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..., there is one person in particular whom Harmaus wishes to capture for his plot.'' ...a human teen at times, go fig. Hiro just sits there with an even rhythm of metal across stone, as he sharpens his blade on a whetstone, the fishing pole hel

The relations between the Veruni and the Metal Demon have certainly come to something of a head-- with Mother positively b 'The alliance with the Metal Demons is a matter of convenience.' Those were the words Volsung had said,

It's all gnarled and twisted, too close to the contaminates of old war to stand tall and proud like its ...it could be the long-lost twin of Devil's Due, but it's made of cold black metal that reflects the light in a strange, oil-slick rainbow. A single, spherica

Once called Castle Rabenstien the ediface had been twisted and turned by its new masters. Some had already faced the strangeness there ..., the black and twisted blade of the Sword Dancer. Grown strong, even more twisted. Feeding off the knight and off the corrupting magics of his home.

...h has happened. With the Trial Knight and Ragnell ostensibly allies to the Metal Demon effort, it would not have been difficult for them to have obtained ne ...drapes over her eyes, binding her sight... the way her clothes are dark, a twisted form of her usual Fereshte robes -- as if a mockery in plain sight.

...oss the chart pulled on his tablet where the medic leans against the wall, twisted away from his patient. ...door, waiting for Loren's presence again. Monitors beep along as Loren is twisted away from her, and she does not attempt to draw his attention. She breathes

...here far, for fear of worsening our situation here. They are allies of the Metal Demons." Much in the same way many Metal Demons are reconsidering their alleigances.

...nd at the ready. "... Milord Alhazred has returned from field testing. The Metal Abomination 'Ialdabaoth' was destroyed by the Drifters, within expectations ...ck where her necklet would be, visibly grafted in a faint yet definitively twisted manner.

Ida sees her own reflection in the wall of ice, twisted in ways that make no sense. She takes a breath, holds it, and lets it out-- ...ort of gel, nearly but not entirely frozen through, and carefully layered. Metal -- tubing -- threads through the layers, up and away to the world above.

"We considered using metal frames instead, but..." Layna shrugs. "Seemed easier this way, aye?" ...nt reasons. It was fine, though, sometimes you could even still follow the plot!

...calibration was thrown off by a particularly heavy blow. It's made from a Metal Dragon fossil, yes, but that's the case for so many. ...Gwen's ARM reaches out for it. Malevolent essence starts seeping into the metal.

great beast. These resemble towering, twisted networks of coral. They pulse ...power beyond expectation. But she could not fight Sin alone - despite the Metal Dragon's power, Sin had the advantage of numbers in the army of Sinspawn an

...idus really has to do is wait his turn and then give the twisted, agonized metal a good kicking. ...it turned out, the sword was always well-matched to her dark, leather-and-metal sense of style.

...iendship promptly exploded in her face when it turned out Riesenlied was a Metal Demon, appearing with the other Demons in the destructive assault on Adlehy ...not pass - before tasking them with preventing Mother, the goddess of the Metal Demons. In the depths of the Temple, Catenna was further tried by Celesdue

With a firm pout on her expression, Shalune sits down on the metal gantry of Big Shal's back, checks the belt and support she uses is still fi Gingerly, Catenna tries the door. Only a stubborn rattle of rusty metal greets her.

...know what the Metal Demons are intending, but..." The mere sight of those Metal Dragons brought back terrible memories of Adlehyde. "...We need to get ther ...way forward... a silhouette approaches. Footfalls filling the air with the metal ring of their approach.

the distance, the noise of twisting metal crunching the sheds below. Underneath a collapsed Metal Beast, you encounter a group of Tainted

...-tools and surrender," says the woman. Ida knows better than to assume the metal fans she's reaching for are for show. ...d head now has ''two'' broken arms, and his colleague carries him off on a twisted ankle. Out of the trio, only the woman with the fans is fighting. She stand

*'''Cast:''' [[Character :: Leftover Metal Beasts]], [[Character :: Ines Colina]], [[Character :: Talise Gianfair]], [ ...those who can no longer fight. In so doing, they are attacked by misshapen Metal Beasts that try to bar their way. But what is the truth behind these leftov

...t, and comes up with the smooth, metallic block that is the Demon Eye. Its metal carapace hinges, and the eye opens on its back, glimmering as she sets it o dials that can be twisted around it. Aligning them in a certain way might

*'''Log: A Metal Demon Migration''' *'''Summary''': ''Three worn-down Metal Demon soldiers (and a loyal Metal Beast steed) decide to head west the hard way through the brewing battle be

...nch. A small team explores the Gutter in search of Tainted survivors - the Metal Demon underclass. To the more able-bodied of their number, the Tainted are ...to fend for themselves against the breach of monsters, not to mention any Metal Beasts thrown down from the various experiments that happen upstairs.

...goes down that path. Those familiar (or rather, familiar ''enough'') with Metal Demon items and workings can identify the power lines that tend to lead tow The surrounding architecture about these layers, not so much. Metal has turned to slag and rapidly cooled from where weapons fire of an indeter

METAL DIGGER LOCUS appears where Carina was standing, just a second ago. "Crime doesn't pay when Metal Digger Locus is here!" she announces, striking a pose before leaping and pe

...who're in the direct warpath that will ensue between the Drifters and the Metal Demons. ...tted anything amiss? Things missed that shouldn't be, or creatures made of metal roaming the countryside?"

...nd begins to move from the statue again, plotting a course towards a small metal box to one side of the altar. She gently eases the door open to reveal litt Finally, she lowers her hand from the metal cube, letting it fall to her side once more. "I suspect you will have rathe

Glint Valley has become a metal jungle. rock-walled basin, making a canopy of gleaming metal leaves that seems to

The skeletons slowly rises, and Hiro's sword slides out with a hiss of metal. "Skeletal Hellions... shame Boudicca isn't with us." In the dark, there's a faint glow of a twisted white talisman around his neck, which subtly makes the rigors of battle les

The best thing to do after a horde of twisted animals (and a few people, it seems) launches an all-out apparently-mindles ...en the air feels sick to those with spiritual sensitivity. Neither are the twisted things milling about near the entrance to the most prominent of the caves.

...her, too, of what mysteries and truths lie in the embrace of Malevolence, twisted by Althena's wicked designs. parallel metal tracks.

...two of the merchant vessels doing most of the Drifter-ferrying; and it's a metal one, an ARM-ship of some description. Most captains know better than to bot ...ough the water at a tremendous clip towards a mysterious vessel wrought of metal. It holds two unlikely passengers: a small, cat-like creature wearing a sca

..., and brings her hands together, passing fingers over the shining links of metal on her hand. There is time to feel the sudden heat building around her, the once. More than half its body has been twisted into something grotesque and

Somehow, the twisted, malicious monster owl had Arcana of Celesdue at its wingtips. It's really quite something how often Metal Digger Locus is ''mysteriously waiting'' for the CaraKin not far from the c

great beast. These resemble towering, twisted networks of coral. They pulse great beast. These resemble towering, twisted networks of coral. They pulse

and cracked ruins and twisted things in black and red. The doors stand ...to shift rapidly - all at once, it is as if it is destroyed, intact...and twisted into something else untirely.

