[This thing has so many legs. The skittering was giving spider, but as more and more legs punch through the ceiling, it's starting to give more of the impression of a centipede, creating cages on the ground, one of them catches Tyler in between them, pinning him in place.
Liv grits her teeth and she gets caught in her own cage, before doing her best to circle her hands, even with her injured arm and mutters a low:]
Igna lux.
[She blows fire up in a column at the ceiling above her, doing her best to try and catch the tops of as many legs as possible (19), and the creature gives a scream as the legs start to withdraw to try and get away from the heat.]
[Liv nods as she follows, still cradling her injured arm as she does. As they make it up to the second floor, the shadows indicate that something very large is definitely moving above them. And they can start to hear the faint sound of chanting from the back.]
Sounds like some kind of ritual.
[There's a closed door at the top of the stairs that rattles as they approach, and Liv places a hand on Tyler's shoulder before nodding to the other side of the door.
She summons a bit of fire again before swallowing.]
( He's ready to burst through the door, and ready if another leg bursts through the ceiling. He wonders if there's an attic. There was no attic on the schematics. )
[She reaches for the doorhandle and takes a deep breath.]
One. Two.
[Three. She tugs the door open and reveals a long, winding exoskeleton that leads up to a pair of gnashing mandibles. Liv releases the fire she was holding (17 vs. 1) and the creature screams in response, reeling away from the fireball it just took to the face.]
[Liv will totally alle oop some more fire to go with Tyler's lamp and it does connect with the creature (10 vs. 9), but the thing is just so stupidly large and it makes it hard to find any room to move around it.]
Why are you so fucking big?!
[As she says that, however, she hears the sound of tires rumbling against the gravel outside the house. She doesn't think much of it until she catches a familiar voice.
"What the hell ...?"
She tips her head back towards the way they came in, and looks relieved when she sees a familiar face coming in the door.
"Liv?"]
Hi, Dolls. Thanks for coming.
[She says it like she invited him. Then she glances back to Tyler.]
This isn't going to get better until we can stop the summoning circle. If I can move it to the side, can you see if you can get to the witches?
( Non-Nat (21) as she murmurs to herself and tries to trip up Chanter 1 by removing their mouth completely.
Wynonna enters, gun drawn.
"Holy Unhuman-Centipede," she says, trying to aim for an eye, letting off a shot. (8) It probably goes wide or it wriggles away.
"Were you following us?" Tyler asks, leaping onto the bed frame, trying to pull a post off of it's corner to make it a weapon. (18) So it comes free, nails still on one end as the canopy comes down completely and he rips the canopy off the end.
[Chanter 1 got a (5), so yep, their mouth is gone. The invocation stumbles, but keeps going (15) so giant centipede stays for now. The centipede manages to wind out of the way of Wynonna's shot (13), and gnashes it's mandible's in Liv's face as it tries to come down on her (12 vs. 15), but she slips back down the stairs, towards the direction of backup.]
We were not. We got a lead that witches I'd tangled with before were out here causing problems, thought we'd come check up on it.
[Dolls pauses in his explanation of things to take a shot (13 vs. 7). He glances down at Liv and eyes the bloody mess that is Liv's shoulder as she shoots another fireball at the monster (18 vs. 6) and the creature screams in response.]
That arm looks really bad.
["No shit, Sherlock," Liv retorts in response.
Tyler has four witches to go to bat on, only three of them currently chanting. Chanter 1 is shit out of luck for spells, and is maybe kind of panicking about the fact that they don't have a mouth, but Leader, aka the witch that Dolls is looking for, issues a command in a low, hissing language and the centipede swings the back end of it's body back towards Tyler (15).]
(Tyler takes the hit hard, like a mack truck that knocks him against the already crumbling wall. The structure's not going to hold forever, so they chose an... interesting choice to trap them in. He thinks about what advantage it could be used.
Rolling off the bed, he swings the post at Three, nail end coming down. (15)
Alys detects magic to see if any pilfered dark objects are on anyone's person.
"Hey! Legs for days!" Wynonna sends another shot, this time at the body part closest to Tyler, to keep it at bay. (18) )
[Three does not dodge Tyler's blow (11), taking the hit to her head, where the spell falters with another flicker, though it does come back (13). Combined with Wynonna's liberal use of Peacemaker (4), part of the centipede starts to collapse on itself, almost as though the damage the gun did is not enough to maintain the spell.
That, naturally, draws Liv's attention.]
What the hell is that?
["Centipede first, Liv, weapons later." Dolls shoots at the centipede again (16 vs. 1) - a very good shot that blows off part of the centipede's face.
