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    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    While Archera can't actually see her expression, she can tell that Irena is anything but pleased by having the baby being pressed into her arms. She had hoped to never having to care of another of these ever again but now she's being forced to take care of one that Archera had just found laying around in a dungeon apparently.
    Since when had it come to being her that was the designated baby-caretaker? Life was truly unfair and she had lost the control of her's. All she can do is letting out a deep sigh instead of any actual objections as Archera steps out towards the town center.

    The children all immediately turns towards her and this time all nine of them are talking. Each one taking turns, starting with the child furthest away as they all walk closer.
    "An order?"

    "A demand?"

    "A hero's arrogance is so often confused with bravery."

    "Since that is what you see yourself as, yes? A hero coming to slay the beast."

    "We've seen you through their eyes, what do you seek, mortal? Justice? Vengeance?"

    "But since you asked so nicely we will tell even if we don't expect you to understand."

    "We fill your dens with filth, expecting nothing in return."

    "Like the rats, the beggars and those that live underneath you. We take care of you by making you see the cancer that you've hidden away within you and make you turn away from it."

    "You had ignored the rats, the street people and this place beneath your feet. Swept it all under the rug where it was allowed to grow. We took it and sent it all back to you as a favor. To give you a chance to deal with it all." The last girl explains.
    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    "Who do you think you're helping with this?" Archera demands. "You know who's hurt the most? The vulnerable people you claim to be helping. Save your rhetoric."

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    Not as smooth as Eliseo might believe, for Anastasia certainly notices - although she seems very receptive to the gesture, shifting closer to Eliseo in a manner that is totally very subtle and surely will not be noticed by any keen-eyed demigods.

    This does mean, however, that Ana may end up jostling up against his side when Hekta suddenly materializes.

    "Ah!" Anastasia startles, tail bristling as she jumps in her seat. She leans away from the strange imp, totally heedless of how she pushes up against Eliseo in the process even as she glances between the two in confusion. "W-who? Y-you know each other?"
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    Hekta throws back her head and laughs until she eventually decides to answer their question with one of her own. "Who're you? Ei am Hekta and Eiliseo belongs to mine crew. Ya' will have to negotiate with Ei for him." She remarks with a mirthful grin as she gestures at herself.
    [Moth Park]

    Eliseo looks at her like a crazy person. "What?" Seems like a standard response to Hekta.

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    ”Um, I’m his girlfriend,” Anastasia answers, still very confused. Whether she’s unwilling to give her name to a spooky feral demon child, or just thinks it answers more questions to introduce herself like this instead, is anyone’s guess. Including Anastasia’s.
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    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    "As we foretold, you won't understand." The last child to speak states as she stares blankly at Archera.

    "A limited perspective." One of the other children agrees as they start gather together. Showing no sense of urgency or even emotion. However, now Archera might note something odd.

    The children have shadows.

    She doesn't need a source of light to see but shadows usually need one to exist yet these shadows seem to be growing longer and paradoxically darker than the utter darkness surrounding them.

    "But does she actually wish to partake in violence with us?"

    "Or will she let us go?"

    "We are afraid there is no in-between."

    "Our soldiers are returning."

    "But so are your allies."

    "Hasten your decision or they will decide for you." The boy gestures into the darkness, towards the barricades near the tunnel from which they came. She can see that the rats are pouring out of it alongside the mutants, but Flicker and two strangers are coming out of it as well.

    [Ratty Tunnels==> Abandoned Village] Ruby, Fade and Flicker

    The group emerge out into a village made up of mud huts located within a huge underground cavern. There are broken barricades and a fallen door nearby as something seems to have broken through here some time ago.
    The village seems empty besides the rats of course that are now swarming through the village. They can see that the aforementioned mutants, mostly human-like people that have some rather horrific rat-like mutants such as too large teeth or rat parts growing out of their body, have armed themselves with simple weapons such as rocks and spears.

    Once Ruby and Flicker come out of the tunnel rocks starts getting thrown at them from the huts the mutants have sought shelter within. They don't seem to have noticed Fade.

