[Day 2, Night - A House South of Town]

[direstnews]

[Written into the ground alongside one of the houses to the south of town tonight are a series of strange letters, forming a rough circle near the wall. A figure of approximately Loki's build, not there during the day's exploration, leans against the wall at the corner. The door to the house is open.]

[Some hours after the sudden switch from day to night, Loki stands in front of the door, a candle before him, a kitchen knife in one hand and a spoon in the other. He checks the mirror set carefully in the darkness, nothing yet visible in its surface. Then he strikes the knife with the spoon's handle, and he holds his breath - and he waits.]

Comments

[12npcs]

[Made of some sea of doll parts, a child's and two adults, it seems to take on three or four mismatched shapes at a time. Sometimes it pours into sitting, others into standing as it churns, deciding what to do as Tempest's lightning strikes its other half.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[--jolts as Tempest screams.

Unsure what caused it, keeping his eye on the separated body pieces she's split open for any movement. This thing is dividing itself a lot, does that mean it's spreading its strength? Not everything is that fair though.

Not wanting to wait so long someone pays for it, he hooks his sai into his hands. He snaps one hand forward, a long whip of lightning coiling out at a body part on a far edge of the scuffle - it doesn't damage so much as trap and pull if it does what it ought to, aiming to pick it off and pull it up to him where he can slice it.]

[12npcs]

[The sai sinks into the quivering piece, the lightning causing it to blort, bubbling in some unpleasant paralysis as is snapped back towards you.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[when it's about 4 feet in front of him, stops it midair for BLADE MODE, switching weapons in a flurry and slashing at it with obscene ninja speed with his high frequency blade]

[12npcs]

[It almost seems to hang there in the air, bulging around each slice... before it falls apart at each of those seams, dropping to the ground below in quickly liquifying cubes.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[do those cubes have any heat left in them?]

[12npcs]

[There's a faint warmth to them... your eyes don't see it cool so much as sink into the ground and vanish.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

... [not good.]

[GONNA KEEP NINJA PICKING THESE OFF UNTIL A BETTER SOLUTION PRESENTS ITSELF]

[12npcs]

[The little parts you hook and slice are easy prey... It's not until Loki draws ALL of their attention and a large part drops Asellus - becoming somehow larger, and firmer - that something becomes a new, obvious threat, climbing up the wall with heavy hands.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[... There. That's the opening he was waiting for.]