Darclight's words seemed to have a profound effect on the Sultana, her gaze hardened and her stance became tighter, her movements more focused. "So much talk, so little action!" she said with bravado, but the hero had clearly rattled her.<br/><br/>Just then Kanina burst out of the elevator and kicked her right in the face, sending her spinning, wings shielding around her. Although the rabbit had rung her bell a bit, she shook her head and looked over her new opponent with a little bloodlust and maybe a little regular lust. "See? That's more like it!"<br/><br/>Wiping the blood from her lip, she continued, "Ah, I thought we were going to make this a friendly contest. But if you're going to add my head to the pile," the darkness coalesced around Sultana and mystic glyphs lit up on her chest, a collection of bright mandalas lighting up the ceiling, "I'll have to take this seriously!" Drops of blood flew from her hands up to the mandalas, forming ten, twenty, a hundred weapons. Each hung precariously from their circle like a hundred Swords of Damocles, and with a single downward gesture from Sultana, each rained down from the ceiling, hurtling down one after the other like machine-gun fire, a torrent of weapons like the mythic Gate of Babylon.<br/><br/>The force of the sword-rain blew a hole from the fourth-from-the-top floor all the way down to ground level, shredding metal and drywall and flooring alike, leaving everyone amid the further-shattered remains of the television and almost every floor of the Stormwatch Headquarters, debris pinned to the ground by a sea of blood-swords.<br/><br/>That was right around the time that the Silver Spider, with a loot-sack, her pet spider (with an autocannon on its back), appeared on the couch next to the Dullahan and Doc Tabs. She was wearing Ace's helmet, as well.<br/><br/>Uh. So, vampire queen going absolutely medieval on the surroundings. Doc Tabs and a headless horseman next to her. Wasn't that teleporter supposed to send her someplace<em>safe</em>?<br/><br/>Well, at least the vampire looked pretty worn-out after that attack. That was something. She did brighten right up at Silvia's appearance, taking a bow as more blood-weapons continued to rain down around her. "Oh oh! Is it another suitor come to visit Us? Please pardon the meagerness of Our abode."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Okay! So. Since the scenes combine, the combined doom pool comes to 2d8+2d10+2d12. A d8 of that was used to prevent Darc's complication from stepping up, another d8 will be used to avoid damage from Kanina's attack. I add a d6 from Evasive Maneuvers, and buy one of Silvia's opportunities in the side thread (take a PP for that) to make it d8. That makes 1d8+2d10+2d12.<br/><br/>So! Tossing both d12s into the attack, and using a d10 to keep an extra total, and a d10 to keep an extra effect die, and lastly the d8 to bring the team together, I can empty the entire doom pool!<br/><br/>Attack targets both Kanina and Darclight, for a total of 31, inflicting Physical Stress. Effect die at Darc is d12, at Kanina is d10. The Silver Spider 'ports in (Ace will come in a bit later) and is now chilling with Tabs and the Dullahan, and Sultana has just crashed through to the bottom floor so (almost) everyone is in one place.<br/><br/>Before I forget, Darc gets 1XP for a hammy as fuck declaration, and so does Tabs. Everyone gets 2XP for the d12s just used, and also 1XP for the d12 I used in Kuno's scene.</div></div>