SNF 2021.07 - MC: THE WITCHING HOUR

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Description: Ambrosia tests out her new body and combative skills against the Black Knight within a bell tower... yet will the silent armored figure's ball and chain be too much for the enterprising fighter?!



[AMBROSIA]
It was a nice day, or maybe it wasn't, but nowdays all days were nice for Ambrosia, so even if the place was all gloomy or her opponent would be, she didn't really care. She was first at the bottom of the cathedral. She felt good, this body so far had been perfect for her. She idly wondered how they were going to film from the top of the bell tower, until she saw some drones fly about. She says outloud. "This explains that." As if her thoughts had been previously voiced.

After watching the surrounding for a short moment, she teleports herself on top of that bell tower with her magic. She was getting more experienced with it, and at least she didn't teleport herself high in the air with no floors under.

Once she appears at the top, she lands on one hand and one knee. "I wonder if there is a way to get up there physically, probably if my opponent is not magic inclined." She stands up, and stretches, ready to see what this body would be able to do in a fight. At least it was hers, hers alone, no more sharing. With that thought, she gives a big smile.

[CHANG]
The question of Ambrosia's opponent is answered the moment she teleports on the circular walkways at the roof; although, of course, there's a few staircases leading down for people to come up to maintain and ring them. Twenty stories up, the stone floor has myriad tall columns with gas lanterns, and many smaller bells flanking the massive central one; Light flows in from many open archways, with balconies to overlook quite the scenery.

And slumped against the side of the bell is Ambrosia's opponent -- a hulking mass of flesh, with large hunks of steel and iron strapped to him. Beneath it is black cloth, but Chang is far too huge for even this to fit; lumps of pink flesh slough out here and there around his midsection, and a great horned helm with a face covering has a massive black beard poofing out in all directions, flowing to the middle of his chest. His right arm is much more heavily armored, complete with a metal pauldron of comical proportions, ending in a few coils of long chain terminating in a massive iron ball, easily four feet around of solid iron.

Although it seems the Black Knight is... indisposed, for the moment. He's snoring, surrounded by empty casks of wine and countless snacks, with hearty evidence he has recently consumed it all. Only when the smaller bells begin to toll loudly all around does he startle and lean forward, brushing away the pigeons after his beard crumbs. "Hnnn?!"

Oh, right. He was hired by some sexy girl to beat up someone dressed in this ridiculous getup. She had droned out something about a theme, but he wasn't paying attention... with effort Chang gets up, looming high as he flexes and twists to stretch himself out. Ambrosia was supposed to defeat the Knight Defender of this bell tower... and clearly, he is the only option up here!!

[AMBROSIA]
The bell rings, and she keeps looking around, almost as if she would see the top of a cathedral for the first time. Perhaps so.

She then jumps a little, as if she didn't see this huge man, with an ill fitting armor, until he made a sound... But she quickly get her smile back. "Oh you will be my opponent, brute force againsts the power of love and friendship." She beams, and waits a few second before adding. "I am just kidding."

Her head cranks up as he gets up. "You're tall, now I feel like the red riding hood, against the wolf, but you certainly don't look like my grandma." She laughs a bit. "So come on big guy, let do this. Don't hurt litle old me too much. I am a flower, and you don't stomp on flowers!" She also didn't exactly want to fall down, but it could be handled. She gets in a sort of fighting position, if one can call it that. It wasn't exactly a common stance, but either she could do something, or this would be one of the shortest fight in existence.

[CHANG]
"..." There's no particular response from Chang beyond tilting his head to the side. This is who he's supposed to fight...? Well, he'll take a free win and getting out of this armor, to be sure. Although he does allow a grin, mostly unseen beneath the slats of his visored helm, at the thought of crushing flowers. He actually got a kick out of doing that, especially the outrage and horror it caused in others. So fragile... probably an ominous thing!

The bells continue to toll and ring around, as Chang merely advances towards Ambrosia, not saying a word... each footstep resonating deep, chains clinking as his armored hand grips tighter, before the ball behind is gradually reeled in, coming to hang over his shoulder. "Hee hee hee..." comes out of his helmet -- he seems pretty non-verbal! ...which might be one of the main reasons Lyraelle hired him for this little skit. What kind of souls-like character TALKS...?

