Death by Design [Vexx - Hacker Event]

By this point in the battle, Lou's normal appearance had utterly vanished to leave behind an ice sculpure form of him. Only when the body moved as fluidly as his did could one tell that this in fact, was, still Lou. He brandished his bow and sprinted the last bit of distance to the hacker. As Lou closed the distance, his Ice Slick began to wear off, slowing his movement as well as entering the TIME to slow his efforts further.

As Lou entered the slowed space, he nocked an arrow into his bow which had started icing over the moment that his hand touched it to brandish it.

"Come pick on someone your own... well... Come pick on me!!" Lou shouted up at Vexx from the height of his waistline.

"Release the man you're holding, and cease and desist your malicious efforts to ruin the fun of these fine people around you! If you don't, I will forced to give you a sound thrashing at your own inconvienence." Lou gave Vexx a warm... albeit cold... smile.

"One month of subscription says that you can't do to me what you've been pathetically trying to do to them."

Lou watched as arms swayed back and forth beneath the feet of Vexx and Death as they groped in earnest for a target.

Lou kept his arrow nocked, aimed directly at Vexx's face while waiting for Vexx to make his next move.

As the trident projectiles flew from the street, they angled up to try and hit Vexx in the head. Even as the first of the darts began to find their mark, Cordelia begin summoning more of the projectiles from the street below. As she started the hand gestures for her spell, she finally started to register what some of the players around her were saying. The staffer flag on the woman who interceded between herself and the boss as well as the one on the man who stood before the large skeletal figure now registered in her mind. But who was the guy hitting the giant skeleton with a fish?

And on the thought of fish, something flashed past Cordelia's vision. The stone armor around her had been blocking her vision somewhat, but as she was far enough away to see the battlefield as a whole, the rain of fish falling from the sky snapped into focus. At least that explained where the other player had found a herring. She did notice that it was red. "Oh. That's clever." She stated to thin air.

Cordelia noticed the spell she was holding and got her own idea. Her eyes scanned the sky for the fish falling from it. She had to wait for one to fall through just the right area, and target her spell just right. She spotted what she was after, and with a giggle, let her trident darts fly. They sped away from the street, heading straight for the six armed lich's head. The smile on her face spread more as the darts flew through the fish that had been falling between her and Vexx. It wasn't a red herring, but the sockeye salmon now being carried by projectile would hopefully live up to it's name and get pinned by small stone tridents to the hacker's face.

As the corpse hands rose from the depths of the earth to cling to Vexx, they would find that it was not so easy said as done. There were bones forming around Vexx's body. Protecting him from the grasp of the undead hands as they saught to catch him up. Even so the attack was not entirely ineffectual, and worse...

TIME had run out. Everyone would find that they could move normally now, at the speed which was natural to them.

Vexx had no desire to enact the hack again. The strain that the hack had on the system was extreme.

One of the men was calling to him, daring him to attack and Vexx only shook his head. They did not understand. None of them did. He was here to play the part of the villain, and villans did not choose their victims from those seeking to die. His hand tightened around the man he held for an instant before tossing him aside just as easily without invoking any of his dangerous attacks.

He tilted his head skyward, lich flames in his eyes dimming as he connected to the private channel between himself and the other hackers. It was dangerous to use any channel to communicate lest it be tracked by the SCCO, but he wasn't planning to say anything terribly important. "IS IT TIME?"

With that, a blue door appears behind him, he turns, and vanishes into it. Gone.

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