>>32586045

Everyone’s dressed in dark colors with boots and stuff, except Borislav, who has a dark army green ensemble with poufy fatigues and coat jacket that makes him look a size bigger than he is. Harvey’s got some weird little kind of assault rifle thing he’s busy stripping down and rebuilding, while Isaac carefully checks over a bunch of grenades laid out on a table with Rowan.

“Honey,” says Isaac, turning back to Cassandra suddenly, “make sure you don’t use the – “

“I never use the thermal scope,” Cass says, keeping her attention on her work.

Rowan turns to Isaac. “Hey dad, where’s the MP7? I didn’t see it over there.”

“It’s with everything else,” he says.

“Yeah, because I would ask you if it was with everything else.”

“I left it in the red backpack,” says Harvey.

Rowan turns from the explosives to walk over to a stack of bags, and rummages through one of the bags. A moment later, she picks out a little kind of crammed kind of weapon.

>>32586056
Borislav is kicking it back in an old, discolored lawn chair. A gun that looks suspiciously like an AK-47 lies by his side, though supposedly, it’s a shotgun.

You suppose you should start grabbing stuff as well and quit standing around and staring, but there are a lot of choices, and you don’t know your way too well around stuff.

>Hey Isaac, how exactly did you get into this line of work?
>Cassandra, who taught you how to shoot?
>Where the hell did you get all this crap?
>So… what exactly is my role in this plan again? I don’t want to wind up fighting some demon on my own again.
>Get stuff (?)
>Other (?)
[Stress: 7/100]

>>32586070
>Hey Isaac, how exactly did you get into this line of work?
>Get stuff
Ask for a standard load out for ourselves.
Maybe just a bulletproof vest and an SMG + pistol again?

>>32586070
>>Where the hell did you get all this crap?
>>Get stuff (?)

-Silenced submachine (MP5 or MAC11) gun as primary firearm.
-.45 ACP handgun for secondary.
-Combat knife.
-Smoke grenades for darkness

I'd leave our claws and such for those who don't go down with bullets.

>>32586121
Make it MAC10 actually. Less compact than 11, but better function.

>>32586070
>Cassandra, who taught you how to shoot?
>Get stuff (?)
Some body armor, an smg.

>>32586070
>So… what exactly is my role in this plan again? I don’t want to wind up fighting some demon on my own again.
>Cassandra, who taught you how to shoot?

You get Harvey to point you to some stuff you can use. He finds you a bullet proof vest and makes sure you know how to wear it correctly. Afterwards, you rummage through the bewildering variety of weapons at your disposal, eventually managing to find the MP5 you were using when you were practicing. You go ahead and grab the .45 Ruger you were also playing around with earlier, since you found you liked the heavier rounds.

You carefully place the handgun in a shoulder holster and fix the SMG on a shoulder strap. You feel way tactical right now. You hope you go better tonight than you usually do in Call of Duty – you don’t think a 1:1 KD ratio is going to cut it. Then again, the couple times you’ve played COD, you didn’t have your shadow powers to give you cover.

And speaking of cover, you think it’s a good idea to pick up some smoke grenades. You do better the closer you are, and when people can’t see you, so it seems like a natural fit. You meander over to Isaac’s table, where he forks over a pair of gray canisters. While you clip them to your vest, your attention goes back to Cassandra, who has finished attaching her scope and is carefully looking down the sights to test its feel and weight.

“Hey Cassandra,” you ask, unable to contain your curiosity, “when did you become the expert sniper person?”

>>32586335

She takes a break from sighting her rifle to answer you. “I used to work with the police,” she says.

“Oh. Okay then,” you say. You try to imagine Cassandra with a badge and being a curmudgeonly cop lady. You don’t really see it.

“Sierra, let me show you how to use those,” Isaac says, indicating your smoke grenades.

>Nah, I got it. It’s R1, right?
>So did your dad get you into this kind of thing like you and Ro, or is it like, Demonbane angel calling to smite evil?
>Where do you buy this stuff? Is there like, a black market Costco around here or something?
>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you’ve still got a crossbow on your back. I’ll bite – what’s it do?
>Other (?)

>>32586347
>Nah, I got it. It’s R1, right?
>So did your dad get you into this kind of thing like you and Ro, or is it like, Demonbane angel calling to smite evil?

>>32586347
>Nah, I got it. It’s R1, right?
>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you’ve still got a crossbow on your back. I’ll bite – what’s it do?

>>32586347
>Where do you buy this stuff? Is there a black market Costco around here or something?
>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you've still got a crossbow on your back. I'll bite - what's it do?

>>32586347
>>Nah, I got it. It’s R1, right?
>Where do you buy this stuff? Is there like, a black market Costco around here or something?
>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you’ve still got a crossbow on your back. I’ll bite – what’s it do?

>>32586347
>>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you’ve still got a crossbow on your back. I’ll bite – what’s it do?

>>32586347
The R1 thing is probably going to piss them off like nothing else, but I can't think of a reason to not say it.
>Okay, you have all these guns and whatnot, and you’ve still got a crossbow on your back. I’ll bite – what’s it do?

THE LAWN RISES
RECLAIM
RECLAIM
RECLIAM

>Cass is a sniper
No wonder she's so weird. Snipers are notoriously weird people

The smoke grenades look simple enough to use. That, and they have the directions written on the side. “I’ve played before,” you say. “It’s R1, right?”

Everyone has a laugh, except Isaac. He looks around, a little confused.

“It’s a videogame joke,” says Cass.

Isaac makes an ‘oh’ shape with his mouth and nods.

“So why buy a bunch of new guns if you always stick with a turn-of-the-tenth-century classic?” you ask. “What makes it so hot or whatever?”

Isaac unslings his crossbow and sets carefully it down on the table before you. You never really looked at it this closely before, but you can tell it’s no regular crossbow. It’s way heavy, and it’s made of finely polished gray wood. Fine inscriptions and complicates glyphs run along its surface, etched in silver. The runes along the bow are thicker and bigger than those found elsewhere. It seems to hold a presence in and of itself, as if it were vaguely aware of its surroundings.

“This crossbow was forged in the heavens of Elysia,” he says. “It can penetrate the very strongest of arcane artifice and spell craft.” He picks out a bolt from his quiver and shows it to you, as well. Its similarly covered in intricate, flowing silvery text that looks more like a decorative pattern than language. “Plus the bolts are easy to enchant,” he adds.

That’s a whole lot of flowery language. “So… it’s a magic piercing crossbow?” you ask.