...anyone who decided to come with her, with the caveat of 'that would be the plot twist, if I was writing it'. Something is off. Not 'off' as in 'wrong and twisted and evil' but more... like a shortcut or a novel route has been taken, in s

...mural is too generous for what this is. It's less art and more a vast and twisted mandala, writ with once-sacred symbols, now worn away and utterly decayed. ...mural is too generous for what this is. It's less art and more a vast and twisted mandala, writ with once-sacred symbols, now worn away and utterly decayed.

...t be more different. The Fereshte is makeshift and hammered together, part Metal Demon-era airship and part wooden sailing ship. The Kraken is an ironclad, ...not be too extreme of a truth that this land is that of the Veruni and the Metal Demons alone.

*'''Log: Vale Of Twisting Metal''' Glint Valley has become a metal jungle.

...ge ice sculptures jutting up from a hillock not far away. Great jagged and twisted spires of ice in the middle of the hot desert, ice that refuses to melt. Ic ...ourse the conversation in the room is punctured by a sudden ''thump'' of a metal object being dragged downstairs.

...n a half-crouch below. Her attire is fine; green fabrics over darker green metal in places, though not all. Her arms are largely bare. ...an ARM is holstere "That sounds like your own twisted sense of morality that you're pushing on others," Talia spits back at Kaguy

...n the form of something that was once a tall man - but one of his hands is twisted into a hideous golden talon, and tendrils pour off the back of his skull an ...in the corners of her eyes, her mind flashing back to a childhood friend, twisted into a monster both by cruelties of fate and supernatural forces. A burning

...e are recuperating from the assault and tidying up the mess that a bevy of Metal Beasts, tripwires and other such calamities befalling the cove have caused; ...k, concern spiking in her chest - and rather than simply pat her head, the metal demon lets out a breath as she lets her arm slip properly around the younge

...ility outside game location. These may still eventually close ahead of the plot leaving the particular area they're set in, but there is no built-in time l ...ungeon available for repeat runs during a set period, often as a part of a plot, after which it becomes unavailable for use again.

...o grab it. She's not planning to ''crush'' it, just hold onto it, her full-metal arm extended first to give it something to bite at. "Hold still," she says ...d sticky on the stone, and the serpent thrashes harder, champing at Leah's metal arm and thrashing in jerks of sinew and taxed joints. "... I'm sorry," Lan

...it does seem to have access to Celesdue's ritual arcana, it has also been twisted by some dark force. Lydia Seren lashes out with the light of day. The metal shaman lunges in, that radiant blade tearing feathers from the Bird's flank

They way ahead is twisted every which way. Jacqueline frowns, taking a moment to think it over. DG: Gwen Whitlock has used her Tool Full Metal Courier toward her party's challenge, Albtraum.

...M were waterproof, so she field-stripped it, leaving only the shell of the metal gauntlet. She's wearing it as what amounts to a good-luck charm, because Lu ...stream guttering trails of Malevolent fire. Veins of it surge through the twisted Guardian's body and ooze from its eyes and horns, along the spars of its hi

On the bridge of the Fahrenheit, Cid looked down on Home. The rusted metal structure burned; fire from the attacking Guado and Warrior Monk forces was ...s to the advanced technologies stored within the tetanus-infested, twisted-metal spire. With how much overwhelming firepower was employed to tear the city d

*'''Log: CaraKin and the Mysterious Metal Monsters''' *'''Summary''': ''Claiborne is under attack by a mysterious horde of metal monsters... but the Caravan Kinship arrives on the scene to help? Can they

their limits in turn. An enormous cylindrical structure of rusted metal of a ...hts, but she finds herself staring up, and up, and up on the inside in the twisted and shredded innards. Her acrobat's mind is already tracking the best way u

...h a founding part of her as the Medium fractured and intermingled with her metal. Still... she does have to wonder. If she'd never received the 'protection' Noeline supports Riesenlied, as she finds herself a little tongue-twisted; but then she reveals the truth of the Medium of Illusion. And points out t

...stone slab that is now nothing more than a pile of broken chunks, sundered metal, torn leather. Malevolence blazes off every inch of her; her eyes gleam, an ...around her waist for good luck, a chain made of strange, dark metal. She's twisted a link into a belt-clasp, but it doesn't look like that was its intended fu

...l two things: Paisley-white leggings, and also, a trio of swords in rusted metal scabbards lashed together with cheap rope. "WE can't, but I came prepared!" "So it's a sort of... bar game, then? But you say it uses metal," says the innkeeper in the place from which they had all sallied forth. "T

The party approaches it from a cliff overlooking the valley. The metal trees grow even to this height and vines, like thick steel cables, hang dow ...und him like a veritable storm in miniature. He roars as he tears into the metal foilage with claws of swirling storm, seeking to carve as large of a path o

She presents before herself an octagonal metal disc. It shimmers faintly in the strange light of this space. ...upon it once more, beckoning down the Guardian's blessings even a place as twisted away from Filgaia as this.

...ecause it gives her the necessary moment to realize that Strife's form has twisted, growing a techno-organic mouth with the chittering of gear-like teeth with and cracked ruins and twisted things in black and red. The doors stand

...ut murdering them--something that's hard for human santas to do, let alone metal demon santas! It's a fact. ...there is a somewhat familiar flash of metal in the corner of someone's eye, as the things at ground level are rapidly r

...in glides to a slow stop at the station, its doors opening with a creak of metal. ...read this story. It is DISTINCTLY POSSIBLE that Ashley just recounted the plot to Heroes of Ghost Steel Vol.III, which you would only have heard of if you

...Love's Cradle, in pursuit of K.K. and Ragnell, in an effort to stop their plot. Takes place shortly after [[2019-03-16:_The_Dark_Colossus|The Dark Colossu But then... Statues. Statues everywhere. Cyre casts a curious stare at the twisted visage of a petrified hellion in mid-pounce. Is it really a statue...? It's

...ough with a dreadful energy - and the once-serene face of Althena has been twisted into an almost mocking smirk. Even her features have shifted. To some, they ...n enough, revealing White Knight Leo, who stands atop a pile of rock, face twisted with barely-restrained anger.

Those animals, whose souls are twisted fully by the Malevolence, prompt Margie to halt in place once they come in ...or not she can make a toss. She settles on trying, withdrawing rope and a metal hook from her bag.

...all just runnin' over to renew the seal, or whatever was needed. When the Metal Demons attacked, it just kinda forced the situation, and all hell broke loo primordial taint -- you are in the presence of the Primarch of this twisted

"My ankle - I think I twisted it during the fight!" ...ys. Then Lorelei pulls her ARM. Ida ejects her clip, snatches the chunk of metal as it drops from the grip of her gun. Her off-hand rushes in to snatch it o

...evil dads just right here in this room. It's fine. I don't know what this 'twisted' stuff is about either." ...er fingers to scrabble for purchase, three nails and one piece of covering metal doing little more than scraping.

