Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Liddo-kun]

"The Orestes and Cynthia sculptures," Haruka says, adding to Viluy's statement.  "I knew something was wrong, but I didn't think it was going to turn out like this..." she trails off, her tone colored with some self-accusation and guilt.

With a shake of her head she continues, looking at the other two Senshi.  No use thinking about what we COULD'VE done.  "Artemis is right, we've got a job to do, ladies.  First order of business is to track down Celcia, but I'd like to get the mall go-ers out of here.  Any ideas?"

Heh.  Of course Eudial pops into my head with that... she thinks to herself with a mental smirk.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles slightly, glancing over at the nearest frozen mall goer and letting her visor check them for dangers to their health from the ice, hoping fervently that the freezing process was cold enough to simply put them into suspended animation.

"I'm not optimisitic..." Ami responds, a bit apologetically. "They're essentially furniture at the moment. "Moving them away could be time consuming. We might be better served trying to draw her away from them, and choosing the battleground ourselves, if that's possible."

[Anastasia]

Ami:

Your scan results are...the people seem to be alive, just frozen so quickly that they are almost suspended. Also, the ice around them connects to the ice sheet across the floor, generally.

[Liddo-kun]

"Furniture?  Moving them?" Haruka echoes, staring back at Ami uncomprehendingly for a moment before, "Oh!  No, I meant the people in the mall who weren't on ice, actually...."

With a cough, "At any rate, yes, your idea about taking the fight out of here sounds great, but how do we draw her away?  I'm not sure we have a suitable bait for the occasion."

[Anastasia]

"What we need to do is to stop here as soon as possible. If we root out the cause, everyone here should be saved when we do. I think." Declaring so, Artemis shivers and glances around...stopping when he sees the open space between floors. Ice is sheeting out from the floor, extending and sealing the floor with a thick seal of blue/white ice!

"Well...crap." Artemis says, succintly. "She's not going for the floating throne above the mall this time."

[Bean Bandit]

Why can't these things ever be simple? Ami checks her computer again, devoting a portion of the scan to looking over the ice sculptures, their only lead to date on where Celcia might be.

"I think Artemis is right." Ami affirms. "As nice as it would be to ensure everyone got out safely, time is of the essence..." she trails off, watching the ice. "And that hilights the point rather nicely." she replied, shaking her head, and turning back to her computer. Where do we go? I don't want to stand and watch this happen...

[Anastasia]

Gazing at the now iced over surface of the open gap aboe and below, the area darkens somewhat due to even the weak light through the snowclouds being further blocked.

"We need to do something soon, before we get trapped in ice as well," Viluy comments, turning back to Haruka. "We need to find Miss Nakahime, too."

And take care of this...together.

Ami:

Your computer scans the ice scuptures as well as...there's something. There seems to be a deep anomaly on the first floor, by the statues. It's not clear if it's the main anomaly quite yet, but it's something.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles a little. Success! she stores her computer for the moment, but leaves her visor down, continiously taking readings for the moment. Not what I wanted, but any information is a victory of sorts.

Reaching into her subspace pocket, her fingers closed around the familiar metallic shape of her bracelet, withdrawing it and slipping it over her gloved wrist.

"I've got readings on the first floor." she tells the older girls. "...Near the statues...But, it may not be her." she cautions, then bites her lip, nodding. "Or, I could begin trying to undo some of what's already done, and we can see if it draws her out..."

[Anastasia]

Artemis nods, with a pleased smile. "Good work, Ami-chan. I say well try to get to the first floor and deal with what's down there...it may not be her, but I imagine it's related. Better that fishing around up here and hoping."

Sailor Neptune merely turns to Haruka, curious to her love's imput before commenting to Artemis. "If the Mirror reacted to Miss Nakahime before, perhaps it can find her now?"

[Liddo-kun]

"Near the statues..." Haruka parrots with a contemplative frown before nodding.  "Sounds like we're going to the first floor then."

She eyes the icy landscape around her warily before setting off in the lead.

Walking alongside Viluy, she ruffles the girl's green hair slightly before asking in measured tones, "You sure you'll be okay?  When we were down there last time...."  Haruka leaves the statement unfinished, giving Viluy a glance to convey her worry.

[Anastasia]

Smiling back, "I'm fine, Haruka," Viluy comments, composed now. "We have a job to do." Doing the same composure to herself that she did to her spirit, she assumes a calmer pose.

Fighting for a new age and for reformation...sounds good...and gracefully.

Yet that breaks a moment later, a familiar smile appearing. "Fighting gracefully..." Viluy murmurs to Haruka.

As you begin to walk, you notice the escalators have been iced over as well with a thick sheet of ice that covered everything else. Going down without doing something isn't viable at the current time. And to top it off, it's getting colder.

Artemis nods to Ami as he begins to walk. "Ami-chan, can you do something to help us reach the first floor?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods. "Alright."  She closes her eyes, reaching into her bond with water and ice, feeling for the bracelet's power as well, and extending the control to the ice coating the escalator, and telling it to retreat...

[Anastasia]

* Hatbot --> "Ami-chan rolls 2d6-1 and gets 6."

Reaching into her Talisman's power and her own mastery over ice, Ami extends her spirit outward! Were one so inclined to see it by a great gift of extrahuman sight, the faint, concentrating face of one Ami Mizuno could be seen over the ice, as it receded from the escalator in a ten foot wide hole, the sheet of ice proving to be at least fifteen feet thick. A blast of colder, frigid air gushes out from this, causing a welt of shivering and wincing!

"Good work again," Artemis nods, through slightly chattering teeth. Below, the second story sits, cloaked in shadows and cold.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami shivers, smiling wanly at Artemis, and nodding, pulling out her computer again to suppliment her visor, cycling through viewing options to pierce the shadows, tentatively stepping forward to the top of the escalator, wary of what else might come up from below.

"I suppose no one has torches or a floodlight on them..." she jokes weakly as she peers into the gloom.

[Anastasia]

Fiddling with the visor, Ami reaches a mode which improves her seeing downstairs somewhat. Peering into the blackness, you can see the second floor, with similiar, all encasing cloak of ice across it. At the moment, it doesn't look dangerous.

Well, as much as icy stairs and freezing air isn't dangerous.

""I'm afraid not," Viluy ventures back weakly, staring down into the abyss herself. "Can you see anything, Sailor Mercury?"