Baltimore, Thursday Evening

[vampires_in_bde]

While Fandom plotted and planned, the vampires had not sat idle. They had been building their ranks, taking over more of the city; getting ready for an assault.

Attack was the best defense, wasn't it?

The ferals remained difficult to keep in any orderly line, but the lords didn't fear it. They stood on the rooftop an apartment building, surveying the chaos. Yesterday, they'd only made enough fledgelings to take over a city block.

The feral vampires assembling on Union Square below? Oh, their numbers were large. And they were growing.

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FIGHT!

[vampires_in_bde]

The square is full of vampires. Many of them feral fledgelings - you probably shouldn't hurt them too much. But stalking between them are sharper-looking vampires, angry and aching for a fight.

They stand between you and their masters, up on the roof.

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[built_fjord_tough]

Was Fjord cracking his knuckles and looking entirely too pleased with this situation as he peered at the people mulling about the square?

Yes. Yes he was.

"Alright," he drawled, summoning his falchion to hand with a splash of saltwater and a grin. "Which of you wants to be first?"

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[notallbluemonks]

Did someone say angry and aching for a fight? Because that was an accurate description of Beau, as well.

This was the kind of throwdown she'd been hoping for ever since -- well, since she'd run away from the Cobalt Soul, really, and she was bouncing on the balls of her feet, her staff -- sharpened into a stake at both ends -- in her hand and an eager, almost feral glint in her eyes. She fell in beside Fjord and twirled the staff, snapping it back into a ready position.

"Come on, man, let's fucking do this shit!"

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[misshapen_spark]

Yang balled her hands into fists, flicking her wrists backwards, and Ember Celica whirled to life, unfolding and expanding with an ominous series of grinding gears and locking clicks.

"Any of you get in over your heads, holler," she said, her feral grin at odds with the deadly-serious tone of her voice. Yang was in full Huntress-mode, and yes, she was going to enjoy this, but she was (trying) to remain mindful of everyone else's lack of Aura to protect them.

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[heroic_jawline]

"Same for you!" Steve yelled back from under his cowl. "Work as a team, people!"

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Oh, man, this was bringing back some memories. Not necessarily all good ones, sure, but Summer was just going to focus on the fact that she took down a whole high school full of vampires once (really, though, they really should have picked up on something off about Coach Feratu a whole lot sooner); a whole city couldn't be that much more different, right?

Right!

So, decked up, ready to go, full fighting mode, Summer was just left with a dilemma almost as difficult as what color top she should wear that morning: blaster or stakes?

...blaaaaaster!

For now, anyway. She was all warmed up from this weekend, after all, and the blaster would help hopefully take out a few of them before she needed to get up close and personal with some stabbity goodness.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Nice blaster you've got there," Sabine noted, neatly firing off a stun blast at a feral that had gotten too close.

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[crack_that_whip]

Trevor cracked his neck, totally unimpressed with the fledglings. Because killing vampires was sort of his thing.

His family's thing.

A long traditional thing.

"Alright, let's kill these fuckers," he said, joining in to cover any weak points in their little team with his whip.

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[thishouseishaunted]

His roommate, on the other hand, had no experience at this whatsoever.

She did have a bat, though. And justification to use said bat against living creatures.

This was maybe not the best thing for her mental health.

She took a running start, swinging at the knee caps of any ferals in her way, and bounced -- one-two-three -- from a fence to a windowsill to a fire escape.

"WitchdaggahHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHh!!"

Holy crap, adrenaline was one hell of a drug.

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[battlewithstyle]

"And these are people?" Mitsutada asked, still needing a little bit of clarification.

Look, he normally fought demon sword souls who were one-hundred-percent not people... probably. He rarely had to worry about the morality of being careful about what to kill.

That said, his sword was drawn and ready. He'd not hesitate to play the protector to his comrades.

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[puppy_fair]

"These are people," Zack agreed, frowning a little.

This hit way too close to home. He'd seen more than his fair share of perfectly good people, mostly his fellow SOLDIERs, re-written and turned into mindless creatures like this.

And he had a few bones to pick with vampires in general, too.

