Samurai skills and mystical arts(Natsume thread)

[Anastasia]

Pondering in the ice cold mall, Natsume notes that:

1. It's cold. Quite so, as a matter of fact. Not a problem for any of the new residents, likely, but certainly one for you.

2. Perhaps it's due to the lack of relative light or some other, unforeseen reason, but the ice creatures haven't seemed to notice you yet. Still.

3. From the sounds of an icy SLURRK! behind you, something just happened. It sounded like something moving and rubbing against another thing harshly, grating, almost.

[Midnight Sun]

Natsume whirls around at the peculiar sound, manifesting her ki sword in the same instant. She manages to resist the urge to scream out "WHO'S THERE!", for fear of making her presence known to the ice demons.

[Anastasia]

Behind you, the entrance you carved it is slowly being recovered in ice! Fragments slither out of the frozen floor and up, filling in the gap that your own energy and efforts cut out. Lining the shrinking hole, ice grates against ice as it settles in, making a unique and unsettling din.

[Midnight Sun]

Well that is certainly encouraging, ice that can regenerate itself apparently...

"So no matter how much I hack and slash at these things, they'll just grow back," Natsume says to herself, gripping her sword even tighter than before. "Wonderful, as if things weren't hard enough..."

Her heart started to race, and her hands began shaking again...but this time it felt different. Before there was an ice cold lump dead in the middle of her stomach. She knew it had to be fear...but now...this was not fear she was feeling, it couldn't be, this was a feeling she had never really felt before...

It...kinda feels like whenever I fight Ann...heh...all this activity must really be getting to me....

"Whatever's happening to me...," she whispers, a toothy almost...feral grin forming on her face. "I think...I might like it..."

[Anastasia]

As Natsume goes through her own cat like smile and realisation, the ice palace in front of her gleams. Though, there is a shaking from above a moment later, distant but loud and reverberating.

Like something just went boom, perhaps.

[Midnight Sun]

What...what in the world was that?

It sounded like a bomb went off in the distance.

That...sure as heck wasn't me....

Natsume decides a wait a few moments to see how the ice demons react.

[Anastasia]

A minute or so passes. The ice creatures don't seem to react much, instead holding their course as it is.  There is no repeat of the rocking sound from above, either.

[Midnight Sun]

Enough of this, I can't just stand here all day. I made the decision to fight, so all I can do now is charge in head first!

She aims her finger at the nearest ice monster, charges up, and fires...

[Anastasia]

OOC - I'm going to deal with this attack roll myself, as I want to keep moving.

* Hatbot --> "Natsume rolls 2d6+1 and gets 9."

IC:

It's a fair distance and a hard shot, your effort narrowly whizzing by the clostest ice statue. A man like thing with embossed ice armor and a crazed look, it's head pivots and turns to look in your direction.

As this happens, you hear a whizzing above, like wind whipping. Also, carried by that, "Space...Turbulence!" The voice heard is faint and slightly distorted, but you're sure you heard what you just did.

[Anastasia]

Natsume curses herself as a the shot barely misses. She wanted to take at least one of them out in her opening volley.....

"Space...Turbulence!"

She stops just as she's about to move to a closer range. What was that she just heard?

Space Turbulence? What's that supposed to mean?

She pays it only brief heed however, she can not afford to become distracted now that at least one of the ice demons has become aware of her.

I can't afford to miss any more shots, fighting at close range is my best chance.

She grips her sword tight again, and charges toward the armored humanoid ice monster...

[Anastasia]

It's a fair distance to the ice figure, it's frozen body slowly turning to you as you charge...

Despite an opening stumble that causes you to have to replant and start running again, eating up valuable time, your charge goes on! The ice creature is cleaved cleanly as you deliver a massive swipe to cut it in twine, shattered apart by your blow!

As this happens, you can see the other ice creature turning to you, quite a few of them...

[Midnight Sun]

Noting the ease with which the creature shatters, her odds for survival begin to rise in her own mind. Despite that though, she's still very much outnumbered.

From this distance, I can't miss!

As she thinks this she's already charging energy into her finger again. She aims at the center of the nearest ice demon and fires, hoping the blast will be strong enough to rip through and tag any others near it.

[Anastasia]

* Hatbot --> "Midnight rolls 2d6 and gets 6."

A second shot fires from Natsume's hand, draining her powerful vitality to attack. It goes right through the stomach of the second, melting the ice like butter! A second one is grazed by it, causing a tiger like scupture to stumble and fully awaken!

The first, a man shaped one with a spear, simply fades into nothing ness and apart from your blast.

[Midnight Sun]

As effective as it is, I can't afford to keep using ki blasts. I have to conserve as much power as possible

She sticks to using the ki sword from then on, hacking and slashing through whatever ice constructs come her way.

[Anastasia]

OOC - This next post may have to wait a bit, as I'm at the awkward stage of about to merge two threads and juggling the timing between them. Heads up.