StormLord

The party is distracted from their current course of conversation as they crest the next hill and the forest is peeled away from either side. Out below them the land flattened out and turned almost barren, what little vegetation there was was twisted with a black or purple tinge. Thorn covered vines overtook rotting mounds of dead trees. Large expanses of exposed blackish-purple rock cover the ground and several great chasms scar the earth further in. The odd ghoulish, almost petrified looking tree dotted the landscape. A wide band of....sunflowers? Seperates the twisted Corruption and the natural forest. All of then are easily taller than anyone in the party here. Their heads seemed to glow with a warm sunlight that was in stark contrast to the Corruption right next to them. While Lucille didn't see the horror and beauty she could feel the contrast of raw magical forces. First a veritable ocean of eldritch magic twisting the landscape and pounding against a barrier of lighter magic. Second the barrier seemed to be coming not from a single source, but instead thousands of magically augmented plants not unlike her own creatures. The sunflowers appeared to continue around the border between the two biomes for as far as the party could see.

The Mine(Kusuke): After a trip into the mine to get ore and another to look for a kiln(which he found but couldn't get to) Kusuke exits the mine just in time to see Arminius leave the Demo's shop and Satomi going to talk to the Guide. Random event: 20, The clouds seem to be piling up, it probably won't rain for a while now, but best watch out. The village has woken up at this point and people are moving all around, several people working on damage from the night before, the Blacksmith and Mason were doing something at the smelter, over all it looked like people were going about their daily business. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Tavern(Alyssa): "You...what?" The Barkeep looked a bit confused at Alyssa for a second. "Look, this ain't any kinda prissy 'highclass' wine house. This is a working man's pub." He set down the plate he was cleaning. "If you really want to help I've been meaning to replace the daubing on the corner over there." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guide's House(Satomi): The Guide(who looked like he had just sat down to get back to work on something) listened to what Satomi had to say before reaching into one of his desk drawers and pulling out what looked to be a notebook. "Well they work well enough against the zombies who would just as much rather wander aimlessly as try and get into town." He flipped several pages in the notebook. "But you're right, they won't stand up against a real siege." He seemed to have found whatever he was looking for because he read something, abruptly stopped, and closed the book. "I looks like we've got 128 cut stone bricks waiting to be turned into a house and 16 cut logs ready, plus anything that can be scavenged from the current walls. I've got writing supplies if you need them to work on plans, feel free to talk with the Mason and Blacksmith, I believe they're by the smelter now, or the Carpenter who is usually somewhere near the sawmill to the north. When you feel ready to get to work I can gather a small group of people to help you, there may not be that many of us, but we'll do what we can." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Exploration Group: After talking with Tattletale and grabbing some healing items the group makes their way towards what they believe to the Corruption. Luck: 84, Good fortune being on their side they trudge through the forest of evergreens only encountering a hand full of slimes on the way. (Gain 3 gel). Luck: 62, Mid-morning has past and the cloud cover is getting a little heavier, but the walking is still fair as the forest begins to thin and the mountains turn to hills. Luck: 65, Random event: 12, Int Check(Lucille): 20 vs 11, While most of the party is entranced in conversation with each other as they climb yet another hill that stands between them and the Corruption, Lucille is waiting, listening to everything around them, and is also the first one to hear the river. As the group reaches the crest of the hill they find an almost shear drop down to the waters of a fast moving river. It was about 20 feet across to the other bank, and almost as far of a drop to the water. Looking up and down stream no one can really see any significantly better places to cross(such as down trees or the like).

"Thank you for the assistance, and I apologize for the sudden intrusion. Though I do have one more question, are there any specialized substances you use to channel Psionics or that have a strong tie to them? I've got an idea for an experiment that may allow me to create a potent focus for channeling Psionics." At this point Frigus noticed Harry waiting and once he got his answer he thanked the XCOM agent again and moved on to find some of the Elerium crystals to use in Synthesis.

