diatu | Going going GONG. - OTA Gong adventure.

((Sho got the gong adventure. Italics are the mods post, the rest is my reply.))

The crashing sound of a gong keeps disturbing people around campus. During class, during lunch, late at night... who keeps doing that? If it's a prank, it isn't funny. Find out who it is!

You have succeeded at stage 1 with a roll of 18.

The gong-wielder turn out to be a grim and grizzled old man who treats gong-ringing like it's the only thing standing between humanity and death. Once you finally manage to corner him... what will you do?

THAT WAS SO ZETTA ANNOYING!!!!

But at least there was some good news. There was a 0.00001% chance that this yoctogram was right and humanity would be erased if the sound stopped. Well. Two birds one stone was just good math. But one attack and the whole human race? Zetta sweet.

Sho really does think that this is a UG, and thus this is his best shot at becoming Composer of this region... if he erases everyone here who doesn't serve him. Oh, he might have gotten distracted by the chance to teach math and art and stuff, but this? Becoming Composer? What more could an ambitious reaper want?

So when he got from the fool that this was what he was doing? The math was too beautiful to pass on.

"INFINITY!!!!!!!!!" Was all the warning he gave before enacting his i flare attack. But apparently the attack was imaginary because he didn't have the magic back to make it happen. Well fine.

She smacked the pin on his chest. "GIVE ME A REASON!!!!!"

You ever see what a motivated falcon could do to the human body?

"This yoctogram is garbage," he told his familiar, a mania in his eyes. "CRUNCH! Add him to the heap!"

(So basically, yes, Sho Minamimoto is going to be attempting to kill an old man. Quite possibly with his own gong. And if he is successful, he plans to use both man and gong in an art tower in the middle of campus. Such a lovely shade of red.....)

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The constant ringing of the gong was annoying, sure (even Sora, a remarkably heavy sleeper, had been having difficulties ignoring it late at night), but it definitely wasn't worth killing someone over. The option never even would have occurred to him, but... clearly he couldn't say the same for this guy. Which considering his previous track record wasn't actually much of a surprise.

He heard the easily-recognizable yelling from a fair distance away, and what started out as curiosity turned into alarm as Sora got close enough to actually see why he was yelling-- and who he was yelling at. Half of the things Sho said tended to be nonsense to Sora, but the intent behind them this time around was perfectly clear.

Breaking out into a sprint, Sora skidded to a halt with his arms outstretched in front of the old man and his gong. Keyblade or no Keyblade, it was the least he could do. This whole routine was becoming painfully familiar, honestly, and judging from some of the messages on the BBS... he wasn't the only one encountering the issue.

"Seriously, what's your problem? You can't just kill everybody who annoys you!"

"I'm a Game Master, factorial. Erasing players is part of the job. One of the parts that adds to my fun." He smirked. "You here to face the Reaper?"

"Will you stop saying that? This isn't a game!" With a frustrated huff, he instinctively went to summon the Keyblade, but... well, that didn't exactly do much of anything. "And I'd rather fight you myself than let you erase anybody."

"Not my fault no one explained the rules to you, but if you want to add yourself to the list of those being erased?" GIVE ME A REASON!" he called, tapping his pin. A fractal falcon images from it with a bone chilling screech.

"Prepare to be iterated!"

"The rules don't count if you're the only one who understands them, you know!"

It took Sora just a second or so to realize that he... actually didn't have any means of fighting this guy, or even defending himself for that matter. He definitely wasn't good enough at magic to pull it off yet.

With a quick scan around the area, he did at least find one option-- there was a hefty stick lying not too far off. With a quick dash to the side, Sora scooped it up, holding it as he would a sword as he got into a more defensive stance. It wasn't much of a weapon, but even so he felt infinitely more confident having something to hit him with.

"Alright, bring it on!"

He pointed to Sora. "You erase the factoring hectopascal. I'/ going after the Zero," he said, aiming his bullhorn at the gong player like it was a gun.

The falcon lifted itself high, then dove for Sora.

