[i]Roof[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/Y8OSnvr.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OPMf9l2.png[/img][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/iLfQK1p.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/2C1b19j.png[/img][/url][/center] Obviously, Alicia was on the way. Mariette REALLY didn’t have time to address her accusation, given it was true. Not all of it intentional, but it was true. Okay, could she do anything at all? Oh, she could still use touch-based magic. Which she had none. She could open a portal at her feet, but it wouldn’t go anywhere. Yet, this was enough. If she could get to the mirror, that was all she needed. The idea, of course, was that she could get to the mirror at any time and would never get anywhere close to Leena. That worked excellently, until they found out Leena needs to be taken out back and shot right now because of her ability. [color=077ae6]‘I- I need to- if we can’t stop Leena, we need to get to the basement. Th-there’s a special mirror there I can activate…!’[/color] Mariette said in response to Dina’s thing about escaping, to anyone nearby. If Mariette escaped now, and left the Black Mirror to its destruction, then Asengav… Asengav wouldn’t forgive her. Even if she couldn’t portal there from here, all she needed to do was lay her hand on it to open a portal out of this world…! [color=57a345]‘With the Void World removing our protective measures, the roof shouldn’t be that difficult to break through,’[/color] Eli told, albeit she personally lacked that kind of strength, she stepped in front of Mariette making one of her wings a shield, because it appeared that Mariette’s own shields wouldn’t serve her now. She had to protect her mistress. She had to. [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] [@Ariamis][@Majoras End][@FamishedPants][@AtomicNut][@BrokenPromise][@Card Captor][@Shifter_Master] [hr] … It appeared her root system had vanished. She was suddenly blind. … She’d spent so much time spreading her root system so she could control the entire mansion… … Without another thought, Esther broke out through the dirt, lifting herself out of the dirt of her own garden within which she’d been hidden to move somewhere else. [hr] [i]Foyer[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5o9ObXJ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ih8oH7W.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/ad92PvD.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/u1b416E.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/3tj5n3Y.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/P2tVfst.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/sqHfYs3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/qXVwWBs.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/OoibQu3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/UZad3rZ.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/m4rTXOi.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/rMgrdyA.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/4rEtFz1.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/sKJ5riZ.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/N53ToUw.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/5TcL6Af.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/D8A8SOp.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OGWuw89.png[/img][/url][/center] Lea immediately recognized the danger of the seeds being launched her direction. She blew a strong wind forward to disperse the seeds, but they exploded into growth and charged at her. The fae monster then used some good-old 21 Agi mixed with wind-magic agility to perform some outrageous athletic maneuvers to dodge back away and through the limbs of the spiked tendrils. Even at one point she looked like she was about to be caught… when that part of her gently dispersed into butterflies and reformed on the other side of the tendril, successfully dodging the attack. That aside. So, Dina’s magic defended them from ice, the web was vanquished/cut, the rage-beam hit but didn’t take down the mark, Taihei’s explosions missed due to them slipping on ice (how surprising), fire turned to glitter and the whole enemy team vanished out a portal. Alright, then. A scene between MDP and Mayra takes place here, but before long they headed east two rooms to the common room, leaving this post. They couldn’t pursue through Tenebra’s portal, because then they’d be on their own with no support. Then the Void World was called, and Mariette gave her orders. [color=c1eb9b]‘… Everyone, report your capability without magic,’[/color] Lea told them. [color=c1eb9b]‘I still have my agility, and a ranged weapon.’[/color] [color=C5DBE7]‘…’[/color] Freya, who had circled around to arrive from behind the east wing, merely extended her claws. Everyone knew already. [color=9c87c9]‘I’m physical to begin with, this is but a minor setback,’[/color] Victoria told with a grin. [color=6cbad4]‘I… I still have a ranged weapon and agility, but I am far less capable without magic,’[/color] Tullia told, sounding worried. [color=4e5478]‘I have some explosives that work even in a magic-less world,’[/color] Taihei said, lifting a couple grenades that she retrieved from somewhere. [color=4e5478]‘But otherwise I’ve got tentacles and am a hard rock to punch.’