<strong>Ace</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6f/Dragon_bird_fire_resized.png)(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/26/Drider_girl.jpg)</div>"Minerva?" From the back of the gunship as it started to lose control and power, its circuits fried by Ace's overwhelming radiation blast, the pilot desperately trying to land by auto-rotation.<br/><br/>"Yes?" One in the cockpit.<br/><br/>"Did that bicycle-helmeted bitch just trash our ride?"<br/><br/>"Yes, yes she did. Dollar."<br/><br/>"Want to get out and put her in her place?"<br/><br/>"Yes."<br/><br/>The rear doors of the helicopter swung open, revealing a woman with a spider's lower body, white hair and entirely too many eyes. She must have been the whole of the helicopter's cargo!<br/><br/>"Both little Ellie and Ace at once? Oh my, this<em>really</em>isn't Silvia's day," Arachne giggled, rappelling on an unspooling line of silk down to the ground to face the Venusian Vixen, "I'm so glad we decided to<em>drop in</em>!"<br/><br/>"Fighting advance, Arachne!" A quicksilver fist punched out of the helicopter's cockpit, and a swarm of bees swiftly poured itself out of the hole before reforming into a winged, horned, cloven-footed woman hovering over Ace's position. By contrast to the spider, she was composed, a fierceness in her smile. "Don't lose sight of the goal. Recluse is counting on you to recover-"<br/><br/>"Yeah, yeah, I know! Fuck, sorry girlie," she said to Ace, "<em>Auntie</em>hasn't had her coffee this morning. I'll just tie you up and then away we'll go."<br/><br/>A little coffee can with a slit in the top crashed down to earth next to the drider, with 'swear jar' written on it in marker. "Two dollars."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">The, uh, the doom pool can't actually save that gunship! It's going doooown~<br/><br/>Arachne and Minerva pop out of it! Minerva and Ace act simultaneously, followed by Arachne, so it's your go! Doom Pool is 1d6+4d10+1d12</div></div><hr/><br/><strong>Darclight, Kanina, Tabs</strong><br/>The heroes sprinted across the traps, platforming their way through saws and blocks and bats and lasers. Distracted by her companions, Kanina got caught in the moat and wound up politely having to listen to a witnessing of the power and glory of Our Savior, Falling-Apart Skeleton King until Tabs wound up saving her. (It wouldn't have been so disturbing except that the entire thing was done in teeth-rattling.)<br/><br/>The crocodile tried to snap its jaw shut on Tabs, then realized to its horror that it couldn't. As Tabs cranked open its mouth, she saw it had something caught in its teeth: a small fuzzy green alligator about the size of a large rat, with big beady eyes, completely oblivious to its predicament and apparently no worse the wear for it. "Hi!" it said.<br/><br/>The bats turned into frozen blood and shattered as Darclight's wave of ice impacted them. "What a frightful man you are," the vampire's voice sounded, "We wonder if We could compel your shade to serve Us after you receive your final rest. Tell Us, do you talk in the theater?"<br/><br/>They had crossed the gauntlet, however, and had reached the inside of the castle/HQ!<br/><br/>"Gothophile?" that was definitely a teenager of some flavor on the intercom, "Gothophile?! You'll eat those words! I'll mash your face into the dirt and make you lick my feet!"<br/><br/>"Daughter, can you perhaps not proposition Our guests quite so readily?" the Sultana's voice sounded amused.<br/><br/>"That wasn't... I wasn't... whatever! I don't care! I'm going to destroy him!" This was accompanied by the sound of interior turrets spooling up, tracking Darclight and singling him out for a barrage of electricity blasts.<br/><br/>"Ahem! Yes, hold a moment," the turrets stopped, "We believe We need to test your hearts. Chirurgeons?"<br/><br/>A number of ghosts sprang from the wall, dressed in scrubs. They carried armbands, meters, stethoscopes. "heart examinations for Our guests, please."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Hmm. On the one hand what Darclight just tried to do was basically trying to freeze someone through a magic-hologram, which is literally impossible. On the other hand BEYOND THE IMPOSSIBLE. Knock a d10 off the doom pool for it. Whether the vampire is Complicated... well, you'll find out. I'm taking Kanina's and Darclight's Opportunities, get ye PP. Doom pool is 1d6+4d10+1d12.<br/><br/>Darc and Tabs succeed against the doom pool, Kanina very much does not and takes a d10 Complication of Spooky Scary Skeletons</div></div>