Tonight

tonight's adventure
<Enker> *"You will use this to retrieve her. That feline could prove to be quite a nuisance if we don't rein her back in. Killing her might not even slow her down; my understanding is that she'd find some way or another to come back from the dead, even without other forces manipulating her cycle of reincarnation." Rofocale produced a jagged, star-like pendant, emerald and amethyst in appearance...and
<Enker> as Anya waits for him to remove it from around his neck...*
<Enker> *......*
<Enker> *......?*
<Enker> *The monk folds her arms across her chest and peers at Rofocale. "...are you going to just keep holding it like that, Rofocale?" A pause, then the monk narrows her eyes. "...this isn't the time for practical jokes. Will I need it or not?"*
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<Enker> *The armored archdemon eventually grunts and puts the pendant away. "Perhaps you will not need it. You have already been well augmented enough by the spirits you now hold. They should not stand a chance against your might. What that I were not trapped in this miserable mask, truly, without any need for calculation, we would be unstoppable together."*
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<Enker> *Anya stares at Rofocale for a moment, seeming just a little tense at his actions (or lack thereof), then sighs and nods faintly. "They shall be sufficient if I use them properly. In this realm, nothing, truly, is a guarantee." She turns and proceeds to head out of the tower chamber, though glances back at him. "If all else fails, then...I shall reach out to my wayward creation, The Lake
<Enker> of Eternal Joy. Especially if those like the Red Prince or Feferi decide to get involved...which they undoubtedly will, whenever you actually get around to making your push." And with that she heads out*
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<Enker> *Rofocale stands there for just a bit longer, demon mask as unflinching as always. He then heads over to one of the windows. The Manor shadow hung over everything in the forest, the industry around the castle was in a constant bustle, troops from many other worlds would constantly be flooding it. "It doesn't matter how many of my soldiers they kill. I've already WON, don't you SEE? I've
<Enker> already gamed the multiverse enough to have a limitless supply of troops! Technology from those other worlds is enough to lay waste to this one a hundred times over! Don't you understand? I'm being merciful."*
<Enker> *"I was an effective administrator even back then! I kept losses for the armies of hell to a MINIMUM. I made sure that Hell had everything it NEEDED to be able to stand against Heaven as well as it did! And for that, do you know what I was called?" Rofocale clasps a black gauntleted hand around that pendant...and soon would start to squeeze it in frustration, as if trying to break it.
<Enker> "It was different back then, but roughly put in modern terms, a pencil pusher."*
<Shironu> ~Somewhere, far off within the manor proper, a pair of twins fell to their knees with matching cries of pain, hand clutching at their chests. It lasted only a moment, but as the darker of the two would say, it hurt like fucking hell.~
<Enker> *"So yes, yes. I'm doing quite well for what I have to work with. I could have killed both your precious cheshire and panther quite easily. I could kill everyone you love quite easily. And yet, I haven't yet, have I? Will I ever, if they prove themselves useful?" A brief pause, then Rofocale continues, "What does it even matter to you anymore? Corruption already runs through your
<Enker> veins~. I sense the base desires and designs you have for the Manor and the people within it~. You fled to me because you couldn't face what you'd let yourself become, figured I'd be the lesser of two evils~."*
<Delesta> (Del:"The difference now, Rofocale, I'll push that fucking pencil into you.")
<Enker> *"And so, with all of that said..." Rofocale pulls at pendant, tries to lift it up off his head, yanks hard at the chain until his arm starts to quiver. "...why won't you let me REMOVE THIS?"*
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<Enker> *Out in the forest, approaching that barracks near to the edge of it, that frontier where so many troops had been slain and devoured, a franciscan monk with a cardinal skullcap could be seen by the cheshire and Zoe. There were still holdouts in the building proper, but they wouldn't be fighting back at this point*
<Zoe_Twinscythe> We take you back, back to a desperate battle, back to an endless distraction, back to where a blue haired *heroine* provided cover for an orphan on what may be a suicide mission. What color was demon blood? A question answered easily by simply glancing at the blue haired bandit queen wielding a double bladed scythe which had once slain a god as she went about her grim work. Troops flowing in from other multiverses which
<Zoe_Twinscythe> Roflocale's corrupt hand had touched, locked in a struggle which winning was a questionable proposition. How long had she been fighting now? How much longer would she be able to? A purple blur of energy surrounded her as she struck down demon after demon, but there was a cost to be paid, a cost in blood, because she was no god, she was just a woman with a very powerful weapon which destroyed her essence to use for too long.
