In Fandom Town Down to the Gates of Fandom High, Friday Afternoon

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

Now firmly under the control of Mr. White, the Auditors were becoming a little... more coordinated. They had found some of their powers failing that morning, which was terrifying, but then Mr. White had given them that look and they had given in to their bodies' apprehensiveness and scurried off.

Now...

"We must learn more," Mr. White crowed loudly. "Most of the humans are in there." He pointed at the school. "That is a fact."

The hundreds of Auditors gathered in front of him nodded meekly.

"So we must study it from the inside," he continued, "This is also a fact."

Another unanimous nodding session.

"Those inhabiting the town are also of interest," he added, "Which is also a fact."

More nodding.

"They have proven hostile so far. Also a fact. That means we can only conclude one thing."

He held up the axe. A good chunk of the Auditors held up their own weapons, mostly because they didn't want to be singled out for another experiment.

"CHARGE!" Mr. White yelled.

The throat protested. Interesting.

Seven hundred Auditors charged through the streets of Fandom.

[[ ocd up! Have at! Note that after this, all of Fandom besides the school and dorms is gone, so be sure to read the OCD. Also, if you need an excuse to get your character out of the affected areas, the Auditors are everywhere and they're going to be very hard to miss. ]]

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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Round 1

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

There are hundreds of grey-clothed men and women charging through town wielding everything from axes to brooms to pitchforks.

This is not a good thing.

Re: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Round 1

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt was more than ready for a fight. He summoned Excalibur and waded in to the fray, intent on beheading or bifurcating as many of the auditors as he could.

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[bitchprince]

Arthur was ready. He'd even acquired another sword, though as the Auditors advanced, he was really wishing he'd gone and got a gun instead.

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley raced toward the fight as soon as he noticed that it was happening, skidding to an awkward halt before he could actually run into anyone. He briefly stood motionless, overwhelmed by the sheer number of them -- and then he grounded himself and started shooting.

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[sensethevisions]

Phoebe was more than ready for finally having something she could fight after the past couple of weeks.

She had a bag slung across her shoulders with potions that she would throw at things. They were a mixture of banishing potions, freezing potions, things to blow up and perfume ...

... look, she just created what she created, all right?

When she ran out of potions, she was more than happy to hit, kick and stab with her knives.

Martial Arts training and all of the extra training she went through with Cole was being focused on these things.

And if every so often, she would scream at the things she was fighting with to give her back her family, well, that was to be expected.

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[life_inshadow]

As she approached the school gates, it became clear: There was no way Tara was getting to the Magic Box today.

A step further to see how and if she could help, and it looked like she wasn't getting back to the dorms, either.

She held off a few auditors with balls of magical energy and telekinetic throws of everything she could get her brain around. But soon enough, one approached from her blind side and conked her over the head with a broken pool cue.

To quote a song that would someday be sung about some version of Elphaba: Ding, dong, the witch was .... gone.

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

There wasn't a chance that Gwynn would stay out of this battle -- not after everything that had happened and after everyone they had lost. She stayed at the fringes for awhile, shooting with her bow until she ran out of arrows. Once that happened, she would draw her sword and continue fighting.

Every so often as she would hit things with her sword, she would bend to gather up what arrows she could. She might need them at some later point in the day.

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[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle, let it be said, preferred not to have to fight if at all possible; she tried to live up to her pacifist leanings as much as she could.

It was just that she, you know, managed to constantly find herself in situations where fighting was inevitable. Like this one; she'd only wandered out to check the board and see if there was anything she could do to help today and found herself surrounded.

There was something missing without Xena's battle cries echoing over the fray, but she waded in anyway with a few hearty yells of her own as she delivered solid blows to solar plexuses, swept Auditors' feet out from under them, and occasionally got herself into undignified tug-of-war matches when one of them succeeded in grabbing at the end of her staff.

She did get a chance to practice that fun flipping-herself-over-their-backs move she'd been working on to free herself from those predicaments, though.

For all that she preferred not to fight she was actually pretty good at it -- which might be a surprise to anyone who'd never seen her like this. Unless you thought she got those killer abs from shelving books.