The approach was bad enough, a dark otherworldly fog within a twisted landscape. Everything feels just wrong, wrong, wrong- like the dying planet home, now warped by the grotto's new denizens, this Malevolence-twisted

Metal Beasts emerge from the shadows, one by one. They shouldn't be here, of Each present will find their eyes drawn to any manner of Metal Beast that has imprinted deeply into their memories. A close brush with dea

...this at least once already? Ashley could smell Caina's work all over this twisted region of space-time. Who else would have both the means and the motivation ...ns and the space they're in twists in on itself. It feels like she's being twisted, too - she lets out a sharp intake of breath, but pushes through the ill fe

Luck operates strangely around her, often manifesting in small bits of twisted, infuriating coincidences, or small miracles in the face of insurmountable ...more unusual ones - there is a bullet lodged in one of the posts, its dull metal gleaming under the light of the room. "So what, some other star-body's prob

*'''Summary''': ''An apothecary, a geohound and two seraphs walk into a metal jungle.'' Glint Valley has become a metal jungle.

...field isn't doing all that much to her. Virtually nothing Catenna wears is metal, beyond a few very light buttons and clasps without enough mass to be pulle ...magnetic field is randomly oriented enough to only occasionally twitch at metal jewelry... And to throw compasses and similar navigation equipment complete

...hasn't come over to the wagon to say hello. He's holding onto some curious metal-like stone in hand, for whatever reason. Back turned to the others, the mys ...ury berries can help with, unfortunately. It just needs some time." It's a plot injury, you see."

Twisted hussars with tall helmets wielding bayonet rifles, a giant teddy bear with ...girl's reason for vanishing, this was not one that she expected. Not this twisted... simalcrum that dances before her.

outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal

Following her, two metal spheres bob gently through the air, before settling just above each of her twisted mountain slope. Bare patches of earth suggest a path once existed,

...n suggests as he vaults over a... uh, what are those called again? The big metal tubes that spit out balls? Well, one of those, anyway. "They're, like, big ...uarters as Lucadia's power fades. She's breathing heavily, and her face is twisted in a mask of pain--there's a long tear in her jacket, over her right should

thing: a veritable swarm of Metal Demons is clashing with representatives of energy from Metal Beasts, shots from gunsmoke ARMs, and sorcerous fire and

...at way. People should not be that large. Limbs do not articulate in such a twisted fashion. ...atches as the beast tears into the other Gear's torso, clawing through the metal to get to the flesh inside. The Dragoon takes aim at the center of the mass

...f life; they're already in enough trouble as it is, with the potential for Metal Demon retaliation, that it makes plain sense to try to reduce the number of ...was at least one dragon down there that got infected by *somethin'* nasty. Metal Dragon, I think, but whatever *was* there wasn't in control. I think the pa

...s doing her level best to spoil the plot. (Do variety shows really have a 'plot'?) ...eyes have narrowed at some point during his explanation; Bart's lips have twisted into a grimace, the bridge of his nose wrinkled in a frustration that he ev

...aintained campfire, separated from the dry grass by virtue of a large flat metal bowl it's been placed within. On top of it sits a pot, half-blackened from ...outh as she concentrates, sights along a line to try to 'aim' the gigantic metal ball, and wedges her... tiny ramps?... as far as she can under the ball.

barely-human form seems formed entirely of sickly green flesh twisted into ...h trimmed in gold thread that might actually ''be'' spun with the precious metal. There's a lot of red in here, actually.

But Heaven has come too -- in the form of the Queen of Metal Dragons, Lombardia; her first skirmish cuts across Sin and elicits a powerf And see a /second/ Metal Dragon skimming to their direction at high speeds.

outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal ...ch he has been cast changes. The shift is jarring, and the mass of tangled metal sinking quickly in the depths of the stirring seas moves with a pelagic let

...d these men suggest otherwise. Malevolence. Some of them have already been twisted into horrific creatures, unseen by their fellow soldiers without the spirit ...e approach of Guardsmen attempting to charge. Armor is sundered, plates of metal flinging through the air as several of the Guard are tossed aside like ragd

These animals are no longer animals. They are monsters, twisted to spiritual sight, black and violet vapors pulsating off them like waves o ...at these things are. Mad animals of some kind. But ones Ida says may be... twisted, in some way.

...should continue to flourish upon the face of the world. The leader of the Metal Demons - their idol, touchstone, and focus of adoration - must be stopped. ...e destroyed continent. The haunted remnants of Elru, now home to monsters, Metal Demons, and other dire things, would be a challenge to approach. But the bi

...he world away, as shadow obliterates all that is... And replaces it with a twisted memory of all that once was. He stands on the shadow of a cracked street, t "Oh twisted Door of Distortion - open wide!" They glow, conjoining with lines that flow

The docks of Luca are twisted up and mad, criss-crossing over one another in a confusing Escherian labyri ...ed, ancient cross-hatching of support struts zig-zag beneath the stone and metal fascia of ancient structural work, marked with the polish and pomp of the m

...t anyone is alright. She'll double back if necessary to speed the reformed Metal Demon along...! ...reaching up oddly to wrap around the ARM in a very strange grasp of living metal. "--pull up, damn it!"

The brazier sways gently on its sturdy metal chain as Ida walks up the mountain. It sheds a brilliant glow, strong enoug ...mood like this doesn't suit Ragnell in the slightest; though her pragmatic plot hardly shows it, Magilou is aware she would be worried for Ragnell, if she

...ummary''': ''The Dragon of Celesti has made its nature clear. It's neither Metal Dragon nor engineered monstrosity--it's a Fell Drake, a corrupted Seraph th ...ends the stair. She makes a right turn, walks five feet, and pushes open a metal door. Chimes jingle as she enters the small lobby of the Freshwater Tea Hou

...as a pair of orange streaks lit up by a flash of Hawking radiation as the Metal Demon leaps bodily into the yawning scar in reality. Ratatoskr's tail stands on end, segmented metal plates flaring out like it has decided that today it is a cactus. That red,

...d appendages, owing to them being mostly "Tainted" -- rumored to be broken Metal Demons, or perhaps just Beastmen and other demihumans; the real story isn't ... it certainly is Dva's -- the mermaid-styled Metal Demon who's grinning as she floats ontop of the water and folds her arms. H

...ly terrifying. This is especially true because Catenna can clearly see the twisted forms Malevolence has imparted upon the centipedes that come scuttling at h ...to figure it out together," she murmurs to Gwen. As the woman unveils her metal hand, the priestess's eyebrows arch, but she asks no questions, just biting

...flying back again, this time with new wings with rocket boosters and razor metal feathers!" ...start casting a Seraphic arte, bringing bolts of lightning down upon those metal shears and hopefully frying a few of the dolls into dust.

