Post by Fend on Sept 25, 2023 18:12:05 GMT -5
RETURN TO SENDER
Fend's PL: 100 (70k, Suppressed & Masked)
The last thing Fend remembered before darkness claimed her was a bright light. It felt like she had only closed her eyes for a second, but her surroundings were very, very different from what she remembered. Just moments ago she was burning up- literally- and passed out by the woods, but now, as her vision came into focus, she found herself in an entire crater, embers still dancing around its outskirts. Just out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw what looked like some kind of portal in the sky closing tight and vanishing...
The mortal shook her head and pushed herself to her feet, swaying slightly as she fought gravity to regain her balance. What the hell just happened to her?
Step one was to take inventory. She felt... Weirdly fine, the ache in her back and initial dizziness aside. It was easy to quickly suppress her ki and mask its holy aura. Fend patted herself down- Palibur was secure in its hilt, her cloak was a bit burnt but as red and stylish as ever, her bag seemed untouched, and her mask...
...Was not on her face. Or in her bag. Or anywhere on the nearby ground.
"Shit." Fend tugged on her hood, quickly flicking it over her head to conceal her pointed ears. She still had her lower facial mask at least, which she was quick to equip, but her very important and sentimental, hand-carved mask meant to hide her identity and true species was missing. It had to be somewhere nearby, right? She could still see the skyline of East City behind her- evidently, she had crash-landed apparently somewhere along its suburban outskirts in a park of some kind, so it couldn't be too far... Though when she lost consciousness, it was midday, and now it was the crack of dawn. How much time had passed between then and now?
Fend shook herself out of her thoughts, managing to claw her way out of the impact crater. Step two was to find her mask, and step three was to head back to reconvene Jackie and the others at the hospital to figure out what the fuck happened. Though with her luck, there always happened to be other unforeseen steps to account for...Ki Masquerade is used to prevent Fend's Ki from feeling like a Shinjin's.
Ki Suppression lowers Fend's PL from 70,000 to 100.
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Tags: Garon