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[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori was ready for a fight. There was no way she wasn't getting involved, after seeing all those names on the boards. She employed her ninja powers to evade attacks from the Auditors and get in a few sneak attacks of her own. She was more than happy to show them Fandom wasn't going down without a fight.

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[nookiepowered]

Bo didn't care who the gun she'd liberated from the weapons locker belonged to. Her own (which...didn't actually belong to her either, but the junkie she'd taken it off back in Canada really had no use for it anymore) was stuck back at her place on Sphinx Street, and after spending the night in the security office keeping an eye on the walls and the dorms, she wasn't going back there to get it.

She'd be here by the gates of the school, firing at anything in grey that moved and didn't look familiar, until she ran out of ammo.

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[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

After the meeting yesterday and the facts that were gathered, Surreal had gone out to loot any house left standing of their chocolate. Some of it may have made its way into her stomach, but most was in a large bag she'd vanished to keep her hands free.

When she came upon a pack of Auditors, she almost smiled. Then went to work (http://youtu.be/5HIVRnF2CzE).

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[notmyownage]

Claudia wasn't exactly known to be a fighter, but she'd just learned that Quinn was gone, and that was the last damn straw.

She was out in front of the school, Tesla in hand, zapping any auditor she could get a clean shot at. It wasn't lethal, but it'd at least hopefully take them down long enough for someone to come in with something more permanent.

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[icecoldfrost]

Fight? Emma?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.

Clearly Ronan's house would not be safe for long, however, given the lunatics waving torches and such, and Emma was not stupid. She packed up what few belongings she had along with some food, shifted to diamond, and walked out the door.

If she was attacked, she would defend herself, but Emma's plan was to go straight to the library, and see how she could be put to use.

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[wrongkindofsith]

You couldn't really say Cara cut a swathe through any auditors stupid enough to come near her, mostly because agiels didn't have edges. It was more like bludgeoned a swathe through them.

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[shotbillmurray.livejournal.com]

The one thing about Columbus? He's learned to be prepared.

It also helps that all the WoW servers that he connected to were no longer in service so he could actually see that there was an apocalypse or battle going on.

So this was Columbus, a shotgun slung over his bag and a rolling suitcase being dragged behind him. He was being chased by a bunch of Auditors who were out for blood and possibly asking questions about the rolling suitcase.

So far the only plan he had so far was to get to the school. Hopefully it would be a good one.

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[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

Susan had one of those bola things Bruce had given her, but she had every intention of finding a blunt object to use. But she also had a whole other set of weapons at her disposal.

Like the trail of chocolates on the sidewalk, one every couple of feet, that would hopefully lead Auditors right to the exterior of Wonka's.

Across the street, taped to the front of town hall, were several signs.

STANDING PERMITTED

NO STANDING
MONDAY 7-9 AM

NO STANDING
WEDNESDAY 1-4 PM

NO STANDING
ANY TIME

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[solo_sword]

There was some irony to the fact that Jaina, who tended not to drink because she didn't like her senses dulled in case of trouble, was walking into battle today with the last vestiges of a gremlin bite-induced hangover that she hasn't entirely been able to shake off.

But it also meant that of the leftover liquor- and she had no idea how there was any left- she had a water gun full of alcohol to use today. Where had the water gun come from? Who even knew. She wasn't questioning it too hard.

And while she was an extremely good shot and able to actually get it into the unsuspecting mouths of a few Auditors and explode their heads before they managed to get anything out about what the alcohol made this body feel, it also meant she ran out surprisingly fast.

At which point she clubbed the gun over the head of one of the Auditors closest to her, fully expecting to get touched and disappeared... and she dazed him instead.

"Oh good!" she said happily, and that Auditor did not last long after that.

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[whenshewasnice]

Despite coming from a world where epic fights could occasionally break out over relatively minor things, Natalie was generally not a fighter. However, that merely meant she wasn't likely to start fights – and the Auditors had clearly started this one.

She was armed with a bagful of chocolate (from her personal stash) and various baked goods (from Francine), and it wasn't long at all before she was also wielding a broom (from the first Auditor she'd taken out via clever use of the first two weapons). And that was even without mentioning her high kicks.

