[Yanai Hebiru]

Scylla Awakens

"Team F, prepare for combat," Mai called out through their earbuds as the four members of the hastily put together group arrived on the scene. Due to the chaotic circumstances of the simulation and the requirement to adapt or fail none of the original teams of three were still fully together.

With the situation outside having stabilized enough for those teams that had been a bit slower on the approach to handle it and Elijah having the easiest time getting inside somewhere close to Scylla he'd been called in to reinforce the capture team. Likewise Michael was both closest to the perpetrator and had the ability to pursue her faster than his teammates so he was requested to assist as well. Both of them met up with the remainder of Team E consisting of Ylva and Jouma midway before everyone made their way to Scylla together. 

They caught up to her near the edge of the compound in a corner that was far less orderly than the rest. The shipping containers there were not arrayed in neat lines, no, they seemed haphazardly scattered. It created a more open area surrounded on all sides. When Team F entered it on one side they found Scylla standing atop a container on the other.



With a dull thud the sides of the containers facing the group all fell open at the same time as the screech of wheels on rails resounded from above. Both within the containers and hanging from the roof framing were black mechanical tendrils with arrow tips at the ends not unlike those of Hebiru's quirk, albeit not nearly as thin. 

“Fools. This could have been avoided if you’d simply listened to our demands. You heroes always have to stand in our way, don’t you? Fine then. Face the wrath of the ocean.”

Spreading her arms wide both the mechanical ones all around and almost two dozen quirk-generated tendrils struck at the group. If they didn't act quick they would no doubt be overwhelmed.

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TL;DR: The gang arrives on the scene, stepping into an almost arena-like open area surrounded by containers on all side. The containers to the sides fall open to reveal mechanical arrow-tipped tendrils at the same time as mechanisms not unlike rail carts ferry the same ones to the scene from above them. After a villainous speech Hebiru Scylla spreads her arms to the sides and activates her quirk alongside the machinery to send attacks flying towards the group from all sides.

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OOC: Welcome to the finale of the Hostage Rescue simulation everyone! This one will consist of three rounds, each of which will last a week. To ensure smooth proceedings here's a tough guideline of what these rounds will comprise of.

Round 1: The villain's all out assault. Make your way to her while avoiding, parrying or blocking strikes and begin your assault lest you face defeat.
Round 2: Combat, brief but intense. This is where you'll get Scylla's reactions to your initial strikes and get to push your attack.
Round 3: Capture or prevent escape. Depending on how the past two rounds went this will either be your chance to finalize the capture or attempt to slow Scylla's escape.

The next round will begin on Monday 27/05/24. Please get your posts in by then!

Tags: Elijah Ylva Riis Jouma Joukou Samaritan

[Samaritan]

Michael Faraday

Inflated Stakes

Michael ran with the hostages in step behind him and six of the guards bound up in his arms. When freeing the hostages, he didn't wish to harm any of the people playing the role of the bad guys for the simulation. It wouldn't have mattered that much if this wasn't a staged exercise, Michael really didn't want to injure anyone. He sympathized with the position that villains felt they were forced to act wickedly and dangerously in order to survive or prosper in this world. He didn't want anyone to be in pain, so even for this simulation, with actors standing in practically as sparring partners, he didn't feel comfortable fighting them. After having disarmed them, Michael had wrapped them into his arms and carried them for the exit he was leading the hostages to. Unfortunately it seemed to be that this would be a rookie mistake in itself, only noticing too late that one of the hostages was merely playing the façade of one of the victims.

The university's nurse Dr. Yanai was to be playing the role of the big bad. This reveal could not come at a worse time as Michael had only just begun to lead the hostages to safety. With his hands figuratively and literally full at the moment, it swiftly shifted to a relay instead of a race as Michael would need to find his companions to hand off the hostages and guards. To Michael's relief the doctor, or more the character she was portraying, Scylla took the opportunity of Michael's encumbrance to make her own retreat. An announcement came over Michael's ear piece that had been haphazardly taped to the side of his balloon shaped head (with no external ears for the earbud to rest in), his new team was to prepare for combat. Michael couldn't waste any time; even without Scylla coming after him and the people he was protecting, the stakes had been raised and anyone going after her would need help before either side got reckless or violent.

