While Jazz made his way up towards the nest, where the blue data crystal still rested, mercifully intact, the Swordy seemed to relax from its skyward-staring pose, before its body shuddered once, long and deep, as though it were breathing. It looked down at its sword and passed the blade from one hand to the other, then paused again to glance at one of its gauntleted mitts, turning it back and forth and flexing the joints. It passed the sword back to its first hand and twisted it over its wrist, spinning the blade in a nimble motion, before turning to look back up towards Jazz at the top of the hill; the point of the sword drifted downwards, temporarily forgotten. There was something a little off about its movements; where before each action had been distinct, deliberate and precise, now there was a strange fluidity to its motion.
Before Jazz was finished searching the nest area, the remaining virus seemed to reach a decision and approached up the hill after him. It came with its sword held down and out to one side, passive, and stopped a respectful distance from the navi. It didn't seem to have anything that might make for intelligible language to share, but if Jazz looked its way, the Swordy turned its blade over, point to the ground and both hands on the pommel, bowing its helm towards him for an extra second or two. After another moment of respect it raised the blade upright in front of it, in a form of salute, before the warping effect of its area grab enveloped it and whisked it out of sight.
Jazz was left alone on the hilltop after the strange experience, the sole victor of this most unusual scuffle, free to gather the spoils. Strangely, his Bounty tracker seemed to have recorded and confirmed a target delete as well.
-=Viruses=-
LizeggLizegg (Cregg)
The Cregg version is a brown scaly egg with red spots. Most notably, it possesses a long gray tail that extends from a crack in the egg's rear, which is constantly on fire. It moves around by emitting flames from cracks in the scaly shell, trying to hit an enemy. The Lizegg is the same, but grows four gray scaly legs and feet that pop out of the egg and two holes at the front for two shining yellow eyes. It retains the tail from its weaker form, though the flames are a bit more intense. The egg grows slightly. Its scales also become stronger which allows it to pop back in for a defensive action. The Raptegg's hind legs grow more so it can stand on them. Its head, similar to that of a raptor but gray, pops out of the egg too and a long gray scaly tail that moves behind him frantically, which is covered in roaring fire. The egg grows slightly again. Same as the Lizegg, it can also pop everything back in for a defensive action, though it is better than its lower version at this.
Area: Netfrica, Hades Isle
HP: 150
Attack Damage/Effect: 40 Fire + Impact
Attack Accuracy: B
Attack Description: Spins to create a ring of flames around itself, then tries to ram an enemy.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): FlameScales2, Zenny
Special: Fire-element HardBody: Non-Aqua or Break attack damage is halved. Aqua and Break attacks deal double damage and ignore the HardBody effect.
Special: Can use an action to retreat into its shell, protecting it from all hits of a single attack. Break penetrates this effect. A: DELETED
LizeggLizegg (Cregg)
The Cregg version is a brown scaly egg with red spots. Most notably, it possesses a long gray tail that extends from a crack in the egg's rear, which is constantly on fire. It moves around by emitting flames from cracks in the scaly shell, trying to hit an enemy. The Lizegg is the same, but grows four gray scaly legs and feet that pop out of the egg and two holes at the front for two shining yellow eyes. It retains the tail from its weaker form, though the flames are a bit more intense. The egg grows slightly. Its scales also become stronger which allows it to pop back in for a defensive action. The Raptegg's hind legs grow more so it can stand on them. Its head, similar to that of a raptor but gray, pops out of the egg too and a long gray scaly tail that moves behind him frantically, which is covered in roaring fire. The egg grows slightly again. Same as the Lizegg, it can also pop everything back in for a defensive action, though it is better than its lower version at this.
Area: Netfrica, Hades Isle
HP: 150
Attack Damage/Effect: 40 Fire + Impact
Attack Accuracy: B
Attack Description: Spins to create a ring of flames around itself, then tries to ram an enemy.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): FlameScales2, Zenny
Special: Fire-element HardBody: Non-Aqua or Break attack damage is halved. Aqua and Break attacks deal double damage and ignore the HardBody effect.
Special: Can use an action to retreat into its shell, protecting it from all hits of a single attack. Break penetrates this effect. B: VERY DELETED
Swordy-F2Swordy-F2 (Swordy-F)
Area: Kotobuki Town, Netfrica, Hades Isle
HP: 160
Primary Attack Damage/Effect: 45 Fire + Long Range Attack + Slashing
Primary Attack Accuracy: B
Primary Attack Description: When this virus is 2 panels away from the target, or its enemies are 2-deep, it will attack with Fire Blade.
