Bright Embers Falling
21th of November 2006 A.D.
You want to kill him, oh how you want to, it would make the world a better place and spare the trouble of hunting him down later, but Broken Seeker has not not made it this far, a monster with every hand against him, by being a fool. He is the one who wanted to ambush Arianna on this plane. If he planned this half as well as he did Alec and Izzy's kidnapping he will have a way out at least As Usum reminds you, leaving aside the danger that him being loose in the world with a grudge would pose that would also damage your
reputation.
Bitter as the thoughts might be the voice that emerges not just from your mouth, but also from the speakers grown all about the transmuted cabin has an edge of comradeship beneath the anger:
"Hey asshole, save some for me!"
What he's using for vocal chords at the moment you could not say, but Broken Seeker laughs as he tears off the vampire's vanquished Arianna's head and throws it at you like a kid playing catch and then he turns towards the remaining vampires:
"Behold your betters! Behold your hunters! Behold your devourers!"
"Muerte!" One of the remaining elders screams again, you can fill in the blanks and then as one almost with gravitas in spite of their twisted forms they attack, invoking each and every one that fate twist power to pass though any guard. Skilled they might be in butchery and driven beyond themselves by the the duchess' fall, but it is not enough. For every fistful of flesh they manage to tear from the skinwalker a new spiked tendril or clawed limb emerges. It is as though they face the hydra and they are not Heracles.
Broken Seeker takes 4 Wounds -> Now at 9/13
Whatever hope they may have had it is fleeting as you shatter the spine of one and the naagloshii catches the head of the one he had wounded and shatters in a dreadful
crunch. Though the remaining pair are still resolved to go down fighting the same cannot be said of the younger vampires who break with the suddenness of a wave meeting the shore rushing scuttling , crawling over each other to the door you had broken open... only for it to suddenly erupt into a curtain of searing blue flame.
2 Greater Vampire Die
Lesser Vampires Break;
Half a dozen of them die in an instant the sheer force of their desperation pushes the bodies though... Burning vampires fall like meteors from the jet towards the ground far below.
6 Lesser Vampires Die
The din of sheer unthinking terror is dreadful yet though it all you work, another vampire loses his head to your sword and the last makes one forlorn assault against the already healing skinwalker before getting....
impaled on bony spikes, casting a spiral pattern in blood upon the shifting walls.
2 Greater Vampires Die
Broken Seeker heals 1 Wound -> Now at 10/13
This isn't battle, it's butchery, you realize wading into the fight against the vampires caught between the fire, claw and sword. Do they deserve any better? A part of you wonders, angry and cold, but as you look to your right to the monster merrily killing them the answer is not as obvious as it might once have been. Vaguely at the back of your mind you had been considering if you could lead him to redemption in some way. After all had Uriel not said that all were capable of it if only they are willing. But if he is worthy why not them?
What do you do?
[] Try to get the vampires to surrender (Charisma+Intimidation)
[] Kill them all
Out of Character: Do any of the changes caused by the Fivefold Courts Impinging upon realty last?
[] Yes
May enact long term change in this world; Danger of contamination and other unintended consequences; very obvious to any who observe it
[] No
Signature use remains tactical
OOC: People do not usually get the option of trying to get frenzied vampires to surrender, but Molly is an high intimidation infernal with DPE under... remarkable circumstances.