fandomtownies | Town Hall, Saturday, December 19, 2020 [Let's Say Lunchtime]

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Town Hall, Saturday, December 19, 2020 [Let's Say Lunchtime]

Right. Science and magic people were going to... science and magic this thing out of the air. In theory, it was a good plan, in that 'winging it by the seat of our pants' kind of way that Jesse was intimately familiar with. In practice, well, the streets of Fandom were currently a little on the deadly side.

So she dusted off the PA system sometime in the early afternoon.

"Hey, we think we've figured out how to stop this thing," she said, forcing her voice to stay steady (public speaking was the worst, okay, but she just needed a moment to remind herself she was the dir-- mayor here). "But we can use some cover while we do this. I need anybody who's willing to fight to come in to town hall and keep our people safe, okay? Thank you."

Click.

Duke	Yeah, Duke was just going to very firmly not mention the reindeer and their mesmerizing red noses. Shut up. He was, however, going to show up loaded to bear (ha!) with a shot gun, a pistol, a few small explosives, and an ax. He had some pent up frustration to take out on some things.
Rey	Rey arrived with her lightsaber at her belt, a blaster strapped to her leg, and she was still trying to pull a dead tangle of lights off the end of her staff from an encounter on the way here. Because you know what this day needed? Untangling Christmas lights on top of everything.
Duke	Duke hadn’t spoken to Rey in . . . awhile. But he also wasn’t the sort to just stand around when someone was dealing with something. “You, uh. Need a hand with that?”
Rey	"I've got it. It's hooked right here," she said, working the wire over that but of metal before glancing up. "You look prepared."
Duke	“I am very excited to not be in a volcano right now,” Duke said with a shrug. “Also I’ve been attacked by way too many things this week not to go around armed to the teeth.”
Rey	"You okay, though?" Rey checked, because of course she did.
Duke	"Yep." Duke hefted his ax. "Especially once I take out some frustrations on some holiday candy. Or snow angels. Or reindeer." 'Reindeer' got a bit of an extra growl. Look, just because he was really susceptible to mind control didn't mean he enjoyed it.
Rey	"You should have more than enough opportunity to do that," she told him, finally pulling the lights loose to toss out of the way. Because the island was a damn mess.
Duke	"Seems like it," Duke agreed. "And, uh. How've you been?"
Rey	"Good." Honestly, she was living her best life. "You?"
Duke	"Getting there," Duke said. "Until this week, nothing had tried to kill me in, like, a month."
Rey	"Good!" she said, actually kind of relieved by that. "Hopefully the streak can continue once we handle this."
Duke	"That's the plan," Duke said, nodding. "So, uh." He looked her over and tilted his head. "I haven't listened to the radio in a bit, but I'm pretty sure when I did I heard something about you and a certain pirate?" Look, he could be mad at her all he liked, but his inner hopeless romantic would not be squashed.
Rey	"That's part of a bigger conversation," Rey said, because she honestly felt kind of weird sharing that kind of thing when she didn't know where they stood after six weeks. "Maybe after this."
Duke	Duke bopped his head. "Fair enough. You know if there's any kind of plan around here, or are we just kinda . . . hacking away at things?"
Rey	"Not sure. I think we're supposed to follow whoever yells the loudest," Rey guessed. She had surprisingly little team experience.
Duke	"Yeah, sounds like Fandom," Duke said. He rested his ax on his shoulder. "Whelp. . . . Should be interesting at least."
Rey	"That's a word for it," Rey agreed, and added, "Be careful out there."
Duke	“Yeah.” Duke flicked her a small smile. “You too.”
Magnus	"The real thing I wanna know here, is will we get loot for this?" Magnus asked. Because he was a murder hobo sometimes.
Jessica	"I'm getting paid in booze," Jessica offered.
Magnus	"I mean. Is it good booze?"
Jessica	Jessica scoffed. "Fuck no. But it's a big bottle."
Magnus	"Ahhh," Magnus said, then looked a little concerned. But it mostly for the DM, really. You doin' okay there, Griffin? Quarantine's been hard for all of us.
Jessica	It’s okay, Travis. Your Dad probably got his spell cards mixed up again and Griffin just needed a moment. Jessica however just assumed the look meant Magnus was judging her. “Hey, you beat up shit for your reasons and I’ll do it for mine.”
Magnus	Look, he just assumed that almost everyone who wasn't Taaco and Merle were NPCs, voiced by his baby brother. Unless you were voiced by special guest, Lin Manuel Miranda. "Oh, it's because I'm technically lawful good." Wow, that didn't turn out accurate at all.
Jessica	Magnus got a long pause from Jessica as she tried to figure out what Magnus meant by that. Magnus could interpret that look as Jessica having no clue what he is talking about or Travis assuming that Griffin was thinking about all the crazy shit he let Travis get away with. Either way Jessica’s final response was a slow nod and her saying “Yeah... okay.”
