Description: Rio falls asleep, Munin breaks the fourth wall, Rio threatens Munin and insults the viewers. In the end, Munin is able to use blackmail to throw Rio off guard and win the match.
The baggage claim at Los Angeles International Airport looks much like the baggage claim anywhere else - a huge metal conveyor belt slowly moving around, with a huge metal conveyor belt feeding into it. If there's any variation, it's that the huge metal conveyor belt is relatively flat, and that the hall containing it is unusually wide and long, stretching further into the distance.
Rio has unusually large and unwieldy baggage, and this mean she usually has to wait. Additionally, going through security means she can't even be wearing half the crap she usually does underneath her clothing. She's given up on even trying to gamble with the various other passengers waiting for their baggage, they usually aren't in the mood.
So really, it's not a particularly exciting day. Nothing in particular is happening.
Luckily, she has put GPS in her baggage, and entered her phone to notify her when it gets sufficiently close, so she is lying on some unclaimed duffel bags she picked off the conveyor belt. She is taking a nap, her phone clutched to her side like a tiny robotic teddybear, a peaceful smile on her face.
Of course, according to the instructions they were given beforehand, she was supposed to pretend to fall asleep so Munin could attack her 'from the shadows'. Those duffel bags were unclaimed for a reason
...Unfortunately, she has jetlag, and has actually fallen asleep.
COMBATSYS: Rio has started a fight here.
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Rio 0/-------/-======|
COMBATSYS: Rio drops her guard to recover.
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Rio 0/-------/-======|
From said shadows, Rios opponent watches silently. Munins observant eyes take into account the cameras positions, the lighting, places for cover, and so on. It also catches something else....
Rios breathing, and rapid-eye movement.
As she approaches, she moves around Rio slowly, looking for signs that it's a plot, and a slow smile crosses her normally dower face. She goes over to the other bags lying around unclaimed, testing the weight of each, before nodding when one finally meets her unknown standards. Standing over Rio, she opens the contents overtop of the sleeping illusionist!
Dozens of womens garments, evening wear, swim wear, undergarments of various types, a makeup case, a hairbrush and dryer, ALL fall towards the sleeping fighter!
While most is innane and harmless, there ARE a few things that could be heavy enough to hurt a bit!
After dumping, Munin tosses the suitcase away, it's role finished, and waits for the reaction with a big amused smirk on her face.
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Rio
COMBATSYS: Rio fails to interrupt Small Thrown Object from Munin with Quick Strike.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Rio
Rio flails wildly as the stuff begins to fall over her - a moment before the various clothing actually starts hitting her. Which might look like she was pretending to be asleep. However, her motions are frenetic, unaimed, and wild, and completely miss. Her eyes blink open, and she stares up at Munin. "Oh, you. Why are you-" She blinks, as she remembers why Munin is here, then continues on. "Why are you here?"
Munins head tilts to the side slightly in confuision, then she smirks, snickering slightly to herself. The runes along her gloves begin to glow as she poses in a rather cocky and amused manner. She seems to be in a frisky mood, and for once is out to please the crowd, it seems "Don't tell me you forgot the SNF match.... or should i come back later and let you get more beauty sleep?".
COMBATSYS: Munin takes no action.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Rio
"Darn it, Munin, there's no point in falling asleep so you can attack me if you're going to break the fourth wall like that!" ...Yeah, sure she planned that. Rio springs to her feet, and steps onto one of Munin's feet if she can, so she can attack the girl with a flurry of powerful blows. "I'm guessing you still haven't achieved your Heart's True Desire. Well, for someone like you, something like that might be impossible!"
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Rio's Djinn's Unforgiving Whirlwind.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Rio
As Rio gets up, Munin just laughs at the reasponse "What fun is it if we NEVER break the fourth wall occasionally?".
When Rio 'steps on her foot', she goes right through it, and the illusion of Munin that had been standing there vanishes, revealing her to be about 3 feet behind where the image was.
With her left hand smoking with black misty chi
"Nice try! Catch!" she says, before swinging her hand in an arc, sending the burst of chi right at Rio!
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Rio with Shadow Wave.
- Power hit! -
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Munin 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Rio
Rio blinks as Munin just vanishes. "Wait, how do you /do/ that? You can't just-" She glances around for mirrors. Which means that when Munin attacks her, she isn't ready for it. She tries to drop under the burst of chi, only to gets smacked in the head, which is then knocked back into the wall. She falls down to sit on the duffel bags with a rather dazed expression, then slowly manages a smile. "I'm jealous. I don't know if I've ever been as jealous as I am now."
