Secret Place (Check Map of Town for details)

((Where's the mspa? Or are you serious?))

((Oh, I'm dead serious.

Anyway, once again, what WILL Calliope do if she shows up? How is she SO MUCH more powerful against him than anyone else?))

Shaula wrote:

((Oh, I'm dead serious.

Anyway, once again, what WILL Calliope do if she shows up? How is she SO MUCH more powerful against him than anyone else?))

((Considering Calliope's powers are basically unknown and hard to understand (such as being passive with Space), unlike Caliborn, who's powers are easy enough to guess. It isn't Calliope's powers necessarily so much as the weapon she has, her gun. It's the only weapon IMO that can't be manipulated with Space or Time. It's not a glitch so much as another version of Caledscratch in gun form. She has the only version. Her appearance would also send Caliborn into a flying rage (which is only logical), making him MUCH easier to kill))

((I seem to have forgotten the part where it was said that her weapon can't be manipulated by space or time. Care to post a link?))

((Kay, hang on. It may take awhile to find it. It's in the huge ass monologue Doc made before Cascade.))

*suddenly ygg appears looking pissed*

*she launches a fuck tonne of knife cards and shadow vines at caliborn*

((Except she doesn't, cuz her powers don't > cali's powers. She's stuck outside. Oh and also, time is essentially stopped here))

(( D/W Silck, I have a flare, you might get your chance yet.

And I'd like to take the time to point out that, while Caliborn is rumored to be unkillable outside specific circumstances, I imagine Doc's attacks would at least severely inconvenience him. ))

deathUnyielding wrote:

((Except she doesn't, cuz her powers don't > cali's powers. She's stuck outside. Oh and also, time is essentially stopped here))

since when can shadow magic stop an elder god?

we had a whole argument about it

an you never said time was stopped, only that you moved the bomb forward in time

((READ OOC ALREADY! YOU'RE MISSING SO MUCH!!!))

((Eff it, double post. TBH I would have to stretch it really hard to make anything anyone is doing right now work. So I'm not going to))

*unpauses*

*spears break on his body, doing absolutely nothing*

*blinks a couple times*

*looks at the flare*

PLEASE TELL ME. THAT YOu CAN DO SOMETHING. THAT IS MORE EFFECTIVE. THAN WHAT YOu JuST DID. BECAuSE WHAT YOu JuST DID. SuCKED A LOT.

((And, just because I can...))

*stops time completely*

*walks up to everyone individually, and stabs them in the chest with the tip of his scepter*

((EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR NEPETA (WHO IS BEHIND DOOR) DIES!!!!))

*dissipates black field*

*teleports away*

((Alright, Smug Mode for a sec: forgetting something I said earlier, eh Havoc?

Doc is omniscient.

Omniscience.
Is.
OP.

Did you know that the human brain works such that you reach decisions ten seconds before you consciously realize it happens? And that's just humans. How much of a lag do you think a stunted cherub has? ))

*Doc predicts Caliborn's attempt to stop time in advance*

*Everyone else zaps to Nepeta's location*

I MAY NOT HAVE THE TOOLS IMMEDIATELY ON MY PERSON TO KILL YOU.

NOT THAT THAT'S MUCH OF A MEANINGFUL STATEMENT TO A FIRST GUARDIAN.

BUT, WHILE I AM STILL NOT, AND WILL LIKELY NEVER BECOME, A GAMBLING MAN--

--IF I WERE, I'D WAGER ANY DAY THAT IT IS IN MY POWER TO STOP YOU.

SO, TO BORROW A PHRASE FROM AN OLD FRIEND OF YOURS:

COME AT ME, IF YOU THINK YOU ARE HARD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!

(("All part of the plan" describes the situation both in-character and out.))

*time still stops*

*caliborn opens the door with his staff, which happens to be the MOTHER FUCKING KEY (I mentioned this earlier, read back if you don't believe me)*

*proceeds to kill everyone, including nepeta*

((Good plan, life. Great plan. Also, your omniscience only works if you use the flare. Which you haven't yet. So I am at a loss as to how you are reading my mind. Especially since Caliborn does things instinctively))

deathUnyielding wrote:

((READ OOC ALREADY! YOU'RE MISSING SO MUCH!!!))