DC: Shalune Amira switches forms to Metal Gear -Big Shal-! ...w and steady'. Laid out in front of her, she's puzzling over the scraps of metal she ''could'' recover from the charred and camoflaged remains of the machin

...e downwards, and as the Dianbai Guang continues on its course, it enters a metal-walled tunnel. Beneath the earth lies St. Jun's Station, the central rail h "Noel." The Master's face has twisted back into that look of carefully-schooled anger, though this time it's dire

...ty to break out of the dungeons, leading into a dangerous encounter with a Metal Demon. Shenanigans, explosions and cuccoo-throwing ensue.'' ...just like that, they're all ''free'' - either a testament to the strange, twisted Luck that's rumored to blanket Cassidy in its whims, or something else.

Glint Valley has become a metal jungle. rock-walled basin, making a canopy of gleaming metal leaves that seems to

..., but paint a similar picture: either a faceless creature or a masked man, twisted between human and beast on one end of the scale or another. Some say it's a ...nt and forage, as most of Mount Manfred's ecosystem had been disrupted--or twisted--by the Domain's Malevolence. Hidden beneath an invisibility spell, she's l

...eason he might not belong is a simple one indeed. He is SUPER biased. Zed, Metal Demon, is the most biased person in this room at the moment, because he has ...ation, but we must remember, this is not a living person. Instead, it is a twisted shade seeking to hold onto power at all costs, and sending it to where it b

...them charred and mutilated until they're barely recognizable as more than twisted abominations of man-meat. Neriah glances at them with a sad dip of her head instead of concrete or rusted metal leads down into a long, narrow chamber.

Even as the acrobatic, hella-high-jumping Metal Digger Locus, Carina still gets tired. As far as she's concerned, going up ...ooms. "Today you are helped in your tedious manual labor by the mysterious Metal Digger Locus! Toh!"

...e feet tall--but there is the shine of metal at her hands, a strange green metal, along with an unusual ARM at her hip, made of--Loren would recognize this- But there are a lot of twisted guards and only inferior surface medicines.

...the sun dips lower on the horizon, as light glitters off the liquid living metal that makes of their bodies, there visible is the unmistakeable form of a hu Like Metal Demons? He wonders -- but no, he thinks this is something different. Argent

...ould afford such simple luxuries. Now? These caverns are dark and dank and twisted, reaching down to the depths where no light can reach and permeating with a ...rations. "That's nae changed," she tells him, fingers hooking into sturdy, twisted fiber. "''Still'' bloody disinterested in scrabbling in the dirt, but whate

...the symbol and, beside it, a gigantic hammer. The hammer is head-down, red metal, inscribed at the side with a diamond upon with three triangles rise from t ...ment, but it's unnecessary--for the moment. He glowers into the room, face twisted in a sneer, searching for the assailant. "Clever trick," he says. "Now wher

...nding dirt and snow flying in all directions. Then a head, heavily clad in metal armor, erupts from the snow. Bladed teeth flash in the dim light of the day ...dy is squat and heavily covered in armor, and the roar that comes from the twisted creature's throat causes show to fall from stones and dead trees for a fair

...ressed bandits. His obsession with Rosaline and thirst for power were soon twisted into Malevolence. He burned down the Calice orphanage and... most present h She draws her medium, in one hand as her metal arm transmogrifies itself into a quicksilver blade as she charges Rosaline.

large prisms lodged in the metal framework of a cube situated in several large prisms lodged in the metal framework of a cube situated in several

*'''Summary''': ''After narrowly escaping their encounter with the metal demons in [https://dreamchasers.space/2017-05-27:_Operation_Gungnir Operati The Metal Demon attack on Adelhyde has left the city in chaos. The Demons

...to a red energy blade. This should be more than a match for swords made of metal. ...till one day! He hasn't slept or rested TRULY since the battle against the metal demons.

...de an underground cavern, where the walls and walkways are composed of the twisted roots of the trees of the Moonflow's north bank, giving the entire area the few spheres, inside metal fixtures, placed onto walls here and there.

...van. He smiles. "And your presence is proof -- this is all a foul Althenan plot, is it not? I see you, Guard assassin. I remember you." ''And your presence is proof -- this is all a foul Althenan plot, is it not?''. I see you, Guard assassin. I remember you.

DC: Janus Cascade switches forms to Twisted Wizard Wizzro! ...rre, like nothing she's seen before. Is that what happens when a person is twisted by Malice? "And, more importantly..."

It flashes, and the Ley Point begins to thrive with a tortured, twisted emanation. Those with magical senses can feel the warping power skewing and ...od, it's no ancient thing...!" Few people could look at something from the Metal Demon Wars and say that that isn't ancient.

...d appendages, owing to them being mostly "Tainted" -- rumored to be broken Metal Demons, or perhaps just Beastmen and other demihumans; the real story isn't A humanoid Metal Demon stands before her, draped in light blue and lilac armour; adorned in

No, that dubious honor belongs to- Who else?- the most hard-headed Metal Demon (with the overdue demise of one Ber'assface'serk) and that guy who ha ..., whipping a Crest Graph from her bracer and flicking it into the air. The metal plate gleams brilliantly; blue-white energy erupts from it, and the air nea

...ere able, because even she knows that it won't hardly be the last time the Metal Demons come to knock on their door -- and had headed south. ...s a messenger bag by her hip and draws out -- a familiar rod. Yes, her old metal fighting baton, the one she's abandoned in favor of her magical stick.

...ost of our ruins are so dangerous to explore is 'cause we had to fight the metal demons for a long time and we probably set the traps up to stop them and th ...ural is probably too generous. It's a stone platform upon which a vast and twisted mandala has been carved. Each of the symbols in the halo are worn and many

..."You absolute ''wretch''." Kaguya hefts her ARM, the TK-38K's plastics and metal gleaming in the light. "...You think you can hold her? You think you can ke ...sure that kind of power source is not typical...Filgaian Tech? Maybe like Metal Demon War grade or Zeboim but why the hell would a country hick SORRY MATIL

...agic surges ominously around them. "What should we do, Master! There was a plot twist after all!" ...builds. It's a weird pressure - but enough that Ratatoskr's idle segmented metal plate tail swishing freezes, goes rigid from alarm... and then his gaze sna

...d continues down her chest, disappearing beneath the suit. Harken's strike twisted the arm she threw up to guard, and Azrael carved its way down her chest, al ...especially if I need to cool them quickly. I could probably use a chunk of metal but the weight becomes a problem..."

outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal

...kpot," Cyre whispers as he skids down one dune. His robes are in disarray, twisted this way and that by the vicious, skin-scouring, sand-blasting winds, but i ...and misshapen emerges. Catenna sucks in a breath and clenches her teeth. "Metal Demon," she growls s she reaches for her Mediums, eyes immediately hardenin

...eps loud inside the cathedral even with the storm outside. Metal sounds on metal as his armor moves and shifts with each step, as Garan moves forward undaun ...he knight's blood, not the Cardinals. The blood of a man of Rolance, not a twisted Hellion.

