Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods, and stretches out her hand, as if to touch the ice, envisioning the hard, shimmery substance obeying her will, and retreating from the surface of the escalator...

[Anastasia]

* Musk-bot --> "Ami-chan rolls 2d6 and gets 5."

Once again reaching into your powers as the avatar of Mercury, Ami implores and moves the ice to move! Retreating from the escalator, a space is created to go through, up to the next floor!

Viluy smiles a moment at Ami, "That was good, Ami," she says, beginning to carefully ascent the slippery stair.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles self depreciatingly. "I've gotten better at it since Rei-chan's been helping me." she admits, gingerly following the green haired woman up the frozen steps.

[Anastasia]

"Rei's excellent at spiritual matters," Viluy agrees, thinking a bit of her occasoinal stints at the Shrine while ever so slowly climbing up the stair. And up, and up and up...to the fourth floor!

OOC - Short pause until I get a bit more done with Haruka. Hold on.

[Anastasia]

Rising through the hole in the floor, you come up and get a look around. It's a bit brighter up here, but otherwise the same. Almost.

Except for, you know, four stubby pillars of ice around Haruka and Artemis in a roughly 10 ft radius, forming a rough off center square, with a terrible blizzard starting inside!

"Guh!" You hear Artemis gasp, staggering from the cold! A step behind you, Neptune sees the scene ahead of you.

"Haruka!"

[Bean Bandit]

"Artemis!" Ami cries, rushing closer as she turns back to her computer, adjusting her visor once more, trying to see what's at work, and how it can be stopped.

[Anastasia]

Rushing forward, Ami's trusted visor analyses the situation.

....

It seems that the four pillars are a source of cold energy, sending out the nasty trap that is currently trying to make Uranus and Mau-sicles. Together, they are projecting the field, a distant fountaint of power feeding it, but that'll take a bit ot time to trace.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka staggers slightly under the strength of the focused blizzard as the cold bites into her.  She turns to the Mau quickly, "Get out of the circle, Artemis!  I'm gonna see if taking out one of these pillars will help any," Haruka tells him, not waiting for a response, she gives the cat-man a push forward.

Turning in the opposite direction now (so as to not accidentally blast Artemis) Haruka raises a hand to shield her eyes slightly from the wind.  Spying the shadowy outline of her target she gathers energy into her palm and calls out...

"World Shaking!"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami grits her teeth, and considers an attack, but judging the nature of the trap, she decides her powers may make things worse. Instead, sets her computer to seek out the frequency and nature of the power feed, to find out if there's a way to block the incoming power...

[Anastasia]

* Musk-bot --> "Haruka rolls 2d6+1 Musky and gets 10."

Haruka's World Shaking fires forward, hitting the pillar straight ahead of her! It shatters into a million pieces even as your body numbs from the cold. (5 damage).

Artemis stumbles forward, towards the edge of the blizzard! Just barely stumbling out, he falls to his knees at the very outside border, shivering deeply!

Ami - You could, maybe, with your own powers, but it would be a battle.

The cold wanes a bit with one pillar destroyed, yet is still icy death for Haruka's skin! Despite the pain, she is still functional, however.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami turns quickly Neptune, urgency in her voice. "Viluy! The pillars are generating the storm! Try and destroy them, and I'll try and cut the incoming power!"

Nervously summoning all the strength she posesses, Ami prepares for the struggle, and reaching out with her connection he her element, she feels for the influx of power, and pictures an icy wall, to prevent any more of the blizzard's power from getting through...

[Liddo-kun]

"Boom..." Haruka chatters out with an icy grin at the destruction of her target.

Eyeing the remaining three spiers, she gathers energy into her upraised fist once more, then lets loose her attack!  She was banking on the hope that this last strike would bring it all down.

This should do it....

"World Shaking!"

[Anastasia]

* Musk-bot --> "Haruka rolls 2d6+1 for icy fun and gets 8."

* Musk-bot --> "Ami-chan rolls 2d6+2 burning 20 EP! and gets 12."

* Musk-bot --> "Viluy rolls 2d6 and gets 7."

"World...."

"Deep..."

"Sumerge! Shaking!"

Haruka's golden orb flies forth, shattering a second pillar while Viluy's called attack hits another! While not destroying the pillar, it does rock it and seem to liquify some of the ice on it!

Meanwhile, Ami focuses her will on the power stream as best she can! The two wills meet in a battle!

Yet Ami's attempt is roughly pushed back by the force!

The cold around Haruka slows considerably, lessoning by quite a fair deal. The ice and snow stops almost entirely. (2 damage). It feels better already, Viluy calling out.

"Haruka! Get out of there!"

And Artemis just picks himself up, giving Ami a momentary smile as he rights and focuses himself after that.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami frowns, irritated by her lack of progress, but abandoning the attempt as she sees two more pillars destroyed, and Artemis free. She smiles a little at Artemis, hurrying over to check the Mau out, and make sure he's not hurt, and at the same time, scanning for Haruka...

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka staggers out of the circle gingerly, feeling rather stiff and languid, as she tries to rub some warmth into her arms as she goes.

"C-coming..." she manages to shiver out with a strained grin, putting in as much frozen humor as she can muster.