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Post by 0 on Aug 30, 2017 1:22:51 GMT
Although it might well seem that invisible man should be there holding the hatchet, there was no such thing. The force wielding the weapon was as natural as a gust of wind, and more than thrice as intangible. When the newest woman took a swing at where an arm or a hand should have been, her blade would only hit air and nothing more.
The restraints were severed. The seal was struck.
Heat and light burst out from the impact, and a distant whoop of elation was drowned by the explosion's noise. BOOM! SMASH!
The destruction was small, the radius not at all very impressive, but it was easy to get caught up in the excitement nonetheless. Just for the fun of it, the number smashed a hole in one of the walls, caving in the room's lonely metal door, and flinging it out into the hallway beyond.
YEAH BREAK SOME SHIT
Energy boiling, the number surged a gravitational force into the floor, which would begin to pucker and bulge, the white surface cracking and rising as though a ship's plate metal filling with water, ready to burst. And, within a few moments, burst it would, with all the marble tiles tossed up into the air, some shooting with such force that they could have been like bullets, piercing the walls, bouncing off the ceiling, and even thrown out through the newly opened doorway.
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Post by heyyew on Aug 30, 2017 2:02:44 GMT
Himari’s blade swung uselessly through the air, making contact with absolutely nothing. She growled, beginning to reach up to her forehead to pull down the specially made goggles to allow her to perceive such invisible things. There were at least 151 filters to the damn thing- and putting them all on at once could be a bit confusing. But she would have to if she had a chance to see what was actually in this room. Of course that was when she realized she’d left the damn things at her desk. All she’d grabbed was this sword. Which would be not nearly enough for the explosion that would be to come since her gambit to stop the hatchet from freeing the child had failed.
All Himari had time to do was shift her weight to jump out of the room before the flash went off. Her armor surged forward in an attempt to protect her, and managed to shield her from at least lethal damage. Himari clenched her eyes shut as she tried to leap out of the room.
She had managed to get out of the room successfully- but even with the powerful might of her armor she was still hardly in a condition to run the hell away. If she got out of this alive workman’s comp was going to have to pay out big time. A big if. She had only a month left and she was going to go out like this? Eaten by some monstrosity? By the godless sky above she dearly hoped not. There was so much she still wanted to do. Himari just hoped that the newbie was okay. They could all use a drink if they managed to survive this. Himari managed to pull herself up so that she was at least leaning against the wall, clutching her katana like a cross against her chest.
Reinforcements were coming. Maybe there was some measure of hope.
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Post by Loner。 on Aug 30, 2017 21:23:20 GMT
The humanoid singularity stepped back slightly as the number began to destroy the room, throwing up tile and revealing a myriad of electronic parts underneath wires and circuitry snapped and broke limiting the AI's ability to throw up further anti-magic contraptions and destroying many of the ones which had already been put up.
Sem's smile grew more broad. He liked where this was going.
Pushing aside the memory of the pain he had been stuck with upon waking up here, pain which had been residual from the number messing with his physiology, Sem found himself hungry. Not just for food either. He had something more interesting in mind.
The living singularity leapt forward covering the distance between the place he was standing and the hall in an instant. In that instant he was amorphous, some cloud like fusion between his humanoid and beast forms. It felt different than his normal transitions, somehow, but he didn't have time to consider how. He was more focused on moving forward.
He forced his way into the hall ricocheting off the walls, avoiding the katana wielding enforcer on the way by sheer luck. She certainly was lucky too, for as soon as sem ran into an enforcer who was trying to be back up, it was over. An anti-magic rod of about 8 inches long skid across the floor, a blue-white blade of extendable length crackling from one end. It was all that remained of the man.
And the monster was already plowing forward once more.
A sleek forcefield slipped across the walls on all sides, compensating for the damage the walls had already taken. The energy fields would help reenforce the structure, helping to prevent more debris from falling or being pulled up, and resisting the gravitational changes which Sem and 0 were capable of causing.
