castaside | [Heart Game] From the ashes we can build

The dragon doesn't seem to have noticed you yet, thanks to Donnie's interventions.

However, those golden items at the top of the pile feel important. Two in particular. Most of the gold and treasure is just a hoard or a pile ~~a la Sun Wukong~~ but that item(s) you need to check out.

Those are the ones closest to the dragon, of course.

[ She blinks at him, like, yeah, she'd be surprised if it didn't, but she just nods and gives him a thumbs up. Good call on the soundproofing. ]

[ Signs back, ]

"I could bubble-shield us and try to teleport the important stuff over here?"

[Donnie nods.] 'It would be the simplest thing. Are your shields up to a hundred percent, or did they still need training?'

[ A tippy weighing-hands motion, followed by clarification, ]

"Static bubbles are 100.

Still ironing out the others but I'd say I'm almost there.

'Got it. So shield and teleport. I'll watch the dragon and get ready to move us if double casting wavers the shield at all.'

[ Nods! ... And gives him a heart sign.

When she casts the bubble shield, the golden opalescence ... isn't! Instead, it's blue. Her blue, as familiar to him as the color of her eyes and her soul.

A long moment to focus lets her switch to teleport, and she casts two in very quick succession, trying to yoink those important-looking items. ]

[He's got an arm around her middle, watching for the dragon to stir.]

One of the items is successfully teleported! It's a pair of lenses for Donnie's goggles, golden like the other specialty items so far.

The other item, the teleportation spell blinks to life... and pops. Audibly.

The dragon's huge, purple eyes blink awake and look right at you. Welp.

Because it was caught sleeping you get one free action each before it defends its treasure against thieves.

[Grabbing those golden lenses to be put into bag. Waiting to catch the other and-]

[Uh oh.]

[Welp.]

[Puling out his tech bo and summoning up a fabricated turret. Its all blunted rounds which will probably be more survivable than piercing ones.]

[Because he's still trying real hard to not kill anything, but also Its Macaque.]

[If there's a hint of hostility, he'll fire the barrage of bullets, but]

[Well]

[There IS a chance its friendly.]

[ OoohhhHHH NICE BUT ALSO OOPS. Korone winces but does not panic. Instead?

She tries a little bit of MULTI-TASKING, using her Summer telekinesis to maybe? hopefully? pin the dragon in place, and a couple more teleports to try again for the item. ]

The dragon flinches as Donnie's rounds hit it and bounce off, and it grabs for the second glittery item before launching into the air. It roars with rage as it feels Korone's telekinesis try to grapple it, and it works for a moment before another roar sets it free. It flies toward them both, with the golden item clutched safely in its paw.

Your attacks have pissed it off, congrats.

[Donnie knows how strong Korone's shields are, so he'll risk this dragon getting close.]

[And do the earthbending special of sending up a wall of earth right into it before it hits her shield which, well, if it doesn't divert the dragon's path, hopefully shield will just hold out.]

[ OH BOY ]

[ OH! BOY! ]

[ Korone's quick to grab her titanium bo out of her bag - and the purple glitter force potion, which she uncaps and promptly attempts to teleport into the dragon's mouth. The potion is intended to knock the user out as if they were dead, no pulse, no breathing, if only temporarily, with no side effects when they wake up. If it works, it may buy them some time. If it doesn't -

They'll just have to deal. She's got her staff up and ready just in case ]

The dragon gets hit by the wall of earth, and shakes its long body off like it's mostly irritated about being covered in soil now, and then it proceeds to cast thick shadows over the whole room. It can't make things pitch-black in the whole area, but it can make it so that it blends in almost fully with the darkness, given its color.

The potion misses the dragon's mouth but it lands intact and unspilled on the treasure pile, you can pick it up if you can find it.

[As a note, yes, Donnie is wearing the golden cloak.]

[And oh boy, darkness ain't great, and nor is magic not doing a lot.]

[Okay. Donnie is tugging the cloak closer and activating the dragon ring for scales for good measure. He pulls down his goggles, having it cycle through modes until he finds one that is hopefully able to track the dragon. And if not that?]

[Spidershell extends metal legs to get Donnie in the air, allowing him to still use tremor sense, dropping the deafening effect.] We're gonna need to move, Choco. Teleport and climb? [These legs can and will climb up the walls and are ready to get him MOVING when he has the freedom too.]

[But he is switching tech bo to hammer mode, ready for hitting if the opportunity presents itself.]

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[ This darkness sure isn't great! Actually! ]

Got it.

[ SHIELD: DOWN ]

[ PIGEON: immediately teleporting outta dodge, to where she thinks the potion may have landed so she can maybe try again with it. she works quickly to switch spells and recast a shield around herself - a one-way, more portable bubble tinted dark to blend in with the shadows, with the trade-off that it's slightly less durable than the traditional version.