Night: Everyone eventually finds their way to the inn where they find a nice warm bed waiting for them to pass out in. Except for Leo that is, who decides sleep is for the weak and stable minded so instead he spends all night working on a golem that spontaneously developed feelings(it's a long story). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morning(at the Inn): Early in the morning the party slowly begins drifting awake to the smell of sausage and potatoes cooking and the soft chatter of people downstairs. Heading down stairs would reveal several thus far unnamed villagers in morning chit-chat and a grumpy looking Barkeep severing up some sort of hash-like dish. Day's random event roll: 25, It looks to be a bit overcast out, maybe some rain later in the day, but nothing too severe. Morning(at the Weatherlight): Leo finishes up his golem "Stoneheart" just as the sun is finally pulling itself over the horizon. Stepping out of the Weatherlight he sees a number of small colorful slimes bouncing around in the field again, mostly blue and green slimes, but there seems to be a purple one off at the edge of the clearing. In the distance over at the village he can see feint wisps of smoke telling him that the Blacksmith has probably started the smelter. Leo tiredness roll: 12 vs 16 (Con save), Leo isn't about to pass out, but he isn't feeling 100%. -1 to rolls that require significant focus.

The Guide looked at Toshiro oddly for a second before finally deciding it was best to not ponder things and just answer the question. "Probably, though the journey there wouldn't be easy and you would have to survive in the Crimson long enough to extract the ore, or find a powerful monster to kill." He stopped and looked around for a second, most of the party seemed to be heading off. "If any of you have more questions I'll be over here." With that he wandered off to help some of the other villagers clean up.

After finishing up with his work on the lightning core for today Frigus slowly tries to find his way to the Psionics labs. Assuming he makes it there without issue or incident he pokes around trying to learn a little more about how exactly the Psionics work, and more specifically have they're similar/different from his own magics.

South Pass: The Guide nods to Arminius then answers Calvera's question. "I can't say for sure without looking at my books, but I think it was the Eye of Cthulhu. A powerful monster said to watch over the land and enact it's master's archaic plans." He turned to Jun and took a look at the piece of ore for a second. "I think you've got a piece of Demonite there, it would make sense. Demonite comes from the Corruption, one of the taints that plague the island, it's suppose to contain the concentrated power of the Corruption, lucky for us it won't spread the taint like Ebonstone would. The other lumps are probably Crimtane, the Crimson's counterpart to Demonite." He watches as Arminius converts the assorted chunks of charred flesh leftover from the Eye of Cthulhu into a humanoid creature. "I...um, well alright then. Honestly probably not the strangest thing I've seen this week." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Smithy: Leo managed to catch up with the Blacksmith right as he was putting the remaining copper armor and weapons away. "Look, I ain't got any idea what kinda ore that is. I never seen it before, plus it's get'n late and I want to go to bed, so I'm not stay'n up all night to smelt ore for ya. You can either leave it 'ear and I'll smelt it in the morn'n or do it yur'self. Smelter's over there." The Blacksmith directed Leo to a chimney like structure just outside the smithy, it was a little taller than Leo, and had several openings around the base, midsection, and top, along with several tools(such as a hammer) and barrels sitting near it. Upon inspection one barrel had clay in it, one had gravel sized chips of coal, another had a tan rock ground almost into sand or powder, and the last was filled with multicolored semitransparent gel.

