Year 60,000

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

IC: The jaeger was backing off. But backing off wasn't finished. Backing off wasn't dead. Glaceras' tentacles swept at the beach itself, throwing up plumes of dusty sand that were buffeted towards Iron Vengeance, a desert storm in miniature designed to blind and confuse the enemy as more tentacles continued to go for its ankles...

[Sassy Dalmation]

IC: Skia-Kaiju Hive

Skia was bored. So, naturally, when a Kaiju is bored, they go to wreak havoc. Making his way downtown out of the Hive, Skia decided to pay Zakaz a visit. So he began swimming.

[Timageness]

IC: Phantom - Xia

As the Jaeger fired its missiles towards the Alpha Kaiju's body, where the machine likely had most of its attention directed towards, Phantom folded her wings inwards, causing her to dive towards the threat's side. Spreading them back out just before impact and curling her lower body forward so that her tentacles were in the perfect position to unbalance the metal abomination, she deactivated her Chameleon skin, extended her claws, and opened her mouth wide, intending to tear it limb from limb in the most violent manner possible.

 

IC: Smackdown - Zakaz

Wrapping his hand around the base of another building with enough force to crush it, he tore off the roof before ripping it out of the ground, turning it upside down and shaking most of its contents into his mouth before casually tossing it aside.

 

IC: Blockbuster - Stelt Coastline

Its hunger satiated for the moment, Blockbuster rose from the sand it had partially buried itself in and began making its way back towards the Kaiju Hive.

OOC: Phantom attacking Artakha Jaeger #2, Smackdown and Blockbuster open for interaction.

[Nato G]

The knifehead, its manoeuvre complete, now launched itself upwards towards the Iron Vengeance's back, the crest from which it derived its variation name aimed towards the Jaeger's upper back, the intention being to impale it through a central point of the body

IC: The jaeger was backing off. But backing off wasn't finished. Backing off wasn't dead. Glaceras' tentacles swept at the beach itself, throwing up plumes of dusty sand that were buffeted towards Iron Vengeance, a desert storm in miniature designed to blind and confuse the enemy as more tentacles continued to go for its ankles...

 

IC: Emalia (Iron Vengeance) - Xia Coastline.

 

She looked back over her shoulder every few seconds, keeping track of the knife's movements. When it lunged, she started to move the Vengeance to the side, but tentacles snagged at one of its legs, staggering the mech. 

 

The bladed head tore a ragged gouge across the Vengeance's right shoulder as the kaiju flashed past her, likely crippling the arm. She cried out in anger, twisting around and swinging the left fist towards where she hoped the creature's head now was. Thanks to Glaceras' sandstorm, it was difficult to see for sure where the creature was...

[Void Emissary]

IC:

 

"Four ... wait, no, three ... well, three-on-one's still pretty unfair," Malinus mused into his comlink, coolly piloting the King out onto the Xian coast. A smile glinted dangerously on his face, and his Jaeger's fingers curled and uncurled; the obvious sign of a man who's aching for a fight.

 

"Now then," he said, raising a right fist with a dagger coming out of its knuckles, before striding over to where the tentacle-y Kaiju was wrecking havoc with the Vengeance, "why don't we even the odds a little?"

 

The King charged at Mr. Tentacles, right fist reared back and ready to give the punch of its life into the thing's head.

 

OOC: Hello Glaceras.

 

-Void

[Makuta Miras]

GM IC: NPC Kaiju

 

As the Iron Vengeance's fist came down upon the knifehead's, well, knifehead, the beast's jaws began opening, ready to tear into the Jaeger's arm. Its head forced down by the attack, however, the Kaiju was now sent face-first into the water, the excess momentum from its previous charge giving the Jaeger's punch that much more clout. 

As it submerged, however, the Kaiju spotted the Dagger King approaching, and, favouring a stealth attack, stayed beneath the water, slowly moseying up towards the newcomer's legs beneath the water.

 

The serpent Kaiju was still unconscious.

[Specter Knight]

IC-Acacia

 

Acacia answered the Shatterdome manager, before hanging up and waiting to get picked up. She looked out at the waters in the distance, where the battle was raging on...

