14th day of prophecy. 05:30 pm, defending the activation stone acting as the mainframe for the golem army.

The incessant dark patches of grayish clouds littering the sky have changed considerably in one short hour; all around as far as the eye can see, no hint or trace of blue can pierce through with the setting, nearly disappearing sun crouching behind the horizon of trees, your attention is brought overhead despite the continuing struggle of the two heroes, Belphegor and Leila having somehow retreated from combat, the group of twenty some Inquisitor was forced to retreat after the considerable dwindle of their numbers and the spirited fight with the magitek armors was growing calmer by the seconds as you glared at the foe standing still in the sky, unmoving yet levitating.

A being with skin of metal and wings sharp as blade; white toga emblazoned in red crosses concealing his half of his form, staying still despite the wind, his entire stance looked as if he were standing on solid ground, completely undisturbed by altitude and rain, his face was cast downward toward you his eyes were nothing more than protruding jewels of unearthly cyan; not even his hair was organic for it was merely sprinkled gold forged onto the top of his head, descending to cover the back of his neck and then transforming in linked tattoos forming various symbols of heaven, carved into his metal-white flesh from head to toe.

‘’They’re… retreating’’

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Athena outburst doesn’t seem to have stricken her with further madness, although the gored carcass of the angel would differ the momentary overwhelming violence that almost made you slap her isn’t twinkling in her blue, wholesome eyes even if she’s clutching her humid arm constantly as she look toward the heroes; Batrion and Vasuki were slowly inching backward as the four remaining armors were actually going backward, shifting into a defensive formation while Leila (who was improving her piloting by the seconds) finally started to make her way back aboard the dwarven construct, the cockpit was also shielding Belphegor in its protective bubble.

‘’It’s not a retreat’’

You say as your throat tighten; your skin feels the refreshing weights of falling rain, droplets were starting to fall with increasing intensity under those darkish magical clouds.

‘’They’ve cleared ground’’

For the briefest of seconds you spare a glance toward Tsukiyomi, the poor Queen-Mother is struggling with her wound, bandaging herself however she can and maintaining pressure as some corruption seep into the blood; the two, just like you, have mixed into her body given the forced desynchronisation provoked by the summoning, she was training her best to keep her body from contaminating the area and her jaw was shut tight while Hadraniel was working to heal Sylphis and Mylen, pulling out the bolts imbedded in the succubus made her constantly screams in pain and anger despite the potent Holy magic.

‘’Because of that angel…?’’

Athena speaks in a low voice, eyeing Orion with slight disbelief. From his perch, the Embodiment didn’t project much of an impression, in fact looking at him in the eyes felt like investigating stones, no dread, no intimidations, no ridicules… not a single impression and emotions stirred within you, it was almost as if he were a being of total and complete absence of charisma and life.

The rain increase, droplets falls from the cloud; gorging the ashen soil, increasing the bleakness of the darkening area, the surge of power brought on by focus make you feel almost invincible as the trickles increase in a torrent, the sound of faraway battles now barely echoing above the newly born tempest, winds start picking up, balancing and swinging the branches of trees eastward.

The Heroes made it back in earnest toward Tsukiyomi, the girls spread, your name is hailed but you don’t turn; you can’t. Strife is looking at you and only you, not even the potent exhale of magical exhaust from the stone of activation is enough to make you turn; Emeth emotions assails you like a mace but you ignore it all.

‘’Siegfried…?’’

Athena speak, obviously worried, your mind start race when the metal-clad angel start moving, not toward you, but the ground, the velocity of the water striking you fervently fills you with bloodlust and excitation; the logic of Focus doesn’t lie, you’ll be able to accomplish great things indeed…

>In the storm, you are a rank S fluid mage.

Orion hasn’t hinted a potential battle for a second, his feet hit the ground a good 15 meters away from you and his eternal stoicism stay true, even has his toga is drenched by the magical water.

How odd, there isn’t any halo glowing atop his head.

Within the depth of your soul, ripple of corruptions from the Beast bloodlust echoes toward you, provoking an escape of fluid from your nose that disappears quickly in the rain. For now, there seem to be an uneasy truce, Hadraniel is feverishly working on healing up Sylphis and Mylen but her emotions are one of worry and anger, Tsukiyomi had the near-exhausted Vasuki help Emeth and investigate the girl while Batrion…. The large form of the tall, tall armor-bound Hero was already past the stone, clutching his weapons with strength and determination as the water plinked off his armor, magical runes coming to life, highlighting runic symbols and even a few drawing of the Great Crusade; all the while without projecting a hint of magic.

What do you do?

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>>29662961
S Rank mage? Hehehehe, we're playing Unlimited Siggy now. That's good to hear, we'll need that edge.

No halo eh and they've cleared ground eh? That has potential implications all of them very bad.

A)His halo is like Tsu's tails, meaning he's just about ready to blast us with a huge ass spell of untold devastation.

B) This is an illusion, clone, or his "shadow", meaning the "real" Orion is somewhere else either observing or waiting to strike.

I think we should warn our friends through the link. Everyone else should know just how seriously just plain unfairly strong this guy is one way or another. Keep a close eye on him but don't drop our guard. His priorities if he gets a clear shot are likely Tsu, The Stone, Then Hadraniel. Everyone else he can just mop up as no Tsu=No Heroes. They went for her every chance they got for a reason, they know.

We may also try for some dialogue, sadly I have no idea what to say or ask besides basic things like "Why are you here?" and "What are you trying to accomplish with all this?" Somebody please come up with a better dialogue choice, I suck at it.

Either way, the goal is to hold him off until the golems arrive, drive him off, or somehow get balls lucky and by some miracle actually manage to kill him (fat chance but a man can dream of rolling 20 after 20).

Also, here it is. Read the archive of last thread, PDF posting is the same as photo posting. Just select it and boom, you're done.