Sem slammed into a barrier of this stuff, instantly forced into a concrete form, as he was stopped at the shoulders. The AI had been at work, calculating a combination of traits for the barriers that should let humans out but would keep the inhuman forces it had detected from going any further than this.
If nothing else it was effective against his beads. That they could go no further. From his neck had been the force to ultimately stop him in his tracks. They crackled and hissed with magical energy as they were effected by the forcefield's anti-magic properties. It messed with him, threatening his ability to stay lucid in this form. As Sem pulled his head back a little, the building creaked as he moved, his dense body vying for the space currently held by walls and ceiling. The forcefield couldn't exactly keep sem's body from going through so the walls cracked and buckled, portions stretching apart to reveal light from the level above this one. The portions of the ceiling only remained airborne because of the barrier keeping them that way, while parts of the wall caved entirely revealing rooms beyond.
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Post by Ecclesia on Sept 2, 2017 3:42:08 GMT
Chaos continued to break loose- the floor erupted, the door was broken, the invisible soulless entity was causing just as much destruction to the room as Sem had to the city. The monster was now loose again, and charged out of the room, in a semi-beast form.
Now was perhaps a time to escape, but with more Enforcers on the way, how was she going to get out? She dared to use her super senses to see Sem run into an anti-magic barrier, with the seal on him being the main thing to keep him stopped from continuing on. Still, his sheer size and density was destroying that region of the facility.
In spirit form, she could not be seen by eyes of mortals, unless they had the power of soul-sight, or at least technology that enabled such. The latter would not surprise Alice, though in this crisis, more attention was on the dangerous rampaging monster rather than herself. Hopefully, nobody would see her, and she would be assumed to be a human consumed entirely in the blast of energy, without a trace of her left.
Still, that left the number in the room, which Alice could not yet solidly identify. Activating her telepathy again, despite the possibility that it would be useless on the being, the Daemon attempted to communicate with the invisible one. “So, what exactly are you?” she questioned in her mind, hoping he could hear, and perhaps satiate her curiosity. “You seem keen on destruction, for one thing. Perhaps bored, or have you a reason for what you’ve done?”
Her mind’s tone was even and matter of fact, with the tinge of her innate curiosity she could never deny. If she left the room now, she risked running into Enforcers who could possibly see her. If she stayed, maybe she could be overlooked until the attention of the humans was truly elsewhere, and at the same time, learn something new from the soulless one.
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Post by 0 on Sept 2, 2017 4:07:17 GMT
While watching the tiles rain down, the number noticed the strange electronics underneath; it gave a dainty pluck to one and watched it spark, listening to binaries buzz in its brain, before realizing that the reason it had come here in the first place was on the move.
The human turned gaseous and the number was quick to permeate its focus through the area beyond the room, following ahead of the fluid entity while watching as he bounced from wall-to-wall like a pinball. His lightning flits brought him around one human and straight through another, the latter disappearing so fast that the number had to veritably hold its breath to see just what had happened.
As its last traces left that room behind, a voice echoed in the back of its mind. Distracted, the number simply replied aloud, "Eh, another one? Get outta here, fool!" projecting its mangled voice to where it had detected the other one might be coming from.
Within a split second it forgot about the foreign voice, the number growing gleeful at the prospects unfolding before it, its memories instantly swirling around the destruction he'd sowed in that monstrous shape...that also brought it flashing back what he had wrought upon its own creation, but it hastily shoved away that memory, not wanting to give up the excitement now coursing through the corridor. The future was built upon the past, but the present was made for right now!
All at once, however, the ghastly beastman came to a sudden halt, his head snapping back while his body was flung forward, all with those stupid beads crackling around his neck for who-knows-what reason. Had it not affected them at all? Were there even any missing?
The number pulsed, passively adding to the gravitational force that the stranger himself was exuding, hazily noting the sound of footsteps rushing down from further down the hall. The ceiling, floors, and walls were buckling and cracking, but something seemed to be holding them together, keeping them from falling. This would not do!