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    "Ye! His girlfriend, eh?" Hekta looks to Eliseo. "Ey that true?" Then she suddenly grins and slaps Eliseo's back while giggling. "Joshing with ye'!" She leans closer and-not-quite-whispers. "Ei mean, I can go if you're gonna do some lip sucking an' tongue battlin' with one einother."

    [Buffet Dungeon]

    On one hand, the blood seal probably couldn't reach her while she was hugging its tail but on the other those nasty-looking snarks probably could.
    The solution is of course using both hands at the same time!

    Anika might not be poisonous in her snake-form but her bite will still hurt a lot and she is going to keep biting the seal to cause it to start to try to shake her off by thrashing around. She eases up the pressure around its tail so it will have a easier time moving it. If this doesn't cause it to actively start to slam into its own adds then at least it will make it a lot more difficult for them to reach her.

    If the seals does start to move once she starts biting it, she uses the fact that she also loosens her grip around the creature to start swinging her own tail around. Now, snakes don't usually use tail whip but she's aiming to use the momentum created by the seal to slam the lower half of her snake body into those snarks.

    [Tracking Rats] Amalungak

    He get the sense that the nearest person is at least a dozen meters away from him, probably more. But there does seem to be some commotion in the village now as he can hear what sounds like running and he can immediately tell that the rats have returned. It sounds like a fight is about to break out.

    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    Dena replies almost immediately. "Holly! Where have you been?! I haven't heard from you or the others in hours. Are you alright? The last thing I heard, you guys had disappeared into some underground passage. Or at least that's what the big demon guy is telling me. I was about to launch and expedition down there."

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    [Buffet Dungeon]

    So six gnashers coming after Anika and six coming after Magdalene!

    That's a lot of monsters.

    As they swarm around Magdalene she focuses, eldritch magic gathering around her shield for a moment before she slams the rim into the floor, causing a nova of vitality leeching power to go washing through the crowd of monsters and into her!

    Then the start biting her. But it sure looks like she's healing faster than they can pile the harm on! Even while their bodies begin rotting away and blackening with frostbite. The nova was large enough to catch two of Anika's new friends as well and when she smacks them with her tail they burst like the world's grossest pinata. The rot totems, meanwhile, continue doing their thing! But now with more targets! Streamers of eldritch power arc through the adds, bouncing between them like chain lighting!

    Just...

    Chain lightning that rots stuff instead of shocking it. The room is really starting to smell gross. Or, well, it smelled gross already. Smell grosser.

    In a display of impressive strength, the chthonic blood seal LEAPS into the air and aims to land on Anika with all of its blubbery mass! Apparently it really didn't like getting bit.
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    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    "Oh. Hours? Really?" she says. Holly then turns away from the communicator and yawns. "Sorry. Still kinda tired." Didn't really get much sleep the night before and it's been a long day, between everything that she's done. "I'm fine. Ran into Ruby and that guy you sent with her. They're chasing after the guy who started this whole mess, so maybe talk to them later."

    The half-human woman rolls over to her stomach, to speak into it at a better angle. "Found what was causing the rats, managed to stop it. Might be more somewhere else. Dunno. Currently waiting to see if more rats show up." Since the position she's in, propped up by her elbows, is a little uncomfortable, she rolls to her side. "Not really sure how to get out of here; backtracking might be a little difficult."

    She is also considering just taking a nap down here, but she'd want to wash off first and with all the blood on her she doesn't really know whether she technically counts as having "dried off" or not, for the purposes of that lake. Definitely doesn't mention the desire to take a nap over the communicator.
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    Abandoned Village

    Flicker activates her power, teleporting to keep up with Ruby. She's being quite careful, and teleporting relatively slowly so she's keeping up with the Commandant of Southside, without overtaking her and getting potentially stuck and surrounded. It doesn't look like teleporting; Flicker teleports very short distances, very quickly, so it functions as superspeed, and looks like it too.

