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[unfolding the small jade cylinder into his polearm and stepping forward. trying to fight the Rider is almost certainly going to get him killed but if the rest of them are going to run...well.

someone needs to keep him busy.]

The Rider is now puppy-sized.

This doesn't really seem to actually stop them, though. They don't have any scars either, so that has no effect.

(For C, The Rider does not seem to have a soul. In fact, looking at them via the glasses just fills you with a sense of dread and the feeling of being ground into bonemeal between infinitely churning machinery.)

The Rider charges at Xiao, seeking to impale him straight through the gut.

Which is much less effective than it would be since they're puppy-sized now, but hey whatever.

Though it seems they've accepted the challenge of a 1v1, a brilliant focused beam of rainbow light blasts down from the sky, illuminating Nova.

Or rather, it illuminates the orb.

Edited 2021-08-21 23:30 (UTC)

[ ... makes the rider smaller. like 'ship in a bottle' small.

makes the rider's sword bigger. like 'the hilt is a foot thick' big. ]

[ Well that's no fun. She's still giggling though when she moves over to Ren. ]

Ren-! Ehee- Just hand over the orb!

[ She doesn't know WHAT that rainbow light is supposed to mean, but she doesn't want her to get hurt. ]

I want to see if I can hurt him with it, maybe?

[Please hold there is a lot of light happening right now.]

Ren-!

[ Don't risk giving him the orb..!! ]

[Ah, she's being scolded.]

Fine- let's hurry and do it your way.

[Holding out the Orb in her hands for her mother to take.]

Do we have something to cut your hands with?

[ Reaching out to try and take the orb from her, then! ]

I don't... but one of the others must. Ask Tea-san or the pretty guy with the wings!

[welp DON'T LIKE THAT. glasses off]

[yells from behind statue]

FYI FOR ANYONE WITH ANY LIKE, MORAL QUALMS that thing literally has no soul so crush it please and thank you!

How do you even know that?!

AlcheMe trade secret for later discussion!

[tries to dodge out of the way of that charge - puppy-sized or not, he would rather avoid getting stabbed - and counter-attacks himself, fast, graceful, and acrobatic.

and gives not a single fuck that he's out here doing flips in a skirt.]

[Also ducking for cover now that healer duty has been performed, thanks!]

[Whoa. Uh. Can she maybe hurt him with the orb? Or no? Still, she's going to try and use Bzzt on the rider. She has no idea what to do or what the orb is going to do to her, but maybe she can point it at him? Maybe the light works with the orb?]

Edited 2021-08-21 23:36 (UTC)

[staying behind his statue thanks]

[ Embiggens The Laser Mäster's Laser Taser so it's like, spear-sized, and jabs it WITH GREAT PREJUDICE at The Rider ]

[one last glasses thing LOOKS AT ORB THAT REN IS STUCK TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT AINT SOME SOUL BULLSHIT]

The Rider, thanks to W and Tea's efforts, is unable to hold the legendary blade MASAMUNE, and is additionally megaparalyzed by Tea's Laser Mastery and swatted by Xiao's flips and shit -

But this isn't over. The Rider begins to transform! They...

...take off their shirt and change into a poorly rendered 3D model, I guess. To be fair, you can really only expect so much from ancient hell-tech and it probably looked really advanced for its time or something.

Also, while they grow twice as large, that still isn't very big.

(For C, the orb appears to be a void of some sort.)

Edited 2021-08-21 23:44 (UTC)

The Rider casts FINAL LIGHT SHOW. The focused beam of light fully consumes Nova, and -

All Idols with an orb attached to them (Nova, and everyone who touched it) is inflicted with SIX of the following ailments. Every other member of the party is inflicted with THREE:

- Severe full torso burns
- Severe limb burns
- Severe facial burns
- Existential Dread
- Crushing loneliness and a gnawing, and physically painful emptiness inside
- (CW: Scorpions) Covered with scorpions
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Mute
- Corruption of the player's choice
- 9999 Damage(?)

And then they vibrate and begin to slowly glow red and translucent before exploding in what may be the most beautiful and joyous light show to have ever existed in any world, besides the killer one that may have literally just killed you. The whole party is inflicted with the status effect "HEART-WARMING", which makes their heart feel warm.

You know, for what that's worth.

Anywaaaay...The Hound is still here (somehow completely unaffected by any of this?), sleeping peacefully, so it looks like you're...um, done?

Huh.

Edited 2021-08-21 23:55 (UTC)

[-Existential Dread. Haha jokes on you he's had this day one
-Crushing loneliness?? THAT'S A MONDAY

throws himself into the pool because imaginary covered in scorpions]

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