A small black sphere formed just below the singularity's face, at first pulling the walls back in towards it, which creaked and groaned with the extra tension. A second later the sphere turned white as it exploded with a vertical burst of energy, an attempt by the number to blow away the structures that seemed bent on not being ripped apart, and force the singularity into being shoved elsewhere, instead of stuck in one place -- because where in the world was the fun in that? Perhaps it would even disrupt whatever was causing those damnable beads to act up.
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Post by Loner。 on Sept 2, 2017 14:12:51 GMT
As the Number's gravity ball exploded, the monster reared backwards, running into, then breaking through what wasn't pushed back of the ceiling, and the barriers lining it.
Sem's cry as his beads reacted to the anti-magic in the barrier was loud warbled and pained. The seal sparked like crazy, then grew dim as Sem fell back into the hallway. His head ended up closer to the way he had come, as lanky grey limbs pressed against what little of the walls remained. He looked fuzzy, the way an object might be seen by someone with really bad eyesight. His form just wasn't roght.
Meanwhile the electronics generating all these barriers finally snapped.
The ceiling began to rain down in large chunks and fine dust.
Most of the debris was pulled towards sem, as the gravity he produced continued to increase. Things that had before been anchored to the ground began to side closer as if set on a steep slope. Even his beads were not immune this time, coming far too close for comfort.
Sem began to squirm, trying to keep those things from reaching him. They had only received a nick by 0's axe and had a large portion of their magic suspended by the anti-magic blockades and yet already he could barely keep a concrete form. He could barely think properly. Worst of all, he could barely control the effects of his own nature.
The beads could not balance him anymore. They were too close, and it was painful. Itwas a different kind of pain than any sem had encountered before, prickling like frost as a warning to worse events to come. He struggled to slow their fall, to gain some self control and buy himself some time. If the beads were gone...
He was terrified of what might happen to him if the beads were gone.
Getting to his barely formed feet, Sem blindly fled, knocking into walls, people, robots and other obstacles which were consumed on contact. Not even the floor was safe this time. Large swaths ended up swallowed up as if they had never been, revealing the foundation below.
And Sem wasn't even able to enjoy the chaos.
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Post by heyyew on Sept 4, 2017 3:13:59 GMT
Well then. Considering she was already injured and thusly unable to do anything even if she wanted to... And even if she did do anything she'd be instantly eaten... There was no real shame in using this. Himari looked at the watch on her wrist, punching in some coordinates. A flash went off as she teleported- erasing exclusively the past three seconds of anyone in the vicinity's mind. Unless they had protections or what not.
Then Himari was within three miles away in under a couple of seconds. As she reappeared the flash came with her. Sure the teleportation wasn't magic- but no need to have people knowing they had such things any how. Both the enemy and their civilians were best left unaware of such powers. Better to be underestimated after all and have the advantage after all. She looked back at headquarters and briefly wondered if three miles would be enough. The teleporter still had to charge for ten minutes before it could be used again... So might as well start running. Himari had been missing out on her daily routine any how as of late. After all when you possibly only had a month to live... what was the point of fitness?
Apparently the point was for times like this.
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Post by 0 on Sept 4, 2017 4:18:14 GMT
There was a snap, the wires in the walls offering a warbled cry, the air itself sparking with lightning. Then the number realized that the noise was coming from the singularity, flopped backwards over the floor. His body was becoming static.
This was perfect! FINALLY something seemed to be getting through those stupid red balls.
The ceiling crashed down, everything started getting pulled in towards the blurry beast, including the reinforcements just down the hall; luckily for them the massive amounts of debris would offer some manner of wall between them and the living black hole, not that it mattered too much for the more metallic of strangers, who burst on ahead of the fleshy humans, buzzing and flashing as they readied their weapons. The floor itself seemed to crack in two, a dent forming in the ground as yet again the tiles seemed to rise. The lights flickered as the wires were torn up, meanwhile the man in question was busy squirming around on the floor.