Jun fires two arrows at the Eye, her first hits for 19 damage and her second for 24 damage. Toshiro fires a spread of bullets that deals a grand 7 damage to the Eye. Kusuke Douleshifts Frostbrute Frostbrute removes the Icefire from Leo. Lucille steps out of her protective circle and Brachus heals Leo for 5 HP. The Eye of Cthulhu releases some unnatural roar before rapidly charging forward and slamming into Jun(dodge fail), Toshiro, Kusuke, and Satomi, it deals 5, 10, 11, and 9 damage to each respectively. After staggering back a step or two Satomi looses an arrow at the Eye dealing 20 damage. Jun shoots the Eye again for 22 damage. Toshiro fires more bullets at the Eye for 8 damage. Another sling stone flies at the Eye for 8 damage. Kusuke Doubleshifts Frostbrute again. Frostbrute extinguishes the Icefire on the Eye. Alyssa paints the Eye for 17 damage. Lucille launches her blades of sound for for 27 and 28 damage each while Brachus heals Kusuke for 10 HP. One of the villagers throws a glass bottle full of some liquid at the Eye. Leo’s blizzard deals 3 damage to the Eye and gains 10 HP. Frostbrute attempts for grab the Eye by its trailing fleshy bits, (15 vs 14) it manages to barely grab hold. What now? Jun shoots the Eye again for 23 damage. Toshiro fires at the Eye again for 7 damage. Kusuke Doubleshifts Frostbrute again. (14 vs 1)Frostbrute manages to tighten its grip on the Eye, clearly hindering it. (2 vs 8) The Eye lunges forward but doesn’t make it more than a few feet before roaring in pain as Frostbrute’s grip causes it to tear off one of the pieces of dangling flesh(28 damage). It flies up into the air dripping blood from the wound. Satomi aims just below the Eye just as it soars into the air above, rendering her attack effectively pointless.(miss) Arminius AKs the Eye for 9 damage. The Guide fires a flaming arrow at the Eye, it deals 14 damage and catches the liquid on fire for another 16 damage. Fingers heals Calvera for 7 HP. Jun shoots the Eye again for 20 damage. Kusuke restores Satomi again. Calvera boils the Eye for 23 damage. As she does what's left of its pupil dilates and it releases a death cry, it hangs slumped in the air for a couple seconds before its body becomes engulfed in sickening green and gold flames. As its body burns several purple or red stones fall to the ground along with three more hearts. Final status: Glorious loot! Merit(even better): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shortly after the battle's end, once all of the lesser eyes had been dealt with the Guide approached the party again. "Thank you adventurers, for helping here tonight. It's been a long night and I'm sure you're all exhausted, so feel free to return to the tavern and get some rest. However, if you need anything or have questions I can answer, myself and several of the others will be up for a while longer working on clean up." A few villagers can be seen pushing the corpses of the lesser eyes into various piles and transporting them outside town on a wagon.

Current state of the Terraria Village: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bh6hkxDecZS3EpB4Y8_cZ5SrVakFQ0avAY8qx4w2x3s/edit?usp=sharing

The lights started coming on at almost the exact moment Tim finished digging through one of his bags and pulled at a lit torch. He frowned and shoved the torch back into his bag. "Useless" he muttered under his breath. After the console came out of the ground he gave Lucine's spat with Opal a quick glance before taking several steps forward to get a better look at the hologram. The hood of his cloak hid the majority of his face, save the tuff of beard sticking out. "I have many names, some call me Tim, others 'The red wizard', and still others 'That Asshole who lives on the hill'. Who are you?"

Frigus heads to the Workshop, while there and on his way he keeps his eyes open for any invisible Moogle-shops.