Secondary Attack Damage/Effect: 30 Fire + Wide Range Attack + Slashing
Secondary Attack Accuracy: B
Secondary Attack Description: When this virus is standing directly adjacent to its target, or diagonally from it, it will attack with Fire Sword.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): FireSword, Zenny
Special: Swordy-F's are immune to Blind Status.
Special: Uses Area Grab to get into attack range.: DEPARTED IN PEACE
Skarab2Skarab2 (Skullavia)
Area: Netfrica, Hades Isle, NetVegas
HP: 200
Attack Damage/Effect: 60 Null + Confusion + Homing
Attack Accuracy: C
Attack Description: Throws a bone that homes in on it's target.
Element: Null
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): Skully2, Zenny
Special: Collapses into a pile of bones when hit by non-buster attacks for one turn.
- Invincible while collapsed. A: FLED
BluePhoenixBluePhoenix (FirePhoenix)
FirePhoenixes are medium sized birds, constantly emitting fire from their body. Despite being able to fly, they lack some of the grace other flying viruses, and have only average dodging capability. Higher versions are truer to their name, and are capable of reviving themselves. However, a Wind-type attack will blow away their ashes before they can regenerate, and if they're deleted with an Aqua attack, the ashes don't form.
Area: Hades Isle, Kotobuki Town
HP: 180
Attack Damage/Effect: 50 Fire + Wide Attack
Attack Accuracy: A
Attack Description: Launches a wide wave of fire, shaped like a bird.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): PhoenixShot2, Zenny
Special: OmniShoes
Special: Rebirth: When this virus is deleted by a non-Aqua attack, it fades to ashes, then rises from them at the end of the turn at 70 HP. This effect only works once per virus. Does not trigger if the virus was deleted by a Wind-type attack, or if a Wind-type attack is used on the ashes prior to revival.
Special: Can use FireAura1 once.: DELETED
-=Navis=-
Jazz.Exe: 170Hp [Coal] [Casing: 20/20Hp][Barrier: 20/20hp][Shield: 2/2 Hits]
-=Terrain=-
15% Furnace
- Fire attacks: Splash to all adjacent panels for 20% Source Damage. Does not chain across multiple Furnace panels.
- Heat Mirage: Non-Fire Elementals get -10% Accuracy, +10% Evasion against Non-Fire Elementals.
- Aqua attacks: Vaporize into steam, increase accuracy penalty to -20% for Non-Fire Elemental and -10% for Fire Elemental for turn after hit.
- Changes to Metal Terrain when hit with an Aqua attack of 100 damage or greater.
- Echolocation nullifies the effects of the steam cloud and heat mirage for the user, and Seeking just ignores it.
- PanelShot: Imbue Fire.
25% Lava
- Non-Fire Elementals lose 5 HP/action standing, 10 HP/action submerged. Doubled for Wood Elementals, nullified for Fire Elementals.
- Aqua attacks: Panel explodes, +100% Source Aqua Damage, change terrain hit to Normal.
- PanelShot: Imbue Fire.
50% Coal
- Fire Elementals gain +20 Strengthen/turn, but must be allocated to Fire Element attacks only. Any Coal Strengthen vanishes after moving off of it.
- Non-Fire Elementals get Burn (5 Fire/action for 1 turn or until cured) the turn after they come into contact with Coal Terrain.
- 100 Damage Aqua attacks: Change terrain hit to Soil.
- 100 Damage Fire attacks: Change terrain hit to to Lava.
- PanelShot: Imbue Fire.
10% Sand
- -20% Evasion and reduced movement speed to all.
- Can Burrow as standard action, incurable Blind1 until turn after exiting Burrow.
- Wind attacks: +100% Source Damage + Blind1, change terrain hit to Normal, trigger Sandstorm for 3 turns: Lose 5 HP/action, Blind1, Fire attacks gain Slashing.
- Fire attacks: Change terrain hit to Glass.
- Terrain changes between Sand and QuickSand do not inflict damage upon burrowed entities, nor do they eject burrowed entities to the surface.
- PanelShot: Blind1.
-=Objects=-
BMD: 25Hp [In the nest behind the eggs]
-=Battle 1, Victory!=-
Spoils: 3150
Accuracy: S.
Description: Armors the user in a layer of diamond-hard Salamander's scales. The scales sustain only 1 damage per hit from non-aqua/non-break attacks, but their extreme weight decreases evasion capability by 1 rank and reduces overall movement ability while worn.
Duration: Until destroyed.
Element: Fire.
Special: Status Guard: This chip blocks debuffs.
Special: Casing is instantly destroyed by Aqua and/or Break attacks.
Trader Rank: C, Swordy-F Bounty +1
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