Michael met up with the members of Team C and handed off possession of the criminals and hostages he had rescued. He couldn't waste any time; even without Scylla coming after him and the people he was protecting, the stakes had been raised and anyone going after her would need help before either side got reckless or violent. If he had any chance of deescalating this before anyone got hurt he would need to push his already exhausted body to get to Scylla first and find a way to convince her surrender. "Get everyone here to safety. I'll find a way to stop her." Michael assured his former teammates and began bounding off in the direction he had seen the pretend perpetrator had fled.

Michael caught up with his new companions, the members of Team F, rather quickly as they breeched the area. Michael was quick to try to give as much information as he could without slowing them down. "The villain is Dr. Yanai, going by Scylla. She was pretending to be one of the hostages. Everyone else is being escorted out now. We can still stop Scylla, but she's likely scared and feeling cornered. We should try to talk her down to coming with us peacefully so not to risk any one nearby or herself getting injured." Michael understood the gravity of his request to attempt a nonviolent approach, but he had to try and express his position clearly and unwaveringly.

As Michael and his teammates discussed the situation while in motion, the thuds of container doors and screech of metal forced them into action. Mechanical tendrils loomed from nearly every direction as Scylla declared that she only had wished for her demands to be met. While unlikely, especially at this point, it did seem there was some grounds for negotiation. Hebiru's character wanted something and while her desires couldn't be met, maybe if Michael could reach out to her, he could be able to talk her down. There was still a chance to help her...

"Yanai-sensei- I mean, Scylla! Wait! We can talk this ou-" Unfortunately, Michael didn't have the time or control of the situation to call for her ceasefire. The arrow-tipped tendrils began driving down at them from a myriad of directions. They moved in coordination and precision, so Michael wouldn't be able to try negotiations without getting past all of this first. While his rubber-like body was more resistant to piercing implements than the average latex balloon, one puncture would make his quirk very difficult to use. So Michael put his full attention into avoiding the tendrils and advancing towards Scylla. If one of his teammates got to her first, there wasn't a guarantee for her safety, so he needed to act fast.

Michael rushed towards Scylla, though this proved all the more difficult as there were a greater number of the tendrils nearest her. Using his latex-like limberness, Michael moved with all the flexibility and agility he could muster as he bobbed, weaved and coiled around attacking tendrils. He pushed air through his body like pumps through a hose to continue his drive forward while dodging around Scylla's quirk. Even stretching himself out too far ahead was a risky tactic as it held him his limbs on display for a piercing strike, so he needed to make short almost dancing-like bursts forwards. He couldn't make an attack on her, but if he got close enough maybe he could shoot that final stretch to her and try to convince her to turn herself in. With how much he had already pushed his body, this advance was gritting on his whole body, but if he had any chance of a peaceful resolution, he needed to get to her as quickly as he could to convince her to stop.

Notes & Tags: Emilia Hall | Masao Ando | Kei Hada | Yanai Hebiru | Elijah | Ylva Riis | Jouma Joukou





TLDR: Michael handed off the guards and hostages to the other members of Team C before joining up with Team F. After expressing his desire to resolve this peacefully, they had caught up to Scylla who began their assault on the party. Michael pushed himself to dodge his way forward, through her attacks to try to get close enough to Scylla to be able to try and convince her to stop before anyone got hurt.

[Jouma Joukou]

Jouma found the quietness of Ylva to be strange. Granted, that wasn't new to him when it came to members of the opposite sex. He was handsome, and that kind of attractiveness was intimidating. In this situation that was perfectly fine, as they had a job to do: clobber the villain that took these hostages! As they showed up on the scene they encountered the rest of the team that would be taking on Scylla (as he learned what she would be called), he couldn't help but scoff at Michael's plea. "Aren't the hostages all gone? The only one who's likely to get hurt is Scylla herself!"

Almost on cue the walls around them opened up, and the villain made her appearance. A grin crossed Jouma's face: this was where the fun would begin. And for him, it was almost where it ended. His muscles were made for two things, being the pinnacle of his strength and looking damn good while he did said strength-based feats. He was not the most maneuverable of individuals, so the first volley that came his way managed to leave a few marks. And ruin his clothes. "How dare you!" He grabbed hold of one of the tendrils from a container, using his quirk to separate it from its base as he began to transform what was left. "Do you know how long it will be before this style is back on sale?!" The new weapon formed, a primitive one-handed axe, would soon go to work severing any new attacks being made against him, giving him some level of reprieve as he began to move forward.

