[Friday, October 31st. 10:15 PM] [The situation: There's a large cage in the center of the secret Masonic room under the library, filled with about a dozen or so people in Halloween costumes. Nearby, Jacky, Horus and Abby are fighting with Devourak.] [At the far end of the room, Christian is speeding around Badgerforce, dodging his electric icy beats outside a shimmering energy field. Within, Organist is playing some rather beautiful organ music. Made somewhat less beautiful by the makeup of the organ (organs and two women, apparently supers, who are looking less healthy by the minute).] [And Redcoat is somewhere in a trap-fileld tunnel, making her way towards the room as we speak...] [Session Start] * Christian runs at full tilt at Badgerforce and charges his fist up before a small smirk pulls on his lip with a 'heh'. He darts just short of the forcefield at the edge of it and books it up the edge of it, and backflips, diving towards the earth with his hand outstretched to handplant behind him. "How'd you like this, asshole?" [Badgerforce, apparently anticipating Chrisitan running into his icyelectric field, realizes what Christian's doing a bit too late. He thrashes on his guitar, the floor turning to ice, and slides on his knees to get out of the way...] [... but he vastly underestimates the radius of the shockwave that Shockwave creates, and he falls into a ten foot deep hole, buffeted by grainte and shards of marble tile.] * Horus stays in the air, where she's been hovering since filling the room with light. She brings both hands down towards Devourak, slowly, and grimaces in concentration as a tiny spark of light and fire appears in his throat... tiny and flickering, then exploding outwards. [Devourak eats that attack. Get it? Eats? 'cause it went into his mouth. Man, I crack myself up sometimes.] [Seriously, though, the light explodes in his gullet, and damn that looks like it hurt him. He hacks and coughs and chokes for a few moments, then regains himself and sends several xylophones flying at Horus as he leaps at Jacky with another bite!] [Meanwhile, from down in the hole, a slow, solomn guitar solo begins to play. And as Badgerforce slowly begins to rise out, the temperature in the room suddenly drops severely...] [Badgerforce isn't in great shape at the moment, mind. Isn't affecting his guitar playing, though. Nice tune.] * Horus 's aura flickers to life reflexively as the temperature drops, and she moves just as quickly as normal when trying to avoid the xylophones... which isn't quick enough, as one of them slams into her knee and sends her tumbling and cursing through the air before she rights herself. [The xylophones crash to the ground in an oddly melodic manner.] * Jacqueline sends the fading remnants of Horus' attack scattering to the corners of the room when a second madly coruscating ball of energy screams from her gun on a collision course with Devourak. [Devourak, off balance as Jacky steps out of the way of his bitey charge, takes that full on, sending him flying across the room again, crashing through a large statue and into another piller not far from the force field. He makes it back to his feet, but he looks shaky.] [Meanwhile, Organist plays frantically, and the 'air hero' glows again, warping the substance around Abby's air kami and disrupting its substance, scattering it.] * Abby flinches slightly as it's scattered, then she whispers lowly to herself, "Gimme," before she switches her grip on her staff. "No more music, Organist. I'm givin' you the hook." And she gestures in a circular motion outward with her staff before cinching in, the winds that they dissapated coming back to swirl around him and bind him to immobility. [The wind swirls around Organist. He plays furiously, and the air hero glows brightly as he tries to dispel whatever is happening around him... but Abby's just a bit too strong for him, and he finds himself paralyzed within a vortex of wind.] [Through the howling winds, he laughs. "Fools! This may hold me for a moment, but you'll never get through my shield! And the organ and I are linked! All I need is time, and I'll be able to use it to break free, and then I can finish my masterpiece!"] * Abby replies, with a thin smirk, "Gimme time, sicko. I've got a lot of punishment to give you." * TheRedcoat comes in through a side door in the wall, about 20-30 feet from the organ. She's under her invisible side of her coat as she sneaks in quietly, takes stock of the surroundings... * TheRedcoat , or rather a random patch of air, spits out five small grapples, which hook into the Organist. A bullet also whizzes into him from the same direction. * TheRedcoat 's random patch of air also seems to be moving towards the organ, or so the sound of rapid, angry footsteps indicates. [The grapples smash and tear at Organist, hurting him badly, but he's still up. The bullet that