Unleashed

[GamingLord]

After a while of careful pondering and thinking, it was decided that the best course of action would be to trigger the trap somehow, and then make a quick run for it. Jacob would provide the decoy, using some of his own blood or flesh to produce a golem that would go up and set off the ambush waiting for them. Then, with that done, they would try theri best to slip by with Rosemary and Veni's help.  

[GamingLord]

After the shower of dust, dirt, and golem bits was over, Jacob hesitated a bit. He almost wanted to send another up there, but that would take a little too much energy and time they might not have.... his hunch was itching at him.

Jacob: Okay... I think we set off their trap. We should proceed, but extremely carefully....  

[Rosemary Mori]

They moved upwards and towards where the explosion had occurred. There's much dust in the air, Rosemary thought. As they moved forward she found it more difficult to navigate them through the stuff and that she was slowing down. It was like the dust was getting thicker and she was trying to send air through a bunch of sand. She stopped, the stuff was drawn to her/them getting thicker like walking through an endless hall of cobwebs. As soon as she realized this, she heard a click like a trigger in her head and they were suddenly blasted with an energy opposite of her's which forced them all (except Veni who wasn't hiding by wind power) to come out of hiding.  

[Rosemary Mori]

At some point while Sephiroth was there, Mindy began to frown and shudder a little. She got the tune to one of the songs he sang stuck in her head. She stood up and walked past him and almost through him. She stopped and glanced that way before turning on some chanting music praising Jiluzix. Sephiroth shuddered.  

[Rosemary Mori]

Rosemary was temporarily stunned from the sudden shock. A wall of flames appeared right behind them as the mages appeared.

"If you don't resist, we won't damage you and may even take you to your friend," said the Imp whose voice sounded very reassuring to those that were living. It had put some of it's power behind those words like Jacob could do with undead.  

[GamingLord]

Jacob stumbled for a moment, straining with the effort to fight against those words and to submit to them. Something about them was so tempting, until one of the undead realized what was going on, and helped the necromancer and other livings fight against the mind affecting words spoken.

It was the general consensus that surrendering would be a horrible idea. Not bothering with such thoughts or silly sayings like "Over our dead bodies", they decided to speak with action instead. Jacob instantly splintered off and killed (albeit very painfully) some shards of his bones, sending them careening towards his targets, hoping to make contact. Should they pierce, they would grow as much as possible, damaging their victims internally.

Fal'Jenul took to having tendrils of her colorful fog wisps wrap around people's limbs, enhancing their ability to heal faster and hopefully react faster. Around so many people at once though, this would be diluted more.

The angels developed energies into their hands, ready to discharge them as projectiles to assault with, while the imps tried to stay out of the way, but offer whatever help they could with their electrical properties.  

[Rosemary Mori]

The Imp brought up a wall of 'holy' fire in between them to incinerate the shards of bone. "Figured you'd be too strong for that." Mindy hadn't put much effort into that anyways, but the influence wasn't out of Adur's voice either as a sense of flattery came with them.

"Fighting is so bothersome really," influence to be less tense and how bothersome fighting is. Meanwhile Alpha was cloaked and working on a trap spell to summon restraints to wrap around opponents.  

[GamingLord]

What little bits of bone that did not got incinerated, where captured by Xun's magic, the elite guard grinning nastily as he twisted the now dead tissue into something more sinister. It wasn't much, but he grew them as much as they would allow into tiny skeletons with sharp claws. They collapsed onto the ground like puppets, then suddenly stood ramrod straight up like on string, distant red dot glows in their sockets. The things hissed as they rushed, ready to stab and claw into the hero's group.

Xun himself muttered some strange tongue in a deep, demonic gutteral tone as he stepped back, gesturing for Adur, Alpha, and his little skeletons to take the lead as he prepared something they felt had strong energy in the air.

Being slightly winded from his disappointingly ineffectual attack (that would have been rather vicious if it had worked), Jacob stumbled back abit, trying to shake off the allure of Adun's words. This granted the viciousness of one of the skeletons to stab him in both a thigh and the back of his knee, causing him to fall to the ground with a slight yelp of pain. Immediately, Fal'Jenul focuses more of her energies into healing the fallen necromancer, while blasts of energy are sent at the little skeletal abominations from Milaku and Thas. The things had suddenly grown thorns and spikes all over their bones, proving too dangerous to pick up and throw off with bare hands. The holy blasts had the added benefit of slightly healing Jacob's wounds as well if they grazed him.

