The Lesser Evils [Party of 2] [Jacob]

[Kate Minola]

Three days after the end of that freakin' plant monster, Kate found herself wandering around the same neighborhood. She didn't like the idea, given how exhausting and somewhat traumatic that fight was, but she was... compelled to return. It was so quiet after that big clusterfuck.

She groaned and sighed. She kept remembering how she had practically supercharged the damn thing, thinking that fire would work on it because it was a fucking plant. She would never make such an assumption again. These damn things did not obey any logic save their own and it would be a long while before she even came close to understanding that logic. And then they'd almost gotten killed, Tristan got his own nukes reflected back at him and Jacob... Jacob had ran away like a chicken.

She didn't blame him for leaving; she was scared shitless too, but dammit, at least the fucker could've given some warning so they'd organize a retreat to regroup or something!

Armed with her bow and a few new tricks stowed away she had no fear wandering in this place. She wanted to be sure she was ready to test herself against tougher opponents. If she reached a point where fighting these things was a cakewalk, she'd think herself a little more ready.

[Jacob Peeters]

Jacob sat on a bench in the darkened neighbourhood of yoyogi. things had been quite silent after the incident with the murderous undergrowth. There was a brief line of thought. Were the shadows calm like this because they lost a leading figure, or were they placated at doing... whatever they wanted to do with some people.

It was a rather morbid though, but also a very distinct possibility. It was rather frightening to image those people, people he knew. To simply disappear like the group he had seen spirited away from the break room back when this all started

And then, as if in response to his musing, Jacob saw Kate of all people rounding the corner. She was quite definitely not in a good mood. The reason behind it, Jacob could only guess at the reason why. But it was a fair assumption to make that she was in such a mood because of being beaten almost to death by a giant, deadly, hedge.

Jacob decided now was as good a time as any to assure himself. And so he stood up from the bench and turned to kate."Well... glad to see you still alive."

[Alice]

Oh, hi. Got some friends that wanna meet you.

Sound Balance
Resist: Fire, Wind
Weak: Slash, Light
Skills: Viper Smash, Megido, Recarm

Newlywed Dancers
Null: Dark
Weak: Light
Skills: Twin Shot, Mudoon, Amrita

[Jacob Peeters]

Jacob's greeting had been cut short by the arrival of shadows. "Hmm? shadows... Let's deal with those before we talk." Jacob said as he drew his gun. "I'll take that scale... thing. You take the interlocked humanoids." Jacob was focused on the immediate danger. Any talking would have to wait until after the sahdows had been dealt with.

The scales were a rather bizarre entity. They had no visible means of locomotion, and yet they slowly moved closer. Of course, that was to be expected of the shadows at this point. Jacob was more concerned with what the shadow could do. This concern was immediately answered when the scales blasted him with an unientifiable sort of magic. Jacob had no idea wht it was, but assumed it was probably lethal. And so he dodged out of the way, firing at the scales as he dodged.

The balst of energy had narrowly grazed his arm, and a clear lack of cloth on his sleeves indicated he was quite lucky to have dodged that shot. Deciding to return the favor, he lined up for a few more shots. *bang* Went the gun, and the scales wobbled. *bang* went it again, and the parts were coming undone. *bang* went the pistol for a final time, and the scales fell apart in a heap.

[Kate Minola]

Kate did not really react when she saw Jacob. Yes, she was still angry as hell at him for running away without a warning back when they fought the plant monster... buuuut part of her sort of understood. She scowled at him momentarily but when the monsters showed up, she put that aside.

"Likewise," she replied coolly and nocked an arrow on her bow.

The twirling creatures dodged her first arrow and it made her frown. She summoned Antiope immediately and attacked them with her slashing assault, which staggered them. The pair twirled right over to Kate and they both thrust the sword out to her. Kate expected a nasty injury but weirdly, the attack seemed to bounce off her and return to them!

Kate smiled a little wickedly. Seems she and Antiope had learned some new tricks. This was a nice opportunity to test something. She passed her bow over her shoulder and pulled the warhammer she'd gotten after the plant monster fight from the holster on her back.

It was nice and heavy but she could swing it around easily; the beaked top glowed with flaming power  and she... er, returned fire. She swung the hammer in a wide arch, hitting the pair and knocking them backwards. She followed up with another blow and killed them off with a spectacular overhead swing that would've made any Viking proud.