Round 5: Laver rushes to Lexiel and heals her for 20 HP. Liliya jumps up and manages to stab Bel Lahmu C for 20 damage. The Beasts scatter, two attacking Solomon and Liliya for 9 and 16 respectively. A third goes after Hiroki, but it fries itself as it impacts harmlessly with her barrier of plasma. Sachi adjusts herself to more protect Lexiel. Sachi gains 5 HP and her bleeding stops. Halley blasts the three of the monsters dealing 7, 12, and 16 damage. This kills Bel Lahmu B and locks the basic attacks/defenses of Bel Lahmu C and Lahmu B. One Bond is consumed, restoring 1 HP to Halley. The Last flying monster looms ominously as it works through its daze. Lexiel creates five soldiers and sends three out to protect others, she heals herself, Halley, and Solomon for 5 HP each. The first and third land monsters attack Halley and Laver, one deals 4 damage to Halley and the other is blocked by Laver’s soldier who counter attacks for 6 damage. The first gains 1 Bond. The suppressed monster loses interest and goes to harass the wall. One DT Archer fires at Solomon, one at Lexiel, one at Halley, and one at Laver. Solomon and Lexiel’s soldiers counter attack for 2 damage each(consuming two Bonds to no effect), Laver takes 6 damage, and Halley takes 4 damage. The Archers gain one Bond. Venus fires a final bullet at the wounded flying creature, and with a glorious explosions of crimson he sends it to the grave with 52 damage. Jade takes aim, but at the last second changes targets as Venus blows the flying creature away. So instead Jade puts a round into Lahmu B for 15 damage. The other group of DT Archers fire on Hiroki once, Sachi twice, Liliya once, and Venus once. Hiroki ignores the attack, Sachi takes 1 and 5 damage, Liliya take 9 damage, and Venus takes 11 damage. The DT Soldiers swarm in, attacking Solomon twice and Jade once. Solomon and Jade’s soldiers block one DT Soldier each and counterattack for 2 damage each, Solomon then takes 16 damage from the last DT Soldier, Solomon stabs at the Beast for 14+5 damage. He then bleeds for 5 damage, though the bleeding has stopped he isn’t looking great. Hiroki turns to one of the DT Soldiers and dumps hot hot plasma on it, burning it to nothing then and there s she deals 40 damage. Hiroki then bleeds for 5 damage, the bleeding stops. The Asterlux archers fire arrows at the monster harassing the wall, they deal 12, 16, and 18 damage to it killing it. Init: Status:

Morgan: 63/82 Stats: Con:9, Res:11(6+5), Dex:0, Int:4, Str:10, Syn:14, Active Cooldowns: None! Effects: Dodge: 43%, Deal [Syn]/2 pure damage to attacker, Takes 4 extra (pure)damage from all attacks, Negative effects/statuses have -1 duration(minimum 1), 20% magic damage reduction. Morgan uses Void Augmentation on Samantha, increasing her Syn by [Syn] for two rounds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friedhold: 44/54 Stats: Con:2, Res:8, Dex:3, Int:10, Str:3, Syn:7, Eve: 28/28, Adam:20. Effects: Gains [LVL] Eve every turn, +[Syn] Res against cold attacks, Fire damage stuns. Friedhold uses an ADAM amped Gravity Well, targeting Lancer, Officer A, Officer B, and three units from "Human Soldiers A". Each target takes 5d6 damage, is Knocked Prone, and has a 50% chance of being Stunned. This costs 8 Eve and 4 ADAM.

