As the massive beast came to a halt, Jazz had recovered and answered with his own army of hares that began to strike back, peppering the creature with shots of their own. The volley of knives struck in, making a line of piercings across the beast's shoulders, while beneath its feet the magnetic terrain shuddered, and then crackled, going dull and normalising itself under the barrage of wooden attacks.
A low chord reverberated out of the beast, like humming live wires as it growled, eyes flicking about to the multiple targets, before it stamped both front claws again and threw back its head with a fresh howl of fury. Lighting raced up through the golden tracing of its body, building into a storm amidst his quills, before pulsing outward in a acing wave of bolts that thundered across the open space in an expanding dome of electricity. Jazz felt the wave roll over him, the flaring light blinding him briefly, and he felt it cracking away at his next layer of defence. His partner decoys were gone after the wave, of course, though one would be back soon. Riccio huffed and growled its odd tech-sounding growl again, sizing up the remaining intruder for a moment. Beneath it, where its blood had spilled slightly and run into the ground, the black magnet panels reasserted themselves over the damaged ones, while the gold metal threads shot fresh circuit pathways through the repaired black metal.
After only another short instant, Riccio pressed down with his claws, leaping backwards to the edge of one of the tunnels, then drove a fore-claw into the metal in front of him, spinning his great body around in a swing that displayed the entire forest of spines on its back directly towards Jazz. As it passed the midsection of its arc, the beast discharged the entire array at him in a blasting bolt of lightning that seared across the panels, just as Jazz himself slipped into shadow. The bolt tore through him, thick and broad enough to engulf his entire body, but it passed by in a detached way that failed to properly connect, and as the light flared and Riccio landed again at the end of his spin, Jazz remained unharmed.
Riccio's eyes flicked and scanned, picking out Jazz again more slowly this time as he growled low. It seemed almost like he couldn't tell quite as clearly where Jazz was, in his shadowed state, though the black eyes still focused on his rough location eventually. Jazz was already moving to counter, but between the blinding light of the disorienting bolt that had just passed through him, the insubstantial essence that now protected his body, and the asteroid's low external gravity, the arc of his boomerang travelled wide of the beast on one side, and then wide of it again on the return, failing to connect. Riccio's head whipped side to side, its body shifting in response to the attack, and he stalked an extra step forward, trying to narrow in on the slippery navi.
-=Beast-hunting Hare =-
Jazz.Exe: 185Hp [Black Magnet][Shadow:2 Turns][Self-Slow2: 1 Turn][Imbue Wood: 4 Charges][Army of One: Clone appearing at start of next(this coming) turn, lasting for next turn]
-=The Solitary Thunder=-
Riccio: 4820Hp [Black Magnet]
-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet
- Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
- Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
- Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
- PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.
Terrain is an open space, with several large tunnel openings, each about thirty feet across, which lead down into the asteroid. One opening is directly behind Riccio, another is directly behind Jazz, with a third off to the right.
Black Magnet: Magnet surface created exclusively by Riccio, the solitary thunder. Acts in all ways like normal magnet terrain, with the exception that it cannot be burrowed into, even by elec types. It also resists terrain changes, and has one instance of terrain protection, which is consumed the first time a panel would otherwise change.
Field Effect: Low Gravity: Movement effects travel further, and Movement and Feint actions have 10% increased evasion. Accuracy of thrown and lobbed attacks is reduced by one rank.