holyspirits | W5 CYOA - Zhongli, Akihiko, Laurence, Ali Zoph

[ You may not have rolled well, but seemingly at random or perhaps by a lucky shot, Lucas' knee goes out? He falls down to one knee, barely catching his weight. His spray of bullets still hits Zhongli, again feeling like punches and small cuts, before his aim flies off to nothing. ]

Where do you think you are? Which Lucas do you think you're talking to?

Lucas, regardless of when or where.

[ if he's really here, he's talking to the heart of him to try and bring him back out. if he's not - then, well, he's talking, which he's very good at doing. the sudden way lucas takes a knee, though, is enough for him.

looks at my rolls

well. he's going to go lunging for him to try and get his rifle away. i hope he gets shot in the face, frankly. ]

[ He doesn't get shot in the face.

He gets hit in the face with the butt of the gun. Then he gets shot!

......... Weirdly, getting hit hurt more. Lucas doesn't manage to scramble back so this is now an extremely close range gun fight. ]

[ owie. noted.

bringing his arm around, zhongli brushes the back of his previously very nice maid uniform's sleeve across his face to clear away some blood, focusing on lucas as he goes scrambling back.

he doesn't want to kill lucas. but he does want to stop him. so he lunges again, this time going to grab at his ankle to yank him close again - no scrambling away, sir. not when he's putting his so-called blockhead to work, now, rearing back to headbutt him. ]

[ Zhongli is SOOOOO good at grabbing Lucas! (I got a 2.)

He yanks Lucas back and gets more bullet spray to the gut for it, point blank. The bullets don't pierce through him, but his skin tears enough to start bleeding through his clothes.

He still manages to headbutt Lucas and it fully knocks him out. What is this completely varying level of injury tolerance people have here. Don't worry about it.

Lucas is now unconscious on the stage!

Now what!! ]

[ wow, really hope these injuries don't get worse when we leave the blue archive world!

zhongli just kind of sits there for a moment, recovering from the onslaught of bullets and getting hit in the face. still holding onto lucas' ankle, in case their battle waif wakes up again. can he look around at the stage area? is there a projector, or are the others just on display on their respective stages without any physical means of it being done? ]

[ Haha!!! What!!! No........... Why would they get worse............

There is a projector, up on a tall stand to the back of the seating. ]

[ :pikaphone:............

cool. what's going on on the screens at the moment? is it just him and lucas, here, or is the announcer in the audience for him? ]

[ Zhongli does not have an announcer any longer.

On the screens he sees: an endless recursion of Akihiko watching them on the projector too. Projections of projections of projections. Then it changes. He sees Ali shoot the announcer before returning to the 'normal' daytime ship. Then it changes. He sees Laurence and Iris just kind of. Arguing. ]

... well, my friend. I think it's time that we find a way out of this so that we might get back to where we're meant to be.

[ lucas is unconscious, but that's fine. he eases himself upright, taking one of lucas' arms and pulling him up, up, over his shoulders into a fireman carry so that he'll be able to more freely use his guns if need be.

one of them he takes and aims at the projector, firing a round at it to see if it does anything. ]

[ Zhongli shoots the projector, and the "movie" on the screen comes to a sudden stop.

The sound fizzles out, and then slowly, so does the night. Lucas disappears with the scene change as the daytime ship coalesces around you again.

You are standing, bloody but ignored, in the hustle and bustle of so many teenage girls. You may reunite with Ali and The Idol. ]

W5 CYOA - Zhongli, Akihiko, Laurence, Ali Zoph

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