“It’s a lot more complicated than that,” Isaac says.

>>32586829

Rowan appears between the two of you. “It’s a magic piercing crossbow,” she confirms.

“Cool,” you say.

Cassandra interrupts the conversation. “It’s time to go,” she says.

Isaac checks his watch. “That it is,” he says. “Borislav, Rowan, let’s move. We’re taking the jeep.”

But if they take the jeep, that leaves you with Borislav’s truck. But that seems like kind of a tight fit with all of your weapons if you want to keep them out of view, but he didn’t even give you the keys. But that would mean… “We’re not taking the minivan on a military op,” you argue.

“It’s spacious and has good gas mileage,” says Cassandra. She slings a suspicious duffel bag over one shoulder, picks up her rifle with the other, and walks toward the door.

“It’s not like this is the first time,” says Harvey, seeing your disdain. He follows pursuit.

Left with no options, you go along, all your gear jingling and jangling as you go.

--

It’s dark, and you, Cassandra, and Harvey lie atop a pristine green golf-course hill. Harvey passes you the binoculars. You look through them at the compound. It’s not really a compound, but knowing what goes inside makes it a compound. The huge house fits in with all the other pretentious homes that line the edge of the scenic golf territory. Except for the fact it’s chain link fence is topped with razor wire. And for the couple out of place guys just standing around outside by the pool, with no obvious intent to go swimming.

>>32586844
“I’m counting three potential hostiles out back,” Cassandra says into a little microphone clipped on her arm. She’s lying prone against the short grass and gazing through the scope of her rifle. “Definite movement inside.”

“We’re almost in position,” comes Isaac’s voice. “Hold fast.”

Cass turns to you and Harvey. “You‘ll be open targets at the fence, but there’s plenty of cover once you get into the back yard. There’s an explosive charge in my bag that should get you through.”

Harvey nods, and grips his little carbine rifle thing closer to his chest.

“Any last minute questions?” Cassandra asks.

>Aren’t explosions loud?
>Sounds good to me.
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
>Last minute questions (?)
>Other (?)

>>32586853
>Sounds good to me.

>>32586853
>Aren’t explosions loud?

>>32586853
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
Can we wrap other people in shadow with us? We could get Harvey right up to the fence no problem then

>>32586853
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
You because we're being sneaky.

>>32586853
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
and also use the shadows to hide us on the way

>>32586853
>>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
Probably more stealthy than explosives?
>Last minute questions
What is the procedure if things go tits up? Where is the rendevouz? Who can we contact if everyone else is dead?

>>32586853
Suggest the hellfire claws.

>>32586853
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
Would doing this drain us of 5PP before we go in? It might be better to just use the explosives if that's the case. It'd put them on alert for the Hallows, harder to think about the sneaky sneaky backystabby shadowdemon when you have Demonbane storming your compound like divine SWAT.

>>32586984
There are 3 guys in the backyard we can just sap the power back.

>>32586984
>storming your compound like divine SWAT

I think you got it wrong there son.
http://youtu.be/exg_OxsaHyY?t=14s

>>32586853
>Aren’t explosions loud?
>I could cut through with my claws, if I used a little hellfire. It wouldn’t take much more than a few seconds.
and using the shadows to hide

Also question: Would the light from our hellfire cancel out our shadows?

>>32587045
Not if we made a dome out of them on the other side of our cutting spot to block the light.

>>32587045
We probably wouldn't need a lot of hellfire to melt a chainlink fence. It should be hidden enough if you do it in a depression or relatively blind spot, and have your shadows up a bit.

>>32587013
especially if we get in stealthily.

>>32587045
we only need enough hellfire to make a finger (claw?) into a cutting torch, as opposed to full on hands-of-burny-death mode with all the bells and whistles.

“Well, one, kind of,” you say. “What do we do if this is like, a really bad trap?”

“Isaac and I will keep you posted. Keep an ear on your radio,” she says. “If you don’t hear from us, get out and go back to the house. It shouldn’t come to that, though.”

“About the fence,” you say. “I can cut through it in a couple seconds instead. It probably wouldn’t be all explosiony and loud.”

Cass thinks about it. “If you can get in without being noticed, all the better,” she answers. “I can give you cover from here. They might not notice you if they’re busy looking for me.”

Harvey carefully extracts the det charge from Cass’ pack and puts it in a pocket of his tactical vest.

Cassandra’s radio crackles back up. “We’re ready on my end,” comes Isaac’s voice.

Cass turns to you and Harvey. “Ready?” she asks.

You don’t feel ready. But you guess you have to be. (+5 Stress: 12/100) You just nod.

Harvey must haven nodded as well, because the next thing you know, Cass is radioing back. “Green light from us,” she says.

“Go in ten,” says Isaac. Cass settles down and glues her eye to the scope. You see Harvey move into a low crouch, ready to sprint off. You join him.

“Don’t do the light thing just yet,” you say. “We’ll move in the dark.”

Harvey acknowledges you with a nod.

You feel your ten seconds running out. And then Cassandra says go.

>What do you do? (Dice)

Rolled 39

>>32587142
Move in. Make a little shadowy barrier to block out our flames from view as we cut.

Rolled 41

>>32587142
Shadow powers to cover our advance to the fence. Melt that shit.

>>32587142
gogogogogoogo
Run up and burn through the fence
Bonus points if using shadow to cover up the light of the flame

Rolled 78

>>32587142
Pull shadow on us, and then run over

Rolled 5

>>32587142
Shadow on us for the run there, shadows to keep them from seeing the flames while we melt through.

Rolled 60

>>32587168
Second

>>32587195
You rolled pretty good there. I forget though. Do we pick best outta three?

Rolled 85

>>32587142
Sneaky shadow bullshit.

>>32587209
Best o three

Rolled 17

>>32587142
here come either a nat one or a 100
Claw the fence.

>>32587213
Aight. Just making sure. Thanks.

Did we ever learn all what Harvey can do? We know he at least has Smite since he used it to fuck up the dogwalker.

>>32587241
His other superpower is guns.

>>32587241
His power is TRIGGER DISCIPLINE

I just realized what we didn't take into account when planning this raid.

They have a lawn we have to cross.

>>32587651
Oh shit, thats like +50 stress. Should we panic? i think we should panic.

Capta: harmful afromane

Before you go anywhere, you draw in the darkness around you and Harvey.

“Sierra, I can’t see anything,” Harvey says flatly.

