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Canister has a radar sense in their helmet but I’ll keep that in mind for Apocalypsette going forward! Thanks for the reminder!

22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 2HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x2, 1HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Bruised x1, Staggered, -5 Toughness, 1HP 11 - Canister - Uninjured 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1 - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered

A whistling rose over the boom of the shockwave just before Apocalypsette's guitar hurtled from overhead into the stage like a javelin fired from a railgun, cracking against Angelic's left wing and wrist along the way. In the chaos the malicious musician had the briefest of opportunities to slip free and tumbled forward, somersaulting into a dive that brought her close enough to brush her fingers against the neck of the guitar where it quivered, partially embedded in the ruined bandshell. The moment she made contact an impossibly loud power chord sounded with the force of a bursting dam. Apocalypsette was carried upward and away by dread, howling winds once again, picking out a ascending minor scale with finger-blurring speed, which send a kaleidoscopic burst of sound and light lancing toward Angelic. "You all suck!" she shrieked, eyes blazing. "I'm going to kill all of you! Staring with this freak!" The towering crab-like Melod-oni took that as its cue to bring a huge claw down atop the melee. Canister nimbly hopped back and out of the way while Chitin, armour sparking and struggling to stand, was a hair too slow to avoid being clipped across the shoulder.

Even in the midst of everything Apocalypsette paused to look nonplussed at Angelic's banter. "What are you even fu--aaagh!" Her indignation was cut off by a scream as she was carried along with the gynoid hero in a plummeting dive. She regained her bearings in time to see the new armoured antagonist shrug off Nocturne's assault with a pained grunt and the sound of straining pneumatics. "Who the hell are you?!" “Chitin Runner Canister.” The heavily filtered voice held a hint of deviant, simmering anger. "W-what?" Chitin cut in from over Angelic's winged shoulder, staggering back a step as his armour sizzled and sparked from the corrosive gas. Canister produced another tube, this one with a blue cap and slammed it into their belt. “Danger! Under pressure!” “I'm here from your future to kill Professor Fujioka." Power traveled across the suit's plates, partially obscured by their jacket. They lobbed something overhead, arcing past Eira, who had the presence of mind to fold her metallic wings around the less durable young woman she was holding captive. "WHAT?!" "Anyone who gets in my way is just collateral damage." The ball of energy detonated midair, sending a shockwave of thrumming force crashing into Chitin and Angelic with a deep bass boom while Canister slid into a ready stance, prepared to take on everyone present at once if necessary.

Oni Guitar Attack Angelic: 1d20+13 32 That's one last DC 28 Toughness Save for Angelic and she gets an HP because I'm Fiat-ing Apocalypsette free of the grapple as the guitar cracks into Eira's hand! Apocalypsette Move Action: Flies upward. Standard Action: Sonic Blast vs Angelic: 1d20+10 22 That's another DC 29 Toughness Save for Angelic! Giant Crab Meold-Oni Stomp Chitin and Canister: 1d20+12 17 Misses Canister but hits Chitin. Chitin Toughness Save vs DC 29: 1d20+10-5+5 27 Top of the round, Inspire wears off! Let me get some IC posts up.

Chitin Spending the turn to clear his daze the old fashioned way because I feel like he might need that HP! ??? Shockwave attack, originating between Chitin and Angelic. That's a DC 22 Reflex Save then a DC 27 Toughness Save against Damage with the Knockback Extra. Chitin Reflex Save vs DC 22: 1d20+6+5 13 Toughness Save vs DC 21; Evasion 2: 1d20+5+5 30 Let me get those same saves for Angelic, @Avenger Assembled; her Reflex Save will count for Apocalypsette too since she's carrying her. 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 2HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, +5 Inspire, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Staggered, -5 Toughness, +5 Inspire 1HP 11 - ??? - Uninjured 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered

??? Opposed Grapple Check: 1d20+24 38

??? Intimidation Check vs DC 21: 1d20+15 28 Even with the +5 they seem unimpressed! Rude. I will say Angelic can effectively Interpose since she's using a Standard Action, sure. 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 2HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, +5 Inspire, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Staggered, Dazed, -5 Defense, +5 Inspire 1HP 11 - ??? - Uninjured 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered Nocturne is up unless you'd like another GM post in there first, @Fox?

??? Intimidation Check vs DC 21: 1d20+15 28 Even with the +5 they seem unimpressed! Rude. I will say Angelic can effectively Interpose since she's using a Standard Action, sure. 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 2HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, +5 Inspire, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Staggered, Dazed, -5 Defense, +5 Inspire 1HP 11 - ??? - Uninjured 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered Nocturne is up unless you'd like another GM post in there first, @Fox?