...to fend for themselves against the breach of monsters, not to mention any Metal Beasts thrown down from the various experiments that happen upstairs. ...n the form of the Ebon Roost, an overhanging perch where a large number of Metal Dragons are birthed, raised and trained. Other locales include VAL-HALLA, a

...ell known indeed. But this is not the reason that a certain emerald-haired Metal Demon is here, no sir and/or ma'am! Zed is getting paid to be here...! Is a certain Metal Demon, holding a lacy handkerchief out for the lady who lost it. "There you

..., and its steel glints in opposition to the strange, mottled blue-and-grey metal of Mirage. Her head turns to the side, and she looks at her companion. ...y with a little smirk and a shrug, dressed in dark clothing, strange green metal glinting at her limbs--a bizarre white-and-black weapon holstered at her si

...t, to the strange blue-eyed man, to all the violence and danger in the new Metal Demon War, all the things that made her new adventure that much less advent ...A hellion, half in the shape of one Elly, half like the one you know, one twisted and covered in symbology tatoos, extend their hand to Fei.

She's six feet tall in metal plate, and the Seraph Boudicca is still one of the stealthiest beings in th ...terrorism is probably the best way to honor the legacy of the majority of Metal Demons but she likes Riesenlied and though the thought occurs to her, she d

...evident that the arm pointed towards Ashley is not ordinary, but something metal. A weapon, normally hidden from view. She ''detested'' flying. Even her turns on a Metal Dragon had been an ordeal.

...tified royal grounds. Rubble smashes over his green, crested head, but the Metal Demon hardly even notices as dust and dirt buffets around him in thick, con ...s as he smashes his massive wrecking ball into one of the nearby, skeletal Metal Beasts that bedeck him, shattering it into so many bony pieces with a sicke

...darkness beyond Malevolence--a darkness that sank into a nearby Fiend and twisted it into an even more nightmarish monster. Adeline might not have noticed it ...darkness beyond Malevolence--a darkness that sank into a nearby Fiend and twisted it into an even more nightmarish monster. Adeline might not have noticed it

-BACK AT THE PLOT...- "Fuckfuckfuckfuck." She says, barely refraining from going detroit metal city.

...the chamber, his weirdly fish-like features gleam strangely. His flesh is metal now. His hair, too, glimmers in the sickly light. Deeply set in his metal skull, two points of red light burn. His eyes, now.

And now the Metal Demons have done something to her. She doesn't want to say it. All she can ...Well, at minimum, he figures maybe he could help watch out for Metal Beasts. After what happened with Riesenlied - what little he understands ab

...s anger and the need to put to rest the legion of ghosts born by his demon-twisted hands. He was the one who killed them, in the end. They were all demons, al ...g, sinuous flesh. The light builds and builds and builds, the stuff of the twisted half-reality surrounding them melting before the terrible blaze. "I WILL SH

It's a lot easier to get past plot barriers when you can metaphorically wallclip through the geometry (by virt ...ived unnoticed by various guards and watchmen, all of which seem darkened, twisted. The man walks up toward a forming crowd. Some faces he recognizes. The man

...ough that she's fairly sure thw two women won't immediately decide she's a Metal Demon or something. But the thud of the hatch startles her slightly, and sh ...ownward, to the hold. The hold itself is full of boxes: crates, wooden and metal, some of which nearly reach the ceiling. This makes a maze-like pathway.

*'''Log: Metal Impure''' ...i, and the panic grows. Ida grips the sides of her cot, and feels the cold metal beneath her hands. She starts to breathe, just as Lily taught her. Slowly,

...'Wehaca'. A single word, etched upon a black orb of Malevolence that twisted and churned and boiled in the air until it tore itself apart under its own ...e open air as she sweeps down, balanced on the back of one of the incoming Metal Dragons. The sight of the statue in the midst of the village, bled through

...o a stop, as she looks up. She knows about -- heard about -- Fell Dragons. Twisted monsters, so different than Althena's blessed guardians, who are things of ...since she returned from her expedition with Riese and the others to find a Metal Dragon, Ragnell's been watching over Lastonbell. The Malevolence has gotten

...tle better than underclothes, but the ratings are preserved. The fabric is twisted up, wrapped round her pipe (which was expensive and also just got cashed ou ..., one is holding a spark-striker to a little cotton fuse sticking out of a metal canister with holes in it. Ida lights the fuse, and then throws the whateve

...he casts a glance around the place, stalking through the ruins warily. The plot demands she finally makes the right turn at some point, but not before spyi Dawn ripples like the rising sun from Harmaus, twisted and muddled and ugly. Plasma streams furiously.

...ut drunk the last time it happened. However he has no blade now, the great twisted black sword of the Dancer left on the ground where Gwen had knocked it too. Green as the wildlands... green as the air which flows over metal plates.

...no words. Again, it feels like someone's driven a knife into his back, and twisted it. ...its and bobs of machinery until she holds up a mass of glowing plastic and metal, glass lights within gleaming green.

...f as she doesn't know if the Guado use the same terminology for Ley. "It's twisted here. Something has distorted it..." ...nly resisted being hauled out of the tunnels by some manner of moss-haired metal man. Of course he had to be here. Of ''course'' he had to be here.

...to fend for themselves against the breach of monsters, not to mention any Metal Beasts thrown down from the various experiments that happen upstairs. ...n the form of the Ebon Roost, an overhanging perch where a large number of Metal Dragons are birthed, raised and trained. Other locales include VAL-HALLA, a

<poem>Marivel had just learned that Seymour killed his dad and is 'twisted' from his own dead pops and that Yuna knew this already and that is likely ...n strike against her with a shimmering pulse. She's pushed back; a hiss of metal sparks against her gaskets.

...mes violet becomes gold, all of it somehow metal, not laquered metal, just metal, layers and layers of blades that are nothing like feathers and everything ...en. A few are even cracked, though beneath the living metal is more living metal, he's turtles all the way down.

...ast. The Heart of Sin. Cyre proceeds ever deeper downwards, the Clysmian's twisted corpus throbbing all around him. It may not have blood or a 'heart' like a The seams between the segments of her metal staff thrum in a tone remarkably similar to that of Big Shal under effort.

...bsessive contradictions knotting up and recreating Harmaus into a far more twisted imageh. (Strange upticks in a specific out-of-place Ley energy is something Malevolence-warped metal shrieks against the ground as it sweeps acros vines filled with a righteous

...short not far from Jean in the arena as he gets a closer look... "You're a Metal Demon aren't you?" ...t worse is what is what it means. If that wolf is with Boomerang, who is a Metal Demon, then -

...?! Seeing the horrors you've inflicted upon this world? Have you become so twisted that you don't even CARE?" "Rage can be twisted and misused, and it can be used to fuel horrid things." She places a hand o

But into this moment, as Elly tries to plot out her next move with El-Regulus' power, Leon makes his entrance in the Ge ...supposed to be used like that, and Timotheus starts to punch cracks in the metal, threatening to break the thing entirely. Emeralda feels it distantly throu

...nd scorched. Large gouges have been torn out of the grounds, and chunks of metal lie in the small creaters dotting the landscape. To the trained eye, it is The Scion of Schrodinger has a very different relationship to the twisted force of darkness that hangs over Lahan like a foul and tangible shadow tha

...onso's blade races down at her, striking the shield like a falling meteor. Metal bends and snaps with a hideous groan; the shieldbearer falls, stunned by th ...n eyebrow as she sees something in Mauri's face. "Your smile... tis rather twisted." She does not comment on the rest of it.