Jun pulls back and fires two arrows at one of the Cataract eyes, the first hits dealing 26 damage but the second one barely misses(41, 25). Toshiro fires a spray of bullets at cloud of eyes, while they don’t manage to hit most of the eyes there were aiming at Demon Eye C get caught in the spray and takes 4 damage(9, 72, 13, 6). Kusuke fails to get close enough to any of the eyes to stab them(20). He takes 2 damage from the Icefire, much of it fails to get through his hoodie. Lucille manages to restore 8 HP to Jun and Brachus heals Calvera for 6 HP. The massive Eye continues to stare at Jun, Calvera, and Leo. Satomi fires yet another arrow at the house sized eye, and again the Icefire drains the fire before it hits its target. The arrow only deals 8 damage, the Icefire on the Eye grows. Another Eye another arrow(74), Jun shoots at Demon Eye C and hits it for 27 damage, the causes it to fall from the sky and leave behind a small red heart. Toshiro fires another volly(57, 96, 47, 51), it hits all its marks and deals 6 damage to the Purple Demon Eye, a Servant, and both Cataract Eyes. Both Cataract Eyes fall. One of the villagers fires a sling stone into the massive eye that deals 12 damage. Kusuke catches the stray wounded Servant and stabs it for 10 damage, killing it. A small red heart pops out. The Purple eye flies into Calvera for 2 damage. Alyssa paints more terror into the mind of the massive eye, it takes 21 damage from the assault. Lucille and Brachus restore 10 and 11 HP to Kusuke and Jun respectively. Most of the villagers seem busy dealing with the dozens of eyes and small Icefires everywhere. Leo’s Dust Gale causes massive bleeding in all three of the Servants and minor bleeding in the big eye, 12 damage to each killing all three Servants. One red heart pops out. Frostbrute removes the Icefire from Kusuke. Jun fires an arrow at the massive eye, it stick in its side for 17 damage. Another round of bullets from Toshiro(25) misses the Purple Eye again and deals 10 damage to the massive eye. Kusuke decides since the little eyes are dead he’ll go after the Purple Eye, he hits for 9 damage bringing it down for the count. A small red heart pops out. As Kusuke finishes off the last Purple Eye the largest eye narrows its pupil and starts shaking, after a second a line begins to appear across its middle. Slowly with eye itself open revealing a set of jaws lined with dozens and dozens of needle-like teeth. It released a howl that sent shivers down your spine before lunging forward. The EoC transforms! Then it lunges toward Leo dealing 17 damage with it’s long pointy teeth. (1 vs 14), As the eye bite into Leo the raging Icefire on its outside leap over and begin freezing him as well. Leo gains two stacks of Icefire. The Icefire flares up and deals 11 damage. Satomi knocks another arrow and fires it at the now gaping maw of an eye, the Icefire has no chance to steal the flames as it flying into the things mouth and deals 24 damage!. Arminius deals 6 damage to the massive eye with his AK. The Guide grabs one of the red hearts and walks over to Leo before forcing it into his wounds, healing him for 10 HP. “Don’t forget to pick these up if you’re hurt!” (You may pick up a Red-Heart as a free action to restore 2d6 HP) Jun fires at the massive eye again, dealing 32 damage with her Ambush Hunter bonus! Seeing as he is at full health and everyone else is doing pretty good Kusuke doesn’t recall themselves. Calvera sends another blast of heat at the EoC dealing 4 damage and causing the Icefire to grow greatly. EoC gains two stacks of Icefire. Jun fires another arrow at the EoC, it deals 26 damage, the eye looks pissed. Red Heart remaining: 5 Init: Status:

After finishing up looking over the smoldering ruins of the tent he found Tim made his to where Vitor and the others were. "Well if you can't find the entrance this--" He tapped the pocket where he put the reddish lens "Can put a hole in just about anything." He got a little closer and looked at the panel Vitor had found. "If you step back for a second I'll clear the area around this." Tim uses his "Amulet of Eternal Density" to clear all of the sand, dirt, and gravel from around the structure(within reason).

After collecting his notebook and supplies from thr Firebrand Frigus followed the others out to meet XCOM's leaders. He stepped forward and spoke politely and respectfully to the four standing there. "My name if Frigus, I am a Journeyman of the Keyblade. Which basically means I've been trained since childhood to go to other worlds and protect people. Harry, Proditor, and I are part of a larger group dedicated to preparing worlds to better defend from external threats. I don't know exactly what you've got or need, but we're versed in both tech and magic of several descriptions, and this other group--" He gestured to the other group of world travelers. "Seems to be similarly prepared, having already talked about weapon designs on the ride here."

Spicy HG: 84/94 Stats: Con:8, Res:5, Dex:0, Int:0, Str:9, Syn:13, .EXE:11/32(1/4lvls). Active Cooldowns: Rush Technique: Last turn! Effects: Damage(dealt) cannot be reduced below 25%, Immune to fire damage, Takes double cold damage. After watching Saber's thoroughly anticlimactic attack hit Snow Spicy generated another ball of flame, split it in half and threw one half over to Soryn and the other to Mitsurugi, bolstering their next attacks. Spicy HG uses Flamebind twice each on Soryn and Mitsurugi, each instance adds [Syn] fire damage to their next attack. This costs 1 .EXE level.