Yanai Hebiru, Samaritan, Ylva Riis, Elijah

tl;dr:

-Mock's Michael's plan
-Gets beat up a little
-Makes a battle axe out of a tendril, proceeds to use it to help him forward

[Elijah]

"Affirmative," came Elijah's answer to Yuki Onna's message.

As one of the students who kept the guards outside the warehouse from going in, he came into the next phase a little worse for wear, exhaustion evident in his strained breath and sweat on his brow. Endurance wasn't his specialty. He would've preferred to strike silently than take part in the chaos the mission turned into.

But you know. He couldn't have such luxuries even in a simulation.

Elijah furrowed his brow at his new teammate's words as he ran alongside him, trying his best to focus where he thought his eyes would be - the balloon head was making it difficult. "Do you have insight into her being amenable enough to stand down? Authorities could not meet her demands. That's why we are on this mission." A fake one, sure, but the little he's seen gave him some idea on how the stand-in villain would act.

And an all-out assault was about what he expected. As the containers opened up to let out said assault, he sighed. He unfortunately knew how to avoid them altogether too.

The student sunk into the ground, underneath all the tendrils, mentally chastising himself for taking the easy way out. But the instructors had been pushing him to use his quirk more, so there he was. Using it more. Here's hoping they wouldn't bother him so much about it after this assignment.

He resurfaced at the side of one of the open containers, leaning against it as he pressed into his earpiece. "Try to get her off-balance without alerting her to my presence. I can bring her to our level." Then he rolled his eyes at the guy complaining about his clothes. "And take up sewing. No waiting on stores and you save money."

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OOC: Elijah comes in tired but still kicking! He questions Michael's confidence in Gorgon Scylla being amenable, before using his Quirk to sink into the ground and avoid the oncoming tendrils. Once he's out he tells the others to knock Scylla off-balance and for Jouma to just fix his outfit.

Yanai Hebiru,Samaritan,Jouma Joukou,Ylva Riis

[Ylva Riis]

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[attr="class","nikki109"]Ylva being the type to only participate in group activities out of necessity could actually get onboard with this one. To capture a criminal before they could escape was a perfect match for her quirk and her preferred method of combat. This guy she was with though? Another weirdo, why was it that there were so many ridiculously out there people on this campus? It was nothing like that at Shiketsu, she missed that place. [break][break]

Silently following she was already hard at work trying to map out her surroundings with her quirk. Team F, as Yuki Onna called it, was going to consist of 4 people. The other two were going to converge on their location sooner and than later and Ylva was ready. She wouldn't respond to anything Michael, Jouma, or Elijah would say but she did make an internal note that Elijah made the most sense out of all of them. What kind of dumbass would try to give her mercy in this situation? The Gorgon was playing a part and so would she.[break][break]

"No talking." she'd say aloud, eyes focused on Scylla's assault. She would extend her quirk to the area in front of her freezing the tendrils as they came at her and using them as a medium she would continue to freeze them gradually on their way back to Scylla. If that wasn't enough she'd utter a loud "Move." to Michael as she used her other hand in an attempt to freeze Scylla's head. Not even the functionally immortal, like the Mummy, could survive being cut off from oxygen. If this fishbowl was successful she could end the exercise in one go.[break][break]

tldr; Ylva doesn't say much about the plan, moves with the group and uses her quirk to freeze the tendrils aimed at her, continuing to do so as the ice creeps up towards Hebiru. She uses her free hand to try and encase Hebiru's head in ice, similar to a fishbowl, to deprive her of oxygen.

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[attr="class","nikki103"]Elijah,Jouma Joukou,Samaritan,Yanai Hebiru

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NOTES

We're all done here. "Allegedly"

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[Yanai Hebiru]

Scylla Awakens

Scylla took a single theatrical step forward, threatening to plunge to her doom until the appendages beneath her dress shot down and anchored her to the ground. Her second and third steps made it look like she was walking down on an invisible staircase until she stopped in place half a meter in front of the stacked containers. With a grin so wide it looked like a crescent that under the present lighting seemed to stretch from ear to ear she leaned forward, her eyes crinkling into an expression of mock amusement. A pointed tendril struck out of her mouth and cut back and forth in front of her face, clearing as much of the ice covering her mouth as possible to allow her to breath.