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>>29663541

Well now thank for telling me.

So I assume your plan of action is for cautious observation, do yo uwish to seperate form Athena and try to fight him alone, or stand your ground and observe?

>>29662961
Personally i would go for shoving up tones of water based illusion magic. We cant take this guy in a straight fight, but tricks might work.

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>>29663727
Fight him? Alone? As in 1v1?

It's like... It's like you're asking us to kill ourselves right at the start. I'm still hoping the others show up soon and give us some good dialogue. I kind of wanted to have a bit of a verbal spar before we commenced hostilities.

Be ready to throw up the mother of all Ice Shields in a dome big enough to house our allies at a moments notice! Our manaphage ability will let it tank a good deal of magic damage and I fear he's going to try to end this with "Big Bang" or something similar. Even if he knows about our ability, you can't fault him for trying.

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>>29663784

Multicasting is now possible and much more efficient given the storm, what kind of illusions do you have in mind?

Once the opening move is set, I'll give several >suggestions, but for now you have total control of the approach, or lack thereof.

>>29663897

1v1 with him wil lalso contain the danger from your entourage, for a time anyway.

>>29663946
I seem to remember that Belphegor can heal people, but that it's corruption based. If so, can she patch up Tsu? Because that would really help us out.

>>29663946
Fake illusions stepping out from the places of everyone, mirroring their movements, or cloaking us entierly if its possible.

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>>29664012

Tsu condition/corruption make for both attempt at healing a discouraging venture given the very nature of her magic and corruption forming an uneasy balance just about ready to break, to introduce a foreign element like Holy or even more corruption is bound to create something drastic with the fluffy tails magical projection, so for now she's enduring the wound

Would you guys like some suggestion for the approach, as it seem we have a bit of an indescision problem?

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>>29664066

Don't forget that your Sphere of Influence is still two meters, there's quite a bit of distance between you and the rest of the healing girls.

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>>29664096
The indecision problem stems from the fact that we have the very distinct feeling that one wrong move and either we die or someone we like dies.

So yeah, suggestions, feed us a few ideas.

>>29664168
hrm. damn.

Guess its suggestion time then really.

>>29662961
Twitter wasn't updating again.

So, erm. Can we at least shout out we didn't kill the Inquisitor and that he probably has bigger problems?

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>Tell Athena to stay back and approach the Embodiment alone, making your intentions obvious and vocalise a duel if need be, all in order to keep the girls and heroes safe after their draining battle.

>Stand your ground and force Athena to leave your side, wait for the angel to make the force move while preparing a single, potent spell for a single strike that would, hopefully, damage him; keeping your manaphage nature hidden until the very last moment.
A) A spell dubbed ‘’Caladbolg’’ consisted of a single overcharged spike, you’ll be able to increase its effectiveness up to 200% thank to the storm. 1d20
B) Force your soul into a crystallised projectile, taking a chunk of around 0.1% to 0.5% of your soul for the strongest strike you’ve ever made. 1d20

>Send Athena toward the flank, she can’t hide given the ash-turned-mud and open field but she’s bound to actually be useful as you challenge the Embodiment and hold his attention. Or, alternatively, hold your ground (make the precision in your post)

>Retreat back to the sides of the girls and approaching heroes, the duo are a good 10-15 meters away as they held the 4 armors by themselves.

>[FREE]

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>>29664393

I have absolutely no idea why this is happening, my last twitter message date from around one hour ago.

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>>29664393
Oh they know it was us, we're the only logical suspect/guilty party. We were the only ones in a position to do the deed so there's that. No jury alive wouldn't convict us right out because every last shred of evidence points to good 'ol Siggy and his merry band of heretics.

Rolled 10

>>29664455

Well, the girls are all tired out, so its probably best if we go toe to toe with him and they jump in when we need a hand.
As such:
>Stand your ground and force Athena to leave your side, wait for the angel to make the force move while preparing a single, potent spell for a single strike that would, hopefully, damage him; keeping your manaphage nature hidden until the very last moment.

Option a.

>>29664455
Are we even sure he's here to full on combaticus

Can we just shrug our shoulders at him and see what he does

>>29664685

Yes, you can wait and see as well

I'll wait a bit more before starting, but we've got to get this show on the road soon enough!

>>29664455
"Is it really a fool's dream Orion? Is there no way to convince you that there can be peace? That things have changed over these past 200 years?"

Rolled 9 + 2

>>29664993
>>29664563

I think I can combine these two easily enough. Time to write, as always I'll change if need be if a different consensus emerge.

>>29665013
Could probably do with some more people rolling.

Seems everyones pooped out after PGQ earlyer today.

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>>29665084

Everyone is free to roll, I know its late and a weekday to boot but I'll make do with what I can.

Also my own roll is a minus, not a plus.

Rolled 16

>>29665286
Do you want rolls?

Rolling for it if we need it now.

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>>29665442
BITCHIN'!!!

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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRkoleJ1mI

Your erratic heart settle down after a few long breaths; the induced concentration of Focus is finally adapting to the storms, each falling droplets within your sphere of influence bring with it informations of weight and height while the magical fluids of bioenergy flows out I your brain, the majority settling into your frontal cortex, causing a slight buzz and impression of true power as, even before you are conscious of it, all the heavy tears of water are redirected toward Orion. They aren’t modified into far reaching projectile, but the process is far, far from going unnoticed as every single ounce of water veer into a gross «L» of varying degrees, all the while leaving you perfectly dry as the entire quantity of rain penetrating your influence is redirected without effort, buffeted poor Athena from the back, forcing her back a few steps until you forcefully stop her by shoving your bow into her hand.

