Mertropolis

With Coral's help, Col and Floe continue lowering the platform at the same controlled rate, though the pair is started to get tired and there's a ways to go yet.

World Rocker doesn't notice Gear put the tracer on him and frowns in what appears to be something between confusion and disappointment at Golden. He then shrugs and says, "Well, if that's the way it has to go then.... so be it." World Rocker looks to the side and makes a motion and then Golden and Gear see the stone statue fly straight at them. ((Rolls to do stuff in reaction to that please.))

Col, starting to strain a bit now, attempts to continue on. "Come on! We can't give up now, not while this thing's still in the air!" He shouts, as much to himself as it is to Floe. You can make this, people are relying on you, just like they were back in the tower... You can't let them down now!

Roll:

"I... CAN...T!"

(Arcana Check: 7 (Roll) + 18 (Skill) = 25)
(Endurance Check: 9 (Roll) + 6 (Skill) = 15)

Almost without thinking Golden headbutts World Rocker trying to knock him out before trying to leap out of the way of the statue dragging with her Rocker and Gear.

Rolls:

Gear Craft yells in surprise and attempts to activate his suit.
((Come on Acro! 10 + 15 = 25, adding my first use of skilled with his hooves to bump it up to the requisite 30.))

Col and Floe and Coral manage to keep the platform lowering at a steady rate, but Floe's shadow clones seem to burst into nothingness at an alarming rate and soon they're all gone and Floe is too tired to do spells of this magnitude any longer and might have trouble performing other actions without succumbing to exhaustion as well.

Gear and Golden both manage to avoid the statue in their own ways. Golden's headbutt does manage to connect before she has to dodge, but she had to pull back too quickly to throw her full weight into it and manages only to do enough damage to make World Rocker angry. As World Rocker gets up there is a sound of cracking rock and suddenly the ground splits between the band and Gear and the now separated chunk floats up in the air while the rest of the platform continues to lower. Then World Rocker makes a thrusting motion at Golden and the pieces of concrete that were falling off or on the new edges of both platforms are suddenly flying at Golden in a hail of sharp edged rocks.

"Oh no you don't, you musical malcontent!" Gear Craft activates his A.K.D.U to stop the hail of rocks.
((Mech check: 20 + 20 = 40 C.M.C!!))

"How the hell are you still doing this?!?" Golden rushes at Rocker trusting Gear to handle the hail of stones. When she nears him she drops into a slide trying to knock the punk off of his hooves.

Roll:

"Flo-GAH!" Col exclaims, suddenly becoming aware of just how heavy the platform is. "D... DAMN... IT!" He grunts, still continuing with his attempts. I'm sorry, Floe. I have to get this thing down! I just hope we'll both be alright...

Rolls:

Coral, overhearing Col's thoughts, yells over at Gear and Golden on the stage. "HEY GUYS, PRAETORIAN NEEDS HELP DOWN THERE, AND I'M ALREADY HELPING AS MUCH AS I CAN. CAN ONE OF YOU DO SOMETHING FOR HIM?"

Gear Craft hears and says "Don't worry, I got something for this!" Gear Craft technopathically reaches out to Col's giraffe tracer, and activates one of it's hidden functions: A shot of pure adrenaline cocktail, specially brewed by Gear to boost reflexes and muscle strength.
((Spending my MP on Generosity to add to Praetorian's Endurance Check))

Floe takes a few deep breathes. "Note to self," she thinks to herself, "Don't do the big stuff." Still wanting to help, Floe focuses her shadow powers on Col's coat to support his limbs and force him to continue carrying the weight...

(Arcana Check: 18 (Roll) + 18 (Skill) = 36)
(Endurance Check: 16 (Roll) + 6 (Skill) = 21)

Gear somehow manages to surpass the limits of his telekinetic device and catch the entire hail of stones, catching and dropping each as they go as the device still doesn't have the juice to hold onto all of them at once. This allows Golden to successfully knock World Rocker back and entirely off the second platform.... until he flips over and the platform moves in the air so that he lands on it once more. Ignoring Golden's question, World Rocker stretches his arms out and moves them in a clockwise rotation and the second platform begins to spin and chunks of concrete from the edges break off and start to orbit it.

Thanks to the combined effort the platform continues to lower at a controlled rate. Then Col feels an outside power trying to control him. Hoping it's just Floe trying to do something to help, he doesn't resist.

(Arcana Check: 5 (Roll) + 18 (Skill) = 23)
(Endurance Check: 15 (Roll) + 6 (Skill) = 21)

Nice to know you're still in the fight, Floe... At least, I hope you are and this isn't just something else controlling me... I'm just gonna hope it's you. Col thinks to himself, continuing to lower the platform. Just a little more... Just have to hold on for a little longer...

Rolls:

Gear Craft grits his teeth and says, "Come back here you coward!" He then reaches out with Technopathy.

Golden now getting annoyed by Rocker's persistence flies up above the musician before diving back down at Rocker aiming herself directly at him.

Rolls:

Col feels his strength give way and knows he doesn't have the energy to keep his wings beating hard enough to keep the platform from falling.... and then his wings keep beating anyway. He can feel the pain of his muscles pulling as his body ignores its physical limits despite his will. And so, the trio manages to keep the platform from falling at dangerous speeds long enough for Col and Floe to realize they are now only a few feet above the hole in the surface.

Someone near Gear comments that they're pretty sure World Rocker didn't hear him.

Golden manages to just barely weave her way through the large rocks that try and block her path and she lands a punch on World Rocker. At which point he falls backwards and the platform starts falling to the ground as the band screams at World Rocker to wake up.

(Arcana Check: 16 (Roll) + 18 (Skill) = 34)
(Endurance Check: 17 (Roll) + 6 (Skill) = 23)

Coral, noticing how close to the surface the platform now is, starts pushing it more to the side than she was before. Setting this thing down wrong could make is snap in half, and people would die. Don't want that.

Col screams out in pain as his body continues past it's limits, attempting to slide the platform to the side and set it on the ground, despite his body screaming at him to stop. I... CAN'T GIVE UP... NOW!

Roll:

Golden flies down over to the band grabbing the two heaviest looking members. She then flies pushing herself to go as fast as she can going to the nearest tall building getting as close as she can before slowing down and dropping the bad members off and immediately turning around again to fly back up to the falling platform.

Roll:

Coral, Col, & Floe manage more or less gently slide the platform over to one side of the hole and put it down. Afterwards, despite the incredible pain he is in, Col just hovers there over the edge of the hole for a moment while Floe decides to either release her control over him or for some other action.

Golden grabs Arcamedis and Low Note (who doesn't let go of his bass) and drops them off on the roof of a nearby building, her seeing flame trailing after her. As she turns around she spots a pony couple walking on the street blissfully unaware of the slab of concrete about to drop on them.

Coral sighs as she drops the weight of the platform, then sees Col flying in a really really bad way. "Wait... how is he still flying!? Why!?" With that she quickly telekinetically grabs him out of the air, hoping he realizes he can stop flapping now, and starts easing him toward her/the ground.

Floe flies over to Col, giving the bat pony support as she releases him from her spell. "You okay buddy?" Floe asks with concern...