[Endgame: rise or DROWN]

[warpweft]

[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]

[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]

[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]

Comments

[cosplayed_out]

....We need a battle plan. Let's evaluate our strengths and weaknesses to form a baseline.

As for myself, I will stay back and attack until I can summon reinforcements. After which, my sister will be much more effective than myself.

[... she sighs, guess she'll drop character.]

Mukuro here can attack ranged until I can trigger my ability to "summon Keebo." He attacks with more damage when paired with Junko Enoshima's attack, who I'll bring out when he's active.

In any case, I can also make the DPS more effective if the Tank has HP to spare.

If anyone really, really needs me to get access to their abilities, I'll do it, but only if we're about to suffer a TPK. Cospox is not comfortable, even if the rules are interpreting it as a mere minus 5 HP.

[survivaltricks]

[. . . who is this person he doesn't know her at all]

We need to take down that barrier first. right? None of us can do anything while it's still up there.

[looks over at Nell with one raised brow. HE KNOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF A NAVI]

[voidhearts]

[Oh gosh, I'm being looked at.]

Sh....she's definitely gonna try to keep us out as much as possible. I can look around and see if there's anything around here that might help us get through it. Just tell me what you want me to do.

Um.

..."T-Tanking" is like. When somebody takes damage so others don't have to, right?

I. I can't do that. I'm...

[She holds up an arm.]

[It's a NOODLE.]

[cosplayed_out]

Right. The tank draws attention away why the healer heals them. Meanwhile the DPS attack the target and the support cast buffs on them to do better damage.

[voidhearts]

I...I think I'm the middle one. But also a little of the last one? I can turn people invisible when I go invisible and do a little bit of healing....

[survivaltricks]

[points at]

You're our Navi, so we have to keep you safe as much as possible. Without your intel, we're completely boned.

[THE NAVI IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY]

Can you pinpoint weaknesses in her barrier for us?

[voidhearts]

[She points at herself.]

N....Navi? L-like a Navigator?

[She kind of...likes the sound of that! She nods and pumps her fists.]

O-okay! I'll do my best!

[cosplayed_out]

This is cosplay. It's giving me access to her abilities as a mercenary who may have well have crawled out of a Metal Gear game.

[velluminous]

[ what is tank? what is dee-pee-ess? ]

I should not be in close combat unless it is absolutely necessary.

[cosplayed_out]

Then who's the tank??

[velluminous]

[ she glances around at everyone else and feels an unpleasant heaviness settle in her gut. ]

Oh, Mammon. [ as she produces her pipe and a match ] It appears I have spoken too soon.

[cosplayed_out]

You're the tank??

[velluminous]

[ LIGHTS UP. TAKES A DRAG. ]

No one let me die.

[cosplayed_out]

That goes for all of us.

[velluminous]

I will guard you however I can.

[messianic]

[ mmmmmm.... ]

I think I'm more support than anything this time around... Akira's right that we need to do something about that barrier as soon as possible.

And maybe the crystal, too, if we can.

[cosplayed_out]

It appears I can do a little bit of everything, though I suspect if I dilute my abilities I will eventually lose. At any rate, my immediate priority is to summon Keebo. I will provide barriers or attack as necessary to get there.