Takofanes Showdown - one more cute bedtime Fairy-Tale

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Note, that l'm excusing for possible grammar and other mistakes in this novella, English is neither my first language, nor that of my Heroine ^_+ . We (Pluralis Majestatis intended) will investigate and fix all the typos eventually. @_@

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Once We called all our Syndicate inside exactly that Syndicate's HQ.
We: - So, We've a pretty important business. We will perform one more full-Syndicate run SoonTM, and it'll be second of Our big adventures, We've got a pretty strong confidence in Our girlish initiative. After that succesfull raid onto Qularr Venus base. It was a cool fight, and We'd grabbed the such phat lewt!.. Now We'll explain detail to everyone here.
We: - Does everyone remember Bloodmoon? How it couldn't be so, it was just yet ago. The truth is - thousands of civilians perish during each Halloween, and responsible for that is not anyone else, but Takofanes. Although all of those sages assure in tune, that it's impossible to destroy him, but We realize, that someday Takofanes was mere mortal too, he'sn't a god after all. Just another necromancer. And necromancers, as it's well-known, use Phylacteries as warp beacons for their souls, in order to get back in world, they leaving.
We: - We performed thorough scanning of Thaumic Background in moments of Takofanes' appearance near "Champignons" HQ, and, it seems, We tracked down his readable Auric Pattern. And when Bloodmoon has finished, We tinkered in Our laboratory - this stuff:
And We took out a cute (so We are ^.^) device, reminding tennis racket, but in a shape of butterfly, and in the middle of it - a display. We switched it on, and it started beeping.
We: - Here it is - the Thaumic Sensor. It is harmonized to Takofanes' sequence, thanks to what We can locate all of his Phylacteries. For instance, right now We see four clear signatures, those point at different countries of the world. One of them is located right at Turkey, still Tako's Turakian after all. It's clear - We calling in Demaydayizer...
Shining with cyan light, translucent locomotive hull has appeared on the terrace.
We: - We've no doubt, Our Syndicate can handle this task! We decided to prepare for it better, and tinkered this equipment. We think, that Takofanes setted his undying guards at places, where Phylacteries are hidden, and thus something against ghost won't be excess. So We developed new several pieces of Phase Shifting Technology.
We: - Here's Phase Gauntlets for Broot, and Phase Claws for Basic White Werebeast. Their impact parts become translucent on activation, and can affect spectres, but don't touch them, because prolongated (i.e. more than one second) contact with Phase-Shifted Matter is bad for living tissues. As for Us - We will use Phase Modulator for Our lazor rifle, for what We also made the Spraying Module recently, to it could work in Cone AoE Maintain mode, although that mode is a bit weakish by now. But @kaizerin left Us no choice, screwing mah plazmabeam to the oblivion. We realize though, that Kaiserin won't make anything for Us, so it's up to Us to gear up both my girlish body & Syndicate on Our own. Let'z go, We can't wait for trying something new, fight a magical threat, and destroy it!
We: - We will take Dark Horse for first mission, because why not? Equip this Phase Transformer on your Teslatron, and hop into the Demaydayizer, you: Dark Horse, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, Broot & Basic White Werebeast. Demaydayizer can carry five people, including Broot, and Basic White Werebeast can shrink himself.
Inside the Demaydayizer, We rushed to the hole for surrounding Millennium City forcefield, which is located at north, and a bit west, about near contaminated by Mechanon's nanites area.
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The @DaKrushmor syndicate presents:
THE PARTY





My Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First = We, aka very nice girlie from counterfactual reign of universal wavefunction, where We are the only person on the whole wide planet, that's Our secret why We are noice that much ^_^. Favorite color - navy blue (240).

Dark Horse - he built an armored suit, that is able to control weather, and direct electrical discharges of immense power through Laser-Induced Plasma Channel. Favorite color - violet (255).

Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - this girlie utilizes a suit, that is equipped with Wonder Beam, able to revert back damage. Favorite color - roseate (345).

Broot - that's da serious mehn. Favorite color - red (360).