takes out a chunk of his neck... well, he ain't up for long after that, as he slumps within Abby's windy grasp, blood pouring from his neck.] [The field surround the organ flickers, and then fades.] * TheRedcoat continues running towards the organ, still invisible, tucking her weapons back into her coat. * Christian doesn't seem to be taking well to the cold, and is breathing hard, looking a little ragged. His breath is coming out in mist. He looks up at Badgerforce then draws his fist back before leaping across his self-made pit, fist screeching through the air as it slams into his face mid-leap. [Badgerforce, still floating, takes that right on the chin, flips backwards in mid-air, and faceplants back down into the hole. No more guitar-playing is forthcoming for the moment, apparently.] * Horus rights herself, scowls at Devourak as she raises points a shaky hand towards him, and his gullet explodes with searing light AGAIN. [Light explodes within Devourak again... but this time, his skin begins to crack. His lower jaw falls off and impacts onto the ground, scattering into a pile of ash.] [As he falls to his knees, clutching at his chest and throat, he stares up at Horus, and with a weak, sandpapery rasp, whispers one final phrase before he disintigrates...] ["I'll be Bach."] You little fucker! * Abby looks at Redcoat's quick killing, then says, "Glad I could hold him still for ya, Red." She takes a small calming breath. * Horus sets the ground where he used to be on fire, not that it matters much, probably. [The ash burns. Into ash. Ashy ash. Burny ashy ash.] * TheRedcoat ignores everything, drops her invisi-coat, and dashes toward the women in the organ. [The people in the cage, meanwhile, are chilled and rather eager to be not inside the cage.] * Christian falls to a knee after the last of them fall, elbow over one of them, breathing pretty heavily. "Y'know what? Fuck that guy. Get that guitar the hell away from him before he comes to." * Abby looks back to the others, between Jackie and Horus, and asks, "Can one of ya get the cage?" * Abby is floating towards the organ as well. Maybe just to make sure that it can be safely disassembled. [The two women are suspended, almost woven into the organs in the upper part of the organ, about 20 feet off the ground.] * TheRedcoat climbs up single-mindedly. [It's squishy and bleeding.] * Horus glares at where the guy left, then looks to the organ. Redcoat seems to have that in hand... so she turns her attention to the hostages and floats towards them. "Hey. Y'okay?" [Several of the hostages indicate to Horus that they've been better, and would be very much more okay if not inside a cage.] * Abby floats up alongside Redcoat, and says, quietly, "Careful, Redcoat... it's quite slippery..." * Christian finally catches his breath and hops down into the pit, making sure to take Badgerforce's guitar away from him. He looks down at the guy and kicks him in the side for good measure. * TheRedcoat 's climbin'. [Badgerforce is still out. Christian now has a really awesome guitar.] [Also, for the record, one of the women inside the cage is dressed as Redcoat.] [She's huddling with a large black man with dreads dressed as Bob Marley.] * Horus floats slowly over to one side of the cage, presses her finger to the lock, and says, "Stand back." Assuming the hostages do so, she fairly well shatters it with a minor explosion before pulling the door open. * Abby looks to Redcoat, then to the two heroes. She grimaces a moment before she closes her eyes. "Red, you're gonna need to respond to me so I know they won't fall on the floor when I try this." * TheRedcoat continues climbing and says distantly, "You haven't asked me a question." * Christian makes his way out of the pit and looks to the mess the guys left behind. Mainly the cage, because he doesn't want to get inbetween Abby and Redcoat's girltime. * Abby replies, quietly, "I'm going to free the two women from the spiritual linkage... and then I think they'll slide out. It'd help if you let me do that, and then caught them. Please?" [The cage is open! The people rush out... well, before they realize they have no idea how to get out of here and start milling around. The dreads guy and the !Redcoat, however, run over towards the organ, yelling that their friends are inside that thing.] * TheRedcoat finally slows, and blinks at Abby. "S...piritual linkage?" * Horus floats after them. "Hey," she says slowly. "Stay calm. We're gonna get them. Don't go doin' nothin' you'll regret." * Abby nods and replies quietly, "Cutting them out won't be safe. It's a blood magic ritual of the ugliest type." She smiles slightly at Red, continuing, "Will you catch them for me?" * TheRedcoat 's eyes flash. "*Yes*." [The two indicate to Horus that they are very much uncalmed by their friends being hooked into a giant musical pile of body parts, but as