[NEXUS] WATCHTOWER 15: New and Improved!

[FireFox]

[Training Grounds]

Maybe you should look into expanding your limited skill set, then. Have you tried cooking? The Druid shrugs and pets the cat in his arms, fighting the urge to begin a villainous monologue in which he refers to Wenomir as "Mr. Bond". Obviously we need to identify the highest authorities in the theocracy and apply pressure to them until they do what we want. I have an idea for a three-pronged offensive... but perhaps we can continue this discussion somewhere private?

[Ashen Lilies]

((Hey hey hey, Tobias only said the release had to be legal. He never said that the method of convincing did. ))

If you're a ninja and you're on fire... can you still catch people who are on fire?

[Zefir]

Attack

Mia just stands on the wall.

"Eh guy we should maybe not throw so many things against them. We may interrupt each other here."

She will after all prepare a shield spell to cover the Watchtower members from any arrow, but she waits otherwise she would interrupt the people with the guns. The shield wouldn't allow any bullet to pass.

[Morty]

[Training Grounds]

Wenomir shrugs. He's going to trust Tobias on this, at least to a point. After all, the druid is helping him out a great deal.
Alright. Let's head to my room in the West Barracks.

[FireFox]

Probably, but I would think a ninja that's on fire would be rather noticeable.


Toby smiles in satisfaction as he closely observes the parts of the West Barracks he can see on the way.

[ThirdEmperor]

Rapidly Flying Through the Air Towards WATCHTOWER- Attack!

So this is it then. Three 'gainst one, Kale with no proper weapon and not feeling nowhere near his best. Not good odds. Not much choice in running either, no hiding spots or cover to be had, jus' a wide open run that'd end soon as one of the mutts catches up. No, running's no good either.

Gripping his pickaxe in both hands, Kale ignores every instinct in his body screaming for him to get out of here and takes a step towards the gnoll who spoke. "An if I did? Nothin you can do now. You.. You should jus' get lost while ya still can, save yer own worthless hides." He barks, only able to hope that whatever fear he's managed to earn will be enough to make them back down.

And that's as far as Kale gets, 'fore he's suddenly hit in the back and yanked off his feet, through the air by Jacob's spell, having just time enough to overcome initial shock and start to panic before an energy blast strikes him dead on and knocks him cold.

[Reinholdt]

[Traveling]

Rein's more interested in Wenomir's room himself, curious how a demon hunter lives.

[Morty]

[Wenomir & KR's Room]

Well... I can only give half of the description, as it were, since the other inhabitant of the room is played by Kris. >.> So I suppose there are some marks KR left on the place that I won't mention.
Anyway, the room is rather spartan. Wenomir's approach to furniture is strictly utilitarian. The only things he has added to the baseline design are a wooden rack for his mail, which is hanging there at the moment, and a pair of hooks on the wall for his sword, which is also currently there. He sits down on the bed and motions Tobias to the chair standing by the desk.
I'm afraid this place is rather simple.

[FireFox]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

And why does that make you afraid? Toby asks rhetorically as he sits on the chair. Right, the three-pronged approach. The simplest way to put pressure on somebody is personally. Threaten what they care about. Obviously, this is prone to backfiring when used on more formidable individuals, but simple intimidation may be effective against some leaders in the church. The second way is socially. If we can get the oppressed majority of the citizenry on our side and clamoring for Tony's release, the upper class will cave in for fear of boycotts and open rebellion. The Druid leans back in the chair and waits for someone to ask what the third prong is.

[Reinholdt]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Reinholdt frowns. Spartan room. How... atypical. Reinholdt was hoping that Wenomir was secretly a lavish and posh demonhunter full of class.

"And the fifth option is?"

[Morty]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

I admit I like the idea of turning the oppressed masses against their "masters", but what's the third option? Wenomir asks.

[FireFox]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Why, how else are we to get a theocracy to do what we want? Toby gestures theatrically towards the heavens. We get their deity to tell them do it. He steeples his fingers and leans in conspiratorially, a brilliant gleam in his eye. Gentlemen, I propose that we make the God of Order... change.