Magnus	Magnus could and would. "Don't worry, it's not important."
Danny	Danny had been attacked by an inflatable reindeer this week. And that was on top of an impromptu trip to Afghanistan. It was safe to say that he wasn't in the best mood for any of this. But he was armed there to keep people safe.
Steve	Steve had strapped his broken arm up on the outside of his ~~ridiculous~~ completely badass puffy coat and was carrying one gun and wearing another...few. The exact number was classified, okay. "Duck!" he yelled at Danny before a icicle fell on him.
Danny	"You are not supposed to be out here," Danny informed him once he was safe from the murder icicle. You know. Like Steve would listen to reason on this.
Steve	Steve snorted. "Sure, Danno."
Danny	Danny was gonna murder him. Straight up murder him. "You have a broken arm and cracked ribs!"
Steve	Steve gestured with the non broken arm to the everything around them. "This is more important! And after the reindeer, it's not like the apartment's any safer." The reindeer had been awesome, though.
Danny	"That is bad logic!" Danny shouted at him, shooting at a reindeer that was getting too close. "Your logic is bad!"
Steve	"So's your face!" Steve countered. Maturely.
Starlight	Starlight arrived a little more out of breath than she would have liked (damn angels), but she was here, with her hair curled and her makeup done because...well, you had your pre-combat rituals, she had hers. She'd also swapped her uniform for a fresh one, as the outfit she'd been running around in the past few days was pretty splattered with...chocolate and marzipan and God only knew what else by now. She had her arms crossed around herself, trying to seem confident even as she was running through a stream of mental prayers. (She had a few pre-combat rituals, okay?)
Jessica	Jessica did not want to be here. She would have been back in her apartment drinking bottom shelf whiskey but no someone had to come along and drag her to the townhall. "You're totally getting snow shoved down your costume," Jessica muttered to Annie.
Starlight	"And here I was going to buy you a great big bottle of bourbon for helping out," Starlight murmured, glancing over. "Come on, it'll be fun." She didn't actually believe that, and it showed, but she was trying. And it was a uniform, damn it.
Jessica	Jessica sighed and rolled here eyes. "You and I have way different definitions of fun," she complained. "And it better be a huge bottle."
Starlight	"With a bow on it," Starlight promised, worry etched into her features even as she tried to keep her tone light. "What, you scared of a few...reindeer or whatever?" The reindeer were nothing to fuck with, and she knew it, but she was trying.
Jessica	Jessica scoffed. "No," she said drawling out the word. She shifted a bit betraying a bit of nervousness on her part. "I just don't like the responsibility."
Starlight	"Just be responsible for you," Starlight advised, managing a little smile. "You don't have to be anyone's hero - you're just some pissed-off, ridiculously strong chick who lives here. You're an asset, Jessica."
Jessica	"Well. More of an ass, really," she joked. "But the pissed off part is accurate."
Starlight	"Channel all of that into this," Starlight told her, smile broadening slightly. "And don't get hurt." Because Starlight was just going to worry a little about everyone here, yes. Even the folks with healing factors!
Jessica	Jessica frowned a bit at that. “Same goes for you too,” she replied with an awkward expression. Then cleared her throat. “Because if you get hurt who’s going to buy me booze?” Yep. That’s the reason.
Diego	Diego was there, in his usual black tactical outfit however there might have been a little more knives than usual. The cut on his cheek from the angel was slowly healing but he had the feeling that it wasn't going to be the only mark on him after this was all said and done.
Starlight	Starlight was doing her best to seem confident and like she wasn't brimming with nervous energy as she wandered over to stand next to Diego, but she was doing a pretty bad job of it. This had all been fun and cute on Wednesday, but at this point they were days into this and it just kept escalating. "You ready for this?" she asked him quietly, bumping a shoulder against one of his and going for playful in spite of how worried she clearly was. The cut on his cheek was not what she'd consider a good omen, and it just reminded her that he could get hurt.
Diego	"As I'll ever be." Excitement was still his main feeling here, mostly due to a lifetime of brainwashing telling him this was his only purpose in life. Also it was still kind of cool to see all this weird shit. "We got this," he said confidently. "Look at all these superpowered weirdos with us." He said that with affection.
Starlight	"There are a lot of superpowered weirdos here." Starlight would feel a bit better about this if she knew that everyone was a superpowered weirdo in the extra-special, almost-impossible-to-hurt way she was a superpowered weirdo, but still. "I had to drag one of 'em here," almost literally, "but I think we're in pretty good shape. Pretty much everyone I know with powers and/or a gun is here."