...rwards though is when Beast walks up. "Uh - so - anyone else seeing this - Metal... dragon... golem thing? We're not... going to all act like this is a norm ...The Beast picks her way up the cobblestone path, and metal grinds against metal as the plates lock together as if to ward off some invisible threat. It's n

...fighting, flames, and explosions drown out the clinking, tinkling noise of metal her vest and belt pouches make as she goes. As she enters a slightly quiete He plunges down towards the Veruni operatives, a liquid metal patagium fanning out between his limbs to slow his descent, coming in fast

...grand Commander's chair in a burst of frost that sees all that superheated metal rapidly cool and warp. ...ES, the foundations keeping it aloft ripping apart in a hideous screech of metal. Vinsfeld goes flying --

...enetia that perhaps something like this happened on Hyades or whatever-the-Metal-Dragon planet was called, but the thought simply tucks away in a cubbyhole <poem>The figure arrives at the foot of the twisted tree that is Demetrioi. So weak and unassuming by then that he is surely be

...ng Leo could have imagined. But he has to stay strong, or he, too, will be twisted into a horror. ...hing good about that place. It's not surprising it spat out something this twisted. Leo rises, glances around, takes stock of the desperate situation. Too man

It is a two-tiered set-up. The first level has a number of consoles, from the Metal Demon Wars era, though most are abandoned. Some Odessa personnel stand ther ...ance unyielding, his great blade the Mad Mountains driven so hard into the metal floorings it has sunk in by an inch that one might foolishly assume a hindr

...r have thought that the core of Obsession would be such a... such a small, twisted, ''grotesque'' and pitiful thing. Cyre watches it with wary, predatory eyes ...instead, to catch him even as he chomps down ''hard'' on her gauntlet. The metal buckles and punctures. It's a strikingly bloodless wound. "I am sorry," she

"I mean it's a parrot. It's... not going to plot against Solaris." "Plot against Solaris SQUAWK!"

<poem>The Carakin, for those not in the know, is the large, wheeled, metal vehicle that serves as a mobile base of operations for the Caravan Kinship, ...'s always a new take.) It zooms out ahead and bounces over an old piece of metal plating, a --

...and Siegfried split of the arrival at the Guardian Temple, as Drifters and Metal Demons collide....'' ...pted into the sky, one by one, until it was like a second sun. Hundreds of Metal Beasts appeared, though they did not rush towards Milama.

...t do not come to us from this place of sorrow," she grasps her hand to the metal at her chest, "this... this is too cruel even for the likes of you! A fathe ...red enough to make the last leg of the journey, a handful of heretics on a twisted pilgrimage to Zanarkand, to drive a stake through the very heart of Yevon's

...train attendant's cap on that she almost certainly stole off of someone. A metal baseball bat hangs at her side like a sheathed blade as she pours tea for h ...y-surplus clothes. The only visible weapon on her, if it is a weapon, is a metal gauntlet that covers her entire right arm. A rope hooks from some part of i

..., Ida feels horrifically exposed, but she runs her fingers down a familiar metal multitool and focuses. She has an alibi. This is an anomalous Mannikin, one ...a. "Don't see no reason to let you tag along. I jus' followed this hunk o' metal in outta curiosity," she jabs a thumb back at Azoth, "and now here I am." S

...'s gun arm! Hopefully before she shoots again. Margaret does not have more metal in her coat! ...as she swears under her breath; the trouble with wielding a blunt lump of metal the same size you are is that it's often hard to get a cutting edge going.

outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal outran at the apex of the battle between Lombardia, Queen of the Metal

On either side of the plateau can be seen a pair of large, glistening metal... things. These are ancient machina weapons, being tended to by the Al Bhe He hops off the canyon wall, a liquid metal patagium extending between his limbs as he glides across the turbulent skie

...r leader, Seymour has taken that hope, that dynamo of societal change, and twisted it to his own ends. Ida takes the ember of her anger, and kindles it. ...son, settling onto her hands, and the holsters at her back. Reddish-silver metal flows from he pores on her hands, surging up her arms to encase them in Hya

...chance encounters clarified: it was indeed a draconic creature, but not a Metal Dragon as might be expected. The culprit was a roving Fell Drake, a being o ...t: the Seraph Ragnell, standing before an enormous bonfire ringed with six metal stakes almost as tall as she is, skewered through rich meat and colorful ve

...he plaza. Dust, chips of rust, and smoke shoot out from each in rings; the metal plaza shakes under their impact, but holds up. After all, it was once built A bolt of magnetically-propelled metal screams out of the city, aimed precisely to slam right into one of the Argu

"I'm not the same scared girl you twisted into a Hellion months ago. This time... I'm gonna make it right." Metal shrieks on metal; the impenetrable length of a spear's haft finds its counterpart in the sha

...nd charms, marking it as a Baskar Sealing Rod, and yet there are runes and metal workings now added to it. The trio of mages hold their hands out. ...forwards to stand beside the platform. Light gleams off his horn, and the metal on his uniform. As the field snaps into place, Leo allows himself a grim li

"I don't see the difference. If the Metal Demons have returned, it's power that I'll need to keep the people of Kross ...e thinks of Adlehyde, as the knight's final words echo in his ears. Of the Metal Demons. Of the kingdom. Of his people.

...reflects bruised violets along the surface of that radiant white shine of metal. ...face. she drapes herself in the gi. her hand slides into the grips of the metal talon. around her, the ancient red of the mane flows, older even than the m

She sincerely hopes no Metal Demons will appear to complicate matters -- it might just hasten Wayside's ..., much like Guild Galad; it's not as populous, but there's an abundance of metal and stone, and wood is comparatively rare. A garden like Osgoode's is the m

...weigh more than a standard humanoid Gear. They appear to be discs of solid metal, with a raised and slightly spiked front (the 'spikes' are more bludgeoning ...ne are steely silver, but other parts are an unknown brassy or copper-like metal - patchwork and not entirely by design, but functional.

