Town Hall, Saturday, December 19, 2020 [Morning into Afternoon]

[fh_extras]

Fandom, at this point, was a bit of a disaster. The chocolate lava, flowing since Wednesday, had spilled out of its rivers and frozen to the already icy cobblestones. The sugar icicles had gotten longer and more dangerous to unwary pedestrians, the marzipan boulders were deadly when they picked up speed coming down the stairs, and the choking fairy lights had teamed up with the sharkicanes to drag people into snowdrifts--now up to shoulder height--forever.

The inflatables that hadn't been knifed, shot, or blasted to pieces yesterday were out roaming again, fruitcakes were still lying in wait to crush toes and bark shins, and the less said about the terrifying new reindeer and their mesmerizing red noses, the better.

The island needed a few heroes right now to buy time for the science team holed up inside Town Hall. Fortunately, it had a lot to choose from.

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Re: Big Finish!

[notallbluemonks]

"Okay, here -- fuck! Here goes," Beau replied, interrupted briefly by having to dodge a marzipan boulder. She'd landed enough hits on the bear by now to have a pretty good read on the flow of its life force; it was just a matter of getting herself into a good position to actually strike at a vulnerable spot.

"Yash, we're doing that thing!" she yelled; she circled around the bear (no taking attacks of opportunity from that thing, thanks) toward Yasha and basically parkoured off her shoulder like they'd done this before.

It wasn't perfect. She'd have much preferred to get up onto its shoulders or something less precarious, but the damn bear was way too big and they didn't have that kind of time. Still, between the boost from Yasha and her own dexterity, she managed to scramble up one of the bear's hind legs just far enough to jam her fist into a soft spot on the back of its knee and basically create a temporary break in its energy flow that would stun it.

"Oh hey, it worked," she mumbled just before gravity got the best of her and she started falling. "I'm good, just focus on this guy!"

Monks, man.

Re: Big Finish!

[betterthanaplan]

Duke madly flicked his lighter and got the dynamite lit, then thrust it at Jesse. "Take it take it take it take it take it!"

He didn't like carrying lit explosives, okay?

Re: Big Finish!

[weirderthanthou]

Jesse didn't take it with her hand. She wasn't nuts.

She ripped it out of Duke's hand with her power instead, lifting the burning thing up into the air a few feet away from herself. "Here goes!" she bellowed.

And hurled it at the bear's gaping maw.

Re: Big Finish!

[superjoanjett]

“I don’t know about the rest of you but this is the craziest Saturday night I’ve had in a long time,” Jessica noted as she watched this stuff go down.”

Re: Big Finish!

[betterthanaplan]

"Eh," Duke said with a shrug. "Define 'a long time'."

What? Between Fandom and Haven, he'd had a lot of crazy Saturdays.

Re: Big Finish!

[notallbluemonks]

"Yeah, I mean --" Beau picked herself up off the ground and waved a hand dismissively. "This is honestly kind of, like, an average day in the life for me and Yasha sometimes."