One such creature seemed to drink of Jacob's spilt blood and suddenly doubled in sized, growling evilly. It's finger claws elongated into Freddy Krueger like blades as it leaped for Rosemary's face.  

[Rosemary Mori]

Rosemary actually grinned under her mask. She controlled the air. This attack was completely surrounded by air so it was like handing it over to her and saying do what you like with it. She made several quick pushing gestures with her hands and the thing stopped in mid air than slammed into a nearby wall. She followed up with throwing a thermite grenade at the krueger. .

Adur sent the fire wall at the creatures sending out 'unholy' blasts of energy and would have it chase them much like how she practiced doing control earlier.

Rosemary was tripped after that as Alpha's spell came to fruit and began to try to bind everyone in some way. She easily broke it with her wrist blades and rolled out of the way as she sensed something slicing at her.  

[GamingLord]

*Boom!*

The midget like skeletal monster shattered, most of it's mass burnt up due to the thermite. What little did remain reformed into a slightly smaller than original skeleton.

Jacob finally got the other several skeletons off him, but not before they supped on his blood. They had grown, some to half the size of a man, and changed into different forms... less humanoid, more beastial like. They didn't make the same jumping or leaping mistakes that their kin did.

It was in fact one of those creatures that had a blade jutting out of it's wrist that had nearly chopped off one of Rosemary's appendages, had she not moved.

Fal'Jenul opened her mouth, letting out a breath of blue fog that separated into several cloudy, translucent spheres. They took care of the majority of the hell flames, or "holy fire" that chased the angels, though there were still flames that attempted to lick and burn at them.

Jacob concentrated, mentally communicating with Veni quickly to make it look like he had some form of shadow or unknown magic. Stabbing his blade into the ground, he chanted a few words that simply enhanced his own blade, making phantom copies of it for Veni to quickly use and throw from behind the trio niearcim at their sides and backs if at all possible.  

[Rosemary Mori]

Most of Alpha's ensnares turned its attention to the wispy woman who somewhat resembled the man caught earlier. Next to the tentacle monster weilding multiple weapons she seemed to be the most annoying to them. A bear trap appeared bellow one of Thas's feet as he was finishing a step and snapped.

Brilliant! Veni quickly had the knives disappear and launched them at all three mages at the same time making the knives appear from various shadows at different angles. One managed to embed itself in one of Alpha's few vulnerable spots and caused him to expose himself from the shadows.

They didn't go in as deep into Adur's thick hide as Veni had hoped which had surprised him as he threw them rather hard and quickly. This hadn't hindered the enhanced imp at all as this creature was designed to have a very high tolerance to pain. It hadn't stopped the launching of several spines covered in some stunning substance over the poison stuff at the angels mostly.

Now Xun, Veni had saw, seemed to have armor under his skin so the vampire aimed at areas it appeared to him where it wasn't as thick.  

[GamingLord]

While slightly damaging, stabbing Xun in more sensitive, less armored areas may have been a mistake... he had been still in the middle of casting a hefty spell, one that was somewhat dangerous as well...

... He faltered in his chanting, grunting, then swearing under his breath when he was stabbed in an area in his lower back where his torso armor and lower armor met. It wasn't too damaging, but it caused him to stumble forward, a small spurt of blackened blood spilling from the wound. If he weren't undead, that would have been something vital.

Red, angry energies formed around Xun, screaming in the air as they suddenly caused his hands to explode violently from the uncontrolled output. Thas tried to free himself from the painful bear trap, but was caught up by a stream of red glow that tore off one of his legs... at least it was the one in the trap.

Xun: "The spell has been ruined! Watch yourselves! There's no telling the effects now!"

Fal'Jenul struggled with her own bindings, while Milaku tried to help her and barely nudged her aware from a couple of the glowing strands of energy. One of them impacted with a wall and exploded greatly, sending out large amounts of stone and debris. One strand blasted through Adur's thigh, mixing with the blood and gore of Mindy's puppet, somehow reacting in such a manner that when it finally impacted with another wall, it opened a portal... Straight into Mindy's home. The best guess later on would be that due to her connection with the puppet, the random effect of the energy caused a gateway to be opened. On the other side, Sephiroth could clearly see what was going on.

One of the skeletons was smacked with energy as well... and grew into a giant that had to hunch over.... it's eyes bleed and glowed angrily.... Xun seemed happy at first, then frowned.

"It's out of my control!"

One of the giant skeletal creature's arms morphed into a spiked bony club and smashed into the ground near the Niearcims.... missing fortunately, but forced them to dodge... it then tried it's luck with the other group, flailing it's powerful melee limb at them.