exsilium | Arcana 00

[Minato has been here for all of three hours now, wandering about the safe part of the hold, quietly trying to piece together the information he'd gotten from that first tour. It had been mostly rushed, but he had managed to get an idea of where he was and what was going on. Both of these things were decidedly not good news.]

[He figures he'd better get to helping out with the monsters, wherever they were, but first, he wanted to try to get other takes on the situation, see where he'd be best off, maybe get someone to fight with. Or maybe just wait it out.]

[Nonetheless, have a blue-haired kid on the feed, looking far calmer than any normal teen in this situation has any right to be.]

Can't say I know entirely what's going on here, but I've been told enough. I'm guessing I'm the reinforcements.

So, what should I do and where should I go?

[Straight down to business. It might be a better idea for him to rest up a bit first, but getting right into the action meant that he didn't have to brood on everything and everyone he just lost by being taken away from home.]

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[Sheesh. Really? No orders to this at all? Okay, Caesar's figured out just enough of his own shiny new laptop's functions to at least monitor the network, though this'll be his first time speaking on it. Got to start somewhere, right?]

One or two of the small ones slipped through the perimeter guard to the east. If you're interested, they're creeping in about two blocks out that way from the big building we started out in.

Finally, an actual answer. Thanks. I'll get on that.

No problem. You sure you can handle them on your own?

Dunno. If they're small ones, probably, but if not I can escape.

Guess we'll see... I can keep an eye on you from up here until you know for sure, although the most I'll be able to offer is an escape route if things do go bad.

[Support? Support's always good.]

It'll work. I'm headed over now.

[Support is definitely his thing.]

Alright. Good luck. [After that, he goes radio silent for a few minutes. It won't be until Minato is closing in on the targets that he'll speak up again. When he does, it's just to ask this:] You're the guy with the blue hair and the dark coat, right?

[Just to make sure. There's only so much detail he can make out from a rooftop and through a spyglass.]

[Once he hears that, he takes a moment to look around, to try to see where the other guy was perched, but no luck. That should be confirmation enough, but he answers anyway.]

Yeah.

[He's somewheeere out theeere-- uh, right.]

Thought so. They're almost to you, so be prepared.

[If he doesn't hear them first, Minato will likely be seeing a pair of gross mutant wolf-things rounding a corner soon.]

I hear them coming, yeah.

[He puts away his tablet for the moment and draws his Evoker, pressing it against the side of his head. As soon as the dogs come into view, he lets off a shot, Messiah coming into existence above him. It conjures a glowing yellow circle on the ground where the dogs are, trying to hit both with a Mahamaon before they even have a chance to get to him. Not sure if it'll actually work, but it was worth a shot.]

[That puts an end to the small talk.

Caesar keeps an eye on the whole scene that unfolds out there on the streets and it would be safe to say he's surprised by the whole summoning act Minato pulls. Whatever that thing is, it's at least effective against the smallfry like these. The attack wipes out one of the mutated dogs with a gurgled yelp while the other one dives out of the way and makes a move to come at Minato from the side with snapping jaws.

Watch out!]

[Minato expected that much. Hama spells were never totally reliable. So Messiah fades and he manages to draw the sword at his side just in time to parry a lunge from the dog. He pushes it off to the side and moves to retaliate, continuing the motion to bring the blade back up again for a downward strike. Fighting these things were a lot like fighting Shadows. There wasn't much need to alter his usual tactics.]

[It's not a particularly bright or quick mutant horrorterror, so when it's pushed back, it doesn't have much of a chance to realize it should move when Minato brings the blade up again. It sees it as an opening, which is too bad for it, because that just leaves it leaping into the strike.

Possibly not exactly like a Shadow is that this thing will be leaving a corpse, along with a heaping dose of blood and gore of a sword cleaving into a skull. Either way, dead's dead.]

[...Ew. That will be something he might have to get used to. That wasn't so bad, though he was probably lucky there was only two of them. A pack might pose more of a problem.]

[After checking to make sure there wasn't going to be anything more attacking him, he takes out his tablet once more.]

That it?

[And Caesar's waiting to hear back, so the reply comes immediately.]

It is, in that immediate area anyway. Looks like you can fight those things just fine after all, but what was that other creature you called out?

[Oh, right, he saw that, didn't he...]

A Persona. It's... kinda hard to explain.

[He totally saw that.]

Persona? [There's a pause, like he's considering whether to pry or not, but...] Well, alright.

[He doesn't need to know. If it works, it works.]

You got a name, Mr. Summoner?

[He notes the pause. Nothing to make of it now, but it might be something to keep in mind.]

Minato. You?

The name's Caesar. You still looking for more trouble after that round, Minato?

Well, those didn't pose much of a threat and I've got nothing else to do.

Talk about having a strange way to pass the time... Well, I can't see any more from my vantage point right now, so I'd have to move before I could.

[And moving is work. Work is egh.]

If you keep on down that street, though, you'll hit the edge of the safe zone. That's where any others will be trying to break on through.

City's under attack and I just got here. What else am I supposed to do?

I'll start down there, then.

Let everyone else handle it?

[If Minato could see him, he would be shrugging.]

But it's a lawless wasteland, so do as you like. Anyway, I don't think I'll be able to keep an eye on you once you're that far away, so do your best not to get killed, will you?

I'm not the type that can just stand by and let things like this happen, sorry.

I'll be fine, though. I know my limits.

Like I said, to each their own and so on and so on.

Good luck.

[With not much left to be said, he'll cut his end of the feed there.]

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