Basic White Werebeast - he has chinese origin, he's a mutant, that was transformed to dragon-like werebeast after factory accident, he got some Supernatural Powers, also controls radiation a bit. He has the sharpest claws, and amazingly durable hide, that also can reflect magic, that's why We took him as Main Tank for this job. Favorite color - skyblue (210).
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Demaydayizer - vehicle, based on Spectral Engine MK II hull, is equipped with phase defense, loads of firepower and so delicate bed inside, that ten of usual princesses would sell their souls to Satan, just for sleeping one night (together) on it. Always cyan (180).
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TAKOFANES SHOWDOWN
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After We penetrated the Gravity Force Barrier of Gadroon origin, that maintaining constantly above MC, inside packed tightly Demaydayizer, and drinking energy drink for teen girls "Amyjia" (refer - @amyjia ) with Snowdrops flavour. We surely kept moving towards first Phylactery, the brightest shining in Thaumic Spectrum. I.e. to the Turkey.
We: - These thingies...
We took out from Demaydayizer's glovebox a few sphere-shaped containers.
We: - These are Plasmatronic TurboShredders, We calcullated correctly, that if some object is palced there, all of its patterns, inclusing those of Thaumic Origin, should get dispelled, i.e. Phylactery will be destroyed, and couldn't work as a beacon anymore. So, it seems We're almost on place.
Some kind of mountain ridge, also next to sea. Let's look at Thaumic Sensor, yeah, a signal is somewhere underwater. What's from that - Demaydayizer swims like the sub. We submerged Demaydayizer with Our team to the sea depths. So, that's it, onboard sonar shows a cave. That's it, and, ermahgerd, how long it is, We home We could turn back from it if anything. And this's air chamber, We really emerged within some kind of closed, filled with air cave.
We: - Let's get out of Demaydayizer! It won't move furthur for sure. Let's brace for impact with various kind of undead as well.
We jumped out of Demaydayizer, and rushed to the tunnel, leaded deep into rock. There's hellish darkness inside, team lights it with anything they got. We, for instance - with built-into the Crown Light Emitting Diode. It's like miner's hat, but a bit more kawaii u3u. So, there's undead on its way. Here's Turakian zombies on their way, and We - pew-pew Us with Our Prototype Laser Energy Spray, Dark Horse sent violet-colored Lightning Storm, naturally inflicting way more DPS, than Us, Broot & Basic White Werebeast kept red and blue Vortices spinning. It's easy. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva switched on even AoPM, to We could beat this level quicker. A pack of ghost, which We ripped to shreds, thanks to Phase Modulators in Our equipment. Nothing interesting, just another monotony trash wipe, when We waddled within tunnels maze, so We will skip this scene, and rewind to the moment, when...
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When We finally rushed to large hall, inside which energy readings of Thaumic Sensor were about to go to eleven!
We: - So, what's this pile of rotten flesh in the centre? We somehow wanna hope, that Takofanes forgot to animate it...
Boss: - Purrrr-cooaw-cooaw-cooah!!!
The carcass loft its rotten, decaying head on horrendously long neck, and We saw, that it's actually a giant bird. Which seemed a bit familar to Us?..
We: - This can't be happening?! This is the Roc Bird from ancient legends. We always thought, that this mythological bird - it's imagined variant of Madagascar's natives tells of Aepyornis. It's some kind of ostrich, it was way bigger than usual one, but exterminated by europeans in Voyage Century. But this example has just disastrously huge wings, it's practically reliably, that it can fly.
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - But this one is not living too? It's a zombie - right?
We: - Yah, We'll call it - Undead Roc.
And now this birdie already spreads its holey wings...
We: - What are you waiting for? Basic White Wherebeast - ATTACK!
And so it started, Basic White Werebeast pounced at Undead Rock. Undead Roc, in its turn, Talon Lunged at a Tank, hanging the Snare Linger. Now two monsters - good one and evil one, furiously shred eachother with wings, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva heals Our beast, now Broot tanks too, and overaggroes beast, his aggro is bigger after all.
The Birdie has AoE Energy Builder, so Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva heals with Arcane Vitality (this girlie still has AoPM aura). It seems, it's not too dangerous, but then...
Undead Roc how lets out a flap of its wings! And caught Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, inflicting serious Crushing Damage. Knocked out healer flung towards the wall, We rezzed a girl.
We: - It seems, Wing Swing of this bird is pretty alike of Dino's tail, just in direction of sides, but not backward. Don't stay at side of this bird, stay at the back.
Healer mended both of Tanks with Bionic Shielding, and very in time, a bird now pecked with its beak, dealing more than 5K Slashing Damage to both Tanks right through Block. Broot got out of the Block, and got right into Stun, as it turned - this stuff can Stun as well. We, together with Dark Horse, began DPSing with Pulse Beam Rifle and Lightning Arc respectively. Dark Horse uses violet-colored ball lightnings, We - respectively navy-blue-colored Toxic Nanites, and it looks like it's OK, but...
Undead Roc put some vim, and laid an egg.
We: - Just like Lemurian Progenitors! Everyone - do AoE!
Dark Horse switced his Lightning Storm on, it's good for him, it deals decent damage to doubled targets. We began to shoot from Our prototype - the only in the world, unique and wonderful Raygun Spray - cone AoE varierty Pulse Beam Rifle, but because it's unoptimized and weak, We did very modest Damage. And this egg is way bigged and thicker, than Lemurian one. In the end, We couldn't break an egg before there was hatched from it...
Obviously, it's a Hatchling. Which instantly lunged to the Healer, that girl used Ebon Void, but that chick can penetrate even that kind of defense. Fortunately - Basic White Werebeast leads that stuff from the girl, which also got a linger Hatchling Fury hung, tooltip of this debuff: "All Physical Resistance is significantly decreased.". Basic White Werebeast overaggroes the Hatchling, and pulls it toward the mom, to We could effectively AoE both of them, and gets 10K Damage from Wing Swing, with all of the Defiance stacks, it looks like debuff really works. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva heals Offtank, but Broot needs heals too, he almost fell over because of Hatchling, fortunately, a help got just in time.
Dark Horse AoE's with Lightning Storm and Ball Lightnings both birdie and Hatchling, We targeted exclusively Hatchling and shoot from standard mode of Pulse Beam Rifle - Our AoE's damage is way too feeble yet. The Boss flapped its wings again, and caught Dark Horse, who stood closer to it for AoEs, but Stormbringer helps him take this punch, Palliate & [Necrullitic Elixir] both heal him, and he stands in better spot.
After some time, We devour whole HP Bar of the Hatchling, and it returns to the dust of the earth. Also mom's HP Bar is now almost 2/3. The mom lays one more egg, Dark Horse began to AoE again, and We - TAB - retarget to the Egg, and began Single Target it with Pulse Beam Rifle. The Birdie, naturally, doesn't take any hits from Us, but this stragety appears to be way more effective against the Egg (and safer for Us, these birds have 50' range, just like AoE, and ST - 100' so We may not be afraid of it). In the end, We are managed to roast this Egg before a moment, when something hatches from it, and it popped, pouring the floor by nasty liquid with putrid stench.
We: - We are almost certain, that actual Roc couldn't breed THAT fast. There's no doubt, that it's Takofanes' magic.
Almost half of Bird's HP got gone, before there happened...
All of sudden, the Boss began to flap its wings so wildly, then he loft to the air, creating such intense descending stream of aur, that imposed Gravity debuff on all of Our team.
We: - It's like Gravity Yank, which was recently added to adds' weaponry, but it's AoE version.
The Birdie ascended, apparently above 50', and We got pressed down to ground, fortunately Our and Dark Horse's Single Target attacks still hit a bird.
Dark Horse: - Just like Pikachu vs Pidgey.
And here appeared silver-colored (We even didn't think it's possible, although Eidolon's geysers have similar colored), Wireframe Tells, We quickly got out of its effect zone, but Dark Horse had no time, and he Blocked, when a steel feather (heck, where this Bird even got them from, when it looks like its feathers are made of rotten flesh, but not steel) fall onto him. 10K Piercing Damage through R3 Telekinetic Shield (violet-colored), Dark Horse falls to ground, We lift him, and this stuff hits Tanks, but there's no much harm for them, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva got time to run away, when brown-colored Wireframe Tell.
Near Tanks, they Block, and very in time, as it turned - now the Birt itself dove onto them and... Knocked them Back, despite their Circles of Primal Dominion, dealing also 6K+ Slashing Damage. Because of Gravity, they got really silly Fall Damage, Basic White Werebeast even falls, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva heals Broot and rezzes him. Now, the Bird got down from the ceiling finally, Lunged at them, now Boss is next to wall, but not at the center of the room.
The fight continues, just like eariler, We took right positions, wings don't damage anyone, We break eggs in time, and Undead Roc HP is less than one third. When it began to flap its wings again, We prepared Our girlish body for another ascension, but no...
Instead of that' the whole party began to suffer small Crushing Damage each tick, and getting Relepped away from the bird. We can maintain fire in this situation normally, but not Dark Horse, because Lightning Arc roots, and We need to run towards the Bird. Da Most Melee Friendly Fixor Eva switched a suit in +144% AoRP mode, and runs under Dark Speed towards the bird too. But tanks - they're way too close to the wall now, and although they run too, but because of collisions with this wall, they are getting lot of Crushing Damage. They activating Masterful Dodge - it didn't work, this damage cannot be dodged, although can be lowered with Resist. Gravity is imposed to team during this too.
We: - It looks like together with this attack, there is roomie at the center of the room created, which deals continuous Crushing Damage somewhere within certain ring... Which hole starts about several inches prior to walls, to there was sensation, like wings can make Us collide to this room's walls.
Tanks almost, but fortunately did not fall over, and Our party repositions prolerly, to Tanks didn't smash themselves with the room walls, for case if the Boss got in its bird brain an idea to wave its wings once again. But instead of that, the Bird lays one more Egg, Dark Horse gets closer to AoE it, We sniping from afar. When a bird chomped with its beak not only Tanks, but also couple of pecklizards, and caught Dark Horse, who, naturally, fell over.
Dark Horse: - Ugh!..
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rezzes him, but the Egg gets its timer finished, and the Hatchling got time to hatch, our Beast lunges and aggroes it way from the Healer, he walks toward this bird's poop, to not to fall under neither wings reach, nor the beak, this is contraindicated with sich resist, We blasting the Hatching, and still got time to drop it, before the Bird lifts to the air once again. We contiuning to shoot, avoiding steel feathers, Dark Horse acts carefully, and stops Lightning Arc on time of these things, We switch Autorun on, and it's in time, because when wide brown Wireframe Tells appears around Us, We are managed to run away from it, and the vicious beak of Undead Roc bites the outer.
Unhappy bird descends to floor, but it gets about tenth part of HP left, and We finally strike all of them from it...
Undead Roc: - Kha-kh-kh---vahhaperrrrr!!!...
All unlife, that contained this giant rotting undead carcass, went away, and now it settles cold stone floor, and, just like in rewind, it begins to smolder with blazing speed, it raises the heat, and heats the air, rotten flesh disappears, opening a skeleton, which dissipates to the dust. That's all - this undead Roc's soul is now rested finally. But what's about Us We need the Phylactery, though a few scientific materials won't be excess too. We took out a vial from one of Our Nanodress pocket (Roc's dissipation place was hot to touch even for Our girlish bare feet @.@), We scooped a bit of the dust, that left from the Bird, a Roc's DNA would be pretty curious to parse. And here, in this hot pile of dust, something blinks... Some kind of golden trinket, bird-shaped. It very possible, that this's one of Phylacteries.
We took out Thaumic Sensor - and really, this appears to be one of four Takofanes' Phylacteries. Now, place it into Plasmatronic TurboShredder, set up timer to 10 mins. At top speed, We rushed to the cave's exit.
We: - Hey, you, slowpokes, follow Us this instant!
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There's Demaydayizer, We ducked into it, after Us - all the party. Submerged demaydayizer to the water, now maneuvering inside tunnel. There's sunlight already. We emerged to outdoor. Ten minutes almost passed, and the water below Us started to boil.
We: - Aha, it looks like powerful underground outburst of Thaumic Radiation, according to Our calculations, these happen when some Phylactery is destroyed. Now let'z look at the Sensor... That's it - now there's just three clear signatures! We are managed to drag Takofanes closer to his true death, that he's so fond of, by 25%! One signature is just next to this place, it's in Egypt, head there!
Dark Horse: - Excuse me please, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, but l hafta go offline SoonTM.
We: - Eh... So, then returning to the base, and take another DPS. Put out Teleport to Ren Cen Devices. Demaydayizer - entering Phase Space in 10 seconds. Press warp!
Blue/Flash, and now We're at Millennium City's Renaissance Centre. And rest of the four teammates too.
We: - Dark Horse, shoo, others - to HQ, take someone and to the pyramids.
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Koo - is a mystic wizard from Dimension Xoo. Always was viable, tho his Telekinetic Assault was (and is) horrifically #BUKT not displaying its visual, just he was a bit more thematized recently, what's one of few good additions from @kaizerin. FavoUUrite coloUUr: aquamarine (150).
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There's a ocean, whooshing below Us at mad speed, and next to Us now - looking like elder, whilst not too old, white bearded Koo, the famous wizard. Because We aren't familiar with magic too much, We couldn't invent any of Phase Amplifiers for him, but he assured Us, that Soul Beam damages ghosts as good as living targets.
We: - We flying above combat area, We hope no one will shoot at Us.
And really, onboard sensor has detected an anti-air missile, released at Us, fortunately, Demaydayizer's Minigun turrets were able to effectively counter that despairingly obsolete technology, Phase Shifted bullets bruised missile's targeting system, and it dropped down toward ground. We hope it won't land on someone's head, or better - on a dumbhead, which idea was to launch it at Us.
Now, egyptian border. Let's look at another sensor - the Thaumic one, where's the signal? Right here, at desert. Underground, We mean, under the sand. Switching Demaydayizer's [Gravity Pulse MK3] on, lifting up tons of sand, and spreading it around in all directions, there's no one nearby, so We won't engulf anyone's eyes. Maybe these of some cobra of scorpion though...
So, We are digging a hole for Our Imperial Majesty, deeper and deeper below... There's masonary...
We: - Wow, that's archeological discovery - some kind of underground pyramid, apparently very ancient one, most likely here wasn't desert earlier times, but when Sahara started to spread, dunes come here, and they hid this construction. It looks like neither arabians, nor someone else raided it yet, so there's most likely hell of a treasure.
Koo: - It's not wise to touch departed's property, or else horrible curse awaits you...
We: - Ah, blast all that blah! It's bedtime fairy tales, although We can bet, that there's enough unlife within this pyramid.
Which way We would get inside? We switched [Advanced Hyperkinetic Dampening System], and impacted stone surface with great force. Because egyptians didn't know how to make concrete, about ten of huge stone blocks has been fall from their slots, and dropped inside. Next to them - jumped out of Demaydayizer We and Our party followed. Again - light the path with Our crown, rushing inside.
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We scanning ambience with Connector, here's a trap above another one - holes with wound up crossbows with poisoned darts. Hungering scarabs smell Us very soom, We AoEing them into submission (but not furthur), We - with Raygun Spray, Koo - with Star Barrage, because of Swarm status, these buggies dropping pretty fast. There's also mummies creep out from their sarcophagi, they're tough blockheads, but We blasting them quickly, and without problems, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva runs AoPM. There's lot of gold, gems and other treasures around Us, but We went in here not to loot & pillage, there's lots of other instanced for that, and We've loads of Our own gold, Our 50-pounded Crown is made of pure gold, though a bit Gold for Account wouldn't be excess lOO... We will skip this cutscene, and continue from the moment, when We got next to sarcophagus of someone... Clearly not peasant...
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Now sarcophagus's cap has opened, and a really king-sized Mummy emerged from it. No, that's not just King Mummy. Obviously, that's a Mummy of some Pharaoh. Who is this Pharaoh for Takofanes at all, which they have connections in life?
Pharaoh Mummy: - ???? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ????? ???
Connector: - Unknown lauguage, presumably untranslatable.
Koo: - This is ancient egyptian, l can translate: Tomb raiders, are you entered to pillage this place? Prepare to meet a death, alot more cruel, than anything you can imagine!
We: - Nay, generally We don't need any of these treasures, which roam this building, the only thing We need is...
We looked at Thaumic Sensor. The source of a signal - this scarab-shaped charm, that's placed on Mummy's forehead.
We: - This accessory, from your tiara, golden one, scarab-shaped. It's pretty dangerous thing, give it to Us please, or offer your price if you would wish to sell it.
Koo: - ??? ?? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ??.
Pharaoh Mummy: - ???????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ???????? ??.
Koo: - What? Are you mocking me?! You come for making trades with the Pharaoh, departed one in addition! Behold the enormous power of my wrath!!!
We: - What are you waiting for?! Tanks, attack!
And it started! Mummy throws Infernal Bolts at Basic White Werebeast, and here's four sarcophagi in different corners of the room. Bulky mummies creeped out from them, and began to waddle towards Healer.
We: - Broot, switch on yer red-colored [Inertial Dampening Field], you will be Offtank for - these. They're probably mummies of some kind of viziers.