Diego	"See, we'll be fine," Diego said, giving her a nudge with his elbow. "I feel bad for whatever tries to come for us."
Starlight	Starlight huffed out a little laugh, a tiny bit of the tension leaving her shoulders. "You're right. And it's not like we haven't all been training all week." There, she wasn't actually faking the confidence, anymore, considering at this point she could probably blast candy canes in her sleep. "They have it coming."
Spider-Man	And in a space no one was standing there was a blip and suddenly a Spider-Man standing there. "Hey everyone!" Miles said cheerfully. "Figured you could use the help of your friendly island resident Spider-Man."
Clint	By this point, Clint had kind of gotten used to some of the fighty types being young, but the blipping in out of nowhere still caught him off guard. "Geez kid. You should try that scare tactic on the inflatables, maybe it'll make them pop."
Seivarden	She should have known that letting Amaya take her second gun apart during a week like this was a bad idea. At least Seivarden had her best one, and she had armour, and an emergency medkit - one that was actually useful, unlike those here - with her. And a knife, for those lights. She felt she was as prepared as she could be.
Summer	Look. Summer knew that with what everyone else on this island could bring to the table in situations like this, she didn't have much. She had a ship and some blasters and a pretty hefty dose of sarcastic wit and banter, but she wasn't going to let her lack of superpowers or even formal training stop her from letting this be her moment to shine maybe a little bit while they were all here. Whistling a little to herself as she double-checked her several various space guns, portal gun for emergency exits, the mop handle she'd converted into a pointed staff, her make-up and hair real quick, before this really started to go down...
Steve	Steve trotted over in full Captain America uniform, shield already kind of smelling like marzipan. "Road that way is blocked by boulders," he said, pointing north.
Jessica	So. It's not that Jessica was so much star-struck at the sight of Captain America as she was bewildered. "So you're here too?" She asked... mostly to the air but Steve was nearby and was kind of targeted by the question. "So what? We're like one giant angry green guy, a surfer duded and the chick with the red hair?" Thor might take issues being called "Surfer dude."
Steve	"I can call 'em, but I don't think they can get here," Steve said, grinning. "They'll definitely be sorry to miss it."
Jessica	Okay. And now the living flag was actually talking to Jessica. "Yeah, I'll bet," Jessica said rolling her eyes and really feeling inferior to most of the people in the room. "Then again there may not be an island standing if they showed up." She looked around the room. "How is it so many supers show up in a place like this?"
Steve	"Can't speak for everyone else, but Nick Fury sent me here years ago," Steve said. Because Nick was a tricksy bastard like that.
Jessica	"I don't know who that is but even then he sounds like he could break my spine just by looking at me," Jessica said shaking her head.
Steve	"Probably," Steve admitted.
Liam	Look, there wasn’t a lot to do on the island with regards to his supposed actual job, so in a weird way Liam kind of looked forward to these inevitable semi-regular showdowns. It was just nice to feel useful.
Beau	Beau showed up, staff slung across her back, pouch of throwing stars at her belt, and... still showing off her abs despite the weather. Hey, at least her dope new fleece lined pirate coat looked cool! ... literally, because it was hanging open and she'd torn the sleeves off. Look, you couldn't tell her what to do. Even if she was still covered in snow because the sharkicanes had gotten her again. Scanning the room quickly confirmed what she'd also expected: Yasha wasn't here, because she never willingly gravitated toward crowds of people. "I'm gonna get my friend on the way, rope her in on this," she said, loudly but to no one in particular. "This shit is totally her jam."
Magnus	"Isn't this awesome?!" Yeah, the D&D people would be into this. "Nice abs!"
Beau	A fight this extra just meant they were totally in their element. "Thanks, man," Beau said with a smug little smirk. "Ready to fuck shit up?"
Magnus	"Heck yeah!" he replied, pulling out the Flaming, Raging, Poisoning Sword of Doom to keep up the level of extra-ness. Also, that extra damage from the fire, you know? Gotta keep up on the meta. "Let's fuck 'em up!"
Beau	And here Beau had another couple of levels to go before she got her sickness lightning gloves, let alone an enchanted staff. IT WAS FINE, she still had her cool monk shit. "I need my fight partner for this," she said, nodding her approval at the sword. "Don't let anybody get started without us, 'kay?"
Magnus	"I'll make sure," he promised. "Man, we need to get you a stone of farspeech."
Beau	"I mean, she has a phone, but she might break it if she's raging, right?" Beau yelled over her shoulder, already taking off into the streets to find Yasha.

