Bleach Hereafter RPG

Herding the flock

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Milo

Post by Milo on Aug 14, 2022 14:25:43 GMT -5

HERD MENTALITY

Type: Escort (PvE) (Repeatable)

Level: 1

Description: You are needed to wrangle a group of Menos Grande that have been running amuck in the Living World.

  • Herd the Menos through the Garganta.
  • Try to prevent any further destruction.
  • Don’t let any die.




There she was, watching the group of Menos Grande at a distance with the utmost of caution. Wrangle them up and lead them through the Garganta, a task that sounded simple. There was a bit of a problem with that, a rather large one to be exact if she were to be honest. Milo clicked her tongue in vexation as she tried to think of a way to get their attention and lead them through the rift's opening. She had to make sure the group wouldn't cause even more mayhem than they already did, don't let any of them die but she wasn't told to refrain from cutting some limbs now did they?

At least the good news for this mission was that she wasn't alone for this irritating bunch. Who's to say which of them was more irritating...

"What do you think we should do for this bunch? Were we specified to bring them in one piece or just alive? We could also use one of us as a distraction? Or would that be a cause for additional problems? C'mon, Nezuel. don't let me be the only one to chuck up ideas here!" Milo whispered to her partner, a tolerable yet irritatingly and endearing thorn to her side. She reached over to poke his cheek as she had been crouched the entirety of her observations.

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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.

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nezuel

Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 14:37:29 GMT -5

As a hollow it was an integral part of their society to be strong, to focus on self, to ensure that you grew and evolved until nothing stood in your way. Many hollows were lonely creatures, beings who only interacted with others when it was necessary or when commanded by the Queen.  A rare few, however, found solace is solidarity.  They grew groups around themselves, the strongest nurturing other hollows almost akin to humans and their own children.  For Nezuel this life within the wastes was lonely, yes, but it didn't have to be.  In fact when he looked over at the arrancar aside him, the one he had made not too long ago, he felt a certain pride bloom in his chest...at least until the finger poked his cheek.

"The mission parameters are that they are alive," he'd say, looking up from his position past the cleavage and at Milo's face.  "My suggestion would be to use some quincy bait or unleash our own riatsu.  In terms of which one of us is most distracting..." he smiled a little, looking her up and down  "It would be you...but my riatsu is higher so they're more likely to eat me."  He looked back out at the target of their misson.  "My suggestion is to open a garganta for them to go through, lure them there, then force them inside...we can't handle them in a direct fight, they're too strong." he would sigh.

"One more thing," he'd say, looking the arrancar in the eyes.  "Please be safe, I'm proud of you for getting your first mission but I'd prefer it more if you got to go on a second."<


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Post by Milo on Aug 14, 2022 15:11:56 GMT -5

She listened attentively to his input and nodded along at his insight. It would be quite the attention grabber if a sudden "meal", with a high riatsu, appeared before the Menos Grande. No fighting as they are strong and indeed a pain in their rear if they tried to. Most likely a futile attempt even if they tried. "Right...they do seem to be interested in stronger folks. Maybe next time I can try it...er, if there is a next time these things decide to cause havoc out here."

She giggled at her own suggestion, she almost seemed eager to play the part of a possible meal if only to tease the Hollows. Her amusement was cust short the moment Nezuel turned to her, a sense of concern as he looked at her in a quite uncharacteristic way. She hummed as she let his concern sink in, bringing an understanding smile and warm gaze in return towards the other Arrancar.

"I'll try to be safe. This goes for you too, Nezuel! You can't just be looking after me, so I'll make sure that you stay safe as well. Don't be an actual meal to these things. If anything make sure they tire themselves out from sheer hunger after trying to grab you as a snack! Okay?" The lavender haired Arrancar huffed, slowly standing up and beginning to stretch before they enacted their plan.

"We'll make it out safely from this and we'll do another mission together in no time, if not a mission then another day to spend some time together. How does that sound, hm?"

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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.