‘’I won’t be needing this, now go back; Tsukiyomi still need to do some configuration with Emeth else we’d already have portals, I’ll hold him off in the meantime’’

Of course, she protest, her voice immediately forming an angry sentence of «What? No!» and you force the issue with a magical spell consisting of an humanoid shape taking her human hand, an elemental-like entity morph out of the rain to push her along as she clutches the fairy bow in the large corrupted appendage, doing her best to avoid breaking it as she’s forced out of your sphere with an incredulous look on her face, unable to register what happened as the entire force of the storm hit her all at once but, for some reason she snap her jaw shut and scamper along; she’ll most likely do some kind of large circle because you just know she’s not going to leave you alone with Orion, it’s not in her nature, the Link is making it obvious.

‘’Fuuuu…’’

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You let out another sigh, concentrating on the metallic, gleaming unnatural body of the Embodiment standing still like a statue, enduring the potent wind and frigid rain; you close the distance with a meter and plant your feet on the ground, boots digging into the muddy ash as magic swirl within your body, redirecting and taking the moving water around you, something that cost 85% of every single spells, leaving you to concentrate on the very anomalous, murdering state of your art, you work on creating a spike of pure killing power while keeping it invisible for full ambush potential.

‘’Caladbolg’’ is bold sounding name, but the one single strike that killed Wilmarina Noscrim was only half as good, half as refine as what your building. 2 meters longs, the tip vibrating constantly while the inside are both solid and filled with a lethal acidic fluids, the invisible spear spin on itself as water gorge it’s form constantly, remembering the intricate details of your impossible items is almost enough to occupy all of your mental capacity. Keep the lights away from the spear; keep it filled and ready to break once your pierce his shield; water transforming to ice in less than a second, to be launched after he break 10 meters…

"Is it really a fool's dream Orion?’’

You finally speak out, hoping to break his silence; the eerie lack of emotions projected by the angel makes you doubt that he’s even alive, for one to reject his nature for pure strength, you expected him to be much, much more intimidating…

But then, isn’t this lack of… of –everything- that make a combatant what they are terrifying?

‘’Is there no way to convince you that there can be peace? That things have changed over these past 200 years?"

You know your voice has reached him, fourteen meter is quite a long way but he’s listening and his answer?

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A single minded charge, the large wings of metal deploy fully, he take a step forward as if the very air morphed into a solid steps and take it as the first step to a jump right toward you without displacing a single parcel of water and wing, neither causing the usual sonic ‘’boom’’ you’ve associated with the magic of angels, you don’t even have the time to blink to see that he’s already upon you, the unreal speed akin to teleportation, the entire front of his standing body protected by an intricate golden shield; your spell fly and strike true.

It’s a sound akin to metal penetrating metal, the vibrating spear pierce through his magical shield, fueling you even more and as he move to dodge your luck hold as ‘’Caladbolg’’ penetrate his chest, right into his heart, obliterating the metal protecting and drilling into his body, twisting, removing flesh without blood and then constricting to implode, releasing the acidic payload to coat innards and body, utterly goring anything in its path… yet the wound, somehow recover as a transparent shell coat the entire hole.

Orion has already broken the concept of ‘’speed’’ to be within reach, his stance hasn’t change yet he reeled back by throwing a put flap of wing without wind, extending a kick toward your midsection. Nothing else but pouring every ounce of magic into your strike will do, there's no doubt about it now.

>Before offering suggestion, you have to decide on your defence. Do you wish for a [SINGLE CAST] or [MULTICAST]?

Rolled 4

>>29666109
>[MULTICAST]?
Overwhelm!

>defence
I haven't a clue what to do.

>>29666233

It's alright I can offer suggestions, just need to get a feel as to what kind of spells you guys want.

>>29666261

Damn trip dropped

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>>29666109
You know that Multi Ice Wave that stopped the boulder Athena fired off at us? Yeah, that, more power into it this time. Try to move it off course and miss. Can we Ice Car backwards while doing that? I really, really, REALLY don't want this guy within' well, a hundred feet of us but out of melee range will have to do.

>>29666261
Suggestions are always nice.

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>>29666329

[MULTICAST] it is, give me a few minutes.

>>29666109
Also, is this guy some kind of mute? Does he even have Internal Organs to blow away? If not I think our next attack should aim to claim a wing, that has to slow him down a bit. I hope, I have no idea how to go about fighting this fucker other than blast the bastard with everything we got and pray to high heaven it does *something* to him.

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[MULTICAST]
All spells are at 100%

>Strike with an Omni-directional slime appendage with iced tips to dig into his body by redirecting the air and hopefully hold him down, or at least slow him to move out of the way. Combine near solid water with ice for maximum flexibility, 15 of them would do. [1d20]

>Force out an explosion of steam to blow you backward while forcing him back, all the while projecting and raining large spike of iced water in his direction by modifying the direction of the rain and increasing its velocity. Combine steam and ice to turn defense into offence [1d20]

>Create a dome of spiked ice with multiple layers while converting the rain falling on his into acid, hopefully outlasting him. [1d20]

>[FREE]

Rolled 16

>>29666575
>>Force out an explosion of steam to blow you backward while forcing him back, all the while projecting and raining large spike of iced water in his direction by modifying the direction of the rain and increasing its velocity. Combine steam and ice to turn defense into offence [1d20]
This one sounds sick.

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>>29666759
And with a 16 to back it up I am in complete agreement. Aim for his goddamned wings!

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>inb4 we roll a 1 when fighting him

>>29666837
Same guy. Oh, and kneecaps, can't forget those, not exactly how he moves so fast exactly to best to hedge our bets on this one.

>>29666858
Oh it's coming, we all know it is. Hopefully we hold off long enough to have backup and thus not die when it happens.

Rolled 2 - 1

>>29666759

Sound like it's unanimous.

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>>29666937

Dice have a grudge I see.