"Attack to kill the smart ones. The ferals, we're going for non-lethal damage."

He pulled his sword from his back - yes, the buster sword. He'd left the one Amaya had made for him at the forge for repair. Spun it around, and then shot a wry smile toward Mitsutada.

"Should be fun."

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[arboreal_priestess]

Verity was stalking through the crowd, fixated on one vampire in particular. The pale, scrawny one that had bitten Liam and turned him into the screeching thing in his shuttle right now. And once she found this vampire, she had every intention of putting him into the ground: gun, axe, crossbow, whatever it took.

Along with every vampire remedy she'd ever heard of. Vials of holy water and blessed ash stakes were in a bandolier across her chest.

But first, she was starting with knives. She'd promised.

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[arboreal_priestess]

https://v.dreamwidth.org/13084836/3517126

The ferals noticed her first. Most, she didn't recognize, which was good. Hopefully people were keeping their friends contained much the same way she was keeping Liam. She used non-lethal force on them; a flurry of punches and kicks and the occasional baton to the throat.

An angry hiss alerted her to another attack and a sharp poke into his solar plexus left a young woman curled up on the ground, trying to suck air into lungs while his diaphragm spasmed. A guy got her with a lucky hit and she elbowed him in his mustache that hurt almost as much as as his rabbit punch to her kidney.

But she kept dropping them and walking steadily forward.

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[unusual_sith]

Lana frowned at them all, then focused in on the sharper-looking ones. Fortunately, she didn't have to go through all the others to get to them.

She wondered how susceptible they were to lightning.

Vampires On A Rooftop

[vampires_in_bde]

"If they want a fight, so be it," Shan snarled, stepping to the edge. "Children! Stand aside, they are ours!"

Beside him, Noah cracked his knuckles. He said nothing.

Merely stepped off the roof and let his feet hit the ground.

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[misshapen_spark]

"Sorry, sweetheart, but I don't 'belong' to anyone," Yang drawled, giving Shan a flirtatious smile, hand on her hip. "--but I'd just love to dance."

And her right arm flicked out into a punch, sending a one-two shotgun blast of incendiary ammo straight for his face.

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[crack_that_whip]

"...I really need one of those," Trevor said, looking suitably impressed.

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[heroic_jawline]

Did Steve had any business fighting vampires? Probably not.

Was that going to slow him down even a little bit? Not once.

He leveled his very best glare at Noah. "Son, just don't."

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[notallbluemonks]

Beau shot a sidelong glance at him. "Did you really just . . . dude, seriously?"

Focus, Beauregard.

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[thishouseishaunted]

At least Steve was a grown up! Mae was a tiny fourteen year old cat-person with a bad attitude and a baseball bat.

Who'd basically been given permission to let all her pent up issues out on a vampire douchebag.

"YaAaAaAaAaAhHhHhHhHhH!!!!!"

She came pouncing down from above shortly after Noah landed, aiming her bat at his head like she was playing t-ball.

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[unusual_sith]

The quiet ones could often be the more dangerous.

Plus Yang looked like she was having plenty of fun with the other one.

Lana ignited her lightsaber and darted in from the opposite side as Beau and Steve.

OOC

[vampires_in_bde]

Let me know down here if you'd like an NPC in the first thread!

Pinging to the second thread and you're the first or second one there? Please specify which of our two master vampires you're attacking. After that, players can choose which of the two threads to jump into.

Please stick to pinging just one master vampire, to give everyone a chance to play.

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[notallbluemonks]

If Noah could knock Beau unconscious, as per her low-level signature battle style, that'd be cool. :D

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[rebelseekspizza]

*salutes*

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[thishouseishaunted]

Right, so, it occurs to me that in this ping, I reference them being on the roof when they are not on the roof.

It's too late to edit it directly now, since it's been replied to, but if you could go ahead and change it to:

The thing about ambushes from above was, you kind of ended up committed. It wasn't like Mae could dodge when Noah lashed out.

She was thrown to the side, bat and all, and landed in a heap a few yards away.

"Ow."

that'd be great! Thaaaaank you!