[IC] The Room

[Sgt Vandingo]

*Vaseraga roars back at the Leviathan, and lunges at it, barely giving a fuck about the size difference, or how scary the giant beast is. He either parries or avoids as many attacks as he can, but he's barely focused on defense, and would rather take some hits to dish them out just as hard.*
Vaseraga: Great Scythe Grynoth! Feast on my blood and let it shape your soul!
*Vaseraga roars even louder, amplified by pain, something he isn't meant to feel, as his scythe bleeds him and pulls his life essence into it. He's enveloped in a red-purple light, which clears soon after to this. He one scary mofo who is probably gonna get whacked.*

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*Beatrix is still super casual about her slicing things up, and again, only focuses on disabling and painful attacks, rather than lethal ones.*

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*Eustace is shooting the Leviathan, but probably isn't doing much cause he isn't using his explosive/corrosive/magical bullets for a reason.*

[Vulkan 707]

*The leviathan makes a massive roar in response to Vaseraga's change, and does a bullcharge towards him using his crystal mauls as a battering ram. Purple energy crackles around the crystal mauls, similar to what happened with the praetorian Horus faced. It's also worth noting that the creatures is heavily damaged, even with it's recent mutations, and Eustace constant precision fire starts to take a heavy toil (Like I doubt this thing has much of a face.)*

*The lesser red creatures may get wounded by Beatrix, but John makes sure to spend the time to blast the them down. The last of them fall pretty quickly from the duo's attacks.*

[Sgt Vandingo]

*Vaseraga gets thumped in the centre of the chest by the massive maul, crushing the majority of his ribs and sending him hurtling back towards Eustace, who drops his gun and attempts to catch or lessen Vaseraga's fall, which results in him getting totalled by the flying Draph warrior. They both lay on the ground, before Vaseraga gets up and leaves the dazed and battered Eustace on the ground. Vaseraga starts running back, and throws his scythe horizontally towards the leviathan, likely splitting anything else that is in the way in half. Although Eustace is completely fucked physically cause he just took a half tonne Draph to the face, he still manages to pick up his gun and shoot through Vaseraga's legs at the leviathan, though he can't headshot it anymore cause Vaseraga is in the way.*

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*Beatrix wipes the blood off of her sword in the nearest corpse, and turns to John.*
Beatrix: You managed to not hit me while I was in there. Nice shooting, dude.
*She giggles and winks at him, before moving towards Horus so she can keep him safe while he's out, cause she has to assume he's sleeping and not dead.*

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*Also Zeta wakes up cause she's been sleeping a long time.*
Zeta: Whuzzawhere?
*She groggily wipes her eyes of sleep, and looks around through squinted eyes.*
Zeta: Anybody alive?

[2BlackJack1]

*Lecter grunts as his body begins to heal, but it'll be awhile for broken bones. The Devil Hunter rolls away from the Praetorian and gets back to his feet*
Lecter: Time's up.
*He moves to re-engage the Praetorian, but waits for it to make the first move. He also doesn't want to be close to it when it dies, after seeing what happened to Horus*

*Finnick nods*
Finnick: Only bigger cities have this kinda stuff. Otherwise you gotta go straight to the makers.

*Elewynn nods and goes about trying to learn how to work the kitchen, cause she doesn't like Merg's attitude*
*She hears Zeta, and pauses*
Elewynn: How many people are here?

[Overlord Thraka]

*Xan dozes sleepily but stirs slightly at the sound of Zeta's voice nearby*
Xan: Mmmm...
*She yawns and stretches in a catlike fashion before opening her eyes and looking around*
Xan: Oh... I sleep longatime. What time is it?
*She sits up against the wall and looks around*

*Zeta waking up draws Mergoux's attention to them, and though she doesn't smile, the corner of her mouth twitches when she recognizes Xan, as she's extremely glad someone else managed to escape Tiaz's dungeons and make it to relative safety*
Mergoux: Yes, there are plenty of people alive. Who are you? And why are you sleeping on the floor? There are plenty of rooms available.
*She looks at Elewynn*
Mergoux: Last I knew? At least 8, but this bumps it up to 11 with you here.

