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Post by Zane on May 27, 2024 20:38:51 GMT -8
There was a scoff, almost as if it was amused by something he said. It was pretty clear what that was given where the conversation would pick up again, the thing that was to be expected of her honestly.
"Of course she made it to the continent. What was going to stop her? The research into Waves was cut off at the source, and she was investigating some lost civilization that most didn't believe in. Only someone incredibly thorough would have gone as far as to cut her short as well."
And there were few who were capable of being that thorough back then. If there was, it was actually easy to narrow down who it could have been. But that was neither here nor there, as now was going into the demanded details.
"She arrived and got the answers she needed. That failure was the only thing she would ever have with the Murian Language. Whatever else she met there gave her hope instead. A figure of static who knew more about the Murian Progenitor than Vega or the Progenitor themselves did. Knew all about how to make her function better than before until she hit her limit. But that limit was irrelevant with regards to what Vega was after. She sought to recreate life. The static figure could do such a thing without the language but proffered that she aimed for a genuine article instead of delving into a fabrication. She did, and the result was Empty here. A wave signature so potent that it sent her straight to an early grave in pursuit of a soul. Sure, she found one in the end. But certainly not Altair. Not exactly magic that she was working with here. Reality was reality, plain and simple."
Even with a certain additional asset applied, recreating life wouldn't necessarily mean those people returned. With the metal their visitor sought to desperately, what would he get when he used it for his goal but the same abject failure? But he probably knew better than to seek old life and simply sought new ones... did he not? That, again, was irrelevant here.
"Without any meaning, Empty, Hollow, her goal of making you into something more was what saw her to her demise. The only fault to be laid at your feet is that you just couldn't do what was asked of you, being human that is. She should have settled for second best at the fabrications she already managed to meld together. Now, here you are for the final directive."
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Post by Gaia on May 27, 2024 21:28:49 GMT -8
The information being thrown at him sent him into a spiral. He wasn't sure what to do with it; did that mean that she got to the continent with Empty and modified him there, or that she only built him as she got to the continent? What did that mean for his own creation, as he stared at the dormant Empty, a creation that surpassed the capabilities of the Great being through the hubris of his own creator . . . did she know, with the powers she toyed with, the dangers that came with them?
Did he know, the powers that he toyed with, the dangers that came with this knowledge?
A final directive, the knowledge that more knowledge was passed onto the Lady Vega, and in her desire to work with the power that she had earned, like many powerful scientists before her, she played the odds. Her crime, then, was not that she wanted to play god, but that she wanted to play with god. A soul was created, but a power came with it that she was not able to contend with . . .
"Then why was I made?" he asked in confusion. "What purpose do I have if the Lady Vega accomplished her goal, made Empty, and then Empty became her demise? What reason did I come to be, if he is still here, unmoving? What final directive, what need, could I possibly fulfill that Empty could not?
"If Empty is not a failure, nor the direct cause of her own demise, but her own hubris, why was I made with the desire to find her, and with memories of protecting her?"
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Post by Zane on May 27, 2024 21:47:17 GMT -8
About time to clear up the last misunderstanding then. Hollow had mistakenly made an assumption about what sparked his creation, but it was easy to spell it out plainly for him now that they were here. What purpose did Hollow have to fulfill?
"You're natural procession at work. You're familiar with how ghosts of fallen Navis or of Wave Beings come about, right? You're one of those, not some secondary creation. That's why you're referred to as a remnant, just as those ghosts are. Empty fell the same day that Vega did. You are the spawn that naturally formed in that wake. To that end, you have no directive, short of the fury and despondency you feel in relation to those vestiges of emotions in the fleeting moments that you had left. The final directive of seeing to your own demise, again and again."
Now was just nailing the coffin. To answer each question with the direct answer now that deflection or misinterpretation wasn't in the frame any longer. The facts would be what was left, and the final answer delivered.
"You weren't made. You have no purpose. You have no reason to be here. Your final directive is the cessation of your existence. Empty wasn't a failure, nor the direct cause of her demise seeing as hubris bit back. The desire to find her and the memories of protecting her are simply things passed on to the ghost of the past."
