[IC] TotMV:G^2: Clash of Fate: The Witch of Betrayal

[Chevaleresse]

Nessie defends. 

 

Nobunaga, as requested, gives a quick pep talk to Atton that leaves him feeling better, if slightly bewildered. He recovers [32] HP and gains a bonus of [20] to his next roll. "You know, you guys really have to manage your incoming damage better. If the healer goes down, you guys will wipe for sure." 

 

Isobel recovers from her stun.

 

The remainder of the first group of archers fires at Bridgett for [5] damage. 

 

The second group also lets loose at the bombardment mage, one arrow dealing [5] damage and the other whizzing past her head.

 

Three of the warriors strike at Nobunaga, dealing [12] total damage. Two of them attack Samantha for [0] damage. The last attacks Venus for [7] damage. 

 

The mist surges forward again, surrounding Bridgett, Nobunaga, and Venus. Venus is stunned as he resists the urge to create artwork using his teammates. 

 

Aurora heals herself and Mitsurugi for [15] HP. She regenerates 4 HP. 

 

Bridgett thoroughly ruins Assassin's day. Assassin definitely does not want to be her friend as she deals [157] damage to Assassin, the Warriors, and the Archers. Nessie takes [32] damage. 

 

Assassin fires a trio of lasers, targeting Venus, Nobunaga, and Isobel. She deals [13], [3], and [13] damage. 

 

Venus recovers from his stun. 

 

Mitsurugi continues to strike Assassin with Eruptions, dealing [48] damage. 

 

Assassin attempts to bind Atton with strings of magic. [Pass] Using Nobunaga's advice, he manages to evade the attack. 

 

The remaining warrior in the second group attempts to find a good striking position.

 

Atton increases his own INT by 14, somehow. 

 

Samantha punches Assassin in the face, adding insult to injury for [4] damage and taunting her. 

 

Laver recovers from his stun. 

 

Friedhold camouflages himself, Atton, and Bridgett. 

 

Initiative

Oda Nobunaga: 39
Isobel and LOTUS: 32 
Dragon Tooth Warriors A (4): 25
Assassin: 24
Aurora: 20
Bridgett: 20
Assassin: 19
Venus: 19
Mitsurugi: 14
Assassin: 14
Dragon Tooth Warrors B (1): 14
Atton: 14
Samantha: 13 
Laver: 11
Friedhold: 10
Nessie: 9

Status

Oda Nobunaga: 215/230 HP, Marked

Aurora: 23/42 HP, Marked
Isobel & LOTUS: 27/45 HP, Marked x2, Recovering from stun
Bridgett: 32/45 HP, +41 SYN (1 turns remaining), Marked, Bridgett
Venus: 4/42 HP, Marked x2, Recovering from stun
Mitsurugi: 22/45 HP, +14 Damage, Marked
Atton: 33/45 HP, Marked, +14 INT (2 turns remaining), Camouflaged
Samantha: 36/63 HP, Marked, +18 RES (2 turns remaining)
Friedhold: 21/45 HP, Camouflaged
Laver: 23/48 HP, Marked x2, +5 Damage, +14 STR (Expiring), Recovering from stun
Nessie: 51/51 HP, Marked, Monstrous Strength, Defending
 
Assassin: Bloodied, Taunted (Samantha)
Dragon Tooth Warriors A (4): Healthy
Dragon Tooth Warriors B (1): Pretty fucked up tbh 
Dragon Tooth Archers A (1): Sent to Valhalla
Dragon Tooth Archers B: Shot to bits
Dragon Tooth Archers C (1): Broken
Dragon Tooth Beasts A: Seiba beamu
Dragon Tooth Beasts B: Don't honestly remember but it was probably the beamu too 

[Yours Truly]

Atton's mind was buzzing with possibilities as his mind went through hundreds of prepared speeches and inspirational sayings in an attempt to find one that would fit best in this situation, but he eventually realized that almost everything he could think of would be too long for something like this. This is why the man shrugged before raising up his silver sword in a hopefully inspirational manner before simply shouting out "Just keep shooting her, it seems that the only way we can lose now is if something terrible happens or if we all just stop trying to do anything to help each other". He would have said something to the Assassin about how he is going to pray for her hopefully existent soul, but really that sounded like something that you would say after you kill someone.

Instead the man pointed directly at her with his banner and quietly said "If I had a dollar for every time I think of you...I would have one dollar, because you never leave my mind".
 

