The time of reckoning has come. Who is willing to pay the price necessary to achieve victory? Who might yet cheat death despite all odds? A battle waged by great and small, and yet each has such an important role to play. Will we finally discover who MamaSan is after all this time?
[ST Jose] * The Vanguard was a force to be reckoned with and they laid into the front lines with a fervor backed by their morale and renewed vigor from Black Unicorn. Casualties were high but morale was higher and the front lines rallied to Gabriel's beacon cutting a swath through the front, but as they tore through the Dies Ultimae, they ran into a spearhead of crinos some with claw, and still others with what looked like strange staves, they howled and moved forward in unison moving to lay waste with their odd choice of weaponry and tooth and claw.
[ST Jose] * Clashing boom boom was grasped in the tentacles and Black Unicorn absorbed another full on blast from the spirit of war, it's shield broke and it fell back, dissipating as the huge plane came crashing down into the front lines. The paper octopus was obliterated as the plane exploded it saved the front lines from the majority of the blast, that though some of the ratkin were wiped out in the explosion and Aiyana did not do so well, charging to her left, she zigged instead of zagged, though Gabriel and Kegarri weathered the explosion and Fenris, cliath as he was, managed to channel the Fjords or some shit and just kinda let it ripple his gorgeous locks, but then the munitions exploded in the plane and Aiyana who was already down, was unable to escape the blast, Gabriel and Kegarri were recovering and Fenris threw himself into the pair to knock them aside going prone to escape the worst of it leaving Fenris with a few char marks on his back also, his luxurious mane is singed!
[ST Jose] * Those who were turning about to engage the rear lines, the timing is off, but those who are firing at range, you get the shots off and several of the raging garou among the healers are taken down in the hail of bullets. Alan appears with the healer line and engages Ivar, just as Isabelle's mental surge strikes the garou and he stumbles back leaving an opening for Alan to drive his blade into the gut of the tall garou. Though Ivar recovers with a shake of his head and bleeding from the ears, he gives a defiant howl of rage and lunges forward giving a mighty swing of the silvered hammer and sending it crashing down onto Alan's extended shield arm and Alan was knocked back from him some fifteen feet! Several bullets rang out, some hollow points, others not, but each bullet seemed to bounce off of warty hide on his body and the fenrir gave another snarl of defiance lifting the hammer and beckoning all comers. "YOU CANNOT STAND AGAINST BEARS TEETH! COME, THIS WILL BE A WORTHY DEATH!" And he stomps his left foot into the ground with a dull thud and leans forward grasping his hammer.
[ST Jose] * ISABELLE hears the voice again, and once more her reaching mental thread finds that familiar feeling of Ricardo, it is closer as if she could reach out and take hold of his hand had she wanted to, but her reaction to attack IVAR disrupted the thread of mental contact for the moment.
[ST Jose] * Raven was able to see that, against all odds, THEY WERE WINNING! The East and West flank were clear, the forces of the garou were thinned and only the North and the rear line remained. The Vanguard had taken the brunt of the front lines explosion and from the flames rose what looked like a feminine figure, she was clothed in some kind of weird futiristic armor (image) she gave a loud bark of orders that rung out across the field. "FORM UP TROOPERS! ON ME YOU SONS OF BITCHES AND MAKE THOSE BASTARDS DIE FOR THEIR LAND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO!" And the front lines that were charging Gabriel's Vanguard turn at a sharp angle and make to form up on the female figure.
[ST Jose] * Ratboy and Silas were helping to hold the second line, but they were melee and had to move up to engage the last of the warriors, swords and knives were their weapons of choice and this was a time for judgement for the two nosferatu as they engaged with the garou warriors and were slashed into, though they fought back as well as they could and left hefty marks on the enemy, it was clear they were in a fight for their lives!
* Peyton heard the shouting and saw the shifting of the enemy lines, and turned to focus her fire on the woman in the weird damn armour, it looked pretty damn form fitting and any other time she might have been impressed, but it seemed to have a nice vulnerable spot around the face area. It was a something beyond a long shot, but it was still a shot...
* Randi saw Clashing Boom Boom, and her heart sank. She had fought by her totem's side for years, it seemed more than she could remember. She knew better than any what sort of force it would take to remove that avatar. But maybe force wasn't the thing. She scanned the battlefield, finding who she could to sneak up on and whisper "That isn't clashing boom boom.. that's a fake.. You should take care of that." Make them break their orders... every damn one of them she could find. CBB wouldn't back them then!
* Maggie was still hunting down roy, trying to get his fool ass back to the healers!
* Toby went back to casting her luck magic, having fed her Madam, she gave the blessings of Danu upon her friends so that, if it worked, they would have a little bit more of an edge aainst the enemy.
* Ishkode brought his numbers, what were left of them, to engage the garou who arrived with Ivar. Ivar himself sent the Ventrue flying back, and even Kode recognized they were out matched. So he tried to thin the enemy lines, directing his people to strike together in twos and threes, using their numbers and heart to win out against a superior foe. "One who fights for their home and family is worth ten trained soldiers. Even the fera of wolves," yes, sadly Kode was still a bit confused on that word, "will fall when we stand together and fight as one!"
* Sheshet continued to stalk and attack the enemies she could find. Pouncing out of the darkness to harry and tear apart. Hopefully that damned fire spirit was worth the cost!
* Faira continued working on healing the wounded, focusing entirely on her task. Well....almost, entirely, since she couldn't help but look over at Isabelle every so often, concern on her features.
* Max`Harris "THE CHARIOT OF RAT GOD. THE THRONE OF RAT GOD. THE BULLET SPRAY OF RAT GOD'S BLESSINGS." Max in his ecstatic, Munchmausen frenzy had crawled into the back of Charlie's jeep and taken hold of the machine gun in the back like it was communion wafers and the chalice with the wine in it. Holy objects in the disciple of Rat God's eyes were those that could bestow havock and death upon the enemy. And this machine gun, in Max's hands, under the guidance of Rat King, infused with the power of Rat God, the FESTERING HOLY SPIRIT of Rat God, was to be an instrument of death. ... Poor, Charlie, unfortunately, just saw a six foot rodent-thing climb into the back of his jeep screaming obsenities and looking like it wanted to shoot Garou in their faces and butts and all the other bits. Max just started shooting at the enemy as soon as he could. Plebian Garou come to die at the altar of the Rat God.
* Chatter reeled about in the air, looking for trouble that would surprise her friends. Not today, you motherfuckers! Wait, what's a motherfuc...eww. Not today you bad people!
* Kaelyn moved to obey Kode without hesitation and made her way towards the ritual area to defend the healers. Fucking spirits EVERY damn where, damn wraiths sneaking around, fuck the fae were BRIGHT today! But fight she did, fighting to protect her domitor and her newfound home, with everything in her.
* Raven spotted the leader and passed on her image and position to all others with the tactical information she could make out. Then her attention turned to the battle and chaos below. She could see her -brothers- engaged in their deady combat and she spared herself a liberty. Her sings were tucked as she shifted to her warform and hurtled towards the ground in a sharp dive. Much like a falcon diving to stun it's prey, her talons would ball and crash into the garous head that was harming -her- promo-somthing. She'd used the momentum and recoil of the impact to launch herself back into the air with a screech to continure her duty.
* Charley_Harper laughs and hit the pedal to the metal. The Jeep tears off, throwing clods of dirt as it goes. She aims for the woman and the men lining up around her. "Shoot the crazy armor woman and those guys!", flooring it and making the vehicle glide over the ground as smooth as possible, yat as fast as possible, for Max.
<Jacob> * Ok, bullets didn't work this time, but maybe if he kept shooting. He had nothing else to defend people with and he doubted the werewolf monster was up for tea. Dear God he wished it was just looking for tea! He could set a fine table.
* Makayla had finished her meditative little prayer, but still she left herself open to the calling of her ancestors, silently praying for guidance, strength, and courage, to do what must be done. She was spattered with blood from every race, bruised from grasping hands looking to her in their fear for comfort or reassurance. Her voice once again joined into the din of the melee, singing a folk tune, "homeward bound", trying to bolster the spirts of the injured and the still fighting alike, it was all she had to offer but offer it she would. This was her HOME damnit! The only place, and the only people, who accepted her for who she was and loved her for it, and these interlopers couldn't have it!
* Gabriel roars in rage upon watching the explosion from the kraken and the plane begin tearing over their ranks. The resilience that the coven's ritual had provided along with the blessing of Black Unicorn kept him unscatched from the explosions and munitions that had washed over them. Aiyana, however, was not so lucky, and the death of one of his charges stirred the rage of the Ahroun to a boiling point. He had been in this situation before, watching helplessly as one of his own was torn down and lost their life to the ravages of war with other Gaian Garou, others that should share their mission and their hatred for the Wyrm above politics and petty claims. Yet here he stood, once again facing off against those that were slave to those whims, to misguided views, and misshapen vows. Seeing the spirit rise from the flames and begin to rally her troops for an all out assault, Gabriel begins barking orders of his own through the mental link to the North side, as well as calling for a resource he knew could possibly serve them well in their defense, if it were free. "Prepare for a full on assault! Steel yourselves for the oncoming storm, the fury of the Garou led by a spirit of War! We will not bend, we will not break! We are the sturdy oak in the storm, battered, but not broken! We will not go quietly into the night, but we stand! Ready any gifts you have, ready any weapons you have prepared! It is now or never! Charley! Can you spare that machine gun Jeep this way?! Matthew! If the Jeep comes, you're on machine gun duty! Kiara! Use the Jeep for extra cover! If it's not here, then dig in and keep shooting!" With his questions and commands given, he then roars out to the nature spirits that had come to their aid before, speaking the language of the Garou to them. "Mighty spirits, I thank you for the aid you have already rendered to us! I must beseech you further, to muster the might of the forest, to bolster yourselves with the energies of the Wyld you possess, and stand firm and invigorated against Clashing Boom Boom and her horde!" With the orders given, and preparations as much as he could muster them, the Ahroun settles in for the coming storm.