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>>29666858
>>29666937
IT'S HAPPENING

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFmlU3vByfY

Your mind race for the single option that will enable you to keep on living, that single metal-clad foot is fast and strong enough to fracture every bone it touches and liquefy whatever unfortunate organs could be hiding behind them. It is with the added fuel of desperate survival instinct that you next spell come out faster than… anything else you have ever done previously; the rains surrounding the both of you boils over and you direct all toward his floating, near flipping body levitating in the air while the topside tears of water are redirected and transformed into spike falling directly toward him, every directions imaginable changed and manipulated; the sheer amount make aiming impossible, whether it be legs, wrist, kneecaps, wings, neck… you take EVERY raindrop within two meters.

A sound similar to that of the faraway bombard resonate across the entire battlefield as the steam explode as you visual the perfect way to harm him while getting out of reach; potent, hot steam utterly scar the landscape, disintegrating some of the ashen ground as columns erupt from your palms, quickly covering the entire body of the angel as the sheer raw power lift you off your feet and you immediately creature silhouettes of slimes to slow your progress, your body literally slide though several of them but doesn’t meet the ground as the summons disappears while keeping you up, you’ve traveled well over 5 meters backward in the blink of an eye while riddling Orion with spells easily comparable to cannonballs.

‘’Pfaaah…’’

Sweat pour down your face but you are still raring to go, what you’ve just accomplish right now can easily be compared to the greatest feat of your mother; never, ever once have you heard such a terrific, powerful sound, you’ve poured enough magic into this spell to rip the fabric of reality asunder.

‘’…’’

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Then, the index and major of his left hand light up to form a double circle of gold, his hand extend all the way, cricking slightly as it battle with the rain, he form a strange symbols consisting of an interlocked set of spheres; next his entire body is «highlighted» in gold, that itself is quickly colored by strange white writing forming runic drawing of triumphant angels, decorating his entire newly formed shield that is, in all intent and purpose, looking exactly like Emeth modified Holy runes.

Atop his head, two halos grow brightly, linked together…

Orion charge again, this time high in the sky only to completely and utterly veer downward, copying the way of Kyorn ‘’Force’’ magic, conquering the law of physics as his knee bend to welcome you in a metal stomp.

You still have the distinctive impression that he’s holding back.

>Defence? [SINGLE CAST] [MULTICAST] [INJECT SOUL?]
>Retreat? [SINGLE CAST] [MULTICAST] [INJECT SOUL?]
>Offense? [SINGLE CAST] [MULTICAST] [INJECT SOUL?]

>[FREE]

Rolled 18

>>29667757
>Defence: [SINGLE CAST]

Let's play it safe for now. The minute he starts unloading on us with spells is when we can afford to expend energy on the offensive. Also he's pretty much better than us at everything.

>>29667757
Holding back!? Holy Fucking Hell is this guy Slayer or something!?

We have to have bought some time. Is there any way for us to know the condition of our allies? Because I'm not sure how much longer we can keep this up just one on one and I would feel much better with some kind of back up.

>>29667808
Our job is to hold him, not 'fight' him.

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>>29667808
Any way for us to keep this magnificent 18?

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>>29667851

Thsi fight is way, way too fast for oy uto even bother investigating the link.

You've actually pressed Orion enough for him to bother and try, just a bit, hope you feel proud.

>>29667885

If you wish to keep the options of SINGLECAST then yes.

>>29667856
I know, all I was doing was speculating. For this round I'm all for defence, but he'll eventually realise what we're up to. Probably.

I'll start thinking up some spells, since I tihnk everyone want to go for one strong cast given the 18.

>>29668004
So long as it is strong, as in a single spell stronger than we could have managed with a multi cast.

>>29668031

S-rank mages are broken, you don't have to worry about material and velocity in the storm, effectively making you Hero level, if not even more.

>>29668066
Query, would filling the spikes in a barrier with a chemical highly corrosive to metal count as a single or multicast?

I wonder if that chemistry anon is here, would help if he gave me ideas.

Rolled 19

>>29667885
I can keep rolling if you want

>>29668125
>I can keep rolling if you want
you know who's awesome?
you are.

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>>29668125
A 19! We just might get through this unvampirized yet!

>>29668112
ChemAnon here, literally any acid will attack metal because acid is just losing a proton and smashing it onto the metal which makes all kinds of nasty reactions happen.

>>29668112

that count as multicast, yo ucould make a corrosive wall as single cast tough.

Rolled 16 + 1

>Redirected solid projectile aimed at his knee to literally overpower him. You know how spikes work but here, you will utterly break every concept of reality by filling it with enough concentrated steam directed in his direction that you’ll hopefully send him flying upward.

>Multilayered wall of ice springing form the spongy, muddy ground that will next close in to strike him in the back as he breaks through.

>Use your very body and sweat as focal point for a column of steam that can only be described as ‘’Unstoppable’’ as it emerge from your palm. Simple, effective and of course, reality breaking as the very rain around you will join your spell, tripling it’s potential. Another concept of ‘’Counter’’. Very risky.

>>29668275
>Multilayered wall of ice springing form the spongy, muddy ground that will next close in to strike him in the back as he breaks through.

STEAMBEAM is tempting but getting him to fight HARDER isn't what we want.

>>29668275
Kneecaping his ass sounds like a good way to weaken him a bit. Why did he have to roll high?

>>29668323
>>29668438

Doesn't seem like we have a consensus yet, I'll wait a bit before writing.

>>29668480
Did that 19 count or do you need me to roll again

>>29668557

That 19 count, I'll start writing with that wall option unless another consensus happen soon enough.

>>29668323
Go with this.

