[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.]
[Waverly nods as the witches begin to take their leave, leaving their dead behind.]
Yeah. I mean, I don't got much left in the tank so everyone else is going to have to heal the old fashioned way. And I can't do much for the blood loss so you'll probably want some juice and some cookies once you get out of here, but you'll be okay.
[Liv squeezes Tyler's hand in return and then looks up at Waverly and says something that Liv doesn't say all that often: "Thank you." There are two people that Liv Parker absolutely can't live without and Tyler is one of them. She doesn't want to think about what would have happened if Waverly hadn't intervened.
( He was freaking impaled. But. Okay. His voice comes back to him, too, as he remembers he has to breathe and then tries sitting up, echoing Liv's sentiments. )
["We should get out of here." Dolls glances around, seeing the flames from the fire balls Liv was throwing below starting to grow. "I don't think this place is going to last much longer."
Liv nods slowly starting to help Tyler to his feet before her eyes go wide. "Shit, the safe. Can you -?"
Waverly nods and shifts to take Tyler's weight so that Liv can run downstairs and get into the arcane safe.]
( Wynonna helps on Tyler's other side as Alys accompanies Liv downstairs, reinforcing a step that wants to break with magic. She stands close, if Liv needs more fire power as the rest move on slightly shaky ground out the entrance. )
[Liv moves into what was formerly the office and crouches down on the floor, raising her hand over where the safe sits. She takes a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves before moving through the combination.]
[Liv does as well (18), moving towards the car so that she can place her spoils into it. Once everything is secured, she turns back to the group and raises an eyebrow.]
May I interest all of you in a drink back at the Armory? So we can have that conversation I mentioned earlier?
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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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Yeah. I mean, I don't got much left in the tank so everyone else is going to have to heal the old fashioned way. And I can't do much for the blood loss so you'll probably want some juice and some cookies once you get out of here, but you'll be okay.
[Liv squeezes Tyler's hand in return and then looks up at Waverly and says something that Liv doesn't say all that often: "Thank you." There are two people that Liv Parker absolutely can't live without and Tyler is one of them. She doesn't want to think about what would have happened if Waverly hadn't intervened.
Waverly just smiles.]
I'm just glad I could help.
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( He was freaking impaled. But. Okay. His voice comes back to him, too, as he remembers he has to breathe and then tries sitting up, echoing Liv's sentiments. )
Thanks.
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["We should get out of here." Dolls glances around, seeing the flames from the fire balls Liv was throwing below starting to grow. "I don't think this place is going to last much longer."
Liv nods slowly starting to help Tyler to his feet before her eyes go wide. "Shit, the safe. Can you -?"
Waverly nods and shifts to take Tyler's weight so that Liv can run downstairs and get into the arcane safe.]
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Hopefully that bitch didn't already crack it.
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( She sensed it before and she senses it even more now. (17) )
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[The door slides open, and Liv reaches in, cleaning out the contents which includes a few Grimmoires and a few dark objects.]
Time to take these safely back to the Armory.
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( She survives her Dex check (15) as the house collapses behind her. )
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May I interest all of you in a drink back at the Armory? So we can have that conversation I mentioned earlier?
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( "Couldn't say it better myself," Wynonna says, throwing an arm around her sister. "What do you say, Babygirl. Fancy a drink with the fancy folk?" )
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[And with that they pile into their cars and off they go to Armory for drinks and exposition.]