As Michael shot towards her Scylla spread her arms as if to welcome him into a hug, the motion angling half a dozen appendages into a semi-circle with the point aimed towards him.

"Accept the ocean's embrace," she cooed while all six limbs shot towards him, her voice seeming to resound from all around the room. Each of the six threatened to impale Michael should he fail to stop or avoid them. Hebiru would not follow through with the motion of course but the threat was there.

At the same time she pulled the appendages Ylva had frozen behind her to prevent them from being shattered, her focus spread too thin to fully comprehend whether the frost continued to creep upward or not. The majority of the mechanical tentacles struck at Jouma and Ylva from all sides. Some stabbed, others slashed and even more threatened to slam down on them from all side. A few had kept slamming down on the ground in random places ever since Elijah sank into it. 

Battle was a chaotic affair, one where hours worth of events happened in seconds, and this simulation proved no different. Without the additional personnel controlling the mechanical tentacles there would have been no way for Hebiru to keep track of all the students at once, especially not with her eyes freezing over, a sensation that caused more discomfort than she'd expected it to. Moreso, without the inside information she possessed there was only a small chance a villain would be able to discern Elijah's full capabilities and as such she'd left her back unguarded. Even so Scylla tensed for the blow and prepared a tendril to lash out in counter should he attack her. Cheating? Perhaps. But villains did not play fair.

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TL;DR:
-Hebiru welcomes Michael with open arms and half a dozen knife-tipped appendages shooting straight towards him.
-The appendages frozen by Ylva get withdrawn behind her to prevent them from being shattered, her focus too split to fully realize whether or not the frost is still spreading, especially with her being forced to constantly clear the ice forming around her head so it doesn't cut off her airway.
-The majority of the mechanical tentacles all around start slicing, dicing, spearing and smashing at Ylva and Jouma while a few hit the ground at random in case Elijah pops back up.
-Scylla leaves her back open for the sake of playing fair. As Scylla is presently a villain however she also prepares a nasty counterattack aimed to slap Elijah away should he go for the attack (NOTE: counter would only occur after the successful attack and only if the capability to counter is still there at the time)

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OOC: Welcome to the finale of the Hostage Rescue simulation everyone! This one will consist of three rounds, each of which will last a week. To ensure smooth proceedings here's a tough guideline of what these rounds will comprise of.

Round 1: The villain's all out assault. Make your way to her while avoiding, parrying or blocking strikes and begin your assault lest you face defeat.
Round 2: Combat, brief but intense. This is where you'll get Scylla's reactions to your initial strikes and get to push your attack.
Round 3: Capture or prevent escape. Depending on how the past two rounds went this will either be your chance to finalize the capture or attempt to slow Scylla's escape.

The next round will begin on Monday 27/05/24. Please get your posts in by then!

Tags: Elijah  Ylva Riis  Jouma Joukou  Samaritan

[Samaritan]

Michael Faraday

Sprung into Action

Michael was disheartened by his new teammate dismissal of his less aggressive approach. Though Jouma was the only one who literally scoffed at the idea, the other two also seemed ready to seek a less than peaceful result. Michael wasn't discouraged by their stances, he understood that there wasn't always a non-confrontational way of dealing with criminals and villains, but Michael refused to let that stop him from trying everything he could. The only real reasons he sought to get stronger was to be able to protect people and deescalate situations; if he was powerful enough, he might be able to stop conflicts before anyone got hurt. So this only motivated him all the more to get to Scylla as quickly as possible before anyone went too far.

As Michael attempted to approach the pseudo-villain, Scylla fought back as he expected with a flurry of six pointed tentacles hurtling towards him. Dr. Hebiru's portrayal gave a twisted gentleness while actively attempting to attack him. Avoiding conflict and injury were specialties of Michael's, both in restraint on others but also in his physical capabilities. His rubbery body made bending and dodging out of the way so fluidly that he often didn't even need to manipulate the circulation of gas within him. However, even with so many of these tendrils moving so precisely from various directions, Michael focused on deflating himself to squeeze around or inflate different parts to stretch past the attacks.

