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Susano'o Trashes Heaven

Who: Sho Minamimoto vs. Everyone!
What: Susano'o decides to take on Heaven. Chaos results.
When: All day April 19
Where: All around the Heavens
Summary: In a bid to take over Heaven, Sho has unleashed an apocalyptic number of taboo ayakashi the biggest Heaven-wrecking godmode weapon this side of the Far Shore. It doesn't end well. Get ready for spring cleaning 2.0.
Warnings: Math, strong language, casual disembowelment and other violence, NPC death, potential for character death.

12:00:00 PM
Susano'o, Selfies, and the Subjugation of Heaven

As he'd revealed in his 3 AM BBS post, Sho has a variety of fascinating ayakashi that he wants to share with the world. By noon, several large heaps located in various parts of Heaven have caught on fire and there is a massive outpouring of taboo ayakashi.

Concentrated primarily near the Meeting Hall and Susano'o's junk heap of a temple, these ayakashi attack shinki and gods on sight. They're vicious, powerful, and the only way to defeat them is the power of teamwork.

At 2 PM, Joshua will be providing some helpful tips. Meanwhile, Sho will be teleport-spamming throughout Heaven. Feel free to text him, but he'll stop answering right around the time Bishamon and Hajime start to catch up to him. (Picowatt will be helping out from there on!)

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03:14:15 PM
Boss Fight: Seiten Taisei and the Neoclassical Drakes

It's the zero hour, exactly 43,200 seconds since he posted his warning to the BBS when Sho decides to change the game. Heaven has rallied against him, gods and shinki alike, and it's time to pull out the big guns.

In the air above the Meeting Hall, he unleashes thirteen Neoclassical Drakes before releasing Seiten Taisei.

And, suddenly, it's entrails everywhere.

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Post-Battle Spring Cleaning

Well, the day is saved, but there's a metric ton left to do. The mass slaughter left a bit of a bloody mess, and Susano'o has shrines on the Near Shore covered in graffiti that can turn any stray ayakashi into the taboo sort. Weird and corrupt magics all over the place, some of which are on fire. His junkyard temple is burning merrily, and there are still some stray taboo ayakashi to put down.

Anyone ready for Spring Cleaning 2.0? Grab a mop.

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Ah, look at this mess. And we'd just cleaned, too.

[Now: blood is spattered up across the walls and puddled on the polished wooden floor. A few bodies are visible. Most of them aren't complete.

Hakkai's just a step behind Sanzo, his posture shifting slightly for balance as he readies for combat. The malevolent energy radiating from the hall is intense, beyond anything he's felt before. This isn't going to end well. Not at all.]

[ With a backwards glance at Elsa -- she'll be fine, she's staying back out of the way -- Gojyo falls into step with Hakkai, just to Sanzo's other side, his thyrsus ready in his hand. ]

Oi, Sanzo. This time, how about you staple that thing to his head, huh?

[ The familiar wave of Seiten Taisei's energy is like standing in front of an oven. It sears the edges of his awareness and sets his heart racing until his fingertips tingle. Sleepy, sleepy, he tells himself, concentrating on the staff in his hand. It's naptime for the monkey, sleepy, calm, slow.

More quietly, now that it's just them: ]

Don't hesitate. He's damned resilient like this. And fast.

[Fast enough to have already been on the move, if he'd noticed their presence already. Luckily for them, Seiten Taisei is a bit preoccupied. At the moment, he's hunched down on his hands and knees in a far corner of the meeting hall, shoulder and arm moving in a repeated motion. Before they can even see him, they can likely hear the noises: something wet and organic, and the light sound of manic laughter echoing off the walls.

Heads are, apparently, not all that durable when you slam them repeatedly against the floor.

The entertainment only keeps him occupied for so long, though, before the head in his hand is reduced down to little more than lumpy mush mixed with sharp fragments of bone. Once he loses interest, the laughter dies away as well, and he pauses for a moment, looking over the mess. Satisfying enough, for now.

