What Lurks. . . [Full Moon Boss]

[Ringo Shiro]

People are beginning to swarm on in. Considering the effort it took to take down Cerberus, the help was very much welcomed. However, that resulted in more targets for the squid as it coiled its body and hit everybody with its tentacles. Ringo raised his arms to endure the hits. Not to anyone's surprise, arms don't make for great shields. 

Ringo took a deep breathe as he lowered his arms to see the kraken's tentacles raised. Should Ringo take a risk and strike at it while its guard is up? On that note, maybe Ringo should consider his own guard. A glance at his arms and legs showed they weren't in the most refined condition. His eyes glowed and his body began to glow purple.

Action:
Rakukaja on himself.

[Kate Minola]

Kate braced herself for impact from the strike of the thing's tentacle. Oh man, that hurt like hell but it didn't knock her off her feet, so she took that as a good sign. She shook herself down and glanced around at the others. Nobody seemed to have been significantly hurt... but then she saw the ice spikes flying and winced.

Well... shit. If any of those hit me I'll be in trouble, she thought.

"Hey, thanks!" she called to the new face she saw, who'd used his bird-like Persona to buff her after Marina.

She felt faster, on top of her additional toughness and fortitude. Her arrow had done damage but not unduly so. She wished Tristan would show up; in the past he'd shown an ability to make opponents vulnerable to darkness. She could take extra advantage of that now. She was tempted to try fire but with all this water around she doubted there'd be an effect.

She nocked another arrow and examined her opponent. Those flailing tentacles would make hitting the main body harder, since it looked like it was ready to defend itself with them. She'd just have to take her chances. She drew her bowstring and fired.

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Auto-Rakukaja is active! (Round 2 of 3)
Tarukaja is active! (Round 2 of 3)
Luster Candy is active! (Round 2 of 3)
Regeneration 2 is active!
Weapon Master is active!
Action: Lvl 3 Dark arrow attack with 50% bonus power from WM and extra 20% from Luster Candy

Roll for Crit 1-10, crit if 1
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Dodge roll, Major Ice, 1-4, dodge if 1
1-4

1-10·1-4

[Lucretia Odovacar]

Lucretia was rather surprised by the analysis results.  She couldn't see everything (and was still irritated that she couldn't fully analyze the enemies when it really counted), but what she could see suggested that this demon was weaker than the last big one they fought.  She even managed to get the weakness this time.  Granted, using electric-based attacks when everyone was ankle deep in water like this may not be a good idea, but given such attacks would heal her instead of harm her, she wasn't inclined to care right now.  It would at least be worth a little experiment.  After all, she could heal any damage afterwards.

"I did not see any very dangerous attacks this time, but I was not able to see them all.  It looks like it is weak to electric-based attacks.  Try using those."

Then, the demon started to attack.  Thanks to the buff Akira gave her, she felt stronger, faster and more durable than ever before.  For once in her life, she was able to see the attack coming in time and have her body move fast enough to get out of the way.  The tentacle nearly managed to slam into her, but at the last second, she managed to jump on top of it, and then gently jump off.

It didn't look like everyone was going to be quite so lucky, and not all of them were even hit by those buffs.  Those and the people that got hit by that ice attack were the top priorities for healing.

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Salvation on Hisui, Fred, Amane, Ringo, and Kate

[Kyle Shibata]

Kyle came running through the water, splashing around in his efforts to get to the fight quickly and eventually got near Kate, where he stopped and bent over with his hands on his knees, panting.

"Dammit!" he cursed. "I'm fucking late again! Sorry about that!" he grumbled. "What the fuck is this?"

He stared up at the giant octopus and grimaced. It would be scary if it was sort of goofy-looking. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. This was the second big fight he'd been in and he'd rather not contemplate how the first one went. He'd do better this time. Surely.

He waited, poised, and just as a tentacle flailed too close to him, he swung his axe at it, intending to try and chop it off.

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Auto-Sukukaja is active! (round 1 of 3)
Action: Lvl 1 Slash attack on tentacle

Roll for crit 1-10, crit if 1
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Dodge Rolls
Major Ice, roll 1-4, dodge if 1
1-4
1-10·1-4

[Amane Mana]

The kraken struck out in retaliation of all the attacks being flung at it. Despite Amane not at all attacking, the kraken's tentacles lashed at her as well. Amane managed to block the hit but that was it, block it, not at all able to dodge them. They were faster than softballs to put it mildly. She was tossed on to the ground. Suffice to say, the water did not soften the impact but it was naive to expect that. 

"I did not see any very dangerous attacks this time, but I was not able to see them all. It looks like it is weak to electric-based attacks. Try using those." So, Amane was stuck in this situation, at least the lady healed her. It helped her calm down a bit though her hair is feeling a bit heavy from the water. She slowly got up. Her eyes glowed as she tried to call out her Persona. 

"Silky!" The red dressed lady finally managed to come out and launch a spiral of wind at the kraken.

