Trial By Fire (Platinum Playhouse Dungeon Dash)

The last time he'd been in this disguise, he'd been practicing to try avoid failure. The last time he'd battled properly, it was on that outing the prior night during the full moon.  And regret told him that he hadn't pulled his weight. Many of those that had pulled their weight, Nightingale, Veritas... They were not around, following a lead or something. So, Tomomi- no, Ribbon, stood around at the Playhouse, waiting for others to gather in his terrorist guise, intent on getting a group together to try exploring the night once more, to get stronger, to get experience, and to grow as a team, having a few in mind that he was sure would be willing to join, such as from the previous night...

So, the boy terrorist waited. The night was yet young.

	HP: 191/191  ||  SP: 132/132
Level: 8 (Rank 4) Exp:  74 / 1205 Uses: 11 Strengths: Wind / Light Weaknesses: Ice / Pierce PEnd: 14% MEnd: 16% Ppstr: 15 Pmstr: 38 Dx: 12 Lk: 57	Equipment Head | Velvet Lenses : +50 HP (PVS) : Hands | Gloves of the Apothecary : Healing spells provide a 10% defence buff for 1 turn :

The feeling of excitement was almost overwhelming, Callie had only recently found the secret hero base of the Playhouse and wanted to make sure she could prove herself to be a worthy hero! She'd had to make up some excuse to Kay as to why she'd be staying out late that night, to which Kay wasn't massively fond of the idea though Callie managed to get her way in the end. For now though, the young vixen followed her instincts to find her way back to the Playhouse after not really paying attention how she got there the first time, though if what Nightingale said was true, following her instincts should do the trick fine.

It didn't take her long to reach the place and quickly donning her disguised form with shorter white hair, green eyes, green clothes and quickly clearing her throat to make sure she was ready for the strange feeling of talking with an altered voice, Callie stepped inside. The inside of the Playhouse looked... Drastically different from the first time she saw it, it was a little disappointing really. It looked so cool as a super secret hero lair! Either way though, there seemed to be someone here already that she didn't recognize.


"Heya~!" The girl chimed cheerfully, her tail lightly swaying with excitement and anticipation as she approached the guy and held out her hand. "Nice to meet ya, I'm, uh, Cylla! I'm new so I hope I don't get in the way~. Of... Uh, whatever it is we're doing!" Her joyous demeanor was accompanied by the girls usual warm smile. She wondered just how many heroes of the Playhouse she was going to meet tonight... Eeee, so exciting~!

Zaku already knew she wouldn't be going on the mission despite having gotten a good deal of the information, but she didn't mind, she gave the information to the group going on the mission and left it at that as she was now simply waiting at the playhouse, Ribbon was there as well, and apparently he was waiting for something, more then likely another training run, hopefully one that went a bit better then the previous.

As she waited Zappa looked to her Axe and checked to make sure it was in good condition, as well as her Machine gun, though as someone started to speak her lone red glowing eye moved along her visor and looked at the new comer who was introducing herself to Ribbon, and then questioned what they were doing "This Unit is preparring to go on a Training run, which I assume is the intent of Ribbon waiting for others otherwise he wouldn't have much reason to stand and wait here..." she said in her modulated robotic voice as her glowing eye returned to looking over her Machine gun which she had stripped and cleaned and was now in the process of reassembling.

Kendra was excited. The last time she had been on a dash, it had been a full moon. And it was honestly fun, even if she felt like she could've done more to help. Most of the other people had done more damage than she did, but that just let the girl imagine what she could do at full power. She didn't want to go on a mission yet, since the dash was a better opportunity for training in her mind. She was happy to see Ribbon and Zappa from last time there, and she felt even happier seeing someone she didn't recognize there.

"Sultana has arrived! And I'm ready for the dash! This is going to be so fun! Probably better than last time!" She had wanted to come off as cooler than she had, but she just couldn't hide how excited she was to train so she could continue to be a hero. She felt like she was entirely ready for action!

The next night is here. Yuri decided to tag along with the Playhouse once again. Killing demons was among the best uses of his time. He eventually came across the familiar gang. Yuri leaned over the shoulder of the mechanical looking fellow, and forced some armour into their hands. "You should stay safe... okay?" He continued onward, as if he didn't just invade someone's personal space. Last night there were many more people than necessary. Would it be the same tonight? Was anyone else arriving? Instead of asking someone, he just stared up at the moon. It was now waning a little. He heard the moon phase had a negative effect upon the earth when full. Okay. He reaffirmed that theory to himself as most likely true.