* Ryker keeps advancing with Kode's group and firing his riffle. He would alternate with the danger ahead and behind them, trying to cover their advance and lend aid to the besieged inner circle as best he could.
* Isabelle had no intention of dying tonight, but neither could she let that creature loose to kill the healers and the injured. She had never thought she would be happy to see Allen/Jordan, but right at that moment, he was a glorious sight to behold as he drove his blade into the gut of the Get of Fenrir. She said nothing to the Garou's defiant words, though she wanted to name him an honorless butcher for this cruelty - feeling Ricardo's contact slip, she forced herself not to aid Allen's next assault, and focused on re-establishing the contact. So, so close; she thought that she could almost smell his aftershave. <Ricardo, tell me how I can help you>, she repeated mentally.
* Cassian would swap up and do Blood Cauldron to any particular Garou that were cowardly attacking the healers and the wounded, because that might even hurt worse than LoF. He'd continue on doing the medical care he was, wiping his brow with his forearm and smearing it with blood. That was kind of annoying, but the work had to continue.
* Hexion would continue to shoot at opponents and attempt Chicanery issues to play out on the battlefield here or there to befuddle the enemy and give Lily some time to take a breather if she needed one.
* Fenrir and the group were bombarded but not as bad as they could have been. Working together was pertinent here. Kegarri was shining with the strength and endurance he had been granted, as if nothing could harm him. Gabrielle was glorious and triumphant, moving through the attack, both of them enduring the pains that struck from above, raining down on them after the other defenses had been broken through. He recovered, rising to his feet as blood trickled down his back and he pulled a piece of shrapnel from it, tossing it down on the ground with a thud. He'd then utter a low growl and move onward, building rage up to lash out at the enemies before him, though he'd keep to pattern with Kegarri and Gabrielle for the most part.
* Kegarri barely seemed to notice the whole crash, boom, and fiery death happening around him. Granted, fiery wrecks were the best sort of machinery and his eyse seemed to glow bright amber as they reflected the fire in the darkness of the night, backlit by Gabriel's shining example of a true Silver Fang. He was never really certain what happened to Aiyana, but cats could look after themselves, right? Standing a little straighter as the garou pulled back around their leader, Garri lets out a short cat-like bark mixed with a huff. With great effort he forms the words. "This good to die. Better to live hard!" Then he shifted to the easier language of bastet and called out in what sounded like a great roar of defiance. <Kheuar> "Rahjah and Cahlesh! Dance with me and my claws of death!"
* Matthew will attempt to trip up any garou that come streaming past him to form up on the futuristic woman, his weight in his crinos form still comparable to that of garou if not possessed of their immense strength. If any get tripped up and fall he unloads the entire content of his magazine into them and immediately starting moving to catch up to the trio of the vanguard as the fourth falls, sticking a short ways away and continuing his method of running, stopping to shoot, and moving on, circling if the trio stops.
[ST Thea] -SCENE- From the HEAVENS THERE WAS A CRACK..... a boom so loud that it out did the Thunder and Lightening over head and down to the ground came a pair of figures embroiled in a fight the connected the ground with a KABOOM that left behind a small crater... MAMASAN rose up in a graceful leap and landed on the other side of the crater but she wavered a moment and dropped to one Knee bleeding heavily from a deep gash across her chest. Each Tail flicked out behind her, all nine one at a time and her eyes blinked slowly all three as she labored for Breath. behind her in the flicker of the lightnings crack the shadow of each of the fallen she had saved from her precious city...... She would not allow Legion to have them... these who fought for something more then the simple desire to survive and gain power.... She would -NOT- LET them have these fallen precious souls. Slowly the massive Cronis Fox rose up onto her feet and flowed into a graceful martial arts position opposite the little girl that had come into the world of flesh for their battle had been so violent. " YOU WILL... NOT... HAVE MY PEOPLE..." And all those that had walked through the Tearoom over the speak easy.. all those that had paid tribute at the host alter, paused a moment to speak to the old woman at the register.. or ordered tea would know the voice altho it was young now and full of power. "THEY WILL SUCCEEDED!"
[ST Thea] * Typpid and Daniel felt the Drain from the Ritual. 3/4 of the way to the end.... Typpid's energies were starting to waver as the Caern drew everything he had from him... IT was force of will alone that kept his movements in the dance crisp, his motions smooth in perfect unison with Daniels.. he gave forth everything of himself before he would let it touch the Old Croc.... sweat had broken out across his lean body and for once in his life... he felt strained... and died and just a little bit afraid of what came with death..
[ST Thea] * JORDAN fell back still on his feet digging through the soil as it slide and there... there it was that feeling he so rarely felt in these long years of his unlife PAIN.. it came with the cracking of bone and the memories of life that was fragile and there was that tender shivering feel of...... fear? had he lived this long to die at the hands of THIS?!...l THIS THING HERE?!... THIS..... floor rug that was more useful to sop up the dribbling juices of his preferred companion for the evening?! Perhaps.. just perhaps he would skin this one and present it as a suitable present for Kiara... perhaps he'd just rip the heart out and throw it in a jar for later memories either way his eyes blazed with the BEAST and he commanded! "BE STILL!" and snarled as his dominance washed out across the area in an attempt to severe the Garou's Motor control from his mind.
[ST Thea] * EDDUM ROSE UP ... like the shark he was from the shadows behind the Garou and attempted to grasp a hold of him throw with his one good hand...... his other arm hung limp at his side but his mouth was still in perfectly good working order and descended to try to Bite into the Garou's hammer wielding arm and BITE THAT FUCKER CLEAN OFF.....perhaps one final act....
[ST Thea] * KYSSA would snatch for ERic and make a run for it toward the Ritual doing Coven where she would throw His torpor formed down and go back to guarding those that couldn't protect themselves.
[ST Thea] * Lily stood there in the mists of battle calmly munching fruit and watching people getting blood and dying around her... she had the good sense to step behind some sizable trolls just in case anyone got any ideas to open fire.... but for the moment she was tapped out
[ST Thea] -EVERYONE ELSE- * The battle was directed now by Raven and Chatter and those that didn't have a leader to follow currently followed the next in line and did battle.. those in the north followed Gabriel and his vanguard.. those in the East followed Randi and Raven.. those in the West (where Eddum had been captain) Followed whoever was left....... the battle continued the Healers and their wounded were now open to attack for the wall no longer protected them but there was nothing that could be done...
[ST Thea] * Lawrence sat completely stunned staring at Cero's mangled corpse unable to even respond.
[ST Thea] -PEYTON- * Out of the shadows.. came a black.. massive fox.. with three tails and blue eyes.. it was holding something gingerly in it's mouth. A ring she was so VERY familiar with as of recently carried on a black Chain.. it held it out to her waiting.
[ST Jose] * Maggie had made it past enemy lines and was able to see Roy, what met her eyes, however was a blur, there were countless corpses littering the ground, and another twelve that were up, surrounding a single figure with 1 large black three tailed fox, two other black foxes lay on the ground, clearly dead and the Figure wielded a black flaming sword in one hand and a shorter wakizashi in the other fending off the garou with their staves and claws. Clearly the missing Ujio had been busy ensuring that reinforcements were scarce at best. The male figure is a blur of motion, coupled with the black fox they work together in tandem and strangely some of the garou explode into what seems to be black fire as if darkness is devouring them, and Roy was in the middle of that melee, the lone figure and his fox clearly ensuring that the fallen dragon did not perish.
[ST Jose] * Charley was a devil in a vehicle, driving over the sleeping bodies of some garou and through a few others, helping to break the lines of the garou and giving Gabriel and the Vanguard a corridor to work through, while Max screamed obscenities that would have made a sailor faint and never took his fingers off the trigger, blowing apart some garou and finding some others who appeared to be technical in nature that were clearly support and taking them out as well with well placed rounds or Charley's well placed bumper that resounded off of combat helmets with a CLONK and then the satisfying squelch of off-road tires over slippery flesh and traction providing bone, Firestone! It'll get you there! Or something.
[ST Jose] * Eddum rose and took his bite but for some reason Ivar was not surprised by this action he reacted as if this attack had come at him from an amateur, directly from the front and he pivoted away from the bite only to use the moment to swing the hammer directly at Eddum but before it could connect, Ivar simply stopped moving, mid swing and the hammer halted perhaps inches from Eddum's face, it would have likely been fatal but for some reason Ivar simply quivered in place for the moment.
[ST Jose] * Gabriel's vanguard rushed through the opening, ALL OF THOSE with Gabriel had managed to break through and they were engaged with Clashing boom boom's forces but the garou surrounding her took up what some would call a phalanx defensive position and CBB leveled her rifle and looked down the scope sighting in on a target, a target whom she was very familiar with and some might have said loved, if a spirit truly could feel such emotions and squeezed the trigger. Those whom were fooled by Randi's words turned on their own forces breaking ranks and causing just enough chaos to give Gabriel's vanguard an edge in things as the battle began to turn.
[ST Jose] * Peyton will take the ring and as she puts it on, the world seems to freeze around her, she feels the cold and she feels the pain and misery of thousands, she can feel the suffering of the legion and the childhood, but more importantly as a whisper through a cold unforgiving wind she hears a question posed to her.
