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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[metagame]

"Master!" Mana calls out to Mahaad as he's forced back by the other's onslaught.

Shalem's Bufula (18) and Fray's Thunderous Rage (12) deals double damage on Mahaad! Mana's looking wearier, too.

"I'm fine, Mana," Mahaad rises to his feet, staff posed and ready to cast. "Focus on the fight."

"But the Prince... if you were to die..."

"Focus on the fight!"

Mana winces and turns back to face the others, "Black Burning!"

She hits Fray (9), Shalem (6), Sunrise (8), and Soujuurou (13) with light Nuclear damage! No one is afflicted with Dizzy.

Mahaad readies his staff, "Black Magic!"

He hits heavy Nuclear damage on Argenti (14)!

[beathollow]

( ...

mafuyu casts marakukaja to raise the party's defense, but she steps forward a little. )

Please. We only mean to defend ourselves- and we'll continue to do so- but we want to help him, too. Something is wrong, and it's hurt people in the past- myself included. All we want is to soothe it.

[metagame]

Mana hesitates at Mafuyu's words, her hands trembling as she holds her wand.

[beathollow]

You're scared, right? If it's like what happened to me, something is hurting him, changing him, but you don't know what.

[metagame]

"If you really wanted to help him, none of would have killed those guards!"

Mafuyu isn't very convincing according to Avrae... stares at that (2)...

[bloodweapon]

[Since Mafuyu is trying diplomacy, Fray will stay his blade. For now!! But he is going to cast Diarama on Argenti because I mean. His bf got hurt. What do you expect here.]

[beautifulknight]

[ He definitely did get hit rather hard with his weakness and all...he's going to take a little breather for a moment while Mafuyu does diplomacy. ]

It is appreciated as always, my dear Fray.

[bloodweapon]

[A nod!]

Of course. I'm pleased I can help.

[Being a Utility has its advantages!!]

[emptyself]

[ seeing mafuyu try the pacifist route, soujuurou holds back from trying to knock mana out and make his own attempt at diplomacy (13). ]

Mafuyu's right. We really don't want to fight. All we want to do is to help-- but first, we have to find out what the problem is. Let us do that!

[prozaic]

[Shalem truly is laughing mad right now, uncaring of the hit he sustained from the girl and continuing on with her companion. After all, why stop when something is working?

Once again, he's sending a Bufula right at Mahaad (17), even he staggers, his face paler than usual. Definitely feeling the cold right now.]

[moodwrecker]

[Well she was stopping because Mafuyu tried to talk it out but-]

Hey, cut it out!

[finalmix]

[ hm. laughing mad? bad. ]

[ so consider it friendly fire, but in a split second decision that's going to have Consequences, maybe, joshua's firing a zephyr's elegy at shalem - the bless spell doesn't connect (8) but it's close enough to maybe (?) count as a warning shot. ]

[prozaic]

[That just gets Joshua a hiss, complete with bared fangs and tongue.]

[metagame]

Mana's done talking because what the hell Joshua, and Mahaad struggles to remain standing. They place their staves together...

"Black Burning Magic!"

Medium Nuclear Damage is done to everyone (7)! And Shalem is afflicted with Dizzy!

[beathollow]

( FUCK

mafuyu casts media but it's not going to be enough. )

[emptyself]

[ ugh he hates this. he genuinely doesn't want to fight.

he jumps to mana, trying to knock her out via pressure point (10) ]

[bloodweapon]

[Here's a Me Patra on Shalem... Not that it'll help with the. The Shalem,,,]

[moodwrecker]

Stupid-

[Aubrey actually tries to restrain Shalem, but probably fails because she only got an 8]

[pointzeropercent]

[Just gonna cast Media on everyone to keep them up.]

[finalmix]

[ yeah honestly he deserved that

so he chooses not to attack, and instead casts media.

look, he's not unreasonable, ]

[ledbythewind]

[This... is definitely not good. With Mafuyu trying to negotiate and Mana and Mahaad themselves looking worse for wear, it's starting to seem as though there may be a way to end this peacefully.

That is, at least, until Shalem just decides to go nuclear and keep on attacking in spite of Mafuyu trying to talk them down. And heeeeeee.... does not exactly seem very sane at the moment, either.

So instead of attacking either Mana or Mahaad, Richard is going to aim a rapier strike (18) at Shalem, not intending to injure him severely but rather just snap him out of whatever is wrong with him right now.]

Get a hold of yourself!

[prozaic]

Learn to use that bloody rapier properly...

[Except maybe he shouldn't be talking. This happens before Fray's Me Patra because he might have mauled Richard--

Shalem tries to retaliate, but the Dizzy definitely saves Richard right now (9, 7), and the staff swing goes wide.]

[privatedomicile]

Hey, dude! Cut the shit!

[Jesse points his gun at Shalem, not looking to actually fire, more threaten. He’s supporting Mafu’s pacifist route and feels bad for the murder.]

Please tell me that was a self defense against cops scenario and that we ain’t gonna kill Atem’s pals for no good reason!

[Ok, just in case talking doesn’t work, he’s gonna cast Tarunda on Shalem.]

[prozaic]

If you point a gun at someone, you should be ready to fire. [A taunt, because he knows Jesse won't shoot.]

A threat is only as good as the intent to follow through.

[metagame]

Mahaad takes this opportunity to attack Shalem..!

"Black Magic!"

The blast connects for Heavy Nuclear Damage (8)!

Mana can't figure out what's happening... and what Soujuurou did hurt... but she casts Matarunda on the group just in case.

At the moment, they're both confused on what the group is trying to accomplish. Mahaad has sustained heavy damage, and about ready to keel over. Mana is at half HP right now.