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Post by Gaia on May 27, 2024 22:06:05 GMT -8
The nail that would fall into the coffin was his own power, his own despondency, with no one to blame but himself. A final directive, a demand within his own being. Empty's programmed purpose, to protect his creator from all faults, would have resulted in his attempt to destroy anything that he viewed as the result of her demise. A truly apathetic being would not have thought anything of turning its power onto the beings that tempted her, or, in a more pure sense of what probably transpired, onto himself.
If he were the cause of her demise, even if by accident, it would make sense that he would cease. By the nature of the Murian language, no pure creation could truly ever be deleted; just as the other Heralds would eventually reforge themselves within their sacred shrines, so too would the Murian Advisor, the Void given Form, Empty, reforge itself within its domain.
The continued cessation of his own life . . . Hollow suddenly stood a little bit taller, the spiraling reality of what he had brought himself to.
"Empty's fury and despondency . . . the power of the Indie Darkness . . . it isn't there to defend anyone. Its there to destroy himself."
And he can't. Which begged another question . . .
. . . How many times in the last 500 years had a 'Remnant' found itself right here? How many times did Empty enact its fury by destroying a Hollow that returned on its directives? How long had it actually been since the demise of Lady Vega? Was 500 years just another memory that wasn't quite right?
How many times did Xion try to drag him away from here? Did Xion ever watch it happen?
It was simply all that he was - a memory, a remnant, to try and enact the fury and despondency, a ghost that could only remember the last things that it was trying to do. As she fell, something felled him, and the memory of wanting to get to her in time and protect her manifested as a mixture of fury and despondency both . . . but it was always displaced. It would never find closure, it would never have purpose . . . just like the original, but at least the original had enough of the truth away from fragmented pain to bring itself here . . .
. . . Hollow donned his robe, unsure if the original had noticed him, yet.
Hollow had been just a ghost that moved with its memories, but he had forged some memories. He didn't know much, but he knew that here, in this place, he desired something.
"Who am I talking to?" he asked, more of a whisper than a yell from before, as he took a careful step backwards in the void, not daring to control the Undimension so close to its true master.
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Post by Zane on May 27, 2024 22:24:40 GMT -8
Looked like he understood what he walked through now. Why the person before said a confrontation would be inevitable once the answers were given. As for who he was talking to, this time it would pose a question by the end of it instead of an answer.
"Someone you're intimately familiar with yet know little about. Someone who is that thorough. Someone who knows how this has ended again and again. Who would that be?"
A purple flame sparked to life, floating in the abyss as if the single light to be shed upon what was going to be an inevitable exchange. The inanimate one began to lift up as the robe was donned after all, only moments after it even as sparks of gold flickered about. It had one thing in mind, just as he had unearthed what that unbridled fury had always led to now that it was locked in a prison of its own making.
"Now begs another question. How do you break the unbreakable? And what truly happens when you do?"
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Post by Gaia on May 27, 2024 22:53:14 GMT -8
It was so strange; the voice talked about Empty like it was some other disconnected entity, like it was something that hated Empty, and saw it, Hollow, and Lady Vega in contempt.
The red flames of Hollow's core, made true and pure in the power of the Indie Darkness, perfected in Empty. The power of the elements made whole, of each of their powers further magnified by the darkness created, the power to destroy it all.
Hollow stared at Empty, and realized in truth what the Undimension was - it was a space that wasn't really a space at all, created to consume the thing that could never be fully destroyed.
"Empty." he said simply.
Empty was named Empty because he could not have the power that lady Vega sought after. A disappointment, he was named for what she saw him as, but not for what he was. Hollow had no emotions because he was just a ghost, a memory, fleeting sorrow and fury walking without purpose. Empty himself still had purpose . . .
The lightning that crackled over him as the ghost flickered to life brought Hollow's strength to him, and knew the truth of what was about to happen. He allowed the familiar shield of black lightning to coil over his form, and then, for once, he realized something he wanted more than answers, as the final directive of Empty's own code screaming within his mind brought him back here. Hollow, directed by Empty's own final programs, had been brought to the very place Empty wanted him, so he could enact his fury an ensure that no form of him, no remnant either, would ever leave this prison alive.