    When she arrives at the village, she raises her shotgun to her shoulder and looks down it at the rat minions. She'd personally prefer not to harm children; she's unaware of their true identity and nature.
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    [Tracking Rats] Amalungak

    If a fight breaks out, it might be Amalungak's chance to run. He creeps towards the exit of the hut to take a look outside, confident that the person who threatened him probably won't notice it just yet.
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    [That Street]

    Seraphina has made it to Riverside: after getting showed the way here by train, she first found the bank that the safety deposit key belonged to. Then, after some sweet talking (or maybe just regular talking) she convinced them to help her find its owner, and went to deliver it to him. After finding that half-orc, she also gave him the family history stuff that was with the key and bankthings, and tried to convince him to upload his family history stuff in case it ever got lost again, and told him of all the benefits of uploading it all online.

    Now that that's done,
    she decides to look around Riverside. It's really big - much larger than all the small towns she's been to Outside.

    She's also hungry.
    Needs to find a place to eat.


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    Abandoned Village

    Fade stops immediatly as the rocks fly. It doesn't take him long to notice who they aim for and steps to the side into the cavern wall where his shadow waits. Walking into it he disapears only leaving his shadow behind which then starts to move sliding out, moving from shadow to shadow. He tries to get a better view on the situation, looking around corners they can't see from the entrance or any other hideout to see an ambush ahead of time.
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    ”Um, I’m his girlfriend,” Anastasia answers, still very confused. Whether she’s unwilling to give her name to a spooky feral demon child, or just thinks it answers more questions to introduce herself like this instead, is anyone’s guess. Including Anastasia’s.
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    "Ye! His girlfriend, eh?" Hekta looks to Eliseo. "Ey that true?" Then she suddenly grins and slaps Eliseo's back while giggling. "Joshing with ye'!" She leans closer and-not-quite-whispers. "Ei mean, I can go if you're gonna do some lip sucking an' tongue battlin' with one einother."
    [Moth Park]

    Eliseo looks at Ana, clearly surprised. Were they saying girlfriend boyfriend now? Okay, sure. "Uh, yeah." He replies to Hekta. And then he flushes red. He's on the backfoot hard today. "Don't be weird, Hekta. Geez."

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    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    "As we foretold, you won't understand." The last child to speak states as she stares blankly at Archera.

    "A limited perspective." One of the other children agrees as they start gather together. Showing no sense of urgency or even emotion. However, now Archera might note something odd.

    The children have shadows.

    She doesn't need a source of light to see but shadows usually need one to exist yet these shadows seem to be growing longer and paradoxically darker than the utter darkness surrounding them.

    "But does she actually wish to partake in violence with us?"

    "Or will she let us go?"

    "We are afraid there is no in-between."

    "Our soldiers are returning."

    "But so are your allies."

    "Hasten your decision or they will decide for you." The boy gestures into the darkness, towards the barricades near the tunnel from which they came. She can see that the rats are pouring out of it alongside the mutants, but Flicker and two strangers are coming out of it as well.
    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    Archera's jaw sets. They may be leaving here, but she can't just let them go cause this chaos elsewhere. Without another word, she sweeps her arm and sends the water she'd drawn near in a rush towards the rat leaders. She tries to plow it through them and then pull it into a swirl to entrap them.

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    Normally, Anastasia would be a lot more awkward and fretful. Had she just crossed a line she shouldn’t have by presuming too much? Maybe she’d totally misread Eliseo and gotten the complete wrong idea, and now she just made things super awkward!

    At least, that’s what she’d be thinking if she weren’t too busy being very taken aback. ”Uh-“ the kitsune’s cheeks flush, just a little at a loss for words.
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    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    The children do not move, seemingly as unconcerned as they were a moment ago, and are all swept up in the swirl of water that Archera has created.
    However, in the blink of an eye the children and their clothes are no more and what's left swirling in the water is dirty rags, rocks and what seems to be mushrooms.
    But the shadows they cast still somehow remain where they were not long ago and they don't look like children anymore.

    From from this shadow within the dark leaps a black rat that's the size of a pony.

    It's baring monstrous fangs that are dripping with a substance of pure filth and is covered awful growths that gives away a stench so vile that she will have trouble breathing in its presence.

    Gunshots can be heard as Irena starts firing off several rounds at the creature but her bullets doesn't do much to stop it's momentum as its still coming right for her.