 

HP: 33/45
Init: 14 
Current Action: Never Give Up! on the group, healing them all by Int (11+14) * 1.25
Con 2/RES 4/Dex 3/Int 11+14/Strength 4/Synergy 6/Basic Attack damage 2d3+INT with half as holy damage and a quarter as pure damage/Twice as much RES from armor when attacked by bullets/Camouflaged/+14 Int for two rounds

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by Cronos5010

[Powder Miner]

"Atton, what in the world are you doing? Why are you flirting with the horrible necromancer? I get the feeling you want to accomplish something but I can't divine what it is. He's right about our strategy, though we shouldn't be complacent: the plan to take down her minions went off -- with some hitches, but it went off. With that threat significantly diminished, now we need to focus on just taking her down! Atton, here's a bit of tactical advice -- with the situation as it is, the reward of that heal of yours is well worth the risk, we can do this anyway but we'd do a lot better with that kind of aid! Aurora, heal yourself and Venus! Laver, heal Mitsurugi! Friedhold, I want you to keep your camo up for a couple more seconds, but I want it dropped soon. Venus, I want you to keep yourself defended, unless you think it's safe enough to shoot. Everyone else, start hitting Assassin, we want to both start actually killing her and keep the pressure off of our healers!"

Efficiency Analysis on Atton, reducing the cooldown of Never Give Up! by 1 and making it usable.

[Hal Henderics]

Laver Smashes Mitsu in the face, healing her for 1d6+11 Health.

 

"Sorry Mam, I swear I'm healing you!"

[StormLord]

Friedhold

21/45

Con 2 | Res 8(+[Syn] vs cold) | Dex 3 | Int 8 | Str 3 | Syn 5 | Adam 13 | Eve 7/20 |

 

Friedhold listened to LOTUS' oordes and maintained the invisibility field while taking aim with his rifle and firing at Assassin.

 

Friedhold makes a basic attack against Assassin dealing 1d8+5 damage and reducing her init by [Syn]/3.

He also maintains Houdini costing 6 Eve.

[Sutoratosu]

Aurora-Goddess Mode
23/42
Con 1| Res 10| Dex 6| Int 0| Str 4| Syn 10|
Immune to Poison; Regenerates 10% mHP at the end of her turns

 

Aurora uses Starsign: Virgo on herself and Venus, restoring 1d4+(Syn((10))*1.25->1d4+12) health and curing 1 ailment on each

[rustytengo]

Bridgett frowns as Assassin is still able to move after the Breaker. Sighing she levels Mornings Arrow at Assassin deciding to see if she could end this the way she started it and fires Magic Arrow at Assassin.

Bridgett usesMagic Arrow on Assassin. Firing all Five arrows at her dealing 1d4+Syn(49) 5 times 

 

 

Bridgett's stats Constitution: 3/Dexterity: 3/Intelligence: 3/Resistance: 4+3/Strength:3 /Synergy: 8+41

[Noir]

Venus

 

Venus unleashes At An Arm's Length at Assassin (heals for 4 + 1 per 4 SYN health, = 4 +2, Basic Attack Damage + Quaternary Art and Bauble bonus damage, = 2d4 + 10 + 3 +2 = 2d4 +15)

Equipment: 

 


Stats:

Constitution: 1
Resistance: 1 + 1
Dexterity: 2
Intelligence: 9
Strength: 0
Synergy: 9 + 1
 

Name: Silvia’s Heart
Description: A durable, light, ruby ore etched in a rose that Venus usually adorns in the front of his cloak bearing the insignia of a certain important person in the artist’s life….
Type: Bauble
Damage: 1
Minimum Stats: N/A
Weight: N/A
STR Penalty: N/A
SYN Threshold/Bonus: N/A
Special Qualities:
It Is Her That Inspires Me: The memory of that one person the rose was made for strengthens Venus, granting him an additional 1 per 4 SYN damage.

Perks:
Quaternary Art: Venus adorns his actions with rose petals, gaining a progressive 1 + 1 per 4 SYN bonus damage whenever he successfully uses an action that would cause damage (including turn 0-1, with the bonus damage applying immediately) on each successive round. The damage increase resets after successfully using four damaging actions. This only applies when Venus is using Whisper. 
Current bonus: B x T whereby B = Bonus damage = 3, T = Turns Elapsed = 1.


