thespaceopera: (red alert)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-11-11 05:54 pm

sooner or later, god'll cut you down.

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Lato'li's orbit and also planetside.
When: Forward dated to 11/15.

[The Interceptor Fleet moves into position, waiting for the last few shield generators to fall. And in the early hours of the 15th, they do. The shield dissolves with a blip as if it was never there, leaving the man-eaters as prone as their prey. The Interceptors send out a transmission-- an unholy mix of Cockney and Australian that graces every available communicator-- if they answer it.]

We’re firin’! Do yer worst, Vieziri! We’re gonna kick yer sorry arses so hard you’ll kiss the moons!

[Five Interceptor ships swoop out of the dark and unload their various weaponry onto the Vieziri warships. At the same time, people stranded on the planet below ready the anti-aircraft guns onto their makers. And of course there is the Fleet itself, battered and yet beautiful across the velvet sky, as they fire everything they have.

Now the Vieziri start moving. Though the big red ship can’t do much maneuvering, the rest of the Vieziri warships certainly can. They fire back at the Interceptors and whoever else fires at them, willing to defend their leader and lose their lives in the process.

Luckily, the Interceptors have their own daring ships, which may look familiar to those who were here for the raider attack. One is emblazoned with racing stripes and flames all along the hull, and it moves so fast it nearly enters hyperspace. It’s there and gone in a flash, weaving past the enemy in crazy thrillseeking loops. Still another Interceptor ship is painted red and orange with a gold plate near the front, which reads BAMF with no explanation. This one has guns aplenty and easily weathers any duel it gets into. The third Interceptor ship is beautiful gold and black, sleek as hell and engineered with sense; this one packs the most gadgets and formidable guns of all calibers, and appears to do the most damage. Trailing behind is a much smaller ship, so nondescript it almost doesn’t stand out at all-- that is, until it forms a barrier to absorb some oncoming fire and reflect it back at the Vieziri.

There’s one ship that’s missing, though-- the one that was blown up several months ago after the heist. In its place is a small black ship that runs invisible to radar, sweeping past with silent speed as it lets loose a barrage of photon missiles onto the Vieziri flagship.

Down below, the Vieziri come out in full force-- one last stand before the warlord falls, trying to finish their fell rituals. Some of them rush the encampments, some go for the cities. Near the restored comms tower, a cloaked figure with a plain white mask fights their way through the onslaught using a plasma blade and a laser rifle.

After an hours-long siege, the big warship finally takes too much fire and breaks apart, lighting up the sky with falling shards like stars. The biggest debris burns up in orbit, but little pieces still rain down. It signals the end as the Vieziri begin to retreat both on ground and in the air. The loss of their leadership leaves them scattered and panicked.

The Fleet has won the day, but as the sun rises again over the wreckage, there is still plenty of work to be done.]


[ooc: Feel free to assume the Interceptors are helping your ships! The gold and black ship can be hailed and will give responses, as she’s been the main point of contact during this plot. You can also run into Zhade, though tags will be slow for both accounting for RL things. Please mark Zhade or Interceptors in the header of your toplevel if you’d like NPC interaction.

Any questions should be asked on the plot post for phase two.]
searingedgelord: (47)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-19 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Why shouldn't he fight Velvet, honestly. It's not like she objects to punching him. She takes up a stance as he turns, since it's obvious he's not in his right mind.]

So that's how it's going to be, huh.

[Rokurou's going to be sad he missed this.]
heroofcocoon: (I'm screaming out your name)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-19 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[The thing is that he'll feel bad later. It's not like he's got a history with anyone here on the Fleet to mitigate the fact that he's now a monster and ready to hit people and things indiscriminately.

But now, now he doesn't care. He's not even in any mind.

The only response she gets is the mechanical buzzing and a swing of his heavy, malformed arm at her head.]
searingedgelord: (37)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-20 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She probably won't hold it against him too much, honestly. Fighting is a perfectly legitimate way to get to know a person. Even if that person is currently not entirely himself.

She dodges the blow. She's smaller than him and fast and is in her right mind. That helps. She ejects her new gauntlet blade and moves to counter.]
heroofcocoon: LR (of the savior in your hour of need)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-22 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course it helps that she's smaller and lighter. The cie'th's movements are slow and limited, relying on brute strength, unlike one of the flying vampires. No, Snow is definitely more like the ghouls that lined all of Pulse and the Arks. Slow, bulky, mindless.

An attack machine that won't stop until dead.]
searingedgelord: (38)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-27 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, Velvet has definitely fought daemons like this before. She doesn't slow down or stop, she's pretty willing to just keep attacking and throwing artes at him to see how much she can wear him down.]
heroofcocoon: 13 (You behold)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-29 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Artes bounce off of the crystal arm but others strike his chest, stomach and right arm, slowing him down and making the monster stumble, but he doesn't stop.

As he moves forward, the mechanical buzzing continues.]
searingedgelord: (33)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-30 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[You know what, that's cool. She can just focus all her attacks on his right side. She'll also finally bring out her claw and strike at him that way too. Still focusing on aiming for his right side rather than his left.]
heroofcocoon: 13 (I only miss you when I'm breathing)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[As she hits him, a black mist starts to rise from his body. If her claw gets close enough to actually slash him, there will be marks on his skin, but no blood or open wounds to speak of. Instead, the mist continues to swirl around them both, but it doesn't do anything to either of them. Just rests around their ankles.]
searingedgelord: (37)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-30 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, she'll definitely slash him with her claw if she can. She's not sure if the mist is a good or bad sign, but she's also not letting up at all.]
heroofcocoon: (but you don't answer me)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-30 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[The mist is more dangerous to Snow than to Velvet. The fact of the matter is that he is coming both for her and anything else around them. One of the Vieziri jumps him from behind and he swings his arms until he has a hold of the creatures ears and flings it with all of his increased strength the length of two football fields into a tree with a sickening crack.

The Cie'th then stumbles forward through another group of cannibals, tossing them like ragdolls as they get in his way.]
searingedgelord: (25)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-11-30 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, okay. She'll just toss another cannibal at him, in that case, since he's being useful. Then she'll turn her attention on attacking other cannibals as long as Snow isn't attacking her.

Though she does wonder if he's just always going to be like this now. A hulking brute who bleeds mist and has an arm that makes a real noise. Honestly, it seems pretty inconvenient.]
heroofcocoon: (I only miss you when I'm breathing!)

[personal profile] heroofcocoon 2017-11-30 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[All the cannibals meet strange endings. Especially the one that tries to bite his crystalline arm and the rock/machine monster just wastes no time clearing a path for those willing to follow behind his wake.

Eventually, though, some moron with a dumb hair cut and a long red coat will come to play with Snow and fix things.]
searingedgelord: (58)

[personal profile] searingedgelord 2017-12-01 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, good, he's someone else's problem now. Velvet can concentrate on cannibal murder. Which is what she does. She's pretty good at it, honestly.]