Chitin Reflex Save vs DC 22: 1d20+6 7 Still halving the DC of the AoE effects thanks to Evasion 2! First the Drain Toughness: Fortitude Save vs DC 16: 1d20+5 8 Then the Damage: Toughness Save vs DC 21: 1d20+4 9 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Staggered, Dazed, -5 Defense, 1HP 11 - ??? - Uninjured 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered Forever Boy is up, @RocketLord!

The towering chimera of sea creatures shivered with a sound like a hundred high hats, pulling its form back into sharp, dangerous focus. Looking down for the source of its irritation it spotted Soup and one of the recently awakened members of Drown in the Loch hurrying to carry one of the last unconscious musicians away from the increasingly dangerous battle. Spaced apart shark eyes flashing and curving one tusks clashing against each other in a twisted grin it pulled back a crab claw the size of a minivan and prepared to crush them. "No!" Chitin shouted, turning to sprint in the direction of the undefended bystanders but knowing that he was too far away after landing from his midair attack to make it in time. Just before the claw could land however a streak of gunmetal and crimson crossed his field of vision and pulled them out of the way! Standing next to the impact crater while Soup and the others fled to relative safety was a lithe armoured figure. The similarities to Chitin's own battle suit were unmistakeable, including a large cylindrical attachment on the front of their belt. The dark grey and black plates of their armour looked weathered and scuffed, however, accented with burnished steel studs on the knee pads and the reinforced toes of their boots. The patch covered leather jacket they wore over their armour had once been an eye catching red but was now splattered with soot, oil and more concerning stains. The front of their helmet was dominated by an X-shaped visor that pulsed with a deep red light. Chitin stopped short, flabbergasted. "Woah! I mean, thank you but who--?" The newcomer pulled a small tube with a green cap from their side and shook it with a flick of their wrist, producing a metal-on-metal rattle. They slammed it into their belt and a grim, robotic voice growled, “Danger! Poison!” The armoured figure raised their hands and let loose a billowing cloud of sickly green mist directly at Chitin, the corrosive gas melting through microphone cables and fallen scaffolding as it enveloped the shocked teenaged inventor!

Far above, Apocalypsette continued to struggle against Angelic's grip, despite the deadly fall if she actually succeeded. It seemed she'd been correct about the demonic guitar's lack of concern for her wellbeing at least as it rocket upward after them and tried to skewer the flying teen robot through the small of her back! Eira's construction proved strong enough to withstand the surprisingly powerful blow but the sharpened strap pin carved a line up her spine and across her shoulder where her left wing connected to her body, leaving a trail of sparking damage across silvery pseudo-skin!

Oni Guitar Attack Angelic; Power Attack 5: 1d20+8 22 That's a DC 33 Toughness Save for Angelic!

Apocalypsette Opposed Grapple Check: 1d20+12 17

Propelled by Nocturne's powers a chunk of damaged bandshell structure the size of a horse crashed into the back of the gargantuan monster's toothy shark head. It shook the debris free with a bass drum growl and began to turn around, each step of its pointed crab legs sending sparks flying from destroyed sound equipment or gouging ragged canals into the stage. Chitin stepped to the side to find more stable ground and took in the wreckage, his jaw setting within his helmet. "Everyone worked hard to put on this show and share their music and you ruined it for no reason," he seethed, not really bothering to direct the accusation at the giant Meold-oni. He toggled the chambers of his belt once again and clenched both gauntleted fists. "It's time to wake up." Light spilled from around the edges of armoured plates as power ran from the belt to his hands. Familiar little motes of gold and black danced around his knuckles as the belt's tinny voice cheerfully announced "CYMKudgels!" Launching upward in a piston propelled jump he struck the monster in its gorilla-esque torso, slamming a one-two combination of punches into the translucent thing's stomach. The impacts resounded like thunder even over the cacophony of magical music filling the battlefield. The Melod-oni's outline rippled not with a jagged sound wave pattern but like bobbing waves and it staggered to one side, taking another portion of the bandshell wall down with it.

Chitin Fast Acrobatic Bluff vs Crab: 1d20+10 29 Set-Up: Transfer the benefit of the flat-footed status to Nocturne. CYMKludgels vs Crab; All-Out Attack 5, Power Attack 5: 1d20+6 26 Natural 20! Vindication! Giant Crab Melod-Oni Toughness Save vs DC 35: 1d20+16 23 Going to GM Fiat away the daze but the beast is staggered! 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Uninjured, -5 Defense, 1HP 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1, Staggered

Giant Crab Melod-Oni Toughness Save vs DC 23: 1d20+17 22 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Fatigued, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Uninjured, 0HP 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Injured x1