Every Moment Matters: A perceptive and fastidious marksman, Venus ignores his enemies’ resistance by his INT divided by 4.
Artistic Precision: Venus gains a 2*INT chance for all of his abilities to critically strike for *2 damage.

Action Taken:

At an Arm’s Length: Venus launches a long-distance shot that deals his Basic Attack damage and heals him for 4 +1 per 4 SYN HP.

 

 

[DragonRage]

Samantha fires another mental blast at Assassin, carving a searing line from her forehead to Assassin's into the air.  She does not use her Phoenix Corona, so her basic attack deals 4d6+4 damage, with 9 pure damage of recoil.  The damage is both fire and psionic, and is mostly not physical, if that matters at all.

[Shamitako]

Nessie

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51/51HP, Monstrous Strength (200% basic damage for one attack), Patience (+1 RES)

|4CON|9(5+3+1)RES|0DEX|0INT|8(7+1)STR|6SYN|
Takes 50% damage from allied AoE

Nessie uses her Basic Attack [2(10d4+STR)] on Assassin

[Chevaleresse]

Laver smacks Mitsu in the face, healing her for [12] HP.

 

Nobunaga, conserving energy, shimmers and fades into glittering blue motes.

 

LOTUS gives Atton a better idea of how to effectively utilize his time. 

 

The first group of warriors attacks Bridgett. Two of them miss, but two blades find their homes for [15] damage. 

 

Assassin causes the mist to surge forth, targeting Atton, Samantha, and Mitsurugi, stunning all three of them. "Are you insane, soldier? I've tried to kill you already, and I would never let a man such as yourself get near me without stripping the flesh from his bones." 

 

Aurora heals herself and Venus for [14] HP with cleansing divine light. She regenerates 4 HP. 

 

Bridgett fires a bunch of magical arrows that deal a shitload of damage at Assassin, striking her for a total of [231] damage.

 

Assassin does some of her own beam spam, targeting Samantha, Atton, and Mitsurugi for [0], [11], and [18] damage.

 

Venus shoots Assassin in the face for [22] damage. This somehow heals him for [6] HP. 

 

Mitsurugi recovers from her stun, and screams internally about her lost ramp. 

 

Assassin begins some sort of magical ritual. An outline of a circle appears on the rock of the ceiling. The remaining Dragon Teeth in the room burst into glowing motes, which fly to this.

 

Atton recovers from his stun.

 

Samantha recovers from her stun.

 

Friedhold also goes with the tried and true method of shooting a motherfucker in the face, dealing [4] damage. Her INIT falls by 1.

 

Nessie hits Assassin with her blade, dealing [82] damage. 

Initiative

Isobel and LOTUS: 32

Assassin: 23
Aurora: 20
Bridgett: 20
Venus: 19

Assassin: 18
Mitsurugi: 14
Atton: 14
Samantha: 13 

Assassin: 13
Laver: 11
Friedhold: 10
Nessie: 9

Status

Aurora: 41/42 HP, Marked

Isobel & LOTUS: 27/45 HP, Marked x2, Recovering from stun
Bridgett: 32/45 HP, Marked, Camouflaged
Venus: 24/42 HP, Marked
Mitsurugi: 16/45 HP, Recovering from stun, Marked x2
Atton: 22/45 HP, Stunned, Marked x2, +14 INT (1 turns remaining), Camouflaged
Samantha: 36/63 HP, Recovering from stun, Marked x2, +18 RES (2 turns remaining)
Friedhold: 21/45 HP, Camouflaged
Laver: 23/48 HP, Marked x2, +5 Damage
Nessie: 51/51 HP, Marked, Monstrous Strength, Defending
 
Assassin: Near Death, Taunted (Samantha)
Dragon Tooth Warriors A (4): Sacrificed
Dragon Tooth Warriors B (1): Sacrificed
Dragon Tooth Archers A (1): Sent to Valhalla
Dragon Tooth Archers B: Shot to bits
Dragon Tooth Archers C (1): Broken
Dragon Tooth Beasts A: Seiba beamu
Dragon Tooth Beasts B: Don't honestly remember but it was probably the beamu too  

[Hal Henderics]

Laver is surrounded with a crackling yellow field of electricity, which lifts him off the ground and launches him at Medea, hefting his Heartstrung sword, he flings it skyward, a ringing peal of noise as he releases his Bad Vibes.

 

"It's Over!" He shouts.