Broot: - Gotcha!
Broot quickly aggroed mummies with his Iron Cyclone, and they're with Gravity Yank, and making Uppercuts constantly. Broot leads them away to the corner, to their Shockwaves didn't catch anyone, and casts Circle of Primal Dominion. Now he's under +360% Block, and nothing treatens him. But the Boss deals pretty decent damage to Basic White Werebeast with his Energy Builder, then he casts Condemn, 5K Toxic Damage through blocking... Serious Toxic Resistance Debuff, but the damage can be healed though.
We started DPSing. Obviously, We used Pulse Beam Rifle, and Koo threw Hex of Suffering for Debuff, then Crashing Incantation. We summoned Mechanical Monstrosity. Koo casts this famous, shiny Soul Beam, and it really looks like aquamarine-colored Seething Soulstrike of Valerian Scarled, just without Debuff, but honestly, aren't We one who suggested that to devs?
Koo got lucky, We wish We would have that degree of luck. Competently, We decreasing Boss' HP Bar.
We: - Isn't really this thing has no more tricks in his sleeve? We are risking to die from boredom!
As if We ordered, Pharaoh Mummy let out Locust Breath, a locust caught Koo, dealing serious Toxic Damage, and he Fell over (We should take Enchanter for him instead of Shadow Form). Moreover, a bunches of Locust Swarm packs have been spawned, more adds, those began to bite everyone around, and hang Deadly Poison. We began to AoE with Our Raygun Spray, but it's just way too feeble, there's more than 5 targets, and they're IMMUNE at all to Single Target attacks. Fortunately, robogeishas helped a bit. Koo lies on the floor, because Deadly Poison doesn't allow neither Us or Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rez him even under Unbreakable, but he uses Rebirth (it's cute aquamarine - 150 - colored btw). Basic White Werebeast kites boss towards the wall, to his AoE didn't catch anyone, and to Locust stacks were packed tightly, and recasts CoPD there. Fight continues...
Now this thing hanged a Schtick above head, and Basic White Werebeast - he's stunned for prolongated period, he continues to hold +360% Block (cute 210 skyblue-colored Antagonize), but he got the Necrotic Web Linger - he now receives almost twice bigger damage from everythong, a locust spawns everywhere again, We splash it with Raygun, Koo - Star Barrage and Psionic Accelerator, it also mezzes, We blast everything quick enough.
There's reddish Wireframe Tells appeared, We stepped away from meteors path, everyone did same, even tanks, so meteors caught only couple of pecklizards and one robogeisha. They got blasted to pieces. We depleted almost half of Boss HP already, but he turned at Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - and - released some kind of beam!..
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - What the hell is this? l was turned to some kind of mummy, l cannot heal with changed Power Tray. Additionally, it worked like Slug's Confuse, and you're "red" for me.
And really, Buff Bar of this girl now contains Pestilence icon, and because that girl threw on inertia some shot of this forcible Become at Basic White Werebeast, he got respective Linger imposed, and for some weird reason, he's getting silly damage from Pestilence, now there's Condemn on its way...
We: - Koo, let'z use Star Barrage on boss, Our tank could get some heals...
Basic White Werebeast uses Masterful Dodge, and Condemn deals modest damage, DoT can't be dodged though, Koo managed to Illuminate the Mummy, and Main Tank gets heals from [Primus Spark Shield]'s retaliatory strikes. This shield hits Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva too, because of strong Pestilence - pretty sensible even under Block, also these Become mummies have low HP and Resistance.
Finally, Healer gets out of this ensorcelled state, and We continoing to fight as usual, lowering Boss' HP Bar to below 1/3, when one more Mummification was thrown at Broot.
Broot: - Whuzza friggin' blah?!
Broot blocks, just like Basic White Werebeast, because Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva now is utterly consumed with healing Broot, who lost all of his defenses, but he lacks Knock Resist now, and one of viziers throws him upward with Uppercut, and Healer isn't succeed to heal that, four mummies knocking him out. Koo rezzes him with his 50' range Redemption, but because these adds now aren't controlled, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva urgently switches her girlish suit to AoRP mode and blocks with Ebon Void.
Raised Broot struggles to aggro mummies again, now Boss spawns locust again, We need to AoE, it harrasses Broot, but in unknown way We take situation under control again. Wireframe Tells, again everyone avoids that. Broot almost nullifies adds' HP, their respawn is undesirable after all, and here Pharaoh Mummy sends another mummifying ray at Main Tank.
Basic White Werebeast goes defensive, because he now has 8K HP and Pestilence Passive, but Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva's AoRP helps him to endure onslaught of becoming cruel Energy Builders, hitting 3K HP each through Block. Condemn deals 7K Toxic Damage, and if it critted, tank would fall over. Finally, this Horrid Curse timer runs out, and Basic White Werebeast starts to DPS again. Splashing the last pack of locust...
Pharaoh Mummy: - Mzzauhooerrreirliaississsigogoggogoog....!!!!............!...
We: - Koo, you're allowed to not translate this part.
The Mummy got critical damage, and now unlife began to bleed away from him. According to Mummy's behavior, he wasn't much fond of perspective of true death, obviously this Pharaoh was familiar with Tacofanes in life, and did a lot of sins, so he realized, that Netherworld might well await him in this case.
We: - Yezz, get away from this plane, to all the blasted hecks!
Now bandage was unbound, just like in HoMM2, it was touched by smoldering, and now a lil' pile of dust lies on the floor, made of very even sand-colored masonary. The four Vizier's Mummies now have a tiny bit of HP, and We finnish them off, sending them after their Boss. And this is exact that golden scaprab, that was stuck to Boss' forehead right in this pile of dust, and - this is it - this is the Phylactery.
We: - We don't want too much melt all of those treasures with Thaumic Energy outburst, let Us blast this thing on surface, and landmark this place in Demaydayizer's onboard PC memory. To if anything We could get back to this location.
We put Phylactery into the Plasmatronic TurboShredder, and, bypassing all traps with help of Our maiden's memory, We led party to Demaydayizer, at what all five of Our party jumped. We loft above hole, dug by Us, setted on TurboShredder timer for 10 seconds, and threw it away out of porthole. Then We rushed to the skies, and Thaumic Ourburst painted surroundings in lilac tint, Demaydayizer was even shaken a bit. Looked on a display, and really, Our hole is now engulfed by sound once again. We landmarked this place's orientiers into Demaydayizer.
Then We verified with Thaumic Sensor.
We: - Yey! Just 2 more Phylacteries to go! The next one seem to be in Mexico. Better warp to Ren Cen for everyone, took out those devices. Demaydayizer, enter Phase Space in 10 secs, everyone activate warps!
Blue/Flash, and We with party are on place - at Renaissance Centre.
Koo: - It seems, l spend all of my mana in last fight. Sorry, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, but take another DPS, this's not problem in our Syndicate, while l recovering. So long!..
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Alinea - very nice and pleasant girlie too, which identity kept in secrecy, but if you compare Us to Batman (tho that's uncomparable things lOO), this nicey'll be like Robin. Favorite color - cyan (180).
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So, now Our Demaydayizer rushes at cruiser speed towards the Mexico, after penetration of the forcegield, that's south from Southwest Desert, it's shorter path, and here next to Us layed own girlish body - Alinea - extremely nice and delitage girlie - Our lil' sis. We mean, not an actual sister, just We need, although We are lone hero in Our nature, We still sometimes need a girlie, that would agree with anything We would say or do.
We: - Feel free to place your girlish body as comfy, as possible. Here's Amyjia - with all of its flavors - roseate, violaceous, cornflower, bellflower. Btw.: We now fly above a toon, let'z grab some natural mexican tacos.
So We did it, and when We floated towards "MC Car" window, a waiter got surprized almost to submission - when he saw this: creeped out engine in a translucent cyan color, and in its porthole - cute girl, wearing a Crown (We mean Us n.n).
All the path towards Yucatan, We enjyoing together with the lil' sis by tacos, burritos, nachos, and something else, which name We didn't remember. We opened Amyjia can with may-lily taste. Basic White Werebeast grabbed a taco too.
We: - Hey, you're not a girl, so instead of Amyjia, there's few "Burns" and "Rushes" for taking too.
And now it's really backwater jungle below Us, and Thaumic Sensor is pointing into its absolute darkness.
We: - There's loads of buildings from Maya, or maybe Aztecs left, doesn't seem there were some people. Inside this selva incredible scum dwells - a curare frogs, killer bees, snakes, for which science didn't came up with names.
It's a meadow below, and there is some kind of yellowish stair-step pyramid...
We: - It seems We need in here, there should be a lot of scum inside too, but already Takofanes' one.
We steered Demaydayizer right to its entrance, where We jumped with party. There's lot of traps too, Connector reveals them. Again it's absolute darkness, and there's first enemies. Stone Golems, which We blasting with our lazor, and Our lil' sis - with Phase Shifter bullets by Our invented barrel nozzle, these bullets can hit ghosts. And there are ghosts - just like We expected, they getting blasted from bullets, which if not that nozzle, would harmlessly pass through them. Some kind of animated totems, Broot & Basic White Werebeast spin vorticies, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva heals them, and we - two girlies - letting out AoEs. Our lil' sis inflicts with Gatling Gun even more damage, than Our Raygun Spray, which is pitying a bit, additionally it's 100' range.
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While shredding to bits standing in Our path tangible and intangible undead, We rushing in all 5 party numbers inside a room, which size reminds two previous Boss - Phyiacteries guards rooms, met by Us. But there's no Boss inside this one.
We: - It looks, like Takofanes forgot to make Boss for this Phylactery, or maybe it's dissolved accidently, because of some glitch in his spell. And where's the Phylactery?
Oh-um... While We walked perimeter, We had tracked down Phylactery direction, nevertheless, Thaumic Radar showed more than 300' distance to it. And this room is clearly not 300' size. Phylactery is somewhere nearby, but at same time it's far away, what would that mean?
We: - It looks like Phylactery is shifted a bit by Phase Coordinate, We believe Demaydayizer could took it from ther...
But that was not needed!
There appeared a piercing (and that's not a metaphoric, the Phase Shifted Light can really pass through walls a bit, this kind of light is used sometimes at Anniversary shows in MC) violet-colored shine, and not increasing in size, but sensible approaching, huge violet-colored apparition came out of Phase Space.
It was a Taco.
No, it's not a typo. It was not Takofanes, it was real Taco, a mexican food.
We: - How funny it is. Although, there's giant ice cream boss in flash game Deep Freeze, so why here a taco couldn't be? We can handle ghosts quite effectively after all, so We expect eating away this one's Health Bar without problems.
And all Our party lunged towards this king-sized, yet intangible Taco. Taco used skill "Taco Self Throw" and inflicted 15K Dimensional Damage to Basic White Werebeast, almost making him faint, Healer healed Damage. Taco now uses a "Tackle" ability, inflicting absolutely Irresistible (!) Dimensional Damage, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, obiously keeps Aura of Primal Majesty, because Aura of Radiant Protection would be absolutely useless now. We, together with sis, release Our Single Target attacks, which inflict about half of damage, than any other bosses, apparently >100% Damage Resistance. Despite the fact, that Taco is located by its most part inside Phase Space, We started to deal sure damage to it, and his own, although was huge, and couldn't be Blocked, but still didn't make Tanks faint.
After that he threw a Taco, its spectral versions of Device from last Anniversary, with same SFX, but producing Dimensional Damage, that may not be blocked - it's Irresistible after all. Healer heals it, We continue the fight, one more Taco Throw, this time two in a row landed at Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, which fainted, We rez the Healer. During this time - one of tanks - Basic White Werebeast - falls over from Irresistible Damage, We rez him too. Broot used Masterful Dodge, and received less damage, apparently damage from Taco is dodgeable.
When HP Bar of the Ghost of all the Tacos reaches 2/3 mark, it becomes even more translucent, and now even Our Phase Modulators cannot reach him (IMMUNE), and Broot with Basic White Werebeast started to receive damage back from each of their Melee attacks, that they throw at the Boss.
We: - What would We do? Demaydayizer? But no, We dontvont to make its hull dirty now, party, letz take out [Elder Worm Humidity Dome] from inventories, We hope everyone got them...
Everyone had them. (+133) AoPM of Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva appeared to be enough to maintain Our energy Bars more than 80% all the time, to We could receive Phase Defense from the claimed from Elder Worms technology.
It was super effective. Now, when all of Our party became translucent, Taco started to inflict not 100% Irresistible Dimensional Damage with its powers, although still ignoring 50% of defense, but that was not that obnoxious, after all it could still be Blocked. DPS & Healer Blocked their girlish bodies, when Boss was getting started to throw Tacos, it was releasing 3-5 Tacos in a row. And Our own damage, although was significantly cut, but not all of it hit an outer. PBR & 2GM, Phase Shifted almost to the limit, sieving this giant bun...
Which now became more translucent once again, getting deeper and deeper to the Phase Space, and started to cheating again with Irresistible Damage, and becoming IMMUNE to Our shots again. It looks like We couldn't beat it without Demaydayizer already, We talk to Connector:
We: - Demaydayizer, dive deep into Phase Space, as deep as you can, outrun this mexican food, and then, reaching its coordinate in 3D, start to reach towards it by Phase Coordinate, and ram onto it!
Blindingly bright Violet/Flash, Taco was thrown away from Phase Space, and it smashed onto the Fifth Wall, but not for long, Taco started to submerge into Phase Space depths again, and vainshed into thin air again, invisible for Us Demaydayizer, We knew that, kept ramming onto it within five-dimensional Multiphasic Hypervolume, throwing from side to side. But damage, that Taco inflicted at the party, was unpredictable, and almost always Irresistible, and We often missed taco completely.
We: - No, that's won't work out very well. We will do this.
We utilized console command /respecpowertrees 1, and Our account get lowered by about 3 Globals, now We've 2 extra Advantage Points, those taken away from Raygun Spray, now it's R2 & We can take an advantage: "Extradimensional Phase Disruptor". Tooltip: "Enemies, that are managed to get out-of-phase debuff, will be forcibly returned to normal, receiving Particle Damage, Interrupt and firework explosion.". Clearly, We took it.
We: - Now Our Energy Spray Prototype spreads a portion of its energy throughout the Phase Space, and because of that, it can apply some impulse to Phase Shifted objects. Because We are a bit phased out with [Elder Worm Humidity Dome], We will use it in a moment, when Taco impacts Fifth Wal...
We landed a shot.
KER-SPLAT!!!
And really, whole sight got filled with kaleidoscopic firework of violet and navy-blue spots, and Taco now gloomily settled in the normal space-time, almost without spectral look, We quickly got advantage of it, now its Damage is not Irresistible already, and its resist is no more than 20%, so what's next, without all of its Phase Powers, this animated Taco is an easy target, not he has less than 1/3 HP Bar.
Then it vanished, producing pretty sharp, yet melodic beep.
We: - Where it went to? To the Phase Space?, no way - Demaydayizer would intercept it there, or detect at least... Very weird.
We were wrong. Thing, occured afterwards was a lot weirder. ALL OF SUDDEN, Taco appeared right next to Us, pouring Us with... A spicy sauce. For nachos. And dealing (25) 42 Delicious Damage - it was stated in Combat Log, lol! It confused Us, hanging a PvP flag, but only for 5 seconds.
We: - Holy macro! This is from Champions Wiki - ability called "Tacoportation" (Burritomancy Framework), which noted as not being a real super power. But this thing used it right now, it looks like it's one of odd side effects of our Raygun Spray Prototyle. Maybe there just happened a breach in the informational barrier between Reality and Imagination, or at least between two different Imaginations.
Tanks got to the new Position, We continued to DPS. One more Tacoportation! Now Taco appeared on a place, dealing 946 base Delicious Damage, but there's one oddity. The Confuse linger has been hung to Tanks, robogeishas and Alinea, and its duration - 1824:23:59:55.
We: - Fully charged Tacoportation can Confuse its targets for 5 years, there was such thing in Wiki.
How to fight for Our lil' sis by now, which has full AoE build? Now Two-Gun Mojo hurts tanks, which Confusedtoo, Basic White Werebeast scratches Broot with his Shred, he was forced to get closer to the Boss, and Broot - furthur, it's good Haymaker is Single Target. But what to do with Our lil' sis? Don't DPS at all? Alinea runned towards Taco, caught one Tackle without blocking and fell over onto the floor, We rezzed a girlie.
Taco, which now has about 1/6 HP, released one more spectral Taco, but with less size and HP, and not so Phase-Shifted, Basic White Werebeast kites it to side, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva splastes Tanks with her wonderbeam. One more Tacoportation, Alinea, gets away from the Tanks, and Taco appears on Healer's place, dealing 8675309 (Base) Delicious Damage, and dropping the Healer together with Broot. They Rebirth from their knockouts, but Broot lost aggro, Boss Lunged at Basic White Werebeast, Broot aggroes small Taco, big one detaches one more small one out of itself... Boss' HP reaches zero point finally...
With dark-violet flare, falling over from Phase Space to the material plane, the Ghost gets disembodied, leaving after all some shiny thing, with our AoE's (We - Raygun Spray, Alinea - Gatling Gun), We finnish small Tacos, whose get dematerialized as well.
We /respecpowertrees 1
R3 for Raygun Spray again. Now look at this shiny stuff. There it is - it's the Phylactery, We winding up timer of Plasmatronic TurboShredder for one minute - We'll have time to run to the entrance, and there's nothing valuable in this pyramid.
We: - Scram!..
We throw Our girlish body towards the intrance at unfathomable speed, grabbing girlish hand of aL1n3A, Our & sis' girlish bare feet only blink; another teammates struggle to not fall behind. To the Demaydayizer, to the skies, and We are shaken by Thaumic Outburst, We look back at the smoldering pyramid's ruins...
