Log - Stop the scouting party!

[the_last_free_mods]

Who: Lancer, Archer (Fate/Prototype), Cross Blanchard, Terry Bogard
What: A Fae scouting party has been discovered. Orders were given to eliminate it before it could return to friendly territory.
Where: Outside Midgard
When: June 7
Warnings: Fighting.
Turn Order: Terry -> Lancer -> Archer -> Cross -> GM

It had been one day since the sentry reported seeing Fae in the area. They had purportedly withdrawn into a small, wooded area half a mile from the city walls. Suspecting that that was where their encampment was, the order was given to take them out.

Thus, four champions would find themselves leaving the city and heading toward the woods.

Comments

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

"Nice day for a walk in the woods, eh guys?"

Terry walks, arms behind his head, looking around at the scenery. He walks at a somewhat ambling pace, looking all like he doesn't have a care in the world. Looking like it, anyway.

"So what do you suppose these Fae folk look like, anyway?" he asks by way of conversation.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer shrugs. "Pretty nice, I guess. Almost reminds me of home."

He turns toward Terry. "Probably something like me. Or my biological father. All golden and glowy and pretty and shit."

[prototype_king]

Gilgamesh is walking along with the group with an air of nonchalance to match Terry's - he's not even carrying a weapon yet.

"Only one of those words really applies to you, Lancer. Most likely, they'll be...unearthly, somehow. And not just because we're not on Earth," he replies. "Weird things live in the woods..."

[hero_of_smiles]

Well with all these men tracking the fae folk one would think the fourth would the last member would be as such. But nope they get a boy.

"Maybe they'll be robots? I mean don't think the bad guys would want to send out their people for scouting missions if they could get hurt."

Or you know killed, but Cross is trying not think of that.

[the_last_free_mods]

As the party walked, they eventually reached what appeared to be a transparent wall, glowing very slightly blue. Touching it would result in an electric shock, and even then, it felt like solid glass. The scouting party had set up a force field around their encampment, and the party would have to find a way to disable or destroy it if they wanted to advance.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

Ho boy. "Kid, you have got a LOT to learn about what people in power are willing to sacrifice to get what they want," Terry replies, more serious in tone. He looks back the way he's going, and stops just in time to prevent himself from smacking right into the wall. "Whoa now. What do we have here?" He stands in front of it, hands on hips, analyzing. "Some sorta barrier thing?"

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer stops making faces at Gilgamesh and turns toward the wall. "Sure looks like it."

Seeing as how he was always more of a hands-on learner, he decides to prod at the wall a bit. However, he's also smart enough to not come into direct contact with it. Therefore, he pokes it with his spear.

The wall feels completely solid for him. In addition, blue electric sparks dance around his spear every time he pokes it into the forcefield.

[prototype_king]

"Hm. Damn fairies want to talk to me about walls. Stand back!" Gil says dramatically. With gestures that state that he means way back. "Shouldn't be too hard to overwhelm this..."

Gilgamesh himself takes several paces back from the wall before bringing his hand up to a tattoo on his torso, and a glowing hole opens up in the air as he mentally reaches for the weakest Noble Phantasm in his arsenal.

"No, seriously, far away." He'll wait impatiently for the others to move back away from the forcefield before invoking -

"KEY OF THE KING'S LAW: BABIL!" and firing out a high-velocity projectile vaguely in the shape of a shortsword that will slam into the forcefield and explode forcibly.

- unless they don't move, in which case he'll just quickly get more impatient.

[hero_of_smiles]

Should they really be making this much noise though? Cross is going to move out of the way though.

"I really don't think we should be doing this! If we want to catch them we shouldn't be, you know, screaming and stuff!"

Cross looks at the barrier though. "If it's technology it probably can be disable...if not well..."

Beating it up might be a good idea...

[the_last_free_mods]

The sword hit the force field and exploded...but when the smoke cleared, the force field showed no signs of weakening.

However, that was about to be the least of Gilgamesh's worries, as the sound of a sword swinging at him from behind could be heard by the Servant. However, there was nothing to be seen behind him.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

"Huh?!" Terry hears the sound of something, but he can't figure out where it's coming from. He rolls away from the source, putting his fists up in defense, but there's nothing to be seen. "You gotta be shitting me! INVISIBLE bad guys?! That's friggin' cheap!" Almost as cheap as an SNK End Boss, really.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer uses his spear to deflect the coming swords.

"Probably got veils of invisiblity. Bust those and we'll be able to see them just fine."

At least, that was how it worked in his world.

"I'll deal with these guys. You people just keep hacking at that barrier."

[prototype_king]

Gilgamesh is saved mainly by a combination of experience and superhuman reflexes as he dives forward in a roll on instinct. He comes up facing the direction of the attack and with two swords in his hands, Enki appearing from out of nowhere.

"If a Noble Phantasm didn't cut through it, we'll be here all day," he says irritably, making testing slashes in the direction of his original assailant. "Kid, you look for a power source or magic crystal or whatever while we fight this guy...these guys...whatever."

[hero_of_smiles]

Invisible men trying to cut them with swords. What fun times. Cross had managed to avoid them just narrowly if he had been targeted as well as he looked to the others.

The blond man was telling him to go look for a way to disable the barrier. Looking to the others and back to blondey he nodded. "I'll be back soon than, just be careful!"

Taking some steps back, Cross pulls out several EMP charges as he begins to plant them around the barrier. Hopefully this will be enough to turn it of if it's tech.

[the_last_free_mods]

Most of the attacks missed, but Gilgamesh did get in one lucky hit. It was only a scratch, though, but it was leaving a trail of blood drops. Cross, meanwhile, would find no resistance coming his way; all attention was on the other three.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

Damnit. "Easier said than done!" Terry barks, dodging as best he can. Still, he's finding it hard to avoid what he can't see.