COMBATSYS: Rio comes up with a CUNNING PLAN.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Rio
After a quick adjustment of her purple-tinted sunglasses, Munin shrugs "It's a trick manipulating chi, for what ability i have. That simple". Her tone, however, has a bit of discomfort when she says it, though. In any case, she peers over the lenses, her narrow eyes beginning to glow brightly "Are you ready now?", as she sees Rio is still sittin down. (Figure i'll give her a chance to get her bearings after waking up..... but no more than that).
COMBATSYS: Munin focuses on her next action.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Rio
"Oh. No no no. See, I don't think you /understand/." Rio slowly stands up.
"If I control every single thing in a room, then I could replicate that. But... I'd need fifteen minutes of preperation, the lighting would have to be right, I'd need tools from three different places... and even then, if my opponent was in just slightly the wrong place, it wouldn't work." Her hands snap open, revealing two grenades. "Little glowy light effects, I'm not jealous of. I can blow things up, and I can make glowy effects if I want. But that... that is something I will /never be able to do/." She grins. "So maybe it's just because I'm in a bad mood because I just woke up? Or that you blew me off just because I wouldn't revive that dead person? But I'm going to make you /suffer/ today, Munin." She throws the grenades to the ground, and they explode into smoke, and in an instant, she's next to Munin.
COMBATSYS: Munin counters Random Combo from Rio with Terminal Response.
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Munin 0/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Rio
As Rio producces the grenades, Munin tenses, hands up and ready, but braced to dodge in the event of explosives!
When they result in clouds of smoke, Munin knows something is likely coming right away, and does one of the two most sensible things one can do in such a case......
She leaps straight up, and from above as she drops back down listens for the sounds of Rios movements
As Rio comes in with an initial sweep, she finds no legs are connected with. From somewhere in the cloud, Munin can be heard speaking, her tone no longer whimsical or laid back, but low, icy and with an edge "Do you honestly think YOU can make ME suffer worse than i have ALREADY?!?". A hand grabs Rio from behind, and on peering over her shoulder would see only the narrow, angry-shaped glows of her eyes glaring back at her from the smoke "You have NO idea how much you do NOT....." *STAB!* as Munin drives a lance-shaped blade of chi from her palm into Rios side ".... want to EVEN go there!".
She pushes Rio away after this, as the smoke clears.
Her shades block her eyes now, but her frown is evident she is definately not happy.
Rio stumbles back from the blade of chi driven into her side, takes off her sunglasses, and looks Munin straight in the... sunglasses. "Yes." Her voice is entirely serious. She tilts her head to one side. "Do you really think your suffering is special?" She puts on her sunglasses, tilting her head to the other side. "Do you know what other suffering there is?"
She grins widely, straightening her head back out. "Even I don't fully understand it. But there's people who are suffering worse than we have, right now. And here we are, fighting each other without any real reason on television, just for entertainment." At the word 'entertainment', she casts her hand out towards the camera. "What does that make us, Munin? What does that make them? I don't know the answer to that, either, but... it amuses me."
She turns towards the nearest camera, and pushes her sunglasses down her nose, changing her tone to that of a news announcer. "Don't worry, beloved viewer. I'm not insulting /you/. I'm insulting a lot of other people who happen to be watching. But not /you/. You're special." She gives the camera a wink and a grin, then turns back to Munin.
COMBATSYS: Rio catches her breath.
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Munin 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Rio
For her part, Munin is silent during the rant. Rio is saying nothing that hasn't crossed her own mind as well, on more than one occasion.
She peers over her shades "I never said mine was special, simply that i don't feel you capable of doing anything worse. EVERYONE suffers to some degree inevitably. All that matters is how and why". She looks back up, the shades once more hiding her gaze from view "WE are making a living, and at least in our case, willingly present for combat. As for those who do such things to noncombatants against their will, for whatever reason....." She smirks slightly again, but her tone is not a nice one "..... they'll get what is coming to them sooner or later".
"Speaking of the viewers, they are likely getting bored watching us try to solve the worlds problems!" She then blurs forwards, coming towards Rio with a palm strike aimed at the center of the chest.
COMBATSYS: Rio blocks Munin's Aggressive Strike.
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Munin 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Rio
Rio listens with tilted head, then blocks the palm strike with crossed arms, hopping a bit so the blow carries her through the air and creates some distance. Once distance is created, she uncrosses her arms, revealing that she's holding a hand of playing cards.
"Of course, I don't know what you went through." She laughs, pulling out one playing card as if her hand is a snake preparing to strike.