    [Tracking Rats] Amalungak

    He's right as inhuman screams and gunshots can be heard, throwing the entire village into chaos.
    But from the entrance of the hutt he can see that part of the fight seems to be taking place near the tunnel exit which means he would have to risk moving across the battlefield while in handcuffs.

    From what he can tell there are two figures near the tunnel exit and a lot of rats and mutants between him and them. The latter now having started to throw rocks at the intruders. He can't make out any details at all however and he could easily trip or bump into things if he'd try to make a run for it.

    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    Holly should still be wet from her dip in the lake as its only been a thirty minutes tops and the cave system is rather damp so she isn't drying up very fast despite moving around so much.

    There's a pause on the other end as Dena seems to be taking in everything Holly just said. "Wow, yikes, That's some good work. I suspected something had happened when all the rats seemed to have disappeared but I never expected you to have dealt with it all already. So what was behind everything? Are you guys injured after fighting... it? Them?"

    Moth Park

    The demon snickers at their reaction, clearly enjoying this immensely.
    But then she suddenly shakes her head in protest to Eliseo's claim. "Hey, ain't that what girl n' boyfriends supposed to do? Ain't weird at all."

    Hekta crosses her arms over her chest and then gestures at herself. "Ei mean, ya' wouldn't do tongue battlin' with mei, eh?" She lightly rests her arm on Anastasia's shoulders without looking at her. "But ya' would do it with her if ei wasn't here, right? Ei ain't doing none of that stuff so ei'm just curious how ya're all doing it."

    [Buffet Dungeon]

    Welp, Anika was still holding onto the seal but as her grip around it loosened to be able to smack around those snarks with her tail as the seal was thrashing around she suddenly finds her snake body airborne along with the seal.

    Thinking quickly she changes into her falcon form to just barely be able to avoid being slammed down along with the seal. She takes a few rapid beats with her wings to put some distance between her and the monsters and get some aerial overview of the situation.
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    Hmm. A village of secret tunnel-dwellers killed by rats? Or a village of secret rat people?

    Ruby shoots her energy gun immediatly at a rat mutant who's relatively visible.
    "This is it!"
    Then she ducks down to make a smaller target against the thrown rocks, and tries to make her way to towards one of the huts, to get cover from the simple building.
    Fade should be able to slip by the mutants and get to the one they're really after, right?
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    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    She should still be wet, but for all she knows that lake-thing could have withdrawn its water as soon as she got wet by the blood and maybe sweat just to mess with her.

    "I actually didn't get to fight it; I got waylaid by something else just before reaching it," she replies. "So you'll have to ask them. I'm not really injured, and when I caught up they didn't seem to be, either." Oh, shoot: that was her opportunity to claim to have broken an arm or something to get out of any paperwork. "Was some kind of Lord or Lady or Sovereign or something," she says. Holly looks down at her clothes. Still...magical clothes, and not her normal clothes. She dismisses them. "Probably either sees itself as a god or something similar in another cosmology, and has powers like that." Well, it brought ghost cat things back, and mutated those bodies, and a few other things. "The others faced it directly, so they should know better."
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    Octavia doesn't seem to pick up on what the Empress might mean there, but she doesn’t really get the chance to ask before Glahr pulls her eagerly away into the estate.

    ”W-whoa, Glahr!” Octavia stumbles to keep up with her kinswoman, a laughter like chiming bells spilling from her lips as her bare feet pad upon the stately marble and she pulls on the furs to keep them in place. To Glahr’s ears, it might sound almost enchanting.

    Her expression shifts to wonder and a bit of reverence as they reach their destination, grasping just whose chambers they stand before and looking over at Glahr in surprise as the woman leads her in. “Am I- am I to be staying here with you?” She squeezes the handmaiden’s hand, a slight, flattered blush rising in her cheeks.
    The Empress' Estate

    The laughing woman is swept up off her feet by Glahr, who only grins in response before dumping her upon the bed. Spinning expertly upon her heel, the handmaiden sweeps forward into the closet as she rummages around. It seemed it was at least an affirmative, though the reasons why remain unsaid for now. Octavia would need to speak with The Empress herself to get answers it seems. Despite a difference in their builds, the silent woman decides upon some of her clothing and throws it back over her shoulder without looking in order to have it land on the bed. An offering, or order, to put on.