[Reinholdt]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

"Mmmm... I dunno, I think that still leaves it open for the corrupt in power to shift their tactics and remain corrupt in power. I like the masses idea." Rally the people!

[Murkus]

[Boris's Room]

Boris grins in response to that. "Yeah, I suppose you're right. Depending on what you think I'm implying, of course." He seems to be enjoying his being obtuse.

"Oh, you know ye dolt," Cornelia says, smirking at him in turn. She puts a hand over his, smirk softening into a sort of half-smile.

Training Grounds
"I'm sorry! I thought that um...from your speed that you'd be able to handle it...sorry..."
"And that was um...me."

Adir gains his feet, blinking at her vainly. He's not upset though - the very opposite, in fact. "Dayum. I got my work cut out for me here." The stag holds up a finger for the both of them. "Hold on a couple minutes."

He hurries back inside, and returns looking... quite different. He's ressed in an elaborate suit of powered armor, for one thing. His voice comes over the exterior verbal communicator, crackling and electrical.

He approaches the Saiyans, crossing his steel arms. "Arright. You shouldn't have to worry now. Show me that, uh, speed again. Could one of you... maybe... cross to the courtyard over there?" He points toward the orchard, a couple hundred feet away.

[Mindfreak]

Training Grounds
Only Kirlia is a Saiyan. Her friend is a MS Girl.
"Um...okay..."
She moves faster than the naked eye again.
And ends up in the orchard in faster than a couple seconds.
"You mean over here?"

[Murkus]

Training Ground

MS girl? You'll have to elaborate.

"Nice," Adir compliments from a distance, voice amplified by the suit. "Get back over here. I wanna see how strong you are." If she does, he'll take a ready stance and spread his legs a little. "C'mon. Hit me."

[Devixer]

[Boris's Room]

The grin on Boris's face softens as well as he speaks. "Yeah, I suppose I do know." Then he leans in a little and tries to kiss Cornelia.

[Mindfreak]

Training Ground

MS girl? You'll have to elaborate.

"Nice," Adir compliments from a distance, voice amplified by the suit. "Get back over here. I wanna see how strong you are." If she does, he'll take a ready stance and spread his legs a little. "C'mon. Hit me."

Training Ground
I cannot, but Beans can.
She comes back!
"Wait...you want me to hit you as hard as I can?"

[Morty]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

That's a bold plan, even for you, Wenomir says and then adds, with doubt in his voice. Besides, priests are good at twisting the message of their deity to their needs. Who's to say getting their god to intervene will accomplish anything? Assuming we can get him to do anything, of course.

[orb_of_blood]

[Outside WATCHTOWER - Attack!]

In the time taken for various WATCH members to decide what to do, ask and receive permission to do it, load weapons, take aim and fire, the flame wall dissipates.

Good. The first few obstacles had been passed. Not to say they'd been passed without casualties... but really, the gnolls still alive are just glad there isn't a giant wall of flame blocking their way and threatening to roast them.

Which means two things. First, the gnoll archers can fire back at those on the walls. Namely, the six are aiming at Boris, Yazon and Adir. These gnolls, for the most part, have pretty good aim. Brawn over brains, they spent more of their time handling these weapons than doing... pretty much anything else.

Not that they themselves aren't targets too. Having never seen a gun before, they're easily susceptible to those weapons, and one archer is felled by Boris, and another takes Adir's bullet to the leg. Luckily for the creature, the wound is painful, but not fatal. He shifts his weight and fires his arrow rather clumsily at Adir, before limping to take cover behind a fallen brother.

The non-archers, however, take the time to start climbing. With long, wickedly sharp claws, they hopefully are able to pull themselves up the wall and towards the people far above.

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Flying Towards WATCHTOWER

Between focusing only on killing Kale for the trap that would mean the deaths of their brothers, and idiotically believing themselves out of range of the WATCH members, the three gnolls, and the only ones so far who have realized they're being pointlessly slaughtered, are sucked into Jacob's spell as well, dragged away from their pack, and stunned.

Though that's hardly surprising. There's no shortage of gnolls in that small area in front of the tower. An area effect spell of any kind would undoubtedly hit at least a few of them.