"I won't die here," he declared.
Taking a step back, he used his own power - or at least what he thought was his own - and created a retinue of murian soldiers. He knew that no force of their own power would work here, and so he had to get them to do the attacking for him.
Meanwhile, he began working on another idea, funneling power from his own Indie Darkness directly into his Wave Generator . . .
Defensive Phase
[Hollow has 0 Armor]
Supportive Phase
[Void Well] [Advanced Form, Hyper Format] The power of the void within, Hollow nullifies any attempts of another to wield his power against him. - Hollow gains complete immunity to all attacks with any elements matching his own. - Hollow is ejected from this Hyper Mode if damaged by an avoidable attack without any elements matching his own. --- 3-Turn Duration.
[Energy Mastery] [Advanced] The most masterful control over his energy enables Hollow to channel power seemingly without limits. ::o:: The duration of Hollow's Hyper Modes do not tick down on any turn that Hollow does not sustain damage from avoidable sources. -- [Passive]
Offensive Phase 6 AS
[Dark Element - -10%, +300%] 1. [Void Art - Summon Murian] x5 The undimension releases a Murian warrior to attack as Hollow needs. [360 -> 1,080] [::Shortcut:Range:Set::] [::shortcut:Element:Set::] Damage [80%] ::o:: Cycles between Blade, Light, Toxic, Stone, Seeking ::C:: Two aimers chosen upon use. ::C:: Multiple instances can be manually charged at once. ::B:: Non-Hidden Element of Choice selected upon use. ::o:: Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns.
[Elemental Conflunece | 1/1]
Summary Phase
[Hollow HP=2,250/4,500] [Cooldowns] - [Status] - [Stage] -
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Post by Zane on May 29, 2024 13:26:24 GMT -8
It was a solid approach to take from the onset, but would demand a bit more as the soldiers made their approach and still were halted by the black lightning surrounding his form. That very same black lightning would start its assault now, raining down again and again with a devastating force behind it and the intent obvious as the power began to surge within it as well for the devastator to follow.
Defense:
Empty's survival effects disabled. ? enabled for Hollow.
? 5 Turn Required Charge
[Elemental Conversion] - Gain eight elements. No effects are gained from these elements. Can adjust these elements per turn.
Blade, Light, Toxic, Stone, Seeking chosen.
[Focused Power] - Can enter an advanced form for one turn. Uses: 6
[Void Well] [Advanced Form] - Gains complete immunity to all attacks with any elements matching his own.
0 Damage Taken.
Set: Preemptive Charges applied to Confluence, Empty Storm, and Resurgence.
[Devastating Finish] - This attack deals 100% Damage, and benefits from charge twice as much. If this attack would trigger a survival effect, it instead executes its victim. Two one-use survival effects can be expended to negate this effect, or 2 turns can be deducted from a User’s Darksoul. -- 4 Uses MAX/Battle. 1-CD between uses.
Applied to Confluence.
Offense:
[Supreme Art - Confluence] 1,020 * 14 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Deals 60% of user's base damage per attack slot passed, this turn. Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. 1-Turn Required Charge; 5-CD
[Supreme Art - Empty Storm] 1,020 * 14 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range, Gains the total damage of an attack used before it on the same turn. Damage cannot be further augmented. Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. 1-Turn Required Charge, 3 Uses/Battle
Resurgence: Repeats the last standard attack used, retaining all damage and effects. This attack cannot be further augmented. 3 Uses/Battle
[Supreme Art - Empty Storm] 1,020 * 14 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range, Gains the total damage of an attack used before it on the same turn. Damage cannot be further augmented. Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. 1-Turn Required Charge, 3 Uses/Battle
[Signature Art - Empty Thunder] x 3 60 * 12 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. Useable 3/Turn
Charging - Devastator: 1/1 Charging - Empty Arts: 1/1
[Empty HP=4,500/4,500]
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Post by Gaia on May 29, 2024 14:15:54 GMT -8
Hollow knew the power that he was capable of; at least, he thought he understood it. In its full wrath, struck down upon him, it didn't falter, nor did it waver. It wanted nothing less than his demise, and he didn't think he would have what it took to do anything but that.