“Shut up.” You grab his wrist and pull him running across the open ground to the fence. If anyone had been looking for you, they would have been able to see a slightly blacker splotch on the dark turf moving toward them. As it is, the one guy smoking a cigarette nearest the back doesn’t notice when you and Harvey run up and skitter to a stop before the fence.

With your newfound strength from the Muir Woods landwell, the difficulty of keeping up your shadowy ruse is almost nothing. (-2 PP: 22/24)

You shift the shadows about you so that they shield the section of fence you plan to breach. What you’re about to do will be pretty hard, but you think you can manage it. You ignite your claws and make hasty work of dragging them through the fencing. You have to burn pretty hot so you can cut through, and that much heat means a bunch of light, but you’re able to keep your shadows up dense enough to smother the light as you work. (-10 PP: 12/24)

You drop the shadows and kick out the fencing. A second later, you and Harvey slide in, and start creeping up through bushes toward the house.

A chorus of gunfire and rattling explosions echo into the night from the other side of the mansion.

Rolled 11

>>32587671
Full panic mode, for sure.

>>32587686
The guard nearest you checks his radio. He’s in a black turtle neck sweater and wears an obvious shoulder holster. “What the hell’s going on?” he asks. He’s about twenty yards off, standing by the pool. While he doesn’t speak loudly, you can hear him just fine, even with the staccato sound of combat pervading the air.

“-ing under attack!” comes the reply.

The man draws his handgun and rushes over to a low brick wall that serves as a median between the smooth pool area and the leafy garden out back. Another guy on the back patio of the mansion hops down and flips out the stock on a weapon, while the guy on the far right by the pool house / guest house gets out his flashlight and shines it over at the fence, as if expecting to see somebody standing obviously out on the bank. The beam narrowly avoids illuminating you and Harvey.

“Idiot, switch that thing off,” says the guy who was smoking up until now. He’s discarded his cigarette and has crushed it under boot. It kind of hurts you to see a perfectly good cig wasted like that, which makes you glad you quit smoking.

“They could be out there right now,” he says.

The flashlight guy quickly fumbles it off. “Sorry.”

“Should we circle around?” asks the man with the assault rifle, who’s back on the far side of the pool, by the back of the house.

Cigarette guy nods, preparing to get up. “They could use the extra –“

>>32587710

A hate filled voice blasts over his radio. “CARMINE,” comes a gravelly shout. “STAY WHERE YOU ARE YOU SHIT. KILL ANYONE YOU SEE.”

The guards all hunker back down at the command, and turn their attention onto the empty gardens around them. The vague blue light coming up from the pool is the only light that illuminates the scene.

Harvey watches everything. You know he didn’t hear what you just did. They’re too far off. Still, he’s probably figured out the gist of things. He gives you a look that says, how do you want to handle this?

You look to your right, and see that, past the pool, the guest house, and the guards, is an open garage door, one of those slightly subterannean garages rich people use to store their fancy car collection. You remember the blueprints – that should take you right into the basement. Going in the back would put you in the middle of the house, though. Isaac’s team is going to be barging right in through the front door.

Knowing the speed at which they work, you’ll need to keep up a good pace.

>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.
>Have Harvey run distraction, and circle around to take them from behind.
>Maybe you can get in without being spotted. Head for the garage.
>Have Cass start shooting to keep them pinned and/or distracted.
>ASSAULT
>Other (?)
Choose now. We roll later.

>>32587725
>Maybe you can get in without being spotted. Head for the garage.
SOLID SNAKE UP IN THIS BITCH!

>>32587725
>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.

>>32587725
>>Have Harvey run distraction, and circle around to take them from behind.

Need to recharge. We did cut the fence to get close. Better use our chance. Also Harvey is bulletproof like Rowan right?

>>32587725
>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.
If we can somehow work Dark Hearting them into it before they die, that would be good.

>>32587725
>>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.

>>32587725
>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.

>>32587763
Yeah, if possible have Cass only disable one instead of kill.

>>32587725
>>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.
Remember to grab a drink before we leave.

>>32587788
Was meant for >>32587764

>>32587725
>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you've got silencers.

>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.

The music I'm listening to in no way shape or form matches this scene

>>32587725
>Creep up and shoot them. Three of them, two of you and Cass. It should be easy. And you’ve got silencers.

Bang bang. Let's see how well Cass shoots.

We are shooting. DICES.

Rolled 97

>>32587832

>>32587764
Oh, I like this one!

>>32587822
Changing this to the Dark Heart Tactics above.

Rolled 82

>>32587832

Rolled 60

>>32587832

Rolled 68

>>32587832

Rolled 61

>>32587832

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>>32587839
>>32587848
Jesus christ

>>32587839
you've killed us all

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this is not good.

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>>32587839
>>32587848
>>32587850
>>32587860
>>32587873
WHO NEEDS STEALTH AND PERFECT AIM ANYWAY, AMIRITE!?

>>32587839
>>32587848
>>32587850
We gettn' shot at least

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>>32587839
>>32587848
>>32587850
>>32587860
>>32587873
This isn't like Call of Duty ghosts at all

>>32587832
Quick clarification. Do we roll for Sierra's actions only or do we roll for the entirety of the scenario?

If it's the former, I guess Harvey/Cass might save our dumb ass.

Looks like the Lawn creeped up on us when we tried to shoot them.

Rolled 44

>>32587839
>>32587848
>>32587850
>>32587860
>>32587873
You don't take out sentries with pray and spray guys.

>>32587839
>>32587848
>>32587850
Thank fuck we've got favorable lines of sight and Cass is a crackshot, because those are some shitty rolls by themselves.

You and Harvey move up close to the pool. With the sounds of battle raging close by, you don’t have to worry about the noise, so it goes quick.

Since you’re the worst at this, you aim at the easiest target, the guy by the guest house. Harvey lines up a shot on Carmine, cigarette man. “By the stairs,” he whispers into the radio. “Fire first.”

You take aim at your target, who’s standing wide in the open. You’ve done this before, you can do it again.

“Did you hear that?” says Carmine, looking a little around his low cover.

The guy by the stairs with the assault rifle jerks backward, a bullet catching him in the breastbone. He goes down like a bag of rocks. A rifle cracks somewhere behind you.

Harvey fires off a burst, hitting the guy square in the face.

The sound of the gun going off right behind you spooks you, and you flinch just as you fire. You send a spray right by your target, shattering a window that was near him. In a panic, he whips up his pistol and, perhaps having seen your muzzle flash, fires at you.