[FireFox]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

My plan is to do all three of them at once. Hence "three-pronged offensive". The social pressure makes them want to change, the divine influence gives them an excuse to change, and we squeeze them personally to make sure they change how we want them to.

[Reinholdt]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Reinholdt peers at Wenomir. If he thinks this is atypical for Tobias, then he doesn't know Tobias very well.

He stays quiet though. As far as he's concerned, it's Tobias' world, so it's up to the smexy fox how exactly he wants to do this thing.

[Morty]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Wenomir shrugs. It's your homeworld. You know best what works there and what doesn't. So I'll follow your plan.

[Outside WATCHTOWER - Attack!]

Any gnolls that reach the top of the wall near where Wenomir is standing will be subject to extremely fast slashes of a razor-sharp longsword, aimed at their necks and eyes, as the warrior tries to keep them off. He leaves dealing with their leader to the others.

[FireFox]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Satisfied with his brilliant plan, Toby leans back in the chair. Well, that's my idea, at any rate. I'm open to other suggestions, if you have any. If not, then we should probably figure out who's going to work on what. Given my... history, I don't think I should be the one confronting the god Nomos, though.

[Reinholdt]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Reinholdt peeeeeers at Wenomir, thinking he's now just reading Rein's thoughts to come up with answers with his spooky demon hunting magic.

"Practically a lightning rod for gods anyways, so I'll do it."

[Morty]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

I'm not good with gods. I think the best role for me would be to intimidate the priests to do what we want. Not sure how good a job I'd do rallying the populace. I'm not much of a speaker, Wenomir says.

[FireFox]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

The Druid nods. Excellent. Then I shall contact my assets in the city and get in touch with Tony himself in preparation for stirring the proletariat into social unrest. After that's done, I'll take you to where you need to go.

[Reinholdt]

[Wenomir and KR's room]

Reinholdt can't think of any further questions at this time.

[Halae]

[Watchtower Walls - Attack]

Harnel, Like wenomir, is doing his bgest to make sure that gnolls coming towards the top of the wall die before they reach that point, and so he draws the three swords he brought with him, wiedling the final one with his chainmail clad tail

Periodically, he'll stick his head over the side of the wall and breathe fire in a cone down towards the gnolls below. The fire is choking, and sears the very air, so any gnolls that actually survive the blast of fire, unlikely as that may be, will find themselves dealing with a lack of breath and potentially burned out lungs if they didn't have the forethought to close their mouths. Yay for them.

Unfortunately for keeping them off the wall, Harnel's bursts of dragonfire are far between, as he takes about a half-minute to build up the flame within himself once more. He's tried breathing fire more quickly in the past, and it made him fall unconscious. That isn't to say that he's defenseless, or that the gnolls are safe around him. He hits with a shocking amount of power behind his swords, Conflict and two adamantine blades modelled after Conflict. Niether one has much trouble cleaving through steel, much less flesh and bone, especially with the sort of power Harnel can put behind them.

This isn't to say that some gnolls wouldn't be able to get close and attack him. He can't look in every direction at once, after all. But unfortunately for them, Harnel is decked out head to toe in adamantine plate armor, which will very likely deflect all but the mightiest blows, which is likely beyond what simple gnolls can handle. If they manage to get through that? He still has scales covering his body that can deflect blows like armor all on their own. So the only visible weak point on his body is his wings, which themselves aren't very dangerous or vital to the half-dragon's life. As a matter of fact, hurting those would likely just piss him off.

So, the area where the half-dragon is standing, which at this point will be a little ways away from the other watchmen, is going to be an absolute deathtrap for whatever gnolls want to come and break up his murderous tea party.

[Zefir]

[Watchtower Wall - Attack]

Mia won't just stand by and watch the others do their work. She tips with her staff on MDM and his arms change into two big gatling Guns. The upcoming sound of the moving parts of the weapon can be heared as MDM makes a step to the edge of The wall.

Even thought Harnel's fire hits there should still be enougth to aim at. MDM will start to fire down a rain of metal bullets, aiming at the nearest gnoll groupe. The aiming isn't very accurate since the weaons is known for mass than class, but since the Gnolls have less way to escape they get many problems with the bullet rain.