As the storm crashed on him, he knew the best way to respond. He let it come, shifting his power to take the brunt of the first strike in full before he took the rest, his cloak becoming tattered by the unceasing lightning. Hollow then took his strength and set into motion his own mastery, commanding the environment into a veil of lightning as he willed himself to gain a burst of speed to improve himself.
Taking on the power at his disposal, Hollow brought his full force down again, summoning more Murians than before to overrun the original.
Defensive Phase
[Hollow has 0 Armor]
[::Shortcut:Element:Normal::] Lv7 ::o:: Once per turn, ignore an Element-specific or Range-specific condition.
Ignores the Element condition of Hollow's Hyper Mode when responding to Confluence.
[Confluence] - Immune.
Undershirt triggered. Ejected from Hyper Mode. Dark causes heal back to full.
Supportive Phase
[Flexible Mastery] [Advanced Form, Soul Unison] The root of all power is the same; the principle allows one to become as any. ° Sacrifice any Standard-Tier Attack Chip to merge with it, entering this form ° During Unison, user gains the Lv5 Effects of the Chip's first natural Element ° User's charged attacks may become that Chip at will, gaining its Name, Elements, Non-★ Effects, and User's Standard/Dark Chip Damage ° Lasts for 3 Turns
[Merge with Elemental Rage, Elec]
[Set <Stage> ⇪ Omega] Activated Program [1/2 Uses] User may change all panels on the field for 3 Turns. Stage is chosen upon use.
[::Shortcut:Stage:Magnet::]
Offensive Phase 9 AS | 1 Auto-Charge
[? | 1/5]
1. [Void Art - Summon Murian] x9 The undimension releases a Murian warrior to attack as Hollow needs. [360 -> 1,080] [::Shortcut:Range:Set::] [::shortcut:Element:Set::] Damage [80%] ::o:: Laser, Wind, Break, Metal, Sonic, Ice, Sand, Plasma, Shadow ::C:: Cuts Auras, Undodgeable ::C:: Multiple instances can be manually charged at once. ::B:: Non-Hidden Element of Choice selected upon use. ::o:: Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns.
Summary Phase
[Hollow HP=450/4,500] [Cooldowns] - [Status] - [Stage] - [::Shortcut:Stage:Magnet::]
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Post by Zane on May 29, 2024 17:07:36 GMT -8
This time the void around them met the shoulders, stymieing their efforts as the black lightning welled up. He did well to avoid the devastation, but that wouldn't halt this extended effort as the lightning rained down with impunity time and again. A brutal showing to be certain, and the storm he would still have to weather now that it was upon him.
Defense:
? mark effects partially revealed.
D? Damage: ? Effects: Inflicts Damage = to ?. For each attack slot passed, ?. Cannot be further augmented. 5 Turn Required Charge 1x Use/Battle
[Void Wall] [C-Tier, Triune Avoidance] Triune avoids ten attacks. Uses: 20
0 Damage Taken.
Set: [Focused Power] - Can enter an advanced form for one turn. Uses: 5/6
[Ancient's Awakening] [Advanced Form] - One attack each turn strikes twice as many times when used.
[Expanding Nothingness] [S-Tier, Multiplier] - One attack strikes two additional times on use, with the same damage and effects. Uses: 4
x4 Used.
Offense:
[Signature Art - Empty Thunder] x 17 60 * 14 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. Useable 3/Turn
[Supreme Art - Devastator] No attacks avoided but use forcibly expended. No autos unleashed.
[Signature Art - Empty Thunder] x 2 60 * 12 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. Useable 3/Turn
Charging - Empty Storm: 1/1 Charging - Resurgence: 1/1 Charging - Devastator: 1/1
[Empty HP=4,500/4,500]
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Post by Gaia on May 29, 2024 17:43:10 GMT -8
Whatever unknown power was here, he could feel it trying to guide him somewhere; willing him to be able to survive. He needed more than what he had, though, or else he was going to simply fall short each time.
Charging that power, whatever it was that was watching him, Hollow raised his own defense against the original, and then changed the nature of the Undimension yet again to instead bolster his efforts. Patience to weather the storm was necessary moving forward.