<Zoe_Twinscythe> Injuries were beginning to pile up, little by little, the mooks would get a hit in on her, wounds shifted away to the background with every strike, they'd not wounded her mortally, but they were wearing her down, it was determination keeping her going for now, determination, and the hope that a certain brown haired girl sneaking into the castle would be successful in her mission, because if she wasn't...A certain blue haired
<Zoe_Twinscythe> woman would probably be taking Zi up on her offer to take her soul...Then a new challenger arrived, a Monk. Zoe turned towards her, raising an eyebrow, "Well..." she took a deep breath, a deep wound seen through a slashed hole in her shirt sealed itself in an ugly looking scar, "You're new. And you're tougher looking than most this riffraff...Take it you're a boss, aren't you?" =====================  Elsewhere, Said brown
<Zoe_Twinscythe> haired girl had moved deeper into the complex, perhaps with the help of a cardboard box, perhaps not, arguing the semantics and the usefulness of boxes as stealth tools was for the bird. She'd made it in, now, ducked behind a pillar in one of the early rooms in the castle, she planned her next move, a next move made more and more complicated by the fact that demons seemed to be coming out of nowhere at this point, Chocolate
<Zoe_Twinscythe> found herself intensely wishing she wasn't on her own for this.
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<Delesta> There is a rustling in Zoe's bag, the feeling of something just...thrashing about a bit. It was somewhat weak, trying to get her attention it would seem!
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<Shironu> ~Back to the battlefield while the player fends off an adorable kitten nibbling her fingers. The cheshire extraordinare didn't even seem wounded yet...a little winded, perhaps, after staving off the reinforcements in the forest, but none had yet to do much damage to her. horray for long-range skills. Of course that might all change now, as violet eyes set on the new arrival to the killing ground, a familiar face to slitted pupils.. "...
<Shironu> well, this is...unexpected..I never believed to find you within this place again..much less on a demons' side.."
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<Enker> *Anya soon closes the distance between herself and the two catgirls. "A 'boss', no, I am not some mere political figure or management cog. I am here to convince you to cease what you are doing." She looks to Zahra and clasps her hands in front of herself. "Being in Rofocale's service is convenient. Still, his methods do cause a great deal of suffering. And isn't that what you wanted to
<Enker> end, Zahra?"*
<Shironu> ~"End suffering? I couldnt care less...All I want is to get Enker back, and protect the manor..you've armies enough to ctake over any dimension you want..why bother with this place at all now?" well she wasn't anything short of honest..
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<Zoe_Twinscythe> Zoe noted the rustle in her backpack, paused and shrugged it off her back to the ground. The motion was subtle, but she did unclasp the main opening in it so a certain cub might creep out of it if she so desired. Zoe stared the Monk down, well on her guard, thinking back to the fight she'd had with Runesoul, a monk with centuries of experience...this probably was gonna suck, "Cease what we are doing eh?" She asked, "Yeah,
<Zoe_Twinscythe> sure, no problem. Call your forces off, leave the manor in piece, and Surrender. No further blood needs to be shed." She spoke these demands simply and with a smile, the sort of smile which expects an answer of course, but still... ================== Chocolate moved from pillar to pillar, cover to cover. For as many demons might be coming in, they were still not on guard for an infiltrator, not with all the noise and combat
<Zoe_Twinscythe> going on in the forest, the small catgirl used that to her advantage as she tried to make her way deeper into the castle, trying to find it's secrets.
<Enker> *Anya waves a hand, giving the two of them a rather disdainful look. "Rofocale wishes to conquer this world for its unique properties, branching across time, space, and unseen dimensions of reality so readily. The Goddess wishes to be freed from her own suffering. As for myself..." She simply smiles as she shifts into a fighting stance. "Like the Goddess, I, too, wish to end suffering.
<Enker> This world and what it contains shall be effective tools for such."*
* Zoe_Twinscythe frowned, shifting deeper into her own fighting stance, "Ending suffering by force doesn't work." the blood covered woman spoke, "It escalates, again, and again and again until you've killed everything, and you're all that is left." She narrowed her eyes, "That's what you want? Well...you're not going to have it. Force might not be a resolution to problems, but when we've reached the impasse we seem to be at now, I
* Zoe_Twinscythe suppose you won't leave me another viable option, you're not taking my home, not after I've already lost one." Zoe stood ready for the conflict to come.
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<Delesta> And the shoulder bag went to the ground with a thump, the rustling stopped for a moment as the cub within growled. Though this was more at Zoe than anything else. Who does like being dropped on their ass while unable to see anyways! After a few moments, she stiired a bit, the cub slowly inching it's way toward the entrance and nudging the flap open before it slowly padded it's way outside
<Delesta> and just pauses...looking to Anya directly, with a nice low growl. And not a quiet one either.
