FIGHTY PREPLAY - Blackreef, Monday Afternoon

[lets_do_the_timeloop]

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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Re: Cornering Egor

[gospel_of_oblivion]

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."

Re: Cornering Egor

[thatwaslucky]

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.

Re: Cornering Egor

[lets_do_the_timeloop]

"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."

Re: Cornering Egor

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"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?"

Re: Cornering Egor

[thatwaslucky]

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

Re: Cornering Egor

[lets_do_the_timeloop]

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

Re: Cornering Egor

[gospel_of_oblivion]

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.

Re: Cornering Egor

[thatwaslucky]

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.

Re: Cornering Egor

[lets_do_the_timeloop]

"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."

Re: Cornering Egor

[gospel_of_oblivion]

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.

Re: Cornering Egor

[thatwaslucky]

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.

Re: Cornering Egor

[lets_do_the_timeloop]

"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.