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nezuel

Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 15:30:08 GMT -5

Nez's eyes moved to the other arrancar as she stood and stretched, a smile forming on his lips.  "Did you just ask me out on a date?" he'd laugh, putting a hand to his stomach.  He looked out at the gillians with a bemused expression.  "Get some power in you, get used to the new body, then you can deal with more of these things.  If there is one thing that is certain in this world it is that hollows will cause trouble." he'd give her a side glance.  "I'm no exception."  With that he would dissapear, using sonido to appear next to the gillian.  With a cry he would release his riatsu, letting it flood the area around him and drawing the attention of the menos. 

Perhaps it was the way his riatsu felt more like a shinigami's than a hollows but the gillian seemed to turn much faster than the arrancar had thought possible.  It brought up a hand, knuckles hitting Nezuel like a truck as he was flung back a few hundred feet in the air, sliding on the reishi platform he had made.  "Damn it" he'd say, raising a finger.  "Tame the wrath of Jupiter, call it forth to be used by a mortal hand. Hadou #4: Byakurai”  he'd incant, a pale line of lightning leaving his finger and hitting the hollow in the arm. 

The hollow screamed, red light forming on its lips and bathing the word around it as it started to charge a cero.  "Milo?" Nez would ask, waiting for the arrancar to do something, show a little initiative. 

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Post by Milo on Aug 14, 2022 16:19:00 GMT -5

Milo scoffed at Nezuel's insinuation of that ridiculous notion, flustered at what he said. "A clarification, not a date!!" Milo lightly kicked at Nezuel's leg, not to hurt but to really set the truth in her words. While she crossed her arms, she rolled her eyes at what he said and muttered a quick, "Yeah, you're troublesome alright." Milo stood her ground as the black haired male initiated their plan, she was mentally preparing herself to leap in after him if she needed to do so. What she was not prepared for was the sight of how quickly the thing turned its attention towards Nezuel. Then came the gut wrenching punch and she had to stop herself from acting prematurely. She had begun to become antsy, wanting to jump in and help Nezuel but keeping herself rooted before the perfect time to jump in.

The hollow was preparing a cero. There it is!

Milo disappeared using sonido the same way Nezuel had done, keeping a safe distance but close enough from the charging hollow, and she raised a hand. "Bakudo #2: Kare!" Milo focused her attack on the hollow, stunning it and causing its forming cero to dissipate. Unfortunately for them, the sounds of their conflict caught the attention of the surrounding hollow.

"Ah hell. Should I split off and hide??"

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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.

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nezuel

Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 16:41:46 GMT -5

His arrancar friend seemed to forget about their iron skin, the blow against his leg doing about as much to dissuade him from similar activity as a wet noodle would dissuade a gillian from attacking the mortal world.  That analogy kind of fell apart but what did you expect from someone who had been punted by a fist the size of a skyscraper?

Nez's eyes spread wide as Milo used Kido, surprising him.  It was perhaps a bit hypocritical for Nezuel of all people to be surprised by an arrancar using kido but he had thought himself somewhat special.  Then again Milo was a creature of his own design, made from his own riatsu.  No matter how different the two of them might be there was bound to be some similarities, right?

"If you hide then these gillians are just going to keep coming." he'd say not really knowing that Milo's skill subset was more about movement verses his own spells.  "Theres five of these things..thats alot but...maybe if we get them to group up together we can send them all out at once?"  The gillian opened its mouth again, this time firing a quick bala at Nezuel.

The arrancar held up his hand, a circle of kido appearing infront of him.  "BAKUDŌ #39: ENKŌSEN" he'd shout afterwords, the bala being caught in his hand after being diminished by the spell.  He was suprised that she could use kido, sure, but she still had a long way to learn if she was going to learn to the extent that he had.

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Milo

Post by Milo on Aug 14, 2022 19:17:52 GMT -5

Well there went the hiding and covering Nezuel from afar idea she had. Milo tensed at the revelation of 5 of these damned things in their respective area, oh yeah, that idea was completely out of the window. There was something they could do if they planned it just perfectly. She needed to make sure these hollow were perfectly gathered or at least reasonably grouped to shove them inside the Garganta like a line of pillars falling down one after the other by a strong force.

Milo maneuvered herself closer to Nezuel, whistling as an acknowledgement to his talents. She leaned over to quickly deliver her message, hoping they could get these headaches out of the World of the Living.