 

Activate Overdrive, Granting the user First strike this turn.

 

Vibe Release, Decreasing Medea's RES by 2, and recovering 2 Health to himself.

[Sutoratosu]

Aurora-Goddess Mode
41/42
Con 1| Res 10| Dex 6| Int 0| Str 4| Syn 10|
Immune to Poison; Regenerates 10% mHP at the end of her turns

 

Seeing the witch's physical state beginning to grow more and more wounded over the passing rounds, for the first time since the fight began, the vibrant light that had illuminated Aurora's eyes faded, only to be replaced by an even more intense glow in the palm of her hand. Reaching up to the broach on her robes, she pressed one of the jeweled eyes of the Dacian Draco, and immediately the thing uncoiled into a far larger, more imposing version of itself. It's fangs dripped a while substance into her outstretched hand, not just venom, but the very idea of poison itself...

 

"Enough of this, kill the flesh bag before she finishes her little ritual!"

 

And with that single order that she gave to the others, she leveled her own palm and allowed the light to gather there. Within the blink of an eye, blinding radiance filled the area around her, tinted a sickly green as a burning bolt of cosmic radiation hurtled towards the witch.

 

Aurora activates the Dacian Draco Emblems "Conceptual Alchemist's Touch" quality as a free action! The next attack made with her weapon will inflict a 1d10 poison status on the target, lasting 3 turns!

Spoiler

Name: Dacian Draco Emblem
Description: An alchemically reforged insignia depicting a creature with a wolf's head and serpent's body that is eating it's own tail, coiled in such a way to form an infinity symbol. When the button disguised as one of it's eyes is pressed however, the pendant expands into a robotic version of itself that dispenses a conceptual venom....
Type: Bauble
Minimum Stats: str 1, syn 2
Weight: 2
SYN/INT Threshold/Bonus: Every 5 Syn, Alchemist Touch's poison di increases by 1 size from the base 1d6 ((2))*
Special Qualities:

-Conceptual Alchemist's Touch: [Free Action. When used, poisons your weapon to deal a 1d10* Poison status lasting 3 turns on attacked enemies. 4CD before this effect can be activated again.]

Aurora then says fuck her role as a heal bot and fires a basic attack against Assassin, dealing [4d4+Syn(10), 25% stronger against enemies suffering status] Light-Based damage and inflicting Assassin with a 1d10 Poison lasting 3 turns!

[rustytengo]

Bridgett sighs as she the state of the Assassin. She flies up to her and lifts Mornings Arrow above her head in two hands. The Camo drop briefly as she did "Well that was fun but its time for you to stop now." she says as she swings the blade of Mornings Arrow across assassin's body. 

 

Bridgett uses basic attack dealing  1d8+str(3) damage to assassin

 

 Bridgett's stats Constitution: 3/Dexterity: 3/Intelligence: 3/Resistance: 4+3/Strength:3 /Synergy: 8

Edited August 25, 2017 by rustytengo

[StormLord]

Friedhold

21/45

Con 2 | Res 8(+[Syn] vs cold) | Dex 3 | Int 8 | Str 3 | Syn 5 | Adam 13 | Eve 4/20 |

 

Friedhold dropped the invisibility field and put another round in Assassin should she somehow still be alive, if she's not he relaxes some and reloads his gun.

 

Friedhold makes a basic attack against Assassin dealing 1d8+5 damage and reducing her init by [Syn]/3 should she somehow still be alive when his turn comes around.

[Noir]

Venus

 

Already weakened and feeble beyond recovery of one's normal assumption and comprehension, the battle was almost a close. The woman before the group however began a ritual of sorts, an act of desperation that would prove futile; withdrawing a special, enchanted bullet and replacing the current round that held in his excited paintbrush, he would at least begin -- if not end -- the coda, not a moment sooner or later. 

 

"Your final scene begins."

 

Venus intends to orchestrate the denouement of the battle, unleashing his rare Curtain Call at Assassin (ignores 4 + 1 per 4 SYN RES = 4 +2, Basic Attack Damage + Quaternary Art and Bauble bonus damage, = 2d4 + 10 + 6 + 2 = 2d4 +18. If Venus kills the target, be gains 1 + 1 per 4 SYN bonus damage for the remainder of the match.)