[ST Jose] * Isabelle can feel something brush her hand, as if trying to hold on to it and a voice in her ear.
[ST Jose] * Cassian's choice to boil the blood proves to be a turning point for the secondary line, for all the garou's strength they are mortal and need their blood, the power proves to be invaluable. --- Legion or the little girl who squared off against Mamasan began to be surrounded by deformed figures, more and more frotesque mockeries of mortality, the souls that had been siphoned through the years and centuries with Legion. They wailed in despair asking for help, but then Legion spoke and it's voice was also heard as a cacophony upon the senses. "YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT ME! I AM DEATH AND I AM COME FOR YOU, I AM COME FOR THIS WORLD, I AM LEGION!" It rears back and gives a loud senses crushing scream and the world descends into darkness as if the light was simply snuffed out, that is, all but a small light that centered on Peyton's ring finger.
* Randi paused, but only for a moment. She saw her former Commander, the spirit that she *had* loved, *had* served honorably for years take aim at her. "So it's that way, Bitch?", she muttered. Innocence didn't matter to a spirit that was geared for success at all costs. History did not matter to a spirit who simply saw a target. She pointed at the totem and focused to use her Thieving Talons of the Magpie on Clashing Boom Boom's Blast power!
* Maggie saw that Roy was protected, but MamaSan and Ujio could.. maybe use some help? She drew herself up and dove down, a whirlwind of force flying into the enemies surrounding Roy, Mamasan, and Ujio, helping destroy them unbreakable claws and unbreakable flesh!
* Toby kept that glamour comin' for Lily, speaking dreams to her of Nobility, of cool, unflustered Power, of Beauty and the power of the Earth
* Chatter continued to guide the forces, how many damn more of them were there! Well, her face was NOT for blowing up, so she was going to keep doing what she did best!
* Gabriel was not taking any chances with the forces he and his Vanguard where a salting. He recognized the formation well, Hank could only hope that the Earth spirits and the Wyld spirits that had to come to their aid earlier would be enough to keep them split apart tonight gain too much of an advantage. With Randi sowing chaos in the ranks of the Glass Walker, he kept his claws and his Fury at the Forefront of his assault. His fur shines like a beacon in the night, the theory of Luna given flesh and bone as he tears through the enemies before him. There was nothing to do now but to fight, to destroy the enemy, and 2 defend their Homeland. If he is able to make it through the lines of the defense Kama he shows no fear when charging towards the Avatar of War herself, and engaging her with the full force of his rage comma a furious Roar erupting from his chest.
* Inayah pounced a Garou, digging claws and teeth into its flesh to cripple, help take him or her down. The confusion surrounding CBB was a tremendous time to hunt. Out of the shadows she appeared as a creature straight out of hieroglyphs. This was Bast in living form. This was death for her prey!
* Charley_Harper flicks on the high beams in hopes it will allow her to see the enemy and not run over her friends. If they don't work, she will hit the brakes and stop, pulling out her sidearm. Either way she speaks to her passenger. "Keep firing in the direction you last saw the enemy my friend and hope our friends are not among them."
* Faira looked around as the blackness descends on her, stretching out her hands and trying to find the nearest person by touch and hearing, since her sight was impaired. Hopefully someone makes a noise soon, since her hearing isn't anywhere near as impaired as her sight is.
* Matthew will continue firing until the barrel of his rifle grows red hot, having brought a large amount of ammunition for himself. As he feels the kick of his firearm in his hands and the blast of it but sees nothing he stops and crouches down, blindly peering into the dark and quieting to try to pinpoint others through the racket of battle
<Cassian> "Lawrence, I'm sorry about Cero." He'd say and focus Blood Cauldron on some more foes as he could. Seeing Ujio now back with the others was a good thing, but what happened next wasn't so grand. He'd call up a bp to use for seeing in the dark if need be and continue on or just use auspex for other senses if need be.
* Hexion continued to work Chicanery at the evil Get of Fenris with the big hammer hoping the confusion was working to make him pause. Being in darkness, he'd just try to make the Chicanery work with different voices and sounds now around the big guy.
* Fenrir continued to move with Gabrielle and Kegarri, striking down more foes. As the field turned dark, he'd focus on his lupus senses of smell and other enhanced senses that came to him (Heightened senses) to continue to lash out at foes.
* Isabelle stood unmoving for a period, then she reached to the invisible hand touching hers - she did not need sight for that - and, focusing on Spirit, on Ricardo and bringing him home safely, she pulled at it.
* Max`Harris didn't even need to be told to keep firing. It didn't matter at this point, Max would never have stopped firing until he sensed that the pulse of battle had finally quickened and died. Now, though, even with this intense, dark pause, Max knew that the fight was not over, that this was not the end, but perhaps the beginning to an even worse bit. Or not. Either way, more bullets! More glory for the rat god! For a moment, max was firing with just one arm while he stuck a cigarette retrieved from behind his ear and lit it on the orange-glowing hot end of the machine gun barrel. He puffed a couple of times, lighting up his rodent-y, blood and shit and mud and ash covered face in a soft orange, growing then dimming glow. You could see the horrible, scarred, twisted smile on his face, like a joker bathing in blood, or a soldier lost to battle lust. The twitches in his face were entirely inhuman in their emotional content. Some other madness was driving Max.
* Kiara had been firing as often as possible but there was no helping pauses here and there when something insane happened. She was still guarding Daisy and was emotionally rent over Cero but now was not the time to process that sort of thing. She couldn't help watching Eddum and Jordan though...that fae meant more to her than she was willing to admit and whatever net Jordan had used to snare her kept her riveted on him as well. There was a cold ball of dread in her stomach when she saw the hammer aiming for Eddum and such a sensation of relief swept through her when Jordan's command stopped it that Kiara almost felt like she might faint. When the blackness descends Kiara freezes perfectly still, feeling as if every sense is heightened and the sensation of panic, the primal fear of the dark, threatens to set in.
<Raven> * Darkness descended and Raven was flying blind. She didn't know if her attack on the garou had managed to save her nosferatu allies. panic gripped her as he sight left her. She was blind? The greatest fear of any who relied keenly on sight. It was terrifying, but then she saw a light in the darkness, she wasn't sure what it was, but she banked, hard and made for it. That light was a beacon to focus on, to orient herself with. She preyed to Raven and Helios for her sight to return, but she stll had her duty.
* Ryker frozen for a moment as the darkness took his vision, but he had a direction and the little light gave him a reference point. He'd continue to creep forward towards the center of the ritual and carefully feel his way along. If his sight was restored, he'd be closer, but he wasn't going to sit idly
<Jacob> "Oh Bright Lady... Bloody hell..." The darkness stops Jacobs shooting and he reaches out to try and find purchase, but he has no recourse but to simply remain still and pray that nothing kills him in the darkness.
* Sandra stopped shooting and inhaled a deep, shuddering breath. She was not afraid of the dark normally, but this darkness did not feel right ... not right at all.
* Kegarri charged with Gabriel, not about to let the Silver Fang out do him. This was the sort of friendly rivalry we saw between Legolas and Gimli in the LotR book...and less so in the movie. Although let's be honest, both had probably lost count on their kills and it was more or less who was wearing more blood of their enemies at this point. That is all of course, before darkness fell that not even his cat's sight could penetrate. Padaa still gave him a sense of his surroundings by his other senses, but he held back with Gabriel and the vanguard not wanting to jump in blindly.
* Ishkode had made it to where Silas and Ratboy had engaged with their foe and was about to lend his aid where he could. But then darkness fell, and he had to step back on the defensive and keep Kaelyn close. His eyes eventually turned to Peyton and the tiny glow of the one ring.
* Talyn slashed at foes with his katana in his main hand, and fired his pistol loaded with explosive ammo with the other...but only when he had a clear shot. There was a brief opening when the imposing warrior garou facing off against Allen and Eddum was frozen in place, and Talyn fired three shots in a burst hoping to take advantage. Then everything went dark.
* Fayad had been about to attack the Garou that had thrown Allen about, had DARED attack and possibly injure his Domitor, but suddenly everything was dark ... utterly, completely dark. He could not strike without seeing, so he faltered.
* Peyton took the ring from the fox without a moment of hesitation, wincing as she felt it's draining affects slowly beginning to take hold again. She remembered the night the ring had been found, the things that had been whispered into her mind. "Fire and Sun...." And she heard the whispering inher mind. She frozen dead for a split second, and suddenly swore loud. "GOD DAMN SON OF A BITCH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU SICK SADISTIC BASTARDS!!" With that she held her hand up, clenched into a fist as her face contorted into a mask of pain. Her choice was made and she only hoped it was worth it.
<Ratboy> * The MINUTE the Darkness hits, Ratboy grabs his wounded Primogen. Oh...he was goign to die. He'd made peace with it. BUt fuck it - he wasn't going to go out like a cunt. He grabs Silas with one hand and THROWS HIM - Throws him as far away from the battle as he can. FUck it. There are worse ways to die. With a whispered - "Take care of Frankie, sweetheart - " he jams his Kukri blade into the throat of the HIst...the his...fuck it, the leg-fucker who was attacking HIM. With all his strength, he SLLICES..>SLICES...SLICES, hoping to decapitate this guy. Ratboy Niscotto grins savagely as he does so. "L'inferno ci aspetta, il mio amico!" HELL IS WAITING FOR US, MY FRIEND! He didn't want to keep the Devil waiting.