The next thing you know, you’re on your back, feeling like somebody just punched you in the gut. “Fuck.” (-2 HP: 12/14, +7 Stress: 19/100)

>>32588107
We'll probably be fine, just draw a lot of attention and use up a decent chunk of our remaining PP.

>>32588129


You hear a burst of muffled gunshots above you. “He got inside the guest house,” Harvey says. “They’ll-“

Another rifle shot rings out, and you hear another window shatter, this one from the second story of the mansion.

“-know we’re here,” he finishes. He looks up at the building. “Must be more covering the back from the inside now. We can’t stay here.”

“CARMINE!” screams Carmine’s radio. A pause. "CARMINE YOU SHIT I DON’T PAY YOU TO DIE, GET BACK UP.”

>Go after the guy who went inside. You can’t have him at your back.
>Circle around to the garage.
>Get into the mansion.
>Get Carmine’s radio.
>Other (?)

>>32588147
>"CARMINE YOU SHIT I DON’T PAY YOU TO DIE, GET BACK UP.”
top kek


>Circle around to the garage.

>>32588147
>>Go after the guy who went inside. You can’t have him at your back.

>>32588147
>Go after the guy who went inside. You can’t have him at your back.

>>32588147
>Get Carmine’s radio.
>Circle around to the garage.

Goddamnit, Sierra. You need to play more Battlefield instead!

>>32588147
>Circle around to the garage.

>>32588194
If we're stopping by Carmine's body, we might want to scoop a handfull of blood out of him. 2hp might not seem like a lot, but we've cut it pretty close in most fights and I'd rather not risk it.

>>32588262
Oh hey, good idea. I forgot we regen with blood.

Yeah, we should totally drink a bit. We should also try and leech some PP if there is a chance.

>>32588262
>>32588305
I don't know, it seems strange for her to just go "Hey, lemme drink his blood for a sec."

Bit metagamey, even.

>>32588320
This is true.

"GUYS HOLD ON I'M THIRSTY" is a bit video gamey

>>32588320
I suppose it kind of is, but Sierra is aware of her funky healing when she drinks blood. Though I guess you could also consider as the kind of thing she only does when she's taken more damage.

>>32588320
>Bit metagamey, even.
I don't see it. Sierra in character can see how close to death things are. She knows that that impact hurt her. She also knows that blood heals her.

Even if it's not the most appropriate course of action at the moment, it's not metagamey at all.

>>32588346
It isn't. It heals us and we know how close we've come to dying before. It's not like it takes a long time.

This might be a little fucked up, but I really want to sneak up on and bite someone to see what the hell this venom stuff does. We never figured it out.

>>32588443
I'm hoping for Paralysis, all kinds of fun stuff.

“We’re definitely not staying here,” you say. You get up and move out, staying low. Harvey keeps on your back. You don’t need to tell him where you’re going, he seems to get it. You circle around the guest house, figuring one dude isn’t worth your time when speed’s important. Cassandra will probably cover you if he shows up again.

You and Harvey cover ground quickly, and soon you’re walking down the ramp into the garage. Sure enough, there are like, twenty cars parked in it. It’s unoccupied. And then it isn’t.

>>32588503
sheeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttt

>>32588503
A couple big, remarkably hairy dudes in flak vests and khakhi shorts bust into the room at the far end. One has a machine gun, while the other brandishes an SMG. You and Harvey barely have time to take cover behind a tool chest before they start shooting up the place. Car alarms go off, glass explodes, and bullets burry themselves into concrete as echoing thunder blasts throughout the concrete chamber.

Although it’s well lit, you see that there are many light sources in the room – big ceiling lamps. It’s too well lit for your shadow magic to do any good. Across from you (and across the big guys’ avenue of fire) there’s a light switch, right by a big yellow hummer. Further up the garage on the right it looks like there’s a door, though you don’t know if it just leads into a closet or opens up into stairs you could use to go up.

The cars can give you some cover if you decide to advance on the gunmen, but right now this is getting too crazy, even for you. (+10 Stress: 29/100)

"We can lure them back outside," Harvey shouts over the din. But that would take time, and would they even follow you? Plus, you don't know who's watching the back yard from the windows now that the shooting's started and they know your position.

>What do you do?

>>32588538
Shoot out a light near the switch so you can use shadow magic shit to flip it?

>>32588538
About how far off are they?

>>32588538
I think we should use one (or both?) of our smoke grenades and tear them a new asshole.

>>32588538
Fireball on the light closest to the switch and then use shadows to flick the switch. Go on the offensive then

>>32588577
Oh shit, this is super smart. Might have Harvey do the shooting though since he's likely a better shot. We can give covering fire.

>>32588538
>Although it’s well lit, you see that there are many light sources in the room – big ceiling lamps.
Was this meant to say that there /aren't/ many light sources?

>>32588586
smoke grenades, flick the lights then start tearing assholes

>>32588577
>>32588586
Actually, fuck yeah, forgot about the smoke grenades.

>>32588577
But we never got the at range shadow manipulation. The shadows have to be touching Sierra and stretching to touch the thing we want to manipulate.

We need to get that ranged shadow skill..

>>32588579

About ~17 meters off.

>>32588613

I was of two minds while writing. There are about 5 big ceiling lamps.

>>32588634
>We need to get that ranged shadow skill..
All of the shadow skills are awesome. It looks like our main strategy in everything has been to rely on shadows a lot, so I'm personally going to be putting them on the second highest priority just below regen abilities.
>>32588641
We could totally shoot some of those out, then.

>>32588641
>About ~17 meters off.
Well that's a shame. I'd wanted to use Corrupt on their guns to disarm them for only 4PP.

“Popping a smoke,” you say, grabbing off one of your smoke grenades, twisting off the handle thing, and chucking it midway between you and the gunmen. You look at Harvey. “Did I say that right? Popping a smoke? That sounds kind of gay.” (-1 Stress: 28/100)

Harvey smiles and gives a chuckle.

The smoke grenade starts hissing and then begins jetting out thick plumes of white fog. In a matter of seconds, the whole place is getting choked with obfuscating smoke. The gunfire lessens, but keeps up – yet, you can tell it’s just suppressing fire without any real sustenance. You dodge across the gap and hit the lights. The room suddenly grows dark. There’s still a trickle of light coming from the far end of the room, likely the door the guards came through.

The darkness wraps around you like a comforter. (-5 Stress: 23/100)

It gets suspiciously quiet, the gunfire stopping. Are they advancing on you? Holding their ground? Will they turn the lights back on, or do they have flashlights? You could creep forward to get in range of some of your other abilities.