COMBATSYS: Chang has started a fight here.

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Chang            0/-------/-------|


COMBATSYS: Ambrosia has joined the fight here.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0            Chang


COMBATSYS: Tower Bell has joined the fight here.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-------|


[AMBROSIA]
Ambrosia hadn't been able to talk for several years, so now it's a lot harder to shut her up now. "Ok then guess we see what you have in store for little old me. Not words apparently." She jumps back and watches her opponent while in the air, and when she lands back down.

After she decides her pondering, she rubs her hands together. Magical energy builds up in her hands. She rubs them more, until the energy can eventually be seen. Red angry energy is around her hands.She then pushes her hands toward that big man, sending the energy his way. "Let say what you do with that sweety." She then gives a wing, as if at the moment, she wasn't taking this seriously at all.

COMBATSYS: Chang overcomes Take Your Medicine from Ambrosia with Hayai Tekkyuu Dai Kaiten.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-------|


[CHANG]
The tower bell swings in!

"Hnnnn!" is all Chang responds to Ambrosia, when she once more attempts to communicate with the hulking figure. He rolls a huge pauldron'd shoulder, gripping the chain higher upon it, as he finally comes to a stop. What he's doing couldn't be called a combative pose... he's just loafing upright, before she builds up energy within her hand. Twisting backwards, as she lets flash her energy assault... Chang suddenly whirls his iron ball in a swift, brutal arc! The first pass hits her own attack, displacing the energy violently away. After it rotates around him once, cleaving an angry furrow of breaking stone through the ceiling above, he twists to launch it rapidly towards Ambrosia, shooting out the massive iron ball to try and slam into her midsection!

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia blocks Chang's Hayai Tekkyuu Dai Kaiten.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-------|


[AMBROSIA]
"You're so not fun as a chatty partner." Ambrosia giggles, but not that long as the big man destroy her energy rather easily. "Well ok, that's how we will play it." She makes a cute pout

She then rather than trying to move out of the way, she uses her hands in a circle movement to make a red shield with her magic, that absorbs some of the iron ball energy before it hits her, but she still winces. "Ok I felt that, but it's my turn now!" She gives a grin, still excited about this.

She then run toward the big man this time, then jumps up, red energy coming from her feet, making her jump higher than normal. At the top of her jump the red energy pushes her harder back down, as she aims to hit the man's head with her a magical red fist. "Bang!" She says if she hits. Because she's noisy.

COMBATSYS: Chang blocks Tower Bell's *DONG*.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-----==|


COMBATSYS: Chang endures Ambrosia's I Believe I Can Fly.

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Ambrosia         1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/---====|


[CHANG]
"...?" The Black Knight sneers. This girl uses some strange techniques... he's not sure what they are, but he's rarely come across situations where raw violence is not a solution. Kim is at the forefront of that, maybe, but... suddenly the bell lets loose an intense impact right behind Chang. He freezes, tensing his body and covering one ear with his free hand. "HRNNK!!" But he then looks up, stamping his foot forward. He makes absolutely no attempt to defend himself; instead, he swings that huge iron ball in an overhead swing. Her crimson-sheathed fist slams into the brute's face, heavily denting the iron mask and mashing it against his nose as the lower frame breaks away to reveal half of his grinning mouth... as he then tries to slam his weapon atop Ambrosia and smash her straight down into the stone floor at his feet!!

The tower bell swings away... *DING*

COMBATSYS: Chang successfully hits Ambrosia with Crushing Strike.

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Ambrosia         1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/---====|


[AMBROSIA]
Ambrosia hits the big man, helmet and face to a point. "Bang!" She indeed says and then, she gets hit hard by his big iron ball, and slams into the ground. Bang indeed.

She grunts. "Oh my god, that like hurts so much. Owww." But she manages to roll back on her feet, but she doesn't look nearly as fresh as she did a moment ago, blood even came out of her nose and mouth. "What you lack in words, you have in strength!" She then calls forth the red magical energy in her right hand again, before slamming it into the ground. It travels toward Chang, keeping a link to her a well. If she has her way, the energy circles around his waist, and then brings it to her "Come here!" . When he's close enough, she slams her left energized hand straight into his armored chest. "Now back off!" She screams both time.