Liv huffs and tosses a fireball (7 vs. 16) but the centipede moves out of the way in it's wailing flailing.
Leader seems to have noticed the damage that Peacemaker did also, but has to focus on Tyler right now because he's causing problems. She speaks in that hissing language again, and the back end of the centipede swings back towards him (13).
There are dark objects, thank you for asking, Alys. In fact, it seems like there's a big chunk of them stashed in a room in he back of the house, as well as the aforementioned arcane safe in the floor that Liv came in search of.
"Hey, do you want some help with that arm?" Waverly offers to Liv, and Liv turns a distrustful expression on the other woman.]
What kind of help?
["I vouch for her, Parker, let her help you. You'll be of more use with two working arms."]
Fuck you, Dolls.
[But she does relent and let Waverly place her hand on her shoulder and is shocked when she finds it immediately healed. Liv blinks, and stares back at Waverly for a moment.]
[Another one of Wynonna's bullets collide with the centipede (4), pulling another section of it down towards a floor that's starting to open up with hellfire. It's having a much harder time recovering from those. It takes the blow from Tyler as a result (3), and let's out a scream of pain.
Now that Liv has both her arms back, she shakes out her fingers before summoning more of her magic to herself. She uses the portion that's being pulled into Hell to her advantage, and forces the centipede down, the to the side in order to create more space in the doorframe for people to slip through to the casters (11 vs. 6).]
Go!
[Dolls doesn't have to be told twice, and he charges past, aiming for one of the remaining chanting members of the casting circle instead (8 vs. 2), and the ritual is starting to truly fracture with another mid concentration roll (11).
Leader looks up, both at Alys' voice as well as Dolls appearance and she swears. "Not fucking you again."
And she summons the centipede to try and swing at Dolls this time (19 vs. 7) and Dolls gets thrown to the side and hit the wall near where Tyler is standing. "Ow."
Waverly hangs back, cocking her shotgun and taking another shot at the centipede (4 vs. 2) but winds up catching most of the wall thanks to Liv's spell.]
( She climbs through, heels clacking as she jumps against the wall and attempts a kick at the Leader. (8) It's mostly about her losing her concentration.
Wynonna also slips through and full-on tries to tackle one of the casters (19).
Tyler removes the post and then swings it again at the centipede. (13) )
[Leader dodges the blow (16). Wynonna's caster takes the hit with a stumble (16). The spell flickers bigtime this go round (6) and after taking Tyler's hit (5), the centipede disappears from view.
"Damnit," the leader rages. "You two really need to stay out of my goddamn business."
Liv and Waverly head up the stairs now that the centipede is gone.]
You tried to kill me and my partner with a giant bug. They are the least of your problems right now.
( Wynonna draws Peacemaker on her witch to try and get her to raise her hands. )
I wanna see hands. And, only hands - up, and in surrender mode, not summoning bugs.
( Wynonna has never been the most intimidating (6).
Tyler drops down from the bed and swings the bed post at the third caster. (5)
Alys waves a hand and scatters the ingredients of their spell on the ground with a gust of wind (9), they don't go far, but one clay pot does manage to tumble back down the stairs.
"Sloppy. All of you. Always a disappointment when those you've taught just flounder," Alys says. )
[The lowest the casters rolled was an (8), so no, Wynonna isn't the most intimidating here. The caster Tyler tried to nail dodges easily (17), and the Leader tries to recover what Alys is disturbing, but they would still need work to get it back up again (10).
"Says you,"Leader snaps, staring daggers into the other witch, before using her magic to lift a knife and fling it in Alys' direction (13). The casters decide to go ham, with Caster 1 targeting Dolls (13 vs. 14), which he just barely dodges before shooting back at her (5 vs. 6), which glances off the wall.
Caster 2 targets Wynonna (8) with another fling of an athame, while Caster 3 turns on Tyler (8), but whether it hits or not, the spell falters when Liv uses a twist of her wrist to snap the witch's arm (12 vs. 9).
( The knife slices along the edge of Alys' shoulder (12), a sliver of her flowy top floats its way to the ground.
Wynonna, unable to intimidate, tries shifting away from the athame (3) but she's not fast enough, and it gets her in her good leather jacket, and against her black badge in her pocket as it bounces off. "Really. The tit?"
She moves closer to try and cold cock the witch unconscious, but she's still in pain. (6)
Tyler, ready to defend himself, (14) would've made it, but with the arm being unusable, he sends the post down again, trying to land across her face. (14) ))
[Caster 2 is not prepared for the cold cock (2), and stumbles as a result, blinking dazed as both hands are flung out to keep her from hitting the ground too hard.