Alinea: - By the way, l wouldn't be able with you until the end, l need to do homework, l still learn after all... Eh, for what purpose this highschool even needs, it blows horrifically, l couldn't remember in my maiden's memory almost anything what those pseudo-teachers trying to explain. Your Imperial Majesty's lectures, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, are another business. l can remember so accurately all of that stuff - Riman gravitational matricies, Kepler laws and even quantum electrodynamics. l wish l can drop mah alter-ego to hell deeps someday...
We: - We still didn't lecture to Syndicate Our own Theory of Physical Information, that shud be reilly kewl.
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Offender - the Nuclear Cyborg, based on atomic biology, that can power his armored suit with radiation his body emits. Has russian origin. Favorite color - SALAD (95).
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We: - And the last Phylactery is in... Right in Russia, not somewhere around. Offender? You lived there earlier - and since We got DPS spot open, letz come with Us, to finish off Takofanes!
Offender: - l'm always ready, Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First.
We: - Then equeep your armored suit with these details - Phasis Nozzle for machinegun, and Phasic Modulator for plasma weaponry - it's against ghosts if We meet them.
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After forcefield penetration at north of Canadian Wilderness, We crossed the North Pole, and getting near Syberia. We hope We won't be targets for their air defense, We wouldn't like to take some projectile, that is not within convention...
This time We got lucky and unnoticed.
We: - According to Thaumic Sensor energy readings, the Phylactery is placed somewhere at suburbs of this town, that called Uriu... Uryu...
Offender: - Uryupinsk.
We: - Yah, that's it. According to legends, there in Russia once lived a necromancer, known for locals as Kosh... Koch...
Offender: - Koshchey the Immortal.
We: - Oh man, whole language out of unpronounceable words. Although the Immortal term can be applied to everyone - in quantum meaning. Nevertheless, he was a typical necromancer with his Phylactery - it was a needle, We are a bit familiar with russian folklore. It well might be, that this necromancer actually existed, and it was either Takofanes himself, or one of his followers. According to land descriptions in these tales - his castle should be located somewhere in this region...
There was a colorless snowy wasteland under Us, time-to-time interlacing with narrow roads and towns, made primarily of gray rectangular boxes, and the sky above Us was lead-gray colored as well. Thaumic Sensor led Us to some kind of bulky concrete box, that stood alone from others, it was looking like some kind of factory, but it was not immuminated, and its windows were shattered.
We: - It looks like some abandoned factory from Soviet times. We really heard, that someday there was a lot of those factories in Russia, but they were low-level technology, there were requested giant arrays of unique machines for production of each detail, and there was manual labor. When a streak of technological breakthroughts occured, production technologies were unified, and now one 3D-printer can produce wide varierty of different details, and they also automatized. These old factories became unneeded, but why this one was just abandoned, but not upgraded? Anyway, We got in here not for asking russian government, let the locals do this job.
We jumped onto swept by snow concrete square, touching Us with Our girlish soles, and its temperature is clearly subzero, additionally a chilling wind ventilates right under Our extremely short Nanodress, and this refreshing sensation was so pleasant for Us. We are wondering, if all the girls love cold, or at least majority of them?
We: - T-t-thaumic Sensor shows at this w-w-workshop d-d-direction. Offender, blast open this gate with yer p-p-plazmabeam.
There was no wind inside, although same beastly cold. We walked barefoot on its concrete floor, which was covered with broken glass and other rubbish, but pads of Our girlish feet, obviously, are hard enough to We didn't feel anything, exactly just like Basic White Werebeast's. Wery pleasant sensation @_@. We saw on the walls graffity, those look more schizophrenic than anything, that We even saw before.
Hey, there's some kind of motion in that side, We directed light of Our Crown at it.
We: - There's someone inside, lock'n'load, it may be Takofanes' guards.
And these creatures got closer. Yeah, they were typical undead, looking like people, dressed in jumpsuits and beanie hats, their open parts were covered with horrible ulcers, they exuded intense putrid stench, and produced inarticulate gurgling sounds, time-to-time shrieking something, apprently, totally censored. With inhuman look on their heads, they point with their puffed fingers at Our team, for some reason - mostly at Us. They were typical zombies, there was no doubt.
We: - Connector, do not translate them, they need to be rested, not negotiations. It looks like Tacofanes became careless enough to place his guards right here, where random people could see them. Team, ATTACK!
And it started, the zombie horde took out knives and bandaged pieces of scrap, and jumped to the attack, but Our tanks aggro them with their vorcicies, with AoPM of Da Most Melee Friendly-fixor Eva they got enough energy. We splash them as We can, but Offender - he is in his native environment. Full AoE set, his PB+Minigun+Tactical Missiles (all lime-colored), overperforming under AoPM, he blasts those walking corpses in seconds, and they're keep coming. These Phylactery guards are pretty strong, but obviously Our party is stronger.
Now they all lay onto floor, although there's still unlife within them, with Phase weaponry it's not that easy to kill, although it's pretty easy to knock out.
We: - Now we'll send them back to ashes... W8!!! Offender, Tanks, Connector shows that... That they're... Not zombies?! They are living people! Although We couldn't force tongue to call that humans. They look like zombies, reek like zombies, act like zombies.
Offender: - It's most likely drug addicts, there in Russia is a drug, called Crocodile.
We: - Yeah, that's desomorphine. There's no buzz from it, btw., but instead you rot alive. What's the point for human to convert himself to the zombie at all? It's OK with lich, but for which purpose - to the brainless zombie? This is something We reilly cannot comprehend. It looks like some kind of madness - in medical sense.
Broot & Basic White Werebeast carried pseudo-zombie into utility room, which door was locked by reinforcement piece, bend by Broot. We looked at Thaumic Sensor, which pointed at a manhole in the corner of the room.
We: - Over there!
There's again pitch darkness down here, and at once We were spotted and attacked by undead. This time - already the actual undead. Zombie in uniform, reminding russian sailors or armymen, enough of ghosts too. There's also either Irradiates or Bile Carriers, they throw glowing green blobs, they have Reanimators amongst them too.
Offender: - Before l came to Syndicate of Your Imperial Majesty due personnel exchanges, l served in Russia, and accidently l discovered, that back in USSR times, there were several secred underground nuclear tests, nearby to this place.
We: - We are wondering, why there are just men amongst Irradiates, and no single woman?
Now under Our girlish bare feet already not uneven concrete floor, but even masonary, it looks like earthed castle of russian "the Immortal" earlier was suited for factory's basement needs...
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Now it's throne room, where last point of Thaumic Sensor led Us to.
We: - And where's the king - or the tsar? Got pwned thousand years ago, and didn't leave anyone after him? Then We'll just take the Phylactery, where's it?
But it was not time for Us to do that. Behind some porter, some bulky, huge carcass was stepped away, it reminded rather giant punchbag, than a human. 10' tall giant undead swole, he was lame, and leaned onto one leg only, using his titanic belly as the second support.
We: - It looks like just giant zombie, very interesting and original enemy! Team - to the attack, this fight promizes to be easy - and fast, here's Offender with his >10K DPS.
Tanks jumped forward, but uh-oh, this foe appeared to be so beefy, Strength of Tacofanes was just a wimp comparing to him. 10K with clobber, that's pretty much of a deal. Fortunately, AoE is small and splits between two Tanks. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva gets time to heal damage. Uppercut with 10K through Block juggles Broot for so long, that he's getting overaggroed even by Basic White Werebeast. We shoot calmly, and Offender still waits, after all - overaggro Tanks and get 20K DPS on the face - that's not much pleasure.
We: - We'll cal him Matrioshka Zombie, this paunch man looks like famous russan souvenir.
Then We fell in doubt, that We really don't have any of mind-over-matter powers. First Boss laid onto the floor next to Tanks a Reticle, just like Black Talon or Mechassassin, Tanks got away from it, but couple of pecklizard and robogeishas left, and caught really silly Penetrating (!!!) Damage from ability, listed in combat log as "T-34 Cannon". Boss Mighty Leap'ed on tanks...
We: - T-34 - it's a tank (vehicle), invented by russians, but where they keep it in this room? Ah, who cares, let'z blast this creep. Offender!
And then Offender, previously casted Cricle of Arcane Power, got crazy on the Boss. Really, Matrioshka Zombie started just melting down, additionally PA debuffs boost damage from Pulse Beam Rifle, which helps Us too. Boss' HP rushed down quickly, ty Kaiserin for buffing Power Armor. Then, after one more tank volley, HP Barr of the Boss reached 1/3 mark, and there PBAoE green Wireframe Tell. Tanks got away out of sin, when Zombie grabbed his boundless belly with not as quite boundless paw.
We: - It seems he gonna blow right now, step back!
Matrioshka Zombie: - Baarrrrrrffffff---hkhaaee!!!!......
And he really barfed very well! He poured below himself a puddle of stinking necrotic liquid, that dissolved a few pecklizards and one robogeisha with Toxic Damage. Moreover, there was fallen away form his maw... One more zombie?!. Our gray anime-like girlish eyes got rounded even more!
We: - What in the blasted world this goddarnn heck is?.. It's reilly Matrioshka. Matrioshka Zombie A, this guy was inside big one's stomach all the time.
One who just fell out, jumped onto the Healer, and dropped her to the floor, We were forced to rez, and Basic White Werebeast, that was attacking big one, but not holding aggro, aggroed this small one now, which turned not that small, but pretty strong instead. And big one oppositely - it seemed got seriously weakened, after emptied his stomach, and started to inflict quite symbolical Damage to Broot. Small one bludgeoned with Heavy Weapon, additionally with unavailable for Us style, he held a thick green tube, with two Demaydayizer-like wheels in the end.
We: - What the thing is this green tube?
Offender: - l know what it is, it is famous Soviet machinegun, called "Maksim".
And just like prooving his words, he stood his weapon on the floor, and directed its barrel at Us. Cone-shaped dark-gray Wireframe Tell, from which We got time to runaway - and - minigun streak, We extended Our (+380%) Energy Shield, bullets drumming its surface, We tried to get away from its covering area, but Maintain area followed Us, catching Offender, which got time to get out of it. And then We caught a stray bullet into Our girlish shin...
We: - A-a-a-a-ah...
Matrioshka Zombie A deals 7540 Health Points to Us with Lucky Shot.
We fell over down to the floor, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rezzed Our girlish body. We charged up Concentration, and continued to fight. It's in vain We didn't step behind one of pillars, standing across the room, maybe Matrioshka Zombie A pours Basic White Werebeast with Cleave and Annihilate, Broot switched Enrage to Inertial Dampening Field to not bother a healer. Matrioshka Zombie fell over once from Offender's AoEs, but Matrioshka Zombie A rezzed him this instant with 1/3 HP, and he descended his machinegun and targeted Broot, Main Tank & party stepped behind his back, and he started shooting at Broot, which, under Block, stepped behind a pillar. This is it, bullets cannot reach him, Boss continues to AoEing an outer, allowing Us and Offender to nullify his Health Bar.
Now We led it to 1/3 HP, and there's green-colored Wireframe Tell around him, Basic White Werebeast, Offender and Eva got back.
Matrioshka Zombie A: - Baarrrffffae---chok-chok-toock!!!!......
He barfed a puddle of poison, with Matrioshka Zombie B in the centre. It looks even weaker, than A one, but exterior can lie, additionally he has a rifle, and it's AK-47, there's no doubt. Offender finishes Matrioshka Zombie A, to Broot could aggro this weakened boss, by the way, weakened zombies don't make their ultimate attacks, like T-34 Cannon or Maksim Heavy Streak. Basic White Werebeast aggroes B one, it swings torpidly and produces Assault Rifle. Also he has Lightning Reflexes, so is tougher, than previous two per point of HP.
Now there's vertical Wireframe Tell right before Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, it followed the Healer, Boss released aimed streak from AK-47, any bullet of which could get Lucky and finish the Healer, but the girl got time to get behind a pillar, and the rest of this Maintain hit outer, forcing the Boss to lose precious time. About 2/3 of HP, boss released a cone from AK-47, like SMG Burst, in Our direction, but We quickly got behind a pillar. About half of the HP, a vertical Wireframe Tell Offender, he Blocked, headed to the pillar, and in vain, because it was Sniper Shot, and he, who still didn't reach a pillar, got wrecked by it. Offender used Rebirth.
Now this is 1/3 checkpoint, and it's time for him to barf...
Matrioshka Zombie B: Brrrrrrr... Goo-koo-ggoooooock-ack!!!!!!!!!...
Another, even tinier guy got away from his esophagus, inheriting a strength from him, apparently of magical nature and originated from Takofanes. We sent the old shell towards Broot, Main Tank aggroed this dude, and here's cylinder-shaped horizontal Wireframe Tell. On Offender, he stepped behind a pillar, Boss released Two-Gun Moko to the outer, We DPS with Pulse Beam Rifle.
Offender: - l know this weapon too. This is "Makarov" Pistol, and he has two of them.
The "Makarov" bullets can probably One-Shot too. We tested it at 2/3 (he's a tough guy, Lightning Reflexes, but otoh he had a bit less Max HP than previous one). He produced full-scale roomwide AoE, and released Lead Tempest throughout the whole room, Basic White Werebeast didn't step behind the column, and paid by taking a headshot, sending Rebirth on Cooldown and losing all of his aggro. Boss lunged to healer, but Palliate with adv saved, Boss aggroed at Tank again, torpidly pouring him with mere pistol skills. Here's 1/3 HP.
Matrioshka Zombie C: - Ttttrioeie.... Baaaaaaarf!!!!!!!111111111......... ... .
This time, besides than puddle, he puked out... A pooch. Undead and rotting one too, additionally with electrified fur, he now zaps our beast, ala Pikachu, while Beast slashes him with claws. This is the Sparky dog apparently. Chain Lighning, those left from pack pecklizards and robogeishas memories only...
We: - Just like Pikachu vs Pidgey.
And roomie! We stepped behind a pillar, because why not, Broot did the same, and here... It was the real roomie, Basic White Werebeast, Offender and Eva caught some erratically big Cold Damage from ability, listed as Deadly Puppy Slush.
We: - That's it, they have really nuclear slush here in Russia...
The puppy attacked Us, sending electric bolts to to ground through Our girlish bare feet and Energy Shield, those rival between eachother in durability. We felt electric sensation, although We do it constantly within girlish body, but this time they were more electric, so to speak. Slipped onto that Slush teammates rezzed themselves, now Tank aggroed a puppy, Offender let out bullets and plasma stream at it, We turned laser on...
The dog got sick, he barfed, and puked out... A cat! It looked like cat of pretty peaceful, affectionate look, even though it's rotting, but this may not trick Us, additionally it started a fight at once.
He began to use Psi Lash, also Ego Blast a bit. Boss with moderate strength, a bit weakish even, but some kind of projectile got lauched at Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, and that girl... Fell asleep...
Although this boss is weak, but utilized Masterful Dodge and Necrullitic Elixir Basic White Werebeast likely won't sustain all the fight against him even with skyblue-colored Devour Essence, one Ego Blast hist 4K through Block.
Offender: - This is one of russian folklore characters. There is one cat, that can lull anyone, he is called Baiyun the Cat.
We: - HEY!!!!!!111 EVA, WAKE UP!!!!!!!1111 FIZZZZZZZZOR UP!!!! UP!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
We: - WEIK UP #DEETHELNSTANT !!!!!!!!!!111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
It didn't work, no matter how loud We shrill, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva now only snores calmly, not taking any other actions. Basic White Werebeast, on the other hand, led the Boss towards the Healer, hoping that he would splash her, but he had only Single Target attacks. Sleep's timer is 7:59:42, i.e. the Cat can lull for 8 hours!
Eva regenerates Energy rapidly, likely from Break Free z-mashing macro, but there's no point - the timer isn't getting lower. And there's nothing like Frozen Tomb construct, that We could break.
We: - Broot, letz kite adds here, maybe they could AoE healer.
Cat threw one more cradle to Basic White Werebeast, fortunately Psi Lash woke him instantly after that, hanging 10-sec Disorient Linger. Broot kites adds toward the healer, and really, one of them AoEs the woman with something, and wakes Healer up from the dream.
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - Well that was creepy, l just couldn't do anything at all, at all, for so, so long time...
The Cat lulls Offender, Broot wakes him. The Cat is losing his fur and HP Bar altogeher, and now he is ready to shoot the cat, just like Us, that's pun 4 ya +_^.
The mouse tumbled out of whiskered's maw. Very usual, gray, tiny lil' mouse, not even a PC mouse.
We: - It seems We wouldn't be surprized if this "Mega Boss" will spit out after a wallop a roach, and that one will spit out a bacterium.
For a mouse to require a Tank - that could be only in fairy tale. But where are We anyway? We did everything as it used to, Basic White Werebeast aggroes the undead mousie. But it has an ace in its hole, looks like it bites for hilarious damage, but after a while it H-O-O-O-W CRITs!!! For 15K Slashing Damage, almost knocking Basic White Werebeast out.
We: - Oh, this mouse seems pretty rowdy, it has probably over 10000% Critical Severity...
With the Cupid's Arrow and AoPM Basic White Werebeast heroically withholds mouse bites, We DPS it, thank goodness mouse has a small HP bar, yet unrealistically huge for that kind of tiny mammal. And We finally roast the mouse, which already doesn't want to barf after that, but instead the mouse's soul finally finds a rest, and undead body decays at rewind speed... Now Broot begins to take serious Ego Damage, Our party gets closer to adds, Offender AoEs everyone, and We - Single Target "DaKehte", and We managing to pulverize it too, after that We do same with the Dawge, Pistol Man, Rifle Man, Machinegun Man, and finally the biggest corpse becames the dust of the earth...