[ST Thea] * EDDUM watched the hammer on coming, and god was he tired... he was fucking tired of this life. Tired of all the mortal bull shit... tired of the itty bitty bits of living the dream life he got because he was stuck in this fucking mortal shell dragging on through this unending life with a body that just wouldn't give up.....Love so rare, and good beer so hard to find.... food was plentiful but after the years it just all tasted the same sometimes... he watched the hammer coming and for just a fraction of the moment the dude with the Iron will sorta wavered.. because a rest sounded good and one good memory left to hang onto .. his baby girl in good hands with some undead up tight JERKWAD who would probably end up wiping out all of humanity just so his woman could have a piece of cake in silence..... it wasn't a bad time to check out really..... and then.... that anger came because fuck all this shit and FUCK THIS GUY... and FUCK THAT GUY OVER THERE BONING THE WOMAN he was going to love...... he jerked back just as the Hammer stopped falling back into the darkness which engulfed him noticing that the man was frozen in place.
[ST Thea] * JORDAN nodded. as the man froze in plus uttering. "Good boy..." and even as the darkness fell his rich accented voice drifted out. "I know the perfect Fireplace for you..." And his sword shrieked through the air as it swung for where Ivar's neck last was... no point wasting a perfectly good moment.
[ST Thea] * Lily refreshed paused as the darkness engulfed them and for a moment The Sidhe reached out with a pure moment of selfishness to her Lover and clawed at his mind with the need for protection because she was alone in the dark.. no one else would really do.
[ST Thea] * Lawrence didn't say anything to Cassian frozen as he was.. even as the darkness engulfed his sight and took from him the image of his husband and lover there was a pitiful noise.. a sob .... a broken heart... what was left of his heart.
[ST Thea] * THE OTHERS on the battle field who were engulfed in the battle froze in place.. or fell over. tumbling as they lost sight of where ever they were.. the darkness was a terrifying place for a creature of light.. usually... altho some fared better then others.. they were like most others hobbled.
[ST Thea] * MamaSan stood a singular whit-ish blue light in the darkness and piffed at Legion. "you underestimate my people.....The honor... the goodness... the sacrifices they are willing to make...... "
[ST Thea] * KYSSA... let out a scream as the darkness fell and then uttered. "MAWHAHAHHA JUST KIDDING WOO it's dark in here!"
[ST Jose] * Ratboy had his final hurrah and to be fair, no matter how much some people may have hated the guy, you can't discount a man that made the effort to save another, there's always redemption even if it's in death and true to form, Ratboy went down defying the very thing that held dominion over his unlife, giving the finger to death and embracing hell.
[ST Jose] -SCENE- * The lights came back up and it was like a hood was pulled from the eyes of everyone as sight returned and there was a moment where it seemed like time stood still. That glow shone on Peyton's outstretched hand and then suddenly, there was a scream, it was shrill and full of terror, something that the malfean had not known in so very long, as the ring crumbled to dust, the price was paid and the dust simply fell down to the ground around Peyton. Legion on the other hand grabbed at it's head and what looked like hundreds of incorporeal figures began to drift away from it, some of them howling in rage, others sobbing with relief, and still others clawing at the figure of Legion as if trying to go back to the only thing they knew. The figure fell to it's knees and looked up across the crater at Mamasan. "I will feed!" And it reached out a hand and pointed a finger off into the treeline where Raven and his ghouls were busy, and suddenly Mercy came to a stop and began to weep, as the sorrow of the choices she'd made in her life, came crashing down on her, passing up family and love to be a doctor and then taken from her career to serve the undead. Her life was meaningless and there would be nothing to redeem her. Raven turned around then at the strange sound of weeping from Mercy, such things were illogical and he was just in time to see Mercy pick up a gun and put it under her chin, pulling the trigger in a gory display of the end, her violent suicide fueling Legion and the young girl stood back to her feet as that ethereal figure of mercy wept until it was drawn into the odd form of Legion. "I will...feed..." It said once more.
[ST Jose] * Randi's outstretched hand was not missed and her choice was perhaps the one thing that may have saved her life but it did not take the blast from the initial trigger squeeze as it fired off and exploded into Randi, such a thing was no laughing matter and she was hit directly in the right side of her chest, thrown several feet away, pieces of her were seen going in other directions, including her arm.
[ST Jose] * Eddum pulled away becoming a part of the darkness as was his want and Jordan's swing seemed to be true as he thrust out his sword, but it was at this point that the quivering form of the fenrir moved once more and faster than his large bulk seemed to suggest he bent backward and avoided the swing of the sword aimed at his neck and then came back up. "IVAR WILL NOT FALL!!" And then let out a scream of rage that was so loud it burst eardrums and threw everyone around him back and knocked them prone, the force of the scream peeled flesh from bodies and broke armor and shield, the might of it was something not known to many and it was not something to be resisted such was the Scream of Gaia and as if a baseball player he turned and swung that hammer to slam it into Jordan while he was airborne to send him even further away.
[ST Jose] * Gabriel's Vanguard could see and it was like the world had simply paused and they dug into their enemies one more, it was a slaughter but the enemy fought back just as hard and people feel all around Gabriel, this was the testing time.
[ST Jose] * Charley and Max, however were clearly in this for the adrenaline and the rumble of machine gun fire rang out and blew other garou apart over and over again.
[ST Jose] * In the distance, Maggie joined with Ujio in furious combat and together they joined back to back with the fox, tearing through their enemies and stalling the flow of reinforcements that were coming to help the main contingent.
[ST Jose] * From beside Isabelle, appeared Rico, he was haggard looking and his clothing was in tatters, he seemed pale and it was then that Legion took it's sight away from Mamasan to look directly towards Isabelle and Rico. "I feel you..." The Malphean said and it lifted a hand as if to point it towards Rico.
[ST Jose] * Raven up in the sky could see, coming from the west, something strange, it was like some kind of strange earthquake was happening, shifting the earth and growing closer, something ENORMOUS was burrowing towards them. Something terrible.
* Randi went flying back, tumbling, bits and pieces of her flying away.. including her arm?! Oh that was gonna suck later. But not now, now she had adrenaline and a job to do. It wasn't much but it was hers! She snarled, admittedly a bit weakly, at her former guide and unleashed a blast back at her in revenge, using the very power that had blown her to pieces!
* Maggie continued fighting by Ujio's side. This was not something that she would have expected, but it was necessary, and she kept at it, cleaving and shredding and biting and taking every bit of what she had to destroy them. "COME AT ME YOU UNWORTHY WRETCHES! I AM BORN OF WAR AND I WILL END YOU!"
* Peyton turned at the sound of that shot gun blast, a horrified look on her features as her eyes fixate on the weeping spiritual form of Mercy, but her attention was once again torn away as she watched Randi get blown back. Her eyes darted around the battle field, taking in the lifeless forms around her, the blood soaked ground, the flashes and booms and primal screams of the fight still swirling around her. Oh dear fucking lord what had she done. She was frozen as the weight of it washed over.
* Toby shuddered when the darkness lifted. It was technically a good thing, but... there was that burrowing creature coming their way, and so many, so many dead. Now she figured was the time to be where she was most helpful, twisting about and darting for the healers to use her ability to stabilize, the dwindling fruit supply to heal, and continue to pray that she wasn't going to die in all this.
* Chatter moved for the burrowing thing, flying forward to get a better look. What the heck was that? Could she ride on it... Dont be stupid of course she could ride on it. But it was probably a BIIIIIG thing with BIIIIIG teeth and she was not dinner!
* Gabriel kept his will bolstered by the fact that in this assault, he was surrounded by comrades, alleviating the loneliness and isolation of what it was to be Ronin, his battle brother Kegarri by his side, dishing out just as well as he was, a feat that never seemed to leave Gabriel unimpressed. The bodies of friend and foe alike fell around him, resplendent as he was to those he lead into the fray, in the thick of the press of bodies huddled together, clawing, biting, squirming, and pressing against one another, it was easy to forget the glory of battle to realize that in the end, what the storytellers and Ahrouns glorified in the thrill of the bloodletting, it was nothing more than a bestial, primal, kill or be killed melee where everyone had their one goal: do not be the next one to fall. Sensing that his allies may be better served with a more strategic approach than trying to break the defensive phalanx head on, Gabriel instead decided it was time for something different. He reached down into his belt, shoving a black vial into Fenrir's clawed hand, pushing to take the Cliath's place in the frontal assault. Using their mental link to speak, as to not give away their plan, Gabriel gives his marching orders. "Kegarri, Fenrir! Drink your nightshade and flank around from the back of the phalanx! If we can break a hole through their ranks, we can divide them, and their formation crumbles!" Gabriel knew it was a gamble, and that it would leave him to the front himself with the spirits and the Fae that had been assigned to him, but he had to do what he could to end the assault as quickly as possible, and take the day. Too many had already fallen, and Legion was rising, trying to gain strength from their misery. The Ahroun simply could not afford for his Vanguard to be a blunt hammer, bludgeoning away at their enemies' defenses. It was time for a decisive, surgical strike.
* Inayah shifted into her half man, half cat form, a witch-warrior of ancient Egypt, continued darting around in the chaos, harrying targets that were already in trouble, helping weaken them to take them down. She wanted tea, but tonight there would be only blood!
* Ishkode moved to help Silas up with his unit of ghouls, dhampir, and others to defend. When he stood, he pointed at Ivar. The shout from Ivar had been deafening, but Kode quickly foud his feet and stood up. "Ivar! Warrior wolf! Champion of of the Great Spirit! You fight on the wrong side of the battle. THAT," he said point out where the battle of Legion was taking place. "That Malfean is an agent of destruction. Each death from either side feeds it. Each death sends us all closer to Oblivion. The end of all things. Is it worth winning a battle if it will make you lose the war? Put your hatred aside, at least long enough that we can defeat this greater evil together!"