Fuck this shit.

He doesn't normally like to whip out this sort of thing this early, but desperate times call for desperate measures -- or desperation moves.

He whips his arms around him, and a massive surge of chi surrounds him. "GEYSER!" He slams his fist into the ground, and the force surges up and around him. Any attacking forces in the area are almost certain to get hit -- as well as any of them in FRONT of him, as he launches his trademark Triple Geyser. Wears him out a bit, but you do what you gotta.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer jumps away from the explosion of chi and rock.

"Watch where you're hitting, dumbass!"

As if to compete with Terry, he traces the Ansuz rune and sends out an explosion of fire. That done, he turns toward the other two fighters.

"When I say I'll handle them, I'll handle them. I've got some tricks that can keep them from scampering around all over the place, seeing how they're invisible."

[prototype_king]

"Shut up, he's mine."

Gilgamesh focuses, gritting his teeth in irritation, fires forth another three swords from Babil, eyes focused on where that thin trail of blood is going. The bullet-speed blades converge on the space around where the enemy should be.

[hero_of_smiles]

Cross is currently planting those EMP charges around a part of the barrier. He doesn't have enough to circle the whole thing but hopefully, if the electric magnetic pulse can extend far enough, it'll collapse the thing. Taking a good few steps back, he pulls out the trigger and presses it. The charges will explode letting out an electrical pulse that will shut down most electronics. Hopefully this barrier is one and if not that, maybe the blast will go far enough to disable those cloaked guys cloaking devices. He'd just have to hope.

[the_last_free_mods]

Between the three attacks, the invisible assailant stood no chance. The invisibility shut off, and a black figure, partially charred, fell to the ground.

The EMPs managed to hit the devices generating the force field and shut them down, bringing the force field down with them. However, the moment it went down, a series of blood-curdling howls was unleashed. The howls sounded like they came from a pack of hounds, and they could smell the intruders.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

"So the hounds are after the wolves, huh," he mutters. He tips his hat over his eyes. "Well boys," he says, "I'd say 'so much for subtlety,' but it's pretty obvious we're all about as subtle as a sack of bricks anyway."

He prepares himself for the attack. "So we might as well show them how hard a sack of bricks can hit, eh?"

[puppy_lancer]

Dogs? Well, then he was right in his element. Lancer smiles, stands straight and takes a deep breath.

"You! You there! Boys! Heel!"

He points in the direction of the sounds, as if expecting the hounds to obey him.

[prototype_king]

Gilgamesh takes a short pause to prod the blackened fallen enemy with his foot, looking for any clues as to what it was or where it came from, but when the howling starts, he refocuses on fighting, raising Enki and looking in whatever direction Terry and Lancer aren't.

[hero_of_smiles]

Well at least the barrier is down. But by the sounds of it there are dogs coming. Cross draws out his sword looking about, before taking a few throwing knives in hand.

[the_last_free_mods]

Unfortunately for the group, these were not ordinary hounds, and ignored Lancer's command. Three blurs emerged from deeper into the woods; one hound each tried to take Terry, Lancer, and Gilgamesh, snarling and trying their best to bite their foes.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

Terry bends low as the dog leaps at him -- before immediately launching into his trademark Crack Shot move, jumping in the air and swinging his leg down, hoping to use the forward momentum of the dog and sudden movements to make the move hurt that much more on the dog's schnoz.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer sighs and shakes his head.

"Guess these boys like to play rough."

His counter is simple. A quick spear thrust into the dog's open maw.

[prototype_king]

Gilgamesh's attack, like all of his attacks, is brutal. He slashes both his swords across the charging dog's head as it leaps at him, bracing himself to neither jump nor give ground to the thing's weight.

[hero_of_smiles]

Seems like everything is just ignoring Cross. That's a good thing though. Makes it easy to throw, throwing knives at the hounds and try and take out their legs.

[the_last_free_mods]

Lancer's and Gilgamesh's attacks kill the hounds rather quickly. Terry's puts the third in a world of hurt, and Cross's knives indeed take out its legs.

With the hounds down, some shouts can be heard from within the woods:

"Send backup! Repeat, send backup!"
"Give it up, you idiot! We're just out of range!"
"No, it can't be! They should be getting this!"
"Dammit, give it up and let's get out of here!"

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

"Well listen to that. Sounds like they wanna pull a runner on us. That's bad sportsmanship, don't you think?" Terry scoffs, quietly. "Better teach them a thing or two about sticking to their posts."

He begins heading in towards the sound of their voices. Carefully. Only an IDIOT would walk into enemy-filled woods blindly.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer is too caught up in the fighting to reply. Like Terry, he heads toward the direction of the voices, keeping an eye out for potential traps.

[prototype_king]

Gilgamesh makes a dismissive sound, shaking the blood off his swords, then listens closely to the voices.

Hoping to cut down any escape, he jumps up onto a sturdy-looking branch on one of the nearest trees. Listening and looking for movement, he prepares to rain down a barrage of swords at machine-gun pace as soon as he sees or hears anything wyrd trying to flee.

Sorry this is late.

[hero_of_smiles]

Cross follows behind the others towards the voices. He draws out more knives to use to try and disable movement from the enemies.

[the_last_free_mods]

They don't take long to spot. There's two masked, lightly-armored soldiers in the middle of a small clearing, trying to pack up their belongings and escape. They don't seem to have noticed that they've been spotted, however.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

Terry looks at the others, then nods. He raises his hand. One... two... three!

He pounds the ground with his fist. "Power Wave!" That oughta trip them up a bit.