We: - Yey, Our army beats their army! It's curious, what dev even designed this boss, what fantasy it's need to have? Wait, something fell out! It's the "Maksim" Costume Unlock! For both Gatling Gun and Heavy Weapon. Now We need to find somewhere AK-47 & Maka... their pistol, and Captain Shmup's russian outfit is finished. Now let'z look for Phylactery.
We took out the Sensor, it points at the pile of smoldering ash, but there's nothing inside. We switched built-in Connector Magnetic Tractor Beam, on which We can swing, and it dragged two steel objects. They are tiny, just like two needles. No, that's one needle, it's just broken apart.
We: - Let'z look at this - it seem to be Phylactery of that Kos... "the Immortal". But it's broken already. But what Thaumic Sensor will show...
We laid the parts of the needle in different corners of the room, and the Sensor located energy flowing out of one of them. It's blunt tail it, with an eye.
We: - Ah, that's what is it! This needle was a doubled Phylactery, whilst its eye - the Takofanes' Phylactery, which remained untouched, when the needle itself was torn apart, and Phylactery of "the Immoortal" guy was destroyed. Nobody would guess that already destroyed Philactery could contain another Phylactery, except Us, obviously.
We placed needle's eye into Plasmatronic TurboShredder, and rushed towards the exit.
We: - And what would we do with these... Zombie cosplayers? In these minutes We pitying, that We are not a villain. Or else We would blast them with Thaumic Explosion, but We are heroes, so this isn't allowed...
Broot and Basic White Werebeast started to grab collars, and carry in both hands, these marginals, which were still in submission, Offender blast-opened main gate with lime-colored radiational plazmabeam, and two Our beefy guys began to unload this living (or half-living) cargo somewhere afar, to the snowy wasteland.
As for Us - We stood on this frost in Our imponderable clothes, enjoying with sensations, as Our girlish body resists this cold, and, know that - this is absolutely unimaginable, unearthy pleasure for a girl. After Tanks finished carry their "priceless" weight, We setted up Shredder timer to 10 seconds.
We: - In! Up! Close lock!
Demaydayizer got pushed by Thaumic Wave already third time for today, melted concrete box of the dead workshop got settled...
After all, "the Immortal"'s castle is way more valuable, than this memorial of Soviet epoch, additionally We demolished a stash of these junkies, and We think it's pretty good deed.
We: - Let'z to the HQ's lab, We'll look what's with Takofane's spectral lines in Thaumic Spectrum!..
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It seems Our work was not completely finished. Thaumic Sensor showed non-zero signatures, although it was not possible to track down direction of the signal. Lab equipment kept catching signnature Auric Patterns of Takofanes, but not just some kind of Thaumic Noises. Obviously, there are more Takofanes' Phylacteries, but where are these?
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Alinea: - Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, Your Imperial Majesty looking not the best, Your Imperial Majesty of having of intense shadows under girlish eyes.
We: - It's fine, otha girlies apply them with makeup on purpose, but We don't use makeup. The Thaumic Signal changes its intensity during the daytime for some strange reason, and it's more powerful at night. But this night it's for some reason began to weaken. Mah lil' sis, what are you doing on the terrace?
Alinea: - A teacher said, that tonight a Lunar Eclipse should be...
We: - Hello Megan, that's it!!! The Moon, the MOON, this is it - that's where placed fifth Phylactery of Takofanes. Thaumic Radiation behaves differently than electromagnetic radiation for instance - in vacuum it refracts repeatedly under different angles for unknown reason. That's why it wasn't possible to locate source of this signal! It is decided, We need to get on the Moon, but which way would We do that, Forum Malvanum ended few days ago?
Alinea: - We could visit some of our friends, who has Moon Base Hideout.
We: - No, We will buy it on Our own, it's the easiest way. But which way Takofanes could throw one of his Phylacteries onto the Moon, using medieval technology, likely he asked Munchausen.
We cycled across Our alts, converting Questionite to Zen, and bought Sci-Fi Moon Base Hideout in the Zen Store. Then We warped Our girlish body, and Our lil' sis' girlish body, and the rest of Our Syndicate onto this base.
We: - Which way We would penetrate forcefiend - it's later, but let'z locate the point of this signal first. So, Thaumic Sensor show...
We: - O-o! O-o-o! We. Were. Wrong. Fifth Phylactery is not somewhere on the Moon. Fifth Phylactery is... It's the Moon itself!..
Our lil's sis got own baby blue eyes popped out, because of astonishment.
Koo: - Hmmm, l never heard about something of that kind. There's in ancient grimoires, never mentioned any cases of Phylacterization of astronomical objects, but there's no direct references, that this is impossible.
We: - And which way would We overthrow this astronomical Phylactery? We cannot destroy the Moon, can We? Koo, do you know any way to dispel incantation from the Phylactery, without destroying it?
Koo: - As far as l know, there's no such way.
We: - But what would We do?! We dontvont so much to get this journey failed, Takofanes gets revived next year and began to slaughter civilians again, and maybe he would trick Us, recreating his Phylacteries & making then unreachable. Or even the Earth itself... If We even blast the Moon, Earth climate would be irreversibly changed. It will suffer a series of cruel cataclysms. Not to mention, that Terrans don't have that kind of bomb yet... Although wait, We have stuff like that. We keep it inside Our girlish body, We took it from Mah Homeworld. And this is the Strangelet Bomb, it collapses tangible object into quark matter made of Strangelet particles. S-hyperion, it's like neutron, but with Strange Quark instead of Down Quark. S-hyperion alone is heavier than neutron, but their cluster has lower binding energy, so they have there about 30% of the source mass.
We: - That's why Strangelet can collapse a whole planet, into very dense ball, made of Strange Matter. Instead of moon, there will be a sphere about 25' in diameter. A whole chunk of Strangelet is bound with strong nuclear force, what prevents travelling particles of Strangelet from the Moon onto the Earth. And 30% of mass - that will be enough to cause, although weaker, but still tides, and touch the climate not very much, not stronger than the Global Warming. It won't get out of its orbit either. Neutrons and S-hyperions interact with Thaumic Field in a different way too, so it's practically reliable, the Auric Pattern of Takofanes won't persist too, i.e. the Phylactery will be destroyed.
We: - There's couple of wonks too, though. First, there are people living in lunar bases, those can afford it, also there's Forum Malvanum. Although no, FM is getting closed under reconstruction after raging fights, Terrans allowed on which, and Malvans keep only their robots on objects reconstruction, they are too lazy as a whole, so don't leave even single operator. We don't care if that metal will be scrapped. But Strangelet Bomb is planted by Tas deep inside Our girlish body, and will detonate in case if it dies... Or if We'll try to scratch it out from it. But wait, We have an idea for this case. For both of these cases! We need to calculate all of that precisely! Someone, warp Syndicate's bio lab in here, and med-module too - all on the Moon, hey, We giving the orders!!!
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We: - Hey, you all, shoo from here, We need to get alone here, and think everything out very well.
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The plan is almost ready now. How to move Strangelet Bomb from one body to another, without taking it away from source one? There's a way - and it called "pregnancy". And, at principle, it's implementable for Us, We're a woman after all.
Amongst the serums, We found critical day accelerator, and injected it into Our girlish vein. Then We called Dark Horse with Connector's private mode link.
We: - Hey, come to Us!
Now he's already warped in.
We: - We are supposed to be eternal virgin, but eh... It's the only warning, if you will chatter about what will happen now to anyone, you'll be executed in the most painful way, that even exists.
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WE WILL SKIP THIS SCENE.
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We administred Our girlish body with whole coctail of growth stims.
We laid on operating table under Laparascopic Surgery Operator, and made an operation in real-time, right at Our gir... no, now it's already woman's body. Embryo had really appeared within Our Imperial womb, and it is a girl, We cauterized by laser that cell group, a brain would develop from which, to it remain soulless, still it's not in Our plans to kill anyone, except Takofanes of course. Now is the most delicate work - We need to catch a bomb, and don't let its detectors to notice.
We don't know which way, but, at lightning speed operating laser scalpels and gravity grips, We were managed to hook the Strangelet Bomb within Our body, and extremely carefully plant it into pretty grown embryo, for which this bomb is still pretty big. Our uncertainly very dark girlish hair almost became gray because of disturbance during those manipulations. Generally if the bomb exploded, there would be nothing for Us, Our digitized consciousness would fall out to the Homeworld, and blasting the Moon is Our goal, just there's other people on the Moon. How to smoke them out of it? We had an idea for this stuff too, and it wasn't less risky.
We: - Captain Shmup! By the way, there's a job, it's pretty dangerous. There's an exploit in Champions Online, thanks to what you can cause whole Zone to crash - and all of its instances (ed.: there's NO such exploit, it's just far-fetched especially for this Fairy Tale), We studying few examples of this surely dangeruos, even bannable thing. But if release such Concussive Wave in your Moon Base Hideout, all of the heroes, those currently located at their own Moon Bases, will suffer a crash, and will be forcibly warped back to the Earth. And when that happens, We'll warp to the Moon at blazing speed, and blast it finally!
We: - Listen up, you need to get to the lab of Our Syndicate, access code is..., and there will be... You'll need to...
We: - Demaydayizer, steer here, closer to the Moon, leaving yourself in the Phase Space.
We warped Our girlish body to the Millennium City...
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Captain Shmup has logged off. He did it, now warp back to the Moon...
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Loading screen lasts a bit longer than usual... Here's Our child with the bomb planted inside at the center of the dome, We dashing towards the lock.
We /kostume 1
Now We're dressed in Our built-in Connector pressure suit, that will protect Us from vacuum.
We: - Demaydayizer!
It appeared at base's yard, what isn't very law-wise. We hopped into it, gave full power to engines. A cyan flame let out from thrusters, Demaydayizer's drive cannot overcome Earth gravity, if it's not in the Phase Space, but, heavens make it able to overcome Moon gravity. It seems it can...
We /kostume 2
We worn of the suit, took out Pulse Beam Rifle, touched the biggest wire of Our Connector with its barrel. And We let out focused laser beam, infrared one, although navy-blue colored. It melting slowly incredibly strong meta-alloy, that We called Viridium because of specific color... It is breaking, it's broke, We burned it through...
We flied pretty faraway from the Moon, and now, right under Us, on its black shaded surface, there appeared a ghostly-blue, quickly spreading pit. It's now became a whirpool, and rock formation pieces were pulling toward the gaping hollow, the whole Moon's side is now covered by crackles, and under them, just like lava, a ghostly-blue shine is visible, now remnants of the crust fall into it, just like a blanket to cow's mouth...
We feverishly activated the button of [Advanced Hyperkinetic Dampening System MK3], and brutal radiation wave how pushed Demaydayizer, and We were thrown to the appartus with inhuman strength. We gave out full forward to the Moon, just to suppress an impulse, and We were thrown to opposite direction.
We: - Demaydayizer, orbit!
Now, what's there on the Moon? It was the first, and the only outburst, it was converted 2/3 of lunar mass to the radiation, and now there a tiny lil' sphere - not more than 25' in diameter - floated afar from Us. It's incredibly dense though - the remaining third of the lunar mass was converted to Strangelet ball. However, it's now the new "Moon" itself - in its part of Universal Wavefunction.
Connector had switched off, and broke apart, which fell towars Our girlish feet, releasing Our left girlish wrist, and it was such pleasant sensation u_u.
We: - We are free, yey! Finally, Connector may go to hell deeps!
And what's in the Thaumic Spectrum? We couldn't wait what is with Takofanes' Phylacteries, are all of them gone, which would stand, he never will get out of Netherworld once again. We took out Thaumic Sensor...
We: - A-a-ah! How can that be? What did We miss?
There was no Thaumic Signal from the Moon, but the Sensor caught a clear signature without definite direction, of same strength, with which there lunar Signal was caught from the Earth. That means, its source is somewhere on Earth, i.e. We missed a Phylactery, but how could that happen? Thaumic Signal from that Phylactery would override lunar one.
We took out [Teleport to Ren Cen Device], ordering Demaydayizer:
We: - To the Phase in 10 seconds. Leave Connector's debris on this place, let it become Strangelet, We dontvont these technologies fall to Terrans, or some other race, hands...
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Blue/Flash, Renaissance Centre...
We: - E-e-eh... Oh, noes! That's not a Phylactery. That's Takofanes himself, blast him!
And really, the sky was covered with yellowish-red clouds with black lines, We could see skull's shapes, and there's black cluster near "Champignons" HQ, and that can be Takofanes - the Lord of the Undying only. Shared link mode on Conne...
We don't have it anymore. So, no big deal, We have spare transceiver within Our Crown. So that mean shader link mode on the Crown.
We: - Syndicate, everyone w/out exceptions, Warp to Renaissance Centre, to the Defender's bot, which knows only one phrase.
Multicolored flares began to flash around Us - that's Our Syndicate arrived, and not only Our one, We noticed @aiqa Syndicate members - Anatha, Linde, Lis, Namiah - led by Lyn, also there's @avianos, also @championshewolf, although We don't agree with anything they say, @spinnytop is here too... @gentlegiantvexx as always rushes straight to fight!..
Everyone rushes towards the Millenium City, because Takofanes is up here. Literally came out of Netherworld, but how the holy heck he did that?! The only time, when he's powerful enough to do that - it's Bloodmoon.
We: - Radiational flare! When the Moon began to collapse, it produced high-frequence gamma rays, and now it went to current state, when it emits radiowaves with 25' wavelength, but those frequences aren't using in Earth communications, so it's probably fine. But that mean, there was a moment, when the Moon emitted only in visible part of the spectrum, with frequence, equal to blood color. And from magic viewpoint, it counted as Bloodmoon, and Takofames became able to create a portal from the Netherworld, before residual sequences of the lunar Phylactery had disembodied completely.
We: - We cannot lose single second, everyone to Tako, We need to take this fight, nullify his health, and sent them back to the Netherworld, this time - forever.
We: - ATTENTION ALL HEROES!!! Don't let even single casuality! Takofanes doesn't have a single Phylactery, which means he will attempt to make new one first, and necromancers can do that only in a moment, they commit homicide. It's gonna be bad if he would make the Earth itself as his new...
We shrilled all of that, when dashed at blazing speed towards the "Champignons" HQ, and Tako... We never saw him that powerful looking, it got empowered last Bloodmoon, but now he was emitting so intense dark magical power... It seems, his power is directly proportional of moonlight intensity during bloodmoon, and that instant it was... Though it's just one instant, but it's brightness was unspeakable, still 70% of lunar rest mass to energy - it's no joke.
This Tako fight will be way harder than any of previous ones. There's five Earth's governors - Defender, Ironclad, Witchcraft, Sapphire, Kinetik...
We: - Harmon! Harmon!!! Evacuate all the civilians! If only one zombie will kill someone...
But there was no zombies around, it seems it requires some kind of preparation, and Takofanes didn't expect what just happened. There was no thirteen heroes of the past as well, but there was a new surprize. Usually weak of Takofanes' attacks now became just of nuclear power, and even best Tanks in the world hardly Blocked his basic attacks in numbers of three. There was Until Grav Flyers scurrying around, forcibly dragging people out of windows and streets with Tractor Beams, there was Until Sky Carriers, and other heavy enginery dragged towards the battlefield.
Takofanes: - PITIFUL, LOUSY MORTALS, BY THE POWER GIVEN ME OVER LIFE AND DEATH, I, THE NEW GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE, COMMAND EVERYONE OF EVER FALLEN HEROES RAISE AGAIN, AND LET OUT A HELL IN THIS PITIFUL MORTAL REALM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Street's asphalt got crached, and now here and there, bubbles made of ground loft, and from them...
We: - Who is this? Isn't it Zerocage?! @areyoukiddinme ???!!!
It was really accounts those was ever banned or left Champions Online, now they rose one after another. Here's Alfonso - the space toad, and this is Ilztas Teken'ett @ilztas, departed Serene was here too... And there's - Lera, it's Our own failed project, heroically fallen girlie, now, as rotten corpse, risen from her grave, to fight against Us alongside Superpowered Takofanes...
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Our governors switched on a Gravity Forcefield Projector, left from Gadroon invasion, and now blueish shimmering force dome belted Millennium City, that its part, from which civilians were evacuated already. We gave out an order to the Demaydayizer in realtime convinuously collect a data about Thaumic Background, on case if Auric Pattern of Takofanes will change for some reason.
We: - No one must fall in this fight! Nobody! Don't let even single death, or else Takofanes might create a Phylactery on someone, and then find and destroy it - it's a haemorrhoids - that's in good case. We need to nullify his HP Bar, and by that - send him back to the Netherworld.
It was easier to say, than to do. Takofanes was immensively powerful this time, and Tank, between which now Our Broot and Basic White Werebeast arrived, time-to-time was falling to the ground, even when they Block his basic attacks. Healers rezzed them, inclusing Our Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, which switched AoPM on, because AoRP was already provided to Tanks by Wiccapedia @carrionbaggage . Our DPS was here too, every single of them, inclusing Chillabit, for whom We ordered to control Demaydayizer, because he's not leveled, and not going to. Everyone amongst Our Syndicate, inclusing highest DPS Offender and Inertia, now strungling ring down Takofanes HP, which he had almost hundred of millions.
