((For this once, I'm not going to wait for Lalasa's action. reason being that whatever you do now, It's pretty much guaranteed to have the same outcome)
The young girl takes Joy by the hand and leads her to the door. Two armed men in combat fatigues are standing guard just outside. "We need to move quickly ma'am, we've had contact just two blocks from here." "Oh I'm sure we still have time" She says with a smile. [mind:3] you get a bad feeling about this. The girl sees the troubled look on your face. "Hey, don't be scared, we'll pro-" She's suddenly cut off as the first guard opens fire. You see a tall figure, wearing tattered clothing and with an arm that ends in giant blade. He has his foot on the second guard and is slicing him open from stomach to throat. The girl seems to panic for a moment and leads you just around the corner. She takes a small glass bead out of her pocket and throws it on the ground, creating a large collum of light. "All right, I'll explain what's going to happen now, so listen good all right. We're with..." [Per:5] you hear no more gunshots The girl seems to realize at the same time as you and turns around to look. She let's out a startled yelp as her right arm gets sliced off. She falls back against you and you both stumble into the light. Darkness ensues.
Harvey follows the two men on a mad dash through the streets. Upon rounding one of the corners he sees more armed man standing in a circle around a collumn of light, shooting into packs of crazed humans with clubs and knives. One of the crazies get's close and goes to grab his arm when they're almost at the portal. [Agi:3+1] you dodge the grapple and [str:6] deck the fucker right in the face, so hard you feel his nose breaking. He stumbles back and trips over the body of one of his comrades and gets schredded by machine gun fire. One of the soldiers grabs you by your collar and drags you through the portal, darkness ensues.
Eleanor walks after the hooded figure in a daze, not sure of what's happening. [per:5] You notice no-one seems to be looking at you, nor the tall hooded man, who admittedly stands out somewhat. "noticed that did you? Have no fear none of them can see you while I'm around." The door is blocked by a rather burlish chap with spiked armour and a large axe. But the hooded figure simply walks up to him, lightly touches the man, and mutters something under his breath. The brute spasms for a moment and you can hear snapping sounds, then he just collapses to the floor. All of it seems so surreal, you don't even notice everything that happens next. The last thing you remember is the hooded figure gently carrying you to a large collumn of light. "Everything's fine now, I'll see you on the other side" He puts you inside of the light, and darkness ensues.
Meanwhile, terry is following the man down the street until they encounter a bunch of thugs. Hoodlums and gangbangers mostly, but something seems off, they look almost feral. "Bloody hell, they already made thralls?" The man takes a deep pull from his cigar and flicks it out infront of him. He closes his fist and punches the air, you see the small red embers of the cigar explode into a bright ball of flames that goes flying towards the hoodlums. It explodes in their mids, catching them off guard and setting them all on fire. You're in shock as a small, robed figure emerges from the inferno, seemingly ignoring the flames. "So you've taken my thralls, mercenary? No matter, your petty flames cannot stop the coming of the..!" But he gets cut off as the man quickly pulls a pistol, with a thin long barrel and a detachable magazine infront of the trigger, out of his jacket and shoots the robed figure repeatedly with startling accuracy. The robed figure gets hit in the chest at least 8 times, with the last shot blowing part of his skull off. "Well shit, let this be a lesson kid. you might be a mage, you might have the might to stop the elements themselves, but a bullet to the brain still totally sucks. Anyhow, it ain't safe here, best to let you take a shortcut." He throws a bead behind you and before you can react shoves you backwards. Darkness ensues.
Lilia is dazed at this new turn of events. The man gently grabs her and moves to the window once more. "hang on tight now, sweetheart" and before you know it you're soaring through the skies at startling speed. [per:4+1] You can see the streets below, it's utter chaos. people are being killed, houses destroyed. the attackers seem to be both human and otherwise, and you could swear you saw two unknown creatures battling eachother at one point. The man lands near a collumn of light and gently pushes you through, darkness ensues.
You all wake up in a long hallway. A guard who rounds the corner is startled for a moment and unholsters his sidearm while murmuring into his earpierce. After a moment he holsters his gun again and walks towards you. "The boss can explain all this, just head to the briefing room, it's right around the corner there." You round the corner and come into a sort of meeting room. Inside are four people. A large man in a duster, smoking a cigar. A small, young woman with a mechanical arm and two mechanical tendril sprouting from her back. A very tall being, seemingly made completely out of rust-colored brown metal, whose face looks more akin to a medievil helmet. And A robed man with light blue skin, completely white eyes and a bald head. "I'm not sure where to start, but I'll try to explain what happened as best as I can" he says in a low, rumbling voice seemingly coming from inside of the metal head "but before I play history teacher, do you have any pressing questions before we start?"
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