Sylvia clapped her hands and the grass surrounding the Dittopians ripped free of their roots and flew up into the air, transforming into wood along the way. They hovered in the air and then rushed forward, slamming deep into the newest monster.

Matthew made it half way up the monster when the wood slammed into it. He fell backward into the air, but as he fell he drew his blaster and fired the grappling hook into the monster.

Kari jumped back and fumbled for her handgun, but others were already on it.

Xerec whipped out her mini-crossbow as quick as you please and took aim at the creature's eyes. Zwing! Off went two energy bolts, heading straight for their target.

She slung the bow onto her back and ran straight toward the creature. If the sun had been shining much just then it would have glinted on the pair of knives that had almost miraculously appeared in her hands. Xerec's mind was of one purpose: bury them in the monster.

Desdemona collapsed on the ground with a angry glower on her face. She picked at clumps of dirt and threw pebbles at various people.

Sylvia remained on the ground, a look of fairly intense concentration on her face. The wooden blades of grass began growing roots that threaded their way deep into the monster, wrapping and tightening around its internal organs and blood vessels.

The Doruga's screams were so loud, Mona had to cover her ears with her hands to try to keep her hearing from getting damaged. Where the creature's fur wasn't covered in pointed sticks, it was on fire from Shono's laser blasts. Its pupils were dilated as it flung itself around wildly in a vain attempt to shake off the objects piercing its flesh, as a result sending the still-dangling Matthew on a whiplash-inducing orbit around it. Xerec's energy bolts struck the monster square in the face, just below the eyes, further sending the beast into a frenzy. It trampled over houses, crushing the poor occupants, and sent sprays of saliva and blood across the village in its rampage.

Finally, it had had enough and collapsed in a heap in front of the Dittotopians, its death rattle so mournful it would move the more tenderhearted to sympathy if they had not witnessed the previous carnage. Mona crept cautiously towards the fallen beast, coming surprisingly close to it. She looked over the Doruga as it lay with unseeing eyes opened and glazed over, foam dripping from its mouth. Her shoulders sagged and she turned to the Dittotopians, placing her hands on her hips.

"Well, at least it ate that annoying High Aldrin before it died. You people are harder to kill than I thought you would be."

Inhume only your target.
Strike once, and only once.
Give your client a hypothetical sporting chance
Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre, and always leave a receipt.

He sat unnoticed, wrapped in shadow on the roof of the bell tower. From his vantage point he could see the whole of what had moments earlier been a theater of terror. He watched one woman detach from the group that he had been an unseen part of and approach the monster with a look of disappointment evident on her face, then turn and inform them, and, indirectly, himself, of her intent to kill them all. This, then, was a stage in the game.

He flicked his palm dagger out so that the blade stood out at a right angle to his hand and shifted his position on the tower. The client was below him, out about 15 feet; easily in range for a jump, but for the sake of the game he would watch for just a few more moments...

((OOC: 'Sup, peoples? It's been a while...

I improvised a little on the layout of the current location -- I don't think a tower was explicitly mentioned --so if I'm throwing the cosmic balance of the pseudo-verse we're currently occupying off, let me know and I'll edit accordingly. ))

((Hey Niman Dawn, welcome back. Unfortunately you might want to adjust your post. We're not in Dittotopia right now. The Mansion has been displaced out of Dittotopia and even real time I think. Everyone has gone through one of the doors and is on a different planet, the name of which escapes me at the moment. You might want to read up on what has happened. Both in here and the archived site.))

"Wait a minute," Bobby said, frowning at Mona. "You mean you wanted to kill us?" He leveled his blaster at her slowly. "Who are you really?" he asked, narrowing his eyes. "And tell the truth."

P.S."Brooklyn!"

As the monster hit the ground Matthew came down with it. He hit the ground with a roll and continued rolling until he stopped in the middle of the Ditto Towner’s; directly below Bobby's blaster. As he lay on the ground he said "so… What’s new?" he asked seeing the tension rolling through the group.

Shono hit the ground with a thump before returning back to his normal self "This cant be good..." He commented.

((OOC: Ah, my mistake. I was under the impression that we were still spatially, if not temporally, anchored in one way or another. Corrections are underway...

EDIT: ...and have been made. I had read the archive before jumping in, but there's always something I miss.))

A surprisingly wicked smile curled on Mona's lips.

"With pleasure... wretched servant of the All," she said to Bobby. As she spat out the later part, her voice changed, as if another, decidedly more evil voice was speaking simultaneously. She spread her arms and began to chant.

"Cast aside this mortal skin, now unleash the beast within!"

Mona suddenly lifted into the air, and screamed in pain. Her skin began to literally tear apart as a larger, more monstrous form was revealed. Its skin was pasty white, and was clothed in a black leather leotard held together with numerous visible stitches. A hood of the same material covered the top half of her head, with two burning red eyes glowing from torn-open eye holes. Long, white hair fell past her bare knees, and her right arm, much longer than the left, ended in a hand tipped with sharp, blood red claws. A tattered black cape completed the creature's appearance. She hovered above the Dittotopians, a presence of pure evil.

"I am a servant of X'ephure," Mona hissed. "And I have been tasked with killing you all."

((OOC: Mona's new profile is now up.))

Matthew looked up at the transformation from his posistion on his back "You know, that just convinced me... The All is real" he commented absent mindedly as he stood.

Shono shrugged "Um... She looks like just another insane villian to me buddie"

"At least she revealed her true form before one of these dweeby men decided to fall in love with her," Sylvia grumbled. The plants she had created and used to kill the previous monster ripped themselves free and wrapped themselves around the goddess' body. They then solidified into a suit of flexible wooden armor.

Desdemona cackled and clapped her hands happily as Mona transformed into a monster.

"Nicely done!" she exclaimed.

Cosmi's spine shivered as Mona's voice started to change, causing his fur to rise all over his body, and due to his unusually large height, he looked almost the size of an average dog. He drifted toward the middle of the group, once again grateful for everybody else having superpowers.

Clutching her sketchbook, Dona just watched yet another battle. "Not cool," she muttered. "I was enjoying the breather."

As Mona transformed, the girl found time to wonder if it was still possible to help the High Aldrin. After all... he had been swallowed whole. But the grass and blaster bolts had made a mess of the monster--and the next battle would probably be so epic that even if the High Aldrin was still alive now he probably wouldn't be alive at the end. "Of course, anything seems to be possible here, so who knows?"

Matthew jumped up as the transformation began and light his lightsaber as a precaution.

Shono transformed back into his normal self and lifted his arm, several mounted guns appeared and with his other arm he drew his blaster pistol.

Matthew said “I quess its time to kill you too, Mona... Demon... Witch what ever you are"