[/color] [color=fcedae]‘I’m slightly physically capable, just, like, Eli-level? Though, I’m super-lucky, so it should work out!’[/color] Josefin said happily. [color=fa898b]‘I still have my web and close-range healing abilities, but probably don’t expect me to fight like this,’[/color] Ronja said, spinning up some new web she couldn’t shoot anymore. [color=ffd230]‘Haha. If I’m limited to self-magic, guess I’ll just boost myself like no tomorrow. I can throw a punch!’[/color] Suzette said, showing off some fisticuffs at the air in front of her. [color=A2DFF6]‘It seems the battle has moved outdoors, and I’m no longer useful sitting in my cubicle,’[/color] the voice belonging to their information girl came from upstairs, dragging a box behind her. With her wandered the silent tree-girl named Esther. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/QJth3oI.png[/img][url=https://i.imgur.com/PYJSxqe.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/KkciWNJ.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=A2DFF6]‘I prepared some things, knowing there was an anti-magic girl, just in case. Here, have some things.’[/color] [hr] [i]Outside[/i] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/gmRTrWA.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/5ZqyPyV.png[/img][/url][/center] So the ambush happened. Ronin knew it’d happen, she just really counted on that the infiltration team would be strong enough to handle it. She found that Dina’s enhancement made them escape the ice, and Taihei’s explosions missed, and Tenebra opened a portal of kinds and they were fleeing and- -and Connie got hurt. [color=9b83de]‘I got that-!’[/color] Ronin leaped, raising a personal shield as she grabbed onto Connie’s shoulder, healing it while being carried off, taking a ride on Leena as they arrived to the outside. Ronin barely weights anything, should be totally fine. Then Void World happened. Ronin blinked in surprise. Oh my god that is going to cripple Mariette while she could still evacuate her with a touch. [color=9b83de]‘Th-this magic-less world, it might be our best chance!’[/color] she whispered to Gaia and Connie, because MDP is not here as they’d shortly notice. [color=9b83de]‘How’s, uh, your magic-less capabilities?’[/color] she asked Gaia and Connie. Alicia was heading off, and Ronin knew she had to be on her tail. She had to attack alongside Alicia. [color=9b83de]‘I gotta go,’[/color] she said, feeling all tense, pressured and a bit panicky. It was going down. She was about to run off, when- [color=9b83de]‘SENSEI!’[/color] Ronin had to cry out when Sakura got herself stabbed and thrown away. She ran off to crouch over her, holding her hands forward to try to heal. Darn, she didn’t have time for this! She had to climb the mansion! B-but she couldn’t sacrifice Sensei’s life to save those she cared about! She- Aurelio showed up, saving the day like a big damn hero. Also… Jenna. [color=9b83de]‘Ah-’[/color] Ronin blinked as she realized… this was the one that she’d been recommended to tell. [color=9b83de]‘Uh. If I can touch Eli and Mariette I can bring them to Djinn Sister’s dimension where Janet and Jenna can remove their mind-bending and we’ll have saved them from the horror that enslaved them,’[/color] she spoke quickly, getting up on her feet, quiet enough that nobody she didn’t want to hear this would overhear. [color=9b83de]‘I gotta go before Alicia kills them,’[/color] she said, spinning around to dash for the wall of the mansion, starting to climb after Alicia, boosting herself with Reinforcement magic the whole way…! [hider=Ronin][i]Specialization:[/i] Reinforcement [i]Power:[/i] Twin S., Shapeshifting [i]Perks:[/i] M. Training, Flexibility, Fated, G.o.o. Jail, BigDamn H. [i]Benefits:[/i] Free Agent, Genki Girl [i]Drawbacks:[/i] Alone, also in debt to Crimson Cradle [i]Str:[/i] 7 [i]Agi:[/i] 7 [i]Vit:[/i] 7 [i]Mag:[/i] 8 [i]Lck:[/i] 6[/hider] [@Ariamis][@Majoras End][@Ponn][@AtomicNut][@Flamelord][@twave][@Shifter_Master] [hr] [i]Outside - Not Ronin Version[/i] The random Victoria clone was wiped out by the Void wave. Sad. So did all the snow, curiously enough. They’re now just standing on a featureless black ground with a mansion on it over there. In any case. Shortly after Alicia had ran off, Josefin stuck her head out of a second floor window looking intensely worried. [color=fcedae]‘Leena!’[/color] she called. [color=fcedae]‘Your Void World is collapsing this dimension! Unless you stop, [i]everyone[/i] in here will die! You don’t want that, right!? I mean [i]everyone[/i]!’[/color] And if she turned out to be uncooperative… [color=fcedae]‘Please, you’ve got to stop her!’[/color] Josefin shouted to the Leena’s allies, because she figured that they shouldn’t like that, either. Though if that wouldn’t work either, the forces of Asengav were preparing a charge. They were just waiting for, like, Alicia, Reaver and Justine to leave the ground level. Josefin because she was lucky and would probably survive even if they decided to shoot at her. [@Ariamis][@Majoras End][@Ponn][@AtomicNut][@Flamelord][@twave][@Shifter_Master]