#jari blogs

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The Festival of Ashes

December 20th. It was a day Lila had been dreading for weeks. Ever since their final battle she had worked tirelessly. Searching for survivors, organizing rebuilding efforts, recovering remains, communicating with their neighbors. All of that was easy compared to what she had to do today.

She had ordered there to be no celebrations of their victory until they had found every survivor and recovered the remains of those who didn't make it. It's been two months now, and while they had found most everyone according to her head count they were still a ways off from a full count. Those still missing had to be presumed dead.

Lila let out a sigh as she arranged herself to look a touch more put together.

"You didn't fail them."

Lila glanced at her sister in the mirror as she spoke. "Well, I certainly didn't find them." She replies.

"Lila, there was no way for you, or anyone else to find everyone. The city was coming down before the explosion vaporized everything else."

Lila lets out another sigh. "It's easy to say when you're not the one that needs to explain that to their families."

Jari places a hand on her shoulder with a sympathetic smile.

Lila takes a deep breath. "I'll be out in five minutes."

Jari nods and gives her sister one last hug from behind before heading out and closing the door behind her. Snow crunches under her feet as she heads down to the beach where a crowd gathers around several braziers that have been set up on the beach, several large ships sitting at the water's edge as a light snow falls.

"How's she doing?" Kettil asks as Jari approaches, a mug of hot cider in his hand, draped in heavy cloaks and furs.

"About as well as you would expect." Jari replies. Kettil gives her a worried look. "She'll be fine. She's tough."

"Still..." He spares a glance at the ship in the center. The one which held no remains and sighed as he looked back into the fire.

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Cold Fusion [Pt 3]

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Vox bound the soldier and placed him gagged behind a set of crates, content that it would be enough to keep this specific portion of wall quiet for the time being. The tower was too much to handle for now, which left the remaining forces on the gate to his east.

No time like the present.

The little vantage he had to see the upcoming soliders gave him enough information to know that he was far outnumbered. Handling three was proving to be enough work on it's own - he wouldn't be able to make it far enough down the wall without additional support. Looking down from the wall, he could see a massive gash in the earth; one that certainly hadn't been there at any point he could recall.

Taking stock of his options, the scout pulled his hood and sat with his back against the wall behind him. He tapped his fingers against his leg, before it hit him.

The burrows.

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Dug Too Deep to the Right [pt 4]

[x]

Woah, hey there little human, no need for swords. You might hurt Alesha! Zsilelac chuckled as he attempted to pull more of his body out of the pile of dirt. I’m Zsil, though most people call me Guardian. He grunted as one of his legs dislodged from the rubble. Even without a head, the suit moved as though it was looking through the occupants of the tunnel. I’m afraid I don’t recognize any of you, you aren’t with Alrund’s forces, are you?

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Rumble Down Under [pt 5]

[X]

Lila saw the devastation Kezia was causing amidst her troops on the ground. She thought to try and remove the target from their backs, or at the very least, remove Kezia's ability to deal with them. She flew close to her, her wolf bone sword, which she had taken to calling Fang, and used it to try and cut off her many many legs.

Kettil took the opportunity to get closer, seeing as how Kezia seemed to lack ranged attacks his protection seemed better suited for the front lines. So he struck out with sharp waves of wind, trying to upset her balance while also protecting the rebels surrounding her.

Suddenly Jari burst up from the ground near where the Construct had tore into Kezia's body now covered in a dark, almost fluid looking armor. The gaping wound seemed, to her to be the weakest point and she intended to capitalize on that. As she passed she threw several balls of lightning into the wound, sticking to the edges before exploding, discharging 300 million volts through her system.

Sav would take the opportunity to try and burn her from the inside with lava, using that wound as his opening.

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Silhouettes in the Night [Pt. 2]

[X]

Jari saw it and ran through the properties it displayed were closely related to molten glass. If that were the case water should cause it to solidify. "Get water on it!" She called through the network. She pulled something from her belt and pulled the pin from it. She let it cook for a few moments before releasing it, water exploding out in a condensed area.

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Rumble Down Under [pt 4]

[X]

The Changeling, feeling the sudden ripple of energy though the next and the pain coming from their partner almost straightened up. "Hey I gotta go." Is all they said to Deo before shifting into a thin line of alien looking material that almost flowed like water as it began zipping through the streets of High Central at speeds faster than any human could manage, making a b-line for the Lazer hole.

Meanwhile Jari was having a very bad day. Curled inside a hole and crying out in pain as she clutched her head in agony. It felt like her brain was being split apart, never mind the deep gash that was in her side. Rockbite carefully lowered her down into the dirt, a soft, worried hiss escaping him as he nuzzled close. Looking down with his poor eyesight he blows a small ring of fire, trying to cauterize her wound, causing her to cry out in pain once more. She was going to need a minute to pull herself together.

In the heat of battle, Lila heard the call from Treepelt to push Kezia away from the hill and the tomb and she was more than happy to try and facilitate that. She started launching massive blue balls of fire at Kezia's main body in an effort to cause it to retreat.

And further down on the list of people not having a good day, Sav had been unceremoniously clipped by one of Kezia's many, many feet and flung a fair distance into a rock wall, creating a Sav sized impression in the wall. "The fackin' shit I have to put up with for these people." He groans as he forces himself out onto his feet as he started making large pools of lava to trap her with.

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Cold Fusion

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"Well they're focused more on that." She points to the illusion climbing the wall. The sounds of their rifles, the flash of their muzzles and the smell of black powder filled the air. "How do you want to handle this? Just rush the gate and try clobber everything inside, or maybe we land behind the gate and try and sneak in. Of course I'm open to suggestions if you have any, but whatever we do we should do it quickly."

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Topside Turvy

As the two teams moved underground towards their various goals, those above worked as well. Jari and her group of saboteurs were causing havoc along the back lines of High Central forces, taking out small groups of isolated soldiers quickly and causing major distractions before disappearing into the alleys and streets of the city, trying to divert attention from the front lines.

Meanwhile Deo was working on the front with her Rangers. The city was cramped and finding clean shots was difficult at best with how central was using the main road to hold them back. They had taken to firing volleys of arrows at an angle so they would strike from above.

Further behind Rebellion lines Kettil was busy both treating wounds and organizing the other healers, having them focus on those who they could save while making those who were too far gone, comfortable in their last moments.