CIS CIVIL WAR - The Battle for Beverage Superiority [CIS+Allies]

[Kurenai Yumi]

Kurenai's stern gaze lay upon the Moncal as they used a stun baton on one of the other tea supporters, a blunt and crude weapon, befitting of a coffee. "I guess I have found my latest opponent then", she mused to herself, charging towards the orange skinned fighter, tackling one of the coffe members, thrusting him towards her target upon getting closer. "You there, moncalamari, I will be your opponent for this fight, face me in one on one combat, and let the best beverage win". Though most likely able force slam the baton wielding individual into the ground Kurenai was going to fight somewhat fair, unfortunately regeneration and very above average strength was not an aspect she could really turn off like her force powers.

[member="Rick Kaloo"]

 

[Nine Lives]

As The Lovely Nine waded into the battle, spotting the heretic [member="Scherezade deWinter"] join the side of coffee and the shaman known as [member="Muad Dib"] start tossing liquor bottles and igniting the battle ground in certain areas, she smiled, signaling to the knights she had brought. Vera was still sitting in her seat with a look of curiosity.

"WHIFFFFFFLLLLEEE BAAAAAATTTSSSS!" She ordered, taking her own electrified whiffle bat out and she and her knights began attacking every coffee lover. She didn't mind liquor lovers too much but they were still heretics and for that they would be beaten. She saw [member="Kurenai Yumi"] engaging a Mon Calamari and gave a thumbs up. Kurenai had picked tea, like a truly cultured person would have.

The thought vampire settled on who to actually attack, and her glow-dot eyes focused back on deWinter.

"Scheeeeeeerrreeezade..." Nine called out in an outright demonic voice, pointing her whiffle bat at her after she smacked a coffee lover in the face with it.

"Face me...in Beverage Kombat! Whoaaooooo...hoooooooo" She called out, making strange Ki shouts as she held her hands up in the air as flames spread from Muad Dib's thrown liquor bottles.

OOC: Her pose at the end of this post is the same as The Arch Vile's from Doom when he uses his powers.

 

[Rick Kaloo]

As Rick continued to mindlessly cut through the inferior tea supporters, he suddenly realized one of his own allies was flying toward him. He slid out of the way just in time, witnessing the man collapse on the ground and quickly become trampled. Then, Rick found the verdict.

A tall, lean young woman with grayish-black hair stared him down, and even before she requested for a one on one engagement, he knew she was a potentially dangerous foe.

"I accept your challenge. Let the best beverage win." was Rick's response.

He disabled his second riot baton and put it back on his belt, wielding the remaining baton as a knight would wield a sword. Then, he scanned his enemy. She wore light, almost decorative robes, more suited for politics than a battle. The woman also appeared to be unarmed, though Rick knew she could be hiding any assortment of weapons under her sleeves. He certainly would not underestimate her, lest it cost him the battle.

Rick Kaloo sprinted toward the young woman, before delivering a powerful uppercut with his baton.

[member="Kurenai Yumi"]

 

[Kurenai Yumi]

Kurenai gave a small bow to the Moncalamari, glad he was able to take part in the private duel, hopeful no one else would interfere. Taking a stable and refined martial art stance, left arm in front of her right, knees slightly bent, Kurenai awaited an attack on his part, which he so gladly provided. As the large uppercut came around the pale skinned woman leaned back on her right foot, back bending back in an arch, letting the electrical weapon glide past her body. In the exact moment the weapon followed through she retaliated by pushing her body forwards, attempting to deliver a firm palm strike to the mans center. He may have been a littler slower then expected though his weapon was not something to laugh about, she'd have to avoid getting hit by it at all cost, lest be given a surprising shock.

[member="Rick Kaloo"]

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Madalena had jumped onto the battlefield. With every step she took forward, another knife slid from beneath her clothes. Twelve steps in and the last of the knives were out, ten of the hovering around her like a fan, pointy ends ready to stab any tea lover and leave enough holes in their bodies to turn them into sentient tea fountains.

