The Plague Doctor was just erased from the timeline/waiting list and replaced with this guy.
The Lost Soul
High Concept: A Warrior Cursed By Time
Trouble: Martyrdom Is My Goal
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But I Will Fight On
Your Puny Magic Will Not Work On Me!
Forever On Duty Skills
Superb (+5): Fight, Physique
Great (+4): Notice, Provoke
Good (+3): Lore, Athletics
Fair (+2): Will, Empathy
Average (+1): Shoot, Athletics
My Wounds Drive Me To Fight
When you take a major physical consequence or fill up six boxes of physical stress, then you gain a plus two to Fight rolls. You must remain in that state to contine using this bonus.
Always Ready for Battle
+2 to Notice for noticing surprise attacks. (This does not grant a bonus to initiative, but any benefits from the surprise would be negated)
My Curse Negates Your Magic
You get a plus one on rolls to resist or negate magic or get a chance to resist magic. Any magic, friendly or hostile, automatically triggers this, however.
Still suffers from the same problem as Ryouga though. Even with the antimagic bonus, he's rolling +3 to resist mental attacks, and he doesn't have a very long mental stress track.
The Plague Doctor was just erased from the timeline/waiting list and replaced with this guy.
The Lost Soul
High Concept: A Warrior Cursed By Time
Trouble: Martyrdom Is My Goal
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But I Will Fight On
Your Puny Magic Will Not Work On Me!
Forever On Duty Skills
Superb (+5): Fight, Physique
Great (+4): Notice, Provoke
Good (+3): Lore, Athletics
Fair (+2): Will, Empathy
Average (+1): Shoot, Athletics
My Wounds Drive Me To Fight
When you take a major physical consequence or fill up six boxes of physical stress, then you gain a plus two to Fight rolls. You must remain in that state to contine using this bonus.
Always Ready for Battle
+2 to Notice for noticing surprise attacks. (This does not grant a bonus to initiative, but any benefits from the surprise would be negated)
My Curse Negates Your Magic
You get a plus one on rolls to resist or negate magic or get a chance to resist magic. Any magic, friendly or hostile, automatically triggers this, however.
Cadence, +6 Magic CaA (4 stress) to assist the shield. Spending 1 FP and invoking Crystal Empire's Regent of Love to boost that to +5 and making 2 FIs for Celestia to use.
The Legion, rolling to interfere with the shield-creation process. CaA rolls will turn into Athletics defense once more guns are pointed their way. Celestia can be defended by other people, as long as they can interpose something between her and the bolts.
+4 Shoot CaA (Crystallize) vs. Celestia - +5
+4 Shoot CaA " " " - +3
+4 Shoot CaA " " " - +6
+4 Shoot CaA " " " - +1
+6 Athletics Full Defense vs. Chirico - +5
+6 Athletics Full Defense vs. Ryouga - +9
Shining is a barrier expert. Breaking his shield is going to be damn near impossible.
The best option is for Cadence to somehow break the Loyalty's control over him, and derail the fight entirely. Except she's currently still a complete wreck and there's one scared baby in the middle of all of this...
Zeal is hard to reason with. I mean, look at this through his perspective. His wife is crying, holding their foal, and is behind a shield generated by a Celestia lookalike.
Of course he wouldn't believe anything Celly says, in his mind it's Chrysalis making another go.