck do you mean by that?

Do you mean all this... mess and stuff? Is that "reality"? If it is, it's pretty gross...

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain nods, sternly.]

Reality can be cruel and harsh... that's just how it is, we have to accept it. I suppose you could call it 'messy' at times.

[What kind of world ISN'T like this? It's odd to think of, to him.]

Day 3

[sapphire-sniper.livejournal.com]

[...Well, Michael was expecting to see some strange sights up in the skies out here, but some guy bouncing around and tearing into hostiles with a spear? Hope you don't mind if the blue fighter jet follows you back down to to the ground, resolving into a 30ft humanoid robot along the way.]

Interesting fighting style you've got there! [And the giant robot makes a very animated salute.]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Kain yanks his lance free of an enemy, blood splattering all around and then straightens, glancing over at the giant robot. That had come out of the sky beside him- it had shifted form? Now that's undoubtedly something the Lunarians may have created, or wished they'd created. It reminds him of the Giant of Babil anyway. Hopefully with less 'destroy all the people' and more 'destroy only Third Party.']

[He returns the salute, the same can be said of you and your mechanism.]

[sapphire-sniper.livejournal.com]

[Oh, don't worry. This "giant" only has it's sights set on the Third Party. Shame they aren't worrying though- it might have made the later half of this field trip a whole lot easier.]

If you're good with high altitudes, I saw an incoming flight of hostiles that might be a bit more than I can chew through on my own.

[Deadliest mid-air juggling act ever, anyone?]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[A good plan. That's definitely something Kain can handle, an airborne battle. He nods firmly, he's all for joining him in this. Just point him in the right direction and he'll get airborne.]

[sapphire-sniper.livejournal.com]

[The machine transforms, it's body going from humanoid to the flat, angular sleekness of a fighter jet, save that it remains standing on two legs, with it's arms hanging from the undercarriage. While one hand holds the rifle, the other reaches down to the ground besides Kain, palm upwards.]

Hop on, and let's get this show on the road.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Now this is a battle strategy Kain can really get behind. He's not typically all that trusting of many of the odd technologies, given what similar was intended to do to the world back home, but... He'll use every measure against the Third Party that he can.]

[So up he leaps, balancing with ease on that giant hand. He nods to indicate that he's ready.]