Here's familiar for Us yellow Wireframe Tell, such big, so it ends beyond the forcefiend, and Epidemic is released, fortunately everyone blocked, even Chillabit got time to switch on [Advanced Hyperkinetic Dampening System MK3] of Demaydayizer, but, reaching forcefield, the dark energy wave got reflected back, and now is passes through Us releatedly, just like echo, Repelling from side to side, and inflicting severe damage to Tanks.
There was enough disturbance from raised by Takofanes New Champions, they got way more HP, than living ones, they all were Legendary class, although they can be still mezzed, with what Our Wwyhuh the Lamprey was busy. Additionally, there's more and more of them kept coming from underground, and although they were clumsy, like all zombies, but they got a loads of strength, and their superpowers, if they had them in life, was remaining either, and each one of them, with bestowed by Takofanes hate, fiercely and furiously struggled to tear apart any of their adversaries.
Takofanes: - ARISE, MY FAITHFUL SUPERPOWERED SERVANTS!!! GO, RIP THESE CONTEMPTED MORTALS TO SHREDS, TO FASTEN THE ADVENT OF THE UNDYING KINGDOM ON THE EARTH!!!
We: - In your dreams, old man!
We kept destryoing who is effective against whom - who got behind, and stabbed rotten flesh of Takofanes, who kept shredding grouped and mezzed risen heroes - Ras, Kross and Offender were especially good on it, they kept coming, but undead didn't multiply - there was not less rested again by Us. Takofanes fought more and more fiercely, but physically (or magically), he still becoming weaker. There were neither Doomlords, nor thirteen of heroes of the past, but all of the five Champions came out of their HQ, and provided resistance.
Ironclad was way beefier, than any of us, Defender activated some hidden in his suit, top-secred weaponry, barraging enemies by some exotic-looking projectiles with melodic noises. Witchcraft did attempting to counter Takofanes' necromancy, warding departed New Champions, laying underground, with spells unknown to Us.
It was clear, that Takofanes had this battle losing, additionally there was no stable portal to the Netheworld nearby. But he kept rise heroes over and over again, though there was pretty few of them, and Witchcraft's protective wards worked it seems, Takofanes was annoyed by overcoming them, and now he let out all of his rage and magic in the fight, barraging Tank crowd by the dreadest blasts, each of which may ended up as the last for someone, and heavens forbid that!
He got into ire, but now he has just the last third of his HP bar. We all were pretty exhausted as well, despite confinuously replenished Energy, We, for instance, automatically, almost falling over to ground, spammed Pulse Beam Rifle to Takofanes, and everyone kept hitting him - who got what. Demaydayizer blasted risen's crowd with [Incendiary Round MK3] and [Gravity Pulse MK3]. But there the new yellow Wireframe Tell had appered, everyone Blocked, but then - that's not good - some animated hero with mezzes Interrupted Hyperkinetic Field MK3 of Demaydayizer, and it got unprotected, and Epidemic scrapped its HP Bar to the oblivion, forcing it to get deeply to the Phase Space, Chillabit fell over fro it, and he got converted to a pile of scrap iron by echo. Thank goodness, it's not living person, Takofanes couldn't make Phylactery out of it.
Demaydayizer fell out from the Phase Space, and continued to monitoring Thaumic Background, now the Boss got just tiny bit of HP Bar...
Takofanes: - AAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111
We: - Yeh, yeh, burn in hell deeps, yew gawdarnn friggin' bozo!
Takofanes: - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHYYYYYYYYYHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
Takofanes began to vaporizing, each part of his unliving body now began to emit orange infernal shine, Takofanes struggled to keep himself on this Plane of Existance, but he couldn't resist anymore, now he turned to Us.
Takofanes /e point at Us.
Takofanes: - You, you, you, contempted mortal!.. Why? Why? What did l to?..
Already way quieter.
We: - First, not "you", but "Your Imperial Majesty", and why you all keep calling Us this way? And second, you keep killing people, and We don't like that very much.
Takofanes: - Gwaaaaa!!!!!
Now he let out absolutely undescribable, otherwordly, nuclear fear, which even We felt. Mentella @theravenforce , that got empathic powers, shrilled because of terror. That's good no one of Our Syndicate got innate mind-over-matter powers, only Wwyhuh maybe, but he's not even Terran.
Takofanes: - Ghaaaaaa!!!! Geraaiaeicussd yads sjekw ewj jnds .... help ... me ........ .. .
And he wanished into thin air.
He vanished with many times reused VFX.
And familiar SFX too.
This one: "Craccckk-Boooo!!"
We: - Takofanes is dead. He doesn't exist anymore.
There are voices from all the sides, pretty monotony like "Is that's all?", exhausted people laid right onto asphalt.
Dopey yellowness went out from the sky, now it was purely black, with large stars, although - for obvious reason - without the Moon. We took out Thaumic Sensor. It was quiet. There was left just some negligibly weak static noises, while Auric Pattern of the Lich King couldn't be recognized in any way.
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We were called into the private office of Defender, i.e. James Harmon IV himself.
Defender: - Please explain me, what does all of that mean? Which way Takofanes could appear on the Earth, after Bloodmoon end, and the new one won't be soon?
We: - Generally there was one more Bloodmoon, but very short, yet very bright, that's why Tako was so strong this time.
Defender: - By the way, about the Moon? It isn't visible in a several hours after Eclipse. And why no one of Champions could reach their lunar base? Warp Transponders don't respond, as if they are turned off or destroyed...
We: - Yeh, We can explain all of that, it's just...
Defender: - It would be fine, if You weren't last one, who bought a Moon Hideout in Zen Store. How could we sell them now, if no one could reach the Moon, and what to do with warranties?
We: - Let's assume that there's no such thing as Moon anymore. There is, to be precise, but it's a Quark Star by now, We were forced to destroy the Moon, because it was one of Takofanes' Phylacteries.
Defender: - Wha-a-at?! What the? Now, display a view of this lunar satellite.
There was shown a space view on the display - with a small round of pale-blue color, surrounded by star halo.
Defender: - Ermahge... Oh, Gods, what did you do? It's OK with Until Shuttle, which you hijacked to unknown direction last time, but this... We cannot hide it from population...
We: - Don't worry that much, Quark Star on the orbit - it's highly useful thing. You can dump in it - various kind of toxic and radioactive waste. Anything will be converted to monotonous Strangelet. Moreover, 70% of rest mass of incoming matter will be converted to the energy, so it would make sense to surround this new Moon by radiation receivers, and this way the Earth would get almost infinite source of cheap and ecologically clean energy. Scientists always dreamed about a way to gain energy immediately from rest mass of the matter, and now Terrans have this kind of source.
Defender: - But we were going to send ships from it into the deep space...
We: - You could build good orbital station, and use aforementioned energy, Malvans would protect this station, so don't worry.
Defender: - How about deposits? Immensively priceless Helium-3?
We: - What would you need Helium-3 for, if not for Fusion Power Plants, and what they're needed for, when there's a Quark Power Plant? It's full scale energy source for Type II Civilization. Additionally, you could refine Helium-3 from Solar Wind.
Defender: - Well, that makes sense... But anyway, You behaved extremely wrong, pulling this kind of stunt, and sending all our plans down from the hill, without advice of anyone of us.
We: - Drastic problems require drastic solutions. Any of your elders wouldn't believe Us anyway, but Takofanes should get a kick under his bacon long time ago, a whole lot of people were perishing every single Halloween, and it was about time to put end to this, and Our girlish initiative was to bring it to live... Btw.: about an initiative...
We: - We are notified, that currently Terrans have compenent curators for Might and Magic. But not Technology, after loss of Albert Zerstoiten, and until now, there places settled under various kind of sluggish slowpokes, whose names no one even knows. So, if you would allow Us to this position, We would advance Terran technology. Donatium-free Power Tinting would be sure thing, also We would unbug teamup & Loading Screen while changing instance in team... We have a lot of the most breakthrough thoughts.
Defender: - Right now You foiled a lot of stuff in the most epic way, and now You request us to trust You all our base. You don't have a Conscience.
We: - ... Just like this Raygun Spray, for instance.
We took out PBR, and AoEd with its spray mode somewhere in wall's direction.
We: - It's weakish by now, because it's infrared one, and must be microwave one, but We need government-level equipment in order to...
Defender: - We have received your suggestion, and possible in the future we will accept it.
We: - Connector, print the Blueprints of the Spray-Nozzle... Oh yeah, We don't have Connector anymore. And the Crown cannot, by the way, how about Maintained Technology Heal, very likely you have secret working samples, you have them, haven't you? Add them to the Convention finally, that's outrageous when magic is mandatory for Heal...
Defender: - That's all, that's all, You're free, We have dropped accusations from You yet. l need to contact Malvans as well, request a planetary-scale Holographic Projector from them, also their Forum... l meant our Forum, l meant... So long...
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In the lab of Our girlish Syndicate, We monitored the Thaumic Background thoroughly, while Our Syndicate waited Us in HQ hall. Thanks to Heavens, it looks like according to Demaydayizer's records, Auric Pattern of Takofanes wasn't changed during the fight, and the most sensitive Thaumic Detectors couldn't sniff even a sign with Takofanes' signature, only
static noises breaking through occasionally, but these obviously didn't have any relations to him. There were neither Phylacteries nor some other tracks of the Lord of the Undying within Solar System, up to Kuiper belt inclusively, and it's really unlike that somewhere beyond it there is...
ALL OF SUDDEN, all of the measuring equipment went nuts!
Even Our pocket-size Thaumic Sensor began to screech horrendously, and began to sparkle, its arrow went up to eleven, and stationary Thaumic Detector let out deafening howl, We dashed out of laboratory.
We: - Thaumic Background is snapped, everyone, grab your arms, that could be anything, even Takofanes!!!
At the center of the room, all of sudden, a glowing portal opened, but this light... It was extremely bright, yet not blinding, oppositely, it was a pleasure to look at it, it was of calming, soothing color, something average between gold and cyan, but clearly not green. The portal was emitting a pleasant, affectionate warmth...
And then stepped out of it... Thirteen heroes of the past - Goblin, Johnny Hercules, Fletchette, Firefight, Eclipse, Amazing Grace, Nimbus, Crusher, Radion, Shadowboxer, Tiger, Vanguard and Vigil. Naturally, in their spectral form...
We: - Hold off your weapons, they're allies.
But the Syndicate already did that.
Tiger: - Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, who leads the @DaKrushmor Syndicate. We arrived this Plane to gratitude You for what you have done for both us, and mere humans. You cannot imagine, what kind of good deed You have just done. What kind of incredible torrent it was for us to participate in Takofanes' foul actions, and reaping lives of the innocent. But now, Takofanes won't command us ever again.
We: - Ah, drop it, you also call us the "saint".
Eclipse: - For what to be such sarcastic? Additionally, Takofanes was getting his magical energy from the Mortal Realm to the Netherworld through his Phylacteries, but there's no Phylacteries, and he lost all of his power in Netherworld too. You saved millions of lives, without taking even one...
We: - Except Takofanes...
Eclipse: - Takofanes made himself the dead intentionally, in a moment, when he made a Lich out of himself. He stepped on the slippery road, and he knew, that it can lead him only to one place - to Netherworld eventually. Takofanes was breaking the laws, prescribed by Superior Forces, and it was such a pain for us to witness that anarchy, and all those death, committing by him and his minions, but now the Justice is finally served...
We: - How do you know, that Takofanes won't rise anymore...
Eclipse: - In the Overworld, there's different definition of time, than in Mortal Realm. Technically, a consciousness in the Overworld doesn't need a time at all, we all can travel throughout the time, as free as in three other dimensions. That's why we know, that our future persistance in the Overworld - it's continuity, that nothing will break anymore.
We: - Eternity isn't an infinite amount of time, eternity - it's a world without the time. We heard something similar, additionally timeless world emerges in certain physical theories, being a state, in which there quantim fluctuation, from what Universe is born, appeared.
Now there's Our lil' sis.
Alinea: - l walked out for Amyjia... Ermahgerd, what's that? Heroes of the past? And what is this, portal to the Next World or something like that?
We: - To the Overworld to be precise, a part of it, where rightful souls arrive to, or something...
Nimbus looked at us with a look, that We would look at someone, who would say, that electrons are orbitting around atoms.
Nimbus: - You could warm and enjoy yourselves next to it, it's also beneficial, just don't step inside, you're not ready yet.
Tiger: - Were soon we'll depart back in our world, in order to don't leave it ever again, and not return back to the Mortal Realm. But we wish, and the Superior Forces allowed - we could fulfill some of Your wishes. Just don't ask something evil or greedy, but we're sure, you won't do this. There's no words in mortal language, that could describe how You helped us, and we so want to repay the favor.
We: - Just like genies, isn't it.
Vanguard: - Genies, Angels... It's same kind of intangible spirits, just differently called in various religions. Just like Efreets and Demons are same the fallen spirits, which serve Satan/Shaitan. Very alike too. Dzhinn is Genie, Genie is a spirit, and rightful spirit is an Angel. So you could assume it's the same, we are still not in HoMM3. Yes, we are the Genies.
We: - OK, We got one dearest wish, that would benefit anyone - Our Syndicate too. It's neither evil nor greedy, but it's not a trifle either. There's Tas in Our Homeworld, it's extremely advanced tech, that's totally subordinated to Us, it's self-replicating, incredibly powerful and totally submitted to Us. Naturally, We took care about Multiversal Twins in Counterfactual Parts of Universal Wavefunction would get their own instances of Tas. So they could receive same pleasure as Us...
We: - But there's one "Twin", that is beyond the reach even of such potent Tas, because it's located within a realm, that's known as Real World - it's the part of the Multiverse, where just draconian laws of symmetry rule, so creating a portal, through which at least one nanomachine could be delivered, doesn't seem to be possible even for Tas. But how about you? Maybe, using energy of the Overworld, you could reach the Real World in one of another way.
Vigil: - Hmmm... Don't think it's even possible. The Real World for us - it's just like already finished four-dimensional spatio-temporal crystals, each element of which is stuck in its own place, as well as at Eigenstate. It is absolutely, ideally symmetrical, and any interaction with it would create one more instance, that won't be by 100%...
We: - But in this case... This completely closed system couldn't be observed by anyone? And thanks to that - it wouldn't make sense to discuss about its existance. Absolutely, ideally Real World would be nonexistent... Unreal... That's kind of a dox. Our Alter-Ego couldn't observe it either, and that means - thing it observes is not the Real World. It's some other world, it's pretty close to the real one, very, extremely close... But that's not the Real World... There was also one oddity with this Alter-Ego, that couldn't be explained by anything, but... Or...
We: - And right into this close-to-real world...
Eclipse: - Interesting... Yes, we all realize, that nothing can interact with Real World, and why, but no one amongst the Superior Ones mentioned about these neighbor... And there's nowhere a mention, that it's impossible, and that means...
We: - Just like nobody described, that you cannot make a Phylactery out of the Moon...
Eclipse: - We should really try that. If we won't succeed - we'll notify the Superior Ones, and they will help. Meaning of Celestial Honor is harder than diamond. If even they won't succeed - we will come back and suggest to take another wish.
Crown - Interphasic link mode...
We: - Tas, usually We assume it's not fair to request your backup in here... But now - portalize in here your universal Seed, exact that stuff, We kept sending to Our Multiversal Twins. Just don't catch another portal. Timer for one day.
In the other corner of the room there a portal appeared, and teal-colored metallic sphere of ideal form fell out of it.
We: - This seed would evolve to the new instance of Tas, if it's delivered within some planet's crust. There's self-replicating nanomachines inside, which have all needed hardware and software... There will be neuronet, architecture developed, Tas will root, and then it will find the Alter-Ego and suggest that to take control on itself. Some of nanomachines have "margin of safety", in case if some physical constants could be a bit different, that at Our own Homeworld, they all are in excessive numbers. To prevent fail in almost 100% cases, and by almost We mean one of trillionth chance of fail. Or even less number. Now it's all up to you - should you deliver it to the destination, and Tas shall not fail - it doesn't fail ever.
We: - Now the timer is ticking here, but since you have no time in your Overworld. And making it hatch wouldn't be desirable, and it unlikely will be able to root there.. Can you freeze the Seed in time, and while you will attempt to get into...
Tiger: - Is that a joke, there's nothing easier than that. Any amount of time for this ball would pass in 0 seconds, instant after it will get beyond the brink, it's just a tangible object after all... There's nothing easier, than capture its momentary state... Oh well, so be it. Farewell. Farewell forever - at best. And continue to protect the Mortal Real from all kinds of evil, no matter what one of numerous masks it will put on.
After taking a precious, nice-to-touch sphere from Our girlish palms, Tiger headed to the portal, and crossed it, after him the rest of his squad followed. Then portal to the Overworld had vanished, and despite the room was lighted by bright electrical lights, We felt, that it's got noticeably darker in it...
However, it's likely Bright Day is heading towards this important Alter-Ego, that is stuck within unreachable for Tas area, and if the deed of the Heroes will succeed... We will get anything, that We even could wish for. Every single thing. And even more!