Caster 3 manages to deftly dodge Tyler's blow (nat 20), and flings up her wrist to send him backwards in to a very sharp piece of broken wood (also ... nat 20).
Caster 1 is still tangling with Dolls (7 vs. 4) and Dolls tries to punch back, but seems briefly dazed (11 vs. 12)
Leader draws up her knife again, intending to send it flying again (11).]
( Tyler gets blown back (7), the sharp piece of wood impaling him. It sticks straight through him and pushes blood up into his throat, definitely down for count.
"Stay down," Wynonna says, again (9) for intimidation.
Alys beats her to it, sending the knife at Leader, flipping it around (18) )
[Leader is not able to get out of the way of the knife fast enough, and it sinks into her shoulder (17). Dolls gets another hit off on his witch (17 vs. 6) and there's the bang! of a gunshot as the witch drops to the ground - still alive but very much bleeding.
Wynonna's witch does as she's told, holding up her hands in defeat.
"Ty!"
Liv charges for the witch contending with Tyler and snaps her neck (nat 20 vs. 14), leaving her to drop to the ground. Waverly is right on her heels, and she drops down next to him, eyeing over the wound.]
Okay. Okay, I can fix this. On my signal, pull it out.
[Liv's scattered, trying to keep it together, but even that rings wrong in her mind. "But they tell you not to - "]
Trust me. I know you don't know me but trust me. I'm not going to let him die.
[Liv still seems uncertain, and if Waverly hadn't healed her earlier she might not have listened. But for now, without vampire blood, it's the only thing they can do. So she nods, moving to brace Tyler behind his shoulders while Waverly braces his sides.
To Tyler:]
I'm sorry, this is going to suck. On three. One, two!
[And the two of them will haul him off, and Waverly will focus every bit of angel power she has left to try and seal things up quickly so that Tyler doesn't lose too much blood.]
( He tries grabbing at it himself, but he's woozy, in pain, and seeing stars. He lets our a cry of pain as she removes it and he passes out as blood pours out from his wound, being dragged away. His jacket is removed and Waverly gets her hands over it.
Alys steps over one of the witch bodies, holds her hand out and retrieves the knife as it flies back to her hand.
"I don't know what you wanted with Tyler Lockwood of Olivia Parker, but, you failed."
She melts the knife in her hand and drops the remnants onto the ground.
"I'm sorry for this," she prefaces before her eyes go white. "CAECUS." she says. (a 13) to blind Elvira, her eyes burning out if it succeeds.
Wynonna just watches, blinking.
"Jesus," she says, keeping the gun trained on her witch. )
[Liv let's Tyler collapse into her, gently running her fingers through his hair, ignoring the chaos around her. When Waverly removes her hands, the skin is healed, and she slumps in relief.]
Okay. He should be okay.
[But that was a big heal so she's probably not going to be very useful past that. Hopefully no one else will be grievously injured before this is over. Except for the bad guys.
Leader screams, trying to resist the spell (12), but she's not strong enough to get past Alys' age and prowess and her eyes burn out almost as though she's been smote by an angel.]
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( He leaps to help, hand on Liv, another hand on the leg as he tries to forcefully separate them. and gets a (nat 1). make this humiliating. )
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Liv grits her teeth and she gets caught in her own cage, before doing her best to circle her hands, even with her injured arm and mutters a low:]
Igna lux.
[She blows fire up in a column at the ceiling above her, doing her best to try and catch the tops of as many legs as possible (19), and the creature gives a scream as the legs start to withdraw to try and get away from the heat.]
What the hell is this thing?
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( Once the legs retreat enough, Tyler pulls Liv closer to him and he tries to take off up the stairs. )
But as long as he has height on us, we're at the disadvantage.
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Sounds like some kind of ritual.
[There's a closed door at the top of the stairs that rattles as they approach, and Liv places a hand on Tyler's shoulder before nodding to the other side of the door.
She summons a bit of fire again before swallowing.]
On three?
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( He's ready to burst through the door, and ready if another leg bursts through the ceiling. He wonders if there's an attic. There was no attic on the schematics. )
Good call on this being a trap, though.
( His eyes glow yellow, ready for the fight. )
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[She reaches for the doorhandle and takes a deep breath.]
One. Two.
[Three. She tugs the door open and reveals a long, winding exoskeleton that leads up to a pair of gnashing mandibles. Liv releases the fire she was holding (17 vs. 1) and the creature screams in response, reeling away from the fireball it just took to the face.]
