As the bear slept, the pendant around its neck began to glow brightly as it was triggered by some unknown force. Suddenly, a protective aura formed around the bear, providing it protection from the storm.

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Rei, on the other hand, was having difficult navigating the torrential wind and downpour as she flew over the arena. Forming a forcefield around herself, she moved her way over to the airborne Hawk. "Heya, I just want to make sure you aren't putting our audience in danger with this. If you can't keep control of it to that extent, I'll have to issue a warning..."

The wind was really starting to piss IC off. He ended up shoving his giant fucking sword into the ground to hold himself steady, but he already spilt his tea. Well, there was the box still. So IC stood to one side, then lifted it up, so that it opened away from him.

Then he kick the box into whatever or whoever was under it.

As it turned out, there was a very confused chicken under the box.

"Squawk!"

Fenris flipped through the settings on his banstick. "Edit Thread" caught his eye. He added some stairs ascending to the top of the thread he was currently in, and added another locked door to the top of the thread, to complement the locked door already at the bottom. Fenris ascended the stairs and sat on the top of them, feet dangling off the side. He considered heading out to see what was what, but he decided to wait for a little longer, still waiting for the real explosion, instead of the Potassium/Water one.

IC grabbed the chicken and threw it at Hawk. No way in hell it would hit him in these conditions, but it would be somewhat fun to see who it hit.

A roasted chicken promptly hit IC in the back of the head.

IC promptly grabbed the roasted chicken. "Well, at least I got some lunch." IC said, which would be impossible to hear in these winds, so he started eating. No since to fight on a somewhat empty stomach.

Black simply stood by Nikose and awaited his order, figuring that his teacher would tell him what to do, even in the middle of a fight. "I wonder what fun we can have in here." A big smirk appeared out of nowhere on Black's face. He was planning something.

The giggling girl’s cloak flapped melodramatically in the wind force of the twister, so she released the tangling thing. What was revealed was a paragon of an eyestrain: one with silver-white wings and an absurdly bright turquoise top. She gazed into the windstorm, hair and clothes flapping—she was strong, but not necessarily heavy enough for this.

Raven spoke an invocation, short, quiet, and unheard amid the wind. The eyestrain she produced worsened as she seemed to glow... except the inverse: an impossibility of an image, and utterly eye-twisting. A goddess-figure, a transparent apparition of one anyway, sprung up protectively over Raven, and a barrier of ephemeral sheen flooded into place between Raven and the twister.

With a few more unhearable words, the goddess apparition fell onto Raven’s form with a crimson glow. Raven’s entire body seemed to take on a reddish sparkle, and her nervous motions seemed exaggerated and quick.

This was just what the people looking at her needed.

Melfice was getting just a little bit tired of waiting for things to really happen.
He decided waiting for quieter storms was still the most profitable option, and remained at his position, ready to defend himself, should something serious happen.

TEN looked around. "I wonder if there's any place I can buy popcorn."

Amalgam shifted to golem form, opened his chest cavity, and pulled out a bag of unpopped popcorn.

"Got a microwave?"

Amalgam pulled out a microwave and a generator.

"Fenris, are we going to do something besides stay in here? Cause frankly, I'm ready to jet out of here." Black concentrated fire magic down by his feet and sent it shooting downwards, floating up like a pair of rocket boots. "Whenever you're ready chief."

Incendius floated, unswayed by the winds, half the radius away from the center of the arena, not acting, but preparing. As he floated inches above the ground, the entity of thought expanded itself. As it was an entity of thought, it expanded its own mind to include that of all the other participants. Though, at the moment he sought not to influence, only to find any signs of focused aggression towards his form. Until then, it would be better to no drawn undue attention to himself; the others could knock each other out.

Fenris opened up the door and dove out, surveyed the area, and dove back in, locking it behind him.

"The coast is clear for now," Fenris called down. "You fly on up towards the top as fast as you can."

Fenris waited until just the right moment, and created a hole in the ceiling, allowing Black passage out. Fenris closed the hole behind him.

"Now let's hear some explosions. Everybody move towards a door, any door, doesn't matter which."

Nikose ducked out the front door in a forward roll, towards the next door, and dived through it.

"Heya, I just want to make sure you aren't putting our audience in danger with this. If you can't keep control of it to that extent, I'll have to issue a warning..."

"Hey no prob, so long as I concentrate enough on it I can maintain it, and it won't-"

Fwwoooooooooooooffff.....

"die on me unexpectedly..." He looked rather surprised, "Goddamnit REI, you distracted me!"

Now he needed a new plan, and to avoid danger until he got some of his energy back.

The hand pulled its box back over itself, then thrust the box off again. This time it had a piece of paper and a thumbtack in its hand.

It tensed up, ready to spring.

I took off into the air as soon as it started, and when Hawk started to generate the windstorm, I flew in close and said "Well, we got Water and some wind...might as well throw in some fire as well...." I doubted he heard me, but I started charging up a Firestorm, intending on taking out several at once. It was obvious the storm clouds would be contained to the arena, and I wondered why POS didn't put in some kind of protective shield to protect the audiance.

Melfice also dove out the door and did a roll on the ground. After surveying his surroundings very briefly, he noticed WizardCat had been standing there, doing nearly nothing as of yet.

He decided this would be a very nice target, as he'd most likely be caught unaware. He made a dash for his chosen target, sword drawn and ready to deal some damage.

((OOC: I'm out for today... if somebody attacks me, don't expect me to react any sooner than in 10 to 12 hours. You are warned. I chose WizardCat, because he hasn't done anything in this thread either, as far as I can tell.))

The leaving of the other two left him and K36 in the thread.

"I'll go last, you go."

The hand shot out quickly, extending to place the piece of paper on the wall of the thread.

K36 Jumped out of the thread, heading towards the dome in the center of the arena.

Fenris closed the thread.

He deleted the new post, but thought to discuss it in the Mod Forum at a later date.

He went out the top of the thread, and gathered his banstick's power again. A huge ceiling began to spread slowly across the arena. Those able to see it clearly noticed sprinklers dotted along the ceiling, along with bright lights.

He was glad that he had made a few threads in the mod forum that were huge and unused since their first purpose.

He jumped off the top of the smaller thread and moved it back, drawing his sword and rolling as he landed.

"Now let's have some fun!"

Nikose stood behind Fenris, crackling with electricity. "Dammit, I can't turn it down with this pendant on!" He griped, before his shadow stood up to pat him on the back. With a only a momentary stare, he grinned wide. "I forgot it magnified THAT power too! We have a method of problem solving here!"