[OPEN] Water wars

[fuhrinkaed]

Who: OPEN: Ed, Susan, any poor souls caught up in the crossfire.
When: 6/10
Where: Caissa
What: A fated showdown, except with water guns
Rating: None

[If you're near the Caissa Center Plaza, you might come upon a pair of heroes who are getting a little bit too into the festivities. Ed and Susan are practicing with water magic by trying to pelt each other with bolts of water while the other tries pelting them right back.]

[Unfortunately, several bystanders may be caught in the crossfire of spells gone awry or simply bad shots or good dodging. Between that and the fountains going off at random--well, everyone's going to be getting a bit wetter before the day's out.]

Comments

[suzinkazan]

Haha, that's what you get E-BWAH!

[He can hear her yelp as she. Stepped right over one of those geysers and it got her.

He can hear the gurgling.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[He laughs, before speeding around the corner to fire a bolt at her. She's got like. A couple of seconds before he finds out. Think fast!]

[suzinkazan]

[Uh oh.

If he figures out she's in normal clothes she'll lose her big advantage. She needs to think of a way to get him to look away, she thinks. ...Option one, freeze his face. That'd work, but he'd totally call it cheating.

And he'd be right. And while she's totally okay with that, he'd probably whine that it was an ignoble victory or something. So...]

ED THE GEYSTER KNOCKED MY TOP OFF LOOK AWAY RIGHT NOW.

[Plan B: Lie.]

[fuhrinkaed]

Oh geez!!

[He jerks back, looking away and using the corner as cover.]

R-right! Sorry! Let me know when it's back on!

[suzinkazan]

[She quickly returns to cover.]

There, it's safe.

You can look.

[fuhrinkaed]

[He looks around the corner.]

Oh, not fair! You went back into cover!

[suzinkazan]

What did we discuss before, Ed?

All's fair.

All's. fair.

[fuhrinkaed]

You abused the sanctity of a timeout!

Let this bolt of water reach the blasphemer and smite her mightily! Water bolt! [He flings this one, which will take a sharp turn at the corner and. Possibly be useful.]

[suzinkazan]

[Judging by the yelp, he nailed her.]

Jerk, you learned how to curve it?!

[fuhrinkaed]

It's not that much more complex than making it sit and wait for me to fire it!

[suzinkazan]

Oh, you think you're clever? Jerk, I - uwah!

[There's a crashing sound.

It sounds like she fell. COULD THIS BE.. A CHANCE?]

[fuhrinkaed]

[TIME FOR AN ALL OUT ATTACK.]

[He rushes around the corner, already calling up another small water bolt.]

[suzinkazan]

[Ed doesn't find Susan.

He does, however, find a water bolt, hovering right at his face level as he rounds the corner.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[He tries to jerk back to avoid it, and winds up faceplanting into it dead on. Oops.]

Wa--blegch! Phhpbt!

Susan! What the heck?!

[suzinkazan]

What? It's applied magic!

[She's calling from her new cover.]

[fuhrinkaed]

So it was a magical trap..? That's pretty smart! [He takes cover himself, peeking out at where she's yelling from.]

[suzinkazan]

A shame I can't do more than one, though.

[She wishes she could just leave him a minefield.. but that isn't on the table, right now.

She falls silent after that though, to try and keep him from figuring out where she's gone.]

[fuhrinkaed]

Yeah... more than one spell at a time is really draining, compared to back home. It's more complex than writing my own Bursts was, too.

Still... [He makes another tiny orb and waits to see where she's coming from to fire it.]

Even under these new rules, I can't lose to you!

[suzinkazan]

[She pops out of cover again to fire her own at him.]

I'm not gonna lose to mister 'just put in more ether and keep putting in ether' either, y'know!

[fuhrinkaed]

[He fires his back, and the two bolts collide in midair. It's more a happy accident than any purposeful awesomeness, though.]

And I won't lose to a brazen woman who'd use her own skin as a weapon! Whether it's with a swimsuit or coating herself with poison, the type of weaponry doesn't matter!

[suzinkazan]

That's a pretty bold statement considering how you slow down everytime you even think of it, Ed.

In fact, Maybe I'll just step out into the open to prove it.

[She's making another bolt, and getting ready.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[He prepares one of his own.]

Then do it.

Show me all you've got, and I'll respond by kicking your butt. With water. To the face.

[suzinkazan]

[SHE STEPS OUT, IS ED PREPARED FOR

Her in soaked normal clothing.

And if his face shows the slightest sign of confusion, he's gonna get that bolt pelted in his face.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[His face shows the slightest sign of confusion.]

[And that is a waterbolt to the face.]

Wha--bbppfhthh--!

[suzinkazan]

[... And she's gonna try and pelt him until her mana bottoms out, now.]