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The Docks

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[color=lavender]"Oh my."[/color] Mistress Vertti followed after Grisaia [color=lavender]"Last week was enough excitement for me!"[/color]

The guards were starting to become more organized, but it was clear they were scared. These were town guards, little more than a device to deter a thief from stealing. They were woefully equipped to deal with a rush like this, let alone from a group of cultists. What made cultists so dangerous wasn’t that the cultists were automatically Superior to demihuman bandits, but that they were often organized and deployed around an arch bishop. Their power was unfathomable to most. Even the weakest ones could take over towns and cities by themselves. The bandits were a job for soldiers, and the cultists were for special forces. They were way out of their element with this threat.

The cultists fell easily enough. Their numbers hadn’t really started spilling in yet, but the group continued to move. [b]Everyone’s holding out at the noble district![/b] A guard called out. [b]Keep moving everyone! Captain Crunch is coming to offer support. We just need to keep moving.[/b]

The group was hardly organized, but it was moving through the golden quarter steadily enough. It seemed they would be heading to all the households soon enough.
 
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Golden quarter, Mie Pie’s Crib.

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The giant’s grin only grew. He did not avert his eyes as Mie started to change, but he hardly planned on sticking around.  [color=baddab]”It’s good to see you are passionate about something. And what is passion but love?”[/color] He stepped outside without another word, and Mie was on her way.

The rooftops were a safe place to travel for the most part, but she immediately hit resistance on the way to the Vertti household. All of the servants and a few soldiers had stayed behind to secure a safe zone for the evacuating civilians. Some of them were even stationed on the rooftops to get a better vantage point. Her cultist garbs were perhaps not the best thing to get closer in. That, and a sole demihuman showing up without an escort could look suspicious. It took some time, but Mie was able to make her way inside undetected.

But now what? She was inside the Vertti household, but she could hear the servants walking up and down the halls. They were surely going to notice a [i]cultist[/i] should one appear.

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On the way to Vertti’s house.

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[color=BF81DC]"Alistairrrrrrrrrrr."[/color] Odessa shook him [color=BF81DC]"[s]You need to post more[/s]"[/color]

Captain Crunch groaned. [b][color=00ddaa]”I’m pretty sure the cultists are here specifically for the lot of you. But if you want to help, that would be great.”[/color][/b] She pointed towards the road leading back towards the golden quarter. [b][color=00ddaa]”Mono’s forces are in the heroe’s district, but the docks were hit faster than we anticipated. We need to clear the way.”[/color][/b] She charged forth.

Everyone’s training was paying off. The cultists were little more than fodder before them. Strangely, it seemed like some demihuman bandits were attacking alongside them. But it didn’t matter. Their numbers meant very little in these tight quarters. Ruffians who could do nothing but prey on those weaker than them. 

[color=c577bb]”Lust! [i]Lust![/i] Where have the two of you run off to!?”[/color] The man calling louder than all the chaos was an elf in fancy duds. Aerith knew him as…it was too long to say, but the wild look in his eyes marked him as a cultist. He was standing on a rooftop. [color=c577bb]”Oh well, I’ve located the witch. We’re going to the Vertti household once the trebuchet start firing, okay sweetie? Put on something nice for daddy!”[/color] He hopped backwards and two black wolves dove off the top of the roof into the crowd. Their horns marked them as devil beasts.