NIGHTMARE PLOT: BATTLE LOG

[these_balls]

Who: Nightmare Plot participants!
Where: THE BASEMENT (dun dun dunnnnn)
When: Wednesday, October 30
Summary: IT'S NOT CHERNOBOG. But you still have to fight it.
Rating: PG-13 in general; please mark threads that go higher accordingly!
Log:





YOU ARE HERE. IT LOOKS LIKE THIS. YOU'RE FIGHTING THIS. (IT'S NOT CHERNOBOG.)

ALSO, MOOD MUSIC.


KEY:

• RED areas are inaccessible regions! This time, characters have a little less discretion in what they perceive as the reason for the inaccessibility; it'll either be something like a broken or crumbling wall, a locked door, an archway overgrown with dangerous-looking vines, thick fog, or something else of that nature!

• The GREEN area is the set of stairs you used to get down here in the first place! Again, this is here so you know where your starting point is in relation to everything else.

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☆ THE NUMBER TO MEET OR BEAT IS 55 PARTICIPANTS ☆.

REMEMBER: IF YOUR CHARACTER DOES NOT POST TO THE BOSSFIGHT LOG AT LEAST ONCE
(AS A TOP-LEVEL COMMENT OR IN RESPONSE TO SOMEONE ELSE'S TOP-LEVEL COMMENT)
BEFORE 7:00 AM EST on OCTOBER 31, THEY WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD THE 55-PARTICIPANT GOAL!

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QUICK LINKS

THE BOSSFIGHT INFOPOST | QUESTIONS FOR MODS | SUPERPOWERS REQUEST THREAD | BOSSFIGHT PARTICIPATION CHECK-IN

Comments

[tearsofademon]

[On the Menoris continent, magic is powered by a mysterious energy known as "spirits". No one knows why they're called that, but they're golden fluffy things that embody the energy flow of the world, able to be nudged around and arranged to perform various phenomena by anyone who's studied enough magic to know how. (And who has meditated long enough to awaken their brain enough to be able to see them in the first place, but, well, certain natural abilities allowed Ryner to skip that step. ...And most of the learning process, for that matter.) As far as Ryner has known the past three years, however, Johto has none of these "spirits", or if it does, his ability to see them was suppressed upon entry, just like all of his other supernatural talents. Either would make sense.

How surprising it is, then, that the first thing Ryner notices when he steps into the boss chamber is "spirits" everywhere. His eyes instinctively widen to take all this in, and for a brief moment they even glow red with analysis before he reflexively closes them - no, there's no need for that right now. But then, his eyes are a surprise, too. Why is it all returning now?

The second thing he notices is the boss fight - not a pokemon he's ever seen, to be sure. Maybe that's thrown things off, or something like that. It's like something out of one of the legends of the heroes that slew the evils of the world, but not quite from anything he's read, either.]

Hey, Rose? Looks like this guy's pretty tough, so I think you can go all out on him if you want.

[A privilege he rarely gives Rose, considering his nature. But when he doesn't get any response, he turns.]

Rose?

["Clef..." Whereas Rose is usually so confident as to potentially threaten her safety sometimes, here she is quivering behind Jehra, seemingly torn in half between wanting to impress her dear partner and sheer terror at the foe in front of her, a foe more terrifying than anything she's ever encountered before.

The other two aren't faring so well either - Glen has curled himself up into a tiny ball in Jehra's mane and is clinging tightly, while Jehra is growling wide-eyed at the enemy, his legs paralyzed with fear. And, well, based on personality, those two are more understandable. Glen tends to curl up as a comfort reflex, while Jehra is a bit of a worry wort sometimes. But Rose...

After a moment, Ryner closes his eyes.]

...I see. In that case...

[You can’t grasp anything with those blood-stained monster’s hands of yours. You can’t reach anywhere.

Lucile's words still haunt him, even after all this time. And he can't deny them, either. Every time something good starts to look like it's going to stick around, it gets ripped away in a horrible manner. Everything will disappear someday. It's enough to make a guy not want to even bother anymore, if it's just going to end in heartache.

...But that's not the right way of thinking. Despite everything, Sion had reached out to him. Kiefer had said he wasn't a monster. Ferris treated him no differently even after he'd tried to kill her, and kept insisting that he was her friend. Rose was adamant that his eyes were an unworthy fake and thought highly of him despite everything.

And Toni, and Tahile, and Fahle, and Biore, and Milk, and Arua, and Toale, and Tiir, and Jehra, and Glen, and Elfy, and Gail, and Fuji, and Hughes, and Chi, and Marian, and everyone...

Even if it inevitably ends in heartache, it's worth it to have the positive experience in the first place. Because happiness might come with sadness, but a void of nothingness is nothing, and that's even worse.]

...I guess it's my turn to protect you guys. Watch carefully, okay?

[His eyes fly open, and his hands move in a flawless pattern, well-practiced and well-worn but still as solid as ever. Something inside Ryner feels almost a sense of euphoria as the magic sings through his fingertips, and the array is formed in nearly the blink of an eye. Formulated for power, because this foe looks like it can take it, and he has a point to make.]

What I seek is thunder--IZUCHI!!