"I can use Sekienton after we can lure the five out and into a group, then sonido out to hit the one at the rear end with Nadegiri, and hopefully you have something else to really push them all in like a tumbling newly made Arrancar?" She smiled as she moved away from Nezuel, slightly crouched and readied herself to start. "If things go awry, well, I guess I would have to confess that," She paused, "I actually find hollows adorable in their own way. Especially the mindless ones!" The lavender haired Arrancar only giggled at her "confession". "I kid, I kid. If anything does happen, well...we'll figure it out."

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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.

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Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 19:33:16 GMT -5

"That sounds like a plan" Nez would say as he readied himself for their charge against the menos.  "I can try and corral them into a group and you can do that." he blinked at Milo's other words, raising an eyebrow.  "Well, I admit I don't see the apeal, but if you're kidding then that means you think the intelligent hollows are cute, right?" Nez would give her a daring grin as he moved to the side, moving his reishi platform.  He held up his hands as his reishi flared.  The air turned cold around him and ice started to form on his arms before he released the kido, sending out twin walls of ice on either side of the gillians.  From where they were now they could only move towards the garganta or away from it.

"Don't get you panties in a twist dear...tell me," his eyes moved to the other side of the wall.  "Can you use descorrer over there as well?  If they're mindless enough, they'll probably just walk towards the highest riatsu level me or you." 

He moved towards the garganta, throwing a small pill inside that would spread a high quantity of riatsu, quincy bait.  It useually didn't work on gillians but so close to them and on the same plane it tended to have an effect.

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Milo

Post by Milo on Aug 14, 2022 20:34:14 GMT -5

Milo owlishly blinked and shook her head, a playful smile settling on her lips. "Well, who's to say?" She winked at Nezuel with just the same energy as before. At the question, however, she hummed for a moment and then shook her head. "If I can use it, I haven't tapped into it. I'm useless in that regard, forgive me." She softly laughed in a nervous manner. No matter, the Menos would surely give in to their primal desires of getting more food to strengthen themselves and achieve more in their continuous growth.

Milo took a deep breath, watched as the hollow were forced into moving towards their direction, near the entrance of the Garganta. She kept a sharp gaze, analyzing their movement and placing her hands on the ground, she readied herself to catch them off guard as soon as they made their move.

Not even missing a beat, the hollow began to move and Milo began her move. Everything had to work perfectly or close enough to push them all inside and get these cretins inside.

"Bakudo #21: Sekienton!!" The red smoke that burst from the palms of her hand engulfed them and the Hollow, making it difficult for them to see and only sense their way through the icy walls. The lavender haired Arrancar made her way to the opposite side of Nezuel's icy barrier walls using sonido, catching herself by digging her heeled boots into the ground and swiftly raise her hand to position her aim at the hollow before her and releasing a nadegiri.

"This better be enough to get you all home!" She yelled as the force from the slice pushed the hollow enough to lose its balance along with getting blown back and closer to the quincy bait. She readied herself for anything else to throw if it was needed, hoping that the force was enough to get this nightmare over with.

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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.

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Post by nezuel on Aug 14, 2022 20:58:39 GMT -5

Their combined strategy seemed to have worked rather well as the bakudo Milo used, one that Nezuel didn't even know oddly enough, managed to confuse their senses enough that they trusted the only thing they had...their instincts.  With their basic hunger being the largest part of them the hollows moved towards the source of the supposed food.  Within the garganta the gillians did their best to create the reishi platform that would see them farther inside, the end of the garganta connecting with Hueco Mundo and the higher density reishi inside drawing them even more.

With no small amount of will Nez would close the garganta from the side of hte mortal world, letting the sky heal once more.  With that out of the way he'd walk over to Milo, raising a hand to pat her on the back.  "Good job," he'd say with a smile.  "It seems like you're going to go far.  I think theres some things I can teach you about kido though, if you'll have me and have time to train."  He'd look around at the world around them.  "Seems like its early here but...shinigami, Quincy...they're likely to have noticed this disturbance." 

He moved his hand up and patted her head a little, ruffling her hair.  He walked to the side and opened up a smaller garganta, then held his hand out to Milo.  "Come with me, perhaps traveling through one of these might help you learn the technique to open one up in the first place."

Whatever happened next...it was going to be a long day of trainning.