Back on the ground the twisted rat king base of the beast menacing Nocturne shuffled about in a circle while the centipede-like trunk remained focused on her. It pulled back its disquietingly human head for another attack then bobbed abruptly to the side. Just as suddenly its head shot back then forward while each of its torso's segments tried to move in a different direction independently of each other. It shrieked a wailing guitar solo distorted by something like a doppler effect as innumerable limbs knotted in and under each other, gnashing teeth were force upward into palates or were torn loose. Its entire outline lost definition as tortured gravity pulled and pushed it in a thousand directions until it shattered and dispersed across the grass in an unexpectedly pretty shower of colourful motes. As more confused concert-goers came to their senses those motes of power, along with the lingering scraps of the monster Forever Boy had sliced in twain, began to float toward the bandshell, accelerating until they looked like streaks of light. As they struck the hammerhead shark headed creature Chitin was facing it swelled and grew ever larger, cracking the stage beneath its crab legs. By the time it had absorbed everything of its brethren its broad shoulders had cracked the top of the bandshell. Throwing back its head it roared to the heavens with the force of a thousand overpowered amps, load enough to be heard by Angelic far overhead!

Secondary Effect saves time! Centipede Melod-oni Fortitude Save vs DC 23: 1d20+8 16 Toughness Save vs DC 29: 1d20+3 9 Luckily this thing is not actually meat because that would be very gross. 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, Pending Fatigue, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Uninjured, 0HP 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Uninjured

The sudden height seemed to terrify her captive more viscerally than the somewhat abstract threat of explosion and Apocalypsette dug her fingers into Angelic's wrists and thrashed her dangling feet in the air. "Hhh! Haaah, nngh!" The terror on her face as she looked at the distant ground contorted into fury as the gynoid's words gradually sunk in through the haze of panic. "Y-you think that makes you special?! Why do you think I can hold it?!" She strained against the grip on her waist out of reflex more than anything. "Nobody took little Michiko Tanaka seriously even though I was twice the musician as any of them! So I signed away everything and now they'll fear Apocalypsette!" It had the sound of a speech practiced in front of a mirror many times, tumbling out unsteadily, fuelled by desperation and bravado. "The guitar doesn't care what happens to me and you don't have the stones to do it yourself so we can just float here while my Melod-oni crush your friends, you stupid robot @$#%!"

Angelic puts together a few things! Disarming Apocalypsette seems to have cut off her overt powers, noticeably the Flight. It didn't do anything to visibly stop or weaken the monsters. The guitar seems like it's attacking her on its own but Apocalypsette isn't acting like she's suddenly un-possessed or anything. Some of the unconscious civilians woke up when Pan 'killed' the bat-lion-thing. Those people are now panicking and they're in danger from the remaining monsters, along with the rest of the unconscious audience and musicians. Hey, what happened to that angry person in the crowd from earlier, anyway?

Bat Melod-Oni Toughness Save vs DC 32: 1d20+8 12 Ouch! 22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, -5 Defense, Pending Fatigue, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Uninjured, 0HP 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Uninjured - Centipede - -3 Toughness, Staggered As it's destroyed, roughly a third of the unconscious audience members wake up and are now running around and freaking out in the face of the remaining monsters. Angelic is up, @Avenger Assembled!

"Ah, no!" Chitin cried out to what looked like thin air from the outside, waving his hands. "Quick, be cute! Be cute!" Inside the control chamber of the time travelling lion mech the Robugs scrambled out of the way of the swinging wrench. Magenta hopped up onto the top of one of the unoccupied chairs and brought her folded forelimbs up toward her angular head in a motion uncannily like a cat cleaning itself. Yellow found a perch on a metal panel dotted with rivets and danced back and forth in a sort of six legged Charleston. Black scuttled leisurely into view and hunkered down, passively watching Bubastis with the same stoicism with he approached most things. With a burst of light and rush of air the armour around Chitin vanished back into its dimensional pocket, Cyan leaping free of the helmet's faceplate and landing lightly on Ryder's shoulder as the teen sprinted back toward the towering steam and daka crystal powered suit. "Sorry, sorry! They're good, I promise!"

LaMarr grunted in commiseration. "I don't buy any sort of predeterminism foolishness but I've taught a lot of classes of a lot of kids and genuinely I have serious reservations about any joker named Tyler. Boys ain't right." It took him a moment to parse what she was saying about the Lor and he gave her an appraising look. "Never had good luck with 'tanks'. Pods, vats, capsules, none of that. Mmh, no thank you." He raised both hands as though declining an offer for seconds at the dinner table. Putting pieces together he asked casually, "Space girlfriend, huh? Talking about kids? Sounds serious."

22 - Forever Boy - Uninjured, 3HP 21 - Angelic - Injured x1, 0HP 17 - Nocturne - Bruised x1, -5 Defense, Pending Fatigue, 1HP 16 - Chitin - Uninjured, 0HP 10 - Apocalypsette - Bruised x1, Bound, Disarmed - Crab - Uninjured - Centipede - -3 Toughness, Staggered - Bat - Uninjured Forever Boy is up, @RocketLord! I'm assuming he spends an HP to avoid Fatigue as you mentioned in chat. Meanwhile, Angelic's deafened condition clears since she automatically passes the Fortitude save.