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[ The glasses shatter with a (hopefully) satisfying little noise of pain from Pandora; it interrupts the otherwise incessant cackling.

And, well. Charon is correct, unfortunately: that does generate some superheated slag around his legs, which is likely going to burn like hell. What it ALSO does is draw Pandora out with another screech of pain and rage. She rises up behind him, arm sharpening to a single glass point and preparing to stab him through the heart. There's a brief moment of opportunity for someone else to do something first. ]

[ CHARON PLEASE!!!!!!!

Can he wrench Styx in to kiss him and shoot through Pandora's sharpening arm at the same time? Yes, of course.

Is it stupid though? Also yes. ]

[it's very stupid, but also very Vash of him.

there's probably only the barest noise of aggravation from Wolfwood before he responds to the kiss. definitely going to get as much healing as he can out of it, yep.]

[incredibly homosexual of them both, 10/10 points

takes the opening to yank himself out of and away from there, summoning a ghost to help dislodge the liquid glass off his legs as he scrambles back. he's making no noise about it but fucking ow.

the darkness around them stutters. he cannot resume a third casting this turn there's simply too much going on]

[ There is SO much going on. The shot shatters the point of Mirror's stab; she makes another furious noise as she turns towards -

Oh. Gross. Mortals are SO GROSS!! ]

Must mash your bits together like that?

[ One more bullet - he levels this one at her face ]

Agree to our terms and we won't kiss in front of you!

[ BUY THEIR ABSTINENCE ]

[why is this their lives...

ALSO AIMING GUN AT WHERE HE LAST HEARD PANDORA]

Ya heard the man.

[considers the merits of making sheep Kate Winslet and sheep Leonardo Dicaprio makeouts appear right in front of Mirror's face, decides there are some potential paths to victory he would rather not make real, and chugs another healing/mana potion instead so he can start another lightning spell, staggering back to his feet]

Do you choose peace, or corporal displays of affection?

You cannot extort me with your orifices!

[ Pandora ducks down and hurls herself at the couple, gesturing up with her hand. A hot, jagged shard of glass comes up out of the molten lake, trying to stab through both Minuet and Styx with the same blow. ]

[. . . damn. those really gonna be the last words he hears for a little while?

the fuck, man.

which is to say, Wolfwood's never been an optimist and he hasn't started now, so he really didn't expect her to cave to their demands and was already shifting so he could take a pot shot at Pandora while also lowering his free hand so he could slam Vash in the solar plexus pretty damn hard, even for plantman. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED ARMOR THAT GUARDS YOUR ABS, IDIOT.

and then it's just a matter of turning and using his body weight to hopefully (please, please, please work at least a little, he does not say aloud mostly because his chest feels heavy and getting in breaths is hard and oh, right. that thing's probably growing in him. great. let's get this fuckin' over with) slam Vash back and down away from him.]

[

probably gonna be hard to say if the plant in his chest got him before the glass did.]

[ He hits the ground pretty hard, actually.

For a second it's almost not clear whether Pandora succeeded in running Styx through--

Oh, he thinks kind of dully. The seed. That's right. The seed still needed to take Styx's life.

LOSES A TURN ]

[well

thanks to Lethe, he doesn't have a violent bsod moment

he just has a violent one.

so there's a very loud BOOM as another lightning column smashes towards the half-collapsed glass tower.

it covers the smaller bang as he fires yet another honeysuckle bullet of his own, aimed right at the crack in Pandora's face.]

[ The shard hits home - and regardless of the true cause of death, the effect is rather pretty, isn't it? Glass seeming to shift to blood red flowers, taking the life from Styx in an instant.

Pandora cackles, delighted, just as the lightning strikes. More of it comes crashing down with a hideous noise; that as much as anything else keeps her still just long enough for the bullet to hit home. She begins to stiffen as black spreads from the bullet hole.

She gestures to her ruined tower even as she clamps a hand down over her face. It shudders and straightens, the ruined walls shifting into enormous spiderlegs surrounding a glass abdomen glowing red hot from the lightning. ]

[ Y'know. Charon seems to have this well in hand for the moment, thanks Charon.

He ignores everything else in favor of picking Styx's torn body up off the ground. ]

[it's cool rage adrenaline and artificial magic medications are obscuring that he should have already died like twice here

the wolf fades in favor of something else. he lines up a second shot. his hands are shaking and his vision is growing blood-clouded at this point under the screening illusion, though, so he's not able to attack again at once.]

[ The massive spider is rushing forward during the slight gap. It stabs down at the arm holding the gun, aiming to impale it to the ground. ]

[HE CAN DO LITERALLY NOTHING TO STOP THAT ACTUALLY HE'S USELESS ONCE IT REACHES FACE TO FACE BATTLE WITH A BIG SHARP MONSTER

all he can really do is go down on a knee with his arm thoroughly shanked, spell interrupted and restarting again, and yell]

MINUET!

[ It's not 100% clear when he moved away from Wolfwood -- probably before Charon actually got around to yelling -- but either way, he's landing on top of the glass spider with extreme prejudice, firing three freshly loaded honeysuckle rounds directly into the top of it. ]

[ The spider's shell blackens and cracks as the bullets impact, making it crash down into ground.

Pandora climbs the back of the creature, still holding her eye as her nails sharpen and lengthen again. She lunges at Minuet's back. ]

[he does not try to get away from the spider. he is not fast or defensive enough to make much difference in rescuing himself or protecting the others. his role in this kind of combat is to find the way to do the most bullshit amount of damage possible in the shortest amount of time, and trust that either the others can take care of themselves or be healed later.

so while Pandora attacks Minuet, a familiar dragon's head pokes out through a rip in the air behind him. he ignores the feeling of something in his skull imploding again at this point, it's fine.]

Pale Palace.

[jagged ice shards spray towards the spider's abdomen, where it's still smoking hot from the lightning. hope Pandora likes thermal shock.]

[ He just like.

Straight up lets her stab right through him in service of getting his metal hand around her THROAT ]

[ Thermal shock is THE WORST. The spider creaks and dips as huge cracks go through it, bringing the creature to its proverbial knees.

The nails pierce Minuet, then. She looks VERY smug as she slides forward to bury them in his body right up to her fingers... and then shocked as he gets his hand around her throat. She hisses a curse and scrabbles at his grip. ]

[drinks another potion so he doesn't just also die on the spot but otherwise does not do shit for a turn, his head is now destroying him too much until it kicks in

he's also running low on them so hopefully Minuet's got it handled up there]

[ CHARON WE CLEARLY NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION LATER.

Anyway, he is just. Exploding into undulating wings that wrap up both himself and Pandora, physically trying to bind her while also jackhammering into her mind like a battering ram that's also on fire.

BE AFRAID BITCH ]

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