* Makayla was jolted out of her meditative singing, her head shooting up as she heard the first shot gun blast and watched the wispy form of Mercy float away. The second blast caught her attention and she whirled just in time to see Randi go down and her eyes went wide with fright and she whimpered as her blood covered hands flew up to her chest as though clutching at her heart. Seeing the other woman still moving she gave a strangled sort of sound and tore her gaze away to go back to her duty of tending the wounded and again began with that medatitive breathing as she did her work.
* Charley_Harper re-holstered her gun and gripped the wheel again, glad she never took off her seat belt. "Hold on!" and floored it again, whipping back toward the enemy around the Vanguard with a vengeance and a "Yippie Ki Yay MotherFuckers!"
* Kaelyn stood beside Kode, full of fury at the things she was seeing. These hide bound morons were helping the evil, helping to fuel legion and they were so blinded by hatred they couldn't see it. She stood poised, ready to attack, to defend.
* Isabelle had anticipated something like this - though she had not known that Legion was still bodily among them at that time. Still, she reacts almost immediately as soon as Rico comes, squeezing his hand briefly, hoping that he would sense the apology, while she imposing her will swiftly and ruthlessly upon him. Actual Mind Control, something she had rarely opted to use throughout her entire life, but she had not brought Rico back to feed that creature. She would not let her have him. "He is not yours," she informs the Malfean through tight lips. When would the ritual be done?? "Nothing here is yours; this is not your realm."
* Faira continued to stumble around in the darkness, hands outstretched in the hopes that she would bump into somebody. When the darkness lifted, however, she was probably a distance away from the healing section, the artificial darkness having temporarily robbed her of any sense of direction.
* Raven, her keen eyes searching for danger, spotted the movement in the ground. The terrible creature coming towards them was noted and it's speed and location passed on. The terrible roar from the Garou in the main camp drew her gaze. It was horrible and she saw her allies crippled and sent flying. Even the powerful elder Vampire, the male she wanted to mate with, and her friend Isabelle, her most trusted and cherished friend -Talyn-. She'd send an appology through her link with the others, she -couldn't- stand by and let the garou harm her allies anymore. There would be silence as Raven's dark form dovee with murderous intend, silent as she called upon Raven and Helios for strength before she shrieked a murderous cry as she crashed into the Garou to tear at him with beak and talons. He. Would. Die. She would FEAST on HIS eyes.
* Ryker continues shooting things and hoping that they somehow survive this nightmare
* Jacob Clutches his ears as his eardrums explode and falls to his knees with a wordless cry of utter pain.
* Kegarri would not use the nightshade talen he never accepted. Instead he trusted the gifts of the bastet, Night's Passage, to blend his fur perfectly with the night. It was a mental agreement as he shifted to feline form and raced to flank the enemy unseen, unheard, and unscented.
* Kiara had no battle cry to offer when the darkness lifted, only bullets for the enemy. She wasn't the sort that was going to sway the battle but Kiara would offer what she could and if her pulling a trigger would help buy the time they needed she would pull it as long as the ammo lasted of the enemy laid out dead before them. She took a moment to look around and take stock...she saw Peyton's standing still and called out to her friend. "Peyton!! Less Q Q and more pew pew! There is time for freaking out later!" That was like a battle cry, right? Kiara was being a little snarky but entirely serious as well.
* Ji Hyo wasn't easing up at all and Reggie was still playing at Desperado, lots of pew pew from that one.
*Silas was thrown bodily away by Ratboy's sacrifices, and almost howls in agony from the landing - he nearly bites his tongue clean off to hold in the cry, using Vanish From Mind's Eye. He could not move without agonizing pain.
* Sandra Keeps following with Kode and Kaelyn. FAYAD: Fayad attempts to sever the achilles tendons of that Garou Leader with the hammer with his scimitar
<Max`Harris> "I LIKE that. YIPPIE KI YAY MOTHERFUCKERS!" Max was a ravenous, crazy, hell, this time maybe literally rabid ratkin right now. He was just spurting obsenities and puffing on his cigarettes and in his head there was the absolute punkiest garage punk trash bag music, the real best of the worst, playing in his head in a way that was nearly hallucinatory. In his mind, Max faded out of reality and started to partake in a music video filled with violence and bloodshed and... Was he singing that Offspring song from, like, 2007? "DANCE FUCKER DANCE MAN YOU NEVER HAD A CHANCE~~!" And on the song goes, and Max screaming it so loud that his throat began to bleed, and thank god that the machine gun didn't run out of bullets because Max was liable to just pick it up and clip people with it from the back of the Jeep if it ran out.
* Talyn held the defensive line. No matter who was in need, he held his ground. He was here to defend Daniel and Typpids ritual and he would not be drawn away. Pistol gave him some range, and his sword for any who got close enough to strike.
* Cassian moved more over by Lawrence but then turned as he saw the fight and killing blow that Eddum had planned did not go according, also bringing along his sword. That foe was just too much physically but Blood Cauldron had worked on other foes, so why not this one? He sent the thaumaturgical spell to the big Get of Fenris with the hammer, hoping that would be enough to kill it or allow Eddum the moment he required to destroy it.
* Hexion moved to start shooting other foes realizing the creature had defeated his chicanery and whatever else had perhaps made it pause. He would start shooting at other foes and then reloading his weapons to be prepared for hext time.
* Fenrir peered over at who was being pointed at after Raven's attention called it out and he saw Rico as the target. He howled a warning that Rico probably would have heard formerly as the two had been traveling companions for some time prior, and pressed on his battle as the light of the field came back. He couldn't do anything else for his friend from where he was, but he could continue to fight with claws and fangs, trying to get to this awful being, whether it was well above his station or not. It's what ahroun do.
* Matthew would quickly run off to the side of the charging trio, flicking his rifle to fully automatic and keeping the trigger down until it clicks into the formation of garou, intending to soften their ranks before they're hit by three wildly suicidal shifters. Once it's empty he would ditch his spot and move away again, moving around the formation and keeping low as he reloads.
[ST Thea] * Jordan blinked.. just once as he was flipped up into the air and... a deep breath in.... a deep sigh out... and he swung with his Gladius as Ivar swung at him as if he was a baseball.. how.. utterly... time consuming! The sword Screamed with the wail of the souls with in and moved to connect with the hammer. Allen twisting gracefully in the air as he moved to try to land on his feet once more... he probably would have rolled his eyes but that would have taken more effort! ... and he wasnt KIARA..... He moved to kick toward the Garou's wounded belly.. while a pair of hands suddenly reached up to grasp for the get of Fenris Ankles... (Eddum WP blown to use his broken arm)
[ST Thea] * Lily returned from the darkness to level the Sniper rifle onto the shoulder of the Troll in front of her playing her living shield and took aim at Legion through the scope. "Really.... should have brought some wine and Biscuits with me... for all these tears..." She uttered and sticking the tip of her tongue against her upper lip. Pulling the trigger with a little ho hum noise.
[ST Thea] * OTHER NPCS can be considered following the orders of those commanding in the field and meeting the forces.
[ST Thea] * MAMAsan watched him split apart and she moved forward with a flick of her claws to grasp onto the threads that ere Mercy's Soul and she held them firmly in tension to Legion. "MY PEOPLE.." The Fox Snarled and then she leaped the rest of the distance from where she hovered in the air still holding onto the threads of the soul of HER PEOPLE... and slashed at Legion with the other hand. Her third eye opened to focus upon the little girl and a beam of searing blue light would cut across the place where the Malfaen stood. (LAZER EYE)
[ST Thea] -THE RITUAL- * Typpid had no more to give and in one finally graceful step he crumpled to his knees and slowly folded backward.... for a moment his eyes peered up to the storm over head and his chest heaved the last of his breasts..... as his energy left him... drained away like the last drop of morning dew. He made a small noise and whispered. "Mother..... I'm... Afraid...." and his face stilled as Death took him.
[ST Jose] * Charley and Max, quite the respectable duo when it came to destroying the enemy! Bumpers and bullets were the name of the game for them, at least until the bullets ran out and true to his ideas, Max had to heft the empty machine gun from it's mount and began playing t-ball with the various sideline forces that weren't involved in the phalanx, and Charley turned to help break the line with her jeep.
[ST Jose] * Gabriel's plan was not without cost and to break the line it would cost him much, bullets, claws and the weapons of his enemies, some skittered across his flesh, others missed because of the glare, and still others hit quite successfully, sending Gabriel down to his knees and then there is a pause, as Clashing Boom Boom steps forward and looks down at Gabriel, drawing a sidearm she puts it to Gabriel's forehead and those on the Vanguard can hear her as she bolsters the troops. "All too human." She pulls the trigger and blows a hole through Gabriel's head sending him collapsing to the ground in a bloody heap, the troops around her give a howl of victory as their enemy leader goes down and their efforts are redoubled.
[ST Jose] * Maggie and Ujio are a tag team to be reckoned with, even if Ujio feels like the dirty gangrel is beneath him, at least she can fight well, even if like a savage.
