The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

[metagame]

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust

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[finalmix]

[ he's prioritising the one that got away from him last round but he's firing off another makouga (15, 9) and honestly he probably has to dodge to avoid getting hit by his own attack when it richochets off a wall or something this is why he hates fighting in enclosed spaces! ]

[metagame]

With Argenti's Mapsio (19), one Naga is down for the count! Shalem and Joshua's first hit misses because there's nothing left to strike.

One Naga remains! Argenti, Shalem, Haruka, and Joshua's combined attacks has left him pretty beat. I'd say he's on his last legs... but he's a snake guy...

The other fights for his fallen friend, and casts another Mazio, landing a critical on Argenti and hit on Joshua (13), barely zapping Shalem (7), and missing Haruka (5) all together.

[townmusician]

[okay stop being gay and start being useful, haruka, get ya head in the game.

He's going to cast Media, patching up some of the damage for Argenti, Joshua, Shalem and himself.]

[beautifulknight]

[ Thankfully it isn't his elemental weakness this time, but that still hurts for a moment that his movements seem to halt, and a look of pain is on his face because criticals, man.

But, he has still felt worse.

Argenti immediately lashes out hard in response with a Great Slice (18) ]

[prozaic]

[Maybe he's a bit too high the bloodlust, because his staff almost seems so heavy in his arms, so he decides fuck it. His Lunge connects (7) even if it might not be much.]

[finalmix]

[ argenti's giant slice does most of the heavy lifting, so joshua follows up shalem's attack with one last zephyr's elegy (7), dealing a bless spell at the final naga to (hopefully) finish it off? ]

[metagame]

That does the trick.

Congratulations! You've defeated the guards!

[moodwrecker]

...Great. What now?

[townmusician]

We get the hell out of here before more guards show up.

[time to BOOK IT]

[prozaic]

[He hisses at the corpse, and throws his hair out of his face. Then walks off in a random direction, dragging his staff behind him. But it's not really random since he's going to end up with Jesse and Soujuurou anyway.]