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Nemesis and Hurricane's Ideal World: Session 2

[The sky above is a deep, unnatural crimson, filled with roiling clouds and creatures that are a sickly oil-slick black. They writhe and wriggle like something out of a Lovecraftian nightmare; they have entirely too many eyes, and entirely too many wings, and when they open their mouths, they have entirely too many teeth]

[Below them, the city of Tokyo is half-shattered; above the rooftops, mechanized suits the size of people hover in the air, darting in out of the chaos, laser blasts and explosions and wickedly sharp blades fighting tirelessly against the endless onslaught]

[Until finally, the last creature falls]

[All at once, civilians flood the streets of the city; the lights come on in all the buildings, which somehow have become whole again, safe and unharmed. A cheer goes up from the crowd. Overhead, a stunning fireworks display paints the night with light and color]

[And they all lived happily ever after]

[The end]

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[ oh shit ] [ Okay, he's going to just slide between her and the aforementioned horror show, hands settling on her shoulders, trying for eye contact. ]

It's not real. [ Beat. His eyes shut, then reopen. ] I know it probably was, all of it. [ The snow... ] But it's not real right now. None of them need your help. None of them are really hurting.

[ ~~And for PERSUADE, rolling CHA 20 somehow. Thank you dicebot.~~ ]

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[For a moment - a held breath, a drawn-out skein of silence - she simply stares.

[For a moment, it seems she has heard nothing.]

[But it only lasts a moment.

[After that she exhales - long and shuddering. She squeezes her eyes shut. Mayhap everything Alisaie has is screaming at her to run: but she's listening - she doesn't know how, but she is - not to them, but to Lupine.

[She rests a hand on his own.]

What should we do?

[She even has the sense, after all, to whisper.]

We can't just leave them here.

We can. [ His expression is a little regretful, but there's steely resolve in his voice. ] Because they're not really here.

[ His eyes slide to the side, in the general direction of all those... facsimiles of people in pain. ]

We take a look around, we get photos. Then we go back.

[ It helps that he doesn't know some of the people in here, ~~and that he rolled so well for WIS,~~ because he knows the guilt he's feeling isn't really his. This is someone else's guilt, someone else's... failures on display.

Not hard to guess whose. ]

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[No sooner have you said it than the both of you hear a voice calling back from near the house. It sounds like Hurricane:]

Dude, where are you going? You better not be late.

[And then Nemesis:]

Party time! Get over here!

[You can see fairy lights twinkling in the trees, and the sounds of a celebration]

[Hadn't you better head to the party?]

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[ Yeah, they'll get right on that in just a minute, unless Ali's kickass INT roll comes up with something that still needs doing in the church. ]

[She swallows. Looks back at the bodies, just for a moment, just to remind herself they're truly there.]

... It's a game, isn't it?

[Deep breaths, Alisaie. It can't be real. It can't be.]

What should we do about him...?

Mayhap Angelo could push him over.

[Her smile is fragile but there; she even laughs a little.]

Then we could run.

[He's still speaking into his megaphone, voice loud and imposing]

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

[INT: 25 to see if she has any better ideas now the immediate panic has subsided.]

[The party is what you're here for, isn't it? Shouldn't you go to the party?]

[Hurricane and Nemesis are probably there, waiting]

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[ For the record, totally muffled a soft laugh at that image, and he'll be all for it if the INT roll doesn't turn up anything specific. ]

[Angelo seems keen.

[He jumps on the spot, clapping his hands together; then a glowing light seems to consume him. Once it fades, he looks very different: his eyes glow like cinders, and veins of magma course along his rocky skin.]

I thought he could do with looking a little more formidable, sometimes.

Are you ready?

[ holy shit Ali ]

[ Drags a hand down his face, then grins at her. ]

Oh, I was born ready.

[ WIND. ]

Then let's do this.

[She smiles, rests a hand on his shoulder.]

Go, Angelo--!!

[And he's off.]

[Any spectators outside the church will get an excellent view of an angry rock monster, some six and a half feet tall and barely less wide, coming barrelling out of the double doors to shove the priest (and his megaphone) bodily down the stairs leading to the courtyard.

[Then it transforms into a small, round flying pig, and takes off.

[Followed in quick succession by Lupine and Alisaie making good their escape, Superman-style, on a cascade of tumbling leaves.

[That's one way to make an exit.]

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[ Zhongli (who is currently henshined) just watches this as he is trying to talk to the priest.

Hi Alisaie and Lupine.

Bye Alisaie and Lupine. ]

[ Hey Zhongli don't go in it's no good in there. Text as they leave! ]

[He sure does eat dirt]

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