[Date: October 31, 2020. Time: One minute or less since last session started.] [You continue to fight your way down the ziggurat. You've cleared the first room completely. Two flame shooting gargoyles remain in the second. Eleven humanoids with tentacles for arms have rushed out from the third, where two pretty pretty demons also reside.] [Maggie and Ren are presently grappled and charmed.] [Yuri is holding a Walrus. His bearded guy friend is down in the third room.] [The fourth room has a bunch of sword wielding smaller demons and two big-sword wielding big demons.] [However, the door for that one is only starting to open, so you've got some time. Unfortunately, Breaker got ahead of herself and landed in that room, so she's probably going to have to deal with a pile o' mooks.] [Init: Ren, Maggie, Breaker, Yuri, Tim, Kahlya, Gargoyles, Pretty demons, Tentacles, Walrus, Bearded guy, big swords, small swords.] * Ren suddenly disappears! Too bad for the demon that had a hold on him - he doesn't reappear. [The tentacles are fairly clustered in the second room. The two gargoyles are spread in the second, the two pretty demons and bearded guy are spread in the third. Hitting a gargoyle and a bunch of tentacles with the same attack isn't that hard.] [Rest of Ren's turn!] [Ren doesn't reappear. Maggie's turn! Maggie, give me a hearing awareness roll.] * Marguerite turns to Tim, and fires a standard plasma round at him. She's uncharacteristically silent. [Tim needs to defend. Breaker's turn happens while he does that.] * Tim goes from stifling a yawn to having a plasma blot flung at him. "YaaOH SHI-!" * Tim finishes near the opposite wall. "-IT!" Oh, hey, I'm back. * Breaker. "Aww, shit." She grabs the two closest demons and holds them up to shield her from the rest. [Yuri!] * Kahlya looks over at Tim and sighs. "Yeah. "That'll wake ya up. Eye on the demon, fella. Well, the male one at least. * Yuri lifts the walrus more fully in her grip again, grits her teeth, and then tosses it in like a bowling-pinball to slam into the tentacle grapplers and then bounce around to slam into more of the stupid enemies! [The tentacle beasties, excluding the one still grappling Maggie, are bowled over and then..] [Tim is on deck.] * Ren suddenly reappears! Right after the walrus slows down enough to change courses around the pretty-pretties, and he - now fully covered in ghostly fur - rebounds from ramming into it. [Tim!] * Tim pulls out a grenade, and doesn't pull the pin before throwing it at the group of bowled over demons. "Catch!" [Walrus is unharmed, male Pretty Pretty demons is hit and look badly wounded but still up, Bearded guy seems super-naturally aware and dodges for half.] * Tim 's grenade vanishes and the room full of pretty and beard explodes. [Oh.. shoot, Ren's down there too. You willing to hit 'em?] [He's actively defending them, so you'd have to drop a target otherwise.] [And Kahlya, take your turn.] * Kahlya eyes the gargoyle that flamed her and runs after it with a cleaving strike, trying to go through to the nearby tentacle demon as well. [Both are hit, the last of the tentacle demons falls.] [The gargoyle is still up.] * Kahlya grins. "You're next, pyro." She follows through with a slash up the gargoyle's middle. [And the gargoyle is sliced open. Blood splatters...] [Remaining gargoyle goes for revenge, launching a fireball into at the initial party (Maggie, Yuri, and Kahlya. Tim's further up and Ren's further down)! The homing shot fired last round zooms in on Kahlya.] [Both shots are off though... the last gargoyle cries out in anger.] [Pretty pretty demons again attempt mind control. Soul defense, mind shield helps.] [Charms from last round have expired.] * Yvonne has joined #SAB2020 [And everyone's in view, so everyone's got a defense. Yvonne, give me a soul roll, -2 per level of easily distracted pretty people.] [Anyone else with that easily distracted does take it as a penalty.] [Kahlya's immune to this type of mind control for the rest of the combat.] [Ren, Yvonne, Yuri, and Maggie get charmed.] [Tim and Kahlya are free!] [While we finish resolving this, Walrus goes!] * Walrus comes back up and takes a swing at Maggie and Yuri! Stupid people capable of hurting him.] [Maggie and Yuri need to defend against a melee attack. +4 penalty, one from spreading, three from trick shot.] [Being