 

Stats:

Constitution: 1
Resistance: 1 + 1
Dexterity: 2
Intelligence: 9
Strength: 0
Synergy: 9 + 1
  

Name: Silvia’s Heart
Description: A durable, light, ruby ore etched in a rose that Venus usually adorns in the front of his cloak bearing the insignia of a certain important person in the artist’s life….
Type: Bauble
Damage: 1
Minimum Stats: N/A
Weight: N/A
STR Penalty: N/A
SYN Threshold/Bonus: N/A
Special Qualities:
It Is Her That Inspires Me: The memory of that one person the rose was made for strengthens Venus, granting him an additional 1 per 4 SYN damage.

Perks:
Quaternary Art: Venus adorns his actions with rose petals, gaining a progressive 1 + 1 per 4 SYN bonus damage whenever he successfully uses an action that would cause damage (including turn 0-1, with the bonus damage applying immediately) on each successive round. The damage increase resets after successfully using four damaging actions. This only applies when Venus is using Whisper. 
Current bonus: B x T whereby B = Bonus damage = 3, T = Turns Elapsed = 2.


Every Moment Matters: A perceptive and fastidious marksman, Venus ignores his enemies’ resistance by his INT divided by 4.
Artistic Precision: Venus gains a 2*INT chance for all of his abilities to critically strike for *2 damage.

Action Taken:

Curtain Call: Venus fires a shot that ignores 4+ 1 per 4 SYN resistance. If Venus successfully kills his target, he gains 1 + 1 per 4 SYN damage. 

 

[Yours Truly]

Atton had a triumphant smile on his face when he shouted out "Well it got you to attack me again didn't it? And it was interesting enough to get you to talk..so I think I'll chalk that up as a small victory for now". He quite visibly cocked his gun once more before he continued by saying "And this battle seems like it will be over for you soon, but don't worry...I will pray that your soul goes to heaven", and he would aim and fire it at her if she was somehow still alive.

 

HP: 22/45
Init: 14 
Current Action: Attack the Assassin with a Miraculous Shot, dealing Basic Attack damage as holy pure damage
Con 2/RES 4/Dex 3/Int 11+14/Strength 4/Synergy 6/Basic Attack damage 2d3+INT with half as holy damage and a quarter as pure damage/Twice as much RES from armor when attacked by bullets/Camouflaged/+14 Int for two rounds

[DragonRage]

Samantha calls upon the full power of the Phoenix Force once again, bringing her corona to full power and surrounding herself in the familiar hawk of fire.  Then she fires a basic attack, dealing 9d6+9 damage as her corona fires a blast of psychic fire from its mouth to engulf Assassin.  This costs a total of 27 HP to do.

[Sutoratosu]

Spoiler

((Fight's over kids. As was discussed and agreed upon in the discord, its time to bring this to a close... in dramatic fashion.))

 

 

 

Aurora's eyes flashed. 

 

The bolt she'd fired split as it flew. One became two, two split once more into four, four became eight.

 

Eight became sixteen, sixteen to thirty-two, and onwards and onwards, their burning light growing greater with each new generation that was spawned, the air within the cavern beginning to rise steadily, the constellation upon the Goddess' back pouring cosmic radiation off in such great torrents it would've destroyed even the most reliable Geiger-counter. But even now, it was contained by her own will, like a tidal wave, barely held back from breaking free and choking the life out of her companions in her fury.

They kept multiplying. Reproducing over and over and over again, encircling around the Assassin until they'd formed a cage of pure celestial fire, some 4 or five layers thick. Countless needles of cosmic energy, each one burning with the fury of small in it's own right,  their radiance blinding to all who looked on except the Spider herself, as she chanelled all that she had once lost, all she had forgotten, all she had once suffered at the hands of mages just like this one, mages who exemplified the wanton destruction, the greed and arrogance that Humans, or at least the hairless apes she'd fought so many times before, seemed so consumed by. 

 

It all came flooding back. The war, the days before it when her people had been destroyed, reduced to nothing by mere dust, crushed under the heel of those who so habitually defied and defiled the natural order, those who sought to take the cycle of life and death which held all in check, the roles of predator and prey, and break it over their knees as if it were meaningless...

 

The sewers. The moment she have chosen to sacrifice part of her own self to restore the life to Ajax's eyes... part of a soul, for another's. 

 

"Sometimes....if... they.... know any better.... If.... their.... nature." 

 

Remnants... broken fragments, becoming whole once more, blanks filling in, the past being reborn, retold. She knew naught whether the part of herself she'd given for him had somehow returned, or what remained of her was simply filling in the void itself...

