melodiesoflife | Event || The Empire Strikes Back

Event || The Empire Strikes Back

Characters: Everyone participating in the event
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: July 27th to August 02nd
Summary: The battle for Aqures Ixen is about to begin! The Heroes of Light are going to do their best to defend Aqures Ixen, but will this be enough? Feel free to participate and reply to appropriate threads. New top-level threads will be posted regularly as the battle progresses.
Warning: N/A, will be updated.

July 27th || Mingle
July 28th || Bomb Defusing / Imperial Assault
July 29th || Mingle / Attack on the 13th District / Aerial Battles / Imperial Camp
July 30th || 14th District on Fire / The Hospital / Mognet Office Attacked
July 31st || The Fire Spreads / Betrayals
August 01st || The Second Wave / Ultima Weapon
August 02nd || Final

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"Woah, easy!" Sonic said, keeping pace and trying to wave off the other workers. "Friend. I probably left my Moogle back a few blocks. I don't think he's in top shape."

Then, his attention back to MarKus. "Empire fulla machines, huh? Sounds like something I've dealt with back home. You don't mind if I borrow some of that gear, do ya? It's kinda hard to fight when I can't use the normal method just yet."

Albel raised his eyebrows and waited, not understanding the pun in the least. Just stared at MarKus as if there must be something else to follow that up, otherwise the other man was even more of a fool.

After a moment, he simply repeated, "... Shocking? That our civilians are wielding weapons?" He supposed that might come across as a surprise to the empire, but that most of the population would end up being slaughtered.

"Have you now?" Sonic sure had his interest now. "At what scale?"

Unfortunately his request will, for now, go ungranted. At least at good quality. "Well... I don't have much here. these are more meant for a surprise." he says. "I mean..." How does he word this properly again.

"When the Empire idiots bring their machines in here, you grab one of them and mess up their machines. I usually make better quality stuff for heroes so..." Not knowing what sort of jobs Sonci had, he simply grabs one of the swords from a barrel and hands it over. "Don't get upset when if it breaks."

He doesn't look to confident in giving it too him either.

"Yup. Wrecked tiny robots, robots that looked like me, gigantic battlesuits, armadas of flying battleships and even and orbital battlestation! With a... little help, of course."

However, he does note how weary MarKus is in letting him have the gear and, once he gets a good look at the blade, he shakes his head and takes it back.

"If it's meant for surprise attacks, keep it." He grins a bit. "No need to ruin a surprise because I need a bit of help. I can probably nick something if one of the creeps drops them."

"No you idiot. For the heroes. They're all enhanced with a lightening element. They're going to be pretty fucking effective when the Empire tries to bring their machines in here." he has to explain in detail.

"That said, I've seen war. It's pretty inevitable that the fighting will end up in the city, so we're setting up near the gates so we can either stop them at the gates, or keep them on the outside."

[People near the library may notice a young woman boarding up the windows. If they head inside, she's also moving around stacks of books. Seems like an odd way to prepare for war, but she's pretty focused on the task. Ask her what she's up to? Help her out? Stop her from messing with a public building?]

[Ib is somewhat at a loss. It seems like there's a lot of preparations going on, far more than for any of the other big battles she's been involved in. Then again, this is also the first time they've had the opportunity to do this much preparing. But she doesn't really know what she should be doing right now. But, yay, there's Sparks! He always knows what's going on.]

Sparks! I want to help too. What should I do?

It wasn't so hard to catch up to the cart and she kicked her legs over the edge letting them swing the moment she was seated next to Markus. "Ugh..." Was the only answer MarKus got to his question as she fell against his shoulder. That lasted for about ten seconds before she was on the move again.

"Chiaki wants us to play these stupid rhythm games to get our... whatever together because we are all on the stupid hacker team for the Ultima weapon plan and I don't want to hear about it!" Yuffie's arms flailed slightly before settling at her side.

She groaned again leaning back so she could look up at the rain as it fell heavily from the side. "It's so stupid!" She was just frustrated.

"That's actually easier done than said. Especially if someone took them out first."

But Sonic's story hits home, even if he's unsure how, if at all, the guy piloted a mech... if he did...

