Artillery Strike

There is some dissent among the voices as to how to handle this and Take listens as the voices state their ideas. As she listens she does follow one part of the plan which is to drop some Caltrops around the area. With that done she heads back down to get Malphiel and Saffiel and tell them the plans the voices have suggested.

Saffiel's condition has worsened, the demonic tendrils spreading further, one wrapped around her throat now, but mercifully not capable it seems of squeezing, another has reached down, visibly moving underneath her suit and has wrapped around her right breast. Like the one at her neck it does not seem to be doing anything yet, but it's clear that its presence is causing discomfort.

Saffiel is breathing heavily when she and Malphiel discuss with Take, but Malphiel and Take both choose not to comment on her clearly worsening condition.

"Taking the priestess hostage is definitely a viable strategy, but I'm not sure about bringing her elsewhere, we don't know exactly how the time distortion works. If we leave with her, she might just end up right back at the artillery like nothing happened," Malphiel worries.

"I am for ending this quickly. The idea of simply tossing a grenade into the ritual sounds good to me. Even if it doesn't immediately kill our foes, it will cause disruption," Saffiel suggests.

"I do think the idea of you two distracting while I go deal with the Priestess is a good one, perhaps some combination of these ideas?" Take suggests and the other two nod.

"Grenade, then Malphiel and I distract them and deal with the flier. While that's happening Take can deal with the Priestess, either just taking her hostage or killing her outright," Saffiel offers as a plan and Take and Malphiel nod in agreement.

The three of them head up the hill, Malphiel brings the **** angel with her, but deposits her on the ground as far from the artillery as she can before continuing.

Take still cloaked gets as near as she can to the Priestess, holding the grenade at the ready. The Flier spots the angels coming, but just as they are about to yell out an alarm, Malphiel blasts them with an angelic ray. The ray hits and sears through their wing, but they manage to remain flying and return fire. At the same time however, Take throws the grenade which strikes in the center of the sigil. It explodes and shrapnel tears through the Priestess who lets out a shriek of surprise and pain. The two demons drawing the sigil turn to Take, but find Take standing over the fallen Priestess. Take grabs her by the hair and lifts her head, sliding the bladed end of the Kusarigama against her throat.

The flier comes crashing down nearby, taken down by the sustained fire from the two angels. The demons carefully approach Take, "Let her go," one says and Take shakes her head. They take another step forward and step on one of the Caltrops letting out a pained yell and collapsing backwards onto their ass. The other one glances down, spotting now the caltrops scattered on the ground.

"How..." they start before Malphiel is behind them and wraps an arm around their throat. Saffiel moving to pin the injured one down as well.

"That was easier than expected," Saffiel says and Malphiel nods. Take looks around.

"This was easy... Too easy," she mutters and then the demon held by Malphiel calls out.

"Wait don't the sigil isn't finished!" he cries and Take is surprised as she hears the Priestess respond.

"I will die to take the Chosen with me!" as her hand on the unfinished sigil starts to glow.

"Fuck!" Take yells and slices the Kusarigama across her throat, but it's too late.

The sigil is glowing now as the Priestess drops face down, released by Take.

Above clouds start to form and then again, the artillery rains down. With the sigil unfinished the attack is random, but centered on the sigil itself. Balls of demonic energy slam into the hill haphazardly. Malphiel and Saffiel release their prisoners to hurry to Take's side, luckily since moments later a burst of falling energy hits and disintegrates the two demons.

The three women huddle together as **** rains around them, but by pure luck. They are spared. When the cloud stops and the broken sigil becomes dormant, they are all still alive and unharmed. The hill is destroyed, but the spot they had been standing remains untouched.

The three of them glance around and share a relieved smile as they survived this tiny localized apocalypse, but then Malphiel's eyes widen.

"The **** angel!" she screams and the three hurry down to where she was. The area is covered in craters, but there's no sign of the angel.

"A terrible shame..." Saffiel says the other two looking disappointed.

"We did it though. The Ritual and the Artillery have been stopped, we can go back now," Malphiel says weakly.

Combat: Artillery Crew

Difficulty: 20

Numbers +4

Demon Priestess +5

Demonic Magic +10

Suicide Attack +10

Flying Demon +5

Caltrops -5

Ambush Tactic -10

Hostage -10

Grenade -10

Kusarigama -3

Angelic Rays -5

Angelic Armor (Saffiel) -3

Chain Mail Body Suit -4

Biker Armor -1

Final Difficulty: 3

Take's Roll: 15

Result: success

(Health: 100%

Mana: 80%

Equipment: Kitsune Mask (shattered), black leather dress (Torn), fishnet bodysuit (torn), Silk chest wrap (Shredded), silk panties (punctured), Thick leather armor (-2, shredded reduced to -0 until repaired), Biker's armor (-1), Kusarigama (-3), Ninjato(-3), 3xKunai, 1xSmokebomb, 3xCaltrops, black catsuit.

Inventory: A smooth pretty stone, A blood red whip, Slutty dress, Animate Golem Spellbook, creepy potion, angelic key, winged key, The Horned Helmet, The Crushers, vial of semen, 2xChallenge gears.

Status Effect:

Spells known: Cloak (Lvl 1, mastered, Mana Cost: 10%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

Fetish: Submission Lvl 1

Oral Lvl 1.

Party: Malphiel

Malphiel Health: 100%

Malphiel Mana: 60%

Malphiel Equipment: Cracked Visor, Chainmail Body Suit (-4).

Malphiel Spells Known: Angelic Rays (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 20%), Heavenly Soothing (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%), Retribution (Lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 100%, unusable, triggers automatically at 0% hp if Malphiel has enough Mana to trigger it).

Malphiel Status Effect: Broken Wings. Combat level lowered to Medium, cannot fly.

Touch of Corruption. Maximum Mana and Health set to half of normal. Loses access to God's Light, God's Judgment and Divine Grace.

Addicted to sex. More easily aroused and more willing to engage in all manner of sexual activity regardless of context.

Third Floor Gear Challenge: Kill 10 demonic or angelic forces before leaving the floor. Nephilim does not count as either. The commander of either army only counts as 1. Completed