[@PlatinumSkink]

[quote=@WiseDragonGirl]"When can we get up again?" he asked. "The streets of New Nemea are very comfortable, but I am a little thirsty now."[/quote]
"Shut up." The male knight with the pavise said absent-mindedly as he turned his body and began to approach both Fortune and the fallen crossbowman. The female officer had approached the tripod and rooted her pavise on the street behind her while she worked on the circuitry at the tripod's base, and appeared content to let her partner manage the scene.

[quote=@Holmishire]"Hello, officers? I'm the one who called you, I can explain as much as I can after you get us out of here." She spat out some of the dirt that had covered her face after the shockwave. "Most of us are unarmed. Just be careful dealing with the redhead, he's a bit trigger-happy and I don't want another accidental shootout."[/quote][quote=@Doc Doctor]"Now listen, I'm a police inspector. Did you hear me?? Just check the inside of my coat, on the left. I've been commissioned by two governors in cooperation to investigate strange goings-on in this particular area. Already I've been forced to take more aggressive action today than I've ever had to during the last ten years of my career, so I'd appreciate it if I didn't have to spend the rest of this long, ridiculous day on the ground!!"[/quote]
[@Bright_Ops]
"You're lucky that you aren't going to spend the rest of your short life in an oubliette, 'inspector.'" The male knight responded flatly as he approached Fortune and the crossbowman. He set his pavise into the ground a ways in front of them and gripped the stock of his compound crossbow with both hands - paying little attention to Donny save the brief offhand comment he had just uttered. "Alright. Which one of you two jokers is Fortune De Vigny?"

Which was when he spotted the red-suited man with the face reminiscent of rebar, who had staggered his way up to both of his feet. It was at that precise moment that reality decided to break at the seams some more.

[@Doc Doctor]
If Donny noticed the man rising behind him and moved at all, the rebar-faced man reveals a small holdout pistol from up his left sleeve and shoots him in the back of the head with a military burst of speed far too fast for Amelie to react to, accompanied by immaculate, laser-accuracy - and Donny's head is instantly enveloped in a suffocating and almost assuredly lethal metallic burial mask.

[@mdk]
If Donny noticed the man rising behind him and did not move at all, the rebar-faced man begins to hurriedly shout at the male knight. If Fortune did not answer the man's question before the red-suited man begins to speak, the pavise knight lazily aims his crossbow at the red-suited man and fires its bolt - shredding the rebar-faced man's entire body with a shotgun-like blast of shrapnel, silvery metal spreading from each point of contact that transform the unfortunate target into glimmering silver statuary in under a second. It then tips over in the air and begins to very slowly drift downwards to gently fall on Luca's back while a thousand jutting spines of silver metal begin to erupt from every inch of its surface - if Amelie fails to deflect the bolt.

If Fortune answered the man's question before the red-suited man begins to speak, he promptly launches into a tirade. "Officer, this red-haired oaf is not an inspector! He is Donovan Booth, and he is on both the FBI's most wanted list as well as the Turquoise Charter! He is responsible for that mess with the limousine, and he attacked me and my companions as we drove closer to assist! He is responsible for the deaths of nearly every single corpse you see here!"

The female knight finished fiddling with the tripod's rudimentary circuitry and rose back to her feet before idly kicking the tripod stand over with a hefty bash from the side of her right greave, sending the mounted spike toppling over onto the concrete with a tremendous metallic bang. If the red-suited man was still alive, an enormous, blinding bolt of lightning instantly leaps from the levitating traffic sphere and envelops his body, reducing him to a mass of rapidly flash-vaporizing, champagne-colored slop and ashes that float and drift eerily in the distorted gravity. 

[@Cruallassar]
If the red-suited man was already dead and if either Donny or Kael tried to raise their bodies more than two feet above the ground, an enormous, blinding bolt of lightning instantly leaps from the levitating traffic sphere and envelopes their body, reducing whichever one rose first to a mass of rapidly flash-vaporizing, champagne-colored slop and ashes that float and drift eerily in the distorted gravity. The levitating sphere crackles with static power and emits an ominous hum that rapidly rises in intensity, but does not fire off a second bolt at whoever rises second if one of them does so.

If Amelie tried to stop the levitating sphere from discharging at any time using her redirection orb, the immense surge of power wildly erupts in every direction at once, far beyond her ability to contain, and sends countless jittering arcs of electricity in every direction. Most discharge harmlessly into the ground - but several strike out at every individual laying on the ground, as well as the two pavise knights and the man in red if he was still alive.

If Fortune had not yet responded to the male pavise knight's question, the fallen crossbow knight answers instead in a cracked and pained voice, accentuated with a dread gurgle of blood and phlegm. [i]"I am De Vigny."[/i] He says, and the pavise knight nods simply and begins to reload the crossbow he just used to kill the red-suited man.