 

IC-Lash

 

Unable to find an opponent of his own to fight, The Kaiju started to prowl around a gathering of Kaiju, waiting for them to finish their job, before he could scavenge a part of the massive machines for himself.

 

OOC

Gonna be in the Lake district probably without WiFi for a week or so. Be sure to catch me up when I get back.

Oh, and you can bunny my characters slightly, but not anything drastic like them dying or revealing something important.

[Dane-gerous]

IC: Groundpound

Deep within Artakha's base, a loud roar echoed through the holding cells....

[Nato G]

As it submerged, however, the Kaiju spotted the Dagger King approaching, and, favouring a stealth attack, stayed beneath the water, slowly moseying up towards the newcomer's legs beneath the water.

 

IC: Emalia (Iron Vengeance) - Xoa Coastline. 

 

"Oh no you don't," the Vengeance went after the kaiju, trying to stomp its foot into the creature's back. 

[The UltimoScorp]

IC Abbenidium

 

...

 

Stirred.

 

The black creature was strong. Fast. Quiet. But something as a Pakari-powered knuckle sandwich had knocked him down. It hazily stood, trying to get a grip on its surroundings, eyeing the Jaeger one last time before its eyes gave out, followed by its legs.

 

It hit the dirt with a thud, its mandibles wavering before stopping entirely.

 

 

IC Dessimus

 

The lone Matoran noticed the commotion coming from Xia. "What in the...?"

 

It appeared to be a Kaiju fight. Karzing things.

 

He stood on the coastline, intent on checking it out when it was over. After all... That's where the paper said to go.

 

 

IC: Phantom - Xia

As the Jaeger fired its missiles towards the Alpha Kaiju's body, where the machine likely had most of its attention directed towards, Phantom folded her wings inwards, causing her to dive towards the threat's side. Spreading them back out just before impact and curling her lower body forward so that her tentacles were in the perfect position to unbalance the metal abomination, she deactivated her Chameleon skin, extended her claws, and opened her mouth wide, intending to tear it limb from limb in the most violent manner possible.

 

IC: Smackdown - Zakaz

Wrapping his hand around the base of another building with enough force to crush it, he tore off the roof before ripping it out of the ground, turning it upside down and shaking most of its contents into his mouth before casually tossing it aside.

 

IC: Blockbuster - Stelt Coastline

Its hunger satiated for the moment, Blockbuster rose from the sand it had partially buried itself in and began making its way back towards the Kaiju Hive.

OOC: Phantom attacking Artakha Jaeger #2, Smackdown and Blockbuster open for interaction.

 

 

GM IC Sharky, Arthaka Jaegers, and Dessimus:

 

The second Jaeger pilot never did see what hit him, the Kaiju striking dead on at the side of his Jaeger, knocking it over and most unfortunately smashing the head gaints a particularly extended bit of rock, crushing the pilot inside.

 

The first Jaeger on the other hand, saw the beast, and fired another electric net at it as it fell against his friends dead Jaeger.

As for the third, he moved to haul Abbendium.

 

The Alpha was tired. Wounded and needing to nurse those wounds, he let out a roar, signaling a retreat to all Kaiju, as he lumbered toward the water.

 

 

 

 

 

Dessimus would feel the ground beneath his feet shake slightly, and very suddenly, a metal bx emerged from the ground just behind him. The box opened, revealing itself to be an elevator of some kind. Large enough to hold many people of all species, it was clearly an invitation in.

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

With some caution, Dessimus looked around the box momentarily before stepping in.

 

If this was a trap, he was going to put up a fight. Unless the paper... But how would they know?

 

Unless...

 

 

IC Abbenidium

 

Abbenidium struggled and suddenly got up, flying around in a superman cape and blasting everything with awesome vision

 

So unconscious that it only barely twitched.

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

IC: The King's attempts to strike Glaceras' head were a little undermined by that head being mostly under the water. The gigantic squid-kaiju hadn't ventured too far out of the sea to antagonise Iron Vengeance, just using its long tentacles to reach out to the beach. The volume of water in the way slowed the King's blow, but the jaeger was strong enough to not be stopped completely and its fist bruised the rubbery flesh of Glaceras. 