    Interestingly, there seems to be a new strength in Glahr since the two have last met. A new grace, a sense of...divinity perhaps? Possibly a reward for her connection to The Empress.


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    Lady Anika? Psh!
    How did this dude even know her name? He didn't seem to know her last name and the only times she had been addressed as 'lady' they had always used her last name, Sunfletcher. Jezebel must have just shared her first name for some reason. A suspicious reason perhaps?

    But it sounded like her first theory was correct, or so this guy claimed at least. Considering he was a servant of Jezebel he probably wasn't that trustworthy.

    "Don't prostitutes usually go for people that'd pay for sex? Since do I look like the kind of person that would have to do that?" Her long eyebrows raise as she found this explanation suspicious too! "But who're you? I am Anika Sunfletcher and I'm supposed to deliver these VIGIL communicators to Jezebel TV and her, uh, closest people." She gestures towards the box she's carrying in her satchel.
    The Ms. J Investigation

    That raises an amused eyebrow. "You wouldn't pay? Better not let that slip around here. You'll be propositioned by an entirely different sort. One you'd be less thrilled to make the acquaintance of, I assure you." Charles warns, biting back a laugh and smile. "I am Charles, Lady Tel'Vree's manservant and sweeper of front porches. But please, come on in." He adds, stepping inside and holding open the door for her to go through. "Mind if I take your co-oh, pardon me. Habit." He says, blinking with a shake of his head at the realization that this tall and rather upfront woman didn't wear a coat or hat for him to take. Must be more akin to riff-raff than nobility then. "The Lady is in the shower, but I can take you to the lounge to wait if you'd like. And would you need something to eat or drink?" He asks, taking off his own coat to hang up on the rack at the front door.

    The house didn't smell demonic at least. There's no sulfur, hellfire, or taint of warlockery. Unless one counts the faint scent of gunpowder and gun oil of course.

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    [Buffet Dungeon]

    Fly up high Anika!

    Fly away from this madness!

    From up near the ceiling Anika will get a pretty good view of one of those toothy gribblies leaping at Magdalene only to get its teeth bashed out by her shield.

    Smack!

    She follows that up with a wave of vines exploding from her free hand and piercing into the other nearby gribblines. They begin to rot and collapse in on themselves as they're eaten from the inside out.

    It looks pretty gross.

    Magdalene is slowly backing away from the blood seal mostly because it is ALSO very slow but also because she doesn't want to be anywhere near it. That thing is really fat and gross smelling she doesn't want it to heave its disgusting sweaty bulk of blubber on top of her.
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    [Buffet Dungeon]

    Yes, fly you fool!

    The wisest move she could make now was remain in the air as it appeared like Magda had a handle of things.

    Of course, she had other plans.

    She first makes sure that the blood seal had its attention set on Magda before making some quick calculations in her head. As the seal was pretty slow this wouldn't be too difficult but she had to be sure.
    Assuming that the seal moves towards Magda, Anika starts to speed right towards the back of its head and once she has built up momentum she changes into her bear form in yet another instance of her bear-drop-bomb performance.

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    "What- I meant that I wouldn't need to buy!" Anika quickly insists. Gee, this dude had some bite!
    "I mean... uh." Maybe it was just best to abandon this subject for another one.
    She shrugs at her absence of a coat, he had expected her to wear more than this with the weather outside? The people on the streets didn't seem to wear much after all. She had seen more naked midriffs than she had in months, which had reminded her of Darnassus a bit.
    Everyone was just a lot shorter and came in a variety of exotic skin colors.

    But she really finish that awkward sentence she had started right about now while they were waiting for the showering 'lady'. "...so, Charles, huh?" She inquires as she crosses her arms over her chest and leans against the wall. "What's your last name? Mine's Sunfletcher which was actually a nobel-y name at one point I think. I dunno what the difference is though as no one have called me 'lady' for quite a while now before you just did."

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    Fade can't see anything that can be described as an 'ambush'. The rats and mutants seems to have just gotten here as well and are currently trying to establish some kind of order within their ranks.

    Then Ruby kills one of the mutants with her energy gun and runs into one of the nearby hutts, but is chased by the rat horde.