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The entire island rocked from a earthquake centered around the Rocky Bits. The marzipan boulders crashed into walls and through windows as the rock candy icicles showered down from the eaves in a deadly rain. The aftershocks seemed weirdly rhythmic...almost like footsteps...and massive bear, multiple stories tall and holding a bottle of off-brand soda rose from the Rocky Bits and begins to march on the school, accompanied by many smaller bears.

So this is all very terrible.

[OOC: Preplay to be added as I hand-code as in the Days of Yore!]

Jesse	"What the fuck." Jesse had been in the middle of this for a while now. She was allowed that loud, exasperated what the fuck. Especially when she stepped out of the building and saw the fucking bear. "I don't know about you guys," she said, drawing the Service Weapon from its holster. The various segments of the gun moved in her hands like a living thing, clicking into a new formation. "But I am so fucking ready to beat something up."
Liam	"What the fuck." The real question was, how would this make Jesse feel about generic soda versus branded? "... I hope that hasn't been on the island the whole time," Liam said, drawing his own weapon without taking his eyes off the bear. "Because if so, that's embarrassing." Pun completely unintentional.
Steve	"I definitely blame Calvin," Steve said, aiming his gun with the arm that wasn't still in a splint. Because he was a self-sacrificing idiot that way.
Danny	"I swear to god," Danny grumbled, knowing that trying to yank Steve out of here wasn't gonna happen. So, instead, he made sure to just cover his injured side. But he wasn't happy about it.
Magnus	"OH MY GOD, YESSSSSS!" Yeah, you introduced giant bears. Magnus was down for this.
Duke	Yeah, Duke was just going to shoot Magnus a Look for that one. “Whelp. Glad I packed the explosives.”
Jesse	"Right," Jesse said. She glanced back at everyone. "It's heading towards the school," she called, "So let's stop it before it gets there, all right?" And because there wasn't any feasible way she was going to get out of this without using her powers anyway, she leaped up to the roof, and then into the air, gliding towards the caves. And the giant fucking bear.
Annie	"What the actual hell?" Starlight stared up at the giant bear, eyes glowing bright. And then Jesse started flying, and that was pretty new. Whatever. There wasn't time for what-the-hell-ing - she held both hands out in front of her, drawing power into herself as she ran towards the giant bear.
Rey	If anyone was flying that shouldn't have been, Rey didn't notice or care, which mainly had to do with her already charging towards the bear for immediate stabbing purposes.
Miles	"You think if we got the bears brand name cola they might chill out?" Miles asked as he flipped up onto a wall and started to web a couple of the smaller bears.
Diego	Diego was kind of caught staring at other people do cool stuff at first, but quickly got with the knife flinging at the bears. He could multi-task.
Seivarden	"Aatr's tits, I didn't think the bears here could get any worse." Seivarden started running, activating her armour as she did so, giving her body a thin metallic surface. She fired at one of the smaller bears, causing it to roar in pain and stumble.
Jessica	Jessica groaned. "Seriously," she muttered under breath. "No amount of bourbon is worth this." But she jumped into the air. Much higher than a normal human should and landed right in front of a few of the smaller bears. "I punch bears now. This is what I do," she said shaking her head. And hoped she fared better than Leonardo DiCaprio.
Summer	So there were maybe a few more people on the air game than she'd have expected, but that was actually fine and great for Summer, because ground cover was what she did pretty well, and she was particularly paying attention to sniping anything that might think it was cute by using the chaos to its advantage, especially anything that might be thinking it was cute by thinking she didn't totally see it coming up behind her there. Pew, pew, bitches. Summer had a shit ton of blaster bolts and she was really looking forward to using them all.
Duke	Duke was just going to assist with that ground cover, there. Though he was rather wishing he also had a blaster to use, since he was going to run out of bullets on these smaller bears pretty quickly.
Steve	"Think we can herd the littler ones to fall into the lava?" Steve asked whoever was nearby. You know, for given value of both little and herd.
Liam	“Nina had some luck doing that to the snow angels the other day,” Liam confirmed. “It’s worth a try.”
Beau	Beau had arrived back here with Yasha in tow, sporting a few new scratches and cuts from the snow icicles, just in time to catch this new development. "Oh, fuck yes," she said gleefully, cracking her knuckles. "Time to really fuck shit up, Yasha, let's go!"
Yasha	Yasha just nodded, grateful that it at least gave her an out from having to talk to strangers, and drew the massive length of Magician's Judge from her back scabbard. Her eyes went unfocused for a moment, the cords in her neck started to stand out as her jaw clenched, and foam started to form at the corners of her mouth as she unleashed an absolutely feral roar. Surprise, anybody who'd only seen the quiet awkward side of her.
Steve	Steve startled badly for a second. "Well, that's different," he said.
Duke	And Duke was just kind of openly staring. "Yeah, that's -- one way of putting it."
Danny	"I told you this was a dumb idea," Danny snapped. Because it was. It super, super was.
~~Annie~~ Starlight	Starlight - who, yes, was pretty startled by Yasha there, though it was pretty dope seeing her actually use the giant sword - paused where she had just blasted one of the smaller bears away from herself. "Which part is a dumb idea?" she had to ask. Because there was a lot of dumbness going on right now, even if Yasha and her like, foaming-at-the-mouth trick was pretty scary in what Starlight was thinking was a good way.
Magnus	"Oh, all of it," Magnus supplied helpfully as he stretched out his arms to get some real good chopping energy built up. Not, like, Monk built up, but more like good calisthenics. "Soup to nuts, all bad."
Miles	"Honestly, I think someone forgot to give somebody a holiday gift," Miles grunted as he swung a bear caught in his web at another bear knocking them both into a Sharkicane. "Or somebody really hates their gift. Maybe there's a gift receipt somewhere on the island we need to find?"
Steve	"I love my Christmas cattle prod," Steve said, using it on a wayward reindeer trying to sneak up on him.
Liam	"There's a sentence I never thought I'd hear," Liam remarked, although yes, Steve, you were getting a lot of side-eye for even being out here at all. As if you didn't already get enough of that from Danny.

