This post is why I apped Marisa to this game in the first place

[not_good_not_wicked]

Who: All of Locke City, but more immediately, Marisa Kirisame and anyone who heard about her little experiment and wanted to show up.
What: Marisa tries out her new spell.
Where: An out of the way corner of Chloe's ranch.
When: The night after Halloween
Warning: Wear safety goggles


Marisa was going all out for this one. She had with her a pair of safety goggles she had stolen borrowed from the high school chem lab, a fire extinguisher from who knows where, a fire retardant blanket, her iPhone (which was propped against a rock a good distance away), and the little gizmo she had inherited from her past self: the tiny elemental furnace known as the Mini-Hakkero.

She made sure all the various onlookers were positioned safely, then closed her eyes, going over the spell in her mind. It didn't seem like that complicated of a spell. Just mutter the incantation, focus your energy, aim, and let it loose.

"Okay, everyone ready?"

She put on the goggles, then looked off into the distance, muttering quietly under her breath as she stared at a fixed point a bit above the horizon. As the incantation reached it's conclusion, the Mini-Hakkero started glowing, even shaking a little bit. The final line of the incantation was delivered in english at a shout.

"LOVE SIGN: MASTER SPARK!"

The elemental furnace fired a thin red beam of light off into the night sky. Just before anyone could voice any kind of disappointment at the size of this so-called death ray, giant rings of rainbow light shot out of the furnace just in time to contain the rapidly expanding ray. The tiny red targeting beam expanded out to a glittering rainbow of light. It was easily a dozen feet thick at the thickest point, and sounded like the end of the world. It fired off into the night sky, illuminating the field as bright as day. The beam was big and bright enough that it could probably be seen from just about anywhere in Locke City, at least as a vague glow on the horizon.

Then, just as suddenly as it started, it stopped. Marisa was lying on her back, gasping for breath. The Mini-Hakkero was lying on the ground next to her, emitting a thin stream of smoke, and a tree that had been clipped by the beam was on fire.

She slowly got up to a sitting position.

"Holy fuck."

The whole sequence of events, by the way, had been caught on her iPhone, which had been recording everything to the Network.

[Anyone responding, please designate if your tag takes place BEFORE the event, when she's still setting up, or AFTER the event, when she's frantically trying to hide the evidence before the police get there.]

Comments

IMMEDIATELY AFTER LASER

[miraclemiko]

[Oh God that was. She was dead, she had to be. After that...]

MARISA!

[Once she sat up, Sanae rushed over, just in view of her iPhone, to make sure her friend was all right. Then it dawned on her.]

[They were dead. They were so dead. All of Locke City must of heard that, and thanks to Marisa's desire to be a Youtube star apparently, all of the network must have seen it too.]

Re: IMMEDIATELY AFTER LASER

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa could barely hear Sanae over the ringing in her ears. After taking a second to focus on her, Marisa's face lit up.

"THAT WAS SO COOL!"

[miraclemiko]

Sanae immediately seized the blond's arm, pulling her up to her feet. Even if Marisa couldn't hear, she could probably see how panicked she was. "We need to get out of here. Now."

Did she hear a car alarm in the background? ...Or were those sirens?

After, from home

[ladyofluminosity]

Luci happened to be closing the curtains in her room when she caught the prismatic streak across the sky, then hearing it crack as the light quickly dissipated. She sat there in awe for a moment, staring out the window where the beam had been. What... was that?

Drawing the blinds, she quickly grabbed her iPad, about to Google it when she saw a notification on the Network. A new video?

...And there it was. She played through it once, stuck, transfixed. That was... was that what she thought it was? She had to watch it again... and again... and again...

AFTER LASER

[betroth]

Truthfully, Chloe had offered up her property as rainbow laser cannon fodder without... quite knowing it was going to be rainbow laser cannon fodder. Partially because she wanted to contribute as much as the next person, and mostly because she was hopelessly curious.

That'll teach her to be curious.