"But, I promise you: I could do worse. I probably won't bother to do so, though." She snaps her wrist tp hurl the card at Munin, with enough force to slice through flesh. This is abruptly followed by a lot more cards just like it, as she throws the entire hand through the air one at a time, in a quick flurry of cards.
"That doesn't mean you're not special, though! I just have other means to get what I want from you!"
COMBATSYS: Rio successfully hits Munin with Power Fling.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Rio
Cards? With a duck, Munin manages to dodge that first one, but when the rest come, she is hard pressed, and winces as several of them cut into her painfully. She's still standing and none the worse for wear, but that DID hurt!
She still laughs to herself afterwards "'Other ways' to get what you want from me? Oh, THIS should be amusing to see.....".
She blurs again, this time sideways slightly. As Munin passes Rio, she spins, aiming a spinning roundhouse kick at the girls head
COMBATSYS: Rio interrupts Medium Kick from Munin with Quick Throw.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|=======\==-----\1 Rio
Rio grabs onto Munin's leg higher up, and twists along with purple-eyed young woman, then releases her after a moment, sending her into the wall. Still, it's mostly just Munin's own force, so it shouldn't be too painful.
"Oh, I imagine it should be. I am an expert in the arts of love," she pulls out a bouquet of flowers from, "war," she pulls out a knife in her other hand, "and blackmail." She pauses. "I'd.... pull out an example of blackmail, but that'd kinda ruin it as a blackmail subject."
"Oof!" is Munins only response, though she is indeed not really hurt all that much by the impact. She raises an eyebrow, and pulls out a letter in a black envelope "I got your blackmail RIIIIIIIGHT here".
She then throws the letter to Rio as a distraction, then races forwards, seeming to vanish!
Despite this, she is actually coming in low, aiming a lance of dark purple chi extending from her palm at Rios stomach. Should it connect, she'll use the lower leverage to pick Rio up, lift her overhead, and then slam her into the floor.
The letter is.... well, just a letter. Why Munin was carrying a letter with a black envelope? Who knos.
COMBATSYS: Rio interrupts Eclipse from Munin with God's Miraculous Flight.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|===----\-------\0 Rio
"A letter!" Rio's eyes narrow. "It's almost certainly a distraction, but... a black envelope means... I REALLY WANT TO READ IT!" She grabs the letter from the air, the knife vanishing somewhere. She whips the bouquet of flowers in the way of the lance - the bouquet part is made out of aluminum, not mere aluminum foil like it looks like - and knocks the dark chi downwards as she leaps up a bit off the floor, and kicks Munin in the neck as she open the letter. This kick knocks Munin to the ground, where she stands on the blackmailer's neck while kicking her repeatedly in the stomach, AND ALSO READING HER LETTER!
Munin ERKS as Rio outmanuevers her, and rolls forwards with the impact. Coming up one knee, she takes a quick breather, removing her glasses and eyeing Rio steadily as she opens the letter. She smirks, letting Rio dig into it while she concentrates on her attack......
Solid blackness forms along Munins form, like a black cancer eating her from within. The darkened figure SCREAMS, sending several lances at Rio from all sides at high speed!
Afterwards, the blackness fades, and Munin returns to her normal appearance, putting her shades back on.
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Rio with Iron Maiden.
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Munin 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Rio
Rio stares at the opened letter, furrows her eyebrows at the car sale advertisement contained within, and then vanishes it. "...Okay, that was lame. I was hoping you at least wrote-" She glances down at the screaming, and then blinks as black lances suddenly sink into her.
She stumbles off of Munin, remaining on her feet for a moment, and then falls down to her knees, staring up at the girl who was briefly a shadow in pain and confusion, but not anger. "What... you learned that? On purpose? Or is that what you're...?" Her eyes roll up into her head, and she crumples to the floor.
COMBATSYS: Rio bides her time.
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Munin 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Rio can no longer fight.
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Munin 0/-------/------=|
A few moments after Rio collapses, Munin strides carefully over to her prone form. She checks the girls neck for a pulse, checks her eyes for dilation, and nods off camera to the medics to come in and do that voodoo they do so well.
Standing to let them work, she muses over Rios last statement, pondering. It may be worth looking into.... or not. She hasn't decided yet....
Munin then realizes the camera is on her, as the winner of this match, she glances over the edge of her shades, eyes glowing brightly at the camera "That's a wrap! G'night folks!".
Log created on 19:05:05 08/14/2012 by Rio, and last modified on 13:34:53 08/18/2012.