Before the number could try to "nudge" him along again, he was up and at 'em, ripping down the hallway like a madman in the middle of a hurricane. The number was quick to follow, keeping pace as vast swaths of matter were swallowed up in an instant, nothing but air and a hole of concrete, dirt, and stone left. Something seemed off, but the number once more pushed away that aching itch in the back of its mind.
The cameras and detectors tried to keep track of the fleeing monster, but their own electronics were obliterated before the lenses themselves were as well. There appeared to be little that could stop him, and with the speed at which he was bolting, it would likely be a mere few minutes before he tore right through to the outside world.
The building's brain, its massive supercomputer, now had a somewhat less insignificant amount of processing power directed at this disaster, snatching any data it could, no matter how minute, from the wave of chaos filling the halls, and analyzing it faster than any human mind could. Seeming to have predicted his projected path, it forwent any attempt at stopping him from the inside, where the corridors were narrow and crowded, and not as much time would be available, and instead immediately directed a squad of robots just outside the building, pointing them to several points where it thought the monster would be most likely to erupt.
Half the mechanical guards armed weapons, guns of both anti-magic and a physical bullets nature, while the remainder set up shields and a massive barrier in an attempt to bring the beast to heel. From what little the computer had managed to gather from the creature's new state, this next fence possessed some anti-gravitational properties, an attempt to counter the other's own gravitational effects, hopefully to produce a resolution similar to what might happen when matter and anti-matter meet.
The thought was also to stop any further containment breaches from reaching beyond the compound's grounds should they occur, with even more guards and security bots lining themselves up all along the area's perimeter, preparing for the worst. Along with them the anti-magic equivalent of anti-aircraft missiles were gearing up alongside flight and supersonic capable combat drones, however their preparation could take twice as long as the time in which the computer predicted the monster to break through the building's last wall, and already the electronic brain was trying to predict where the beast might head next should he manage to pass the small armada already set up to confront him.
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Post by Loner。 on Sept 5, 2017 20:32:37 GMT
One bead began to regain some of its color, and then another, eventually slipping back into orbit around Sem's neck, reinstating the rules of his existence bit by bit.
Sem failed to even notice as he charged blindly ahead that most things were no longer instantaniously absorbed at his touch, but instead survived in whole or in pieces as he crashed into them as a nearly solid being.
As long as he didn't run into any sort of anti-magic to compromise his beads again, they were doing their job in limiting the destruction he could cause.
Except for one which due to a little extra damage thanks to 0's hatchet blow would be unable to bounce back to normal function without help.
There was more for the computer to take notice now as camera equipment became more likely to survive the gradually weakening gravitational pull.
Even so it wasn't long before the monster found his way through towards the outside walls.
Concrete and carbon held this time, not buckling as much as the structures before had been prone under Sem's intense gravitational pressure. He pushed against it, preparing to force his way through if possible.
Not yet thinking that he might have enough control over his nature to ease his escape, Sem tried clawing his way out for a moment. He made some progress before the urgency to keep moving overtook him.
He was still afraid that his beads could collapse in on him at any moment, taking out his existence as he knew it in the process.
He had to keep moving.
Veering to a path of less resistance, the creature took up a faster pace once more, as he began to target wider halls where he better fit through. Were there easier ways out? There had to be some way he could take.
He found a door before any other likely means, taking it on head first. The first blow caused the surface to buckle against its frame. Sem didn't need a second blow, but found purchase with his tongues to pull it off its frame.
He was met with a barricade of robotic forces standing at the ready. This should be easier than navigating those halls. If he got past this, he could call himself home free.
Once again he was stopped by the barriers which had been set up, caught by the gravitational force just enough that he'd be an easy target until he managed to force through. Luckily for the enforcers it wasn't as much anti-magic this time. Those had probably proven to more likely aggravate and destabilize the beast than to subdue him by now.