*Jilial flies desperately towards the storm, looking for any sign of battle*

*Taboo nods dazedly*
Taboo: Big cities... We try to avoid those... too many guards...
*She's too high/drunk to lie anymore and just absently talks*
Taboo: Oog... More drink!
*She downs her 8th glass of wine and giggles again*

[Vulkan 707]

*The praetorian verses Lecter pulls out Karma, and casts it to the side in anger. It then throws one of it's crystal spears at Lecter, and follows the throw with a charge.*

John: Thanks crazy chick.
*He turns towards the leviathan, and blasts a chunk out of it's arm causing it to roar in rage, before getting hit in the gut with the scythe. It makes a long winded howl of pain, and strange purple ash burns up from it's gullet. Soon the whole creature is a flame, and collapses into a pile of blackened bones.*

*The ground begins to rumble a few yards away from where the gate is.*

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*Jillian eats, and watches Hanna cause Iris ain't here. (lol)*

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*Sasha manages to get up, and limps her way to the bar. She silently grabs a glass, and fills it with water. After drinking the water she sits, and eavesdrops.*
*The nanites eventually repaired her white body glove, so she doesn't show any outward signs of damage besides her limp.*

[2BlackJack1]

*Lecter leans to the side to let the spear fly towards a mess vital area of him, and tries to use his arm blades to deflect it further*
*He's too busy with the spear to prepare with the charge, but at least notices it moving in*

*Elewynn nods*
Elewynn: Not too many. Are they all human? Amy dwarves, or Qunari?

*Finnick shrugs*
Finnick: Hide in plain sight. And if any guard comes knocking, I can just do some illusion magic and convince them to look the other way. Or make sure that there will be consequences if they come for me.

[Overlord Thraka]

*Mergoux frowns at Elewynn*
Mergoux: What the hell is a Qunari?

*Taboo shakes her head, her speech slurred and her eyes unfocused*
Taboo: Not so easy as that... Father, he's big... To big to hide, and no illusionist magic either... No guard would take a bribe or a threat either, not from my kin... We jus' (Hic) stick with small towns... villages... Easy targets...

*Iris keeps flying*

*Horus keeps dying, one of his lungs punctured by two ribs*

[2BlackJack1]

*Elewynn returns the frown*
Elewynn: Tall, horned warriors and prophets to their belief system. You would know them when you see them, no one else looks like they do. I'll have to admit, I am glad that there isn't one here. They are often too fanatic for my liking.

*Finnick frowns*
Finnick: Your kin? Does your family have some sort of blood feud?

[Overlord Thraka]

*Mergoux snorts*
Mergoux: Prophets? Sounds like Harelords all over again... Well obviously no, I haven't seen any, nor any Dwarves for that matter, though there's been some... stranger people here.

*Xan rubs her eyes blearily, not really paying attention to the conversation nearby*

*Taboo shrugs drunkenly*
Taboo: Sort of... Bad reputation in most lands...

[Vulkan 707]

*The praetorian tries to rake it's claws across Lecters chest as it does it's bullcharge. Black tar is fountains out of the wound it sustained from Karma, but doesn't seem to slowed by it.*

*Suddenly the ground splits open, and a massive worm erupts from the ground maybe 10 yards away from the praetorian gate.*
*It's a massive red scaled beast, with small little spike arms designed to help it pulling it along when it submerges into the earth. A huge maw splits open like a blooming orchid, displaying thousands of black needle like teeth. It makes a debilitating roar, that is at such a high dismal level that glass would shatter.*

*John staggers from the scream, even with his noise dampeners it is almost too much. Small strings of blood leak from his ears, yet he still manages to fire at the worm.*

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*Sasha sits drinking her water, and frowning at the conversations around her.*

[2BlackJack1]

*Lecter tries to twirl away from the Praetorian again, but still gets raked in the chest, and then reels from the scream, cause his heightened senses can't take it*
*He does have a high pain tolerance, so he doesn't pass out, but he's still heavily distracted from the fight, where he tries to raise his blades to defend himself as best he can*

*Finnick nods*
Finnick: That's why I don't like prisoners. Either kill your enemies, or make a deal with them. No loose ends.

