[i]The Basement - Monster Room[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/ad92PvD.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/u1b416E.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/N53ToUw.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/5TcL6Af.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/3tj5n3Y.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/P2tVfst.png[/img][/url][/center] Tullia and Lea were focusing their firepower, while Victoria was guarding them in case enemies appeared. She created a sphere of ice around them, and had a couple duplicates left in reserve in case their teleporting foes could transport themselves inside. They knew the blizzard would eventually not be needed anymore, and then the three of them were to be portalled around to reinforce wherever they were needed. For now, in order to keep the blizzard going, a portal was letting Tullia and Lea gaze outwards from Tullia’s room, on an angle so that Justine was not in their direct vision. That would do for now. [hr] [i]3rd Floor - Artillery Line[/i] The Artillery Line was a long row of Magical Girls that Mariette had [s]kidnapped[/s] tamed over a [s]long[/s] actually decently short career, and they were focused and determined to help protect this mansion. They were charging spells and drawing arrows or loading bullets, and once in a while a portal opened and they fired through, actually perhaps several shot through the same angled portal for extra efficiency. When the time came, they would fire through the windows ahead of them as well, and multiple close combat ready girls stood in case the enemy teleported in to assault their firing line or otherwise jumped or flew in through the windows… One girl lay wounded, a javelin having been thrown through to impale her through her chest. Over her stood two individuals, a spider-girl and an otherwise cheerful looking girl that stood out among the rest. The spider had bound reinforced web over the girl’s wounds, and it seemed the girl’s life had been saved. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/m4rTXOi.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/rMgrdyA.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/OoibQu3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/UZad3rZ.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=fa898b]‘Mariette. I saved her life, but she can’t fight. Take her away,’[/color] the spider said, before walking away towards the firing line again. [color=fcedae]‘Hear that? You’ll be just fine! You live to fight another day! Lucky you! I'll take your magic and pass it on, so you'll still help us in spirit!’[/color] the lucky girl said, using her magic to drain the fallen girl's mana as a yellow cloud of dust before Mariette opened a portal to take the wounded girl somewhere to rest. So, Alexander came running in. The first thing that greeted him was a dark slimy harpy, turning to look at him, and anyone that may have accompanied him. [sub]like Hilaria, if she accompanied him[/sub] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/iLfQK1p.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/2C1b19j.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=57a345]‘Oh. Welcome to the Artillery Line. Er. Alexander,( Hilaria, [sub][sub]if she’s there[/sub][/sub]) the enemy might fire at us, do you think you could shield us if they do? And then, if they decide to assault us directly, we’ll really need some of your combat prowess…’[/color] Eli said, nodding. [color=57a345]‘Ronja’s already here, but we could certainly use more defense, as well as offense,’[/color] Eli said with a little awkward smile, gesturing to how the spider girl, Ronja now placed herself at the windows prepared to fend off enemy ranged attacks if so needed. [color=fcedae]‘And I, Josefin, am ready to punish enemy magical ranged attacks by draining their mana, too! And of course, help us all with my luck if they try to assault us up close~!’[/color] Josefin said, skipping over to take a similar position. That was the situation here, right now. [hr] [i]2nd Floor - Overlooking Foyer[/i] In the second floor foyer, there were numerous Magical Girls gathered, prepared for the instance should their enemies come inside through the front gate. It was a prepared battlezone, with many close combat fighters and ranged individuals prepared to assist. Nobody was on the first floor, because a trap was set to spring on anyone on the first floor foyer. There were two leaders here, prepared to do some damage. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/4rEtFz1.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/sKJ5riZ.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=ffd230]‘Steady. Be prepared for anything. When the enemy gets through, we will bathe the lower floor with our firepower,’[/color] Suzette said, clearly acting commander on this level. She blinked towards Lily as she came in, and smirked. [color=ffd230]‘Welcome, reinforcements. We’re just waiting around for now, but we’re prepared in case we’re needed [i]anywhere[/i] in the mansion. Sonia can show up anywhere. I’m Suzette, and I lead the common magical girls around here. How’d you do?’[/color] And that’s when someone who spontaneously appeared behind Lily (because she was hidden with Darkness magic) suddenly struck her paws together on Lily’s midriff and fiercely tried to tickle her with dragon talons. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/D8A8SOp.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OGWuw89.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=fc6828]‘Hellooooo~!’[/color] the monster girl called excitedly while doing it, and certainly didn’t mind if she got shocked by electricity or slapped by a weapon or something for doing so. [color=ffd230]‘Mayra, don’t bully our reinforcements,’[/color] Suzette asked, though with an amused tone that sounded like she didn’t mind. [color=fc6828]‘But I gotta do [i]something[/i]! The fight’s almost here, and I’m getting so… ANTSY!’[/color] Mayra called, skipping away from Lily a bit and summoning fire as she talked, finally ending the call by shooting a big fireball across the room. Mariette, who still saw everything due to the portal Lily came through from the office still being open, casually opened a portal and redirected the fireball at the Red Nest, because why not. [color=ffd230]‘Make yourselves ready, you won’t have to wait for long~’[/color] was Suzette’s only end on that. In the stairway over there, sat a single lamia-girl, looking antsy but not expressing it in the same way Mayra was… [hr] [i]2/3rd Floor - Sitting in the Stairs[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5o9ObXJ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ih8oH7W.png[/img][/url][/center] Freya sat in the stairway overlooking the 2nd floor foyer, and also so that she could slide up and look over the Artillery Line from a distance. Wherever she was needed, the fastest and most powerful close combat combatant on Mariette’s team could get wherever she needed exceedingly quickly. It did, however, mean she had nothing to do until the enemy reached their lines. She sat down in the stairs, sighing a bit, staring at where Lily and Suzette and Mayra were now talking. [color=A2DFF6]‘Aurelio is among our enemies,’[/color] said the little communicator suddenly buzzed to her. Freya twitched a little, frowning the slightest more. [color=C5DBE7]‘Am I supposed to say something about that?’[/color] she asked, after a small, irritated pause. The communicator did not respond. [hr] [i]2nd Floor - Taihei’s Room[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/sqHfYs3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/qXVwWBs.png[/img][/url][/center] Taihei stood alone in her room. Her exceedingly reinforced room with super-sturdy metals within every wall just in case something blew up inside it. The room was placed to be facing outwards from the front. She had an open window, looking directly out over the battle. Her objectives were two. One, she’d use her powerful Gravity specialization to fend off any ranged attacks targeting the Artillery Line above her. Secondly… She lifted a hand, holding an fiery explosive artifact. Her Gravity specialist power grabbed it and blasted it out at high speed towards the rabble of magical girls distracted by the Remorhaz that had appeared in their midst. The artifact was fiery because then it would not harm the Remorhaz. It flew like an arrow and burst into a great fireball as it approached Justine’s forces. She was held in this super-reinforced room to ensure her bad luck only affected herself, the only one that could survive her own bad luck, while still contributing to the battle. If she had to leave, she had the means to, and Mariette was ready to portal her. But on her own, Taihei was perhaps still the most formidable solo force in Mariette’s army. She wondered how her back luck would manifest today. [sub][sub]Today, I leave that to the GMs.[/sub][/sub]