Horus' aura washes over them, they settle a bit and let Abby and Redcoat do their thing.] * Horus floats near the hostages to make sure they don't do anything stupid. * Abby floats back a moment, then nods slightly and floats up, whispering quietly, "No. But you've known her longer." She then puts her staff up against the organs and whispers, "Magic of life, of movement, of death and stagnancy, these women are not yours to hold." * Abby starts to glow as she presses the staff harder against the organs. "I state to you the simple truth: your time is over. Let your captives free. Cling to this mockery of life no more. Find your new purpose elsewhere." [A series of ripples run through the assembled organs, and the two women fall out. As they do, a rush of foul air escapes, blowing across the room, and a torrent of blood leaks out of the bottom of the organ.] * Abby withstands the foul air without moving for a few moments, keeping up the image of priestesshood at least for a few moments, before she coughs and goes quietly, "Ugh. Horrible." * TheRedcoat leaps for the two women and catches them midair, using the remnants of the organ to touch/parkour her way down. * Horus coughs, choking on the air before a weak breeze picks up, swirling it away from her and the hostages nearby. "Fucking Christ." [As Redcoat leaps clear, the organ loses its remaining cohesion, and collapses into a wet pile of body parts.] * Christian plugs his nose and makes a face. "Oh christ, not *more* of that stench." * Abby swallows and shakes her head, floating down slowly to Redcoat and the two women. [When Redcoat lands, the man and woman Horus was calming rush over to check on the two women. They both look pale and weak, but are obviously alive and breathing.] * TheRedcoat hangs on to the one who isn't black for a bit and surreptitiously whispers something in her ear. * Abby looks to Redcoat's whispering, then looks to the ones who rush over and says quietly, "Can we, ah, find something to cover these women?" [The 'air hero' shifts, opens her eyes weakly, and mutters something to Redcoat in another language as Redcoat holds onto her.] * Jacqueline clucks her tongue softly, shakes her head. "Sorry--I only brought enough for myself, I'm afraid." * Horus floats nearby, trying to keep the foul air more or less away. [The two concerned former hostages quickly gather coats/capes/etc from the others to wrap the two women in.] * TheRedcoat turns to the others and says reassuring things, her voice somehow more different than normal. [The air hero nods at Redcoat... then looks up, sees Horus floating there, and grins weakly. "You are... the Horus?"] * Horus looks to Abby and seems about to say something, before the hero interrupts her. She looks over. "Yeah?" She tries to sound normal. "Ain't... in my normal costume, so much, but yeah. You okay?" * Abby helps get the women wrapped up as she checks them for shock and the like: probably would be nice if they could move 'em. ["Your predecessor... had a lovely bottom." And she gently passes out, exhausted and drained.] * TheRedcoat turns around in time to catch that, and her, barely--she's on her knees, but she keeps said hero from hitting the ground. * Christian chuckles. "Ya got a fan club 'slooks like." * Horus looks at the girl blankly, and then something in her brain must snap, because she bursts out laughing. * TheRedcoat gives Abby another IN TENTS look, a little more desperate this time, and gestures to the unconscious girl in her lap. * Christian adjusts his gloves. "So we gettin' this insane music lover arrested or what? Doesn't look like any of the rest of 'em are comin' along." He spits in Badgerforce's general direction. "Strongest metal known to man, my ass." * Abby looks down at the girl and then, assuming it's safe, picks her up, saying softly, "I'm... not great at reading eyes, Redcoat." * Horus just keeps laughing. Tears might be coming to her eyes at this point, but it's hard to tell. * TheRedcoat gestures again, her voice still different. "Is she all right? Can you *do* anything?" * TheRedcoat helps Abby lift her up from her lap, also. * Abby looks over at her, down at the girl, and then says quietly, "I could bring them to consciousness... but rest will do the job just as well." * Horus manages to stop laughing after a while, and she also manages to say, "Gettin' outta here's a good start." So...so she's...they're..all right. Rest. Right. Very well. * Abby nods and says quietly, "I'm sure it was hard on them, but.. they're heroes, yes?" Right. I'll make sure Stone or someone crashes the party to get Badgerboy. * TheRedcoat nods sternly and leaves her in Abby's arms, then turns to the caged folks and the other hero and starts talking stuff like, asking them about what happened and such. * Christian goes off to the side make the call to HQ to get a clean-up crew down here. [Session End]