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With Santa on his back now, Summer snarled and jumped up on top of him, slashing her blade across his chest as hard as she could. The energy of her first ability was fading now and her thoughts started to come back clearer to her, she knew they needed to deal with this thing as quickly as possible but if that meant just smashing it then so be it. As Summer raised her arm to swing again Santa declared that he was... Quite done with all of this and looked like he was about to activate an ability. A definitely not good ability, especially with Rory trapped under him.
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So instead of attacking, Summer instead took a deep breath and drew the energy out of her soul, kneeling down on Santa's body and placing her hand on his chest. A pulse of glowing red and pink light flowed through her hand, through Santa and into the ground underneath him. The light then spread outwards and where it spread, beautiful roses grew from the ground and pink petals floated gently through the air. She was hoping that Santa's Willpower wasn't all that high because if it was then this wasn't going to work and she was going to have to go with plan two.
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If it did work, she'd stay kneeling on his chest and look straight into his eyes. "Give up, Santa, you've got no more tricks and we've got the upper and uh..." She glanced at Rory, "...Lower hand too!" Hopefully the effects of the field would be enough to make him actually consider it. On the other hand if it didn't work, she immediately throw her shield down to jam it between Santa and Rory, absorbing as much of the blow with her shield as she could to protect him and taking the blast herself, hoping her defensive stats would help her, not to mention the heal that she'd be using on herself as well, boosted by her field's effects!

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Current Stats and Items:[break]
PWR: 12(+4) DEF: 30(+5) SPD: 8(+3) MAGI: 30(+5) VIT: 30(+5) WIL: 11(-1) LUCK: 0 [break][break]
Belt of Noble Visage - This blessed belt gives the wearer the ability to disguise oneself as that of a noble figure. Once active, the wearer of this belt demands the respect of those around them. Up to three creatures can be instilled with the [FEAR] status condition for a duration of 2 Rounds. <-Used/Inactive[break][break]
Rose Color Glasses - Upon equipping the glasses, you'll gain the ability to see the world in a new light. Boost your [WIL] by +10%.[break][break]
Bleeding Heart Pendant - A simple necklace with a red ruby in the shape of a melting heart. Once per three posts, you may cause this pendant to pulsate a red aura. This will cause you [Cleanse] yourself of any debuff or negative status effects you are currently afflicted with.
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Field of Peace: You will cause roses to manifest throughout a space, whose radius is equal to your [MAGI] stat's number divided by 3 in meters. This space will cause all those within if their [WIL] is lower than your [MAGI] to be filled with a warm feeling. It causes all hostile intentions to be washed away. No harmful abilities may be used while in this space. Those within this space will also notice healing abilities act as if they are +1 rank higher than normal. This has a two-post duration and a four-post cooldown.




