Daemon Mini Plot

[servileness]

Hello, Recolle! If you'd like your character to fight or yell at a video game mini boss, this may interest you! For full disclosure, this will also eventually end in Clover's death.

Intoners in Drakengard 3 can summon creatures or things called daemons. On August 24th, due to the nature of the current event and coupled with some other factors, Clover will summon Four's daemon, Armaros. She will be of sound enough mind to try to summon it just outside of the city, but once she summons the daemon, the immense power of the process will break her mind, and she will become destructive.

If anyone would like to be the person to notice Clover doing this and notify people, please me know! Otherwise, Clover can probably make some kind of melodramatic declaration, or well, it's hard not to eventually notice Armaros because while Clover starts her rampage outside of the city, she'll slowly move towards the city if no one stops her.

Armaros is a flying fortress lined with cannons and held up by wyverns. It's essentially a two part boss fight in Drakengard 3 because the green squares are more or less a magical tracking system that will pull anyone towards one of Armaros's four "eyes", which are basically a buzzsaw trap. Once the four eyes are defeated, the top part will detach itself and a ball of light will emerge to shoot out vertical and horizontal energy beams. Every part of Armaros can be fought! Every part does not need to be fought because honestly, if you'd rather kill all the wyverns or detach the fortress from the wyverns, I'd be down with it crashing into the ground and destroying it. Here's a video for reference (it's a little nsfw because Zero is never safe for work). If nothing else, Armaros has great background music.

Realistically, for Armaros, I can handle a max of three fighting threads with groups up to three characters. If there are more than three (groups of) people interested, I'll RNG it. If people don't want to fight Armaros but want their character to be hurt or something of theirs to be destroyed, I am open to that, too! Just comment below and we can work something out. I am, however, open to as many people who want to yell at Clover or otherwise. Edit: Because I'm an idiot and didn't mention this before, I'm cutting off sign ups on August 17th and will contact people on August 18th.

Clover will need to be stopped, but I already have someone lined up to deal the killing blow. After revival, she won't be wanting to see anyone, but she can't stop anyone from trying to see her. This is just a head's up that she'll still be difficult even after dying once. I'm sorry.

If any of this can be tailored to help you get a regain, please let me know, and I will do my best to accommodate! For additional info/permissions about Intoners, I wrote up another post here. This is my first time doing a plot like this, so if you have any questions or you'd like something clarified or expanded on, please let me know!

Comments

FIGHTING ARMAROS

[servileness]

Please comment to this thread if you'd like to fight Armaros! If there is something specific you want to happen, please let me know!

[nachetanya]

I want it so desperately. A lot. For real for real

[servileness]

I will hope for the odds to be in your favor!

I'm going to RNG on Saturday. Do you want Natalia to fight solo or in a group? If a group's okay, are you okay if it's randomized or do you have characters you'd prefer her to be with?

[breakingvoice]

i really don't think even AU Lina is spiteful enough to sit down and get popcorn while Armaros is on a rampage, and she did just get back some of that good old-fashioned intoner strength, so yeah i think i'm in

[servileness]

who would have thought they're having a thread that's not full of spite this month

I'm going to RNG on Saturday. Do you want Lina to fight solo or in a group? If a group's okay, are you okay if it's randomized or do you have characters you'd prefer her to be with?

[usurpers]

pls

[servileness]

I'm going to RNG on Saturday. Do you want Eren to fight solo or in a group? If a group's okay, are you okay if it's randomized or do you have characters you'd prefer him to be with?

[maskreant]

YELLS LOUDLY

[servileness]

YELLS BACK

I'm going to RNG on Saturday. Do you want Akiren to fight solo or in a group? If a group's okay, are you okay if it's randomized or do you have characters you'd prefer him to be with?

Re: FIGHTING ARMAROS

[flametheif40]

Wyverns ya say?

That sounds EXCITING!

Could there be something that bites his arm hard? Leaving scars and where the teeth sunk in?(For a regain)

I think I would rather cut up the chains...simply cause I have no magic...but a nice dagger and some fencing skills(maybe, just got the skill LOL)

[servileness]

Hello! I'm going to RNG on Saturday. What I'd like to know is would your prefer for Al to fight in a solo thread or in a group? If being in a group is ok with you, are you ok with being randomized or would you prefer him to be with certain characters?

If he gets chosen, I can ask if someone can get him close to the wyverns and chains so he can get bitten.