Seiten Taisei stands, blood-spattered and looking no worse for wear, slinging excess blood from the claws and spattering the nearby bodies. A glance up reveals the group standing at a distance, and for a moment he pauses, as if he recognizes them. But with the grin that splits his face, and the way he's suddenly disappearing, it isn't likely.

Especially since he's reappearing mere steps away, already leaping forward and slashing at the first one he can reach. Not a bit of recognition whatsoever.]

[ Fast doesn't cover it.

Sanzo can't follow him by sight, but he throws himself suddenly to the side even as that idiot child reappears in front of him. It gives him the clearance he needs to dodge his lunge, but there's a whisper of claws that almost catch the fabric of his robe. He'll be through if a hit lands, that much is clear.

In a single fluid motion, his immediate retaliation is to fire two shots at him in rapid succession. ]

[Goku has claws. And he's not just fast: Hakkai can't track him by sight, only instinct, and by the overwhelming force of his power. He leaps to the other side, lashing one hand out to strike at Goku's ribs.

(It's unlikely he won't dodge, of course. But with enough attacks, can he dodge them all? One might hit.)]

[ Sanzo splits to one side, Hakkai to the other, and Gojyo drops to one knee, bringing up the pine cone end of his staff as fast as he can. Slow, slow, slowslowslowslow! he mentally hollers at the staff as he blasts at the monkey-shaped blur. ]

[Two shots come in rapid succession, but Seiten Taisei's reflexes are far quicker. The hand coming back from the swipe darts up into the path of the shots, right about the time that Hakkai's hand is going in for his ribcage.

The blow hits, and it jolts him aside with a heavy grunt, but not before he can bring an elbow up towards Hakkai's face while he's still in range to do so.

The one in the middle is doing... something. He isn't sure what, and for just a split second, he tilts his head in curiosity... but only for that split second. With a quiet 'heh', his hand is jerking forward, tossing something at Gojyo. Two bullets.

Of course, it's only a diversion to keep him distracted while a foot snaps forward towards Gojyo's head.]

[ Bullets are entirely useless. "Resilient," that fucking kappa said. Yeah, right.

He gestures sharply with his right hand, snapping out: ] Line!

[ Light flares up, an attempt to bar Seiten Taisei that he's already aware isn't going to stop him. ]

[Hakkai's blow hits, but even if the force should've broken ribs on a human, Goku only grunts, and then his elbow's whipping up to hit Hakkai in the face too fast to dodge.

He jerks back, lessening the force of the blow, but it still sends pain rocketing up and down his cheek. His monocle goes flying, clattering across the floor, and his vision blurs with impact. Or --

There's something else ringing against the floor...?

He collapses to one knee, hands hitting the boards and tensing as a disorienting flood of energy pours through him. His body is different, the breezes tugging against the tips of his long, pointed ears, his nails scoring long claw marks through the wood, his vision sharpening and the sounds pouring in upon him suddenly louder and more distinct. Even the scent of blood is more overwhelming.]

[ Sanzo's line gives Gojyo the half a second he needs to scramble out of the way of Seiten Taisei's kick -- although not fast enough to stop the light clink of spent bullets from tapping against his cheek. Fuck, Goku...

He rolls to the side, toward Sanzo, shoulder protesting as he launches himself back up, swinging the pine cone end of the staff around to try and clock Seiten Taisei in the back of the head. There's a flash of something greenish out of the corner of his eye, but his focus is on Goku, and he doesn't dare look away. ]

Goku!

[The borderline does indeed distract Seiten Taisei for a split second, making him hesitate, just long enough to keep that kick from connecting.

But that's the least of it. Power is building off to the side, where Hakkai had landed, and that has his attention even more so. Enough that, when Gojyo swings his staff, it actually connects. Pain splits through the back of his head for a moment, briefly stunning him, but only for that moment. He whirls around a second later, snarling and lashing out with claws, ignoring for now the growing threat at his side that is no longer the bigger of his issues.]