[ST Jose] * Eddum shot up and grabbed a hold of Ivar's legs and the great Athro snarled he lifted the hammer to bring down on Eddum but then Jordan kicked him just as Lily's sniper round impacted with his chest, blowing a hole through the athro and staggering him, his eyes went wide and he refused to go down! Talyn's rounds impacted three times in the chest of the garou and he was staggered further, but couldn't move from his spot, held by Eddum as he was, he gave a great howl of rage once again as he fell and attempted to get up... but Raven had given off in her duties as eyes in the sky to save her friends, her choice was made and down she shot from the sky, like a missile and beak first, she impacted with the garou, into his eye socket and flailed, the athro struggled and then bellowed out his defiance as the last of his health drained from him, and he frenzied, the hammer dropped to the side and his hands came up, he tored the Corax from his eye socket and then literally ripped her left wing from her body in a spray of blood, tossing her aside, a last act of defiance as Raven held a bit of brain in her beak when she flew away and the frenzy ended, as blood pooled around Ivar Bjornson the Bears Teeth, he fought well and he died well, this was all a fenrir could ask for, he would dine well in Valhalla.
[ST Jose] * Randi got to her feet and she now possessed the blast of Clashing boom boom but at what cost?
[ST Jose] * Isabelle called out to the fire in the sky and held aloft her right hand. Down from the sky came the firey dragon that was now the size of a bus, it was clearly gaining in power and it landed in front of Isabelle. "I ACCEPT YOUR OFFER!" And the Dragon lunged forward biting what looked like a small porcelain doll from Isabelle's right hand, the doll ignited in flames and Isabelle's hand literally melted in it's bite, the flesh and bone ending in a charred stump just below the wrist, and with it, from Rico came a strange ethereal humanoid image, it looked like a little frightened girl and across the way Legion who was fighting with Mamasan for souls just stopped and burst into flames. "NO! THIS CANNOT HAPPEN!" The little girl coming from Rico moved into the flames and began to cry as she burned and became a part of the flames and Legion fell to the ground, thousands of souls escaping it and fading into the ether, as the Malphean met it's demise from the loss of it's tethers and the sacrifices made to empower the destruction of the fetters and it's last connection to reality, it's seperation from the shadowlands ensuring that it would never be reborn again. But, as if in a last ditch effort Legion raised a burning hand into the air and blackness began to radiate out from it in a growing sphere. everywhere it touched death happened, it grew and grew.
[ST Jose] *Mike, the little seen photographer, kinain of the Eshu, had takin a bullet to the leg and his camera bag was curiously absent as Rayne led Mike towards the growing sphere of entropy. It was only now that his power made itself known to others, as he got closer it seemed to cause the sphere to shrink, but the other side wasn't contained and Rayne, reached out to her avatar, she pulled on the tether to her tenuous untrained magik and forced her avatar to open her potential, Rayne felt the burning inside of her first, as her channels were forced open, magik was pushed forth and she was turned into a conduit to empower Mike and the other half of the black orb was engulfed in a 5 yard sphere around the couple, before the blackness consumed them, the two of them embraced inside of that sphere and time passed perhaps moments, perhaps forever, until finally there was a loud implosion within the sphere and left standing were two skeletons, devoid of flesh in an embrace, before collapsing to ash. The sphere of life sapping entropy was abated.
* Raven, tasted blood, tasted brain, and knew pain the likes of which she'd never known. Her instinct was to fly to flee from the pain that exploded down the left side of her body. Her beak opened in a paniced cry of pain as she flapped her wing? Her talons scraped for purchase on the ground as her awkward crinos form smashed into the ground with a tumultuous roll. The flapping of one wing only sending her into a messy tumble between the already fallen bodies. She'd try to stand, but the pain was too much. Her black eyes finally looking to her wings, why wouldn't they work. Deep primal panic flooded her mind when she saw the empty place her wing should have occupied. Her eyes spotted it, flung aside as she had been and with the clarity of a mind in shock she lunged for her detached limb, no thought given to the blood pouring down her side as she mantled over that detached part of her body with one wing and hissed and snapped at any that where too close. It -WAS- her's damn it and her pain fueled shock would suffer none to take it!
<Jacob> * What was he seeing? What was happening. His mortal mind felt like it was fracturing at all the horrendous sights he was seeing. He could not longer hear, his eardrums blown out, but he could still move. As the fighting in the immediate area closed, he'd fumble for bandages and supplies for any who needed them.
* Randi didn't know the price, but she knew she had to do something with it. She began firing on the enemy at will, screaming in pain, in rage, in frustration. She was *not* ready to go yet, not until she took down enough motherfuckers to remind them that, even if they won, it would be a pyrrhic victory. Pyrrhic? Damn, she was smart even if she was bleeding to death.. "YIPPEE KI YI YAAAAAAAAAY!!!! GOD I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SAY THAT!"
* Peyton, upon hearing Kiara's shouting shook herself out of whatever personal horror she was experiencing and once again raised the rifle to take aim and fire at the remaining garou. It was all too much to take in in this moment, if she continued to let herself focus on it she wouldn't be able to continue, so she fired untilt he clip was empty then reloaded and fired some more.
* Maggie knew she was side to side with a Toreador who had done nothing over the years but try to impinge upon her freedom. She had no love for the Camarilla and its pushy politics shovers, but she had learned some respect for her erstwhile ally. And right now... Killing felt good!
* Faira would look around her, unsure where she was, but would try to make it back to where the healers were without getting shot or stabbed by anything. Hopefully.
* Ryker, seeing that the danger in the main camp was eliminated (even at a terrible cost) would level his riffle on any remaining targets.
* Charley_Harper sees Gabriel go down and changes direction slightly to go straight to where he is, flooring it as she is a good distance away, making minor swerving motions to take out enemies as she goes with the front bumper, hoping it stays on. She pulls her gun from its holster, silly small .45 that it is and reaches it up for Max to take if he wants it.
* Toby darted around the wounded, continuing to stabilize and heal where she could. She began to shake visibly, her energies drained to the point of near emptiness. What she wouldn't give for her warm home, her kitchen, well once it was rebuilt.. That made her growl a little and double-down. She had to fix her kitchen!
* Kaelyn fighting beside Kode, using every little trick he had taught her, every little dirty trick she had learned on the streets, anything that would help her to live through this. Knees and ankles... ankles and knees ... no one ever actually expected someone to be short enough to REALLY try to take them out at that level.
* Cassian was by Lawrence now, watching as the big Get fell over from the other attacks and then turning to see what would happen with Legion. He shook himself out of it and moved to get back to healing people as they seemed to have a brief respite and work at telling others to move the wounded back more that were not going to be able to move themselves. Something had shook the ground and he wasn't so sure that this battle was quite finished but he knew that there would be no way to move these people if they didn't take the time now.
* Hexion maintained his position as the ground shook and then he watched the other things unfold before him. It seemed they were victorious, even as there were great losses. He'd continue to pick off enemies with his rifle, not wanting to let up but he was also wary of what was below.
* Fenrir turned abruptly as he saw Gabriel go down to his knees and then the gun come up and shoot him through. He leapt at Crashing Boom Boom in retaliation, to attempt to lash out at him with some series of attacks, if he had the opportunity.
* Isabelle could not help but cry out in pain as her hand was removed, but her choice had been made, and the stump did not seem to bleed. She held it close, smiling - victory was theirs. Legion seemed to be foiled."
* Chatter circled in the air above the dreadful burrowing thing. What was it? WHAT WAS IT? She couldn't quite see yet, but that didn't stop her from trying!
* Makayla was focusing on the wounded and injured, keeping herself focused on the task in front of her for the moment, and hoping Randi at least had the smarts to try to make her way towards the healers area to be looked after.
* Sheshet stalked through the battle, avoiding head on collision with enemies, her claws sharp and painted with blood. She had to admit this was new to her, but there was certainly a thrill in this sort of engagement.. she felt more alive than she had in years, and wasn't that funny? After all, she was very likely to die soon. No time to watch the Malphean explode, or the beautiful lovers die together, no. It was time to kill!
* Matthew will do as he has been this entire time, now just circling the main group of garou and taking shots at those near Fenrir and Garri, his teeth gritting and biting back a howl that would give him away even more than his hit and run shots. Once they kill all of the garou around her he's sure Clashing Boom Boom won't be an easy fight, but it'll sure be easier. He'll lament missing the explosions and deaths of great banes but there won't be a later if he doesn't get the fuck out of the way if the garou or worse yet CBB take aim at him because he was oogling other fights.
* Kiara watched as Gabriel made some stupid risky move that she just ~knew~ he was going to do and it felt like the cold hand of fear itself was gripping right at her middle, clawing away like mad at her. She watched in horror as that cunt put her gun to Gabriel's head and pulled the trigger. Someone might have expected a scream of rage or defiance at what happened but Kiara was coldly silent. Was that because Gabriel had spent the last week or so trying to make her accept that he was going to die...or was it simply because her feelings were not something to be put on display for others to see? She ground her teeth so hard that she was shocked they stayed in one piece and her eyes welled up as she glanced down at the little woven bracelet she wore...before she reached for another clip to load in to her weapon and continue firing on as was her task tonight. So many deaths already and they were still not done....the enemy was dying but not fast enough to save those she cared about.
* Max`Harris looked at the pistol and then CHUCKED the empty machine gun at one of the last Garou before taking the pistol and wildly shooting it into the crass group of falling Garou who had decided to die on this field of battle. This holy space, now, for Max, a pilgrim through carnage. He spit out his last cigarette and began to release a chittering screech of victory, of thankfulness for the lust, this close to the mortal Thanksgiving, and Max had so much to be thankful for now. "HAHAHAhahahHAAhahahAHAHaa, woo. This was a FUN FUCKING JOKE wasn't it you WOLF BASTARDS?! THIS," firing the pistols, "WAS," more gunfire, "A," gunshots, "FUN," the pace of the bullets got more regular and conserved, ennuciating the last word with a final flurry of shots, "JOKE!"