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I really miss hybrids!
( Tyler goes for a lamp and sends it at the centipede-monster. )
Liv!
( Maybe another fire blast can exacerbate the blow? )
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Why are you so fucking big?!
[As she says that, however, she hears the sound of tires rumbling against the gravel outside the house. She doesn't think much of it until she catches a familiar voice.
"What the hell ...?"
She tips her head back towards the way they came in, and looks relieved when she sees a familiar face coming in the door.
"Liv?"]
Hi, Dolls. Thanks for coming.
[She says it like she invited him. Then she glances back to Tyler.]
This isn't going to get better until we can stop the summoning circle. If I can move it to the side, can you see if you can get to the witches?
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( Non-Nat (21) as she murmurs to herself and tries to trip up Chanter 1 by removing their mouth completely.
Wynonna enters, gun drawn.
"Holy Unhuman-Centipede," she says, trying to aim for an eye, letting off a shot. (8) It probably goes wide or it wriggles away.
"Were you following us?" Tyler asks, leaping onto the bed frame, trying to pull a post off of it's corner to make it a weapon. (18) So it comes free, nails still on one end as the canopy comes down completely and he rips the canopy off the end.
He's ready for batting practice now. )
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We were not. We got a lead that witches I'd tangled with before were out here causing problems, thought we'd come check up on it.
[Dolls pauses in his explanation of things to take a shot (13 vs. 7). He glances down at Liv and eyes the bloody mess that is Liv's shoulder as she shoots another fireball at the monster (18 vs. 6) and the creature screams in response.]
That arm looks really bad.
["No shit, Sherlock," Liv retorts in response.
Tyler has four witches to go to bat on, only three of them currently chanting. Chanter 1 is shit out of luck for spells, and is maybe kind of panicking about the fact that they don't have a mouth, but Leader, aka the witch that Dolls is looking for, issues a command in a low, hissing language and the centipede swings the back end of it's body back towards Tyler (15).]
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Rolling off the bed, he swings the post at Three, nail end coming down. (15)
Alys detects magic to see if any pilfered dark objects are on anyone's person.
"Hey! Legs for days!" Wynonna sends another shot, this time at the body part closest to Tyler, to keep it at bay. (18) )
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That, naturally, draws Liv's attention.]
What the hell is that?
["Centipede first, Liv, weapons later." Dolls shoots at the centipede again (16 vs. 1) - a very good shot that blows off part of the centipede's face.
Liv huffs and tosses a fireball (7 vs. 16) but the centipede moves out of the way in it's wailing flailing.
Leader seems to have noticed the damage that Peacemaker did also, but has to focus on Tyler right now because he's causing problems. She speaks in that hissing language again, and the back end of the centipede swings back towards him (13).
There are dark objects, thank you for asking, Alys. In fact, it seems like there's a big chunk of them stashed in a room in he back of the house, as well as the aforementioned arcane safe in the floor that Liv came in search of.
"Hey, do you want some help with that arm?" Waverly offers to Liv, and Liv turns a distrustful expression on the other woman.]
What kind of help?
["I vouch for her, Parker, let her help you. You'll be of more use with two working arms."]
Fuck you, Dolls.
[But she does relent and let Waverly place her hand on her shoulder and is shocked when she finds it immediately healed. Liv blinks, and stares back at Waverly for a moment.]
We are having a conversation when this is done.
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Interesting. Alys takes stock in that, but focuses on Leader.
"Elvira," she says, recognizing her. "You evaded a hundred year-old cowboy and one of my best men?"
A hello for the ages, from the ages.
Wynonna aims again: (12) at the Centipede.
Tyler swings at the Centipede (17) again, nail side down, ENJOY. ) )
Maybe a little less angel gossip and more Centipede wallop? And then - definitely a big drink.
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Now that Liv has both her arms back, she shakes out her fingers before summoning more of her magic to herself. She uses the portion that's being pulled into Hell to her advantage, and forces the centipede down, the to the side in order to create more space in the doorframe for people to slip through to the casters (11 vs. 6).]
Go!
[Dolls doesn't have to be told twice, and he charges past, aiming for one of the remaining chanting members of the casting circle instead (8 vs. 2), and the ritual is starting to truly fracture with another mid concentration roll (11).
Leader looks up, both at Alys' voice as well as Dolls appearance and she swears. "Not fucking you again."
And she summons the centipede to try and swing at Dolls this time (19 vs. 7) and Dolls gets thrown to the side and hit the wall near where Tyler is standing. "Ow."