    However, the next moment Fade can hear a loud inhuman screech followed by several gunshots that must have been fired somewhere within the village. So far he haven't seen any of the mutants carry guns despite their modern clothing so it might be someone else fighting the rats or whatever else is in this underground village.

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    The beam fries the mutant who just drops down dead on the cave floor before she or her peers can do anything to stop her from running into the village.

    She enters a hutt that seems empty of rats and people at first glance but they're not far away and as the only 'door' is a torn curtain which hangs haphazardly from the entrance there is no way she can stop them from coming inside.

    As she's carrying the only light within this dark place she's not exactly hard to find and she can already see rats starting to gather outside. The mutants are still seeking shelter within the hutts however considering how her energy gun fried just fried their peer.

    Then Ruby can suddenly hear a loud inhuman screech followed by several gunshots that must have been fired somewhere within the village. So far she haven't seen any of the mutants carry guns despite their modern clothing so it might be someone else fighting the rats or whatever else is in this underground village.


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    "I've tried calling them too but you're the only one that managed to get back to me so far. Seems like something is blocking the signal, which I guess must be your 'god'. But if they're fighting it you should go and assist if you aren't injured. I promise we will have the crew down there soon enough but until then I can't help you, Holly, so you need to stick together." Dena replies, sounding rather on edge all of sudden.

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    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    Well...yet another reason she should have faked an injury.
    But.
    The fact that it took so much longer than she had thought suggests going back the way she came is unfeasible.

    "I'm not much of a fighter, ma'am," Holly claims. "Just got a shotgun and a lot of luck and that's it." Plus healing elf magic or whatever she claimed that was. So far she's managed to keep her magical girl powers a secret from everybody, but...hopefully that hellhound guy and Fade don't mention it when they report back. If so, she might have to find an excuse to retire or something.
    "But I'll do my best to track them down."

    She stands and looks around for the direction Fade and Ruby went. "If you can't reach them, then I'm probably going to cut out soon too." She walks in the direction she believes they went.
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    Amalungak considers his options and realizes soon enough none of them look particularly good. If he stays put, his captor will come back eventually. But if he makes a run for it, he can get caught in the fight and possibly even killed. Not to mention he'll still be bound and with no means of undoing the cuffs. For now he waits. Maybe his captor will die or be distracted by the fight... a faint hope, but the only one he has now.
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    [Abandoned Village] Archera

    "No you don't!" Archera turns and pulls the bow from her back in one smooth motion. She draws and water comes her her weapon. When she looses, four thin streams of water fire toward the rat. If they strike, they don't pierce, but solidify into ice, in an attempt to bind the thing to the floor for at least a moment. She wastes no time after that immediately sprinting at the rat.

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    "What- I meant that I wouldn't need to buy!" Anika quickly insists. Gee, this dude had some bite!
    "I mean... uh." Maybe it was just best to abandon this subject for another one.
    She shrugs at her absence of a coat, he had expected her to wear more than this with the weather outside? The people on the streets didn't seem to wear much after all. She had seen more naked midriffs than she had in months, which had reminded her of Darnassus a bit.
    Everyone was just a lot shorter and came in a variety of exotic skin colors.

    But she really finish that awkward sentence she had started right about now while they were waiting for the showering 'lady'. "...so, Charles, huh?" She inquires as she crosses her arms over her chest and leans against the wall. "What's your last name? Mine's Sunfletcher which was actually a nobel-y name at one point I think. I dunno what the difference is though as no one have called me 'lady' for quite a while now before you just did."
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    "My full name is Charlemange Randal, but Charles is what I go by."
    The manservant explains as he leads Anika into the Lounge. It seems to be a rather comfortable place with a few oversized chairs, a large array of thick books packing two entire bookcases, and a liquor cabinet underneath a portrait of Jezebel and her sisters. There wasn't a ton of family resemblance between them and they were all certainly young looking in the painting. They also looked unhappy, but so do many who sit still for hours getting a portrait done of them. The tomes are written in High Gothic, though a few on the higher shelves were wrapped in chains with metal covers. One is even padlocked inside a glass case and sealed with parchment and a wax seal. On a nearby desk, there's an open tome being written in, as well as drawn in, and despite the writing being in High Gothic, a half-finished drawing of a Cuthun monkey demon is quite evident. "If your family was nobility at one point, then I'm pleased that adding Lady was appropriate. Though, every woman is a Lady to me." Charles admits with a grin as he takes out a small glass and gestures at the liquor cabinet behind him. "Amesec while you wait?"