At least it will once she's done being awed. And blinded, and a little deaf in one ear. Luckily none of these things prevent her from hopping over the disused paddock fence she and several others were positioned behind and tearing off towards Marisa and the other girl who'd been the first to reach her. Though she's already thrown an earnest, "Are you alright?!" at them, the sight of Marisa sitting up and grinning like an imp makes her go for the next most pressing matter.

ONLY THEY CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES.

"Hey, you two!" Chloe darts down to grab the fire extinguisher, kicking up the soft dirt. "Get back behind the fence!"

She hurries towards the unfortunate tree now threatening to go up in flames and pulls the pin on the fire extinguisher. ...Now, is she tall enough to reach the highest of the branches currently on fire.

Re: AFTER LASER

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa finally managed to wrap all her stuff in the fire blanket and was on her way out. She dropped her stuff over a fence and turned back towards Chloe. "Sorry about your tree!"

She stopped on top of the fence, though, balancing awkwardly. "Do...d'you want help with that?"

[betroth]

There's a break in the spray of powder up into the branches for Marisa's question to register, along with the fact that there are a few left still smoking and smoldering. Drat. She glances over her shoulder, but doesn't consider the offer for very long.

"You shouldn't stay, there must be close to a dozen wardens headed this way by now!"

[Text] After

[shiromadoushi]

So I saw that.

Not over network.

Like. Outside.

You okay?


Might want to get the hell outta there. Just in case.

Audio

[not_good_not_wicked]

[Yelling because her volume control is still a little off]

YEAH I'M FINE. WE'RE DOING A LITTLE CLEAN UP BEFORE WE BOOK IT.

Audio

[shiromadoushi]

...for the love of god not so goddamned loud...

[[He may have... startled at that and fallen over.]]

Call when you've gotten to safety, k?

Text to Sanae

[faith_powered]

Come home immediately

[miraclemiko]

[Sanae gets this text... as she's about to walk in the door.]

[faith_powered]

AFTER LASER

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

... That's amazing.

[Rita can't even manage to squeak out anything else... For a few seconds.]

... And probably going to get every cop in the city coming this way.

Later!

[... And she's already running away.]

Re: AFTER LASER

[not_good_not_wicked]

Off she goes. Marisa has other things on her mind right now, but she noticed.

[3 minutes later, text]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

You getting away okay?

After; hand written on the network

[youngestone]

[Killian was all the way in the stables, ready to calm the horses down once he learned what was up. He's not the best at it, but dammit it's what he was getting paid to do.

He writes a message to Marisa after a moment]

so for the record?

heard that ALL THE WAY DOWN BY THE HORSES

yelling

[not_good_not_wicked]

FUCK THE STABLES THEY PROBABLY HEARD THAT IN WASHINGTON DC!

handwritten

[youngestone]

dude stop yelling!! don't make it *worse*

After

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Yeah.... Reimu had mostly shown up to watch because her curiosity had gotten the better of her yet again. Now as she watched Marisa and Sanae scramble around in the aftermath, she wondered if that had actually been the best idea.

She did, after all, remember that attack from her memories of her fight with Marisa in their "past lives." It hadn't looked like a particularly discreet spell then and it certainly didn't look like one now.

Though something about seeing that attack from the perspective of someone who wasn't being targetted by it... especially in the present instead of in those vague memories... Well, it didn't really matter now. They really should hurry and get out of here.

"I could've told you this was a bad idea." The other Shrine maiden said as she moved over to help clean up.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa was still fumbling all her stuff into a bundle with the blanket. She shot a quick glare at Reimu and said "Well, you didn't."

Text

[soulsborderline]

What did you DO!?

Text, later on that night

[not_good_not_wicked]

Okay so it was a little bigger than I was expecting.

handwritten - after

[moarnomsplz]

I'm really sorry I couldn't be there in person, but grounded. A lot.
Anyway.
When you said "laser," I was not picturing that.

Also. "Love sign"? Really?

handwritten

[not_good_not_wicked]

What can I say? It was part of the incantation.