The other members of Team F were making their own advances and they proved to be much more blunt and decidedly dangerous. It was unfortunate they did not cooperate better as the team acted as a group of individuals rather than a cohesive squad. In a not too far off context, these actions could easily be perceived as villainous. It was clear that the character Scylla would be a real threat out in the world... but this felt like overkill. What was the difference between a hero and a villain if the tactics were the same but the targets were different.

With his companions not really working together, Michael needed to take advantage of the attention Scylla had to split between four potential heroes. There wasn't a plan of action or even an agreed degree of force to be used. So if Michael wanted a peaceful resolution, he needed to move in and incapacitate Scylla. With the sharp point at the end of her tendrils, he couldn't just launch himself at her as she might be able to attack while he was unable to dodge. So once he had weaved his way around her attack, he began to bounce himself with each running step. He curled off towards the side as Hebiru's attention was being pulled around by the two other attackers looking to freeze or chop into her.

Michael hadn't seen his other teammate since the battle begun. That was until he heard them call out over the earpiece that was taped to his latex head. Knocking her off balance... it seemed difficult considering how her tendrils seemed to do the figurative and literal heavy lifting, but there was possibility there. Michael continued to build up bounding momentum as he bounced like a rubber ball along the ground. He sprung greater speed until he was he practically boinged off the ground and slammed up against a container. Ricochet Croquet! Throwing himself feet first to impact against the metal box, Michael ricocheted powerfully and rocketed himself towards their target. Michael was coming fast from her side. While he didn't want to directly cause her pain, he decided to trust his teammate had a plan and by doing a little harm, it might prevent something more severe than the other two seemed to be attempting. Michael aimed him approach to slam into the legs of Scylla and hopefully take them out from under her. It was doubtful that with her tendrils she'd be knocked down, at the very least he hoped it was knock her off balance enough for Elijah to pull off his plan. Michael trusted him to not be excessive... but he didn't know him enough to have any justification for that trust, it was all faith.

Notes & Tags: Yanai Hebiru | Elijah | Ylva Riis | Jouma Joukou





TLDR: Michael used his quirk to stretch, bend, and squeeze past Scylla's attack. Putting faith in Elijah's plan, Michael bounced his way to build up speed before ricocheting off a container to launch himself at Scylla to knock her off balance by essentially knocking her legs out from under her with his hurtling body.

[Jouma Joukou]

Jouma was offended that Eli would suggest such a thing, but he was too busy to respond. The renewed assault was something he couldn't deal with, at least effectively. While he wanted to be the one to land the final blow, he had to get in close in order to make that happen. And his teammates were already working ahead of him, with Ylva having a clear advantage thanks to her quirk.

That said, he was no pushover, either. Dodging and weaving through the onslaught, he flung his axe at a cluster of tendrils that were at bay from Ylva's ice and made it to one of the container doors that had fallen off. Using his Herculean strength, he lifted the panel up and held it up as a shield! Though to anyone watching, he struggled a bit. And he only managed half the door, using his quirk to dismantle part of it to make it easier to handle. "Come, Ice Queen! We have an evil to wallop!" With his newfound shield, he'd begin to press the assault. Despite his offer of defense, he was not going to wait on anyone, and began to recklessly charge forward. At the very least, he made an interesting distraction!

Yanai Hebiru,Samaritan,Jouma Joukou,Elijah,Ylva Riis,

tl;dr:
-Threw his axe at some tentacles
-Stole part of a container door (not a car door, but close enough)
-Tally ho, villain!

[Elijah]

"No talking? Can you read minds?" Elijah furrowed his brow at Ylva's command. "If we're unaware of each other's actions, we will fail." Communication wasn't his strong suit, but even he knew it was necessary to keep a group of practically strangers on the same page. He sighed. This was why he preferred to work alone.

Elijah watched the fight from the corner of his eye. Ice stretched on to freeze some metal arms in place. Axe took advantage of their brittle state to shatter them to bits. Other tendrils slammed down on the ground in an attempt to force the freckled student out. A sound strategy had he still been there, but with his ability to relocate without showing signs of doing such, he needn't even worry about having to weave through the onslaught.