Action: Garu on Kraken.

[Marina Mikami]

Marina started to recognize more people as they showed up, though there was still a few she was unfamiliar with. It made her feel better that there was a decent-sized group forming to fight this giant squid creature. She soon felt the effects of a spell someone had cast that increased her strength, defense, and agility all at once. It was strange to feel so empowered like she did now. She watched other people attack and then soon the squid attacked them. She wasn't able to dodge any tentacles, but thanks to the spell they didn't hurt as much as it would have.

The creature also had attacked Riki and a girl she didn't recognize with some kind of ice attack. It looked like it hurt a lot. Ice attacks didn't hurt her that much, but that one looked like it would have hurt regardless. More people had shown up after the first attack and Marina took note of who could use a boost. She saw Ringo, and began waving her arms along with Apsaras. She then aimed her hand towards him. She wasn't sure how useful she would be in attacking the creature, but figured she could wait a little longer before trying.


Invigoration 2 is active.
Luster Candy is active (Round 2 of 3)
Action: Tarukaja on Ringo
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[Hisui Inagawa]

Hisui considered Shizuka's arrival on the battlefield an unwelcome distraction. The other girl clearly didn't have a head for combat and would probably just end up getting in the way.

"Stay focused on the enemy!" Hisui snapped with none of her usual concern for how she might come across.

The sound of gunfire made her do a double-take, though, and the sight of Shizuka blasting away at the monster with her longarm was very surprising indeed. More surprising still was the way each bullet connected with one of the beast's apparently squishier regions.

Hisui didn't have much time to adjust her assessment, however. In the blink of an eye, a tentacle was whipping in her direction and there was no time to evade. It hit her like a truck, launching her into the air, and before she could recover, a hail of brutal ice shards slammed her back into the ground.

It was hard to believe that she was still alive, let alone conscious. In fact, Hisui felt in some regards better than she usually did, stronger and faster. As she struggled to her feet, she saw an unfamiliar boy who appeared to be casting some sort of enhancement on herself and some other combatants. Lucretia was there too, sending out the same healing light from before to close up Hisui's wounds.

Hisui raised a hand to them in gratitude, then turned her attention back to the beast. The situation was chaotic, much too fast to make a proper threat assessment on everyone else on the battlefield. But the swelling feeling of camaraderie of fighting this monster all together made that sort of thing seem less important at the moment. No doubt Hisui would be kicking herself for her lack of caution later.

Hisui swept her right arm straight out to the side, causing one of the grenades up her sleeve to slip free and into her hand. She squeezed a trigger on the side, starting its timer. Then, with her best sidearm toss, she launched it on an arc directly toward the kraken's main body.

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Action: Level 1 weapon attack on the Kraken, piercing damage, poison infliction mod (target affected by Foul Breath)

Luster Candy is active! (Round 2 of 3)

Rolling 1d10 (critical hit on 1)

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Rolling 1d2 (attack can poison the Kraken on 1)

1-21-10·1-2

[Shizuka Konaya]

"R-R-Right!"

Shizuka nodded at Hisui, only to see her go flying from the tentacle that was sweeping across the group.  Shizuka herself managed to brace herself before it hit her, which at least stopped her from flying across the battlefield.  It still hurt quite a bit, but the pain of the attack, and the pain from Hisui's remark were almost completely dulled when she saw Hisui hit the ground.  Hard.  Shizuka winced, but before she could go over to help her she noticed all of her wounds disappear.  There were a lot of people here, and most of them probably had magic unlike her.  Someone must have healed Hisui's wounds before she could even get up.  Shizuka fidgeted for a moment, but quickly turned her attention back to the enemy.  If there were some people that could heal, then she didn't have to worry about anyone here.  They probably didn't want anyone to get hurt anymore than she did, and they were better equipped to handle it right now than she was.  It was hard, but Shizuka understood that her only useful ability in this fight would be her ability to shoot it.

Fortunately, after that last attack, this battle had become much more personal than it was five seconds ago.  Shizuka focused all of her energy on blasting the stuffing out of that monster for what it was doing to her friends here.

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Level 2 weapon attack, pierce damage, +50% from weapon master, +20% from Tarukaja

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crit on 1

1-4
Dodge on 11-10·1-4

[Ariane Ivers]

As fast as she was with all of the boosts Akira gave her, Anne still managed to get hit by the flailing tentacle. Youch. On top of that, she couldn't even manage to land a really good hit on the sucker. "Sunovabitch," she grumbled in annoyance, eyes flashing with anger. It seemed that her luck was just shit when it really counted, but she still had faith it could turn around.  After all, it seemed like they all had some pretty decent support this time around.  Thankfully for how bad that hurt, her jacket and Cery's own restorative properties were helping a little bit.  

Turning back to focus on the squid since fighting was what she really had going for her, she tried her best to duck around the flailing tentacles to get in close enough to land a few hard punches.  Hopefully her luck would finally turn around to where it should be.