>What do you do?

>>32588748
Go for the jugular before they catch on what you are doing.

>>32588748
Could we use shadow magic to make a tapping noise on the other side of the garage or at least somewhere reasonably far away from where we're walking?

If yes, do the shadow noise distraction and creep up behind them for Dark Hearting and claw stabbening.

>>32588748
Find them, Sierra, find them and drink their blood.

>>32588798
And by that I mean kill the one and drink the other.

>>32588748
RIP AND TEAR

>>32588748
I really wish we had ranged shadows so we could just force choke people in dark rooms.

>>32588748
THIS IS WHY WE NEEDED THE NIGHT VISION!

>>32588748
Sierra you god damn nerd!

>>32588788
With your teeth

>>32588748
Advance cautiously, try to determine their position.

>>32588793
This sounds good if we can

We're moving up with a shadow distraction to make sound, and going in with claws swiping.

Gimme dices

>>32588748
Keep our ears peeled, with our enhanced hearing we should be able to hear them if they do much of anything.

Advance on them, try to get in range of our other abilities, use small touches of Shadow Grasp to soften our footfalls if we can, and make small noises elsewhere to throw them off. Get their scents if possible.

Rolled 43

>>32588948

Rolled 17

>>32588948
Fuck

Rolled 90

>>32588948

Rolled 30

>>32588948
TIME FOR NAT 100

>>32588966
Bretty good.

>>32588948
Make sure to use Dark Heart as well.

And can we Corrupt the gun of the one whose throat we aren't slitting? Just in case.

Rolled 76

>>32588948
Make sure to chain the dark heart in with it. Maybe a bite&drink really quick.

>>32588985

We can corrupt those guns, sure.

Also, dark heart now works passively whenever you touch-attack somebody.

>>32588985
>>32588997
If we're tearing their throats and faces off, I don't see the point in corrupting their guns. Seems like a waste of 2PP

>>32589015
Agreed. We've already burned enough PP.

>>32589042
I am going with this, we should conserve our resources what will the lost energy on the fence.

Also have we dropped of illusion of normality? I don't see the point in maintaining it atm.

>>32589015
third this

>>32589144
We may need to corrupt Languid's lawn though.

You peal around the edge of the hummer and advance, using the connected darkness between you and the other side of the garage to scrape against the cars opposite you. You smell them before you see them – the scent of stale sweat, of someone who doesn’t know what the word shower means. It’s disgusting. You throw your SMG over your back so it doesn’t get in the way. This is getting up close and personal.

You hone in on the scent, making your way through the blinding fog still billowing from your smoke grenade. Visibility is about three feet, if that. Then you come up on the first one.

You’re out of his blind spot. Your claws twitch as you move up – but something has changed. The shape isn’t the same as you saw earlier. He’s taller. More muscular. More…Hairy? And a lot tougher than you expected. (SMG guy: 25/25)

It’s too late to pull back now, though. You have to do everything now. You lunge forward and leap up. You try to seize him about the neck with your claws, but there’s impossibly too many muscles, and the thick, almost mane-like hair keeps you from cutting through the cords of muscle to get to anything vital. The warm press of cleaving tissue crowds your fingers and you feel a great surge of foreign power drain into your claws. (SMG guy: 13/25, +6 PP: 18/24)

>>32589385
More like whip some fire into it. Lawns love whips.

>>32589385
Nobody has that much PP dood. Maybe if we perform a blood sacrifice though...

>>32589420
The gunman lets out a sharp bleat of pain and lashes about as you try to jump back. You’re a second too slow - seizes you by an arm with a huge, hairy, sweaty hand, and heaves you over head with unexpected strength. Your world turns upside down, then right-side up again, and crash to the garage floor almost stunned. (-3 HP: 9/14) You get a glimpse of hairy, hooved feet, and see him move to bring the SMG to bear.

Reflexively, you burn your fear and anger at the surprise counterattack into the gun. The metal of the weapon darkens a shade and lets out a hideous shrieking noise as it absorbs the negative energy. (+2 Stress: 25/100, -2 PP: 16/24) The weapon literally sizzles in the creature’s hands. It balks and let’s go of the weapon, letting it clatter to the ground.

Before you can think about extracting yourself from the thing’s grip, it yanks you backward and bodily picks you up by both arms, crushing them firmly to your side and immobilizing your claws. It brings up to its face – long, filthy, hairy, and goat-like, with two curved ram-horns protruding from either side of its head. It bars its teeth at you and bleats angrily in your face. You fight to cram down the terror that rips in your gut (+10 Stress: 35/100)

>Panic.
>Struggle to break free.
>Bite his face.
>Headbutt his nose.
>Hellfire.
>Sap will.
>Other (?)

>>32589446
>>Bite his face.
Let's see what these things can do. Hopefully the Venom works on Hellborn.

>>32589446
>Hellfire.
>Bite his face.

Why not have both?

>>32589446
>Bite his face
ewewewew
poison test doe

>>32589446
>>Sap will.
>>Hellfire.

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>>32589483

>>32589446
>Bite his face.
>Hellfire.
Why yes, I could use some hp thank you.

>>32589446
Lets see how our poison works. After that is finished headbutt him with our horns.

>>32589446
>Bite his face.
Time to find out what that venom dose.

>>32589446
>Headbutt his nose.

>>32589446
>Hellfire
>Bite his face.

>>32589509
Exactly right, Anon. Exactly right.

So why do we keep picking guns when, every time we use them, we fail at it?

I'm getting the hellfire/bite/headbutt combo vibe.

Dice.

>>32589446
>Bite his face.
>Hellfire.
This has a small chance of killing him if we get max damage on one of the rolls and max or one less than max on the other.

But more likely we'll have to follow it up with curbstomping his face.

Rolled 51

>>32589548

Rolled 76

>>32589548

>>32589422
it would take much more the one measly sacrifice to gain the power needed to defeat Languid Lawn !
we are talking in the thousands

Rolled 93

>>32589548

Rolled 86

>>32589548

Rolled 31

>>32589548

Rolled 70

>>32589548
Please, gods.

Rolled 52

>>32589548

>>32589578
Fuck you too, gods!

Man I'm glad we didn't get nastyass goatman demon in our hodgepodge heritage.

Rolled 91

>>32589556
>>32589559
>>32589571
>>32589574
Hahaha, broken ribs incoming.