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    [Abandoned Village] Archera & Irena

    The streams hit the rat which hits harder than the bullets and stops it mid-air as the water freezes.
    Yet the creature can still open it's jaws and apparently, speak.
    "We have only brought into your own shame into the light. Did your kind not think it would come back to bite you? We know what you have sacrificed!"

    "****." Irena starts emptying the clip of her second gun at not two but no less than eight more giant rats that burst out of the darkness. Like the children are all clumped together with their tails in a disgusting knot of filth and pus.
    The fact they're all tied together means they have limited mobility but their sheer numbers and the fact they're all moving in the same direction towards them makes it not matter much at the moment.

    They're screeching loudly, the bullets only serve to slow a few of them down, as they just dash towards the two. There's no leaping or fancy maneuvers, they're simply swarming them with numbers and brute force, an obscene amount of froth coming out of their open mouths as their revealed fangs thirsts for their blood.

    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    "Fade uses a sword, Holly. He might also have some fancy magic but I think you're better equipped to fight rats than him at least." The only other person Dena knew that would use a sword to fight rats would be Wenomir, but in fairness to him, he'd probably win that fight no matter how ineffective it'd be.

    "Besides, I heard about what you did and it makes you more experienced to deal with this than most people and also entails you to a bonus. Just bring back the other two alive, okay?"

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    Charlemange? That name did sound pretty fancy to Anika.
    But she couldn't let herself be distracted by names, she had to keep an close eyes for clues. Anything that stood out-

    Chained up books!

    Very suspicious!

    Anika was pretty sure only warlocks had those- well, and priests, and probably mages and paladins too. Magic users were crazy about those books honestly but Jezebel looked more like a warrior to her.

    So clearly she was a paladin!

    ...

    No, that couldn't be right...

    Perhaps she was a fallen paladin. Those existed, right? Like a death knight or something.
    She continues scanning the bookcases, also noting the evil demon picture, until her gaze stops at the portrait. Now who were those? Not a single one of them were purple or had demonic features so they couldn't be Jezebel's family, right? Hmm...

    Her thoughts are interrupted by Charles. "Uh..." Her eyes dive at the glass and she lets out a chuckle. "Probably not. If I get some liquor in me... oh boy. Wouldn't want that in some lady's fancy home. Not that I'm a lightweight or anything. In fact, human liquors don't even do much for me... erm, no offense." The druid gestures at the portrait. "But who are those people?"

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    [Finding Rats] Jaahlyn and Holly

    "Alright, alright," Holly says. Personally, she'd trust someone who has a sword over someone who has a gun, but...
    Well, earlier, Holly literally did use swords, but in the interest of keeping that on the down-low she doesn't give her opinion on swords. "Yeah, I see your point. They're probably fighting against things larger than just rats, but. . .okay. I suppose I still do have some ammo left." She checks the thing she had to carry ammo. None of her swords used any ammo, so it looks like she still has the same amount as she did back then, before running into Fade and Ruby. And, though they look wet, they still look fine. "Luckily they're pretty water resistant."

    The half-human woman keeps on walking in that direction, trying to track them down to follow them. "If we're right about the cause of it, the communicator's probably going to cut out soon. So...if there's any other important information or instructions, I imagine now is the best time for them."
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    Then Ruby kills one of the mutants with her energy gun and runs into one of the nearby hutts, but is chased by the rat horde.

    However, the next moment Fade can hear a loud inhuman screech followed by several gunshots that must have been fired somewhere within the village. So far he haven't seen any of the mutants carry guns despite their modern clothing so it might be someone else fighting the rats or whatever else is in this underground village.

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    The beam fries the mutant who just drops down dead on the cave floor before she or her peers can do anything to stop her from running into the village.