The night came and brought with it the darkness of Endymion, the shadows that clung in the places no one wanted to look, for fear of what might be lurking there in wait. But on this night, five brave and steadfast adventurers would seek to test their mettle, and in doing so, better themselves against the enemies that would likely seek to destroy them.

A simple training mission, indeed. In pursuit of their training, they would find themselves eventually on the outskirts of one of the many wooded areas between Sunlake and East Eden. The shadows in this particular wood seemed to whine and creak. It could just be branches in the wind...only there was no wind blowing at all.

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Yuri hoped to make as much of his time as he could, so he rallied everyone forward. "Let's go. If we don't waste any time, we'll be able to clear out every demon in this forest tonight." Just as he entered the wooded trail, he came across a complete split in the path. Left or right? 'If this were a normal forest trail, this would most likely loop around, though at night, only God knows if it'll be the same. Should we split and go both ways? No, someone could get killed if we're not all together. There are no conclusions I can make right now. Thinking upon this any longer would be useless.' Disregarding the thought to split up, he headed right, and assumed everyone would follow. What sort of demons would they encounter? Perhaps some made of wood? 'Someone with dominion over fire would help. Is anyone here capable of that? There was that one man...' He thought of Dante, who wasn't here tonight. 'Regardless, we'll be fine.' He truly believed that whatever they might have encountered wouldn't stand a chance against him, specifically he, Yuri, himself. He could be hunting demons on his own right now. Doing it in a group where he was not the designated leader might be bothersome, though his allies were, in fact, strong, and thus a help, he acknowledged. There was a turn up ahead, but it was still a good distance away. It would be best not to turn before checking around the corner, and he decided it would be a good idea to forewarn everyone ahead of time. “When we get to that corner,” he said, motioning forward, “take caution.” It was the event from last night when a member of the Playhouse had mistakenly been ambushed by a demon that prompted him to verbalise that warning. Hopefully such an occurrence wouldn't repeat itself. It was that Nightingale, she wasn't with them tonight, was she? Unfortunate, she was rather strong. And that Cylla, Yuri hadn't seen her before. He wondered what her Persona was like. From how she carried herself, she seemed rather happy-go-lucky. 'People like that are the easiest to gain the trust of. I suppose this is fortunate, perhaps.' Wasn't Sultana the same, though? It's good that people can maintain a positive expression despite life's hardships. 'Someday I'll make a world where everyone can be happy like that.'

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It's too late he's getting closer to the corner. There's nothing that can be done to stop him. We haven't even discussed who's going into battle and he's right up next to the demon, oh gosh, oh fuck. Yuri, please get back here this instant, oh no, he's getting even closer. Oh no. Oh, he stopped. He stopped at the corner. Wow, that was pretty close. Luckily, combat has not been engaged.

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Yuri peered around the corner, seeing that there was, in fact, a demon ahead. He summoned his blade, and dashed forward to engage.

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Zappa followed the others and as they made it to the corner She watched in fact she had been watching before as well as the one that gave her the vest seemed to be trying to assume the lead, though they were not really asking the others much in the that regard and seemed to just be doing what they wanted. But at least they seemed to be cautious around corners....at least that's what she thought until she seen them dash around the corner to engage a demon "Words will be required after this..." she said in her robotic tone as she headed off after them

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Sultana also made sure to follow, trying not to move too quickly or loudly in case she alerted the enemy. She didn't know if she wanted to follow the guy whose name she didn't get from last time, but nobody else really seemed to be stepping up, so she decided to place her trust in him. And it already seemed to be time for combat, so any chances of a discussion regarding leadership vanished, not that Sultana planned on complaining at all. She followed the others, dashing to engage with the demon they had encountered.

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Following the team out on this so called Training Run, Callie would happily follow along whoever it was that decided to take lead. She wasn't sure who was meant to be in charge if anyone, but she was new here regardless so she knew better than to try and take charge herself! Though, as they began exploring, Callie took it upon herself to go up to each other member present and introduce herself in the same manner to each of them separately. "Hey, nice to meet cha. I hope we can get along well! What should I call you? You can call me Cylla~!" She'd grin happily to each member as she did this, regardless of if they were going to be serious with her or not she wanted to at least try a pleasant hello to her newfound team mates.

It was kinda odd that none of them questioned her being here, she hadn't met any of them before though maybe it was quite common for new people to just turn up...? Though it was even stranger that none of them commented on her ears or tail. I-it honestly felt bizarre after hiding them for so long that they weren't even really considered anything weird in this kind of environment. Truly an odd feeling. Either way, Cylla carefully followed the troop of Playhouse Heroes until an enemy was spotted ahead, to which she would quickly follow the others into battle.

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Note: Forgot to write that I had auto-tarukaja in effect