Possession is 9/10 of the law

[raavashing]

Characters: Anyone helping Wan attempt to counter-possess Asti; Malicant
Date: Sat. 10/25
Location: Various TBD
Situation: Wan is attempting to possess Asti; others are acting as distractions/helping power boost
Warnings/Rating: Will post them in subject lines when/if needed

The log is going to be broken up between the following Event 'points' just to manage them easier:

Pre-Possession Power-Up (Mingle for those powering up Wan before his group heads to the Turtle's Head)
Pre-Distraction Meet-Up (Mingle for the distraction teams to finalize tactics or throw caution to the wind)
Possession Attempt (The actual possession attempt)
Distraction Group One (Headed up by Dante, this group is going to be dealing with the cultists directly)
Distraction Group Two (Network distraction group and/or different group of cultists)
End of the Day (for people to deal with the fallout of the event if they want to do so in this log)

ANYONE can tag in and take part in any of the threads except the Possession Attempt itself - that's closed to Wan, Valdis, Zuko, and Katara so the group is small and less easily noticed.

Comments

[highprofilerichkid]

Suddenly, out of the blue, Akito shows up fifteen minutes late with Starbucks. After he hadn't made an appearance at the planning meeting, Tony had assumed he'd decided to lie low for the big event, or maybe help with the healing at the end of the day.

But apparently not. "Uh— sorry?" Oops. Had he told Akito the wrong info? Oh... yeah, he guesses he did. Gene had had to correct him about the meeting time, but he'd already told Akito, and he'd forgotten to pass on the correction. "I was a little distracted," Tony says pointedly, in Dante's direction.

Giving Dante more grief about breaking into his house and interrupting him and Gene will have to wait, though. Tony's not having much trouble, but Dante is being surrounded. He hates to leave Akito unprotected, but the tiny little kid actually seems to be holding his own, for the moment, so Tony goes to help Dante. He lands next to him and fires unibeam on its widest spread and lowest power, which bowls over an impressive swath of the cultists.

"You're looking a little freakier than usual. Is that supposed to happen, or should I be worried?"

[akito]

Of course they could shapeshift new eyes, and melt the ice around their feet. It figures. Akito is annoyed enough to take a picture out of Agito's book and flip Tony off with a huff before putting distance between himself and the cultists. Moving to higher ground is easy when you can basically fly, though less so with so many enemies around.

Either way, at least he can continue firing off blasts of air pressure. To the cultists it should feel like something exploding right in front of them when they're hit.

[raavashing]

Tony and Dante's combined efforts to clear a path through the bodies was working better than Akito's attempt to stay in the air. The archers had the high ground now and there were a good ten of them now spread out across the surrounding rooftops. Their bodies had shifted to allow them to shoot faster and even if they could't hit Akito, they could keep the air filled with too many arrows for Akito safely navigate and get above. With as many of them as there were on the ground, they were satisfied with forcing the foreigner out of the air.

On the ground, the cultist that Dante and Tony were double-teaming had to take a moment to recover and get back on their feet. Their brothers and sisters filled the spaces between, their skin and bones changed, hardened so that Dante's attacks did no damage. They couldn't do anything about being blasted back, but they were not going to be harmed by the current attempts to assault them while they attempted to overwhelm the two.

[royalguard_style]

"Hey, it's not my fault you were feeling up your boyfriend instead of listening." He dodges the question about his appearance while pointing fingers along with everyone else.

With his attacks not doing any damage and his devil trigger unable to hold out, he switched strategies, and therefore weapons. He quickly grabbed his sword and swung in an attempt to trip the remaining cultists that stood in his way. If he couldn't damage the cultists anymore, that just made things easier for him to dispatch them nonlethally.

[highprofilerichkid]

"And it's not my fault you broke in to my house to give me the info like a huge creep," Tony replies, returning the taunt with good humor. The banter is almost automatic: he's much more concerned with the cultists right now than giving Dante grief about his socially inappropriate information dissemination methods - or pestering him further about his dramatic change in appearance.

The kedan have started to use their shapeshifting abilities to toughen themselves against Dante's attacks. Way less creepy than the shifting eyeball thing they did earlier, but very effective. Tony comes to the same conclusion Dante does: now that they're not likely to be pulped by a poorly-calculated repulsor blast, he can turn up the power on his repulsors and start firing more indiscriminately. So that's exactly what he does.

Tony hits the mob of cultists with a rapid-fire round of repulsors, aiming to clear the field for just a moment to give Dante a chance to recover. Of the three of them, he's getting hit the hardest.

[akito]

The cultists' attempts at keeping him grounded are annoying, but not infallible. Compared to dodging machine-gun fire it's laughably easy to dodge arrows, and there isn't as much of a worry over how many magazines of ammo they have to use. So he sticks to the walls - quite literally, grinding vertically as easily as he would horizontally. Whatever arrows he doesn't dodge are knocked off course with an easy kick of the wind. Arrows that he does dodge, he aims to try and have them hit the cultists below.

Coming up with a better idea for Tony and the other guy to try, Akito sends a mental message to Quintus to pass along to Tony. Aim for the heads. Try to knock them out so they can't adapt.

[raavashing]

Unfortunately for Akito, the Cultists toughing their skin to avoid being damaged by Dante's attacks made it equally difficult for their own arrows to pierce their skin. They mostly bounced off and were otherwise ignored. The group on the ground were focusing on a finding a way to counter being knocked down by Tony's repulsor blasts and Dante's more powerful attacks. They left dealing with Akito to their fellows on the roofs.

With most of the archers focused on keeping Akito below the roofline, one of their members - all long and oddly jointed limbs - put her bow down to jump on Akito as he passed by. His path easily anticipated from the last few passes. She landed hard on his back and side, attempting to use her weight to drag him down and force him to fall into the crowd below.

[royalguard_style]

"Well, I'm so-ree, but it was kind of an emergency." He's not really trying either. Something about keeping himself alive.

In the meantime, he can focus on trying to clear the area around himself. Between Tony's help and the fact that he didn't have to hold back, he was having a much easier time keeping the situation under control. He stuck to wide sweeps and anything that could trip up large groups of them at once.

[highprofilerichkid]

"Oh, right, an emergency." Yeah, passing on thirty seconds-worth of information for something that wasn't happening for three more days was clearly an emergency. "Well, that's totally okay, then." It is not okay. Tony is still plotting his revenge. Like maybe filling Dante's closet with popcorn. Or covering his bathtub in grease. Or nailing all his furniture to the ceiling.

Well, there will be plenty of time for hilarious prank scheming after these cultists have been dealt with. Tony is startled by the mental message relayed by Quintus, but it only takes him a fraction of a second to get over his surprise. He's a little reluctant to aim for heads with his repulsors - he still doesn't want to actually kill anybody - but he takes few experimental low-power shots to see if he can knock any of the cultists out.

Meanwhile, Dante looks like he's recovered and is having an easier time holding his own, so after another round of knocking cultists down like bowling pins, Tony turns to check in on Akito. He looks just in time to see Akito get jumped by one of the cultists. Immediately, he fires off a precision repulsor blast to dislodge her. It's a hard shot - he really appreciates his Extremis-enhanced reflexes right now.