>>32589614
I guess we'll just have to drink this guy and his buddy that's hopefully getting shot by Harvey.

Rolled 1

>>32589548

>>32589635
Too late man, we gettin man handled by gruffs.

>>32589635
Are you fucking shitting me right now?

>>32589542
People want to be tacticool i guess.

>>32589571
>>32589574
>>32589578
>>32589614
Shadow Quest called guys, they want to know where you've got these rolls. In exchange they'll tell you where to find sub 30s rolls

>>32589635
crits get priority right... Right?

>>32589635
>1d1

anon pls

>>32589769
nope that a legit roll

>>32589784
it's 1d1OO, not 1d100

>>32589635
You aren't fooling anyone, and we don't appreciate it.

>>32589823
I fooled >>32589784
And I appreciated it.

>>32589799
lol my bad ...

You, however, fight best when a little afraid. Your instincts take over. You suddenly lurch forward and sink your chompers into his face – the goat man jerks backward out of your bite, but you’re left with the unsavory taste of acrid sweat in your mouth, mingled in equal part with a spicy, lively flavor of inhuman blood the likes of which you’ve never tasted before. It is delicious, and the experience of it rushes you with energy. (+2 HP: 11/14)

While he’s recoiling, you feel more of his energy draining out of him and into you, where his flesh makes contact with your arms – in fact, you’re certain he’s got no supernatural power left. (+4 PP: 20/24)

You smile bloodily and send a surge of fiery energy out of your claws. Immediately the scent of burnt hair drowns out nearly everything else. The firelight illuminates the demonic creature’s inhuman features and shining black eyes just long enough for you to savor his expression of hatred and pain immediately before you rock forward and headbutt him in the nose with your wicked as fuck horns. (-15 Stress: 20/100)

>>32589968

You collide with his face with a resounding crack, and you feel his bones give way – his grip fails at the shock of the blow, and you’re left to fall back to the ground – you land in a careful crouch, your arms smoking with blood and smoke.

The goatman keels backwards into a shivering heap. (Goatman: 2/25 HP) Despite his extensive injuries, he would look like he could be getting back up any second if it weren’t for the foam forming at the edges of his mouth and the way he’s started shaking uncontrollably. You giggle at the carnage. Blood and burns, claws and venom. Yes. (-3 Sanity: 97/100)

Suffice to say, the goatman’s probably not a threat anymore.

But the other goatman is.

The one with the machine gun clomps out of the shadow of the half-light, weapon at the ready. And then he is summarily swept onto the floor by a torrent of white lightning and a roar thunder, which originates somewhere from behind you. (MG Goatman: 15/25 HP) He baa’s out a curse and fumbles with the handgun in its quick holster, finding the machine gun sundered in two.

>What do you do?

>>32590011
Contempt on the handgun and then get in close

>>32590011
Corrupt the handgun. Try to hellfire claw his face while fire whipping at the same time.

That should stack enough hurt to kill him outright.

>>32590011
Blood and burns, claws and venom.
Second verse same as the first.

Rolled 88

>>32590011
>What do you do?
Cast that thingy that will make him drop his gun, then have fun in the dark.

>>32590011
>use fire whip

>>32590031
>>32590052
fuck corrupting

>>32590011
Shoot him a bunch with the smg

>>32590011

Forgot. Your PP is at 15/24.

>>32590011
>bite him
gotta heal up all the way

>>32590011
Shoot him.

>>32590011
BLAST HIM THE SMG! RIGHT IN THE FACE!

Also, spooky! We lost sanity!

>>32590011
> fcuking fire whip

>>32590011
Corrupt gun while fire whipping him as we move in close to claw the fuck out of him.


>>32590073
Dark heart a best.

>>32590011
Fire whip.

All right, we're fire whipping him, and if necessary, corrupting the gun. And then we're going to shred.

Dice, please.

Rolled 10

>>32590165

>>32590165

Rolled 18

>>32590165

Rolled 71

>>32590165
nat 1 incoming

>>32590172
>>32590178
this is better !

>>32590172
>Rip and tear

Rolled 6

Rolled 82

>>32590165

Rolled 36

>>32590186
I wish.

>>32590165
Dice!

Rolled 12

>>32590165

>>32590191
Amen brother

>>32590186
There's a one in it at least.

You know what would be rather effective and pretty damn funny?

Corrupting someone's underwear.

>>32590172
>>32590165
>And then we're going to shred.

http://youtu.be/RrLCteQlkUY?t=2m40s

This proves we are shitty with guns when fighting demons.

Rolled 72

>>32590212
whatever, I tried
the ten is good enough

>>32590219
Think if we used less PP it would itch rather then burn, because that's one hell of a way to get back at someone.

>Sanity loss

So there's two ways to just go full blown ebil demon then?

Wonder if the school counselor can help with that.

>>32590423
kek
tho its really too bad... i kinda wanted to inbrace the whole ripping people to shreds part of us

>>32590423
San loss seems to be harder to get but a bigger deal if we let it build up.

>>32590011
Our poison seems pretty effective. Wonder if we could milk our fangs (like snake handlers) and have Isaac apply the venom to his bolts to kill demons faster.

Then again, that might be a bit too evil.

>>32590520
whaaat ? how is that evil ?

>>32590520
Demon venom and holy weapons might not mix well either.

You brace yourself and whip a hand behind you, channeling a surge of power down your arm and into your finger tips, catching them all steadily ablaze. (-2 PP: 13/24) A tip of concentrated light and heat forms just in front of your index and middle claws, and you shift forward, hurling your arm around as you do so. The pinpoint of light lengthens out into a fiery line of searing heat as you bring your arm through the arc, which catches as if running out of line, and whips forward.

The burning lash cuts forward and down at the fallen goat man, and you jerk backward as you were practicing just a couple days ago. The fire whip cracks over the demon’s wrist and explodes, blasting his arm and chest with fire, and blows off a couple of his fingers.

The demon shrugs away from you as you advance, trying to go for the weapon with his other, non-mangled hand. You don’t let him. You advance, whipping him over and over again with the white hot cord of flame. (Goatman: 8/25)

When you’re close enough, you let the whip dissipate into a crackle of sparks and smoke, and pounce, claws at the ready.

>>32590520
It also caused Sanity loss. Sanity loss is bad, mmmkay.

>>32590608


You tear into him, claws cutting through his flak jacket like it was tissue paper. His power flows into you as you rend his flesh into bloody strips and worse. (+5 PP: 18/24) You hit bones and keep cutting – there is no relenting, no mercy.