Needless to say the icy kraken did not take this well.

Getting so close to Glaceras' head had put the King right in the midst of the kaiju's nest of tentacles. They dove and struck at the mecha, a storm of slithering flesh and steel beaks, striking and flashing like angry snakes

[Makuta Miras]

GM IC: NPC Kaiju

 

The knifehead turned, suddenly distracted from the fight as the foot impacted its back. It let out a half-hearted roar as a vertebrae in its back broke, then it was off, chameleon skin activating as it slunk away, back out to sea.
The serpentine Kaiju was left there, still comatose beneath the water.
 

GM IC: Xia

 

At Sharky's cries, the horde of Kaiju began fleeing, bounding through the streets and slipping into the water, the cold currents from the Breach welcoming them back into the outside world.
 
The Xia the Kaiju left behind was not the Xia they had arrived on.
The vast majority of streets were torn up by battles between Kaiju and Jaegers, the somewhat questionable asphalt now cracked and unfit to drive on.
Many of the skyscrapers had been eviscerated, their uppermost extremities knocked clean off and the remains burning.
Entire neighbourhoods had been levelled.

 

A few Matoran and Vortixx, faces ashen and streaked with blood and tears, slowly made their way through the streets, some attempting to extinguish fires, others simply wandering, their lives and livelihoods swept away in the storm of beasts from beyond.

All were desolate.

All were silent.

More beings eventually began moving out of the rudimentary bunkers beneath buildings designed to save their lives in the event of a Kaiju attack, and looked around at the devastation around them.

They wept.

 

GM OOC: Okay then, so, Kaiju attack is just about wrapped up. I'm not bunnying any Kaiju PCs out of there; feel free to continue your fights, but start winding them down, please. In regards to the level of destruction on Xia, most of the city is heavily damaged; a lot of infrastructure is gone, a good chunk of the population is dead or missing. Just about everywhere on Xia has taken at least one Kaiju punch.

If ever you needed motivation to fight, here it is.

[Funkydude527]

IC Hirsch: The door to the shatterdome mission in Xia control slid open with a pneumatic hiss. Hirsch suddenly felt very out of place. Vofosu has run off far ahead of him and was now leaning over her console, looking appropriate, considering the circumstances. All around the room, matoran and vortixx sat in quiet shell-shock. Hirsch got the sense that, while they had not lost today, that they were losing. The line had been drawn, and it had been held, but it could buckle no farther. The glimmering city was now scarred, not dead, not yet dying, but scarred and injured. Like the Kaiju fleeing on the oversized monitor above, Xia and her defenders would have to slink back to lick their wounds, hoping to heal them before the next onslaught. And were they not healed in time, even more of the city would be eroded away. 

 

Hirch, probably for the first time since waking up, realized exactly what sort of hope escape presented. What hope he carried with him. Here, there was a slow death. But outside, there was good land far from where the Kaiju would bother to travel. A place for beings to exist outside of a decomposing husk. The matoran followed the commander inside, and stood behind her, his small form standing out against the glow of screens and displays from around the command center.

[Void Emissary]

IC: Getting so close to Glaceras' head had put the King right in the midst of the kaiju's nest of tentacles. They dove and struck at the mecha, a storm of slithering flesh and steel beaks, striking and flashing like angry snakes

 

IC:

 

The tentacles bit and snapped at the King's iron hide; but the King was a warrior of a Jaeger, and it was not the sort of machine to give up and crumple at the first sign of trouble, no sir! It was driven back a few steps, and it shuddered with the barrage of assaults, but its pilot -- Malinus Vod, the true Dagger King! -- already had a plan.

 

The King raised its right hand, retracting the dagger in its knuckles and grabbed the hilt of the claymore strapped to its back. It unlimbered the great weapon -- its edges already glowing red with superheating -- and brought it down on the storm of tentacles, spinning it in a circle before itself so as to sever as many of the troublesome appendages as possible.

