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It did seem that Silhouette and Su were making their positions clear on their particular team-up. Good. Trixy apologized, and Mariette nodded.

[color=077ae6]‘I’ll choose to trust you on this,’[/color] Mariette replied to Trixy. 

Mariette simply nodded to Lily and Alexander saying they’d see what they could do about the true love thing. The companion did not respond to Lily, making her look like a dofus. Lily called for Mariette not to collapse the dimension, making Mariette blink at her and then Alexander a bit in surprise.

[color=077ae6]‘This is a small artificial dimension created by my patron. Its collapse is of no consequence to the multiverse at large. But, if you really don’t want me to collapse it… then please ensure I don’t have to,’[/color] Mariette simply said, absolutely not intent on giving up the collapsing dimension plan in case something went wrong.

Viridian showed up and set up her tower. She’d been at the mansion the entire time, so it wasn’t as if it was surprising. Still.

[color=077ae6]‘I’ll note I haven’t stationed forces on the roof on account of that it’s outside the protection of the reinforced mansion exterior. I cannot promise the safety of the tower if they fire upon it, but I’ll see what I can do,’[/color] she said. Then Viridian put pressure on Lily, which… huh. 

Dina summoned Chuchuna, and Mariette opened a portal for the yeti to easily slip out into the snowstorm if needed, briefly blowing some cold blizzard into the office before the portal closed. The cat-girl then stood up for the electric girl… hm. That girl was a natural protector, wasn’t she?

[color=077ae6]‘… Lily is a personal friend of mine, not an ally by patron. She is the last person in this room I would expect to betray me,’[/color] Mariette stated rather simply, about the matter of Lily’s current employer. She wouldn’t put it past Lily to potentially be manipulated, but Lily would never desire to harm her, she was confident about that. Mariette stopped paying attention to the rest of that conversation, she was still multitasking by letting her forces fire through portals, after all.

[color=077ae6]‘Your service as a healer and summoner would be greatly appreciated, Dina. It is amusing you’d suggest, because the mirror thing has already been covered. Should a mirror within my mansion be destroyed, it will disperse into shadows. I couldn’t have my mirrors be used against me, after all. Still, Su. If you’d wish to enchant regular house-hold objects to be used as grenades or traps, that would be interesting,’[/color] she said, honestly.

She also nodded to Hilaria. [color=077ae6]‘Sounds like you'll be of greatest use when the enemy has reached us. Until then, feel free to make yourself ready.’[/color]

Then, finally, looking to Trixy and Lily about the places they wished to go. [color=077ae6]‘I will open three portals for you for now,’[/color] so she said, and opened three portals. One went into the snowstorm, one went to a line of combat-ready magical girls looking out windows, and another went to the second floor balcony looking over the foyer. There were some more troops there.

[color=077ae6]‘If you wish to go onto the roof, here you go. I warn that I wasn’t intending on positioning any troops on the roof, for it is a dangerous and open location, but as long as you are aware you can fire upon our enemies with similar impunity. I will rescue you if it goes bad.’[/color]

[color=077ae6]‘The second option is joining the Artillery Line. These are my magical girls firing at our enemies from various third floor windows, though I have some shooting from second floor windows, too. They’re likely to be attacked, as such there’s close combat potential in them, too, but they’re ready to scramble back past the trapped room should things go badly. I will do my best to relocate as makes tactical sense.’[/color]

[color=077ae6]‘The third option is the top of the foyer. There are traps ready to be activated manually should our foes enter the main entrance, including a shield to separate their forces to allow us to focus on annihilating those who made it inside prematurely, as well as a sonic blast focus on the lower floor to shake up our foes and make them more vulnerable before our attack. This ambush could also use help. Of course, if our foes come with a different tactic, we will adapt as may come, and the second floor foyer is the best place to be prepared to rush anywhere else in the mansion even without portals.’[/color]

From here, the girls would be allowed to move where they thought they would be the most useful, because Mariette currently did not actually know, it all would change depending on what shape Justine’s attack took…

[hider=Mariette][i]Specialization:[/i] Portals, Light
[i]Power:[/i] Tentacles
[i]Perks:[/i] Gifted, I. Home, Blood M., Overcity S., I. Tourist, H. Handbag, Allies, Aware, A. Direction
[i]Benefits:[/i] C. Doom, Reason, Minions, Retrieval, M. Might, Mana Font.
[i]Drawbacks:[/i] Quick-T., Mind-Bent, Insomnia, Bane, H. Sapping
[i]Str:[/i] 4 [i]Agi:[/i] 4 [i]Vit:[/i] 4 [i]Mag:[/i] 22 [i]Lck:[/i] 10[/hider]

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