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After this mission Our enemy's database has been updated, and following entries were added.



Undead Roc:
Talon Slash - single target slashing damage.
Talon Lunge - Slashing Damage & snare.
Beak Smash - Slashing Damage & stun.
Wing Swing - 2 cones left & right deal Crushing Damage & Knock.
Lift Up - imposes Gravity while is up.
Steel Feathers - wireframe tells, then Piercing Damage to those zones.
Crashing Dive - wireframe, then very quickly Slashing Damage, that knocks way over.
Whirlwind Push - maintained Crushing Damage & repel from the bird, also imposes a storm centered inside a room, and certain ring, which hole starts a bit before walls causing to deal very significant Crushing Damage, as if characters were smashed to the wall.
Undead Roc Egg - has pretty much of HP.
Undead Roc Hatchling - very annoying, hangs Physical Resistance debuff.

Pharaoh Mummy:
Infernal Bolts - classic
Locust Breath - classic
Condemn - classic
Locust Swarm - a prolongated stun for a Tank.
Locust Swarm Summon - summons huge amount of swarm entities, those are totally immune to Single Target attacks.
Egyptian Execution - fiery meteors fall from above.
Horrid Curse - causes character to transform into mummy, enabling PvP flag & replacing power bar. These things have empowered version of Pestilence, which linger for a decent while on a target if Cursed player gets near another one.
Vizier Mummy:
4 of them helping their master, use common Might build, and come out of sarcophagi when defeated.