Defensive Phase
[Hollow has 0 Armor]
[Cloying Void] [A-Tier, Avoidance Augment] The void that makes up Hollow's form is strong and unyielding, reducing attempts to harm the void within and then sustaining to prevent further attempts against his perpetual emptiness. ::o:: Hollow's avoidances avoid nine additional attacks per use. -- [Passive]
[Void Wall] [C-Tier, Triune Avoidance] The void takes the form of an incredible wall that halts all attempts made against it, no force strong enough to surpass it. ::o:: Hollow triune avoids one attack. -- [Active, 5/21 Uses]
[Void Control] [S-Tier, Multiplier] The power of infinity grows, and its master evades all harm. ::o:: Doubles the avoidances of a single skill for one use. -- [Active, 0/4 Uses MAX/Battle]
[Hollow avoids 200 attacks. Takes 4 hits of 60 for 240 Damage.]
Supportive Phase
[Flexible Mastery] [Advanced Form, Soul Unison] The root of all power is the same; the principle allows one to become as any. ° Sacrifice any Standard-Tier Attack Chip to merge with it, entering this form ° During Unison, user gains the Lv5 Effects of the Chip's first natural Element ° User's charged attacks may become that Chip at will, gaining its Name, Elements, Non-★ Effects, and User's Standard/Dark Chip Damage ° Lasts for 3 Turns
[Merge with Elemental Rage, Elec]
[Set <Stage> ⇪ Omega] Activated Program [0/2 Uses] User may change all panels on the field for 3 Turns. Stage is chosen upon use.
[::Shortcut:Stage:Grass::]
[Elemental Conversion] [S-Tier, Stage Lock] The power to ensure that his mastery of battle is not upset by the frailty of the environment. ::o:: Locks or unlocks the current panels for 1 turn. -- [Active, 3/4 Uses MAX/Battle]
+450 HP.
[Mantle - Disrupt All Enemy Charges]
Offensive Phase 8 AS | 1 Auto-Charge
[D? | 2/5]
1. Passes 8 Attack Slots.
Summary Phase
[Hollow HP=660/4,500] [Cooldowns] - [Status] - [Stage] - [::Shortcut:Stage:Grass::]
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Post by Zane on May 29, 2024 20:32:22 GMT -8
He was able to slow down its efforts, but for how long? The lightning that proceeded to fall after it was delayed was but delaying that inevitable outcome. And what would follow that interruption would be the raining lightning anew, the same devastation as before still lurking in the wings.
Its wrath to bring about the end was apparent, but what could be done in the face of it? What option existed that the power it wielded wouldn't overcome the option presented? Now would be the time for Hollow to use all the information he gathered, or brave the devastation that was to follow.
Defense:
? mark effects partially revealed.
Decis? Damage: ? Effects: Inflicts Damage = to ?. For each attack slot passed, ?. User is ? after use unless ?. If used on Empty, ?. Cannot be further augmented. 5 Turn Required Charge 1x Use/Battle
Interrupted. -1 Use from Devastator.
Set: [Focused Power] - Can enter an advanced form for one turn. Uses: 4/6
[Ancient's Awakening] [Advanced Form] - One attack each turn strikes twice as many times when used.
Offense:
[Signature Art - Empty Thunder] x 2 60 * 14 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. Useable 3/Turn
[Signature Art - Empty Thunder] x 4 60 * 12 X Null Damage Avoid Separately, Dual Range Can be optionally charged for up to 5 turns. Useable 3/Turn
Charging - Empty Storm: 1/1 Charging - Resurgence: 1/1 Charging - Devastator: 1/1 Charging - Darkness Breaker
[Empty HP=4,500/4,500]
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Post by Gaia on May 31, 2024 11:15:16 GMT -8
The storm came, and Hollow had to stand firm against it. How was it that he was so different from other remnants that had come here? How was it that this power had risen to protect him, to give him another option? What would be here, that it would care about Hollow succeeding, much less about his way forward?
He had a few theories, but ultimately, he had other things to worry about. The black lightning surged around him as his power came to him, igniting into the golden standard that the Murian people had lifted themselves to. The Murian Advisor - designed from the script of the Murian people, nothing he had was of his own choice. Not his life, not his name, not his power, not even the drive to find out what happened to his lost doctor was his own; it was all someone else's, given to him, ordered of him.