...rst to notice its true, horrifying nature. The horrible sounds of groaning metal emanate from just in front of her. Rivets strain and pop. The plating tears ...rst to notice its true, horrifying nature. The horrible sounds of groaning metal emanate from just in front of her. Rivets strain and pop. The plating tears

...e can put the picture together with remarkable alacrity. Her face--already twisted in a look of grim resolve--becomes the very image of cold anger. ...unleash Etheric hell. Okay, Leon and Lily, both targeting some sort of... metal soldier? Or just someone wearing fancy armor? Whatever the case, there must

...ebrows. "The Light of Granas has not been particularly successful with the Metal Demons, I notice," she comments in a dry tone. ...would question if doing that did not cost us more willing heroes than the Metal Demons' own attacks on our cities, and we have naught to show for it but ro

...are you gonna do? Honestly, things were already bad when giant robots and metal demons started rampaging all across the pristine landscape that was the Elw Ida remembers a man with a face like a lion's, twisted with contempt and scorn. She remembers the emptiness beneath those eyes, a

...an in a loose fatigue jacket over a singlet, slacks, and boots, carrying a metal staff with her in an almost apologetic way, enters the operating theater a (estimate the space, the dimensions - this is a bowl shape - metal objects, probably frangible, likely medical equipment - oh, if I had the se

...distraction than anything else. Her resonance may be dulled by her being a Metal Demon, but Duras Drum's Medium inside of her is happy to pick up the slack, Leap - leap - and leap again, metal somehow not impacting heavily with the ground despite the sheer bulk of it.

...lesh, but it can't be. It shines wrong. A metal, of some kind. His face is twisted to the point it nearly isn't one, with sunken eyes shining deep yellow, and ...eashes a barrage of golden plasma, hopefully giving the... What is that, a Metal Demon? little chance to react to both.

*'''Log: Metal Demons Visit the Port''' ...- and then dark shapes begin to drop down. A cry erupts from a guardsman: "Metal Demons--"

...u know, the first time the REAL (smol) Asgard punched Zed in the face, the Metal Demon's forehead proved to be eminently impenetrable. It's perhaps not to h ...s and appears closer. Making a horrible croaking noise before lashing out. Twisted clawed hands leaving behind angry rents in the air. Lingering motes of Shig

And amid the dwindling cacophony and chaos, the chime of metal bootfalls can be heard. ...s several times. She then shakes her sword a little; the pitted, destroyed metal of the honorable blade, burned out by her invocation, blows away in the roo

...self. All of this occurs admist crises of identity and conscience by those Metal Demons who are now subject to a world-shattering truth that has eluded them ...jority of it is a massive cavern, honeycombed with different levels. Here, Metal Demons make their homes in hallways that have sometimes been repaired since

...': ''In the midst of the attack on Adlehyde, Riesenlied and her cohorts of metal demons descend on the Adlehyde Fairgrounds to take posession of their true ...n that many have shaped into Gear and machine parts, the ARMs crafted from Metal Demon remnants. The very Golems that you see in front of you are no less ov

...prove sturdier than they expected. They find themselves surrounded by the Metal Demon army and combat ensues, during which tragic revelations occur and unl ...ght that repulses all but the strongest ARMs. Second, there are patrols of Metal Demons and their beasts, all keeping a close eye on the Photosphere.

...ctically blur and the air hums with the almost musical chords of vibrating metal as the elegant blade in her hands whirls like a conductor's baton guiding a ..." she says to Magilou without looking at her, "you need not scream to that twisted little heart's desire. If you would kindly turn to ash in ''silence''," she

...chain forwards with a screeching noise, not from her but from accelerated metal. It aims to ensnare a figure she can see and to pull that figure into a bru ...d disrupt the natural flows of energy that a Spiran Potion works within. A metal gauntlet moves in defense of what would have triggered the gag reflex, in e

...jority of it is a massive cavern, honeycombed with different levels. Here, Metal Demons make their homes in hallways that have sometimes been repaired since This place also holds the gathering areas that pass for centers of Metal Demon culture. Within these halls, one can find cafeterias and proving grou

...hese things fascinate so many people? They should only concern a few." The Metal Demons have surely accrued a good number of enemies. Some may be them. <poem> A Crimson Noble is at the Metal Demon's side, almost scooping Janey up for a moment but instead playfully p

...k, landing amidst the bloodstained snow and jabs a finger toward Seymour's twisted form. "--that tried to unleash a second Sin on our homeworld! And especiall ...outs, to Mariel, and he rises, sweeping his blade up to block. Metal meets metal with a piercing CRUNCH. The force of the strike sends Leo skidding back. So

...innermost citadel of the Photosphere is a place only, until today, seen by Metal Demons. ...ained by age and a crash landing. Even inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Metal Demons' erstwhile god, there is evidence of that damage. The circles on the

...area permitted within the city - a tall barricade of black-scorched scrap metal wrapping around a collection of architectural nightmares. Three total gates ..., he works, assembling a weapon - what appears to be a rifle of sleek, red metal with silver linings.

...g and Berserk split of the arrival at the Guardian Temple, as Drifters and Metal Demons collide....'' ...pted into the sky, one by one, until it was like a second sun. Hundreds of Metal Beasts appeared, though they did not rush towards Milama.

They left behind a surprising number of dead Metal Demons and Metal Beasts. Neriah had given them a simple order: Exterminate every Hyadean, ex ...and vigor - as are three or four more bodies that look like they were once Metal Demons, presumably trying to flee the carnage. Only the Drifter is still al

...fire - the power of the Ley, of Fray, is strong here. And yet... it's been twisted - corrupted. As a Crest Sorceress, one who works with the Ley, she feels sh ...is shield and it seems to grow more ''dense'', the outside wood, banded in metal becoming hardened stone, licking with spectral flames. "Big help! I have a

...e what her refusal, under Yevonite interrogation, to confess to any larger plot beyond acting alone, meant to them. ...werful and not at all creepy aeon, his totally good-hearted and not at all twisted support of Operation Mi'ihen. He was like the ultimate cool youth pastor/w

...raken's Tentacles like Metal Man. She'll send a few more after it, because Metal Man's power is very weapon energy friendly. "Fighting twisted creatures like you, on the other hand." Marivel says. "I've done that for s

...e as Luca's. It is dominarted, first and foremost, by an ancient stone and metal dock that extends out far into the city, where even the largest ships may d ...his platform at all, and he is carrying his staff in one hand and a short metal wand tipped with a red crystal in the other.

...ls off the Hyadean, Zed stands between the Primarch and the newly released Metal Dragon. His blade is drawn, held in one hand while the other is poised as i ...urs, and starts to pull something from her bag--strapping a strange bit of metal to one arm, and to the other, wending one about her waist as a belt. Her ey

...d appendages, owing to them being mostly "Tainted" -- rumored to be broken Metal Demons, or perhaps just Beastmen and other demihumans; the real story isn't More stars descend, and Metal Beasts spawn from where they explode. The Tainted scamper in all directions

...ars ago, it was a thriving and populous nation; even with the might of the Metal Demons, it was unlikely that they would wipe out absolutely everyone, and s ...y this place?" Fei asks. "They might even hate the Guardians more than the Metal Demons and with their...illness...I can see them being particularly affront

"MOOOOBBBBB--UU~!" The Moblin mobbus, sent flying with a sound like a metal baseball bat slamming directly into the fragile abdomen of some kind of Cru ...ngs everywhere, Noeline is pretty sure that the giant and unsubtle slab of metal was a little too crude by the standards of the ruins around them.