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Luster Candy 2/3
Action; Level Three Strike attack, boosted 50% by WM and 20% by Candy

SPOILER: Click to show

{Roll for Crit}
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1-9 is a Critical hit

SPOILER: Click to show

{Rollin for dodge}
1-4
1 is a dodge

1-20·1-4

[Crispin Yates]

Suddenly, even more joined the crowd.  It certainly seemed like they were going to have a regular full house.  Turning his head to glance at the woman that thanked him for his spell, he nodded once, "Naw problem at al'.  Nigh letsee if we canny keep turnin' de tide in our favor, 'mm?"  Between his botched words and terrible understanding of the Japanese language chances were high that not many people could understand him.  He didn't particularly care, it wasn't like he wasn't already used to it in English.

When the tentacles flailed in his direction, thanks to his own buff he managed to dart out of the way, the edge of his coat brushing against the appendage.  While it was a close call, he didn't have much time to gloat.  The creature was trying to reflect the others' attacks, and chances were it was preparing to let out another strong attack. 

There were still a couple of people who hadn't received some buffs, but not enough to really utilize the full potential of a piece of candy.  The big guy, on the other hand, looked like he could stand to be taken down a peg.  His gray eyes darted towards the big 'ol blooper, and Babd flapped her great wings overhead.  The horn howled again, but this time the sound was quite different.  Rather than help strengthen their allies, it aimed to try and weaken the cephalopod like Babd had strengthened the others.

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Action; Debilitate on Squidward

[Frederick Cooper]

So long as he didn't have to worry about anything unpleasant with the tentacles, Fred was pretty fine with this opponent. It didn't seem to resist his attack, and if it happened to spit anything out, he'd tear those things apart with Zouchouten's terribly efficient crowd control. He'd come a long way since that first battle. Fortunately, despite being assaulted, he was still pretty okay! He nullified the tentacle tackles, and the ice, while powerful, was quickly negated by healing. All was well!

”Round two, go-go-go!” He demanded, and Zouchouten supplied- in the form of a volley of rocket punches. Truly, Inspector Gadget would be pleased.

Action: Hassou Tobi on Kracker.


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[Akira Nakajima]

He had to give the squid one thing, it seemed to hit hard. Literally and figuratively. The young man was beat off his horse by a tentacle. And splash he went, right into the water. In fact, he was totally submerged for a moment, thanks to that. That was certainly unpleasant. The young man pushed himself up, coughing a bit of water out of his mouth, before using his free hand to drag hair from his face. It clung to his flesh almost desperately. What a shame. If he were crossdressing, it probably would have looked pretty erotic, the way his clothes clung to his body and all. Well, depending on one's interests, it may still have been viewed as such.

The youth sighed and took in the overall battlefield. Things seemed to be moderately all right. It was time to heal whoever needed it, and so Hayagriva released a healing wave.

Action: Mediarahan on Akira, Anne, Kyle, Marina, and Shizuka

[Luka Kurokawa]

So this thing could do some serious attacks too, huh? As Luka was hit with a tentacle, she took it rather well. It wasn't very painful. Honestly, getting pierced by that dog hurt more than anything. Especially since it was the first time it happened. It wasn't so bad after taking it the next few times. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Her last attack seemed to be pretty powerful as well. Was that because of the buff she got from Akira? Regardless, Luka would just be focusing on what she does best. Beating the crap out of her enemies with her sword.

Action: Slash on the Sushi

Crit on 1-3

SPOILER: Click to show

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1-10

[Satanick]

The humans had clearly gotten a little more formidable since the last encounter. Or had they? It was actually a bit hard to tell. The large Kraken surveyed the area around him. He would be picking his targets carefully. Debilitate lowers the Kraken's stats.

To start, the large sea monster raised all of its tentacles in the air, forming a large crystallized ball of ice. The ball proceeds to shatter and hit everyone for Major Ice damage. The attack misses Yuuki, Lucretia, Crispin, Akira, and Luka! Ringo and Fred are afflicted with Sukunda!

With that out of the way, the Kraken decides to opted for something a little less hostile. Extending its tentacles outward, the Kraken grabs and binds Amane, Marina, and Hisui! A simple attack on the tentacle should be enough to free them though. In the mean time, they are constricted by the tentacle for Moderate Strike damage!

[Lucretia Odovacar]

This thing was having no luck at all hitting her.  First, she managed to hop away from the initial attack, and then the second one just missed her entirely.  Lucretia pushed her glasses back up, completely unimpressed.  About the only thing that would have made this fight more favorable for her would be if it used electric-based attacks instead of being weak to them.

Regardless, there were some people that were weak to ice, and she supposed it'd be inefficient if they were to die or fall unconscious.  Beyond that though, there weren't too many people in desperate need of healing.  The ones that took two attacks were probably in need of it more than the others though.  A couple of people appeared to slow down as well, but there wasn't a lot she could do about that personally.

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Salvaion on Kate, Ringo, Hisui, Marina, and Amane