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Gabriel uses Freila on CFW Brave, inflicting Sun Arcana. Freila: Utilising Oppenheimer, Gabriel blasts an opponent with the power of nuclear radiation, unleashing a miniature nuclear blast onto them. Gabriel does 5d6+SYN(12) damage to a single target. Sun Arcana: Deals SYN/2 (6) piercing damage to enemies struck by Gabriel's skills for three turns. Each subsequent nuclear or fire attack inflicted by Gabriel on these enemies inflicts another stack of Sun Arcana.Optimism: Even the worst kinds of situations can't bring a downer onto Gabriel's easygoing attitude. As the Persona is a reflection of the soul, Oppenheimer reflects Gabriel's unyielding optimism. Ailments have halved durations on Gabriel. Blue Jacket grants 20% resistance to radiation ailments and 40% against heat-based ailments.

"I think she probably wants an explanation as to what happened between her picking up that thing and going all Sandman on us. I assume this isn't her usual." Yep. This chick definitely looked like Reimu from the Troubleshooting department. The one back home was cuter though. Looked better fed.

G15, silence an Ascetic

Empi uses Take It Easy on Isobel to remove her Silenced status.Take It Easy: Removes all statuses on a target and blocks one incoming status until the target's next turn. Empi's Fairy Dust gives her a 5% chance of resisting ailments.

"Thanks for the backup!" Gabriel casts Mafreila on five of the High-Bit Customs, inflicting Sun Arcana on all successfully hit enemies. Mafreila: Gabriel blasts all enemies with a burst of nuclear energy, less taxing and powerful than its stronger counterpart. Deals SYN (12)+2d4 damage to all enemies, 2 turn cooldown. Sun Arcana: Deals SYN/2 (6) piercing damage to enemies struck by Gabriel's skills for three turns. Each subsequent nuclear or fire attack inflicted by Gabriel on these enemies inflicts another stack of Sun Arcana.Optimism: Even the worst kinds of situations can't bring a downer onto Gabriel's easygoing attitude. As the Persona is a reflection of the soul, Oppenheimer reflects Gabriel's unyielding optimism. Ailments have halved durations on Gabriel. Blue Jacket grants 20% resistance to radiation ailments and 40% against heat-based ailments.

Gabriel casts Freila on A2-1 150, inflicting Sun Arcana. Freila: 6d6+SYN(12) damage on a single target. Sun Arcana: Deals SYN/2 (6) piercing damage to enemies struck by Gabriel's skills for three turns. Each subsequent nuclear or fire attack inflicted by Gabriel on these enemies inflicts another stack of Sun Arcana.Optimism: Even the worst kinds of situations can't bring a downer onto Gabriel's easygoing attitude. As the Persona is a reflection of the soul, Oppenheimer reflects Gabriel's unyielding optimism. Ailments have halved durations on Gabriel. Blue Jacket grants 20% resistance to radiation ailments and 40% against heat-based ailments.

"That just seems to be our luck, doesn't it?" J18

Empi uses I'm Not A Doctor on Rory to heal her injuries.I'm Not A Doctor: Heals a single target for 5d4+SYN (12) HP. Empi's Fairy Dust gives her a 5% chance of resisting ailments.

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Gabriel casts Red Wall on Lyra. Red Wall: Gabriel protects an ally by applying the power of Oppenheimer's resistances to an ally. A targeted ally takes 60% less damage from attacks. If the attack is nuclear or fire-based, increase the damage resistance to 80%. Optimism: Even the worst kinds of situations can't bring a downer onto Gabriel's easygoing attitude. As the Persona is a reflection of the soul, Oppenheimer reflects Gabriel's unyielding optimism. Ailments have halved durations on Gabriel. Blue Jacket grants 20% resistance to radiation ailments and 40% against heat-based ailments.

Empi uses Take It Easy on Walmond to remove his Serene Repose status.Take It Easy: Removes all statuses on a target and blocks one incoming status until the target's next turn. Empi's Fairy Dust gives her a 5% chance of resisting ailments.

Empi uses Take It Easy on herself to remove her Serene Repose status. Take It Easy: Removes all statuses on a target and blocks one incoming status until the target's next turn. Empi's Fairy Dust gives her a 5% chance of resisting ailments.

"Hey, Dick Tracy! No sleeping on the job! All hands on deck!" As the fairy snapped her fingers right next to Masako's ears to keep her awake, she reflected on something; this, surprisingly, was closer to Empi's wheelhouse than anything else that had come before. Office mishaps, were, after all, a minor occupational hazard, and the Romantic Affairs and Matchmaking Office was RIGHT next to the Intoxication, Hallucinations and Bad Dreams R&D department. Still, wasn't a fantastic situation to be in. Empi uses Take It Easy on Masako to remove her Serene Repose status. Take It Easy: Removes all statuses on a target and blocks one incoming status until the target's next turn. Empi's Fairy Dust gives her a 5% chance of resisting ailments.

"Wait up for me, Perlita! Now that I've gotten a breather......it's time for things to get a little hot in here." Gabriel runs in from....wherever he'd been resting. The last fight had taken a bit out of him, between him hurling attacks at the enemy left and right and whatever the hell he'd been repeatedly licked with. It'd taken him a while to be bale to move without shuddering. However, he was back now. And he was ready to rumble. Gabriel casts Mafreila on the Item Jammers, inflicting Sun Arcana on all successfully hit enemies. Mafreila: Gabriel blasts all enemies with a burst of nuclear energy, less taxing and powerful than its stronger counterpart. Deals SYN (12)+2d4 damage to all enemies, 2 turn cooldown. Sun Arcana: Deals SYN/2 (6) piercing damage to enemies struck by Gabriel's skills for three turns. Each subsequent nuclear or fire attack inflicted by Gabriel on these enemies inflicts another stack of Sun Arcana. Optimism: Even the worst kinds of situations can't bring a downer onto Gabriel's easygoing attitude. As the Persona is a reflection of the soul, Oppenheimer reflects Gabriel's unyielding optimism. Ailments have halved durations on Gabriel. Blue Jacket grants 20% resistance to radiation ailments and 40% against heat-based ailments.

