You know, I could really use one of these shards to augment Ascalon, give it a bit more oomph!

Not sure what ability I would want though, perhaps something to push his wind powers into audiokinetic levels.

It is probably far too early for me to use the Nova attack, as it tends to hurt me as well, but being mummified with Incendius's current manifestation is just too creepy for me.

CREEEPY!!!

After this effort Incendius will also be pretty badly off as well, in addition to his point of weakness being revealed.

Basically what happened is, as he was getting assaulted by the heat, he drew power from the heat, created a shell around his essential area, then when he had gathered enough energy, pushed outwards with it.

Hey guys?

Stop IMing POS so much about this game. He loves you all and would love to respond to you, but there's no way he's gonna be able to run this game and handle all of your problems at once. It's been driving him a weeee bit nuts for a good while about how flooded he gets, so I think he'd appreciate it if you toned it down a notch or ten.

He's too nice to inform you guys of this and wants everyone to have a good time and get their fulfillment, but I'm not that nice, so I'm telling you to give him a little peace and quiet occasionally.

And by 'occasionally', I mean at all.

Whee I'm mean.

Hug.

Yeah, what she said.

Anyway, foul deeds are afoot as soon as get around to deeding them. Once Round 1 is over, I'm going to give some of the eliminated players the option of having their items returned to them if necessary. There's a number of you who kinda gave up your primary weapons, and I'm assuming you'll need them in the days ahead.

EDIT: Answers to your likely questions ahoy!

Firstly, I'm now going to be making the occasional random elimination. The best way to stay safe is to do precisely what Rei said: Win before time runs out.

The Resort Spa Staff Fembots are POS Industries property whose behavior has been reprogrammed via a virus from the bad guys. Going by the usual NPC ranking system, these are grunts, if you know what I'm talking about.

And I think you do.

They have no weapons or fighting abilities, but they are legion and they never seem to stop coming. Sorry to cut your vacation short, but there's no rest of the wicked anyway.

Have fun!

So, um, Incendius...

I kind of shot two high powered, very fast plasma bolts at you...awhile ago? You've gone through like 10~15 posts and lots of conversation...just wondering if you're ever going to get to that.

Ditto for Raiden.

I've been kind of waiting for people to, you know, respond to my attacks before I continue on with the match, but I'm getting a bit more impatient as time goes. <.<;;;

Yeah, if there's no reaction by the time I get up tomorrow, you guys both got blasted. I'm giving more leeway here than I probably should, but the precedent kind of already got set by poor Ugainius on this one.

Poor, poor Ugainius.

Oh, speaking of which, he says he has a way of getting better, and I'll let him go ahead and do it because he was so cool about being shot through the head like that. I was gonna patch both him and Demetrius up (and maybe Loto, too) through the introduction of Dr. McCompetent, who was rejected from the cast of "Grey's Anatomy" for actually being a good doctor and not just sleeping with anything that moved, but if you guys want to invoke your own ways of healing from the brink of nastiness, feel free.

Raiden's probably busy with stuffs, but even I can't quite recall when you shot stuff at Cendy....

Wait, know I see it. You were kind of vague about shooting at him, a "floating black manteau".

He's searching through the large amounts of posts by using his name as a keyword, which is why he probably missed it.

He sent me a PM awhile ago about it, which I confirmed, and yet has still made more than a few posts since then.

There's also some silly rule about 'read the posts in the thread', but let's not harp on that one too much.