 

-Void

[Specter Knight]

IC-Lash

 

Hearing the Alpha's signal of retreat, the silver Kaiju started swimming back to the hive. Even though he didn't do much to the city, he could sense that it had been levelled by his kin...

[Timageness]

IC: Phantom - Xia

Phantom was not one to normally lose situational awareness when she found herself facing off against multiple threats, so as the Jaeger started to go down and another member of its team began training its weaponry on her, her instincts were well prepared for the situation at hand.

Sinking her teeth into the machine's limp arm as her claws pierced their way into its now inanimate chest, she tore the limb from its body with one clean movement of her head, sending sparks and pieces of metal flying everywhere before whipping it back towards the direction of the net and releasing it from in between her jaws. As such, upon making contact with the vastly superior mass now hurtling towards it, the electrified containment device found itself ensnaring it instead as the damaged piece of Jeager continued its way through the air towards her attacker.

Hearing the Alpha's call to retreat as she did so, the Kaiju let out an ear-piercing roar of her own before spreading her wings and lifting off into the sky in order to follow the rest of the pack.

 

IC: Smackdown - Zakaz

Figuring he would draw more attention to himself if he headed even further inland, Smackdown began to abandon the settlement he had ruined as he moved on to find an even larger one to destroy.

 

IC: Blockbuster - Kaiju Hive

Seeing that the outside of the Hive was in various states of disrepair (most likely due to some the more agressive breeds), Blockbuster began skittering along the surface of its home, patching up the holes with some mud from the seabed and the sparse amounts of undersea plantlife that had proven itself resistant to the acidic effects of Kaiju Blue.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Timageness

[Nato G]

IC: Emalia (Iron Vengeance) - Xia Coastline. 

 

The kaiju seemed to be pulling back. Good... 

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IC: Oblitus - Xia Shatterdome. 

 

As soon as the kaiju started to pull back, Oblitus got to work assembling a team to dig his mech out from under the collapsed warehouse. It was battered, but unless the Alpha had decided to tear into it after he'd escaped, it was most definitely salvageable. 

Edited July 7, 2015 by Of Australian Origin...

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

IC: Ah the superheated weaponry of the jaegers. Useful against regular Kaiju, less so against a frosty foe like Glaceras. His endothermic skin absorbed the heat of the[i ]King[/i]'s sword, eliminating the cauterising effect. So when several tentacles were cleft in twain they showered the jaeger with kaiju blue. The rusting, corrosive blood would only make it easier for the unharmed tentacles, even now going for joints and sockets and anything else their sharp, strong beaks could tear through, to rip the mecha apart. A set were specifically targeting the jaegers ankles, Glaceras had learned long ago that was the best way to topple such enemies

[The UltimoScorp]

GM IC Dessimus:

 

The elevator doors shut, and in a moment, Dessimus felt it descend at a pace that most would find uncomfortably fast.

 

It was not long before it slowed to a halt, and the doors opened once more. If dessimus knew anything about Stelt and it's cities, he would recognise that this was a place of much higher class work. Lavishly furnished, and well maintained, the room beyond was a testament to the wealth and taste of the secret organisation.

 

A fireplace burned at the opposite end of the room, and in front of it sat two squashy looking chairs. In one, sat a Vo-Matoran. The other was empty. The room had no obvious doors save the elevator that Dessimus was still standing in.

 

"Come in, come in. I've been expecting you, Dessimus," The Matoran spoke with a pleasant tone. 

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

After an elevator dash that significantly raised his blood pressure, Dessimus cautiously walked out of the elevator, his metal armour clinking.

 

Not bothering to take a seat, he stood next to the chair, head mildly turned, and asked "How do you know my name?"

[The UltimoScorp]

GM IC:

 

The Vo-Matoran chuckled, as if Dessimus had just told a joke he knew well. 

 

"You'll find I know a great many things, I think. Beyond that, it would hardly do to have you come here and not know anything about you. I have eyes and ears in all sorts of places, you see."

 

He stood, turning to face Dessimus.

 

"I am the Carpahian. Welcome to Arthaka, Dessimus. We're going to do what no one else can. Do you know what that is?" His tone of voice never changed, always the same friendly speech of a man who had spoken to so many before. 

[Void Emissary]

IC:

 

Time slowed.

 

Appendages severed, spraying liquid destruction into the air, into the water: Kaiju Blue, the media called it. Every pilot knew its awful potential for devastation, but they, too, knew that if they saw it then they were doing something right. Malinus knew that; he knew that as the spray was coming at him -- no, the King -- no, him, for he and the King were one now. They shared a mind, a body, a soul. And just as the King realized what was coming for it, Malinus knew how to stop it.

 

An HUD sprang to life on the visor of his helmet.

 

> Activate Kanohi?

 

The true Dagger King affirmed.

 

...

 

Kaiju Blue splashed against the iron hide of the King, washed against it legs after being caught in the tide. The monster's tentacles whipped and lashed and battered the ankles of the Jaeger, moving with murderous precision to topple the metal giant. The King was pushed back a few steps, but no wreckage of ruined feet and joints sank to the seabed or floated to the surface of the ocean. The Kaiju's blood sluiced off of the Jaeger like rainwater, impotent, leaving no trace that it had ever touched its skin.

 

...

 

> Kanohi Hau activated.

 

Time moved normally again.

 

Malinus Vod smiled.

 

...

 

The King raised its arm, flipping the sword in its hands until the tip pointed downwards, like Excalibur as the boy who would King Arthur pulled it from the stone. But this weapon was not to be drawn up, but pushed down; it's edges, still burning hot, was being stabbed down with the full intention of puncturing the Kaiju's skull and slicing deep into its brain.

 

-Void

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

That gave him the answer he wanted to hear.

 

Dessimus held back a sarcastic answer. "I assume it involves the Kaiju... Correct?" As he spoke, his tone became friendlier, although still hard.

[The UltimoScorp]

GM IC:

 

The Carpathian smiled warmly. "Indeed, it does."

 

He turned and Looked at a wall with an exquisite carving on it.  The carving was an old one, showing six heroic figures surrounding one dark one.

 

"Tell me, Dessimus, what do you know about the Kaiju?"

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

"Big. Ugly. Seem to share an I.Q." Dessimus said, folding his arms and glancing at the wall. "Never seen two of a kind."

 

He finished that last statement in a questioning tone, seeing what the... Carpathian would do next. Whoever he was seemed genuinely interested in Dessimus.

[The UltimoScorp]

GM IC:

 

he turned his head to look at the other Matoran out of the corner of his eye with a knowing smile.

 

"I've heard much the same from many. There's more to them than most people realise, though. They are intelligent, and indeed, sentient."

 

He turned fully to face Dessimus, his face one of a man driven by a purpose.

 

"Do you know what that means?"

[Dane-gerous]

IC: Groundpound

As if on cue, Groundpound roared again. He was hungry, and he wasn't sure for what anymore.

[Makuta Miras]

GM IC: Smackdown

 

"You know what to do," Jiraka said over the radio, breaking the silence within the Jaeger. The news of the destruction on Xia had reached the Zakaz Shatterdome a few minutes ago, and the Zakaz Jaegers currently out on patrol were, between them, attempting to hold a silence in memory of their fallen Xian comrades. Fairly near to the MK III was Smackdown, the Jaeger's target. Slowly, cautiously, the Skakdi-piloted Jaeger began sidling up towards Smackdown, a pair of plasmacasters primed and ready to fire at the Kaiju.

 

GM IC: Vofosu

 

The Vortixx glanced down from the screens, eyes alighting on Hirsch. "Hirsch," she said in quiet, melancholy acknowledgement of the Matoran. "I'm meeting with the other islands' leaders later. I want you to accompany me; I feel that you and your information from your... incident will be particularly helpful in the future." She turned back towards the monitors, a turret just off the coast having spotted a Kaiju straggler, one which appeared to have some sort of weakness swimming and therefore was behind the rest of the horde. A quick call over the radio to the Vortixx manning the turret, and the beast was overwhelmed by the turret's fire, leaving naught but a burning carcass to topple into the waves.

Edited July 9, 2015 by Miras the Omniscient

[Nato G]

IC: Oblitus - Xia Outskirts.

 

The damage to the cluster of empty warehouses was extensive - crushed and broken, scorched by lightning and seared by frost. The Soliatrius Lupus had fared little better. Both legs were partially crumpled, the shoulder was mangled, and the armour plating on the torso had taken a pounding as well. It would take time to repair it all, but it was definitely salvageable. 

 

He stepped back and waved his hand, gesturing for the cranes to move up and start hauling the rubble away. 

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IC: Emalia (Iron Vengeance) - Xia Coastline. 

 

Kneeling in the too-blue water, the Vengeance picked up its dropped blade and started heading back to the Shatterdome, looking off towards the distant towers of Xia rising triumphantly into the sky, gleaming in the sunlight. 

 

This was her home now, and she would defend it until her last breath. 

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

Dessimus' steely-eyed vision from under his black Kraakhan-shaped mask seemed to reflect the Carpathian's words.

 

"They can scheme."

 

It partially sounded like a realization through his mouth instead of a returned sentence. He finished it off with a slight frown. "Which means that the Zakaz homeland attack was a distraction..."

[The UltimoScorp]

GM IC:

 

"No, no...... I don't believe so. Though... scheming is of course possible, that's not the point."

 

He pulled out a small remote and pressed a button on it. The wall with the carving sank into the floor, revealing a thick transparisteel window. Beyond it was a sight beyond belief.

 

Rows of containment cells, with Kaiju of all shapes and sizes in various manners of entrapment. Some were still struggling against there bonds, others were clearly worn and defeated. Others still stared glassy eyed ahead, but a rare few showed signs of knowing where they were, but were docile.

 

"It means, Dessimus...... that they can be controlled."

 

The carpathian spread his hands wide at the window, pointing out a few.

 

"That one there, the serpent? Captured early in the war, during an attack on Stelt. We call it Globule. The one there, still struggling? A recent acquisition, he's not fully tamed yet. he's called Groundpound."

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

Dessimus struggled to keep his jaw from dropping as awe ensued him. He slowly walked up to the glass transparisteel and placed a hand on it, trying to take in the detail of this project.

 

"So... You've been making an army?"

 

The question was painfully rhetorical, as the answer was obvious. He turned to look at the Carpathian, removing his hand from the transparisteel. "What do you plan to do with them?"

[Sassy Dalmation]

IC: Skia

A distant cry echoed to him, one of... Retreat. Well, it couldn't be helped. With that, Skia began swimming to the Hive.

[The UltimoScorp]

IC Carpathian:

 

"Win the war. The Kaiju have been adapting, growing, in order to combat Jaegers. They won't be prepared to fight their own kind. Even so, we need more Jaeger pilots, the Kaiju are still incredibly dangerous left to their own devices."

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

Dessimus gave one solemn nod.

 

"Give the word. You are doing this for a great cause, and I will do anything in my power to assist."

[Nato G]

IC: Globule - Artakha HQ.

 

Sudden light filtered down from above and the kaiju turned its face upwards to squint at the window. 

 

It didn't seemed concerned, or even curious. All it did was stare blankly. 

[The UltimoScorp]

IC Carpathian:

 

He smiled warmly once more.

 

"I'm glad to hear it. Welcome aboard, Dessimus. I think we're going to do great things."

 

He extended a hand for a shake as the carving closed on the window.

[Nato G]

IC: Darken - Breach Cave.

 

The wounds from his last battle had almost finished healing; it was time for him to hunt again. The bullet holes in his leathery wings stung as he unfurled them, but his caustic blood had long since dissolved the projectiles embedded in him, and the pain was little more than a pinprick to a beats of his sheer size.

 

He returned to the open water and began to swim upwards, trying to decide where best to strike next...

[Ghidora131]

IC Dessimus

 

Dessimus didn't return the smile, but his cold, hollow eyes lightened up with glee. He accepted the handshake firmly and heartily.

 

From now on, I'm going to fight for this man. The carving closed with a clunk that seemed proper in the situation somehow. "Glad to hear it."