Ghost of all the Tacos:
Ghost Taco Throw - single target Dimensional damage.
Tackle - huge Dimensional Damage.
Taco Self Throw - huge Dimensional Damage & lunge.
Tacoportation - the ghost submerges deeply into the Phase Space, then emerges from it, flooding the room with spicy sauce & dealing Delicious damage. This power also causes Taco loads from points of Mexican food in range of 50 miles to vanish.
Mini-Tacos:
Annoy.

Matrioshka Zombie:
Clobber - classic.
Shockwave - classic.
Uppercut - classic annoying attack.
T34-Cannon - marks area & blast everyone in it, possibly one-shoting even tank.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie pukes out Matrioshka Zombie A.
Matrioshka Zombie A:
Bludgeon - classic, utilizes Maksim gatling gun skin.
Cleave - classic, utilizes Maksim gatling gun skin.
Annihilate - classic, utilizes Maksim gatling gun skin.
Maksim Heavy Streak - cone, getting away of it is mandatory for everyone.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie A pukes out Matrioshka Zombie B.
Matrioshka Zombie B:
Rifle Butt - classic.
Assault Rifle - classic.
AK-47 Streak - targets random player, each of those bullets have increased chance to one-shot target, but breaking LoS works.
AK-47 Single - targets random player, one-shots through blocking, but breaking LoS works.
AK-47 Burst - targets cone, follows player, can one-shot targets, LoS works.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie B pukes out Matrioshka Zombie C.
Matrioshka Zombie C:
Pistol Whip - classic.
Pistol Burst - cone piercing attack.
Makarov Tempest - Wireframe attack, maintained roomie, may one-shot targets.
Makarov Mojo - cylinder attack, that can one-shot its targets and anyone on line, LoS works.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie C pukes out Matrioshka Zombie D.
Matrioshka Zombie D :
This is a Sparky dog, that uses electric attacks.
Deadly Puppy Slush - one-shots everyone within roomie, that is in LoS.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie D pukes out Matrioshka Zombie E.
Matrioshka Zombie E:
It is a cat. It can lull a player almost forever (imposes sleep). Sleep is almost impenetrable by mezzed player. On the other hand - it can be broken with AoE.
When HP becomes 1/3, Matrioshka Zombie E pukes out Matrioshka Zombie F.
Matrioshka Zombie F:
It's just a tiny lil' mouse.
It's rowdy though, and has increased Critical Chance and insane Critical Severity value.
When Matrioshka Zombie F is defeated, E one becomes vulnerable to true death, and should be destroyed too, and they has to be blasted in opposite order, until Matrioshka Zombie gets alone and with puked out stomach content, so he can get rested too.

Superpowered Takofanes:
He was empowered by the abnormally bright, yet short Bloodmoon, and got drastic increase for all of the stats. He also got power to animate untimely departed New Champions, retaining their Superpowers and Skills, and force them to fight alongside. He was beaten and driven to the Netherworld without a chance of coming back, so you practically reliably won't meet him ever, if you ain't going to the Netherworld, of course.

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Technology::Gadgeteering::Raygun Spray

• A power, invented by Their Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, who runs right now with a prototype version of it.
  
• Because it's technically homemade, it's not optimized and weak now, but still has power enough to wipe out small add groups, and for big ones there's [Pulse Beam Rifle] anyway.
  
• It has Viper energy spray animation, and is in Gadgeteer set. It is Maintain, and deals Cone AoE damage, utilizes Gadgeteer Rifle skin.
  
• It has a 2-pt advantage - Extradimensional Phase Disruptor - that causes phased out enemies to forcibly return back to normal space, receiving Particle Damage, Interrupt and Firework Explosion.