What proved more insightful for him however were the tendrils stretched from Scylla to the ground. They anchored her in place. Promoted stability.

Acted as points of weakness.

With Michael taking point on addressing the villain directly, Elijah didn't need to expose himself to her counterattack at all.

Another press to his earpiece to relay his next course of action. "Dislodging the tendrils keeping Scylla anchored. Mind the expanding foam." Then, with deep breath and a flex of his prosthetic hand, Elijah ran out of hiding to fire foam on the ground. He did this for each embedded arrow tip, making sure to cover a wide area with each spray so she couldn't just reposition her appendages.

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OOC: Elijah chastises Ylva's order to cease communications, ignoring it entirely to tell the others he's spraying the ground with foam before doing so. Don't need to go for Scylla's back after all 🫡

Yanai Hebiru,Samaritan,Jouma Joukou,Ylva Riis,

[Ylva Riis]

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"No unnecessary chatter. We're here to get a job done, not tell life stories." She had hoped there would be at least one like-minded person here, but so far, it seemed like she was wrong. Still, it didn't stop her from moving forward. She would freeze the space around her forming a dome to keep herself from being impaled by the sharp appendages, freezing any that lingered too long. From her safe zone, after observing the actions of everyone else there, she focused on blocking the escape. Concentrating for a moment, she would begin to build an ice wall about a dozen feet behind Scylla and then attempt to reinforce it once it was fully built. There was a chance that Scylla would try to smash through this, and if she did, Ylva was prepared to fully immobilize her, leaving her neck exposed, of course, as she didn't want to get in trouble.[break][break]

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[attr="class","nikki103"]Elijah,Jouma Joukou,Samaritan,Yanai Hebiru

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Silly Elijah you were almost better than these two...almost.

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[Yanai Hebiru]

Scylla Awakens

Feeling the appendages holding her up begin to get foamed out of where they'd stabbed into the ground Hebiru's mind quickly ran through the students' files. Elijah's equipment fit the bill. Unless she was wildly mistaken that meant she needn't worry about injuring him by re-anchoring herself in the container behind her. Only when pulling almost all of her appendages back in did she realize several were frozen, her eyes widening theatrically as they failed to retract in full. 

The moment of hesitation cost her.

Right before gravity could reassert itself Michael's attack hit home with full force, taking her legs out from under her and sending her careening through the air.

Had Hebiru had lungs the impact would've driven the air right out of them. As a teacher their combined efforts made her proud and as their opponent she felt first hand how effective it was.

As a mock villain however she could not let herself be bested like this. Certainly, she was out position, cut off from escape and hemmed in from all sides. What she was not out of however was means to fight back. Sending several short arrow-tipped appendages out through her face in order to clear the ice and restore her vision she looked upon the scene below her as she tumbled through the air. 

"You believe yourself to be the shining light in the dark? Fools! Allow me to enlighten you!"

With Elijah covering the ground in foam, Jouma charging in her direction, Michael being able to come in for another hit from any direction and Ylva safe within her dome the odds were heavily stacked against her. That was a mistake on their part. A villain with no options reacted like a cornered animal, lashing out with all they had until they either burned out or their enemies were reduced to ashes. To put one in a situation like this without locking them down in full was ill-advised. It was a lesson Hebiru intended to ingrain in them the hard way. Spreading her arms wide she continued.

"I now permit you to gaze into the sun!"

Towards all directions thin arrow-tipped appendages shot out of her in straight lines, leaving plenty of gaps in between but covering a full three hundred and sixty degrees. Hebiru made sure they wouldn't be lethal, focusing her senses to the fullest to angle her attacks away from anything vital should they made contact with any of the students but did not hold back in any other way. The villain Scylla's last ditch maneuver would strike with enough force to pierce an inch deep into the concrete floor and metal containers alike. It would root her in place and make her easy to capture but with a moment of carelessness such a thing would come at a high price. 

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TL;DR: 
-The wombo combo works! With Elijah's foam threatening to dislodge Scylla she tries to pull them back inside her to re-anchor herself in a different direction. Her attempts are hindered by the frost covering the ends of several of them causing her to be wholly unsupported as Michael's attack hits her legs and sends her careening through the air.
-Jouma's charge causes most of the mechanical tentacles to focus on him allowing Ylva to seal off the escape route.
-An animal is at its most dangerous when cornered. Striking out in all directions Scylla goes full 'no-holds barred' with a large scale hedgehog maneuver, something that'll root her in place and leave her easy to capture should anyone still be in a good enough state to do so.
-The final round is on, finish the job y'all!