You feel Harvey over your shoulder. “I think it’s dead, Sierra,” he says.

You pause and look down at your quarry. Partially charred, reduced to a hunk of steaming meat. (MG Goatman: 0/25) And blood everywhere, as usual, though its new aroma seems delightfully different than what you’ve encountered so far. “Yeah,” you pant, your breathing hard. “Dead.”

This fight is over, but you can still hear gunshots. This reprieve will be momentary. (-2 Stress: 18/100)

>Let’s keep moving.
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]
>Other (?)

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

>>32590612
I think seeing the result of the venom is what caused the SAN loss, not the actual venom

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]
Or just turning around is fine. Or not. I guess he can look if he wants.

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

"I mean you don't have to, but this ain't gonna be pretty."

>>32590650
>>Let’s keep moving.

>>32590650
>Let's keep moving.

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

>>32590650
>Let’s keep moving.
>Other: Check them for radios? Could tap into the enemy chatter.

Gotta keep that feeding in check. Seriously.

>>32590650
>Let’s keep moving.
Our HP isn't terrible, lets keep moving.

>>32590689
This.

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

Goats are delicious

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

>>32590658
>>32590676
>>32590689
>>32590706
I'm telling you guts, excessive feeding will lead to something nasty.

It already sounds like a drug.

>>32590817
Isaac said it was fine.

>>32590817
Issac siad its normal, and as long as we don't eat humans, we should be good.

>>32590650
>Let’s keep moving.
>>32590817
>>32590851
>>32590870
Isaac is not omniscient. We're eating half-demons.

>>32590896
I trust Isaac more than some anons with an agenda.

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]
yeah lets get this over with.

>>32590650
>Go stand over there for a second. [Feed]

>>32590851
>>32590870
It's still gross! She's basically tripping balls from the smell alone.

Ugh, we really need a better regen ability so we can stop all this blood sucking. Blaaah!

>>32590930
we are 1/4 vampire

>>32590896
You are what you eat

>>32590870
>Issac said it's normal
He also said going insane and exploding was normal.

>>32590968
I'll vampire you!

>>32590968
I actually think the Blood Taste thing comes more from our Infernus heritage than our Belphegoran side, Inferni seem to be attuned with blood, and it only works after we kill something.

It's more like a ritual part of a hunt to take our prey's strength as our own than a traditional vampire.

>>32590916
The 'agenda' is not going nuts.
>>32590992
So are you human if you eat humans? That phrase is pointless.

>>32591077
So we might start gaining the powers of what we feed on?

Or have the option of gaining such powers, anyway.

You’re going to need to keep your strength up if you hope to stay in this fight to the end. “Hey Harvey, cover your eyes or something,” you say, dropping down over the corpse. The thick, metallic scent of it is almost irresistible.

“Ew,” he says jokingly. “Do your thing, I’ll watch your back,” he says.

A few moments later, the two of you approach the door the goat men came out of, you feeling right as rain. (HP: 14/14) “Man this is so cool,” you say, as the two of you proceed through the door and into a hallway. Thumps of explosions and barks of gunfire sound through the ceiling, muffled. What a rush! This is way better than COD. (-2 Stress: 16/100)

The hallway you’re in continues forward, while a set of stairs to your right leads upward, presumably to the first floor. Straight ahead the hallyway ends at a door, and branches to the left and the right.

You hear somebody talking from down the hall, perhaps on the other side of the door.

“You think they got ‘em?”

“Of course they got them, they stopped shooting.”

“Should we go see if they’re okay?”

“That’s not our job.”

“Dude, I’m checking.”

You also hear voices drifting down from the stairwell.

“Fuck man, we’re dead, we’re so dead.”

“Calm the fuck down and do what the big lady told you to do.”

>Turn off the lights.
>Take stairs.
>Go forward.
>Other (?)

>>32591183
Not the thing to do now, but at some point we gotta drag our claws along the wall as we walk towards someone. Bonus points if it's metal so it screeches.

>Turn off the lights.

>>32591183
>Turn off the lights.
>Go forward.

The game I'm playing is Murder in the Dark

>>32591183
>Turn off the lights.

>>32591139
I expect blood of more powerful beings is just going to be better at healing us. Like the difference between drinking soda or an energy drink to perk up.

>>32590650
Since we aren't too hurt, could we just lick the blood off our claws for a point or two to avoid wasting too much time? A spray in the mouth seems to be enough going by goat dude #1

>>32591183
>>Take stairs.
>Turn off the lights.

>>32591183
>>Turn off the lights.
>Other: Wait until you can knick-knack the guy silently.

>>32591183
>>Turn off the lights.
>>Take stairs.

Also, your recent tango with the goat men has made you feel slightly more powerful. Choose one of the following.

-Infernus-
Fire Resistance
>Most fire isn't hot enough to phase you.
Explosive Flare
>A wave of fire explodes off of you, setting everything nearby ablaze.
Blood Curse
>You cause the blood of your target to become unstable, greatly weakening it. (Target takes increased damage, loses any buffs and suffers penalties to healing)

-Verwelken-
Atramentous Dominion
>You do not have to have physical contact with shadows to manipulate them. Darkness outside of close range takes more power to control.
Child of Night
> Darkness gives you a bonus to armor.
Shadow Sight
>You can see as well in the dark as you do in the light.

-Belphegoran-
Terrorizing Glare
>Make eye contact with a target, filling it briefly with horrific, all-consuming fear. (Low cost, ranged debuff)
Soul Drinker
>Rip power from a target opponent at touch, and add it to your own. (Drain: 10 PP, Cost: 3 PP)
Inflict Pain
>Ignite an opponent’s senses with a crippling overload of pain. (High cost, powerful debuff)

>>32591183
>>Turn off the lights.

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight

>>32591281
Atramentous Dominion
>You do not have to have physical contact with shadows to manipulate them. Darkness outside of close range takes more power to control.

This one. Lets force-choke these fuckers in the dark.

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight
>>You can see as well in the dark as you do in the light.

>>32591281
Shadow Sight, see everything.

Especially given how much we rely on stealth.

>>32591253

The 2 HP from one taste of blood is only because it's the first time you had goat man blood. It takes more blood than that to heal you to full.

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight
>>You can see as well in the dark as you do in the light.

>>32591281
Shadow Sight
>You can see as well in the dark as you do in the light.

Uuugh. They're all so good.

>>32591183
>Turn off the lights.
>>32591281
Blood Curse

>>32591281
Any of the Verwelken powers I want.