From within the ... maybe safety of the camouflaged shield, she summons a little ball of blue fire to light her way. ]

The dragon doesn't even glance around when Korone vanishes, because the dragon couldn't see her even before the concealing shield was up. The fire reveals that the potion isn't within her shield, but she can see the glint of the bottle just outside.

Bad news is, that means it's full focused on Donnie. It silently charges at Donnie, which he'll be able to see quite well given that his goggles so the work of making him quite able to see in the dark.

[When part of your skill set is about hiding in shadows, the better you can see, the better you can utilize it. He settles on the vision to keep eyes on the dragon. He'll also take it's eyes on him.]

[Time to do an experiment, throwing up another deafening bubble around him to see if the silence messes with the dragon, and use his charge against him as he points the end of the staff towards the dragon when that charge gets close.]

[And changes the end to a chainsaw.]

[ The good thing about this particular shield is that she can move it! So when she sees the bottle, that's exactly what she does - pick up the shield, like it's a bucket she's hiding under, walks a couple of paces, and plops it back down again.

The dragon's silence and the way it hides in the darkness won't make this easy, though. Hm. That's -

... CHAINSAW??

Fuck, okay, now she knows where the dragon is. And it's too late to switch back to her shield spell. Thinking fast, working fast, she summons a few motes of harmless blue light like twinkling fireflies over in that direction, and uses those, the sound, and visualising the dragon's mouth (thanks for roaring, dracaque!) to once again try teleporting the bottle of potion into its mouth. ]

The potion is successfully teleported into the dragon's mouth! Success -- almost! It gets stuck between the dragon's rows of sharp teeth, so it hasn't overturned yet. Surely the thing will do a fun barrel roll sometime and the potion will get jostled enough to spill.

Meanwhile, the dragon vanishes into a shadow portal right as it's about to get in Donnie's range. Your goggles are impressive but they can't detect where the dragon is going through the portals. It re-emerges behind Donnie and goes to snap at him with its mouth, then swipe with its claw.

[It was true, the goggles couldn't do anything about portals.]

[But training with Leo certainly did.]

[Donnie knows the moment the dragon vanishes what to expect. Its hard to track when his guard is down, but when he's in a fight, he knows what to look for, that subtle shift in the surroundings, the sudden space where it hadn't been before.]

[Behind.]

[The arms let go of the wall, dropping down from the jaws. Unfortunately Leo's range of attack was only so big, so he'll need to rely on his natural hardiness, the protective dragon scales from the Dragon Ring, and armor for the claws, but he's clear of the jaws.]

[Maybe he would have cleared the claws.]

[But Donnie had chosen the spidershell specifically for this kind of fight. The range of motion, metal hands changing into spikes and lashing out to stab into the dragons face and activate their tazer settings.]

[ And while Donnie's fielding the close quarters offensive, Korone does what she can from the back row — she uses the flicker-flash of the spidershell's taser, and the blue firelights she'd summoned before, to guide her in conjuring up two (distinctly less blue and harmless) fireswords. They plummet down to hopefully impale the dragon through its arms —

And are swiftly followed up by two of the real swords from Macaque's supply, teleported over and then dropped down with every ounce of telekinetic force she can muster. ]

The dragon's jaws miss Donnie but the claws will be a direct hit... but then they bounce right off the golden cloak with no damage to it or to Donnie. Macaque was really watching out for you.

Three of Donnie's spider arms miss but one connects, ripping a foot-long gash into the dragon's side. It roars but seems mostly unfazed by the injury... and then two of Korone's sword slam right into its neck and stick there. The dragon thrashes madly and the potion dislodges from its teeth and spills.

Since the dragon is uh HUGE it'll take a little bit for the poison to work. In the meantime, it vanishes into a portal. It could come back in again anywhere.

Donnie is expecting the pain digging his into arms or his thighs. His plastron may be fine, but his limbs aren't near as hardy, but he feels its worth it for a good hit-

Except.

There is impact, he's forced back, and he has to summon the ninpo hover wings to catch him since the wall isn't as in easy reach, shooting up towards the ceiling. There was contact. But he didn't feel it and he looks down. He doesn't see any scratches on the Dragon Scales.

Some scuffs on the cloak, but no damage.

....oh.

He supposed it was time to do a stress test. "Keep looking out for me please, Papaque."

He sees a goal, and the tech bo turns back into a hammer as he drops the ninpo and lets himself dive down with the back of the rocket hammer igniting. Diving down hard and fast to smash down towards his head. Or back. Really, anywhere that gets him close to those swords to release an electric blast to use as a conductor.

[ The fire swords didn't do a whole lot of good. The real ones, on the other hand? They seemed to do the (slightly horrifying, something to think about later or maybe let's just not) trick.

Between that and the shape of Donnie's plan, she decides to try it again with the last of her borrowed swords and two throwing knives, teleporting them in a cluster and dropping them in hard the moment the dragon reappears. She keeps her teleport spell primed and ready just in case she needs to get Donnie out of there at short notice. ]

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