* Ishkode could only watch as things unfolded with Legion. He felt for the lovers who had sacrificed all, but the battle was far from over. "Silas?" He would call out, but he was no where to be seen. If there were any enemies left to engage in the main camp he would do so with his group of defenders. Otherwise he'd move to help the injured, started with Raven when he realized her broken form flapping oddly on the ground.
* Talyn hadn't done much, but maybe he had helped the stronger, braver supernatural legends who had met the unstoppable garou and...stopped him. Teamwork perhaps? Either way, this was no time to relax with enemies still on the field. Even outside the immediate area, Ujio was still doing battle against those who would reinforce the others.
* Kegarri didn't look back as he rushed to flank the enemy. Gabriel was leaving himself exposed, but when he and Fenrir struck they too would be exposed. He did hear the gunshot and looked in time to see Gabriel fall backwards. No roar of fury. No cry of anguish. Garri was a hunter mid ambush. Instead he channeled his rage and burst from the darkness into the flank of the enemy as the crinos jaguar warrior, a flurry of claws and teeth, fast and furious like a bad car movie. The Garou would pay for taking down an honoured warrior with the weapon of a coward. True warriors used the gifts Gaia and Seline gave them....as he was in demonstration of.
* Gabriel felt the rushing of the claws and fangs of the Garou Nation defensive resistance immediately when Kegarri pulled away from the front line, the Ahroun having expected it, but he had underestimated how fresh the other Garou were compared to him, and despite his superb physical conditioning, and the added hardiness of the Crinos form fueling him, Gabriel could not stave off the effects of fatigue forever. Had he still been protected by the Armor of Luna, the extra protection of the moon's kiss upon him would have made up for any sluggishness in his limbs and would have allowed him to keep on fighting for far longer than he would naturally have been able to. However, the spirits had stripped him of his Gnosis and his gifts when he called upon their aid, though it had been a worthy trade. He doubted they would be pressing the offensive in the North, had it not been for that chiminage being given. Devoid of the gnosis to refuel his protective gifts, Gabriel continued to hack and slash at the enemies, doing his best to provide Kegarri and Fenrir the time and the distraction they would need to flank the enemy lines and break their formation. However, he cannot hold out forever against such superior numbers. The bullets, claws, and fangs eventually wear him down, the Silver Fang now more crimson than white, gashes, tears, and bulletholes littering his fur as the War spirit strides up to him. Once, he was sure Clashing Boom Boom would have been pleased to call him her own, if his former pack had not been dedicated to Wolverine. Now, he looked up to the totem with a defiant glare in his eye, before he felt the pulse of the spirit's rage made manifest in a sidearm blast through the temple, grey matter and blood spewing from the side of his head. Lying in the darkness, the light begins to fade from Gabriel's corpse, nothing more than a broken, bloodied ronin with no tribe, no pack to mourn him, and no deeds carried upon the lips of the spirits....Before the lambent flame of his birth tribe flares white hot, and all upon the Northern front can hear the sound of a death-defying, furious roar to the enemy spirit, "NO MERE MAN! NO MERE GAROU! I AM FULL MOON!" Gabriel emerges from the enemy Garou, his mind completely lost to the berserk frenzy that came when nothing but a Garou's rage had saved them from certain destruction. His claws reached out and plunged into the closest living warriors, rending flesh as his powerful Crinos maw snapped down viciously on another's neck. He would need to feel the healing of one of the talens the North side had if he wished to survive this fight, but Gabriel was truly lost to all reason, and was not thinking of retreat. He saw but one thing: death.
[ST Thea] * MamaSan landed lightly in the spot where Legion had been and peered down at the remains of ashes with a cock of her head to the side. "And so it is done..." The sacrifice of Rayne and Mike.. their souls too were safely seen from this side to the other... and then she released Mercy's before she turned... One moment she was the nine-tailed .. three eyed fox.. and the next she was A woman. Elegant Japanese in a glorious flowing Kimono black, dark purple and dark blue dusted with the things of stars and moon. The belt around her middle flowed down like woven moon light that gave off a sort of radiance. She reached out and into her hand came a staff of gnarled polish wood. Up it came and down it struck, the tip to the earth sending out a warm glowing light that would bring all those with in the field one step further from death but no more.... She could not waste her energy any longer fore there was one more thing to do. She turned and moved toward the Ritual side trailing sparkling motes.. her voice drifted to everyone on the battle field. "For nearly two years I have watched you all... struggling to get a long and find your place with in this city... this city of souls. Each one of you yearning and reaching for a home to call your own.... the sacrifice on this field tonight has been great.... filled with honor and heart..... I have not left you my people.... nor shall I leave you from this point.. I become the spirit that watches over you all... who may not like, nor love one another but who you work toward the common good of all and that... IS worthy of honor.... " She Stepped through the Wall of Vines as if they weren't even there and drifted toward the spire of light around which Daniel still danced.. slowly draining his life and the woman became incorporeal as she drifted into the spire and became one with the heart of the Caern.
[ST Thea] *Lily turned from Ivar's now QUITE DEAD CORPSE .. making the Troll turn with her only to watch Mike and Rayne as they Expired. "well that's just a waste now is it?" she muttered softly.. refocusing down the scope at CBB.... she drew in a deep breath in as Eddum had taught her and breathed out as she pulled the trigger. "would you be ever so kind as to ..... die? ... perhaps? FIRE AT WILL PLEASE" she called to those around her that had rifles.. those of the wounded and the defensive line all pointing at CBB at the same time and opened up....
[ST Thea] * Jordan looked down at the corpse of the Wolf and nudged his body with his foot. ".. I suppose I could have someone sew it up..... ." he pursed his lips.....
[ST Thea] *Eddum heaved himself with some effort out of the shadows and rolled onto his back as he lay there holding his broken arm.
[ST Thea] * Kyssa noted that everything seemed to be calming down but she kept her vigilance over the people that were all focused on other things or in torpor like Erik.... le sigh.. the spider was doing spidery things. --- ......
[ST Jose] -SCENE- * As everyone turned to open up on CBB and her final contingent of warriors she did not go down without a fight, shots rang out, explosions left her sidearm but they were not nearly as devastating as they could have been had it been her main weapon, but Randi saw to that rather cleverly. CBB fired back and fought valiantly but as her warriors went down around her, she knew it was time to go out, her mechanical awakening would have to be held off for the time being, she would return, stronger than before, technology had a way of focusing on the weapons of war and ensuring that no expense was spared. The blasts from Randi, the sniper rounds, the teeth and claws of the shifters, but no weapon of war didn't have a final solution. And as the final warriors closed in, and her armor was torn asunder, her figure fading to the airts. There was a panel on her wrist that was flipped open and she slapped her hand down on it, tapping a few buttons almost similar to the predator as a count down began as CBB went down under the flurry of attacks.
[ST Jose] -SCENE- * The rumble of the earth signaled the approach of the subteranean entity and Faira was directly in it's path, she would likely be the first to find out what terror lurked in the depths as the ground exploded from under her and an enormous worm rose from the earth, Faira directly in the path of it's maw as it opened to swallow her whole and she vanished down it's throat as it landed back on the ground with a crash and moved with a speed that belied it's huge bulk, clearly not all of the wyrm spawn ignored the call of this place!
* Isabelle bows her head to Mamasan respectfully - Sandra looks far more impressed, but does pause and ask, "What about Typpid?"
* Randi saw the countdown, and paled.. okay most of that was blood loss but she knew a countdown couldn't be a good thing. She reached out to find a complex machine, anything with explosives, and control it to shut down!
* Maggie roared as she continued tearing enemies asunder, but the enemies were getting to be so few. What fun was that? She turned about, and saw... Oh yes. There was still a party on the field! She called out a challenge and went to rush the Wyrm!
* Toby saw the wyrm, and some part of her brain noped out because GIGANTIC WYRM! There were still wounded to help, and so she did that!
* Peyton turned around and went wide eyed at the site of the giant worm rising out of the ground. "holy sweet merciful Mary and Joseph what in the ever living FUCK is that thing!" She swore, before realizing that perhaps opening fire on the damn thing was her best bet...
* Gabriel tore and slashed at Clashing Boom Boom, the frenzying Ahroun a terrible sight to behold, the way that he fought with abandon, no regard for his personal safety, or going for clean kills, or even to be humane about the art of war. He fought with savagery unrestrained, and if one compared where he attacked his enemies compared to when he had his wits about him, it was a truly sadistic shift in battlefield demeanor. With the enemy Garou of the War spirit's formation downed, and the spirit herself forced back into the Umbra to slumber, Gabriel was able to reign in the fury within, releasing himself from the Berserker rage to take stock of the situation. Hearing the countdown beeping from the spirit's wrist device, the Crinos Ahroun gave one command, clear to any and all around him. "RUN!" With that, the Ahroun began pushing his allies away from the downed power armor of the spirit, towards the next battle ahead: The Thunderwyrm!
* Raven was grounded and all but useless now. She'd use a Gaia's breath talen to stop the bleeding, but her severed arm was beyond repair. There was nothing she could do for that. She'd continue to mantle over it uselessly as she bit back thr sorrow of her choices. She'd mourn later for those who had fallen and for the loss of her greatest gift, but for now, she simply tried to shuffle out of the way. Her usefulness was spent.
* Ryker, seeing the creature explode from the ground, would simply open up his riffle on that -thing-.
* Jacob continues to help the healers.