"Hey!" Sora rolled out of the way of the falcon, albeit rather clumsily given he wasn't exactly holding a properly-weighted weapon, and turned to Sho. He figured he didn't exactly have a great deal of time before the bird came back around, but still. "Fight me yourself, and leave him alone!"

"I can do 2X the work this way. And now it is X2 die."

As the falcon swooped back.

Sora grit his teeth. There was little he could do with the falcon hounding him like that-- maybe if he managed to get it out of the way quickly, then he could deal with Sho. He didn't exactly want to knock the bird out of the sky or anything (it was just an animal, it hadn't done anything wrong), so instead he swung his makeshift weapon as near as he could manage in hopes of skimming its feathers or throwing off its balance. Anything to get it out of his way long enough to take on the real problem.

While Sora was busy with the familiar, Sho aimed his megaphone.

"SINE! COSINE! TAAAAAANGEEEEEEEEEEEENT!!!!!"

The spell was a half written slapdash thing based off of the few lessons he'd already had. Adapted to his own odd style, and using a bullhorn instead of, you know, a wand. All of this would be bad for someone who cared about precision with their magic. At all. Or who wanted to minimize the damage done. Sho was not that someone.

So the spell which was meant to erase the man killed him. And injured several a passersby. And the recoil knocked Minamimoto to the ground.

"Factorial...." he muttered, trying to sit up.

The familiar, confused by wanting to both follow orders and check on its owner hovered in the air, unsure, giving Sora a moment to breathe.

He wasn't entirely aware of what Sho was up to as he busied himself with getting the familiar out of the way, but no one could miss all the yelling that started up so soon afterwards. What was more unexpected than that, though, was the commotion that followed it.

The familiar wasn't the only one that was confused. Sora hunched over for a couple seconds after the bird stilled suddenly, trying to catch his breath enough to get back on top of the situation, but as he slowly straightened up he realized he didn't even know how to process the situation, much less get back on top of it.

This was going horribly, horribly wrong. That was obvious right away.

He took a couple of dazed steps over towards the many passerby lingering around (why hadn't he gotten them out of there first? He hadn't even noticed them standing nearby)-- some had clearly visible injuries, even from where Sora was standing, but he couldn't do anything about that at the moment-- and it very quickly turned into a sprint. He dashed right past Minamimoto, skidding to a halt several feet away from what used to be the gong-ringer.

He couldn't care less about what state Sho was in, or figuring out what even went wrong with the spell. Grip on the stick tight with panic, Sora whirled around to face him.

"What... what'd you do?!"

He had a bit of a goofy grin on his face, a little dazed. "Subtracted a zero.... time to add him to the heap..."

If there was anything to be thankful for, it was that the result of the spell had uncovered a much more efficient weapon lying underneath some leaves: a rock.

Not a very conventional tool to fight with, but an effective one, Sora decided. He didn't care enough anymore to stop and consider the more serious injuries it could cause-- Sho didn't even seem to care that people had gotten hurt, let alone that someone had died because of him. He had this coming to him.

"Ugh! That's it!" Tossing his stick to the side with a furious huff, Sora hefted the palm-sized rock up in one palm. "I don't know what you're talking about or why you think you can treat people like-- like they don't even matter, but I'm not letting you do it anymore and I'm not letting anyone else get hurt."

It was more than fortunate that Sho was out of it enough that Sora could make it over without worrying about the guy attempting to escape-- or worse, pick up the fight again. He crossed over to him in short time and, bending down in one swift motion, gave him a very solid knock to the head with the rock. Enough, he was certain, to knock him out, though despite everything he didn't want to kill the guy. He wasn't that willing to get into trouble.

He'd drag the guy to the Headmaster, or at least a professor or somebody that could get him there while Sora found people to help heal all the bystanders. He'd heard more than enough from the other students to know that Sho was a chronic problem, and this had to be some kind of breaking point. No way he could keep getting away with stuff like this.

Going going GONG. - OTA Gong adventure.

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We probably should preplot some of this on plurk >.>

rofl definitely, i can set up a pp if you want?

Sure. Thanks. Sorry I'm a little... not with it today

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