Inside her head, rocks songs were playing at maximum volume.

A woman she had never seen before was staring at her. Scherezade staring back, her knives twirling around her as though she was the knife fairy princess, beckoning the woman to come nearer, trying to seduce her and make her run into her knives. Make her run into her knives ten times. She had it coming, for fighting on the side of tea!

Fire was roaring around her and Madalena’s lips moved, utterly a spell beneath her breath. Arrows began to come out of the flames, joining the dance of knives and seven veils that had absolutely no veils in it.

Madalena was just realized to launch her attack at the woman, when she realized something.

“Wait, what?” she asked, looking perplexed, “no, my name is Madalena.”

Spoiler

[member="Rick Kaloo"]
[member="Cardinam"]
[member="Callisa Asran"]
[member="Kurenai Yumi"]
[member="Nine Lives"]
[member="Muad Dib"]
[member="Fiore de Noir"]
[member="Josh DragonsFlame"]
[member="Srina Talon"]
[member="BNI-Bella and BNI-Leo"]
[member="Cim Salro"]

 

[Rick Kaloo]

Rick watched in shock as the woman effortlessly slid under the blow that had knocked out so many others. Before he could send a second blow her way, she hit him firmly in the chest with her palm, sending him staggering backwards. He took a deep breath, refilling his drained lungs.

"You are a worthy adversary. But your skills will be tested." said Rick as he prepared for yet another offensive.

He lunged forward again, but instead of the usual uppercut, he sent the blade in from the side, with the goal of repeatedly doing so from opposing sides until he wore the woman down. It was something he'd seen swordsmen, riot troopers, and Jedi alike perform with great effect against all but the strongest and craftiest of defenders.

And if swordsmen, riot troopers, and Jedi could do it successfully, then so could he.

[member="Kurenai Yumi"]

 

[Kurenai Yumi]

Kurenai made no outwards expression as her attack landed upon the Moncal, the man was being to reckless toward her, ture she did not carry much fame but the manner in which she acted should have tipped the fighter off on her prowess in hand to hand combat. She did have several hundred to perfect if after all and now ran a Dojo with the specific intent to pass down said skill to newer generations. "You are just a simple member of your race with not nearly as much experience as I have myself, it is you who will be tested this day", herself charging forwards, when within arms reach quickly ducking down, swinging her leg around aimed at the mans legs. It was clear he had training in basic combat, but was either lacking or not showing proper skill in any form of martial arts.

[member="Rick Kaloo"]

 

[Nine Lives]

Nine stared at [member="Scherezade deWinter"], saw the knives floating around her. Her Force Sense kicked in and she only barely evaded the arrows that erupted from the flames to surround the young witch.

Castle Morpheus eclipsed the sun as it still hovered over the battleground. It could not eclipse all the light that still came through. She had ordered it to blare pro-tea propaganda at every passing vessel. The trouble was The Lovely Nine had written it herself so it came out mainly as an insane, non-sequitur rant, that only tangentially involved tea and waa mainly warnings about how one's DNA could be stolen at any time, along with, as always, her hated mimes. Any vessel that was yellow was flagged.

Nine thought about how to go about fighting the witch as the knives orbited her person. Definitely should have brought the grenade launcher, she thought as she drew Hundred Handed Giant.

But Nine, Boring or Lovely, had always had a penchant for misdirection.

She pointed at the ground close to deWinter's ankle--

Riggs' body hit the ground in an infected city, eyes bloodshot and open, the gunshot that killed him sending an echo up Nine's spine.

The vampire snapped out of it, the euphoria of her Fugue State taking hold over what was still a stressed out woman pushed past her breaking point once more.

"Mother Nature, draw the world to where I point." she uttered.

The Singularity Spell worked like a weak Force Pull, drawing whatever wasn't big or nailed down to the center of where she pointed in a fifteen meter radius. She dashed forward with the Force at superhuman speed, wiffle bat raised...

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Okay, so apparently they weren’t going to talk about her name wasn’t Scherezade, but was Madalena.