You'd better not be damn lunatic, too-! [ It seems worth saying to Hakkai in a tight voice, for all that Gojyo's fighting for his life right then. If there were two berserkers, they were dead. Maybe they were dead anyway. It's an overwhelming amount of strength, but he doesn't even know if it's enough even if Hakkai is on their side still.

It'd take real power to restrain Goku, and he's frantically trying to marshal his thoughts, to focus and get some sense of how. He had to be able to do something, dammit, and guns and shinki magic bullshit weren't good enough. ]

I'm all right.

[Better than just all right. Stronger, and he's not going to worry about what's happened to him or where this power came from right now. There's no time. Goku is whirling on Gojyo with those razor-sharp claws slicing through the air, and Hakkai comes to his feet in a single smooth lunge, aiming to take Goku in the side and knock him down and away. His own hands are as clawed as Goku's, and his fingers brace, ready to dig those claws into flesh and hold Goku still.]

[ The staff connects, and there's a brief, bright moment where Gojyo almost smiles. He's got Goku's attention! He's...

...shit, he's got Goku's attention. Goku turns on him and Gojyo raises his staff defensively -- if he can get the monkey to bite the staff instead of him, then he'll have a second to strike back, right?

But Goku doesn't bite him. Instead, Hakkai -- an unlimitered, youkai Hakkai, when...? -- tackles the monkey off his course. Gojyo's mouth gapes, then spreads into a brilliant grin. Guess he doesn't need to tell Hakkai about his limiters after all! ]

Your vines! Wrap him up!

[ He's got both hands on his staff again, but he can't risk blasting Goku again, not with Hakkai in the way. He'll have to wait until they separate again. ]

[--and there's that power he should have been paying attention to. Just as Seiten Taisei is about to slash down with claws, something impacts with him - hard - and sends him sprawling to the floor.

This, of course, is incredibly infuriating. The dig of claws in his skin makes him snarl and writhe, but Hakkai doesn't seem to be budging as much as he'd like. He opens his eyes, pupils thin, tight slits, and bares his teeth at the youkai.

And then proceeds to jerk his upper torso up far enough to attempt to headbutt him in the face.]

[ Hanging back, Sanzo has to trust the other idiots aren't about to get themselves killed. He murmurs under his breath, a quiet mantra as he pulls together his concentration.

He breathes in, out, and reaches for a connection with the sutra he carried on his shoulders. ]

[Sanzo's chanting a mantra under his breath. Preparing to use some sort of power, perhaps? Hakkai feels skin tear under his claws as he clenches one hand hard on Goku's arm and whips the other up between them to block the headbutt. Goku's head hits his forearm with a dull, wet crack -- Hakkai's bone, not Goku's, but not his skull, either, even if the force of Goku's blow slams his own freshly broken arm back against his face. He sucks in a harsh breath, and calls to Gojyo.]

Vines?

[How -- he's not in his vessel form!]

[ Shit. ]

Vines!

[ He can feel a power building from Sanzo -- the priest's figured something out, something that sure is starting to feel more like a makai tenjou than the return of the kid's limiter. That's great. That's fucking great, Sanzo, do that!

Meanwhile Gojyo drops to his knees next to Hakkai and Goku -- that crunch he just heard couldn't have been good, and he's willing to bet it was something of Hakkai's going crunch -- grabbing for Goku's... anything, really. Those claws will shred him like paper, but Sanzo's got this. So if he can get the kid in a headlock for a few seconds? Maybe? Cut him some slack, he's making this shit up as he goes along. ...Just like Hakkai seems to be. Removing his limiters was nothing but a good instinct, it seems. ]

It's fine, just hold him, Sanzo! Do it!

[Seiten Taisei can feel that power, too. It feels... almost familiar, somehow, but in a way he distinctly doesn't like. That needs to be stopped, before whatever it is happens.