charmed does not prevent you from wanting to dodge.] [Yuri dodges good. Maggie, gets knocked back to first room by blubber-butt. 75 damage pre-defenses.] * Bearded guy tries to smack Ren. [He misses.] [And in the fourth room, everyone piles on Breaker. She's able to dodge one of the hits from the big demons, but also gets pinged twice by the little ones.] [The cut from the big demons looks nasty, but she shrugs off the others.] [However, her two demon shields are now quite sliced and dead.] [Ren, Maggie, Breaker, Yvonne, Yuri, Tim, Kahlya, Gargoyle, Succubae, Walrus, Bearded guy, Big swords, little swords.] [Yvonne is now visible because she had to look at the pretty demons. Stupid ED. :P] [Although she's got cover form the column. +4 to hit her, accuracy helps. [Ren!] * Ren leaps even farther back, a slow acrobatic triple back flip, landing in a perfect crouch and in a perfect position to fire - along with a sniper rifle, and someone in his sights! And that's when he pulls the trigger. [Tim blocks it with something! Describe that Tim.] [Maggie!] * Tim snatches the bullet out of the air and sends it into the wall. "Oh come ON!" * Marguerite glances to Yvonne, then notices Tim blocking, then fires again at Tim. [That shot frags the incubus!] [Everyone exclusively attracted to men breaks mind control!] * Marguerite blinks, then shakes her head. "... fuck. FUCK!" Right, no more of that! [Breaker meanwhile fights some more.] [Yuri!] * Walrus smiles at all the self attacking. "It seems a shame to play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far and made them trot so quick.] * Yuri had started looking towards Khalya with a scowl on her face, but the mind control breaking causes her to blink, then look around. "... Breaker! Dammit!" She starts to move towards Breaker, taking a swing at smashing the walrus' face. Face isn't so armored! Maybe! "You, quit rhyming!" * Breaker runs up and starts beating on one of the big demons with her two smaller demons. She's also looking a bit healthier. However, she doesn't bring down the big guy in one hit. [Yvonne! Who I accidentally skipped.] [Incidentally the Walrus and the Bearded guy have been taking burning damage.] [Tim is on deck.] * Tim burned his attack on the reflect! * Yvonne makes a complicated series of gestures while the swords on her back seperate, one going for Maggie and the other for Ren. Meanwhile, another, similar sword appears, accompanied by a very large black demon, with a bull's horns coming out of its tiger head. [Maggie and Ren need to defend. [Both do. Lame!] [Kahlya!] * Kahlya is licks up the blood splatter, but doesn't waste too much time going after the other gargoyle, frost gathering on her blade. Oh come on, Yvonne. Yeesh. [And incidentally, the door to the fourth chamber is now half open. [The door out of this hallway has also opened. And the walrus face smashy worked! He looks fairly angry.] [Another gargoyle bites the icey dust. This one flows frosted blood against the wall.] [10 HP/EP recharge to Ren/Yuri/Maggie/Kahlya. In addition, +1 your attack skill of choice or power usage. Caps don't matter.] [Maximum HP/EP doesn't go up.] [Kahlya have an attack left?] [Oh, and awareness checks. Vision +2 penalty.] [Succubus again! Those attracted to females, renew your mind control checks.] [The succubus then climbs up onto the fourth door and falls back to safety.] [Anyone who makes notices that the swords the big demons are carrying are the exact same model as the two Yvonne summoned.] * Walrus swings at Yuri! He then falls back. [Walrus has a potential hit. +4 penalty as before.] [Bearded guy heals himself again.] [Yuri is hurt a lot] [Breaker manages to avoid most of the damage from the attacks, she's successfully pinged this time by a small demon though.] * Yuri gets _rocked_ by the swing, but doesn't move on her feet. There is a loud horrendous thud, though, in a very animesque style, and she barely resists crying out in pain. At least she didn't break anything. [The fourth door is down, but Breaker is distracting them.] [Ren!] * Ren disappears! * Ren reappears a moment later, a distance away from the sword which doesn't want to settle down, a spray of lead heading towards Yvonne again! [Tim blocks it!] [Violence beats sex! Succubus goes down, and I don't mean Yvonne!] [+10 HP/EP. +1 to defense skill of choice. * Kahlya