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OOC: Welcome to the finale of the Hostage Rescue simulation everyone! This one will consist of three rounds, each of which will last a week. To ensure smooth proceedings here's a tough guideline of what these rounds will comprise of.

Round 1: The villain's all out assault. Make your way to her while avoiding, parrying or blocking strikes and begin your assault lest you face defeat.
Round 2: Combat, brief but intense. This is where you'll get Scylla's reactions to your initial strikes and get to push your attack.
Round 3: Capture or prevent escape. Depending on how the past two rounds went this will either be your chance to finalize the capture or attempt to slow Scylla's escape.

The thread will conclude on Monday 10/06/24. Please get your posts in by then!

Tags: Elijah  Ylva Riis  Jouma Joukou  Samaritan

[Samaritan]

Michael Faraday

Under Pressure

They were running out of time. Scylla was getting more desperate and aggressive by the moment and if they didn’t try to stop her now, someone was likely to get hurt. They had overwhelmed Scylla with enough force to make lash out chaotically, so it would only get worse from here if it continued any longer. With how ruthless some of his teammates seemed it was likely that they would go hard on the pseudo-villain… if Michael could capture her perhaps they would hold back as any additional force would be unwarranted. It was the only chance Michael felt was available. Unfortunately, his plan was reckless in its own way, but if he succeeded no one else needed to get hurt… except him maybe.

Michael had been working on something over the last few weeks after a class about Ultimate Moves. That class had actually been the inspiration for his Ricochet attacks, but those felt too aggressive as it used his body as a bouncing weapon using physics and geometry to strike at opponents. Michael had thought of different ways he could use his body in a creative and powerful way that didn’t require him to intrinsically harm others. So he developed a new technique. In truth it was no where near ready for actual use, but desperate times…

Michael’s Ricochet Croquet had him bounce off and away from her after body checking into her legs. The distance it put between them proved to be helpful as she spread out her tendrils in nearly every direction but Michael was far enough back that he could have the time he needed for his Proto-Ultimate Move. The only thing now he needed was some faith. Knowing a speech would likely be counterproductive in this moment, he called out into the headset. “I have an idea that might be able to end this, but I need a little time. PLEASE, I just need you to try your best to not hurt her more than needed for like 30 seconds. Do what you have to, just don’t go too far and the moment you see me, freeze me, bind me, tie me down.”

With his plea made, all Michael could do was hope for the best as he couched into a sprinter’s pose. He was still working on the pumping system, so he’d need to do this more manually. He began to do mountain climbers from the planked position, physically pumping his legs and body. He was building up pressure and tension through his would body with every pump. He could feel his skin feel like it was getting tighter by the second and he force all that air and energy to be compressed into his body. His skin began to turn into a dark almost bruising red as it struggled to hold together under the increasing tension. Steam began billowing out of his pores as the energy heated within him as the pressure and energy built. Mean while Michael aimed himself, he hadn’t had much time to work on the build up much less what he would do with it, so he was pretty sure he only had one shot with this. At best he would pull it off but be unable to move for the rest of the scenario, maybe even a week; at worse… well he didn’t want to think of that. The steam began whistling as it had started to stretch his pore to try releasing some of that pressure, but Michael forced himself to hold it together just a little longer. Just as Michael felt he couldn’t take one more pound of pressure, he finally released the tension.

Michael hoped that whatever his teammates did was enough to not harm Scylla or themselves too greatly, hoping they had given him a chance to pull of a risk that he would need their help to really pull off in the end.

A loud pop rang out Michael launched like a bullet straight towards Scylla’s exposed mass. Time felt hazy as Michael reached speeds he never experienced before, but he couldn’t lose consciousness or focus yet. Jettisoning himself at her was only phase one, but with how much faster he went than he expected he actually moved to the next step sooner to compensate. Michael had held all that gas and tension together in his body, keeping him in his natural shape to condense that pressure; now as he closed in on Scylla, he let himself expand. Bursting out like the air bag of a crashing car he would spread and pillow over Scylla, catching her like a baseball in a mitt. It was likely that whatever attacks Scylla and even his teammates did were now being pummeled on to him. Whatever the pain he endured, Michael could only hope that his teammates would understand what he was doing and assist with the capture.

