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[IamanElfCollaborator]

>Studying. He prefers not to be disturbed.<

[Empiricist]

[To: Anima] <Ah, okay. What do you make of the current events?>

[IamanElfCollaborator]

>I may or may not intervene, I have my hands full helping heal the wounded of the last incident as it is.<

[Empiricist]

<That's understandable, have you much knowledge about the entities we have encountered?>

[IamanElfCollaborator]

>The names are familiar, yes.<

[Empiricist]

<How much information would they have on the respective abilities of the people here?>

[IamanElfCollaborator]

>Not any more than the public, unless they watched us.<

[Empiricist]

<What about their knowledge of our magic types in general? Void is doubtlessly something they are aware of, but what of Fate and Personae?>

[ragnarok97071]

Round 3?
Selesnarna hits Ashley for 32 damage. Ashley’s health is Critical.
Next attack made is against the first of the Grands trying to paint her. The Grand somehow manages to avoid the spear.
A third attack lands a glancing blow on the third Grand. 38 damage
Ashley responds by attempting to channel the power of the Void into her.  In her weakened state, she fumbles the attempt and gets countered for her trouble.
--
The black spear catches Ashley cleanly through the chest. The rest of the party have just enough time to see her eyes widen in shock before she vanishes in a burst of Void.
Ashley has been removed from combat.
--
Dumah continues to charge!


Luna charges at Selesnarna, attacking wildly! Selesnarna ducks out of the way of the blow, just barely managing a counterattack! (literally 1 away.) However, Luna manages to twist out of the way.
While not as impressive as the centrepiece of Bethany’s song, the first Refrain does its job well, and a storm gathers overhead, thick raindrops falling on the scene.
Lucas attempts to assult Dumah with MIND BULLETS, but they’re eaten away by sheer proximity to the massive amount of Entropic energy building up around it!
Marie’s DOOM BALL gets bigger.
Conny opens fire at Dumah, her arrow landing a glancing blow! 28 damage.
Nuriel opens fire on the melee! On the upside, the angels can’t dodge! On the downside, neither can Luna or Neferis. All are damaged by ~40 HP.
Selesnarna: 31 damage
Dumah: 41 damage
Luna: 42 damage
Neferis: 43 damage
The first Grand attempts to Paint Selesnarna… and fails again, fading out.
The second’s magic begins to take hold… And suceeds! A painting of Selesnarna falls to the ground where she was standing. Oddly enough, the eyepatch is glowing again… (each round, due to her afinity, Asariel makes a check to see whether she can escape. DC 60, just like the initial entrapment check.)
The other Grands charge.
The painted angels flail against the painting a bit, before being hit by a flying criminal.
Neferis can’t attack because her target is not a thing.


--
Will notices something strange
Dumah doesn’t seem to be aiming at any of the combatants.
In fact, if anything, he’s aiming at the house itself.
…
That can’t be good.

[Empiricist]

<What a pity... she always lacked some caution in my opinion, perhaps a degree of overconfidence? Or would it simply be her odd weapon affinity... No matter, she could exist still.

We may be able to block Dumah's charged attack using the gauntlet and crush her in a single instance. Even if it is a wide attack, a cancellation factor in front of source would block most of it and invert it as an attack on her.

 I recommend that the gauntlet be fired and then thrown to intercept the attack. At close enough ranges, a partial deconsolidation can prove to be catastrophic to them. I wonder, could such an act be used as a bargaining chip? A false-vacuum metastability event is a threat to Creation. Amplifying it by disrupting Creation's containment measures violates their objective to oppose threats to Creation...

If all else fails, a sacrificial construct designed to maximize speed may be used and ordered to equip the unit before blocking with it.

...

...Hmm, if a shot is purposely directed to miss Dumah's organs but go through her body and get affected by her magic, you may be able to chain off the resulting charge-enhanced attack into Selesnarna. Doing so would likely have to be done via bracelet and cause dangerous mental exposure to Fate... >

[Akroma]

Aaaaand Hainuwele did nothing because Grand put the target into a painting, and/or Rag forgot about her.


Dangit Grand, seal away Dumah, her charging stuff is super dangerous and would be interrupted by being painted. Meanwhile Selesarna, unlike Dumah, is a target we might actually manage to kill, if she wasnt safe from us in the painting.





Hainuwele, being robbed of her only freaking target she can hurt, retreats for now, so she isn't in the way of Nuriels and Stella flames (which rag forgot about btw, not only Nuriel was blasting), or in the way of whatever Dumah is charging. She will stay ready on a lampost, to swoop down on Selesarna/Asariel the very moment she frees herself from the painting. If in any way possible, she will try to attack her while she is still in the process of unsealing herself and vulnerable, aiming to do the same thing she would have done this round, if there hadn't been any painty-fication, that is, debuffing the host bodies Dex, and if that succeeds, also debuffing her Strength.
In the event that the unsealing is instantatious and that Selesarna/Asariel is able to immediatly resume fighting, Hainuwele will wait with attacking until a safe moment, that is when Selesarna/Asariel has already begun focusing on something else (In the init queue, that would mean delaying her action to attack after Dumah but before Luna (assuming Luna has less dex than Hainuwele?). As said above, if the un-sealing takes some time, Hainuwele will attack as soon as she can, having prepared the ambush attack.
Should Selesarna/Asariel not be able to free herself this round, Hainuwele spends 40 Mana to activate the Divine Sands, which for 5 rounds, deals 5 damage to all enemies. Elf only said enemies, so I assume it's sort of selective.


Man, I hope Asariel unseals herself soon. I mean, being sealed is nice and all, but really just drags the fight out...On the upside, now everyone who is able to damage a tank can focus fire entirely on Dumah.

[Empiricist]

<Someone, preferably with high willpower, take Kyle's katana and deconsolidate it via bracelet. Try and make the distortion rend apart the portrait.>
((Hmm... the katana may actually be light enough for Hainuwele to pick up and use. Her high MIND could allow her to deconsolidate it and rip Selesarna apart at the cost of mental issues.))

[kj1225]

Kyle tries to use his super magic jumps to get up to Dumah's face and punch it.

[Akroma]

((Hainuwele is unaware of the Katanas lightness, and already made her plan. Maybe Will should enter the battle, his Will is huge))

[wolfchild]

Stella either breaths fire at one if there are no friendlies in the way, or charges at one, after changing to full dragon form

What is with this place?