Reprise! Act 1!

[Carthrat]

It knew that Ryoma had cast an invisibility spell, and thrashed it's tail-end wildly to try and catch him anyway.

However, there was little point in casting a target-spell on an invisible person, so it focused it's attention on Relm. It opened it's mouth...

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"Aha!" *click* *Fwoosh!*

<->

A powerful rocket flew from Carthrat's position across the town towards the things mouth. Unfortunately, it managed to react quickly in time to get it's face out the way.

However, it *did* prevent Relm's impending doom, and as well as that, caused the things neck to rear up even higher.

There were even a couple of armour shards missing, but the thing didn't take any real damage from the missile.

Relm had a brief space before the thing got into position again..

[Rezantis]

Not questioning whatever had just hit the beast, Relm clenched her fist and used an air effect . . . in an attempt to pry the centipede's mouth open.

That one was probably going to be a difficult trick, and Relm's face drew into a tense mask as she bent her will and abilities to the task.

[Carthrat]

The thing realised what Relm was doing to it, and tried to close it's mouth in response, figuring that not doing whatever it was Relm wanted to do was a good idea.

However, it's jaws slowly started to open, despite it's trashing about..

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"You go, little girl!" yells Carthrat, seeing what's happening and perhaps not quite recognizing Relm. If she could open that things mouth, and *keep* it open, well, that'd be game, wouldn't it?

She starts reloading her launcher..

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma shimmered back into view, closer to where he'd dropped his things. Eyeing the current state of the monster, he watched thoughtfully for a moment, then closed his eyes, and a large pair of snow white wings seemed to burst from his back. With a single beat, he took to the air...

[Carthrat]

The creature trashed about, demolishing stretches of town with it's weight alone. After a brief period, it lunged towards Relm, jaws open wide..

A loud noise was emnating from it's mouth, kinda like a scream.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn blinked at the receptionist.

"Ugg, never mind.  Do you know where the library is?"

I'll probably be able to find a map there.

[Rezantis]

Leaping backwards off the roof, Relm had time to release three gale blades at the creature's open mouth before dropping below the edge of the building, and thusly out of line of sight.

Landing lightly on the ground (cheating, naturally), Relm dashed backwards and to her right; running away from the bar and around the far side of the Mage Guild.

[Carthrat]

*click* *fwoosh!*

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Another rocket streaked across the town, this time missing the creature on account of the bigass fireball that shot from it's open mouth.

The resulting explosion was somewhat large, and it caused, amazingly enough, to force the creature back once more.

It also managed to demolish the roof of the bar (and a fair chunk of the wall), causing it to collapse. Thankfully, it had just been emptied. However, the heat from both missiles could be felt across the whole town square.

Ryoma, from his vantage point, could see everything that was happening, and also that the creatures attention seemed to be on Relm..

[Rezantis]

Who, having noted that it was indeed a -bigass- fireball, was staying off the roofs for a second as she dashed around a couple more buildings.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma, for his part, rose higher into the air, staying behind the creature's head, formulating a plan of attack, and weaving around the rockets that somebody appeared to be shooting at it.

Hmm...Maybe they eyes? His mana now fully restored, he wove a small spell to mask the sounds of his movements, examining the other people who were dueling with it. They didn't appear to be in stupid or in immediate danger, so he paused to figure out an approach that wouldn't leave him vulnerable to the drain again...

[Carthrat]

The creature, as it couldn't quite see Relm or Ryoma easily, turned to it's next threat, the explosives-firing thing from across the town.

Of course, while to any normal person, across the town was a fair distance, it wasn't to the thing, who nonetheless chose a perhaps more effective way of dealing with the threat.

That terrible maw opened once again, and those strange sounds starting rolling out of it..

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Carthrat-chan blinked, and realised that the most viable escape route would be, in fact, over the town wall.

Oh well, it beat being squished, she thought, jumping over the edge..

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma frowned. The woman who looked to be the monster's next target didn't look to have an escape route handy. He was marginally gratified to see her leap over the town wall, but this wouldn't buy her much time unless she was exceptionally fast, or she knew something he didn't.

"Time to play distraction..." he murmured, and he swooped over, level with the monster's eye. "This may be overkill, but that draining trick kinda pissed me off." he informed the monster.

Quickly, he raised his index fingers, each glowing green with ki. Pointing one at the monster's eyeball, he stabbed his finger into air. "Distance breaking point...AIR SPEAR!"

A ki charged needle of air fired from his fingertip, straight at the monster's eye. Even as he released the attack, Ryoma flew back to the monster's blindspot, fast enough to leave afterimages, in anticipation of retaliation...

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn sighed, and turned away from the receptionist to the sounds coming from the outside.

Stepping outside, he saw half the town swathed in ruins, with various people milling here and there, including a woman leaping over a wall, and a DBZ character shooting ki at a giant centipede thingy.

Ginn lit up a cigarette, and alighted to the roofs (whichever ones were left) to view the fight.

[Carthrat]

The monsters prompt response to Ryoma's remark and forthcoming attack was a powerful blast of searing heat that blew from it's open mouth, nullifying his little attack and setting Ryoma on FIRE before he could dodge out the way. Perhaps he would've been able to under other circumstances; but the way in which he swooped in front of the monsters forthcoming spell to deliver his own attack didn't *quite* work the way he intented.

[Bean Bandit]

Fortunately, Ryoma hadn't been flying in front of the monster, so the flames only scored a partial hit before he fell away from the path of the attack.

The beating of his wings put out the slight charring on the feathers there within moments, and he slapped quickly at the burning sleeve of his shirt, and the leg of his pants, alighting on the monster's head and retracting his wings to finish extinguishing his smouldering clothing. Grabbing tightly onto a handhold, he continued slapping at the flames until his clothing was fire free once again.