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Well, the proverbial cat was out of the bag. Jesse would worry about that later, if she worried about it at all.

Right now, she was busy. She shot past a large bear in a burst of speed, twisting around to fire several shots into its hide. As it sagged down, she pulled its body into the air with a burst of power and flung it, hard, into two smaller bears just a few feet away.

"How many of these things are there?" she muttered under her breath, before pushing away in another burst of superhuman speed - right under a bear's paw.

Starlight had been dragged into some holly by a string of lights thanks to being momentarily distracted by one of the roaming reindeer, so her hair was mussed and her tights a little ripped, but she was in her element right now. Sure, her element was typically a little more in the vein of doing this to big, burly, usually-surprised criminals, but bears weren't so big a change that she didn't know what to do.

She darted up to a bear, firing a blast directly into its midsection to send it flying a good fifteen feet before whirling to face another, aiming a blast at its face to stun it before punching the bear and sending it careening away from her. (Punching the bear. Today was the greatest. Also kind of the weirdest! But mostly the greatest, thanks to the adrenaline.)

Punching bears was super fun!

... as Jesse would attest to right now. She shot down from the sky and slammed straight into a large bear a dozen feet or so away from Starlight, leaving a crater in the snow.

"Oh, that is cathartic," she ground out.

"Always is," Starlight greeted her, glancing over as she shoved her hand into a bear's...chest? Was that the right term? It didn't matter - what did matter was that the bear went flying with the blast Starlight fired into its chest, and she actually let out a giddy little laugh. "So like, this is new," she added, gesturing vaguely towards Jesse.

'This' being how you could fly and shit, apparently, Jesse. She'd probably ask more about it another time when they weren't punching the hell out of a bunch of bears, but, like, don't think she hadn't noticed!