Madalena shrugged, eyes misdirected towards the propaganda ship for a mere instant before the corpse of someone fell by her feet. She looked with curious eyes, somehow knowing that it was the woman’s doing, but she had no idea why she’d done it or who the man was.

Really, she wanted to ask about it. But the next thing she knew, the tin-foil covered woman began to pull her with the singularity.

Oooh! That was an awesome spell! Madalena wanted to learn it! But not while she was being pulled at blinding speed towards the woman, or was it blinding speed because the woman was also dashing towards her? She wasn’t sure.

As she moved, angling herself in the air, hoping that her boot would kick the woman in one of her ribs (any ribs, really, she wasn’t greedy about it), Madalena opened her mouth and unleashed the strongest Force Scream she could conjure.

The word that was given shape by the scream?

"COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"​

[member="Nine Lives"]

 

[Nine Lives]

Nine, whatever strategy she had had before, went completely out the window when she was hit with the sonic attack.

It was agony everywhere as nearly crippling pain washed over her and she dropped her sword, the sonic attack having caused severe blisters across her face and arms. It had been at point blank range. Only dodging at the last second had kept her from suffering the full brunt of the attack, but even what little she had gotten had been more than enough.

Her ears rang, her equilibrium thrown off as she was flung backward, the pain so awful she could barely pick herself up afterward, and even then she still ended up falling to one knee. Her lawyer, Vera rose up immediately and ran through the battle of idiots. Her own knights who had ganged up on one coffee lover and were taking turns beating him with the electrified wiffle bats instantly dropped the rediculous plastic weapons and sprinted to the blistered woman.

There was no euphoria in this agony and no Lovely Nine anywhere. Boring Nine was in charge for the moment as she staggered off one knee in pain before dropping again, this time unconscious for real just as her white clothed lawyer found her.

"Chit. Sonics..." Vera snapped. "Mother, can you hear me?"

Nine didn't respond. Her breathing was slow and shallow. Fortunately, since she was unconscious, and therefore asleep, the blisters were already starting to recede, if slowly.

"Get her to the ship. She's done here..." Vera ordered the Knights, who immediately hoisted her up gently on their shoulders to take her back to the Saotome Envoy they had landed in.

Vera turned to [member="Scherezade deWinter"], passing her Vera's business card. The raven haired, ivory toned 'woman' gave a professional, 'Well done' smirk to Madalena.

"No hard feelings. Come to Castle Morpheus sometime. Its my client's base of operations." she spoke softly and diplomatically, though the assassin biot felt a strange sense of unease at how swiftly her creator had been defeated as she left Madalena on the strange battlefield, looking only to tend to her creator's well being.

OOC: Nine's species has an advanced weakness to sonics and there was really no way I could think of for Nine to counter the attack at such close range. Scherezade wins!

 

[Paragon of Virtue]

CONTESTANTS IN THE TEA VS. COFFEE WAR​

IF NONE SHALL POST WITHIN 3 DAYS​

COFFEE SHALL WIN​

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Spoiler

[member="Astrale Cage"]
[member="Rick Kaloo"]
[member="Cardinam"]
[member="Callisa Asran"]
[member="Kurenai Yumi"]
[member="Fiore de Noir"]
[member="Nine Lives"]
[member="Muad Dib"]
[member="Scherezade deWinter"]
[member="Josh DragonsFlame"]
[member="Srina Talon"]
[member="BNI-Bella and BNI-Leo"]
[member="Cim Salro"]

 

[Paragon of Virtue]

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A Special Thank You to All Participants​

[member="Astrale Cage"]
[member="Rick Kaloo"]
[member="Cardinam"]
[member="Callisa Asran"]
[member="Kurenai Yumi"]
[member="Fiore de Noir"]
[member="Nine Lives"]
[member="Muad Dib"]
[member="Scherezade deWinter"]
[member="Josh DragonsFlame"]
[member="Srina Talon"]
[member="BNI-Bella and BNI-Leo"]
[member="Cim Salro"]

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