 

"Sometimes, I wonder if... they really don't know any better than this. If this is just their nature..."

 

"No, no... do not make excuses for what they have done here, sylvi. They know, they simply do not care- whatever furthers their will is good in their eyes, whatever impedes it... must either be subjugated, or destroyed. Look at all this around us, my dear apprentice. These prisoners could have just as easily been us. Perhaps next time... it will be.
      We are past the point of negotiating. The Wodani were right, the Arcadians are naught but a scourge upon this world... no one is safe from their designs. Come... we'll find nothing for Aurora here." 

 

So long ago, yet so close. Yes, yes they had that conversation when they had come across the first of the... camps. The first of the slaughter grounds, the ritual places. The alters of death and blood.

 

Human... Damned... something inbetween. Some primal part of her, did not care anymore. Perhaps it was the portion that had ascended despite the setbacks it faced, obtained dominion over life, became so capable of both restoring and rescinding it, as she'd so often demonstrated, healing these Fleshbags over, and over, and over again, the only thing keeping them from bleeding out as they constantly threw themselves against one eclectic foe after another.

 

Perhaps it was the predator. The beast which had lived by the cycle since its very birth, knew little else, the instinctual drive to survive, to ensure that of her species as well.

It did not matter. 

 

An organism such as this, such as the hairless apes from her homeworld this... thing so greatly reminded her, killing, destroying, without regard and without reason... such a being was a threat to all lifeforms, predator, prey, and everything else bound up in the chain. 

 

She would tolerate the existence of such beings no longer. If she must destroy a few to preserve many, many more, than so be it... but preserve them she would.

 

"The power to kill and destroy," the Goddess began, a visage of celestial fire and radiance, bedecked in countless colors  "That seems the only power that matters to your kind. Yet despite your lust for it, how readily you turn to the power to end life, its significance is still lost on you. Like children mesmerized by a flame, you think to toy with forces the likes of which you do not understand. And like a child with a flame, you let it grow, and grow, until it is beyond even your control, and it consumes everything."

 

She closed her outstretched hand, snarling one last condemnation as the very air began to distort in the cavern, the spears of heavenly wrath growing even more blinding with each passing moment.

 

"No more. NO MORE."

 

The first lance moved like lightning, penetrating the witch's form and leaving a searing trail in it's wake. Then the next, and the next, tens, and then hundreds, all of them firing off into a hellish storm of fury and light.

 

They did more than merely burn, shred, or pierce however.... no, that would be mercy. Their destruction was so complete that they utterly purged the very essence of the Assassin from this place, the purifying flames of cosmic order wiping clean the filth of those who sought to defy it.

 

Aurora said nothing, as the execution ran it's course. The light of her carapace dimmed to nothing. The radiance of her eyes did the same, and the radiation and the heat she'd given off- just barely restrained from bringing ungodly harm onto those assembled with her by sheer force of her will alone -ebbed and then became naught. She lowered her hand, the Radiant Shard which even now shined with holy wrath.

 

No longer did her hair shine with the silvered hue of the moon's light. No, far from it infact. 

 

Those locks burned a vibrant gold, brilliant as the sun.

[Chevaleresse]

A black fog seemed to burst out of Assassin as the scintillating rays pierced her - a fog that seemed to coalesce, and then drip to the ground, spattering it with a hiss as if it were molten rock. The torrent of divine light, however, scourged it out of existence entirely. The Servant fell to the ground, clothes tattered and burnt - and different, the party could see, than when the party had first met her. Her eyes no longer seemed to bleed, and her hood slipped back to reveal bluish-purple hair. Her clothes were a dark purple mixed with traces of gold on the edges, instead of the blood red and black they had been before. Even her skin was a more natural shade, instead of the corpse-like pallor it had held before. 

 

Medea coughed, and stared up at the ceiling of the cave again, her body glimmering with gold motes that rose into the air and vanished. "And so. . . it ends like this again. Controlled. . . against my will. . . and used until I break. Cursed as a. . . witch. . ." She gestured at the entrance to the cave, and then slowly dissolved, leaving nothing but dust behind.

[Hal Henderics]

Laver's Weapon disappears into motes of light, flashing from his hands.

 

"None of this was right, and now, it never will be."  He sighs, disappointed.

 

"Let's get going guys, our friends are probably waiting for us, They might even need our help."