In order of want
>Child of Night
>Shadow Sight
>Atramentous Dominion

Armour is good, and we lack any natural armor.

Rolled 82

>>32591281
>Blood Curse
That sounds disgustingly useful for fighting enemies that can buff themselves, like literally anything magical.

>Child of Night
>Shadow Sight
I love passive buffs.

So, any of those three is fine with my. Can I split my vote like that? It's not like I'm samefagging a single option multiple times.

>>32591281
Inflict pain all the way. Shit yeah.

>>32591281
>Explosive Flare

I won't lie, I just want to burn things

>>32591281
>Child of Night

>>32591281
>Blood Curse

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight

is the most practical although I really want terrorizing glare eventually

>>32591281
>Child of Night

We always try to fight in the dark.
We always end up going to the RIP AND TEAR.

Darkness armour just makes sense.

>>32591281
>Blood curse

>>32591281
raw damage
passives
Debuffs,
Its so hard to choose.

>>32591183
How many of these guys do we think might pass out or flee if we kill the lights and yell something like LET'S PLAY in our best psycho killer voice?

>>32591281
If there's enough residual light about for us to get by as-is this mission, then atramentous dominion seems most useful right now. Otherwise, we probably need shadow sight for us to be able to make good effective use of our shadow powers without hamstringing ourselves anyway.

>>32591281
Child of Night
> Darkness gives you a bonus to armor.
Shadow Sight
>You can see as well in the dark as you do in the light.

>>32591281
>Child of Night

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight

>>32591281
Soul Drinker
>Rip power from a target opponent at touch, and add it to your own. (Drain: 10 PP, Cost: 3 PP)

>>32591281
>Shadow Sight

>>32591379
Blood curse will probably be wanted very soon. We'll need it for bigger boss fights, or the most powerful lieutenants.

>>32591281
>Inflict Pain

>>32591281
Going for child of night, we don't get any do overs.

>>32591281
What's the range on Blood Curse?

>>32591582
I think our two biggest priorities are Inflict Pain and Blood Curse.

Inflict Pain means we can give someone a bigass debuff so Issac and crossbow them in the eyes without any trouble, and Blood Curse means that self buffers, and regeners fall apart.

>>32591641
I am thinking child of night is better (don't count this I already voted), as it gives us some leeway for shit rolls.

>>32591641
We also want to make sure we don't exclusively vote for one powerset, to make sure no one lineage becomes dominant.

I agree with you about Inflict Pain and Blood Curse, though (and I have a feeling the big-bad demon will have buffs and healing).

>>32591402
it'd be great for if we get mobbed, but would be of limited use fighting with allies close by

>>32591431
Seeing what we're ripping and tearing makes more sense.

Also, pretty sure one of the demons tonight is Verwelken.

I'm surprised nobody went for the fire immunity.

You stop for a second to flip off the light, knowing somebody’s about to come in. The hall becomes completely pitch black. No windows, underground. There is no light. So why can you see everything perfectly?

You don’t see color. It’s more texture. It’s like your eyes are picking up the way the darkness around you weighs down on everything. There are no shadows or shades or lighting. Everything is a canvass of monochromatic surfaces.

You watch Harvey crouch down and aim ahead at the door at the end of the hallway. Light bleeds through under the edge of it, an unwelcome smudge of warm color in an otherwise cool, peaceful plane of darkness.

You hear the soft trick of a bolt turning in the door – the guy is coming through.

>Shoot through the door.
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.
>Rush him.
>Other (?)

Yo guys blood curse sounds great and all but it ain't THE GREATEST.

Rowan could dispel it with this ability:
>Hallow Ground: Pour heavenly energy into the ground, dissipating hostile energy or spell-craft that passes over it.

And if Rowan can do it, other people can do it too. So don't expect it to be some perma huge debuff, people will be able to remove it.

>>32591710
>Wait to confirm target.

>>32591710
>Wait for him to open the door, then shoot

>>32591710
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.
Oh man this is badass. Shadows drag him into the darkness as he kicks and screams? Yes please.

>>32591710
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.

>>32591710
>>Other (?)
Wait to see who it is and then RIP AND TEAR

>>32591710
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.

Shadow mobbing a go

>>32591710
Let him open the door, use a bit of Shadow Crawl to make sure he doesn't immediately see us, take our time to line up our shot, and shoot him multiple times with a silenced weapon.

>>32591710
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.
Doesn't immediately injure him grievously, but it does put him in position to get rekt fast.

>>32591710
Make sure it isn't one of ours then
>Grab him with shadows and rip him out.

>>32591700
If I remember right, we aren't going against any big infernus types today which is when that would be most useful. So it's probably best to save that for later.

>>32591710
confirm it's not a friend, then drag him in by the ankles. Time to be a haunted house; after all, these guys seem spooked already.

>>32591721
But we're not fighting angels

yet

You guys hear that? It's the sound of Twilight standing around somewhere with a smug grin on his face, knowing that shit is going down right about now.

>>32591847
demons probably have some equivalent

>>32591869
As long as he's feeding us bad guys, he can be as smug as he likes.

As soon as he betrays us, he's getting a face full of fire whip

>>32591740
Pretty sure this is the door we heard worried mooks talking behind, so we know they're targets. Still, being the boogiegirl and dragging the poor sucker screaming into unnatural blackness with living shadows would also give us the chance to eyeball him before we claw him up just in case.

The door cracks open, silhouetting a guy with a revolver and a leather jacket. He squints into the darkness, and says, “Who turned out the –“

You throttle him with darkness. It slithers along the ground, cutting into the light, wraps around his ankles, and tears him toward you. At the same time, you slam the door shut again with an overpressure of shadow, leaving everything in the dark. (-5 PP: 14/25) He fires twice, wildly, before you get on him and wrench the gun out of his hand. You feel his skin go cold beneath your touch. (+2 PP: 16/25)

“Jack!” comes a yell from the other side of the door. You hear something fall over. “Quit moving!”

Jack’s wide eyes are featureless orbs in your shadow sight, with only slight raises indicating his irises. “Oh god oh god,” he says, as you press a claw beneath his throat. You could kill him with a twitch of your finger.

Harvey waits in the dark, weapon fixed on the doorway.

>What do you do?

>>32592002
>twitch your finger

>>32592002
whisper to him
"Give me a reason to let you live...."

Whoops. Accidentally did the dice rolling on my own. Sorry about that. Anyway, you rolled a 26.

>>32592002
Where are the demons?