Jesse	"I think we're getting to it!" Jesse hollered from several feet up in the air, a large marzipan boulder hovering next to her under the force of her powers. "Everybody on the giant-ass bear!"
Steve	Steve, using the kind of tactical instincts that gave Tony nightmares, grabbed what was left of a marzipan-crushed rickshaw and threw it over his head and right at the bear's teeth, two stories up.
Tony	Yeah, you couldn't see the eye-twitch because of the helmet, but it was there. Oh, it was there. "This is a new one," Tony had to admit, testing out a repulsor beam on it to follow up the rickshaw projectile.
~~Annie~~ Starlight	If Starlight hadn't been preoccupied with sending out blast after blast towards the bear (and sorry, nearby streetlamp that totally just burst - sacrifices were being made today, apparently), this would have been something she would have enjoyed watching. As it was, she was concentrating on blasting the bear's feet in the hopes that maybe she could unsteady it enough to bring it down a little closer. It wasn't necessarily a great plan, but it at least kept her blasts where they probably wouldn't affect anyone's vision.
Miles	"It keeps snapping my webs!" Miles complained as he kept trying to do something he had seen in an old Space Battle's movie which involved trying to trip the giant bear. He jumped and hopped to the top of a nearby building and shot a couple of webs at the bear trying to blind it.
Jessica	Okay. Giant fucking polar bear stomping to the school. She shook her head. "I am so out of my league." That didn't stop her from grabbing a nearby marzipan boulder and throwing it at the giant polar bear's head.
Rey	"...That's good thinking," Rey decided. And since a lightsaber might not be hugely useful here when everyone was firing at the bear at once, she also picked up a boulder with the Force to throw at it.
Steve	"Is this slowing that thing down at all?" Steve yelled, tilting his head and trying to assess.
Duke	"Doesn't look like it," Duke called back. He pulled the stick of dynamite he'd gotten off the weird kid last summer from his back pocket. "We might want to change plans!"
Magnus	"Rock, paper, scissors for who gets to use it!" Magnus called out immediately. Because, c'mon. Blowing up a giant bear?
Beau	"I can stun this fucker," Beau yelled, "just for a few seconds, but if that buys you some time, man, I'm into it."
Jessica	Jessica looked around at the people saying things like dynamite, rock, paper, scissors and stunning. "You people are all fucking nuts," she called out. And hurled another marzipan boulder at the bear.
Duke	"You get used to it," Duke told her, digging a lighter out of his other pocket. "Right, who wants to get this fucker onto that fucker?"
Jesse	"I can toss it over there if you need me to," Jesse called, as her feet touched back down on the ground.
Yasha	Yasha had nothing to contribute to this conversation, mostly because she was still deeply entrenched in her rage and too busy hacking at the bear and snarling right back at it. Maybe it was because she was just frustrated that the bear was too big for her to actually get up into its face, or maybe just fighting a fucking massive bear was putting an extra sharp edge on her aggression, but... the light around her seemed to dim for a moment as her eyes and the white ends of her hair went solid black, and a pair of giant tattered and skeletal wings unfolded from her back, apparently out of nowhere. That faint aura of darkness around her seemed to concentrate itself on the bear, doing a small but steady amount of necrotic damage to it as long as she stayed right up in its space, trying to keep its attention focused on her instead of the others as much as possible. ... it was also kind of terrifying, if you happened to be nearby.