 

He walks to the cave exit, but only stands by it, waiting for the others to get done.

[Powder Miner]

There was a pause from both the botanist woman and the tablet she was carrying -- however, the pause of the latter was much shorter, as LOTUS only took a few moments to react before beginning to speak once more. "Well... that's that I guess," the AI said simply before then pausing for another few moments as far as the others could tell, but in reality, he was sending a transmission over the radio channel: <"Edmond, you're going to have to get information on Saber and Lancer from Berserker before you kill him; Aurora has gone and removed Assassin from existence; we're not going to be getting anything from her. The team has, at least, taken no casualties, though it got close.">

Then he moved his eyes on his display towards Aurora. "Is that something you can repeat, Aurora? That kind of damage is, obviously, useful. Everyone, we're going to want to get going -- without Ghost transporting us, I don't know if we can make it back to the fort and castle in time to reinforce them, but we should absolutely make the attempt."

 

Though Isobel walked towards the door like Laver, she remained silent for longer than LOTUS did, a pensive and perhaps regretful frown on her face, wringing her gloved hands nervously with the quiet sound of leather creaking. Eventually, though, after LOTUS' barked suggestions and questions, she spoke up in a much quieter tone. "Against her will, she said... are they being mind controlled...? Possessed...?"

Edited August 29, 2017 by Powder Miner

[Hal Henderics]

Laver looks frustrated.

 

"Does it matter?  We didn't learn anything we can use for the next time."

 

"If we fought the next servant thinking that, we could get hurt when they show that they are perfectly willing."

 

"All we learned here is that we don't understand what is going on."

Edited August 28, 2017 by Hal Henderics

[Sutoratosu]

The spider looked around for a few moments before answering. All these fleshbags, all these... humans? How far out of it had she truly been, up until now? How insane had she become that she had willingly put up with them, helped them, when any other time she would've pounced on the lot of them? She shook her head, snarling. In truth, though she'd indeed experienced a burst of the past, a torrent of memories both old and new, the flood was still raw, uncut, and struggling to order itself within her mind. Like a tangled web, some connections were crossed, others mangled, until one event could not help but have it's lead up mired by that of another. 

 

But it was slowly beginning to right itself. The most recent past was the easiest to set straight, given it'd been the shortest and she'd been rather.... disposed mentally all the way through. Yes, yes, the White One, the Dragon, those two were the reasons why she hadn't killed them all. 

 

Much to her Chagrin, Aurora felt her face grow hot at the memory at the strange being's embrace, flushing a bright blue around her cheeks. Cuddling her like some pet.... and to think she'd just let her do it too... hell, between ITE's display of affection and Eon's steaks, somehow the predatory side of her had been surpressed enough for something else to take over... something more lucid, slowly, but surely, until it had garnered enough power to gradually establish more and more control.

 

What the hell was it about this place, these fleshbags, this mission, that had somehow accomplished in mere hours what Ajax and Sylvi had been trying for so long to undo? Gah, too much was still so fogged... to hell with it. It hurt to focus too hard on anything much further beyond the point of the Canyon... but one way or another, she felt... whole again. 

 

Not just whole, but even better. Like... a curse had been lifted. Wait... when she'd condemned the witch, there had been no burning, except for the variety she herself had dished out.... the chains of the divine were.... gone...

 

Yes. Whole again indeed. Unbent, Unbound, and Unbroken.

 

 

"Maybe," was all Aurora finally answered Lotus with, "Whoever, whatever that brooding fleshbag was, something about her stirred part of me, was enough to wake the rest of it up, until it all came surging to the surface...and fried her to a crisp. It felt like only months to me, but to flesh-bags like you lot, the time I spent as some mentally broken animal was probably years.  Who knows though, with some time to get my barrings again, I might be able to do even worse than the fate I gave her... maybe.

    But that is later, sometime soon maybe, but still later. This now. And right now" -She interrupted herself by firing a few burst of light from her eyes, as she had all throughout the fight, fixing up the wounds of those who were in the worse condition, and then moving to those who weren't that bad -"You lot would be better off if I took the time to teach some of you how to Heal yourselves, rather than spending it trying to repeat what I did to the mage. Would certainly make my job easier, and maybe keep some of you from becoming nice red paste when I'm not around or can't get to you..."

[Hal Henderics]

"I'd like to observe that teaching, should it happen.  I can only heal using my Heartstrung sword, right now."