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Rory Perkins Try Hard raya

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So it would seem like Santa was trying to even the number disadvantage, well Summer wasn't about to just allow that without a rebuttal. As the elves appeared, Summer raised her sword up and let out a warcry and activated the ornate belt that was sitting on her waist. With a flash of golden light, a pair of spectral angel wings sprouted from her back and translucent golden armour covered her body as she activated the noble visage. Targeting both of the Elves and Santa with the actual effect of her item, causing all of them to end up suffering from the [Fear] status effect. She wasn't sure if they would waver or if they'd push through but it was better than nothing.
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If they still came forwards though then she had to make herself useful, though luckily she seemed to have some stalwart allies by her side. The elf that had most of its damage blocked by the shield she simply threw herself in front of it and let the rest of its now fairly pitiful damage bounce off of her. It hurt but it wasn't that bad and besides she was naturally able to regen anyway so she knew it wouldn't last long. As for the other one that didn't get blocked by the shield she threw her own in the way, absorbing its attack and targeting herself with the heal before pushing it away and nodding at Nyke, she'd need to rely on them to deal with the summons.
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"Crom! Come on! We need to focus on Santa!" She called out as she rushed the metal dome that he had pulled up. She dove forwards and slammed her sword into it with as much force as she could muster. It probably wasn't enough to break it but it'd hopefully at least damage it. She needed some extra firepower and she was just hoping that the others would be able to bring it, she could make sure they survived the hits but that was pretty much all she was good for. She'd just need to keep trying, surely she'd get through this barrier eventually!
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Current Stats and Items:[break]
PWR: 12(+4) DEF: 30(+5) SPD: 8(+3) MAGI: 30(+5) VIT: 30(+5) WIL: 11(-1) LUCK: 0 [break][break]
Belt of Noble Visage - This blessed belt gives the wearer the ability to disguise oneself as that of a noble figure. Once active, the wearer of this belt demands the respect of those around them. Up to three creatures can be instilled with the [FEAR] status condition for a duration of 2 Rounds. <-Active[break][break]
Rose Color Glasses - Upon equipping the glasses, you'll gain the ability to see the world in a new light. Boost your [WIL] by +10%.[break][break]
Bleeding Heart Pendant - A simple necklace with a red ruby in the shape of a melting heart. Once per three posts, you may cause this pendant to pulsate a red aura. This will cause you [Cleanse] yourself of any debuff or negative status effects you are currently afflicted with.
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Throes of Passion: For three posts, you will become overwhelmed with your passion to slay the enemies before you. This will cause your [WIL] to drop by 20% but your [PWR] and [SPD] will both increase by 20% for the duration of the ability. During this period, your eyes will glow bright red, and the veins around your body will bulge. You will also have a red aura surrounding your body.

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Rory Perkins Crom Try Hard

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It would seem some people just weren't in as much of a festive mood as Summer was. She stuck her tongue out at Rory and was about to begin to reprimand him on worrying so much however that thought was cut short by a cold wind and an even colder laugh. She stopped and looked around for a moment before spying what seemed to be Santa but there was something definitely. Not only was there nothing jolly about this big guy at all but he was a dang robot! She wasn't sure if robots could even feel holiday cheer but this one definitely didn't seem to.
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She immediately frowned and raised a fist, shaking it at the robot Santa. "Dang it you big meanie! I've been really good this year! You're not the real Santa!" She shouted at him and swung her hands out. With a flash of pink light a magnificent buckler and sword dropped into her hands and she made sure to accept the party invite from Rory, giving him a nod as she did so. It would seem that this was going to be some kind of fight though she had no idea what this big fake was even capable of. The glowing was worrying but more so was the present that got launched and the way it made ticking noises as it flew. Her eyes widened and she ran forwards to where it landed before leaping forwards and sticking her buckler over the top of the present like a bowl before the present exploded.
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Her shield was mighty strong and if it held anything extra would have to get past her defenses considering she had actually thrown her own body on top of the shield as well. If it soaked the attack she'd also throw the healing effect at Rory just in case he had taken any outside damage that she couldn't absorb with her buckler. She then turned to all of the people and gave them a thumbs up. "Let me play defense! Squire of Hearts at your service!" She called out with a bright grin before hopping to her feet and kicking her shield back up into her hand and getting ready to deal with anything else that this big doofus was gonna throw at them. She knew that she had healing and some heavy tanking potential and just recently she had actually unlocked something that might come in even more use. She just needed Santa to get closer before she used it.
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Either way she currently needed someone to protect so she'd move over to Crom and crouch next to him, covering as much of her body as possible with her buckler and making sure she was close enough to hop in the way if she had to, giving the guy a wink as she slid in. She tried not to slide in too close though, he was pretty handsome and if she accidentally touched him he might think she was weird. For a moment her mind flashed with images of diving on to protect him from an attack... Or really anyone here, they were all pretty attractive. She blushed and shook her head, dismissing those thoughts, she could drool over pretty guys once Santa was dealt with!
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Current Stats and Items:[break]
PWR: 12 DEF: 30 SPD: 8 MAGI: 30 VIT: 30 WIL: 11 LUCK: 0 [break][break]
Belt of Noble Visage - This blessed belt gives the wearer the ability to disguise oneself as that of a noble figure. Once active, the wearer of this belt demands the respect of those around them. Up to three creatures can be instilled with the [FEAR] status condition for a duration of 2 Rounds.[break][break]
Rose Color Glasses - Upon equipping the glasses, you'll gain the ability to see the world in a new light. Boost your [WIL] by +10%.[break][break]
Bleeding Heart Pendant - A simple necklace with a red ruby in the shape of a melting heart. Once per three posts, you may cause this pendant to pulsate a red aura. This will cause you [Cleanse] yourself of any debuff or negative status effects you are currently afflicted with.