((WELL I AM SORRY THAT I WAS ASLEEP BY THE TIME YOU BLOODY POSTED! NOT EVERYONE IS AWAKE OR FREE AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU)

((TIMEZONES ARE A THING!))

deathUnyielding wrote:

((Good plan, life. Great plan. Also, your omniscience only works if you use the flare. Which you haven't yet. So I am at a loss as to how you are reading my mind. Especially since Caliborn does things instinctively))

((Three things:

1. So I hate to pull this card on you now, but: I specified "somewhere safe" as Nepeta's location. It was you who decided that the only safe location was the vault. And then proceeded to open it anyway and kill everyone inside. Something doesn't quite add up about that.

2. Doc is exerting himself beyond what's usually possible (an action with grave consequences once he lets go), which is why he can temporarily see through the void that would normally block him. If you insist that shouldn't work, he may or may not also be slowly channeling the energy he put into the flare.

3. Instinctive things still happen in your mind.))

sparkingLife wrote:

deathUnyielding wrote:

((Good plan, life. Great plan. Also, your omniscience only works if you use the flare. Which you haven't yet. So I am at a loss as to how you are reading my mind. Especially since Caliborn does things instinctively))

((Three things:

1. So I hate to pull this card on you now, but: I specified "somewhere safe" as Nepeta's location. It was you who decided that the only safe location was the vault. And then proceeded to open it anyway and kill everyone inside. Something doesn't quite add up about that.

2. Doc is exerting himself beyond what's usually possible (an action with grave consequences once he lets go), which is why he can temporarily see through the void that would normally block him. If you insist that shouldn't work, he may or may not also be slowly channeling the energy he put into the flare.

3. Instinctive things still happen in your mind.))

((Yeah. I guess. But I mean, even if Doc predicts EVERYTHING, which has been proven in canon he cannot do, it just means Caliborn leaves))

((so much for complete silence))

((So would Overexertinghimself!Doc Scratch (Join the club by the way, DD's pretty much running off of nothing but hatred and shadow magic by now) be able to tell WHERE the Alpha went?))

Shaula wrote:

((So would Overexertinghimself!Doc Scratch (Join the club by the way, DD's pretty much running off of nothing but hatred and shadow magic by now) be able to tell WHERE the Alpha went?))

((If so, then life has ACTUAL omniscience, cuz even I don't know where he's going))

((He can pick. He says where Caliborn's going, and you make Caliborn go there. Anyway, just making sure I got everything right: Doc's alive and here, Caliborn's gone, time's running normally, right?))

Shaula wrote:

((He can pick. He says where Caliborn's going, and you make Caliborn go there. Anyway, just making sure I got everything right: Doc's alive and here, Caliborn's gone, time's running normally, right?))

((I think so??? I dunno, suddenly Doc was doing all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm not sure how he penetrated the field of Eldritch magic, or where efurryone is, but I know for sure Caliborn would leave either way. Time around the area where the bomb went off (Is going to go off) will send you forward in time, but other than that, time is flowing normally))

((Okay, good to know. It IS hard to keep track sometimes, isn't it?

And he broke through the field by overexerting himself into overpoweritude, he said.))

((1. Where WOULD Caliborn even go? Well, destroying the afterlife was effectively part of LE's modus operandi, right? So perhaps he's aiming to do that? And if so, what's the first step in that plan?

2. I *think* what Doc did was hide the potential victims in a pocket of inverted space such that anyone who attempts to walk within a certain radius of them just passes through to the other side, or something like that anyway. I can only handle so much of this sort of thing before my brain's ability to process it into something verbal and comprehensible just refuses to can.

3. I dunno, should I have told you Doc's endgame plan for this encounter? Or should I yet? Should I spoiler it in a HAVOC DO NOT OPEN box if I do? I do have two ways in mind Doc could pull off a victory here. One involves a fairly obvious possible space glitch. The other, well... doesn't. ))

((1:hmm. Has the casino been destroyed already? That's where Death has one of his doors.

2: I kinda get it. Okay then.

3: Hm... PM me?))

(( It has. Due to "Lack of structural integrity". But there is an army of hired muscle working on rebuilding it. They have about the first few rooms done by now.))