looks back at the firefight, and lets out, well, nothing since she doesn't breathe. "This is getting a little ridiculous." [The door to the last chamber is now totally down. And everyone is un-charmed.] Right, no more of that shit. [All that remains are seven little sword wielding demons in the last room. Two big ones.] * Ren growls in the general direction of the fallen succubus, and spits. "Fuckin' bitch." [And anyone making an awareness check notes that the next room has a big pool in it and a planty looking Raleigh. On the far side is the open door to a treasure chamber. It looks empty.] That's generally what succubae are, yes. [Maggie!] [Walrus and bearded guy also still remain.] * Yvonne shakes her head. "Woah... Those were nice boobs." She looks over at the horned demon she summoned and gasps. "Uhhh! Whoops!" It vanishes. * Marguerite spins to the bearded guy and lets him have it! * Ren calls out to the other succubae. "Truce, Yvonne?" Okay! Good! * Tim waves at Yvonne. “Good ta see you 'gain. Let's kick ass and take names.” * Yvonne grins at Tim. "And plenty of kinky sex when this is over!" * Tim grins back. "YES!" * Breaker keeps beating on one of the big demons. It goes down and her two held demons are dead. However, the sword it was holding is still up. * Bearded guy ducks under that one. [Yvonne, Yuri, Tim, and Kahlya.] * Yvonne makes more complicated signs, and two more swords appear! Meanwhile, the three she already had out dart for... we'll say the bearded guy, 'cause he's a pest. * Tim looks down the hall and points at the fight. "Going down o/~" [Bamf baby, bamf! Sword is gone!] [He dodges again, with a bit more trouble this time.] [Yuri and Kahlya!] * Kahlya rolls her eyes. "I should point out the "after it's over" part. We've still got stuff to deal with her." She makes her way quickly towards room where Breaker is. [With a body roll, -2 for any speed or relevant special movement she can get there without losing one of her attacks.] [Kahlya zooms down. Take all your attacks.] * Yuri grits her teeth and slams her fist into the Walrus's face again. Immovables trading blows! It's so epic! [There's seven normal sized demons with swords and one massive demon with sword. Also there's the bearded guy.] * Kahlya comes a bursting in and takes two swings at the closest demon to take the pressure off Breaker. * Walrus flies backwards... The bearded guy calls out. "O mercenaries you've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?" But answer came there none-- And this scarcely odd, because the Walrus now was done. * Bearded guy runs out to the room with Raleigh. [Kahlya takes another two demons. Down to five.] [The little guys focus on her. Big one on Breaker.] [Two potential hits on Kahlya, none on Breaker.] [Ren!] [And awareness rolls, all.] [Those who make, throw on an occult roll.] * Yuri flicks the blood off of her knuckles, a very distasteful look on her face. After a moment she murmurs, "Sorry, Walrus. You picked the wrong place to be..." [Sense of choice.] Hey! You gotta rhyme it. [Kahlya easily blocks both attacks.] * Ren disappears! And reappears a moment later, crouched down at a good angle, as a single high-powered bullet makes a beeline for the bearded-man's head... * Kahlya deftly interposes her scythe in between her and the swords. "To the other world most gloriously" [Bearded guy is down!] [Anyone who makes the awareness roll notes that Raleigh is pulling some kind of ritual. Need to make the occult to know what.] [Maggie!] [The room between you guys and the treasure room is strangely organic. Lots of creeping vines. A few giant mushrooms. Some large trees along the walls. Nothing looks animate though except for Raleigh. [Remaining, 5 little demons, one big with a sword, Raleigh doing something.] [Ren, Maggie, Breaker, Yvonne, Yuri, Tim, Kahlya, Raleigh, little sword demons, big sword demon.] [Maggie now.] * Marguerite slips Bubba into Area and fires into the midst of the demons. [Big demon and sword both look hurt. Little demons fall down.] * Breaker hits the last big demon, but only once. Looks hurt but is still up. [Yvonne!] * Yvonne figures the only real viable target left is Raleigh. So she folds her arms. Her FIVE swords dart at her. [First two miss, third, fourth, and fifth do not.] [Raleigh looks hurt but keeps doing her ritual.] [Yuri!] * Yuri turns to see Raleigh and her eyes widen, before she runs towards Raleigh. "Leave her to me!" Whatever you say! 