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Rolled 3

You’ve never casted so much in such a short time, your mind never calculated and brute forced reality to such a point as to create anomalies, the rain two meters beyond your Sphere of Influence didn’t touch the ground anymore, it started to spin around you in a counter clockwise rotation, facilitating your spells; the angel metal form came bearing down, shielded by his strange magic and your defense sprang forth in less than a second, emerging from the ground and constructing an intricate multi-layered defenses so fast, you felt a potent loss in your belly as the magical fluids quit to construct this impossible wall.

Even before it was finished, Orion came crashing through like the boulder of a catapult and of course, spikes came out viciously to spear his form all over, closing it like a lamia, circling around his charging form as he went past a meter… however!

All of your spell, even if the trap was elaborate and murderous enough to break apart a magitek armor, scrapping around his armor or simply didn’t manage to pierce his magical protection despite being infused by manaphage, Orion progress went nearly unimpeded, completely and utterly shattering the walls and now with panic and self-preservation instinct, you – tried- propelling yourself with another steam explosion, not even plotting how you’ll land, a simple explosion resonated in front of you, engulfing Orion form in nearly-molten hot white fume, yet the angel…

Bent his knees, landed on the soil and pushed with his second foot to follow, completely unimpeded by the steam as his shield glowered even more, runic drawing of triumphant angels glowing on the golden surface, the white color changing into silver. So fast, so damn fast; his open palm swipe was enough to catch you right after the velocity of the explosion sent you away.

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Rolled 2

Or would have been enough; you heard the distinctive sound of broken glass as something happened, your panic casted an anomalous spell, a simple slime-like projectile that struck him in the eyes, but the true reason you managed to escape him, was because you nearly felt the skull-crashing strike of Orion mace, the paladin struck square in his chest and literally sent him flying back as magical exhaust escape his form in loud ‘’Psssh’’ with drawing strange drawings eerily similar to Orion decorating his armor.

And then he broke into a sprint as you slide in the muddy ground, conjuring slime-like silhouette to cushion and prop you up while Orion was already standing, his shield crashed in the middle of his chest and already, the runes were morphing to adapt with the damage.

‘’I get it…’’

You say while gazing into Batrion armor, his runic symbols portrayed various circumstance of triumphant human, side by side with elves, dwarves and angels.

‘’…Both of you can inject your souls into magic.

There’s a break in the fight, finally as now the Embodiment simply peered at this newfound duo.

Do you wish to fight, or retreat? Or try for a dialogue?

>Don'T mind my above roll, forgot to turn off the dice

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>>29669115

Still forgot to turn off the dice, damn.

>>29669115
Break in the fight eh? That means quick link scan. How are the others doing?

>>29669115
"Lovely weather we're having."

we must find out the angel's weakspot.

it might just be humour.

>>29669210
>it might just be humour.
clearly this calls for puns

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Rolled 16

>was because you nearly felt the skull-crashing strike of Orion mace

How could I disgrace Batrion like this

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>>29669259
Well you were thinking about him and how his boot almost did the exact same thing to us. We wouldn't have even gotten a chance to use the pot if it wasn't for good ol' Batrion because of the Chunky Salsa Rule. There's no coming back from *instant* death.

>>29669259
I was wondering what was up with that.

Anyway, >>29669115
Our main purpose here is to buy time. Let's try for dialogue.
"So. Have you found the agents of Deruella that have infiltrated your Church yet?"

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>>29669210
>>29669188

Easy enough to combine them, give me a few minute... this fight went much, much smoother than I expected, but now it's time to throw down the gloves.

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>>29669210
>>29669390
Can we combine these? Because trolling one nemesis while potentially screwing over another is just too good of an opportunity to pass up.

>>29669698
We would need to give a few names.
"I knew that Ahriman's little friend was a plant, it was so obvious. But Belvidere; that really threw me for a loop, and I was so focused on the others that she completely got past me."
Of course, Belvidere is gone, disappeared the same day as Ahriman died. There's enough circumstantial evidence to make Orion doubt.

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>>29669396
>this fight went much, much smoother than I expected
Yeah.

Then again we rolled high and he didn't so I guess that's that.

You spare a single glance away from the Embodiment; the group seem to have formed into a protective circle around Tsukiyomi who, by now, is holding Emeth shoulder one handed as the girl shake some kind of grogginess, the Tenko is still clutching her wounded side but seem otherwise fine, Athena and Sylphis seem to be back in an effective duo and gaze into the increasing line of church agents. Three additional magitek armors have been ported in during your fight, two of them encroaching closer and closer toward your position while the number of infantry is back to thirty, Hadraniel and Vasuki are facing the line while sparing constant glance in your direction while Leila, inside Arnvidur, is the last line of defense between Tsu and the golem, the she-goat has remerged in the meantime as well, just now running toward the two heroes. As your eyes crosses those of Athena’s, the lizardgirl wave, trying her best to supress her murderous urge to go into battle.

Everyone is accounted for but… conflict is bound to erupt anew. Your also quite far, a good twentyish meters to trek back as fast as you can, with Orion to account for it look like an unsurmountable wall.

"Lovely weather we're having."

You finally speak, breaking the silence, offering a dialogue different than the constant thumps of machine. Batrion armor squeaks lightly as he move closer to you, shouldering his shield and protecting your body while Orion… simply stand there, doing nothing.

"So. Have you found the agents of Deruella that have infiltrated your Church yet?"

You ask next, taunting this statue, redirecting the rain so the Hero would be unimpeded for a strike or two, the paladin give you a nod in return.

‘’Today, the assault on the northern capital has failed while our siege was too costly in life to push on our victory with the fort; my suspicions were proven true by coming here’’

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For some reason, Batrion twitch but the Embodiment take a step forward, his glowing, linked halo suddenly breaks; unchaining themselves to hover above his false blond hair, immediately is entire body twitch and… a second pair of emerges on the side of his torso, immediately protected in his soul armor, not even displacing his drenched toga.