<Shironu> 
ACTION just gave a glare. Figures, damn evil bastards..couldn't even leave the small places alone.. "Like Zoe said..this force brings nothing but more pain...so i'll say just once more. Give me back Enker and I won't cover this entire forest in neurotoxin strong enough to kill space whales in seconds!" her eyes flared a brilliant blood red, her power erupting up around her hands, mimicing the flames of rage she felt within.  She was gettin
<Shironu> - She was getting her elf back, one way or another, even if it meant cutting through a past ally..
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<Enker> *The principle she already knows. The same sort of determination manifesting in the other catgirl towards such a narrow goal. The sheer WEAKNESS present in the panther cub! The monk looks barely able to contain her laughter, runes of all sorts of colors lighting up under her robes, all around her body, and soon brilliant light would exude from her thin frame. "I am not a mere mortal. I
<Enker> am not a god, either. I became a shapeshifter through my research, learned to adjust almost every part of myself with ease, and apparently even back then in Atleyn of old I was capable of much greater feats. I tore apart gods just to know how they functioned, just to find out if there was something, anything, that could put an end to suffering contained within them." What would seem
<Enker> to be glowing like chakra points within her would rearrange themselves into a qlippothic tree while wings of fire, wings of darkness, angelic and demonic, four pairs total, would push out of her back*
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<Selissa> "...Pff. Moron. That's all?" The eye opened again. The vast red eye that had consumed so many demons over the past week, staring at that monk as a strange voice emanated from it. It sounded, unsurprisingly, somewhat like Rin, like the one who had called it. But there was another mixed with it, a harsher tone than she ever used - masculine, hateful, its every word spitting on the idea of
<Selissa> peaceful conversation. "How stupid do you have to be to look for something like /that/?" It didn't move though, did not join in on this fight - Only watched and insulted.
* Zoe_Twinscythe chuckled, "What is it with godforms having an impractical number of wings as if it's some kinda fuckin status symbol?" She spun the scythe about, "Let me help you trim those down dear, you'll look less STUPID when I'm done with you!" She shouted, and with the purple glow flowing from her eyes completely blocking out the woman's natural eyes, she was on the move, faster than she'd been fighting the mooks, stronger,
* Zoe_Twinscythe The scythe glowed on her hands as she blinked from point to point, moving in for a strike before disappearing from Anya's view, Behind her? Above? What was the blue haired cat playing at? Regardless, using up this much power was going to cost her eventually, but for now, she was pushing her limits and taking that weapon of hers to the next level. The strike which came at Anya was a cut towards one of the demoic
* Zoe_Twinscythe wings, lightening fast, coming from a flanking angle, the sound of the sky itself being cut as the scythe arced through the air toward's Anya's body...
<Shironu> ~The cat...just rolled her eyes. "Jeeze, everyones boasting about killing gods. doesn't seem so hard to me, if they're fallin like flies.." ever the sarcastic thing. She was taking no chances or playing around this time as her power flared, reaching out to everything within a couple hundred yards of the battlefield. Clouds of pollen began to rise up from the trees, catching the updrafts as the flying beings battled. She'd have to wait f
<Shironu> or zoe to get away from the winged monk before activating the poisons within the clouds...she always hated team ups. 'where the hell is that girl with the pendant?  i would have just fillen this whole forest with neurotoxin by now..
<Delesta> The cub looked...unimpressed at the monk and her exposition. The demoness didn't care about some winged creature who was doing all of this talking and various other annoyances. She had a goal in mind. One that would be rather.....well deadly to herself should Anya be keen to what was going on. Nevermind the fact that Rofocale would know rather quickly what she was doing. Not that it was
<Delesta> gonig to stop her. Zoe mounted her attack, the cub stepping back and stretching out her paws upon the ground with a low growl. Waiting for enough of a distraction for her to begin.
<Zoe_Twinscythe> ============== Somewhere else, Chocolate had found a fairly quiet and forgotten room, somewhere the demons weren't flowing in, She rummaged through her bag, pulling out some gems and arranging them in a pattern on an old and dusty carpet, "Alright Blue...I hope these work." The gems were a waypoint, Zoe'd told Chocolate to use them once she got into the castle to call in a little backup, supposing the gatecrasher was up for
<Zoe_Twinscythe> it, she should be able to lock onto it and join the catgirl in her sneaking mission, but Chocolate did have instructions to move on without her if she delayed more than a few minutes.