But Hakkai is there holding him down, and Gojyo is joining in now, and attacking under restraint hadn't worked as well as planned. He struggles once more, twisting and roaring even if Hakkai's claws tear his skin open, and then he's gone, moving so fast and with such energy that it shoves the two off of him enough for him to escape.

The monk needs to die, before he completes what he's doing. That's why, when he reappears, it's right in front of Sanzo with his claws already slashing down and in.]

[ There! He could do this, the sutra stretching with his intent as he called out its power. Not a second too soon, either, as Goku savagely flings the others off of him.

Sanzo doesn't flinch, snapping out: ] Makai-!

[ The rest never comes, the force of the blow cutting him short. Claws tear fabric and flesh with equal ease, and his vision whites out briefly as he slams into the wall behind him. ] Goku... [ His knees are giving out, disobeying his overriding need to keep going.

The Maten sutra drops back on his shoulders. ]

[Hakkai tumbles across the floor, a short cry tearing its way from his throat as his broken arm jolts against the ground. The stench of blood is so thick on the air of the meeting hall that it's only the spray of red scattering from Goku's claws that lets him know Sanzo's been wounded.

He forces himself to his feet, lifting his good hand by reflex. Power gathers in his hand, sparking and growing into a ball of light, and he snarls, sharp teeth flashing as he flings the energy at Goku's head. Sanzo can't take that kind of damage. They have to distract Goku from him, now.]

[ Sanzo's down. ]

Sanzo!

[ His feet slip as he hauls himself up, running for Goku with all the speed he can muster. But already he knows it won't be fast enough. Hakkai's chi might get there in time (if it's not already too late shrieks a panicked voice in the back of his mind), but without shakujyo, with nothing but his worthless pine cone stick, Gojyo's basically useless. All he can do is try to get Goku's attention, any way he can. ]

Oi, Seiten Taisei! [ Does Goku in this form know his own name? Does he even understand words? ] Get off him, you stupid monkey!

[As Sanzo goes down, Seiten Taisei lets his claws slip from his prey, baring his teeth at the monk in a cold grin. Just where he wants him to be. One more good blow, and this one is gone. Like cutting through wet paper.

But another one is yelling behind him, and he turns to look over his shoulder. Just in time, really, because Hakkai's energy ball is speeding towards him. The grin fades, and he snorts, turning around in one swift motion and lifting a hand, catching the energy as if it were a normal, physical ball.

The momentum brings his arm back, but it only takes a second for him to exert his own force on it, pushing it forward and throwing it right back. But instead of throwing it at Hakkai, Seiten Taisei is aiming for Gojyo.]

[ No. He can feel the warmth wicking along the fabric of his robe as he slides down the wall, and he has no idea how bewildered he looks by this sudden turn of events as meets Seiten Taisei's eyes. There's little else beyond smug cruelty in the damn monkey's expression, but he can't let it end there. He tries to press tight against the wound to stem the bleeding, but his strength is failing him.

Goku was right there.

He could reach out, but it all starts to dissolve into a blur and his hand drops to his side. ] Go... [ He chokes on the name, coming up short as he crumples in a heap. ]

[He caught it. He caught it!? Hakkai's eyes widen in shock. Sanzo is down, scarlet blooming across his robes, and Goku is flinging the energy ball back, not at him, but at Gojyo. The broken arm is going to slow him down: he can't grip with it, can't tackle Gojyo out of the way, can't even attack two-handed.

Use your vines, Gojyo had said. Hakkai's gaze flicks down to his limp hand, to the dark green vine mark that curls like a tattoo across his skin, and he presses his palm against the ground. Pain shoots up through the arm, and he grits his teeth against it, sharp canines scoring bloody lines through his lip.

It is just like what he can do in his vessel form, after all. The vine markings race across the floorboards towards Goku's feet, ready to spiral up and bind him there -- but it's within reach of Sanzo, and Sanzo's not going to be able to move -- he raises his other hand, summoning another ball of energy, and calls out.]

Goku! Over here!

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