After she is done, whether she succeeded or not, she whips some blood from her nose and mouth with her right hand.

[CHANG]
The tower bell swings in!

COMBATSYS: Tower Bell successfully hits Chang with *DONG*.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/=======|


COMBATSYS: Chang interrupts Come To Me. Now Back Off from Ambrosia with Tekkyuu Dai Assatsu.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/----===|


"Hee hee hee...!" Chang agrees when she mentions strength; he pats at his belly, atop an iron plate, that sets the majority of his visible flesh quivering! Although the bell then resonates yet again, and this time he's not so capable of handling it... the sonic reverberations ripple through him, breaking away a few pieces of his metal armor with a "HNNN!!" of pain.

Only to find a tether of crimson energy wrapping about him. He then braces on the ground, dashing forward. The first part works in her favor; but when she attempts to drive him backwards, the Black Knight launches himself upwards, impacting Ambrosia's hapless frame and drawing her into the air. Before he drops straight atop, crushing her into the floor under a very considerable bulk... as he hops off, looming back up to his formidable height before her once more!

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia dodges Tower Bell's *DONG*.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/----===|


[AMBROSIA]
At least Ambrosia managed to pull on the big man. One might consider that a feat already. But after that, it doesn't go so well. Whether it is because of the bell, she manages to get out of the way of that distracts her, or because Chang can over power her magic, or probably actually both, she does not manage to hit him, and further more, she gets crushed into a pizza. Good thing she had no toppings on her, or she might have been eaten.

She's not as fast at getting up now, but she still manages to. "Ok, I need more practice fighting in this body. Thank you for letting me see that mister." Though her voice is not as sharp, or playful as it was before.

Then out of nowhere, she gives an uppercut, no magic behind it, just a straight uppercut, although she has to jump with it, to try to hit better at the head. "At least I don't get hit by bells." Though it would be better if she didn't get hit by the big guy either.

[CHANG]
The tower bell swings away... *DING*

COMBATSYS: Chang blocks Ambrosia's Strong Punch.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/----===|


"Hmph...!" Chang derides, before patting at his belly once more. Given some of the strappings and iron were blown off, it gives a much greater resonate jiggle as a result. Indeed, her own assaults seem better suited to more... traditionally sized individuals. When she swings out a fist, Chang leans down with a growl, taking it right in the forehead. She smashes off the rest of the helmet, but... that probably hurt her knuckles! Before he reaches out, trying to grasp the smaller woman, so he can heft her up... and slam her upon the ground! Before twisting behind, to slam again, trying to leverage her in repeated impacts with the ground using his free arm with a relentless force!

The tower bell swings in!

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia dodges Chang's Dai Hakai Nage.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/----===|


COMBATSYS: Ambrosia dodges Tower Bell's *DONG*.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/----===|


[AMBROSIA]
Hitting straight on the helmet without any magic to help, did hurt her fist. Which she holds to her a moment, and is that cursing coming from mouth... It sounds like it, but soft.

It seems to sharpen her senses, as she rolls under his grab. "Not this time my big friend." Only to realize she's in the way of the Bell, having to roll again, luck on her side as she get narrowly missed.

Alive for another round." She then stumbles toward her opponent as if she was about to puke, only to lift her body up to slam her head under his chin. If she has her way, before she brings her hand with magical energy to hit harder. After that she whips some more blood again from her nose. "Be my valentine." She spurts out randomly.

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia successfully hits Chang with I Don't Feel So Good, Neither Do You.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/---====|


[CHANG]
"Heh!" is all Chang has to say as the battle continues to reach a crescendo. He shifts forward, trying to bring up a huge forearm as she disorientingly lumbers forward. Of course, he doesn't seem to care about her seeming nausea... yet it's not the hardest thing in the world to peel past Chang's defenses, as her fist slams into his face for the third time! This one seems to make him reel, before he shifts out to stomp the ground, assuming a broad sumo-like stance. "HNNNNNNNN!!!" He exhales so hard that visible puffs of steamy air billow, hefting up his huge iron ball past the shoddy knight get-up and beginning to wildly spin it to pump himself up for the finale...!!