Magnus	Terrifying? Or awesome? "...man, I super should have multi-classed with some magic," Magnus said.
Tony	"Whatever the plan is, might wanna get it done now," Tony said, just ignoring the commentary there. For his own sanity.
Duke	Duke was . . . still holding the unlit dynamite. Because he was busy staring very wide-eyed at the fucking death metal cover art fighting the polar bear over here. "Um," he said finally. "Maybe she could do it?" What with the spooky wings and all.
Beau	There was a long and particularly nasty sugar icicle screaming toward her head, and Beau reached out on instinct to grab it just before impact, then whirled like a discus thrower and flung it hard enough to embed itself several inches into the bear's left hind leg. "So am I stunning the fucker or what?"
Jessica	"Well slinging fucking marzipan isn't doing anything," Jessica said, pushing hair out of her face. "If you can do it, stun the fucker."
Jesse	"Stun the fucker!" Jesse agreed loudly, "Then light the dynamite, I'll take it from there!"
Beau	"Okay, here -- fuck! Here goes," Beau replied, interrupted briefly by having to dodge a marzipan boulder. She'd landed enough hits on the bear by now to have a pretty good read on the flow of its life force; it was just a matter of getting herself into a good position to actually strike at a vulnerable spot. "Yash, we're doing that thing!" she yelled; she circled around the bear (no taking attacks of opportunity from that thing, thanks) toward Yasha and basically parkoured off her shoulder like they'd done this before. It wasn't perfect. She'd have much preferred to get up onto its shoulders or something less precarious, but the damn bear was way too big and they didn't have that kind of time. Still, between the boost from Yasha and her own dexterity, she managed to scramble up one of the bear's hind legs just far enough to jam her fist into a soft spot on the back of its knee and basically create a temporary break in its energy flow that would stun it. "Oh hey, it worked," she mumbled just before gravity got the best of her and she started falling. "I'm good, just focus on this guy!" Monks, man.
Duke	Duke madly flicked his lighter and got the dynamite lit, then thrust it at Jesse. "Take it take it take it take it take it!" He didn't like carrying lit explosives, okay?
Jesse	Jesse didn't take it with her hand. She wasn't nuts. She ripped it out of Duke's hand with her power instead, lifting the burning thing up into the air a few feet away from herself. "Here goes!" she bellowed. And hurled it at the bear's gaping maw.
Jessica	“I don’t know about the rest of you but this is the craziest Saturday night I’ve had in a long time,” Jessica noted as she watched this stuff go down.
Duke	"Eh," Duke said with a shrug. "Define 'a long time'." What? Between Fandom and Haven, he'd had a lot of crazy Saturdays.
Beau	"Yeah, I mean --" Beau picked herself up off the ground and waved a hand dismissively. "This is honestly kind of, like, an average day in the life for me and Yasha sometimes."

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