"Name's MarKus. I assume you're a mech pilot by those stories you just told?"

"Name's Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. It's nice to meet ya, MarKus."

He couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "Nah, I can pilot a plane, but that sort of stuff's more Tails' thing. Me? Run fast, spin fast and expect your foe to make a lot of mistakes in between!"

MarKus shakes his head and pulls her back against him. They had a ways to go to the next drop off, so there was plenty of time to hold and comfort the ninja princess.

"It's probably not that bad." he retorts, but before she can continue her whining, he leans over and gives her a kiss. That oughtta hush her for a moment!

[Sparks is a little torn on what to do with Ib. On one hand, she's a Hero, who's trained and become strong with her Jobs just like everyone else. On the other, she's a little kid. He'd hate to see Ib end up as traumatized as Pemily back home was from being thrown into all this violence all the time.

He sighs lightly as he thinks, looking Ib over as he scratches the back of his head.]

Uh. Well. Reckon we could always use more folks keepin' an eye on the town and the people. Dumb buggers didn't get out while they could, 'n now it's too late. You can stick with the police and help out with that, if'n ya like.

"Lightning weapons?" Now that was actually intriguing. Albel didn't bother to ask permission before he withdrew one of the swords, looking it over and testing its weight. Not bad, not bad at all. He wasn't unfamiliar with enchanted weapons and armor.

This could be a good little boost in their favor.

"Hmph. As long as you aren't sending the untrained to their deaths." He replaced the blade. "These could work nicely."

[Ales took the time to visit the library for what may be the last time, planning to check out a few more books on airship design before they got burned, stolen, or whatever. Better to keep in safe with his things, stored with Jessie than out in the open.

He stops when he notices all the windows are boarded up. Are they closed already? But he needs those books!

He dashes to the door, which fortunately isn't locked, and immediately sees Alice carrying around the books.]

Am I still allowed to check out things?

[Priorities.]

[ The bomb is a rather large one, placed against an outer wall of the Magitek Research Facility. By modern standards, the way this bomb is assembled is outdated. Yet, despite being outdated, it is advanced enough that nobody aside from the Heroes of Light has a chance to understand how it works. There are a lot of colored wires and two large tubes filled with liquid. If both liquids start meddling, it's game over.

Trying to remove the tubes or to move the device will instantly set the bomb off.]

[YAT-99s have cannons allowing them to target the buildings from a range and slowly cripple them apart until they collapse, that is if they are left unchecked. The three Airships profit from the same range and are safe to decimate the 12th Districts unless other Airships attack them. The X-ATM110 doesn't bother with range however. This massive machine will charge into the Eidolon Temple first, and unlike the other machines will target any person it happens to pass by. The presence of Moogle Killers means using moogles to communicate is very unsafe. Moogles have a chance to be wounded or killed if they go off alone.

And there is one big issue: while the Airports are mostly empty, there are quite a lot of civilians gathered inside of the Church and the Eidolon Temple. With the war machines targeting these buildings, they are all at risks and may be killed anytime, be it by an attack from a machine or by buildings collapsing on them, should the machines be successful in destroying them.]

Sure!

[She's eager to help, and very glad he didn't tell her to just get somewhere safe or stay out of the fight. And protecting the townspeople is definitely a hero's job.]

Oh! There's a lot of people staying in the Eidolon temple. I'll go protect them. And it'll give me a chance to help the Eidolons out too.

[She was a summoner for quite a while, so she feels almost like she owes them.]

Yuffie was simultaneously annoyed and happy for the sweet gesture of his kiss. She didn’t really like being interrupted when it came to her rants, which were often, and at the same time she was grateful for the warmth seeping into her lips. Her skin was cold having been walking outside in the rain with little to keep her dry or warm.

When their lips broke she stayed leaning against him, quiet for a moment as she thought about the upcoming battle. “Hey… If I don’t make it… or if you don’t….”

Yuffie stopped, she really had no idea where she was going with this but she wanted to do something or say something. At least so there last words would be happy, right? The Empire was coming and they had the power to kill the heroes for good.