COMBATSYS: Chang begins to rotate his ball and chain overhead!

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            1/-------/=======|


The tower bell swings away... *DING*

[AMBROSIA]
"I can still hit can't I?" She smiles this time as she has hit again, even if it's a tired smile. "You want to play, alright let play." She opens her arms violently and she gather energy from around herself, seemingly a bit less tired as she does it. "this feels good. Thank you Mother Earth, love ya." But she still gathers some more, breathing deeply, but keeping an eye on that big ball of his.

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia takes a deep breath and absorbs some of the magical energy Mother Earth has to offer.

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Ambrosia         0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            1/-------/=======|


[CHANG]
The tower bell swings in!

"Ptooey..." Chang spits out a lump of blood saliva, clearly looking to be reeling a little. It's a smart ploy; if she focused her attacks on that huge armored body, there's no way she would ever get through it all to injure him in time. But even his thick, dense skull is starting to pound as a result! "HRRRRRGH!!"

Then Chang grasps his iron ball, beginning to slam his forehead against it repeatedly. It splits open his forehead, before another exhale of steamy air. Then he launches himself towards Ambrosia; aiming to slam his iron ball into her, striking out with stubby-legged kicks and punches, before an attempt to capture her by the throat to slam repeatedly upon the ground yet again -- before a storm of headbutts, the last of which he tries to send her flying into one of the smaller bells at the climax...!!

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia blocks Chang's Tekkyuu Dai Bousou.

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Ambrosia         1/-======/=======|===----\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-------|


COMBATSYS: Ambrosia blocks Tower Bell's *DONG*.

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Ambrosia         2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0       Tower Bell
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Chang            0/-------/-------|


[AMBROSIA]
Ambrosia moves her body as best as she can when she gets grabbed, for less damage to it, but the blows she gets takes her toll. She gets hit on the ground, a crack can even be heard from her body. She blocks some force of the headbutts, but they still hurt her as her nose throws blood again as a hit goes through, getting her right in front of the bell, which she blows with her arms, but winces from them being already sore. She isn't solid on her feet, but she mumbles something, the magical energy denser around her for a moment, making her hair moves around as if there was suddenly some heavy winds. Than her nails get longer, more like claws now. She jumps toward her opponent, and tries to impales them into both of his cheeks/temples area. Her vision was starting to fade, but at least he had a rather big hed. If she manages to impale them, she sends magical energy inside both for damage, and drain some of their life force. But at one point seems only her claws impaled, is what is keeping her up.

COMBATSYS: Ambrosia can no longer fight.

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Tower Bell       0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0            Chang


[CHANG]
The tower bell swings away... *DING*

COMBATSYS: Chang blocks Ambrosia's Nailed It.

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Tower Bell       0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0            Chang


The tower bell swings in!

Chang seems surprised that Ambrosia is even still able to move, after all that; manifesting brutal claws and lunging towards him, he releases his iron ball and manages to just barely grasp her forearms in time. Claws sink into the flesh of his face, drawing blood and a wince of pain as the energy surges... but the huge figure just barely manages to keep upright, before moving to shove the girl to the ground and heft up his iron ball. Yet he pauses, when it's clear that she's no longer able to fight. Pauses. ...pauses. ...no. His disguise is mostly ruined at this point, and if Kim found out he pounded a flattened opponent to the ground... that's going to not be worth the immediate satisfaction. Maybe the rehabiliation is working in the most abstract sense, if it's keeping his violent tendencies at bay? "HO HO HO!!" Chang cries out, jiggling his belly with both hands and then giving the massive flesh a heavy slap. Which almost takes him off his feet... but gathering up his ball and chain once more, he begins his lumberous gait towards the stairs down! Time to collect his check...!

COMBATSYS: Chang has left the fight here.

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Tower Bell       0/-------/---====|


The tower bell swings away... *DING*

[AMBROSIA]
By the time Ambrosia is shoved on the ground, she's really knocked out. Chang is able to go down the stairs and leave. Ambrosia after that is still unconscious, but just like that her body disappears, without any conscious thoughts it seems. More training was in order for the noisy girl.

Log created on 15:09:13 07/02/2021 by Chang, and last modified on 20:50:07 07/02/2021.