Amon's horror at seeing Suzunabu vanishes ironically at Suneko's order; she doesn't even get past 'you're stil under contract' before Amon can tell from the slur in her voice that her technique was successful - her eardrums overwhelmed by her sonic technique, Suneko is temporarily DEAF! This is perfect - she already has such poor control over her summons.... if Amon can just buy a few seconds, it could turn the tide of this entire battle.
Just as Suzunabu says 'I refuse', Amon pounces at her chance; before Suneko manages to read her lips, she distracts her as best she can, while exploiting her deafness to carry her voice across the battlefield free of the great 'sensor ninja's' scrutiny. Producing her last 'smoke bomb', Amon sprints forward, and shouts to Suzunabu
"Suzunabu, quick! Step towards me before your son inhales this!" and hurls the bomb, whereupon it explodes into foul smoke. The whole affair completely drowns out Suneko's complaint about her authority with the contract
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Amon moves to (10,13). She throws her Saruhire poison gas bomb to fill (9-10,8-9). It should expand by 5 feet in all directions next turn. If I got the grid right, Suzunabu should be just outside the gas limits, as should her son, but Suneko is not so lucky
Just for fun, have Suneko roll her saving throw. She can only fail on a roll of 1, but if she does she'll take (2d4)[3] Intelligence damage
Amon quickly turned her attention on Suzunabu.
"Suzunabu, before she can properly invoke her contract, get out of here, now - this is no place for your child, anyway! Let not your kind heart serve her wickedness!" She indicates quickly, before Suneko can clear herself of the poison fog, to the nearest corner, which should also be the direction Yousuke came from after dropping off his innocent.
"If there is no way out of your contract, no loophole that would restrict you from her service, at least safeguard the youth - now hurry lest my poison or the heat of take him!"
Taking advantage of the stolen senses of teh summoner, Amon shouts across the battlefield.
"CYBELE, Suneko is temporarily deaf and shall remain so for at least 15 seconds more!" she informs Cybele.
"If we want to run, now's our opening to escape! If we want to fight, now is also that opening!" For a jounin, she seems to be a complete *****. That or she's too dumb to summon something more obedient "If we try and corner her, she may summon something far more powerful, so be ready to break her focus!"
Seeing Yousuke and Houshi pound Obana as best they can, Amon surmises she will likely just vanish as the earlier oni did, or at least she severely hopes so.
"Obana, if we should meet again, let it be in cooperation - your talents are wasted in this woman's service."
When Suneko emerges, no doubt furiously, from the poison mist, she's met by Amon's biggest grin - her most punchable expression she can muster to best distract the crumbling Jounin as she hopes Obana poofs out and Suzunabu runs from the heat of battle as instructed. She mouths 'disgraceful' as obviously as she can
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