A dream

[temperedinpride]

[Dva, Raven, and Vergil will all find, whatever they are doing in their dreams tonight, that a strange portal appears invitingly before them. That looks safe! Well, at least Vergil is familiar with it.

They will find that taking it leads to a garden.]

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Garden

[temperedinpride]

[Cosmo lounges on a bench in the gazebo by the lake, in a garden ablaze with autumn colors. He's lounging on a bird made of fire reading a book.

A door with a silhouette stands nearby, leading...? Who knows until you open it.

You feel... Powerful. All your abilities at your beck and call. Mecha? Familiars? Yamato? Yours to command if you know how.

Well this is a good setting to hang out with Cosmo or each other between things.]

Re: Garden

[auguryofinnocence]

[Cosmo is cute......... He looks around and smiles, but crosses his arms over his chest.]

Scheming tonight...?

Re: Garden

[temperedinpride]

I thought I would invite a few guests. You all seemed restless on our last outing.

[He closes the book, letting it vanish in thin air.]

I imagine they'll arrive shortly.

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[420blazeit]

[ she doesn't remember falling asleep, but she also had a piece of shrapnel in her head a couple of days ago so, like, for all she knows she just passed out on the floor or something. ]

[ this is new though! and it's a heck of a lot better than the BS her brain normally dreams up. a+. 10/10. would dream again. ]

[ she approaches cosmo, sparing the door a glance and taking note of the device on her wrist. ] What'cha reading?

Re: Garden

[420blazeit]

Is it smutty?

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[temperedinpride]

....

Re: Garden

[temperedinpride]

A Treatise on the Arcane Application of A-Towa-Cant's Elemental Pacification on Non-Elemental Entities.

You might find it a bit dry.

Re: Garden

[selfpreservationist]

[something feels different... but raven can tell, as soon as he looks around, that this is a dream]

What's the occasion?

Re: Garden

[temperedinpride]

A chance to blow off steam.

Re: Garden

[temperedinpride]

[When everyone is ready the door glows, indicating it's open.]

The Chimera Door

[temperedinpride]

[Stepping through this door sends you to a flat, snow-covered peak in some cold, forsaken mountains. It's a big enough area to fight in, but cliffs ring the place, some leading up, some leading down--a drop so deep you cannot see the bottom through the distant mists.

Six massive three-headed creatures roam the snow. The three heads menacing, the scorpion tails deadly.

To draw the attention of one is to draw the attention of all.

Things to note:

The Dragon's Head will cast a MASSIVE donut AOE around each creature at intervals, very far or very close is safe, but being hit will cause intermittent paralysis. As well as electric orbs that target someone and chase them, exploding on contact with the target or anyone else, they also paralyze.

The Ram's Head will cast a medium ice circle AOE under each creature, being close is unsafe when that happens, as the ice will encase anyone caught in it for a short time, freezing them solid.

The Lion's head will breathe fire on those close.

The Scorpion Tail will sting and poison anyone it hits.

The claw swipes hit brutally hard.

And the hitpoints of each Chimera have been boosted from low level Midboss to Raid Boss.

Enjoy AOE status effect hell.]

Re: The Chimera Door

[selfpreservationist]

... a warm-up, is it.

[shadow takes an aggressive stance, growling]

Re: The Chimera Door

[auguryofinnocence]

Don't tell me you think it's too much, Raven.

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[420blazeit]

[ she steps out and immediately freezes to death. ]

Re: The Chimera Door

[420blazeit]

C- C- C- Cosmo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ shivering like it's going out of style. ]

Re: The Chimera Door

[temperedinpride]

[No response but a warm red glow engulfs her, soft heat radiates inward, until she feels none of the cold.

Vergils are on their own with the chill.]

Re: The Chimera Door

[auguryofinnocence]

[He's still pissy when he goes through the door, but actually being faced with a fight does put a feral man in a better mood. Enough at least to focus only on the chimeras.]

A word to the wise. Cosmo's creatures and magic tend to favour paralysing effects and ranged magic that may be impossible to avoid.

[But he's teleporting right over to one to attack immediately.]

Re: The Chimera Door

[temperedinpride]

[When everyone is done warming up (haha) the door back to the garden and a door with a strange blob silhouette stand glowing. You can move on directly or go say hi to Cosmo and then move on.]

The blob door

[temperedinpride]

[This door leads to a dark circular platform over a long drop. Upon it is something shaped like a friend???

The monster is huge, and not very mobile, but it has a ton of hitpoints and it's a proper boss. The tentacles can hit anywhere on the platform and they stun if they connect. The good thing is he's slow with swiping them, the bad thing is they hit a huge area.

Other things to note:

There is a constant HP bleed effect while you fight him, it's a race against time and there's a lot of him to fight.

Sometimes the floor of the arena is covered in a gross miasma that leaks upwards and drains vitality. Stand on raised parts of the platform or fly to avoid this grossness.

Even grosser, the bellymouth will turn and vomit a damaging acid at someone, rendering a fourth of the arena unsafe for a time. Don't get hit!

He flails his tentacles. A lot.

Sometimes he'll summon slimes and try to eat them. Each he manages to inhale gives him a damage boost. Don't be in his way when he does inhale, he'll eat you too. You'll get vomited back out but... Gross. Also the acid hurts.

Technically this thing is a demon so while it's not as tricksy as some things and with fewer direct attacks(just vomit and tentacles), damaging it is also more work.]

Re: The blob door

[selfpreservationist]

[sighs and holds his arm aloft, summoning griphon, who perches on raven as he shakes out his feathers.

"Alright, whadda ya want me to vaporize--holy moly, that thing STINKS!"]

Don't fly too close to its maw. I imagine you look... quite appetizing to it.

[griphon's feathers ruffle moodily. "Yeah, yeah, I'm a regular chicken dinner to this pile of garbage. Got any new ones for me?"]

Re: The blob door

[420blazeit]

[ following the slaughter of all of the chimera she changes back to her old self and that’s when she summons her mech, tokki. ]

[ this thing reminds her of the octo-imp boss she fought toward the end of the invasion, so... not so much something to help relive stress as much as spike it, but oops. ] Hey, Cosmo, can we get some music to go along with this! Need to make it uber epic!!

[ she climbs into her mech, feeling somewhat better, safer, and more confident, so she activated the thrusters and gets into the air. ]

It’s game time~

Re: The blob door

[temperedinpride]

[And when all is said and done with the demon, only a one glowing door remains.]

The Phoenix Door

[temperedinpride]

[This doorway leads to a volcanic caldera. In true RPG fashion there's actually lava flows surrounding the arena but it is somehow not too hot to fight in? A warm glow engulfs you as you enter, healing and soothing and cleansing any filth.

Cosmo lounges on a red crystal throne on the far side of the arena, the phoenix perched on the back of it. He has his chin in his hand and the slouched posture of any good indolent villain on a throne. Maybe it's the perspective but--is he a lot bigger than normal? Like, same proportions, same robes and mask, but on someone seventeen feet tall.]

You have bested fiend and abomination. Now will you test yourself against me?

Re: The Phoenix Door

[auguryofinnocence]

[Oh no this is targeted harassment. How could Cosmo do this. Vergil's sweating. It might be obvious that he's into fighting as flirting but please no one notice or call him out. Let him live his life.]

I don't know, are you going to cheat?

Re: The Phoenix Door

[420blazeit]

[ is he somehow more handsome when he’s looking like an asshole and bigger? yes, the answer is yes. ]

No hard feelings when we kick your butt, right~