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Rory Perkins Crom Try Hard

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It was nice to hear praise after such a difficult moment and Summer spent a moment with a beaming smile before shaking herself out of it. She made sure to follow along behind Auriel, holding tight to her shield just in case anything jumped out of the shadows at them but everything seemed calm for now. The floating, flaming sword beside her also helped to ease her worry a bit, she was still hella thirsty though. When Auriel motioned her over she came to his side to check the wall as well, bringing a hand up and tapping her cheek with one finger. "Yeah that seems like a fair point! Maybe without the head surgeon the monsters will all go crazy and like... Get rid of each other! At the very least, he should have an actual map of this place and we could use that to get the heck outta here!" She told him before giving a thumbs up and jogging forwards to move ahead of him and pulling her sword into her hand.
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"I think my class is supposed to be a bit more defensive? This shield seems pretty good though! So I'll stick forwards and then you can smash anything that comes to get us!" She grinned at him and continued her marching forwards, letting her purpose and drive banish away all the worries that were still lingering. It was really annoying that one of the worst ones was that she was still in her pyjamas basically and they were seriously out of fashion! Something just tried to kill her, she had summoned glowing weapons and here she was worrying about her dress sense, what a silly world.
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It was a bit later after a few minutes of walking that the corridor turned a corner and there were several rooms with heavy metal doors on each side of the corridor. The vast majority were either closed or were completely empty but the closest one on the left seemed to have sounds coming from, some strange squishing and squelching from inside that sounded like it came from two separate sources. Upon hearing that, Summer ducked back with a muffled squeak and held a hand out to Auri before whispering to him. "Sounds like some more monsters, you wanna try sneaking past or just fight 'em so we don't get... Uhm... Ambushed? Is that the word?"

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Auriel Semper Lux

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A wince ran across Summer's face as the first Sea Guard was easily slain. She grimaced and took a moment to check that Auriel was fine before nodding and turning back to the beach. "Still not used to the killing, gotta admit, feels weird..." She mumbled more to herself than her partner in soggy. She swallowed the lump in her throat and steadied her weapons though as two more appeared, she was happy to follow Auriel's call on what to do but she was expecting an actual countdown. Instead Auri just blasted forwards and sprayed her with water in his wake causing her to splutter and spit for a moment before groaning and charging forwards on her own.[break][break]
As she ran she kept her buckler forwards and her sword arm back, making sure to keep the buckler forward a bit so that attacks couldn't just deflect over the top. She'd made sure to try and watch some vids and get some books on how to sword fight so that she wasn't a complete loser at it like she was pretty sure she seemed during the tutorial. Either way once she closed in on the Sea Guard Infantry she swept in and lashed out with her blade, going straight for the creature's shoulder to try and take one of its arms out of commission with her glowing sword of love... And it was only then that she realised just how wrong that sounded in her head, she needed to give it a name to avoid this from now on. Hopefully these things weren't too tough, she'd been focusing on her defense instead of her offense, she didn't really like killing even if she had to do it.[break][break]
On the other side of the fight, the Sea Guard that Auriel was fighting had swung both claws down, deflecting the halberd strike mostly to the side though it had slashed across the creature's side, creasing scales and causing a spurt of blood. It then stepped in close and attempted to bite into Auriel's shoulder with teeth more akin to that of an angler fish than any human. It knew about long weapons and knew it had to be close to do damage so stepping into Auri's guard was sure to work, right? There was no way in this fishman's head it could go wrong.

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Summer Auriel Semper Lux