Hollow remembered Xion, though. Hollow remembered Kajira, and Warrior, and Feint. He remembered those that he had learned of since he began to explore, and that passing desire that had come to him to learn more, to do more, to see and find more. All of that, for what? To perfect what Lady Vega had in mind for him?
Staring at Empty, Hollow realized that the perfected vision Lady Vega had was already right in front of him, and yet it was still incomplete. Furious at itself, it had sequestered itself here on the last directive to destroy everything that got in Lady Vega's away. When it couldn't break itself, it locked itself away, and settled for the ability to destroy every Hollow that would arise thereafter.
Empty was made, too. Nothing was of its own design, even the choices it made, and yet it was just as furious at Lady Vega for being the cause of destroying herself as it was furious at himself for having the guilt of the final blow.
As the power surged into him, Hollow ignited in that power, needing the strength of the Murian Wave Generator here. He . . . he wanted something more, though.
I will not die here. I will not be just a remnant. I . . . want to be more.
For all the things that were made for him, from his robe, his designation, his power, and even the judgment that he was not good enough, Hollow needed something that was his own. It would seem that Hollow had a Decision to make, then.
He held out a hand as the robe contorted, a massive cannon protruding from his chest. Remniscent of the gatling gun wielded by the goddess, the cannon surged as it charged and then unleashed; the black lightning that was his essence intermingled with the raw power of the divine that he was made in the image of, a golden flare pulling up around his body as his robes shifted into the golden hue. Holding onto that power, the incredible energy washed forward without ceasing, looking to rip Empty apart, if he was right about the power that he had been gifted here.
Rather than hold onto memories, he decided it was his ability to make new ones. He mixed the power of the generator, overflowing it with his strength, directly into this energy, and allowed the fractured energy of the Indie Darkness to mix into his outpouring as well. Whatever would come forth from this, he decided, he would be something new to rise up from the ashes.
Either that, or his efforts were nothing, and he had all but destroyed himself in an effort to prove that he could be more than what he had been called.
Defensive Phase
[Hollow has 0 Armor]
[Cloying Void] [A-Tier, Avoidance Augment] The void that makes up Hollow's form is strong and unyielding, reducing attempts to harm the void within and then sustaining to prevent further attempts against his perpetual emptiness. ::o:: Hollow's avoidances avoid nine additional attacks per use. -- [Passive]
[Void Wall] [C-Tier, Triune Avoidance] The void takes the form of an incredible wall that halts all attempts made against it, no force strong enough to surpass it. ::o:: Hollow triune avoids one attack. -- [Active, 0/21 Uses]
[Simplicity] [S-Tier, Skill Use+] The power to recall the elements at his disposal, and reclaim that which is his. ::o:: Adds +1 Skill Use to another skill. -- [Active, 2/4 Uses MAX/Battle]
[Hollow avoids 70 attacks. Takes 6 hits for 360 Damage.]
Supportive Phase
+450 HP.
Gold Standard The power of the Murian Wave Generator, intensified in time of need to accumulate massive stores of power. The force within them intensifies in an outward manifestation, turning the wave form's body gold. -- Advanced Form. Can coexist alongside another advanced form, and can be activated at any time. -- 2x Base Damage, Armor, and Regen. +4 Uses to all Skills. All avoidances are raised to Omni-Avoidances. Can choose and double the effects of each of one Attack, Skill, and other Advanced Form. -- Attacks requiring 2 or fewer charges can be released as they finish charging. -- One Attack requiring 3 or more turns of charge can be released once without requiring charge while this Advanced Form is active. -- Immediately cuts Max-HP by half and disables all Undershirt and Survival Effects. Cut Max-HP by an additional 10% each turn. Can disable at any time. Only active once, regardless of all other effects.
[Doubles effects of Deci?, Expanding Nothingness, Ancient's Awakening]
Offensive Phase 8 AS | 1 Auto-Charge
Passes 7 Attack Slots. Hollow destroys his Indie Darkness and Murian Void Wave.
