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There are two separate battles at the beach. Ultimaodin's Cyle Krank and Al The Killer's Audio are generally going at it, with a healthy dose of zombies, as is the case in most places. Audio's recently lost sight of Cyle and flown up to get away from the mass of undead/for an unobstructed view of things, but unless Al was trying to move him on, they could've clashed again by the time someone finds them to join in.

Fyrestorm's Noxequa Enay's been having a 1-on-1 with Fire_Phoenix's Lia Sunstorm as the second beach battle, but she's now been joined by Bale Fire's Leo, Rust's Shell and Al The Killer's Silence, so he has his hands pretty damn full, and could really use an antagonistic-type character on his side before trying to fight more people at once.

Corruption's Maxwell is also at the beach with Selena, and as yet is unengaged in a fight, so he's one potential opponent for someone else.

Tiger of Wu's Amadeth is looking for Ged but may not know that he's left the beach, so she could still be heading for it, while Arimus is chasing after Corruption's Kalek, who could be more or less anywhere.

Steven's gang are somewhere possibly still on their way to the beach and are chasing Knightmare Chaotix's Nameless, who is fighting them but being crazy keeps getting sidetracked into shooting random crowds be they fleeing innocents or zombies. Taura, from Tiger of Wu's Weg and Akane, is also there, and is a pretty merciless dark thing that's going to attack someone, so between it and Nameless, there's room for another fighter or two to join the general good-guy side in that area.

In the central yard, Fyrestorm's Raphius and Clief have been having a fight against Tseng_Eclipse's Luther & Remiel with a large helping of undead, but it seems LuRem has realised they're not bad and Clief has fried pretty much all the undead and is now headed somewhere else.

Angel in Shadows' Antonya LeFevre is moving towards the "centre", I think that means the central yard, but I could be mistaken about that.

In one of the commercial areas on the edge of the place, DG's combo-mega-monster is fighting against Versen's Blitz, Fyrestorm's Crysis and Zone, Selig Hecht, both DivineMagic's Lanate and Shin, and Al The Killer's Ezra, which might be approaching a fair fight. Selig is in a building pumping himself up with frogs (seriously), but the rest are about fully engaged with the fight and could use help (seriously).

Tiger of Wu's Emote is in her Hatred form and looks like she killed a man and actually did knock down a building and would be a good safe bet for someone to fight as a bad person doing bad stuff. She's in an unspecified part of the theatres shops and such areas around the edge.

finalfight's Ged is somewhere, it's vague but has streets, and might be about to engage at least part of Tseng_Eclipse's Murder, with Ged being the baddie. Bale Fire's Chase is also following Ged, possibly not simply to fight him, but whether he knows where he is isn't clear.

Rust's Camo Man is active, and literally flying to (I think) Maxwell.

Tiger of Wu's Weg and Akane sans Taura are in an unspecified place, watching the battles through cameras, and have yet to make their move.

The following have yet to join in, and could be more or less anywhere:

Crystal Rain's Kira Storme

GreatPhoenix's Zander

LillieBeeXD's Alexis

LillieBeeXD's Arca

catastraphe's Ouroboros Timekeeper

Some Openings: Emote is completely unengaged, and Taura can stand for more company since Nameless is in the same place wrecking havoc. DG's monster could host more opponents but it is getting crowded. Cyle and Audio's fight can probably expand to a 3 or 4-way easily enough. Ged, Amadeth, and Kalek, who punched everyone and is being tracked down by Arimus, all have plans, but are walking around and aren't actively in a fight at present, so it would be wise to ask, but being attacked as a hindrance to whatever they're attempting to do might work. Maxwell, Chase and Tonya are likewise unengaged, but a bit less obviously evil.

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Yes, that was pre-arranged with Angel. She mentioned not really having a use for the dark force, I asked for it, she obliged, Fyre had no problem with it.

Basically, what was beneath the Coast-n-Shop was simply darkness. Not entirely sentient, but consuming and powerful. It amplifies what abilities you have, and can even draw out that which lays dormant, if you so will it to. Everyone has just been granted a dark power-up. If there are any citizens actually left alive, there won't be soon.

The beach fight is now a little more level with Kalek and Arimus. Raphius and Luther have been given a reason to move on, unless if Luther plans to join what I can only assume is Remeil about to get his ass chased by a dragon. Also left an opening for Cyle to follow Kalek and Arimus, since Audio flew off somewhere or something.

I didn't intervene with Ged and Skahr, mostly because of space constraints, but they'd probably be most affected by the power bump. Taura has yet to do anything (again, space constraints) but you guys can use her anytime. Seriously, it doesn't make sense for her to just be sitting around whilst you're shooting up Toys 'r' Us.

Emote is with Chase looking for Ged. I wasn't specific in anything (spaaaaaace constraaaaaaints) but they're heading towards Tonya, and of course would be a good point for anyone wanting to jump in without going straight to the deep end.

Now that the power has been unleashed and Amadeth can't use it I have no idea what she's going to do, but it probably involves trying to kill Ezra and beat information out of Blitz as fast as possible.

Oh, and a version of Malali taken over by dark energy is near the centre of the Coast-n-Shop with giant scythes and a lust for blood and she'll be rampaging on whoever she can get her hands on (and is also most affected by the dark power... as in anyone looking to try and steal more of it/destroy it at the source should probably go after her). I think that's about it.

Also, Akane asks, "Is it it," to which Weg replies, "No it isn't." I'll give you a hint: The it Akane is talking about the it everyone else has been talking about are completely different things.

Adieu.