"I'm afraid it only works on organics, so it won't be much help to you. Sorry." After finishing healing anyone else who asked Tim made his way around the area, he found a number of clusters of long grass, some tumble weeds, and shiny yellow rocks laying around. He took the rocks and continued his search to one of the tents where he found a small oval box, he opened it to hear a rather odd sound, like something small and metallic being dropped. He made the split second decision that he was exploring a crazy man's home and should air on the side of caution so he dropped the oval box and dived to the side. It ended up being the right choice as not a second later the tent exploded sending bits of burning canvas and shrapnel flying about. After taking a second to stand and dust himself off he made his way back to the tent and picked through the rubble, finding several springs(which he took) and the broken pieces of a gun.

"Uh, huh." Frigus nodded half to Proditor and half to the XCOM group. "Well I guess we'll talk in detail later then." With that Frigus found somewhere stable and started writing rather quickly, only glancing up briefly at Proditor's outburst over the "Chosen" being killed.

Tim watched as the spear wielding man put a rather large hole in the largest of the enemies, then instead of wasting the charge he turned his Hyperkinetic lens on the poor club wielding fools. Suddenly a small bubble of distortion flew out of the lens, leaving it smoking slightly, when it impacted with the psycho the kinetic forces held within were unleashed, thus turning the man into roughly a pair of legs standing on their own and a small cloud of red mist. "I'll admit, that could've gone better. Either way you two look like you could use a hand." He slid the smoking lens into one of his pockets, along with the ring and amulet. Then he pulled out a handful of dull colored stones, picked one(a red one) and dumped the rest back into his pocket. He also drew out what appeared to be a golden sphere with a ring of dark grey stone, he held it above his head and pointed the golden core towards the sun, wisps of yellow, white, and gold energy flowed into it. He then held the small reddish stone out to Freya and Lucine in turn and each would quickly feel their wounds healing and their bodies becoming less tiered and worn. Once the two most wounded party members had been healed he turned his attention to anyone else who might have lasting damage.

Jun boosts their own Dex by 6. Toshiro slashes at an eye that deftly flies out of the way(29). Kusuke Doubleshifts Jun. Jun misses with both of their attacks(5, 12). Lucille and her pet wait patiently for the death to begin. The giant eye stares curiously at Jun and Kusuke, like some innocent bystander trying to figure out what they’re doing, it then glances over to Calvera. Satomi loads her crossbow and fires it at the house sized eye, perhaps unsurprisingly she hits it and deals 22 damage. The eye doesn’t look “happy” to say the least. Jun shoots her bow at the Demon eye again(46), finally managing to lead her shot properly and hit the thing for 26 damage, grounding it immediately, a small red heart pops out. Toshiro misses again and starts to think these eyes are harder to hit than they look.(35) Several of the villagers start taking on the greater swarm of eyes around the party while a rather grizzly looking man wearing a yellow hard hat throws a small grey object into the air, at the apex of its arc it violently explodes, catching the two Purple Demon Eyes in the blast. Kusuke Doubleshifts Jun Jun has finally started to pick up on this “aiming” thing(68), she hits the other Demon eye for 28 damage and grounds it too. The two Purple Demon Eyes slam into Kusuke and Calvera dealing 8 and 6 damage respectively. Alyssa attempts to depress the massive eye and only partially succeeds, dealing 14 damage. Lucille and Brachus manage to full heal both Kusuke and Calvera. The Guide ducks into the fight and fires a flaming arrow at one of the Purple Demon Eyes, it never makes it to its target. Leo uses Dust Gale consuming the Guide’s arrow and dealing 8 damage to each of the Servants and 0 damage to the EoC. Frostbrute sends a stream of Icefire at the massive eye, dealing 0 damage and catching it on Icefire. This is a good idea. The two Demon Eyes are too busy being dead to attack. Maybe Jun isn’t actually getting the hang of this(20), as she misses one of the near blind Cataract Demon Eyes. Toshiro finally manages to catch one of the Purple Demon Eyes(56), skewering it on his blade for 15+1 damage and killing it, a small red heart pops out. Kusuke Doubleshifts Jun again. Jun attacks the Cataract Demon Eye again, and(91) manages to hit it to deal 28 damage, slowing it down but not killing it. The pupil of the massive eye tore open slightly allowing four more of the smallest eyes escape from within before closing again. 4 Servants of Cthulhu join the battle. It takes 0 damage from the Icefire. Satomi takes an arrow out, lights it, and sends it flying towards the EoC. The arrow only hits for 17 damage as the fire is sucked out of it before the impact, bolstering the Icefire. Arminius gives Fingers 5 Str for two turns. The Arms-dealer sees Toshiro fighting with nothing but two blades and tosses him a gun. "Use this, it'll make things easier." The first group of small eyes bombards Calvera biting and gnawing for a total of 13 damage. The second group of small eyes swarms Satomi dealing 14 damage by managing to avoid most of her armor. Fingers bashes one of the wounded Servants into the dirt. Kusuke Recalls Satomi, returning her to before the swarm of eyes struck. Calvera sends out a wave of fire and heat, incinerating four of the smaller eyes before her flames made contact with the massive eye. A bright flash, a rushing sound like gas explosion, followed by a rush of cold air. When Calvera looked up she saw a mass of blueish flame crawling over the massive eye and spreading out to many of the outlying members of the eye swam. EoC gains two stacks of Icefire, Cataract Demon Eyes A & B gain one stack each, and all newly entering Demon Eyes gain one stack. The Cataract Demon Eyes attack Kusuke and Jun for 6 and 11 damage respectively. They take 0 and 4 damage from the Icefire. (14 vs 8)(12 vs 18) Jun manages to avoid the Icefire, but Kusuke is caught alight. One Demon Eye joins the fight, it burns with blue flame. Init: Status:

