lets_do_the_timeloop | FIGHTY PREPLAY - Blackreef, Monday Afternoon

Welcome to the preplay for the big fight, which will go up on Monday afternoon European time!

This one's pretty straightforward: you guys will be fighting goons and Julianna while Egor skips around and takes potshots. Egor has the power to turn invisible, buuut your buddy Colt has set up devices all around the perimeter that disrupt his invisibility.

Two of you, as the RNG dictates, will finally corner Egor near one of these devices and take him out.

Now, that's not what fixes the time loop. What fixes the time loop is Egor and Colt and Julianna dying. Luckily, Colt is on your side, and he'll take care of the rest, so a few minutes after Egor goes down, you'll all find yourself catapulted back to Fandom as the time loop ends.

One last thing: you can still die here, if you want. Anyone who dies before the loop shuts down will wake up on the island on Tuesday morning, as healthy as they were when they woke up on Monday morning. Let me know in the OOC if you want an NPC to, ahem, arrange that for you.

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Oh, he hit Illyana. He definitely hit Illyana.

Woe be to him.

Illyana screamed -- an utterly inhuman sound -- as a few bullets tore through her shoulder, and in a flash there was blinding light and the sound of grinding metal as armor began growing out of the wounds and wrapping down around her arm. A beautiful, gleaming, carapace of pure silver in stark contrast to her horns and red eyes.

Not that it slowed her down at all, as she wordlessly began slinging mage-bolts at him, not particularly careful about her aim.

Rey got the "Are you okay?" out a second before seeing what was happening, and then kind of figured that was an unneeded question maybe?

But she reached out a hand, Force pushing at his legs to try and trip him up. Maybe that would get rid of the gun, too.

On the one hand: hitting the ground meant those mage-bolts went flying over Egor's head, striking the rocks behind him rather than any of his squishy parts.

On the other hand: Egor hit the ground hard, his head striking one of those lovely rocks. He had never been a graceful man. How was he supposed to fight a Force push?

"Ah! Ah!" he babbled, holding up the gun in front of him as-- a shield, more than a weapon. "I don't know what he told you, but I can double it!"

"You can double your death? How fun," Illyana purred, stalking towards him. "But you cannot give us back the days you stole."

She swung her Soul Staff, intent on knocking that gun out of his hands. Or, maybe, just slicing his hands off completely. Illyana wasn't in the mood to be gentle at this point.

"For that, I'll feed your soul to my demons."

Please allow Rey to interrupt mid-swing with a startled, "Wait, what?"

She hadn't been aware there would be demon-feeding?

And please excuse Egor as he did the only thing that felt right: throw that gun at Illyana and yank his hands back. Really fast.

"You're not feeding my anything to anything," he said, clutching those attached hands to his chest. "Have you dumb-dumbs completely missed the precious science of time loops?"

He didn't want to die, because dying seemed painful, but he knew he'd be back tomorrow. And that little reminder snapped him out of his terror.

Edited 2021-12-17 19:32 (UTC)

Illyana looked totally unimpressed and side-stepped the thrown firearm.

"I just wanted to see if he would piss himself at the thought," she admitted to Rey, almost cheerfully. "Psychological torture is almost as fun as physical torture. The screams aren't as nice, though, but we don't have time for me to actually give him to my demons."

"But you." Illyana turned her attention back Egor. "I think you missed that I am a demon sorcerer and she has one of those fun Jedi-swords," she pointed out. Lightsaber, Illyana. It's a lightsaber. "We make physics our bitch, and we are both very, very angry with you."

"And your 'science' says when we kill all of you, your loop ends. Forever."

Edited 2021-12-17 19:58 (UTC)

There was less anger right now, replaced by some deep concern over psychological torture, but Rey wasn't going to say that.

Instead she held the blade of her lightsaber out close to his chest. "We need it to be over. This can be painless."

She didn't know that for sure. It actually probably hurt a lot. It was absolutely not pleasant.

"Who told you that?!" Egor said, eyes going big as he stared up at Illyana. "... Not that it matters. This loop is only part of a bigger loop!"

Stared up at Illyana for about .5 seconds before he noticed the glowing sword.

"ohgod is that on fire."

"I don't know, why don't you lean forward and find out?" ILLYANA. NO. MEAN. "Jedi-swords are very interesting."

She glanced over at Rey. "Do we care about his 'bigger loop,' or can we finish this?"

"That depends. Does the bigger loop involve this island?" Rey asked, not taking her eyes off Egor.

"No, no, no, no, this was--" If Egor held up his hands, could they just... back away now? "--a pitstop."

At that, Illyana actually looked conflicted. "There's other people caught in a loop somewhere else? Where?"

There was nothing more she wanted than to rip his throat out with her bare hands. But if there were other people trapped the same way...

They couldn't just leave them to it, could they? As much as it annoyed her sometimes, Fandomites tended towards heroism. Even her, sometimes.

Rey moved the lightsaber blade slightly closer, just so he knew they meant business.

In case everything leading up to this hadn't been enough of a hint.

"Nobody's caught," Egor said. Squirming a little, maybe. "Everyone chose to be on Blackreef, in the loop. It's not my problem no one around this island seems to see the appeal."

Oh look, there went any chance he was walking out of this alive, as Egor brushed a little too close to Illyana's control issues around terrible men taking away her freedom.

Her face twisted with rage. "No one on this island was given a choice," she hissed, "--and we don't take kindly to nasty little creatures making choices for us."

"Kill him, or I will." And she was going to make it messy.

Rey didn't work on orders as a general rule, but she knew he was telling the truth. Screwing up the loop for people who chose to be a part of it wasn't worth an entire town of people who didn't.

So she plunged the lightsaber into his chest while telling herself he'd be fine tomorrow.

Edited 2021-12-18 21:24 (UTC)

"Wait," Egor started, "I didn't mean you should--"

That was about as far as he got. The 'saber pushed through his chest, and he went slack instantly.

Moments later, and his body fell away into rainbow-colored flecks of light. Before those, too, faded to the wind.

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