*Elewynn raises an eyebrow*
Elewynn: Interesting? How so? Mages, or perhaps a travelling group?

[Overlord Thraka]

*Mergoux takes several moments to think on how to describe Horus and Iris, as that's who she's mainly talking about*
Mergoux:...Erm... A giant, with the head of a Hawk... and a large woman with blue skin...

*Taboo shakes her head vehemently then nearly topples of her stool again as her vision swims*
Taboo: N-no! No! Prisoners are profit! Ransoms! Besides, I wouldn't trust most humans as far as Togan could throw them...

*Jilial clumsily flies towards the sound of the scream in the distance. As she flies she mutters under her breath, speaking many prayers for Horus's survival*

*Horus doesn't react*

[Vulkan 707]

*The praetorian takes advantage of Lecters discombobulation, and sends a flurry of attacks at him luckily only one hits grazing his shoulder.*
*John keeps firing at the worm, who howls with rage, it raises it's huge bulk out of the ground, and slithers towards John.*
*John then breaks for where Sasha's lance is lying, while the worm chases after him.*

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[Overlord Thraka]

*A dark shape appears in the sky as Jilial flies over the battle. Her draconic eyes scan the ground for any sign of Horus and finally spot him, lying limp and among a vast number of slain foes. She screams in horror*
Jilial: HORUS! NOOO!!!
*A bolt of lightning flies from her mouth and hits the tallest thing nearby, that being the worm. She then does a clumsy dive for Horus. She's strong, as flying that distance gave her a long time to involuntarily sunbathe*

[Sgt Vandingo]

*Beatrix, who has really good hearing, falls to her knees clutching her ears in a desperate attempt to ward off the loud scream, though she doesn't do a good job doing so. She's still close to Horus, and she WAS making sure he didn't get stabbed, but now she can't do much.*

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*Vaseraga doesn't even flinch at the roar, and steps between the worm and John, and since he still doesn't have his scythe, tries stopping it like he did the giant centipede from a while ago.*

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*Eustace is writhing in pain cause cat ears.*

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*Zeta fell back asleep.*

[Vulkan 707]

*The worm roars with rage at the lightning bolt striking it, and smoke rises from the place it was struck.*
*It tilts it's head at Vaseraga trying to grapple him, and tries to tail whip him away. It's huge mouth splits open like a flower, and makes another high pitched scream.*
*John manages to stand, and at this point is deaf for a time. His fires at the worm, and manages to graze one of it's the mouth flaps.*

[PrinceAlexus]

*Major heads out of room after repairing a battered pair of binoculars with some duck tape and a bit of wire and heads to a window at first looking out on the ruins of the blackened airship, metal beams burned black by fires and large areas of the valley vegetation below gone watching shapes move about it with a bad feeling about them*

*Turns to look round the room, as I'm not sure who is where and which group is located in the main area*

*Dr works on recharging her laser pistol power cells and looks round the rooms for anything of intrest or explanation about this strange place. *

[2BlackJack1]

*Lecter staggers back from the scratch, and growls*
*He then twirls his arm blades and stabs one of them at the Praetorian's arm*

*Finnick frowns*
Finnick: Either you don't trust your own race, which is smart, or you should say what you are.

*Elewynn raises an eyebrow*
Elewynn: A cursed one, and a wisp, perhaps. Interesting combination to have.

[Overlord Thraka]

*Taboo grins faintly as her eyes turn from that of a wasted druggie, to that of a wasted druggie cat.*
Taboo: Were Tiger be I... (Hic)
*A rumbling purr starts in her throat as she grins, then almost as if in slow motion topples off her stool, passed out from the combination of wine and Dragonhorn. She instantly curls up and starts snoozing*

*Mergoux shakes her head*
Mergoux: Er... No I think they said something about being gods...

*Jilial screams, another bolt of lightning shoot from her mouth. She begins to fall as her wings miss a beat, she closes her eyes and claps her hands to the side of her head where her ear-holes are, stunned by the horrific noise made by the creature*

*Horus grows closer and closer to death's domain*