‘’The loss on both front could be salvaged by a victory here. You, thief, have proven a much bigger threat than the fellwhore could ever hope to be’’

His arms tighten in fist and then… magic disperse from his body, a very simple show of light weak enough to barely be felt by the human entourage of mages, yet now Orion looks fearsome for his hand are clutching bright blue, glowing sword with large semi-circle handle reminding you of a moon crescent.

‘’STRIKE!’’

He finally screams his voice denuded of humanity and immediately, the troops of the church set to work, charging toward the monster position.

…

>>29669698
You should rename that to Laughing in Hill

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‘’Lad’’

You hear a strange sizzling; Batrion entire body is letting out a strange green-blue smoke as the intricate drawing of his soul so magnificently decorating his armor…. Disappear into nothing; the one True Paladin who never broke his two oaths in recorded history, namely anonymity and silence, just committed the unthinkable.

‘’Go back, I’ll hold him off. Hold them all off’’

Already battle erupt between the girls and the church, the armors have clashed with Hadraniel who, by now, is forcing them at bay, damaging armors and legs with her brilliant halberd while Athena, Sylphis, Mylen and Belphegor have moved to intercept the thirty some Inquisitors. While Tsu… oh gods, she’s looking at you and you can’t bear to even describe her expression.

There doesn’t seem to be any negotiating possible with the paladin, your foe, the angel, is finally showing emotions; his entire metal face tightened in frustration as he, seemingly, seem unable to move, the only reason why you can talk.

‘’I’ve already cut my soul free from the anchor of my daughter; go back will you? They won’t hold them all off without someone dying’’

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nksp7zjrYE

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>>29670035
So Batrion has committed himself to sacrifice here to enable our escape...

I knew it would come to this, I knew someone wasn't coming back. We will build statues in his honor, more than were built for his work during the Crusade. A True hero, right up until the very end.

Damn this short sighted bastard, damn him straight to hell. When we do land the final blow, we'll tell him "This one's for Batrion."

>>29670035
Is

is this a what do

because if we could spin ice in a cyclone fast enough to rend metal, that'd help him a bit...right

>>29670184

It's a wat do, you can attack of course and I'll write it, jsut don't forget that the church has launched an all out attack. 6 Mechs + 30 very well trained agents, how long can the girls last?

>>29670184
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtIkhBbiDY

He's severed the link, likely granting him access to the very full amount of his power in exchange for this being his last few moments on this earth. He's basically Vegeta here, it's going to be epic, but this is his absolute last stand.

Do as he says, we can't let his sacrifice be for nothing. Maybe launch him hard towards the fight as a final thank you but we have to go, now.

>>29670243
Oh, is >>29670249 correct? Even if we help Batrion there's no way he can re-link?

Anyway we should STEAMBEAM those mechs.

>>29670303

He has no intention of coming back, you can talk to him a bit if you want, but he's a weary soul that's for sure.

Beside, Orion wouldn't let you go back or worse, he'll cahrge the girl. He isn't holding anymore, as seen by the swords and additional arms. And his sheild can actually block your manaphage so...

>>29670337
I...can't think of anything to say to him.

Let's go support the ladies and get out of here.

>>29670337
We need to get back to the others, and use the storm to tear through those Inquisitors.
Use the kinetic energy of the storm in our sphere of influence to launch ourselves back towards our girls, and use it to rip the Inquisitors to shreds.

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>>29670337
What's the word for heaven the Church likes to use, as in the realm of the dead righteous souls go to when they die? Because if it's different that heaven then put that in its place.

"Batrion, I'm sorry for making Tsu cry. I'll never do it again, I promise you. Goodbye, paladin, may we meet again in heaven many years from now, looking down on a world of peace."

>>29670490
Too much, too sappy, and all in all, no good.

Just a simple "I'll take care of everyone else. Give him Hell."

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>>29670490
>>29670483
>>29670391

Let's hope I can give him the justice he deserve. Writing now.

>>29670521
Ok, if you want a non-sappy option I'll try for it...

"Kick his ass, We'll be waiting for you back at the fortress."

>>29670521

>>29670490 here, you're right that I layed the sap on a bit thick there. Remove the promise to no make Tsu cry again. That's actually more palatable to me now that I think about it.

Criticism, I welcome it.

Just

We just need to perform the Predator handshake and everything will be well.

>>29670006
I'd like to ask how we're a bigger threat than Deruella given her possession of the knife in Orion's eyes. With it he can't be totally certain of his ability to kill her. She has many Hero level lackeys at her disposal. If they were to attack him all at the same time he has to know his odds of survival are quite low. He'd take a few fallen with him, but he'd still one dead Embodiment.

Hell, if we had it to attatch to our initial attack he'd already be a goner. And she has an S-Rank magus under her command (and we just showed him what such a foe can do).

Unless he's thinking extremely long term. In the end, it's the ideology we represent that is at odds with his ideal outcome. Easy to rally the people against a world of Excess, not so easy to get them to hat the idea of everyone living in harmony. We all kind of wish for that, or at least most people do.

>>29670825
Orion doesn't know about the Knife.
Ahriman was keeping it a secret even from him. Probably even had contingencies to kill Orion when he became an impediment to the supremacy of humans.

>>29670873

Yep, Orion has no clue about that knife.

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>>29670873
Shit, I even thought of that too. Fuck me. Welp it all makes sense then. Damn, the ghost of Ahriman haunts us even after his death. World's best Shadowrunner proves why yet again. If he had lived, after offing Lex, he would have approached Orion with a nice cup of tea, offered to shake his hand on a job well done and then, with all the self-reinforcement he could muster and burning out gladly, separated his head from his shoulders in a lightspeed slash even he couldn't hope to dodge because well, he NEVER saw it coming.

Fucking hell man, no wonder things never ended well for our side.

