Substituting Reality
21th of November 2006 A.D.
Gleaming crystal, shinning brass seem to grow from the walls and bottom of the cabin, shapes artful and alien, dragons and leviathans, strange pentagonal life of the Wastes interposed with scenes of life and leisure, At first glance, if any would spare such a thing in the midst of pitch battle, only seems made to restrict the movement of the vampires, but on closer look barriers are also forming over the mortals and half-mortals that are passed out from the pressure-changes or catatonic from Seeker's presence.
There won't be any more free drinks tonight.
No sooner had the thought crossed your mind that the vampire before you becomes a blur in her unnatural haste. Hunger moves her as sure as the moon moves the tides, she is burning up and the woman she has been planning to consume is now behind reinforced metal meant to hold against even augmented gurvel strength. How long they would last against one as old and mighty as Arianna you do not know, but you see the moment of distraction and you take it...
Gold meets brass in a shower of green flame, once, twice and where the brass slips past the guard the flesh below heals as fast as it is burned. But then as a chair comes flying at your chest from one of her frenzied servants you see your chance. Arianna isn't paying attention to it, why would she after all, flying furniture is as little a threat to her as it is to you? So she does not expect you to grab hold and use the momentum to swing around with your whole body, turning Usum's edge under her arm and carving into her wing membrane
Arianna Takes 2 Damage Now at 8/10
That did not seem to have hurt nearly as much as it should have. Some of the stolen blood sprays in your face your lips you feel it, you taste it without meaning to. It tastes of rich feasts, maize and honey, pulque, chili souse over tamales, it tastes like thunderstorms over black waters and owls screaming ill omen.
Regained 2 Essence -> Now at 6/15
So she wasn't lying about that bit after all after all/More worthy to die by your sword that I assumed Magnificent Sun Who Knows no rival, you and Usum think at the same time as the vampire matches impossible mind bending swiftness against all of your skill and comes out the better, vaulting backwards, half jump half glide.
Yet you too are swift if only in flight, you cut a straight path under the arc of her leap, batting asides one of the lesser vampires charging forth with a piece of table. The thin air of the depressurized cabin explodes into the roar of a sonic boom, from you or from her you cannot say, metal earthly and not rattling with the violence of it.
And then you are bracing against the protective wall, all several hundred pounds of flesh and brass and stone.
"Naughty, naughty." Alas with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other you cannot wag your finger, but from the sheer rage that contorts those hideous features it worked just the same.
Her attack breaks your guard about a third of the way though and you are pretty sure the remainder of it would have chewed though concrete easily and probably even the cell material behind you almost as well. Good thing you are made of all together tougher stuff. Your eyes meet... and both of you realize the same thing at the same time. You cannot be in more than one place at one time and there are a dozen humans here, assistants, accessories, snacks...
That is when Broken Seeker strikes, madness to think that he is doing it to save anyone, but he's seen his chance. Already a monstrous the naagloshii churns and grows, a mass of flesh and malice,
the jaws that bite, the claws that catch, each limb he grasps and pries at a perfect guard, but still even for him she is just too fast.
Arianna takes 1 Wound -> Arianna Ortega is at 7/10
The mass of claws, teeth and death that is no longer even attempting to ape any natural form lurches towards the vampire with imposibile grace born of hunts uncounted, he catches her in a whirlwind of claw and fang though which only the gold of the bracers shines like the embers of a dying flame. No mortal eye could follow the contentions of monsters, pride against hate, vicious schemes decades, centuries in the making reduced to a contest of twisting flesh
Arianna takes 3 Wound -> Arianna Ortega is at 4/10 (Wounded -2 Dice)
As the vampire tumbles out of the melee she rips open one of the protective enclosures claws reaching for the man's throat, the sweet blood pumping though it.... she finds you.
Swing off a chain that isn't there until you need it press the button for the mag fence, the shock is barely a distraction.
That's you need. One cut, diagonal 53.33 degree angle, shoulder to pelvis and the vampire is in two pieces
Arianna takes 5 Damage
Duchess Arianna Ortega Defeated
Yet one who has feasted upon the blood of gods is not so easily sent from this earth, there is still a spark of life, an ember of hate in those too-human-eyes, enough for the other monster in the room to flow in all his grotesque majesty towards her ready to claim that he has been hungering for.
What do you do?
[] A deal's a deal, even with a monster, let him eat
[] You are still pretty fresh, screw deals, you could kill more than one old monster today
[] Shout at him that you are supposed to split the loot, he'll probably get a kick out of that (Charisma+Empathy Base DC 6)
[] Write in
OOC: Good thing you guys raised those walls and won initiative though that was always an easy roll or else she would have entirely ran you out of actions before going to feed. 