Frigus looked over to where the voice had come from and glanced Sister Rachel over before speaking in a frank, but still polite tone. "Judging by your dress I'm going to guess you're not from this world either, wherever you're from I assure you interrogation and vivisection hasn't been standard procedure on any world I've been to."

After landing in the ship and quickly removing his armor with a small flash Frigus turned to address Proditor whom the others in the plane were avoiding, he took a fairly casual tone that probably lacked urgency considering the situation. "So either you haven't talked much about your world or I just haven't been around when you have. But mind telling me why we just helped blow something up for people who seem to be uneasy at best if not scared of you?" He briefly glanced over to one of the XCOM members raised his hand and gave a single wave. "Nice to meet you, by the way."

A few of the villagers led the party to the edge of town, where the monsters had been spotted. It was much closer to the river here and some description of sheep or goat could be heard bleating. Leo would come to regret his decision to activate night vision as soon as he made it. The distant darkness parted and where others saw a large blackened sphere shape trailed by many smaller shapes, Leo could already see the monster. A massive eye, nearly as large as one of these houses, with a blue and green almost glowing iris and bloody veins trailing behind along with dozens of other, smaller eyes, similar to the ones they fought before. It took Leo a moment to realize that he wasn't just seeing the eye as it approached, it was looking at him. By the time he regained awareness it was already almost upon them, the others could see it to now as it made several slow, wide, circles around the village, staring at them the whole time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Having been ripped out of their world, some hasty explanation screamed at them by some strange being claiming to be one "Dr. DOOM", and finally being dumped into a strange river on an unknown world with little instruction beyond "Help the first people you see". Toshiro found themselves swimming through the quite cool river water when they heard some commotion on land. It seemed to be night out, and despite this there was clear evidence of many beings moving around on the land. Upon poking the top of their head out of the water Toshiro found many humans standing around in various forms of dress and clearly preparing for a fight, not from the river though, but instead all eyes were trained on the sky, all eyes indeed. As when Toshiro looked further up they saw what the humans were preparing to fight, swarms of massive eyes flying through the sky with a single larger eye seemingly leading them. Toshiro joins the fight! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With the massive eye having finished its flight around the village and began its decent to the battlefield along with many of its followers, Lucille scribed her Sanctuary on the ground and stood in it, the villagers gathered together, and some fish-man having crawled out of the river. The fight was on! Init: Status: