public video / semi-private action

[ubiquitously]

 [public video]
[Despite that scary top icon, Uai is smiling for this public video segment. He's settled in his Fayren apartment with some empty notebooks, the plain white sheets being visible in the camera frame.]

Hello, everyone. I'm not interrupting your weekend, am I? My name is Uai. I'm used to traveling between worlds, but this is my first time being captured in one. I was hoping to hear more about the worlds all of you come from. I somehow doubt we're all even from the same multiverse, so it would be interesting to hear what is "normal" for you all. For myself, Attleton and Genessia are the closet I've come to 'home.' What about you?

[semi-private action / forests of Fayren]

(( OOC before I delve into this: This action prompt involves Uai being villainous. HOWEVER: Please do not treat this is a wide-area thing. If you want to get involved in attacking Uai's monsters, please PM me or hmu on plurk. I'm very friendly and open, but I don't want to be balancing 100 fight threads. Thanks so much~! ;v; ))

[Uai had scouted out the least populated area that he could. There's plenty of space between himself and the nearest town. While Uai can be shameless about his problematic magic, and is perfectly aware this will 99% fail, he doesn't want to be arrested or labeled a villain. Not when it isn't to his benefit. 

He's set up a rock barrier around himself before he even starts casting magic. His last attempt to escape Genessia got him hurt. This time, he's changed his spell outline. Uai knows he won't escape, but he won't be satisfied until he's tried his hardest. As he expected, the spell backfires and he suffers a recoil. Uai stumbles back with a gash in his stomach. The physical damage isn't the worst of it.]

... Hm~! That's frustrating..!

[The barrier he had put around himself shatters. His 'blood' from the wounds forms into four other 'Uais.' Unfortunately, they don't keep human form. Instead, they take the forms of skeleton dragons: Decaying, gross af, and covered in shadowy gunk. ]



[The four take off to wreck minor havoc in the forest, while the original Uai sinks to his knees. Despite his efforts, his feelings of concern and panic regarding the unleashing of Glitches are quickly consumed by his anger and hatred for Genessia. With his soul tattered and split, Uai can't control his Glitched personality either.

He exhales calmly and smirks, watching his four Glitches take off.]

It's fine. Playing nice is getting me no where anyway. 

Comments

[ubiquitously]

[Maybe if this thing could hear, it would answer. Even then, it lacks the organs needed to vocalize. It's body is decayed and it smells absolutely awful. The only thing setting it apart from a typical monster in Genessia is that it does have a soul, if Qubine can sense such a thing.

The skeleton seems to have been engaged in an exciting battle against a large rock, unaware of what is blocking its path: Just realizing something is in the way. And apparently having no peaceful solution for the problem.

When Qubine arrives, the Glitch ends its fight against nothing. Dark magic seeps out of the skeleton, perhaps reminiscent of the dragons Qubine knows, and slices the rock into pieces. The Glitch opens its empty mouth and 'roars' at Qubine. It cannot see or hear him, but it can sense him.]

[kalmaleader]

[Unfortunately, Qubine can't sense souls like that. He can usually tell from their behavior whether or not they have a soul. And unfortunately, this thing seems to be behaving like a soulless beast, attacking anything that moves (or even things that don't move).]

[Even if the creature makes no sound, Qubine knows a roar when he sees one. If this beast wants a fight, then the dragon clan leader will be more than happy to give it one.]

So that's how it's going to be...

[He drew a large breath and let out a piercing roar of his own that echoed throughout the sky. Now that's how a beast is supposed to roar. Qubine bares his claws, plants all of his feet into the ground, lowering his stance slightly, waiting for the creature's first move.]

[ubiquitously]

[Said creature has no way to tell Qubine has taken any sort of stance. It cannot hear that roar either, but the vibrations must be soul deep: It launches itself at Qubine, initially trying to take a bite out of him. Once again, an action that seems to be driven more by soulless bloodlust than any actual feeling. If there are any emotions involved, they're feelings of pent up anger and hatred that Uai himself can't handle normally.]