[burndownforwhat]

Jen is going to be there and do her best to do as much damage as possible before she physically Can Not. the only thing particularly sought after is her being flung through the air in one of those lanes of magic like some kind of guided fist-missile b/c directing her violence like that is kind of a thing in canon so it could lead to a few different regains. bonus if anyone wants to try a good ol' fashioned Fastball Special to set her up for this.

[servileness]

Hello! I'm going to RNG on Saturday. What I'd like to know is would your prefer for Jen to fight in a solo thread or in a group? If being in a group is ok with you, are you ok with being randomized or would you prefer her to be with certain characters?

If she gets chosen, I can ask someone to see if they want to fling her through the magic lane towards the buzzsaws! I hope I'm interpreting that request right.

[argone]

I would happily volunteer Kara here. Despite not having CR, she's definitely the type to try and stop giant rampaging problems. If you wind up having plenty of people, Kara is very likely to focus on damage control and getting NPCs out of the line of fire.

Honestly just the thing being around would be great for a regain or three, even if all she does is damage control I'd love to work out a thread of some sort to make these happen.

[servileness]

You don't need to have CR to want to fight or even to be able to fight Clover's monstrosity, no worries!

I'm going to RNG on Saturday, so I'd like to know: do you want Kara in a solo thread or are you okay with her in a group? And if you're ok with her in a group, do you mind it being randomized or do you someone you'd prefer her in a group with?

But also, if she isn't chosen, I'm more than okay with Kara having her own top level to do whatever damage control she'd want to do!

[smothershadow]

If you're not full up yet I'd like to volunteer Amelia! She wouldn't immediately get involved as she doesn't know who Clover is, but she would notice the giant flying death cake getting close to the city's airspace and get cranky at the wyverns. Her apartment has a pretty good vantage point.

Bonus fun fact: she helps run an architectural form in this AU (and I'm planning on keeping that) to help with the uh, property damage.

[servileness]

If Amelia wouldn't join in the fight but would like to be the one to alert people of the danger, I am cool with that!

If she wants to join in some kind of fight, just let me know if you'd like Amelia to be in a solo thread or if you don't mind being a group thread (and if you don't mind a group, whether or not you care Amelia's randomized of if you'd like her to be with certain people who've signed up).

[fiddlestick]

Hi I am SUPER late, sorry about that! Anyway, Elliot's a healer/mage so if there's still spots he could either provide support to a group. Or if spots are filled up, he can be a healer for people afterwards if anyone gets hurt (can't bring you back to life tho sry Clover). I'm super flexible with which one.

[servileness]

You aren't late, don't worry! I'm waiting a couple more days to see if anyone else wants to join. I'm realizing belatedly that I was very forgetful and didn't post a cut off sign up date, so I'll edit that in above.

I'll RNG on Saturday, but it sounds like you don't mind being in a group. If that's true, are you okay with being randomized into a group or would you prefer for Elliot to be with someone who's already signed up? I'm flexible and want to be inclusive as possible, so I'm trying to factor in what I can!

[compendiem]

I'm ready to max out my 3 regains a thread with this :3c For fighting Clover herself, will that also be a group thread/will Clover be near Armaros or will she run?

[servileness]

if i can give people that many regains, i will be happy.

Clover will be on Armaros! No running, only destruction.

Come to her on this fortress, Minato, but if it's easier, she can also jump off Armaros to go to him. Or anyone else who wants to fight Clover, tbh.

[selfloving]

jasmine doesn't have screamy music intoner powers yet, so she i didn't throw her into the fight rng as i didn't want to take any spots from actual fighters, but i volunteer the sister-who-isn't-a-sister-in-this-au for any destruction! feel free to hurt her or her npc brother or like, the building she works in. alternatively she can yell or be ground support along with amelia or (fill in the blank)

basically slot me in where there are gaps!!

[servileness]

if you want jasmine to deal with a destroyed anything, i am down!! clover passes by on armaros, and fighting causes a part of the fortress to drop on her like she's the wicked witch.

listen, you know i am ok with you doing whatever in this... i'm the most unhelpful

[blacksong]

oh my god i am so late, kill me

but at the very least rose doesn't have anything going for her aside from super strength and her regen rn, so i'd pass on the fighting this time around. BUT she'll definitely try to talk clover down... and talk to her once she's back....... or more like panic until she's back BUT EITHER WAY even if clover doesn't want to see anyone, she'll be here!! pestering her!!! what a role reversal

[servileness]

you're fine! don't worry!

at least rose won't die? she'll just regenerate forever since armaros isn't a dragon.

but yeah wow what a role reversal! clover won't know how to deal with this. it'll be fantastic.