We Can See You Hate The Way We Intermingle

[these_balls]

Who: Participants of the Freaky Fusions Boss Battle!
Where: Birth Island, in the Sevii Islands!
When: Thursday, October 29th through Friday, October 30.
Summary: You blinked, and now you've been glitched. And that sure is a spooky-looking Fusion Legendary, all right...
Rating: PG-13; please remember to mark threads accordingly if they go higher!
Log:


Well, draw some intersecting lines and call me a Triforce, this sure is an island, all right.

KEY:

• The GLOWING X at the upper portion of the island is where you will find Mewssingno! It won't be moving around much, so it will always be in the relative top section of the island, furthest from the safe haven for participants in the south. Exercise caution getting close to it, because...

• The PURPLE area surrounding Mewssingno is all area that will be affected by glitches! Inside that area, strange environmental things are likely to occur, such as attacks being deflected, neutralized, or outright disappearing and reappearing somewhere else, as if passing through a very small wormhole in space! You may play around with these effects as much as you like, but they should be contained to this particular area, and remember to ask permission from other players before randomly diverting a Hyper Beam through a wormhole directly at them in tags.

• STANDARD GRASSY areas in the lower part of the map are places in which characters are guaranteed to be safe from Mewssingno's glitches; however, these areas will be overrun by Fusion Abominations, so if you're just here for the garden-variety fighting of SquirtWeedMagneZards, this is probably where you'll be spending a lot of your time!

• The BLUE STAR in the south indicates a guaranteed safe zone from both Mewssingno and the Fusion Abominations. This is the station where a ferry to the island would dock, so you can find places to sit and a general atmosphere of relative quiet in here, making it a good place to store your wounded or to hide out. Characters may notice ICly that the Fusion Abominations and Mewssingno are avoiding this zone, or at least leaving it alone!

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Comments

[solas_ion]

[Assistance does thankfully come--in the form of a Mightyena in a Hawaiian shirt and black pants. Not exactly ideal, but Lancer seemed to have taken to a quadrupedal stance a little too naturally.]

Yo.

[Beside him, a shining yellow Altaria opened its mouth to sing--only to produce a Kricketune's unholy DELELELEWOOOOOOOOOP.]

...I'm startin' to think this ain't quite right.

[NAAAAAH.]

[paladinlost]

[At this point, the Hawaiian shirt would be a welcome sight even if it was wrapped around a Garbordor. Cecil starts extracting himself with some difficulty.]

Only starting? I've had that feeling for days. Every year, in October, I tell myself that this is the strangest this world can get, but this time that belief might truly be right.

[His Butterfree laughs at that, even as she tries to fight against the effects of her own attack.]

[solas_ion]

Beats the hell out of things getting boring.

[His oversized black tail wagged excitedly, Lancer grinning with fangs that were just a little bit enormous.]

Don't you know a little chaos is good for you once in a while?

[paladinlost]

There's nothing 'little' about Chaos, believe me.

[Lancer's chaos is uncapitalized, he knows, but that bears mentioning.]

Surely this battle would stave off boredom just as efficiently if we were not being hit by our own attacks. My team has not yet managed to hit this creature, and we've been trying for some time.

[solas_ion]

C'mon, I bet you just need to try a little harder. Really concentrate and--

[Lancer took a swipe at a passing Bellicate with his claws...only for his hand to swing around and punch himself in the face.]

--shit, what was that?!

[paladinlost]

That creature's power, punishing us for our hubris.

[He ducks to avoid a Magical Leaf, while Rosie shouts an apology.]

That, or a distortion in space and time that redirects our attacks at random. I'm still undecided.

[solas_ion]

It's bullshit, is what it is!

[lancer, that poor abomination did nothing to you. Meanwhile, poor confused Avalon is making increasingly peculiar Pokemon sounds instead of any actual singing.]

[paladinlost]

I thought that part was obvious enough to mention.

[Flare tries to lick Avalon in sympathy, because those noises are obviously distressing to produce, but the Thunderbolt he suddenly has to dodge puts an end to that.]

[solas_ion]

So how the hell're we supposed to fight like this?

[Avalon took off herself, pulling back to perch on her feral-looking trainer's shoulder.]

[paladinlost]

There must be a way to counter this protection, or a weak point in its coverage. We've merely not found it yet.

[Cecil's attempt to sound certain of his words is... not quite as successful as it could be.]

[solas_ion]

If I had Gae Bolg, it'd be easy to get past something like this. [He frowned, voice colored by a disappointed growl.] Guess we'll be stuck doing it the hard way and actually thinking rather than just brute forcing shit.

[paladinlost]

That'd be much easier with a Libra spell. Let's see... My team covers all types with their attacks. Perhaps one would have a higher success rate than average?

[Rosie's follow up Rock Smash does not show an improved aim compared to her previous attacks, but that's only one out of many.]

[solas_ion]

Yeah--hang on, let's try something else. [Calling over his shoulder:] Amhrasach!

[A Goodra came plap-plap-plapping along eagerly, directing an Aqua Tail at the Bellicate that was still just minding its own goshdang business...]

[...and slapping Lancer right in the face, leading her now very waterlogged Trainer to come up with some vivid cursing in an archaic dialect.]

[paladinlost]

[Cecil's Banette starts laughing, either because of the waterlogging or the cursing, but the rest of his team look suitably disappointed by Amhrasach's lack of success. Their trainer sighs, but does not look particularly surprised.]

...I would suggest using protective moves before attempting any other attack, but with our luck they'd affect those creatures instead.

[solas_ion]

I think Avalon knows Protect, but--

[The Altaria shook her head rapidly, yellow feathers waving. Nope. Nuh-uh. Not doing it.]

...yeah, she's thinkin' the same as you. Wouldn't work for shit.

[paladinlost]

If only we knew how far attacks can be redirected... Rosie is immune to moves such as Toxic and Hail. She could approach that creature and serve as a magnet for any attack that misses, leaving everyone else free to use them from a distance.

[Rosie nods. Works for her!]