    She enters a hutt that seems empty of rats and people at first glance but they're not far away and as the only 'door' is a torn curtain which hangs haphazardly from the entrance there is no way she can stop them from coming inside.

    As she's carrying the only light within this dark place she's not exactly hard to find and she can already see rats starting to gather outside. The mutants are still seeking shelter within the hutts however considering how her energy gun fried just fried their peer.

    Then Ruby can suddenly hear a loud inhuman screech followed by several gunshots that must have been fired somewhere within the village. So far she haven't seen any of the mutants carry guns despite their modern clothing so it might be someone else fighting the rats or whatever else is in this underground village.
    [Abandoned Village] Fade and not Ruby

    Fade is sure the rats are still just the pawns in this game. Even if there seems to be some who want to establish order there must be another bigger creature on top. He's sure Ruby can handle the rats so far. He doesn't know if she is exhausted from the constant firebreaths she had to use so far, but he got no empathie to see her in danger. She would have told him if that's the case?

    So Fade slides to the source of the gunshots, he avoids the paths many rats takes just to lower the chance to get spoted. When he arrives he takes a moment to juge the situation. ((It's the Archera scene?))
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    Once into the village, Flicker zips towards the group, stopping to level her shotgun at them and blasting them with birdshot twice before she zips off again, heading to the houses to hide whilst she reloads. It's unlikely to do much, but she wasn't expecting to fight anything other than rats when she came to Riverside, so she hasn't packed any other ammunition. Nor has she got one of her melee weapons, which is a pity- she prefers melee to this noisy blasting with guns.
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    Don't worry Fade. Burning all those rats across the shore did wear Ruby out, but there was plenty of time running down tunnels to recover a little bit.

    After a quick sweep of the hut to see that this one is thankfully empty, Ruby kneels by the doorway, peeking out past the ragged curtain and firing at any mutant that her light falls on.
    Then comes screaming, shooting, and shouting. That has to be the people Flicker mentioned.
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    "U-uh, no, probably not. I uh..." Anastasia does not admit that she has no clue how to do that sorta thing to begin with either. She's not even really familiar with what "tongue battling" is supposed to be in more common parlance, although it's certainly not hard to have a loose idea of the action itself.

    "Wait, do you have a stalker?" Ana looks more just intrigued by this discovery than anything else. It would explain why the Rizzos are apparently so restrictive on when he's allowed to leave the house, especially considering how not-uptight they seemed when she was over last.

    At least, she assumes that they are restrictive. Why else would Eliseo have to sneak out all the time?
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    [Eastside]

    Seraphina found Westside to be too...weird, and felt really out-of-place in Northside.

    So, she walks around Eastside to see what it and its parks are like.

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    Charles simply nods as he puts away the glasses, but the question as to the identity of those in the picture takes him by surprise and he blinks a bit before smiling. "Ah, yes. I suppose it might come as a shock given her current appearance, but the little girl at the front is Lady Tel'Vree herself." He explains with a warm and wistful smile, remembering back. "She wasn't always purple or so...changed." Mutated. Daemonic. Heretical. "The tall one is Bellan, the one that looks so utterly serious is Vritaxx, and the last is...well, I will always call her Helena no matter what she prefers now." There's more than a little sadness to his voice as he points them out, something painful there that makes him sound regretful. "They're all half-sisters, hence why they don't look too similar." He adds.

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    [Eastside]

    While Seraphina explores Riverside, she'll end up coming across a little boy standing outside a candyshop and looking into it with much interest. He doesn't seem too interested in buying some, only ogling the merchandise.

    Isn't it weird to see a kid windowshopping for candy? Also, he or she? The kid is androgynous enough that telling at a glance is rather hard!

    As for the kid's appearance: they're a long-haired 9-year old kid with green hair, purple eyes and mediterranean skin. They're barechested and barefeet, but the exposure to the elements don't seem to be bothering them none. They are wearing a baby blue pair of trousers, so at least they're covered a little bit.

    As Seraphina approaches, the kid turns to her and flashes a friendly, peaceful grin. "Hi, miss! Looking for something to eat? They have ice cream!" They say gladly, grinning as they point to the shop.
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