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Post by 0 on Sept 9, 2017 23:50:16 GMT
The monster began to slow its escape. The computer recalculated bit by byte. Less cameras, detectors, and wires were being destroyed, and quickly began to compile yet more information onto what data had already been input by the analyzers and authorities.
The anti-magic techniques weren't working -- in fact, they only seemed to make things worse. Defenses were adjusted accordingly, the robots tuning their barriers and weapons so that no anti-magic would spark up when the gravitational monstrosity finally came upon them.
It was reaching the end of the building's interiors. The forces began to pile on that same wall, quickly narrowing down its escape routes until only a few spots were left, leaving the group that would eventually meet him somewhat impressive in size --at least to an ordinary human.
One barrier connected with another, forming a domed arch that met with the building's outer wall, sealing off all manner of escape. The monster had found the last door, which merely buckled at its first impact.
Was the monster weakening? Regardless, the computer wasn't taking any chances.
The robots aimed their weapons for their door and its surrounding wall, tuning themselves to the level of the monster's disastrous all-consuming state from only moments before.
The door flew off and the monster sped straight into the barrier, the anti-gravity seeming to stop it in its tracks --thankfully minus the effects that the anti-magic barriers had produced before. With synchronous clicks the robots began firing their guns, and the monster would be pelted with a barrage of physical bullets that had been altered to monster's specifics in the same way that the barrier was, filling him with minute antigravitons.
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Post by Loner。 on Sept 10, 2017 2:37:09 GMT
The monster's pelt did not give the bullets much purchase with the density of Sem's external 'flesh', but the barrage did give Sem a challenge in trying to get through the barrier. He had his mind back thankfully, but it was hard to think enough to come up with even an improvised plan when the stream of physical bullets would not stop.
All he wanted was to get away at this point. And the easiest way to do that was... darn it. why had he not thought of that before. He already had a means of transporting himself which could have saved him a whole lot of trouble.
... They'd jammed that kind of transportation somehow, and Sem was well annoyed that he couldn't just portal out of here.
okay. new plan. Space warped around the monster, forcing the bullets to travel further than it looked like they were in order to reach him, buying him moments to focus.
He could actually think when he tried the barrier again, this time more intentional with his fight against the anti-gravity effects. He judged it by feel, shifting his gravity to counter the antigravity enough that he could step forward with less resistance.
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Post by 0 on Sept 10, 2017 3:00:26 GMT
For a few seconds it was difficult to tell whether the bullets were having any effect. As they fired, the robots analyzed the reactions of the monster, searching for signs of breakage, pain, retaliation. As they observed, they would soon notice that the bullets were taking longer to travel towards the monster; even if the distance did not appear warped to naked eye, the calculations that ran through their mechanical brains told them of the precise pace each robot's bullets should be heading from their individual distances. Some, although far from all, of the robots lowered their weapons, their processing power now taken to analyzing the monster and its immediate surroundings in detail, trying to figure out the cause of this distortion, trying to determine a new weakness.
Within a few seconds of this new revelation, sensors in the barrier told both computer and the drones that the monster was slowly forcing its way through. The drones that had lowered their weapon determined that the space around it had been flexed, and now they moved themselves to a few different positions; one side scattered all around, and another clustered together. Both raised their guns and resumed firing. The clustered hoped to pierce through the distortion with their extra power, while those that were scattered sought to find weak spots already there.
The drones in control of the barrier raised a lever each, and a pulse was sent through the barrier; at the same moment, the drones farther away from the monster's location quickly began to descend on his place, trying to enclose the barrier all around him. In a wave, the antigravitons within the barrier would briefly become sparse, allowing the regular gravitons to replace them, and perhaps giving the monster a very brief moment to try and break through with ease, should it manage to realize what was going on, before all around it the antigravitons would pass through in a thick, wide cluster that, should all go according to plan, enshroud it like a fish in a net.
It was a risky move, but with so little information on how to stop it, there were few options left, and with the monster already on the verge of breaking through...if it couldn't be stopped here, then perhaps the computer could at least buy some time -- get all the more specialized drones revved up in time before it finally slipped from the compound, produce more powerful ammo better suited for any last-second information the monster might unknowingly give up. And, of course, give the humans some time to react, as well.