...ble weapon of an ancient war, constructed from the fossils of an unhatched metal dragon. ...ami held between her fingers; a beehive barrier of magic meets Ratatoskr's metal knees. It rattles against the force of his kick, but somehow, behind it, he

...irect service of Maester Seymour. He is old and wizened in the manner of a twisted tree. Gnarled, knotted, and proud. He strokes his magnificent beard as he g ...Odessa soldiers." It's not the first time Clarissa's had a run-in with the Metal Demon, and she's learned enough about him to have a sense of how she thinks

...pivots -- and then he sends it flying. 'It' happens to be a large, sealed metal drum. There is an Al Bhed inscription on it: BYLGYKA ...think or how we feel! Just like the Al Bhed, your only concern is your own twisted self-righteousness and forcing it on others!!"

He's not sure when his Metal Demon Pride left him. But now... The rifle is twisted in her grip, an adjustemnt is made and the rifle now resembles something of

On either side of the plateau can be seen a pair of large, glistening metal... things. These are ancient machina weapons, being tended to by the Al Bhe ...of it makes his heart race, beating like a six-cylinder engine against the metal-clad hollow of his chest. Blood surges through his veins as every single pa

...ve, streaks of fire mark where a battle is breaking out between Gebler and Metal Demon forces, in an all out fracas. The first concern is the people leaping down from the back of that Metal Dragon. The beast with bladed wings soars over head -- and then a figure in

...e is a stamp on the ground from a piece of wood, sufficiently hard to make metal decorations clash. This stops Margaret before she can get a real good head ...etal close to a ball of lightning is not a good idea, and there's a lot of metal involved with most of them. Still, she doesn't get quite as far as she had

...he red carpet, shatters on the concrete, and then a burnt piece of twisted metal that held it together hits the ground. Scraping sends sparks up, and a pair ...ery in a method that is not dissimilar to the way she bends and twists her metal into the shape of the Errant Blade. The feel of the Guardian's power races

...n of Life, is sealed...but not all is as it seems. The machinations of the Metal Demons come to fruition...and the battle that is waged is not for the fate ...ld repairs on whatever hasn't erupted into a messy pile of bolts and scrap metal. Nurses and doctors are triaging desperately and keeping those that have be

...e directed, and with little discretion or quarter. This is the backbone of Metal Demon attacks, for the Beasts are able to be created and used with little t ...a steel scythe. Harken launches herself from the ground, leaping from the Metal Demons' lines and streaking towards the upper battlements.

...eary as she places a hand towards a nearby mask, skin the colour of living metal and slicked with a thin sheet of ice, marked with the Photosphere crest. ...ing from split knuckles. The wounds are slowly healing. The length of dark metal chain wrapped around her arms and torso shifts and coils with a life of its

...as well as the apparent source of the droning noise: small, alien-looking metal box with recessed disks inside. Lines from within pulse in faint red. She crouches down and slaps both metal and fleshy hand together, closing her eyes.

...e was an obstruction, a hastily-erected barricade made from salvaged sheet metal of Gebler make. It doesn't stop everyone. No, it's best to say it doesn't s ...esn't ''stop'' -- she keeps sailing through the smoke and the flames, lips twisted together to avoid inhaling something much, much too hot.

...n, and she will not be sweaty and stinky from riding around in a glorified metal chicken. ...s clad in full combat armor, a mixture of restored Filgaian armor from the Metal Demon War, and Hyadean armor of more recent vintage. Her bulletproof buffco

She draws out a silver piece of engraved metal - a Crest Graph of her school. "I'm the world's greatest magician." ...mage as one of the boarding pods. Ida hears the distant shriek of shearing metal, and the rumble of turbulence. She can feel Xiumei's trepidation, a mirror

At the very top of this twisted mockery of a Throne, the skies become a cosmic bruise of violets and golds. ...otives personal that compels you to their side, is it not?" they ask. That metal-warped voice offers no condemnation for the fact. Just wonder.

...ummary''': ''People return to Filgaia... in the middle of Adlehyde, as the Metal Demons besiege it for the final Statue. Battle breaks out, and a terrible d ...gdom has prepared for the day it hoped would never come: the return of the Metal Demons.

...t survived a tidal wave, and cobbled together from various planks of wood, metal, minerals and anything else the engineers of this rather charmingly put-tog ...es long ago re-routed into expedients. The only synthetic light within the metal tomb of another world is in the cockpits of Gears.

...lly, a halfway decent lead on the whereabouts of Odessa's latest Nefarious Plot (tm). It's taken a while and a whole lot of searching, but at last, after s ...rs, blade lashing up to catch Xiumei's incoming initial slash. The silvery metal holds even against blazing energy blades, the icons on the blades pulsing w

*'''Summary''': ''The Metal Demons find New Arctica and launch an all out attack on the village.'' ...merge from snowbanks and craggy rocks near the cavern: hulking, hound-like Metal Beasts, followed by flashes of light as the Photosphere's teleporters activ

...mmanding; strange green armor underneath finer clothes, her gloves strange metal and her boots the same. Her blonde hair, pointed ears, and strange eyes all ...ntil a lot of those blades snap upwards like machinery, looming around the twisted Sister like so many sentinels!

...er. If he wanted to planet dead, why would the Trial Knight not assist the Metal Demon matriarch? Why would he simply not used the power of the Orb he had t ...and she thinks of her new Vessel they created together, a flower of living metal now tucked in the scarf around her neck.. Sola is touched for her concern,

... four great, metal columns come crashing down from the sky, IMPALING into the stony ground to ...intent of this interloper clearly. His head turns, looking at the massive metal columns that slammed into the earth.

Instead, Pearl places a hand on the metal sigil on her robes, and closes her eyes. She steels her heart for what is t ...nal Aeon. He hits the ground in a three-point landing, skidding across the twisted flesh-stone that makes up so much of this memory-space. But he has little c

...metal, marked by a broad, toothy smile sculpted carefully to turn ore and metal into teeth and fear, and studded in crown and mouth both are the barrels of ...g the Guard's ships and battering the Luca breakwall; beyond it, a massive metal figure rises above the waves, White Knight Leo held securely in its cupped

The Main Gate itself is a large, bronzed structure. It has a large, sealed metal door. Next to it, there is a small digital clock near a keypad. It reads ou ...A sleeveless duster blows back in the wind, which is surprisingly human. A Metal Demon, with a torso and face of steel. Boomerang's seemingly mechanical red

...e black mage Lulu. On another cable nearby is Wakka, boots sliding against metal cables solidly. They sail down, skating across a cable's length. Soon canno ...people are pleading. Elly does not feel like pleading. Spinning round her metal staff and resting it against the small of her back she raises up her right

...her armor or, really, her body. Her right arm flattens and sharpens into a metal blade. For a moment it looks like she might be intent on slamming that blad ...overed; her seemingly eyeless mask is bounded only by narrow lines of gilt metal that mark the place where a face might remain. The gloss of her armor catch

...looks like its exterior layer was roughly assembled out of thick plates of metal. It's currently mostly unpainted besides its new name. It carries only one She is in no condition to do so - former Gebler assassins and vengeful Metal Demons have rendered her physically fragile enough that she has absolutely