She was doing exceptionally well for herself for someone who seemed the quiet and bookish type.

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[furnaceface]

Okay, so, granted, there was a battle going on out there. Jono hadn't missed that fact. He also hadn't missed the way the force-field had been giving out over the past couple of days, and after losing Raven, there was no way in hell that he was leaving the Boards without his cat. Judge him all you want. Jono had a huge coat with massive pockets, and Joni was still small enough to be tucked away nicely inside of one.

Of course, it wasn't like he was going out there unarmed, either. All of his other pockets were crammed full of aerosol cans of whipped cream, and in one hand he carried a decent stack of pie tins.

That's right, Auditors. On top of his Cockney rhyming slang, Jonothon had cream pies and a good throwing arm, and he was not afraid to use them.

Go on. Talk to him about rules now. Bastards.

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[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam was more than ready to defend Fandom, having acquired a bo staff to fend off the Auditors. He took a defensive stance, ready to fight for as long as he was able.

The Forcefield Fails!

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

The forcefield had managed to stay stable-ish for the past more-than-24-hours, but now it was fizzling again. In the few seconds that it blinked, a good chunk of town vanished into the Nothing, right down to the Devil's Nest and Pizza Planet, taking away everything up to Black Swan Drive and Mallard Way and carving the park in two (http://www.iambicnut.com/rpg/misc/newmap.jpg).

Whoops.

Re: The Forcefield Fails!

[doubleohblonde]

Sadly, the House of Ill-Repute was on the wrong side of the fallen force field.

As was Bond and his pretty pretty shirtlessness.

Woe.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Round 2

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

You could run away from the failing forcefield.

Or you could charge right back at the couple-hundred Auditors still left, looking more ticked off and manic by the second.

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[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

This is where Hercules made his stand. He'd originally brought a squirt-gun filled with sugar-water in attempts to attack his foes through taste. However, when he realized that he could fight them like any other foe without fear of instantly disappearing, he threw his toy away and cracked his knuckles.

"This is for Amadeus!" he said, striking an Auditor right in the bridge of the nose. He spun around and punched another right in the mouth. "For Bobby!" Another punch. "For Rhea!"

And he'd carry on punching them, shouting the names of his friends and comrades. Just like he'd promised he would.

The Forcefield Fails Again!

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

The field had failed to stabilise after its earlier collapse, and now it was crashing again, the Nothing ripping through what remained of Town and being held, but barely, at Loon Drive, right in front of the school walls.

Hopefully some of you had had the presence of mind to run away earlier, or maybe help your town-based compatriots out of their newly-minted death traps.

Re: The Forcefield Fails Again!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules went down swinging, literally.

"This is for... that eye-laser guy!" he shouted, having run out of Avengers and Champions and now was having trouble remember the names of Warren and Bobby's X-Compatriots. His knuckles were bruised and bloodied, his own face and back showing the blows he'd taken from his vicious enemies in the form more bruises, and more bleeding cuts and gouges. He was running on pure adrenaline, but he would not give up this fight.

"And card-throwy man!" He delivered his final punch. "And--"

That's when the field crashed again, and the Lion of Olympus never was.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Round 3

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

There aren't an awful lot of Auditors left by now.

Of course, there's not a lot of island left, either.

Still, this would be the time to defend the school walls and then start running back to the school. Guess some of you will be staying on campus tonight...

Re: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Round 3

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Once people started running to the safety of the school, Gwynn positioned herself flat along the top of the wall and did her best to lay cover for the retreating Fandomites.

The brilliance of this plan was that Eve was next to her, lighting the arrows on fire before Gwynn let them fly.

The Ranger and The Witch should be friends ... one girl likes to shoot a bow, the other likes to create a bomb but that's no reason why they can't be friends...

Ahem, narration. Stop that.


[[OOC: Eve modded with permission. Butchering of show tune lyrics not so much.]]

OOC

[not-the-irs.livejournal.com]

Voila! NPC post is over there (http://fandomhigh-ooc.livejournal.com/879767.html?view=38554519#t38554519).

Re: OOC

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

Um FYI the signs I made up? There are no parking signs like this where I parked by the Largo last Saturday. My head almost exploded, too.