Engulfing Scylla into his ballooned body like a crash mat for a stuntman, Michael essentially would have her squished into him. Now if his teammate could freeze him to make his rubbery body contract around her or find ways to bind him down, Michael could hold Scylla and keep her trapped in his fluffy folds. With how much pain and exertion he went through to get this far, any assistance his team could give to keep him wrapped around her might be enough to assure her capture and subsequent defeat.

Notes & Tags: Yanai Hebiru | Elijah | Ylva Riis | Jouma Joukou





TLDR: Michael attempted a move that he hadn’t perfected yet in order to launch himself like a bullet by compressing a bunch of air and tension on his body and then released it all at once to crash into Scylla like a giant air bag and then hoped his team would be able to freeze him to make his body contract or find some way to bind him in order to hold Scylla in his pillowy body.

[Jouma Joukou]

Jouma wasn't paying attention to Michael. Part of it was because he was trapped in his own little world, but it was also because he was too busy warding off a massive attack that, if he wasn't careful, could kill him. Well, okay, injure him.

...Okay, fine, ruin his wardrobe even more than it had been ruined.

Gritting his teeth, he pressed forward and found several tendrils piercing through the steel plating of the door, causing him to pause and then let out a laugh. "Ah, there we go! Now this is a bout!" Never mind the fact that he was lucky, and that those tendrils could have easily skewered his arm or something like that. Didn't matter, he was going to turn this slab into a thrown projectile as he rocked back on his heels for a moment, lifting up the door and flinging it as hard as he could in the direction of Scylla, laughing maniacally. "Come! This fight will be legendary!"

This is taken moments before disaster. Unbeknownst to him, he was acting as that distraction that Michael needed...and before long the door he threw would be used against him to swat him away. Good job, Jouma.

Yanai Hebiru,Samaritan,Jouma Joukou,Elijah,Ylva Riis,

[Elijah]

In hindsight, Elijah should've known that the pretend villain would just anchor herself to the containers when the floor was no longer an option. Her tendrils' range was farther than what he could cover with his foam. It looked like there was an unintended consequence of relocating however; Scylla's movement was halted due to the ice.

Furrowing his brow at Michael's plan, he pressed his communicator to respond. "Not in my skillset, but sure." Distractions weren't his specialty. Everything he's trained himself in led to the opposite really, where he usually would be able to sneak past obstacles without anyone being the wiser. Sneaking was out of the question here though.

Nor did he have time to come up with ways to draw the villain's attention at all.

Her attack impaled his arm. The fake one, thankfully, but it's left him pinned to the ground by his shoulder as more tendrils were shot his way. Gritting his teeth, Elijah drew daggers from his vest with his free hand and threw them at the oncoming limbs. They clanged against the metal, nowhere strong enough to cut through but they were at least diverted enough to dig into the concrete next to his waist or leg. He was running out of knives though.

Hopefully Scylla was captured before then.

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OOC: One tendril from Hebiru Scylla's attack jabs through Elijah's prosthetic, pinning him to the ground. He throws knives to redirect the following tendrils so they don't hit him directly.

Yanai Hebiru,Samaritan,Jouma Joukou,Ylva Riis

[Ylva Riis]

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She was safe in her little ice bubble, with the onslaught of mechanical and real tendrils slowing down as the others made their moves. They were good at drawing attention from Scylla and her minions that was for sure, which in Ylvas eyes was the only benefit of teamwork - human shields.[break][break]

She didn't need to step outside of her little bubble to keep on attacking, and she was maintaining the gradual ice creeping up on the tendrils. A request for a team attack wasn't something she was interested in until she realized it meant she could go all out and end this, disregarding her teammates in the process and ending things. [break][break]

"Not my fault if you get hurt."She would wait for Michael to provide the opening and then would concentrate focusing all her external energy around the two of them and snapping her finger, sheets of ice coming out of thin air and forming around the duo. If Michael was successful in his attempt this would likely be checkmate.[break][break]

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