'natch. [Go ahead and do your thing Yuri.] [You were pretty far down because of the Walrus chasing.] * Yuri runs up to her and says, "Raleigh!" before she goes for a grab, from behind, slipping her leg in to firm up the grip. This shouldn't be hard. * Raleigh is grappled. She’s got a lot of loose vines that help her make a show of resistance, but all that dodging means she'd auto-fail anyways. * Yvonne cheers! "Go for her boobs, Yuri! You can do it!" [Yuri gets a thought from Raleigh... ~Nice, thought the Walrus would hold you longer. So much for my centipede. A pity really.~] [Nobody else hears that since it's telepathic.] [Tim!] * Tim points at the other big sword. "And you get to join your friend." [Bamf! The second sword is gone.] * Yuri slips from the grab, after a second of the grabbing, into a throw, tossing the Raleigh into a wall! Well, that's one way to do it. There's still one of the big demons left, but he's unarmed now.] [Kahlya.] * Kahlya takes two swings at the big guy from behind, one high, one low. "And the big guy to follow..." [Down he goes!] * Raleigh is tossed against one of the trees. She's clearly out. The root structure slowly begins to cover her and will finish come Yuri's next move.] [10 HP/10 EP and add five damage to your attack of choice. If you don't have an attack of choice or would prefer 5 EP max boost, take that instead.] [Only remaining target is unconscious Raleigh. Anyone acting on that?] * Yvonne walks forward, her swords spreading around behind her back like a fan. Or a peacock tail. Looking good Yvonne. * Kahlya grins at the group. "That's twoooo kill shots.~" * Ren tucks his rifle away, and hops a few inches off the ground, before barreling through the air and suddenly stopping, and landing in a crouch next to her, He goes to tug her out. * Yvonne grins at Tim. "You like? Chicks with swords are hot these days." [That'd be a body (strength) check.] You totally are. * Yvonne grins. * Kahlya looks about at the plants, inspecting them, but careful not to get too close. [And out of init, planning to end as soon as Raleigh's fate is determined.] * Yvonne grins even more, that is. * Yuri frowns briefly at Ren before moving towards him. [Give me a biology (plants) or an occult (rituals) roll.] [It looks as if the trees are set up to basically allow her to get to safety and recuperate. Not in time to stop your battle with the big bad. The mushrooms are actually fairly unpleasant and would be an irritant if you blew one up.] [Those making the occult also notice that the room is set up to summon one ginormous centipede. Looks like you were fast enough to stop that though.] [The tree roots are still trying to pull Raleigh down, but Ren can get her away easily if he keeps rolling like that.] * Kahlya snorts and looks at Ren. "Woulda look at that? Chivalry actually saved us some trouble." I have this brilliant idea. Let's close the door and burn the whole thing down. [Ren doesn't get her further out.] Do we need to get through here? [The door to the treasure chamber is open. So getting through isn't that hard.] Nah, if we win we can wish ourselves out, and if we don't win, you're fucked anyway. * Yuri grabs Ren by the arm, incredibly firmly, and shakes her head. "Let's just get going. We've got more important things to do." * Kahlya eyes Tim. "You'd waste it on that?" * Ren frowns, and looks Yuri in the glowy eyes. He resists momentarily, then lets go, and nods. "Right." * Kahlya sighs. "She'll be safe in there, wonderboy. But she might give us trouble later." Or we could just do with the penultimate demonic power we get to burn anyway. * Kahlya puts her hands on her hips and looks at Tim. "You're getting waaaaay too into this." * Ren looks at Tim for a moment. Somethin' like that, ah guess. * Yuri pulls him to his feet and then turns to go on. Hey, if you've got better ideas, let's hear them. My ideas are for me. But I'd say it be a waste to do something so excessively destructive with all o' that. * Kahlya shrugs. "You wanna save her, you deal with her. Not my problem. Let's just go before my limbs start rotting off?" If she'll be okay, she'll be okay. Plants aren't sexy. * Kahlya walks on after Yuri. * Ren keeps going. Treasure! * Tim goes on! [And end!]