[Riding to the Eidolon temple on Mercury allowed Ib to make quite an impressive entrance, and she really hopes the people hiding there took her seriously when she said she was here to defend them. Ib was a summoner for quite a while, so she feels almost like the Eidolons count as friends and allies too. That's why she's standing in front of the temple, staff in one hand, sword in the other. She is determined to stop whatever the enemy is about to throw at them. Combining Warrior with her maxed Red Mage job has given her access to higher level spells and a slightly better strength and defense than she would have had otherwise.

Of course, she wasn't expecting the empire to throw anything quite so big at the temple. Do they hate the Eidolons for some reason? Well, it doesn't matter. She's a hero. She can't back down now. Maybe there's no one in that machine that can hear her, but she addresses it anyway.]

I don't know why you keep hurting people like this....but it has to stop!

[~~Go back to the shadow!!~~ She raises up her staff, and the tip starts crackling with energy.]

I won't let you do this!!

[~~You...shall not...pass!!!~~ She raises the staff up and lightning cascades from the sky.]

Thundaga!!

[Thanks to Dualcast, it actually strikes twice in a row, raining electricity down on the machine. Hopefully that at least got it's attention.]

[Levy had spent most of her time leading up to the battle reading and memorizing important texts at the library, and then helping Alice to get them to a safe place while barricading the building itself. But when the attack starts in the northern districts, she doesn't feel right about just holing up and hiding. Her guild mates are probably out there fighting, and she has no right to do any less than them. When she arrives in the 13th District to see the mechanical monsters the Empire is sending, and Ib bravely facing them down by herself, her first reaction is understandably one of panic.]

Ib...! Hang on, I'm-

[...coming. Levy doesn't even manage to get the entire sentence out before the young wizard springs into action, dual lightning bolts streaking through the air and slamming into the X-ATM110. She's left speechless and staring at the display for a moment before she shakes it off and joins the fray.]

...I'll help too! Thundaja!

[Levy isn't half as experienced as Ib herself, but she does at least have the benefit of multi-target elemental spells behind her thanks to her training as a Black Mage. One bolt of lightning follows Ib's pair and jolts the huge war machine, several secondary bolts shooting off to target the various other mechs in the area.]

[Levy's been helping with this effort too, as well as using her Scholar Job to quickly read and memorize whatever books are judged to be the most important in the library's collection. If worse comes to worst, she can rewrite them if they do get destroyed.]

Whew...

[The young mage sighs, wiping some sweat from her brow as she tucks her hair back behind her hairband again.]

Okay, where else do we need to cover?

[Bloom was always happy to do all the things if it meant helping others. She also wanted to do her bit to ensure civilians that stayed behind that they will do there best to protect them and that they would stay hidden. She had finished her simple duties already and wondered what her nest orders would be. So making her way over, she spotted her commanding officer.]

Bloom, reporting for duty~! What do you need me to do next?

Fai was preparing for the fight himself, knowing that he would need more arrows in his quiver before anything were to happen. Considering he had the Blacksmith job himself which he has never used, he had thought about making his own, but knew deep down that right now that was not the best idea just in case he managed to mess up.

Instead he found himself wondering around the town and soon found himself looking over a few things.

"Did you make all of this yourself?" He said with an impressive tone in his voice.

[Kobato had been helping people evacuate and realized a little too late that she didn't have the time to get out herself. She guess that wasn't going to be such a big thing really, she could at least try and help and make people happy that way after all. She soon found herself at the hospital and just standing there, unsure of what she was suppose to be doing, if anything.]

Um... Do you need help?

[Yugi was a little nervous about actually doing this. It was one thing to just speak, but it was another altogether to actually go through with it and now that he was, he knew it might not have been the best idea. So walking around he was seeing what shop owners were still around and who had thankfully left when he came across the young woman.]

I guess you stayed behind to protect your shop, huh?

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Event || The Empire Strikes Back

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July 27th- Library

Re: July 27th

Gawd, always interrupting!

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Re: Gawd, always interrupting!

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July 28th || Bomb Defusing

July 28th || Imperial Assault

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RAWR

Eidolon Temple- I am the servant of the Sacred Fire. Wielder of the flame of Anor... or just Ib.

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