For a moment your limbs freeze over, not even the distress, rage and adrenaline of the girls from their newfound, exhausted fight isn’t quite enough to put motions in your limbs; you spot a strange symbols in the cracks of Orion shield, what looked like broken glass have morphed without your notice into a… spiral? He doesn’t’ seem to be struggling, but now his cyan, gem-like eyes are focused on the Paladin as if there wasn’t anything else to care about.

‘’I wanted to give you a solid punch for making my daughter cry’’

His voice is warm and gentle, escaping the confine of his helmet without breaking, he give you the same impression as your uncle Gismore; a wizened man who luck much older than his age, with the eternal habit of looking at anyone younger than him with this fatherly tone belonging to the kind of men who shouldered tragedy after tragedy without complaint.

‘’But now, it’ll be hypocritical. I’ve watched you die lad, often; I can’t count the number anymore. You’ve struggled for the girls you love and now you fight for the dream you can’t reach, I’ve watched enough young people die’’

Batrion stance change to one of offense, taking a step word his enemy, his large armor-clad form, forever cursed by self-imposed anonymity, looks just about ready to shoulder the weight of the world itself. What could be the story of this man, you wonder, for the man who singlehandedly held back the demonic army to now fight the strongest entity of this world without a backward glance, to server himself from life so…willingly, what could be the story of this Paladin?

‘’Go now, take care of Tsu for me and be sure to bank everything you have on this one world, just like we did so long ago’’

You simply give his shield a strong punch and set out; you see a flying butterfly, so very much at odds with the storm fly away to disappear into the ether and the sluggish world resume its motion. Mother Earth allowed the world greatest Paladin some last words and now, Focus brim deep into your veins as the bioenergy send a flutter in your heart as you try your best to supress your emotions, the armored man take off toward his foes and you in turn, activate an explosive spell for a head start, two golden colored armor running toward you, you feel an intense rage coming from Hadraniel and a loud, potent «boom» is heard well over the trampling storm and battle as electricity crackles, echoing all the way down to you.

The Embodiment of Love has abandoned her position, leaving it to her friend and pierce the distance faster than you’ve ever seen, the winds breaks the water of the rain, her floating form creating a mystical sphere of pure magic as, as suddenly as it started, she reach you before the armors and wind explode toward them, forcing them to activate shields else footing is lost and, right as you prepare a beaming projectiles, she stops you by landing.

‘’Don’t! No time!’’

‘’I WANT TO’’

You bark in return but she doesn’t listen, instead the angel forcefully grabs you around the waist, jaw clenched as she take a glance toward Orion and Batrion, the battles of the Paladin and angel is loud and surreal, blades meet mace, shield and armor in reckoning that booms across the entire battlefield.

‘’Hold on!’’

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You bark in return but she doesn’t listen, instead the angel forcefully grabs you around the waist, jaw clenched as she take a glance toward Orion and Batrion, the battles of the Paladin and angel is loud and surreal, blades meet mace, shield and armor in reckoning that booms across the entire battlefield.

‘’Hold on!’’

The return trip was intense, you’ve never flown before and you could only muster a few piddly spells that couldn’t damage the magitek for anything as you, quite literally, launched back toward the stone in less than a second; ears almost popping form the g-force, you couldn’t stand on your feet once released by the Embodiment, your feet felt like jelly and you feel on your knees. You had to forcefully brace yourself once Hadraniel disappear in another hollow boom.

‘’Tsu!’’

Another tail had sprouted back, the Queen-Mother hand is grasping her pen, ears flattened upon her head as, out of nowhere, a loud crack happen deep in the field as Leila flatten a man trying to flank, before making her way back, the circle of battle was tightening all around the stone as the encroaching force of the Church wasn’t leaving any room for maneuvering, the bolts and bombs kept at bay thank to Hadraniel.

‘’Right… Right!’’

She finally say, right as Emeth stand up to join the fray despite acting as mainframe, Tsukiyomi doesn’t write some kind of elaborate scripture, instead she jam her artefact in the very world itself and tear it apart like a canvas, then alternate while using some bleeding ink from this wound to create another golden portal big enough for Arnvidur.

The Church forces didn’t look like they had any spirits, probably the reason why everyone made it back.

--

You emerged in a large, large room right at the same time Leila did, the big loud steps of the cracked and damaged magitek armor reverberating across the enclosed building that, you see, happen to be a rather big shrine; a chapel in fact, dedicated to the Water Dragon and apparently still in one piece.

‘’Ah! Welco-‘’

A man stand near the exit, clad in a large blue robe with semi-long blond hair falling around his face; a set of pointy ears erupt from his golden colored locks while his hand close a large, large book, eyes shining blue and a smug, triumphant smile on his face that very quickly change into… something negative once the rest of the party, dirtied in mud, grime, corruption and gore, make it back.

Sitting on one bench, Kyorn is lazing around taking the entire space while Mebuchednazi and the Shireohebi (whose name you’ve forgot) stand up at once upon your impromptu return.

That is, until the black winged man (whose chest is free of clothes and bandaged up to his neck) stand up too, deploying his wings to keep the two other woman form progressing; you also spot Rhy, the little girl was also sitting beside the Marauder.

‘’Get out!’’

Kyorn suddenly growl, his angry voice echoing all the way back toward as you hear some heart-broken sniffles.

‘’W-what do you seriously expect you can treat us.

It isn’t for you to decide such thing, Marauder we have an important debrief…’’

You hear what you can only guess to be a loud stomping that easily reverberate and trample the sound of Arnvidur steps followed by a very, very impatient scream.

‘’FUCK OFF OR I’LL RUN YOU THROUGH’’

That… at least was enough to see them gone, the two leaders did keep some grace tough and promised retribution; the blond elf quickly stepped forward, locking eyes with Vasuki and Hadraniel in turn.