Waverly hangs back, cocking her shotgun and taking another shot at the centipede (4 vs. 2) but winds up catching most of the wall thanks to Liv's spell.]
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( She climbs through, heels clacking as she jumps against the wall and attempts a kick at the Leader. (8) It's mostly about her losing her concentration.
Wynonna also slips through and full-on tries to tackle one of the casters (19).
Tyler removes the post and then swings it again at the centipede. (13) )
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"Damnit," the leader rages. "You two really need to stay out of my goddamn business."
Liv and Waverly head up the stairs now that the centipede is gone.]
You tried to kill me and my partner with a giant bug. They are the least of your problems right now.
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I wanna see hands. And, only hands - up, and in surrender mode, not summoning bugs.
( Wynonna has never been the most intimidating (6).
Tyler drops down from the bed and swings the bed post at the third caster. (5)
Alys waves a hand and scatters the ingredients of their spell on the ground with a gust of wind (9), they don't go far, but one clay pot does manage to tumble back down the stairs.
"Sloppy. All of you. Always a disappointment when those you've taught just flounder," Alys says. )
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"Says you," Leader snaps, staring daggers into the other witch, before using her magic to lift a knife and fling it in Alys' direction (13). The casters decide to go ham, with Caster 1 targeting Dolls (13 vs. 14), which he just barely dodges before shooting back at her (5 vs. 6), which glances off the wall.
Caster 2 targets Wynonna (8) with another fling of an athame, while Caster 3 turns on Tyler (8), but whether it hits or not, the spell falters when Liv uses a twist of her wrist to snap the witch's arm (12 vs. 9).
Not her boyfriend!!]
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Wynonna, unable to intimidate, tries shifting away from the athame (3) but she's not fast enough, and it gets her in her good leather jacket, and against her black badge in her pocket as it bounces off. "Really. The tit?"
She moves closer to try and cold cock the witch unconscious, but she's still in pain. (6)
Tyler, ready to defend himself, (14) would've made it, but with the arm being unusable, he sends the post down again, trying to land across her face. (14) ) )
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Caster 3 manages to deftly dodge Tyler's blow (nat 20), and flings up her wrist to send him backwards in to a very sharp piece of broken wood (also ... nat 20).
Caster 1 is still tangling with Dolls (7 vs. 4) and Dolls tries to punch back, but seems briefly dazed (11 vs. 12)
Leader draws up her knife again, intending to send it flying again (11).]
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"Stay down," Wynonna says, again (9) for intimidation.
Alys beats her to it, sending the knife at Leader, flipping it around (18) )
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Wynonna's witch does as she's told, holding up her hands in defeat.
"Ty!"
Liv charges for the witch contending with Tyler and snaps her neck (nat 20 vs. 14), leaving her to drop to the ground. Waverly is right on her heels, and she drops down next to him, eyeing over the wound.]
Okay. Okay, I can fix this. On my signal, pull it out.
[Liv's scattered, trying to keep it together, but even that rings wrong in her mind. "But they tell you not to - "]
Trust me. I know you don't know me but trust me. I'm not going to let him die.
[Liv still seems uncertain, and if Waverly hadn't healed her earlier she might not have listened. But for now, without vampire blood, it's the only thing they can do. So she nods, moving to brace Tyler behind his shoulders while Waverly braces his sides.
To Tyler:]
I'm sorry, this is going to suck. On three. One, two!
[And the two of them will haul him off, and Waverly will focus every bit of angel power she has left to try and seal things up quickly so that Tyler doesn't lose too much blood.]
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Alys steps over one of the witch bodies, holds her hand out and retrieves the knife as it flies back to her hand.
"I don't know what you wanted with Tyler Lockwood of Olivia Parker, but, you failed."
She melts the knife in her hand and drops the remnants onto the ground.
"I'm sorry for this," she prefaces before her eyes go white. "CAECUS." she says. (a 13) to blind Elvira, her eyes burning out if it succeeds.
Wynonna just watches, blinking.
"Jesus," she says, keeping the gun trained on her witch. )
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Okay. He should be okay.
[But that was a big heal so she's probably not going to be very useful past that. Hopefully no one else will be grievously injured before this is over. Except for the bad guys.
Leader screams, trying to resist the spell (12), but she's not strong enough to get past Alys' age and prowess and her eyes burn out almost as though she's been smote by an angel.]
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I suggest you help her out of here.
( Wynonna lets up on the gun to let her witch do just that if he's able.
Tyler comes to, eyes rolling forward again as he grasps Liv's hand, looking at her - then Waverly.
"Did you --" )
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