Deci? Damage: ? Effects: Inflicts Damage = to ?. For each attack slot passed, ?. User is ? after use unless ?. If used on Empty, ?. Cannot be further augmented. 5 Turn Required Charge 1x Use/Battle
Summary Phase
[Hollow HP=660/4,500] [Cooldowns] - [Status] - [Stage] - [::Shortcut:Stage:Grass::]
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Post by Zane on Jun 9, 2024 23:05:57 GMT -8
Being willing to have more rather than nothing at all. Rising beyond the apathy to become something other than emptiness. The empty one named Hollow wouldn't have been able to defeat the foe at its own game. That was why it was necessary for something else to begin to gain root. For more than the source material that it was created from to matter. Perhaps even to the words of those who continued to grow around him, seeking out their own intentions beyond any designs pressed upon them. Wanting more, desiring more, was enough. Being willing to do what was blasphemous to Lady Vega's own designs and intentions would be necessary to see the Decision through.
For Empty, seeking its own destruction, a self-destructive attack would be the sole measure it wouldn't possess a defensive against. And Hollow, being willing to destroy himself and what he held was what could penetrate that defensive veil and rip Empty apart. What would be left from the battle wasn't the original, but the remnant that rose up from those ashes to begin with.
Indie Darkness and Murian Wave Generator - The Murian Advisor destroyed.
Effect doubling ineffective on Decision due to "Cannot be further augmented".
Decision Effects: For each attack slot passed, influences the effect of the entire attack against Empty. User is Executed after use unless the enemy is defeated by this attack or if HP is below 20%. (Hollow's HP = 1,110) If used on Empty, requires 3 additional full interaction (14 passed = 42) and Full Turn Charges are removed. Inflicts Damage = to Current Health x 14. Cannot be further augmented. 5 Turn Required Charge 5 Full Turn Charge Required 1x Use/Battle
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Post by Gaia on Jun 12, 2024 10:28:50 GMT -8
The power flowed from him until he had nothing else to give. Even as he felt himself reach the end of his reserves, he dug deeper, willing to survive, and found yet more to funnel into his efforts.
His creator's power spent, Hollow was no longer Hollow. He had made a decision, he had chosen that the opportunity to do more and try more was enough. At long last, the answer to his search was found.
The only thing he needed from his Master, the only answers he needed, was for her to cut his strings and let him go. When she wouldn't, he'd cut them for himself.
The golden trim never left him. The gold etched itself into his robe, leaving a regal trim for him to recognize the Decision he had made; to be more than just the remnant, and to make it clear that he was not a failure. Even if he didn't have the soul she wanted, he would do well to make his own.
". . ."
The undimension no longer listened to him. He wasn't sure what else he had left to do here, so he would have to find his own way out. Meandering about, he followed the nonsensical rules that he remembered, running into walls that didn't look like they were there as he looked for an escape.
What would he call himself, now? What could he be, now that he was no longer a Hollow?
He hasn't ever considered being anything more, before. The thought made him smile beneath his robe.
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Post by Zane on Jul 4, 2024 3:27:15 GMT -8
The depths began to quake soon after, as the last thing that kept the Undimension from collapsing in on itself had been removed from its element. The final possible explanation for why Hollow hadn't lost it back when he spoke with Xion had solved itself, and the Neo Underking's reaction at the time was likely to see if the remnant would have been safe. Whatever dealings had been involved between Vega and the unknown was what had probably kept Empty around to begin with. Still, with how deep the dive to get here was, it would be difficult to say whether escape was possible. But the way up seemed to come easily to him, as if the way out was being provided now that he had made his decision and come out alive.
"Congrats on breaking the unbreakable. And good luck on what comes next."
It was the voice again, as if it was observing the outcome again. With no clue besides the riddle on who it could be, he would be able to find his way back to the place he was at before he dove within. With the thoughts and experiences he gained from this, what would he do next, now that he had the answers to what drove him? With the strings gone, what would the emptiness become? The message that was left by the others around him, what sort of potential he held, could he live up to it? Or had he brushed off the words of those as well?
That was why a new name was in order, seeing as Hollow was no longer that fitting, wasn't it?
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