‘’Batrion?’’

The girls nodded and the elf let out a long, long sigh while Tsu tried her best to keep herself from crying, hot tears running down her cheeks while black tar sometime exit her nose and mouth.

This doesn’t exactly feel like victory, but at least everyone is accounted for.

What do you do?

>>29671762
It's probably best to honor his last wishes and go and embrace Tsu.

>>29671762
>>29671809
Might as well honor the request.

Tsu doesn't look so hot

Also check for any injuried

>>29671762
Go over to Tsu, see how her bandages are holding up. If it's safe, give her a hug.
Then we need to see to Hadraniel, and since Leila is gone into Overcast, she's going to need medical attention.
Same with Athena, what with the corruption level probably having increased.
Then we need to see how badly wounded Sylphis, Mylen, and Belphegor are.

Vasuki I imagine is alright, seeing as how she's a summoned Hero and probably could have healed herself with her magic.

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>>29671844
>>29671809

Phew I'm getting pretty tired so my next answer is going to be the last for sure. I've got one last little curveball to throw...

>>29671762
Also better help Leila out of the mech.

Gotta support her when she's feeling the burn.

>>29671809
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JvbD2Zc9I

We do that. Then feed Leila our Pain Killer pot as she exits the mech. This was a most bitter victory. The church repelled, the fort held, but at the cost of so many lives and Tsu's own father figure. We won, at the greatest of costs. A true Pyrrhic victory.

The war is far from won, even with our reinforcements inbound Orion still stands. Deruella still plots, and we quite frankly lucked out in the dice gods deciding to favor us hard in battle for once. Well kinda, they did grant Orion High Rolls at the critical moment.

>>29671897
Is that good or bad

it's nearly 6am
I dont know if I should sleep or not

>>29671965

You'll see in a moment, I hope I offered that Paladin some good last words, might write out that last duel in the future...

>>29671987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVbd-lS2X4&list=PLOCAqH3dyTrMAZisqSUkhJcebhRGFMcXQ

This song would probably fit. He sacrificed everything so we could have a chance at an ideal future. He died, but he reminded them all, even Orion, why he was hailed as a hero.

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In retrospect I think it's best if I end it here, I feel too spent to write anymore and I'm pretty satisfied with how this thread hass ended.

Consider part 99 officially ended!

>>29672312
Slick as hell

that was quite a surprise with the fight eh. No roll failures.

>>29672312
Whaaat was the curveball at the end

tell usss

>>29672312
Alright. See you Friday.

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>>29672370

Quite, I ahd about 3 ends prepared and.... well this one was the best, despite how grim it is to leave Batrion behind. Again.

>>29672424

I am, in all likelyhood, going to start the next thread with you guys in the shoes of the Demon Lord

>>29672426

Depend on how much prep time I have, as always I'll advice on twitter .

>>29672455
Cool beans thanks for running

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>>29672511

Always fun to run for you fine gentlemen

>>29672455
Leaving him behind was hard. Let us hope it was not in vain...

>>29672814

It wasn't.

The way I ahd the combat work, I gave three options while keeping in mind that one would be the ''best'', another would be ''bad'' and a ''inbetween'' option for the last. Each would be influenced by rolls, of course and depending on the fight, I had around 3 ending planned.

One was leaving behind Batrion, the other would have been Hadraniel activating her NP, making her AND Batrion stay behind. The last once would have had Siegfried and Athena seperated from the group the rest of the group.

>>29672892
We chose to honor his last wishes. Meaning we sacrificed him to ensure a path where everyone lives except for him. In the end, he gave it all in the hopes of a truly happy end. A true hero...

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>>29673039

I'll probably make a shortstory about that duel, there's a reason wh ythe Inquisitors were actually losing morals

>>29673057
Yeah, facing down a fucking hero will tend to do that. Are you really on the right side when he stands against you? Hard question that.

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>>29673187
Pretty much, Batrio nwas the msot famous of the heroes despite his anonymity, the armor sort of became the psoterboy of the group and, since he's a paladin and heavily tied to the church, he was embellished to no end, with many people recreating his armor to try and be ''Batrion reborn.

And then on this dingy, ashen battlefield in a corrupted land of monster, the «one true Paladin» show up, they assumed he was just another imitaiton buuut... They'll see he's the real deal in that duel.

>>29673263
Will Batrion at least permanently wound Orion?
Orion being killed is too much to ask for, so I'll take some permanent damage.

We really do need to track down the Knife and get it to better kill Orion.

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>>29673375

I'm not making any promises.

>>29673453
Hmm.
Then we should assume that any damage that Orion takes will be cosmetic.

Finding Deruella, killing her, and taking the Knife from her frozen and shattered corpse will have to be made a priority then. Right after eliminating any of Deruella's sleeper agents in Zipang's command structure.

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>>29673521

So did I succesfully manage to portray how ungodly strong that angel is?

>>29673546
Yes, I believe so.
Acquiring the Knife will be more important than ever. Of course, this is advantageous to Deruella in all probable paths since Orion didn't believe Belvedere to be one of Deruella's sleeper agents. She can still get close to Orion to kill him with the Knife since her cover is still intact.

>>29673645

Well Belvedere sort of dissapeared as well, if she pop up again or not, we'll have to see.

>>29673682
If I was Deruella, I'd have Belvedere go back to the Crusade without the Knife, and continue operating as a sleeper agent. Then, once Orion has done irreparable damage to Zipang and the Crusade has suffered immense losses, I'd have Belvedere pick up the Knife, or have another sleeper get it to her, and have her assassinate Orion.

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>>29673895

I think starting the next thread as Daiyu will clear up some things... I can't really answer those query, I know you understand.

I might do more PoV change in battles, I think they fit pretty well there.