[kalmaleader]

[Definitely the behavior of the typical undead beast. Qubine hops back to avoid the bite. His first instinct is to try to bite the creature in turn, but he refrains. He's betting that it would taste as horrible as it smells. So he'll lunge at the beast, making a quick slash towards it with his claws.]

[ubiquitously]

[While magic can pretty effectively and immediately shatter this form, the Glitch is a touch more resistant to physical assault. There may be some visible cracking, but not enough to shatter it in one hit.

The skeleton immediately whips around with a spikey tail, trying to attack the 'invisible' threat that is Qubine. Uai is frustrated from the pain of his Glitch being hit, which gives the skeleton enough power to send a wave of sludgy dark magic at Qubine as it thrashes.]

[kalmaleader]

[Qubine pulls back into a defensive stance again, but the spikey tail manages to strike his chest, leaving small (to him) bleeding holes. The dark magic scares him a little more, as he has a special vulnerability to Shadow-based attacks. However, as the magic strikes him, he realizes that it didn't quite hurt as much as he anticipated. Which means the magic must not be Shadow-based after all.]

[Regardless, it does serve to make him mad. He rushes at the beast again, this time collecting a large block of ice, hoping to slam into the thing.]

[ubiquitously]

[There is no satisfaction in hurting Qubine. Even if it managed to tear an opponent to shreds, this creature would not be 'happy.' It is eternally angry, eternally suffering, and eternally destructive. Until it is destroyed, anyway.

The ice block finally has a noticeable impact. When it slams into the skeleton, the ice clips his wings. The useless limb hits the ground and then vanishes into smoke, indicating that the monster isn't a physical being. It's a manifestation of magic, or in this case, a soul's magic.

Being somewhat lighter now, the Glitch behaves in a way that might indicate panic. Uai is screaming, but he's far enough away that it may not even be audible. His screams would just mix with the skeleton's gurgling roar anyway. The monster lashes out at Qubine with more magic. A moment later, one of its back legs shatters. The block of ice has left its entire body in a delicate state.]

[kalmaleader]

[Qubine watches the wing fall off and then the back leg crumble. So the creature isn't something that was dead and reanimated after all. It was like back in October, when the undead dragon resembling Shayla turned out to be a doppelganger. At least this time the creature was unrecognizable to Qubine and thus gave him no internal conflicts about dealing with it.]

[Seeing that the creature is obviously weakening, Qubine gives a little triumphant smirk. There's only one thing left to do now - finish it off! Qubine concentrates on the ground beneath the beast, and once again lowers his stance to unleash another ice attack. This time a cluster of ice spikes shoot up fron the ground beneath the creature.]

[ubiquitously]

[Unfortunate for Uai, it is this attack that finishes off the Glitch. As the ice rises, so does the defenseless skeleton. It’s body is split apart and pieces of bone gradually rain to the ground. They vanish quickly. The whole time, the skeleton is flailing and making strange hissing sounds. Uai may be distant and barely aware of what actually happens to his Glitches, but the slow crumble gives him enough time to connect to its suffering. The Glitch sends one last wave of magic in a random direction, since it can no longer pinpoint where Quibine is, before it finally falls apart.

Congrats on a victory!]

[kalmaleader]

[Once the creature fully disintegrates, the ice spikes quickly melt, forming snow that blends neatly into the mountain terrain. Qubine stops to reflect on this battle and how easy it was, much to his relief. Of course, the battle against the undead dragons back home will not be so easy, as they are actually physical beings without souls. There's likely no way to stop them directly save for tearing them apart, or disintegrating them completely. And that isn't something that Qubine wants to do to any of his former clan members, least of all his sons. The best way to take them out would be to take out the source, which would be Erebus himself.]

[Satisfied with his victory, Qubine retreats into his cave.]