And that's when Empi takes her cue to intervene. Which, really, was about the closest to Empi's actual job description as she was getting. "Hey, hold the hell up. Isobel, take five. I know what it's like dealing with idiot humans trying to make themselves look better, believe me, I got four hundred years of experience of that bullshit because some dumbass virgin tells me he knows how to get it in when the only reason I'm even there is because he can't. You're the closest thing we got to someone who knows what the hell she's doing, yeah? We need you. All hands on deck. And you-whoever you are, I keep losing track of all these new guys coming in- basic communications skills, man! It'll save your life!"

After a bit, Lenore speaks. "....the way I see it, there's not much difference between an animal, a monster, and a guy without honor, without rules. Those fetters, they're what keep us civilized, what keep us human. Even as a crook, there's people you don't go after. The weak. Kids. Pregnant women. The good priests. There's lines you don't cross. Otherwise, you're nothing better than an animal fighting to survive. When society itself tells you you're not worth a damn thing to it, you do what you got to to survive, but you gotta keep your humanity somehow, keep yourself different from the animals. He crossed the few lines we got out here. So you're right." Lenore knew that truth all too well. Glamourous and glitzy though conning her way through high society may seem, it wasn't like she started up there. "Truth is, Famine isn't exactly special, and what he did isn't either. He's a dime-a-dozen grifter with a gift. Anyone could run that scam with that skill, and if you got the right bastard to do it and paid them the right money, they would. I've seen plenty of thieves who'd slit their own mothers' throats if you paid them right. You steal and con for a good cause. I envy you, I do, and I wish I knew more people like you back then." "Remember that promise you just made to fix that mess, Marvel. People like Famine, they get theirs, because people like you are the ones who make sure of it. " Lenore sets off to walk to the camp, before pausing. "Let's get this intel to Phoenix first. Snowbird will have to wait; she barely survived her first dance with that stuff."

Lenore, on the other hand, wasn't nearly as fazed as Lysander. At least, on the surface. Famine had just described a con to her. He was nothing more than a con artist, but he was playing with people's lives. Of course, Lenore would never have done such a thing, even if she knew how to brew anything except cheap fakes of brews that she could pass off for the real thing (and actually tasted pretty good without killing you by turning you blind), but it was a con nonetheless. She prided herself on having a code, a line she would never cross; she would never ruin the lives of those undeserving of them being ruined, those who couldn't recover. Where Lenore only conned the corrupt and the rich, he took advantage of the poor and the desperate. The thief in Lenore said that the chase was only fun against those who were rich enough to matter and corrupt enough to think they were untouchable; the poor had neither the riches worth stealing, nor the challenge to steal from them. Her conscience told her that the corrupt deserved their riches being stolen, to have evil paid unto evil. They stepped upon the poor and the destitute, so it was only fitting that a woman from the poorest parts of Perus robbed them of their riches for all they were worth. But never would she have stolen from someone who couldn't afford to be stolen from. She'd been wrong in her analysis of Famine earlier. So utterly wrong. She continues to play the part of the consummate professional. Famine was not someone she could flip; someone like this was morally bankrupt. No, he was another target to scope out, another mark to play, and Lenore was intent on playing him. "Not all criminals have your honor, Marvel. Thieves like you, they're the minority." She didn't want to say that, neither did she want to believe it, but she'd seen enough to know that honor and trust was such a rare trait among crooks that Lenore was able to sell herself as a great teammate because she refused to snitch on her fellows nor sell them out or screw them out of their share. It was good to build trust in the underworld, because trust was a commodity, not a given. "Your guess is as good as ours. Honest answer." It was true, she didn't know what they were going after, except that it was important. She had a good guess, but Famine didn't need to know that.

"Alright, just between fellow cons. Why is it, exactly, that we're enemies again? And don't give me that spiel about sorting out humanity's flaws or whatever your boss threw out. You're cleverer than that."

"And here I thought you were going to make it easy. Like he said, we'll bite." Lenore kept her SIlencer stashed up her sleeve, just in case. She wasn't looking for a fight, but what had to be done, had to be done.

Lenore packs in her lockpicks. "I agree. Ready when you are."

Lenore frowns a minute. He had a point, getting Kane involved in this mess was likely going to distract him. She didn't like this all THAT much, but getting information on their enemies was something she relished the chance to do. After all, scoping out her marks was exactly how Lenore had succeeded in every heist, con and act of flim-flammery she'd ever engaged in. Why should war be any different? "....alright. I'd rather not get into another fight if we're doing this. Is there anyone else you're looking at for back-up?"

"So you're planning to meet with him. Does Phoenix know?"

Lenore pauses for a few seconds, tapping her chin in thought. "Depends. Who's the mark? I prefer to know a little more about a target before I scope them out. "

Lysander finds Lenore sitting calmly in her tent, calmly setting out a set of lockpicks, muttering under her breath. Fiddling with a pair of picks, she frowns. "One, two.....three....damn. The rake'll need replacing....." She looks up suddenly as Lysander enters her field of view, silently putting her picks back into her pouch. "Marvel. What do you need?"

"You know, I heard a good song helps make you remember things better, so I made up a few to help me remember stuff I'm studying! Not that I'll sing you any of my songs. I'm kinda....bad at singing...."