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Post by Loner。 on Sept 10, 2017 4:49:28 GMT
Sem's stretching of space favored the front. The flanks were less affected so the bullets flew better. They didn't cause much damage though. They were not pleasant but with the problem of the distraction in the front being lessened, it didn't deter sem from his goals.
Sem was watching the barrier closely, and something the automated soldiers did created an opening. It was already closing as sem began rushing forward, but he could extend his chance of getting through using the same space warping trick that bought him time with the bullets. Sem didn't bother trying to warp the gravity feild itself, but forward distance he had to go, pushing the space smaller so that the next stride carried him through.
He began to run, hoping there were nonother barriers in the way. He'd have to get further before he could warp out but he kept checking, intending to get to a different plane as soon as he got the chance.
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Post by 0 on Sept 10, 2017 5:32:38 GMT
The monster broke through, the barrier brought down the instant it was no longer necessary.
All of the robots ceased firing the second it was out of range, although others would start up as it ran past, pelting it with bullets, once more trying to close off any escape routes by encircling him, using their own metal shells as barriers if they had to, some even exploding if the monster drew close enough. Most of the resources had been drawn around the monster's initial point of escape in the building, and it wouldn't take long to run beyond their range.
The compound was large, although not extensively so, and would take a man only about half an hour to jog from one end to the other. It was flat and mostly empty, peppered by buildings big and small, the entire area fenced in by tall chain-links that were electrified with barbed wire at the top and anti-magic barriers built right in.
As the monster moved along, small flying drones were deployed, each one around the size of a human head. These were faster, albeit far weaker, than the guard robots, and would serve as the computer's senses once it passed beyond their range, tracking the creature as it fled through the compound. Some of these drones possessed small weapons, bullets, lasers, and plasma, but none would be utilized. Their job now was to not lose sight of the monster, and scan for any further weaknesses they could exploit.
Humans alongside security drones scattered in the guard towers, pulling on suits and readying their weapons. The robots poured out to block the fenceline, while the humans slipped into place along the sides and behind them, forming something of an open box all along the compound's perimeter. Among them were metallic monsters, preparing themselves to chase down the organic monster and hold it still if they could.
The guard towers themselves held their own defenses, which were now tailored to the known limits of this enemy, and aimed themselves accordingly. Electronics hummed as these larger weapons warmed up. If the monster drew close enough, then before it reached the barricade or the fence, these weapons would fire, anything from antigravity cannonballs to wide-reaching rays that would sweep across the monster's path, even chasing it down until it was out-of-range, this particular armament smattered with a variety of defenses --with the antimagic side turned off, of course.
However, a stray wire in one of the guard towers meant the antimagic was switched on in one such ray, something that the computer wouldn't detect until it was too late.
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Post by Loner。 on Sept 10, 2017 23:57:58 GMT
The monster shrugged off most of the attacks, yet ignoring them all was starting to become a challenge, as even though he was mostly unharmed, some sure threatened to slow him down, delaying his approach to the fence.
Enough was enough.
Maw cracked open as Sem prepared to respond. It wouldn't be too hard to just eat whatever was in the way and just be done with them all.
and then he tripped over a missaimed anti-gravity ball, ending up in a tumble. For that alone it should have been a simple recovery, but the faulty turret sure did its work.
The anti-magic reaction with his beads caused Sem more pain than any of the other attacks. It threatened his physical structure and threw his gravity back towards the power it ought to be at for his mass, with no choice in the matter for Sem. It wasn't as bad as before. The turret did not remain activated long after the flaw was realized, but it still left him with that feeling of impending implosion, bringing his actions new urgency as small things found themselves stuck to his hide.
He lunged forward mouth wide, tongues stretching to grab hold of things in his way so that he could consume a path through the blockade of robotic forces and the fence behind them.
He'd take advantage of any opening he could make.
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