There are a few choices, but the girl with long pink hair is probably the leader. Star Lancer appears to be following her lead and she's negotiating something with the unknown girl. Plus she gives you a bad feeling. The sooner she's dealt with the better.
The grey-haired girl has a sudden change in expression, "Look out!"
You bolt forward and up. She does something and a 'tail' emerges rapidly from the back of her outfit. Somehow she was hiding a two-meter long, cannon-studded tail that has more volume than she does in the brief outfit she's wearing.
The tail has a face of sorts that's roaring as it tries to get in your way. Intriguingly it also has a set of red markings that glow with Epic magic (Life, Horror, Epic).
To evade you slam your Panoply into the ceiling to push down and then into the face of grey-hair to stagger her.
(Panoply: 1,400 Base Damage, +427 Dice, +200 Light of Discovery, +700 Ramming Speed! = 2727 Damage
Existence check fails! (Legend-Maker vs Legend)
Attack negated)
It's like hitting a solid sphere of tungsten. Grey-haired hardly moves and appears completely unharmed by your attack.
In any case you've gotten out of her vision until she turns around. Her tail is starting to coil while she's staying still after your ineffective attack.
A constellation of floating lights surrounds you, racing towards Zoe with increasing speed. She's started to react, to turn towards you and bring her scepter up.
The girl Zoe was talking with is already cringing away from the starting fight. Throwing her weight backwards to get away.
You're going to get there before they've moved a meaningful distance.
Star Lancer has turned to spot you, but while she's about to act she still hasn't decided what to do yet.
The demon, Tarser his name was? Is blankly staring at the room.
Your Panoply starts to arrange itself to land and pushes you forward with a hand outstretched.
"!!!" you wordlessly shout while twisting the fabric of reality to attack your target.
(Wave Force: 7,360 Base Damage, +25 Dice, +1,849 Spell Boost, +200 Light of Discovery = 9,444 Damage
Magical Girl Silver Regent: Attack is Unstoppable!
Stately Bearing Triggers!
50%
4,722 Final End Damage
Magical Girl Silver Regent: 9,200 - 4,722 = 4,478 Health)
A spike of orange light slams into the pink-haired girl. Baleful light dances over her and her skin breaks in irregular streaks, letting blood seep out.
Her face is a rictus of pain, but she doesn't so much as flinch. A bloody hand points at you.
"No teleports."
(Can't cast spells! Grand Dispel is in effect!)
Star Lancer starts moving much faster as she takes in your presence.
"Twilight!"
(Can't cast spells! Grand Dispel is in effect!)
The scattered lights that result from Wave Force are much denser. You can almost see the magic of your enemies sputter wildly into the mix.
Just enough shock to get some distance. You dart towards the carpeted section, but before you can start firing the girl starts glowing and shouting.
"Don't push your luck! I am Magical Girl High Card!"
Streamers of stars block your shots at Starlancer and Zoe. The ones directed at the grey-haired girl appear totally ineffective, just like your earlier slap.
"You jerk!" she shouts while her tail tries to track you, "Stop it!"
(Twisted Metal casts Enrage! (1 stack)
Twisted Metal activates Herald of Ruin!)
Everything in the chamber suddenly seems less real as a red glow covers her. Cracks spiderweb in the plate glass she's standing on and one of the lights explodes suddenly. You spot the ground under Starlancer's feet crumbling as she leaps towards a wall and away from Zoe and High Card.
"Twisted! It's her!" Starlancer screams.
The demon in the room hasn't moved an inch yet.
High Card is trying to run to interpose herself in front of the pink-haired girl, but Zoe has leapt up from a standing start to flip off the ceiling. The only non-moving targets are Twisted and the petrified demon.
The carpet disintegrates as you land on it. Whatever that aura does it has your teeth on edge, and you expect the girl generating it to start covering the whole chamber with the cannons on her tail soon since she's having trouble keeping up.
For now you've gotten the first strike and are ready to attack again. What's the best option…
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Status:
Turn refreshed
Summit - Full Health, in motion
Silver Regent - 4478 Health, trying to get clear of others
Star Lancer - Full Health, trying to flank Summit
High Card - Full Health, out of her league, trying to help Silver Regent
Twisted Metal - In Super-Mode, preparing to just try shooting almost everything
Tarser - Unharmed, wants to be somewhere else…
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Objectives
(Primary) Activate Machine Code's device
(Primary) Exfiltrate from tunnels
(Secondary - Headhunters) Kill or capture either Silver Regent or Twisted Metal to disable Headhunters tactic
(Bonus) Capture Silver Regent for interrogation
(Bonus) Recover Magical Girl High Card
(Bonus) Subdue Twisted Metal and bring her to Team GEAR to be de-crazied
[X] Battle Plan?
(Hint: you don't need to kill anyone to achieve bonus objectives, but it helps!
Star Lancer will surrender if you defeat Twisted Metal.)
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+30 EXP Aggroed Headhunters
+20 EXP Spanner in the Works
529 + 50 = 579 EXP
[X] [EXP] EXP Plan?
. Or the spatial prison.