* Sheshet saw the wyrm and turned more than a little bit queasy. Oh this was not a pretty sight. SHe wasn't even sure that her claws could properly damage it.. but there was a fire dragon she'd paid. She lifted her head to the sky and roared to the dragon "I still have need of your help! Here's a REALLY BIG FLAMMABLE OBJECT FOR YOU!"
* Chatter saw Raven's wing get torn away, and gasped to herself. No way was she gonna let THAT happen to her! She circled the scene of the fight, watching to make sure no surprises came for the crew that had the massive Wyrm to worry about now.
* Charley_Harper heard Gabriel's command and being close, turned hard to change course, spraying chunks of dirt into the air.
* Kaelyn, having run out of garou to take out her anger on, turned as the ground rumbled beneath her feet and the ground exploded upwards in a shower of churned up blood soaked earth. "holy hell.." was all she could utter, not knowing what in all of creation she could possible do about THAT thing... spirits were supposed to stay in the spirit realm damnit!!
* Ishkode stared just a moment as the giant wyrm surfaced. Really? As if the fucking military, Garou Nation, Mr. Unbreakable, giant avatar of war, and Legion himself wasn't enough? "Help pull the wounded back to the caern!" A final look to the lovers who had sacrificed so much for the rest of them, and his eyes were looking for who to help. "Anyone see Silas?" Kode didn't want to leave him out there, but as the bugger used Obfuscate he couldn't find him. "Let's go. Let's go!" Unless he could find and carry Silas to safety, he'd grab Raven and bring her in. If he did have Silas, he'd direct Kaelyn, Ji Hyo, or Sandra to help her in.
<Max`Harris> "Oooohhhh..." It felt like Max was going to say 'Shit', really long and drawn out like, but instead he released a long, ecstatic, nearly orgasmic, "Yessssss..." Max jumped out of the Jeep the next time Charlie slowed it for a turn, tossing the gun back at the driver and giving an appreciative chitter, before booking it towards the Rat King and waving his arms in the air like the crazy Ratkin that he was. "RAT KING, I DEDICATE ALL THIS BLOOD TO YOU. I dedicate it to YOU, RAT KING. LET THE CRAZY COME FORTH NOW, PLEASE." Max turned around and looked at the massive Thunderwyrm. "NOW is the chance for RAT to show its might, it's power, how RAT is not a CUNNING totem but a WARBLOODDEATHTIMETOEATSHIT TOTEM!" Max was getting angry, passionate, bursting with rage and twitching uncontrollably as he implored, no, tried to [Persuade] the Rat King to help the defenders. "We've FOUGHT the Garou, bested the GAROU, and now the WEAVER'S WEBS ARE SHATTERED and now the WYRM'S SHINY WARTY DICK is HANGING OUT like a DUMB DONG. Help us PUNCH. IT. BACK. INTO. THE. SCROTUM..." Max waved his arms about and prostrated himself, "PLEASENOWPLEASE."
* Kiara had the same thoughts as Peyton as far as it came to the worm...thing...eyes went wide for a moment but after everything else tonight was this really a shocker anymore? She wasn't going to leave Daisy so it was simply a matter of hunkering down and pulling her trigger as she had been doing all night.
* Makayla could only continue her work with the injured and continue to silently pray to her own ancestors for strength and guidance,biting at her lip as she worked and hating that she could do so very little to protect the people she loved.
* Cassian listened to the speech of the woman who had fought directly against Legion and then she vanished. The shifters that were enemies seemed to finally be weakening in numbers and the ground opened up and the huge wyrm he would consider related to Dune or maybe it was a Sarlaac...whatever, it was there. He'd continue moving people back and prepare Lure of Flames, setting the dots on the critter as he did. He'd release the spell later in the round as necessary so that it could be some distraction at least.
* Hexion fired at the large creature but was pretty sure, even with the rifle rounds, it was likely not to do much good.
* Fenrir would look at the big wyrm emerging and growled, looking at BoomBoom who decided to go out Predator bomb style. The idea hit him and it was as good as any other weird idea he came up with at times of battle. He grabbed the downed BoomBoom and looked at Garri, giving him the option of joining in on the sprint and throw. Either way, with or without Garri, he'd move forward with the Garou who messed with technology so much, and drop her right into the maw of the huge wyrmy creature. This was the intent anyway.
* Kegarri was going to try and take down the countdown of the armour the only way he knew how. Rip and claw and tear until it stopped working. Hey, worked on some foestry machinery. However there was something in Gabriel's voice that demanded attention and he turned to see the giant thunderwyrm. Fuck, not one of THOSE again? Well, he couldn't let Gab have all the fun. With a nod to Fenrir, Garri helps Fenrir carry the thing and races for giant wyrm to take his revenge for last time!
* Matthew is outside the mass melee taking place around Crashing Boom Boom and sends a message through the mental link to the trio of vanguard as he spots and just feels the monstrosity that arrived upon the scene. "Guys you might want to get the fuck out of there." Matt drops his rifle to the ground and takes hold of one of the gourds, starting to grind it up in his hands into that fine dust. A seperate message goes out to Gabriel to slow his great white ass down while he sprints up to the almost mortally wounded garou, drawing on some of his newfound rage in an almost exhilarating rush he's never felt before. Little more than a rush of darkness shooting across the field he pulls up beside Gabriel to administer the powdered gourd, hardly even needing to aim with the number of his injuries. Good thing shifters are resiliant to disease because the ground up dust goes straight onto the wound on his head. Once the deed is done he falls back behind him relative to that most dreadful of creatures, not having a clue in how to take such a beast down.
* Talyn would help them guide the wounded in and picked up his sniper rifle again. If there were any healers still around he'd call for someone to check on Daniel. The ghoul, however, reloaded the weapon and took aim at the giant wyrm that had surfaced.
[ST Thea] * Eddum rolled over wavering tiredly for a moment before he struggled too his feet and reached out to snatch for Kiara, Daisy and Peyton.. whoever else was neary LAwrence probably.... he could only carry so many. he threw Peyton and Kiara over his shoulders if he could.. blowing willpower to make his broken arm work... grabbed the others and booked it out of there for now..
[ST Thea] * Lily watched the huge wurm come up and she laughed clapping her hands together. "oh very brilliant.. just lovely.... mmm. .alright the rest of you Grab the Wounded and get away..." She commented her Fae through the mental link and they would begin to do just that... they would grab the wounded, the healers.. medical equipment and run back away.
[ST Thea] * That was about the time a HUGE MASSIVE 45 foot long Prehistoric Saltwater Croc would explode through the vine work. Pounding over the ground toward the THUNDERWURM... HHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO .......... to try to bite down onto it's head and force it down to the ground..
[ST Thea] * Jordan would pause .. "I'm not to sure My Boon Debt covers giant worms.... of that size..." he mulled it over for a moment and then ducked to the side as Daniel came plowing through......
[ST Jose] -SCENE- * The worm swallowed Faira, and the garou got together, they ran the broken and dissipating form of CBB to the worm, Daniel's bite forced the worm down flat and it's mouth was agape, but Ryker, being the martyr that he is, ran full tilt into the worm to try and grab Faira. The maw closed and for a moment it seemed as though both of them were lost, but then Ryker came flying out in a hurl of disgusting spit and bile as the creature spat him up but Faira was no where to be seen, lost to the digestive griding bowels of the worm. CBB was thrown into the mouth and then everyone ran for it as she exploded, the destruction that would have leveled the area, even with Randi's tampering was muted inside of the worm, it's side was blown out and with it any chance for Faira to have survived.
[ST Jose] -SCENE- * The worm met it's end to the attacks of the garou, fera, vampires and everything else and as things begin to calm down, bodies began to appear from the Umbra, some of them dead and mutilated, others, living, still others wounded, and then finally, came Castle, with the hulking body of Patty laid out on a barely holding together jeep and Pow driving it. Castle sat there bleeding profusely from his left shoulder where his arm was missing, the wound clearly having been done from a bite. The losses in the Umbra were great, but somehow they'd managed it. But the loss of patty was clearly on everyone's minds along with the deaths of the other fae.
[ST Thea] -SCENE- * As the Worm exploded.... and everyone froze for a moment.... waiting for whatever else might come but that seemed to be the end of it.... For a moment no one seemed to feel as if the end was there and some twitched at any little noise that came. When it became clear that it was at an end there was no cheer to sound the victory.. there was only a clear sense of loss.... and of Grim determination that they had won. The Fae slowly gathered around the Truck reaching out to touch the Troll who had lived for 300 years. Who had been a shining example of Honor, of life, of love..... who had never a harsh word for anyone.... there was soft cry that came out.. tears that began to trickle free...
[ST Thea] * Lily set the tip of the rifle down and leaned against it as she watched. The face that was so cold on the unseelie cracked and her lashes fluttered.... for the loss penetrated even her cold heart.
[ST Thea] * Eddum nearly dropped everyone he hand and sunk to his knees at the sight.. losing his Art form he breathed out pained breaths and not from his broken arm. "no no no no..." he whispered.
[ST Thea] * Pow herself was not untouched and after turning the jeep off (it died where it stopped really) she crawled out bleeding from various claw marks and bullet holes.. sniffling as she scowled at everything and everyone......
[ST Thea] * The bodies of the fallen would slowly begin to disappear and rise up On Pyres.... and they would begin to burn with soft purple-black light... "Heika..." Mamasan called out to Ujio.. "come forth..." And she stepped from the heart of the Caern.
[ST Thea] * Daniel would slowly shrink down into his human form .. naked still and simply slumped onto his back hands dropped to either side of him into the earth and worm guts but there he laying panting and too exhausted to move.