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@OtomostheCrazy
@Ace of flames01

Hannah Lane
Tower of Enacra
Month Two


The Fae stepped up without further prompting, preparing themselves for battle quickly. The parents began muttering quietly to each other before separating. Some handed off their babies to the other parents, some simply picked one of themselves to stay behind. The children were all babies given many had spent the last few years of their life at war under Occus and their children were only recently born. Soon the Fae were ready, a small group of parents remained behind with Talia to defend the smallest of them, but some thirty fighters, most of them a couple centuries old and still looking young (and mostly human, except for the werewolf and occasional dusting of fish scales or pointed ears). Most were armed with a knife at least, some had a staff or a handgun, and a few were ready to just use their claws.

"Let's go," Hannah said, slithering up the stairs awkwardly, this form was built for aquatic combat, not traversing buildings constructed with legs in mind. Aden quickly overtook her, making it to the second (first) floor quickly.

"Clear!" The Werewolf barked out, "Fighters with us," he called to the Fae still on that floor. "We'll hold out on the third (second) floor." He could hear fighting on the floor above, but if they tried to join the fray from the stairwell they'd be trapped in a choke point. It was too late for the fourth (third) floor.

Once on the third (second) floor, Hannah began assembling the Fae into groups. Setting them to stand with their backs against the wall, facing inwards. If the attackers came through the ceiling as reported before, the defenders would be ready.

@OtomostheCrazy

Amgetoll Forces
Earth
Month Two


The screech spooked all present, and the battle lulled once more. The Humans had little reason to believe the woman was actually a goddess, the gods weren't real after all, their faith rested in another, but she did seem to have power and so they took the threat at face value, pulling away from the Urtoks reluctantly. Many had already been slain, and the Humans wanted to avenge their fallen brothers, but the military commanders among them were holding them in line.

The Urtoks were not so skeptical, and the one in charge of this particular invasion ship was already suspicious. She had seen the lights fired from space in the distance, she knew what they meant, but the last time she looked at a map of this world those locations were sprawling cities. The invasion ships had reasonable orders, wipe out the military, pacify their regions, await further orders, but if the Sha-Brytol was firing on large civilian cities... why? She was unconvinced these Humans could do what they'd been accused of, alien as both they and their technologies might be it just didn't seem feasible. Surely the commanders knew that? So then why accuse and punish the Humans so viciously?

She recalled the invasion back to the landed ship and set up a perimeter to defend themselves if the humans fought on despite their goddess's warning.

She was just one of many though, the other ships continued their invasion unhindered, out of contact as they were with the rest of the forces.

@Lugubrious

Aphrodite
Olympus
Month Two


Aphrodite shrieked in rage when she heard the disgusting voice of the murderous spawn that had killed her. "Huntress!" She screamed, getting the attention of Artemis who was firing a ceaseless rain of silver arrows into a screaming god in mortal clothing. "The thing is here! Kill it!" She demanded. Artemis lips curled in disgust as she readied her bow, clearly Aphrodite had been bad talking about the thing that killed her and gave the other fallen deities a good idea of what sort of horrible monster they would be dealing with.
@Lugubrious Sorry friend today has been a nightmare and I just want to go die in a hole for a few hours. If you don't do it then I'll get there tomorrow. Same for Rhona and Yuki, @Ace of flames01 @OtomostheCrazy. @Cuccoruler Thank Merlin's hairy balls, I might have died if I had to do this on my own! Welcome back!

Now, death. Tomorrow I will do things. Unless permadeath...

Night!
@Ace of flames01
@OtomostheCrazy

Hannah Lane
Tower of Enacra
Month Two


The Fae moved to follow the order without comment, there wasn't much other option after all, and none of them had a better plan. Aden nodded at Yuki's thanks and stepped closer to the door, spreading his fingers at his side so his claws would deal more damage.

Hannah saw Aden tense, knowing the Werewolf was perhaps the most sensitive of them, he would know if they were about to be attacked, so Hannah readied herself as well. But then he relaxed, "Talia," he breathed in warning.

"Let them through!" Hannah called out just as the redhead descended the stairs, her hand locked with a dark skinned woman clutching a baby and a handful of other parents with children right behind her. The woman's right side was dripping with blood, but she did not limp or show signs of injury, so it must have been someone else's. Hannah was impressed with Talia's resolve, sticking a vampire into a battlefield had never been a good idea, but even standing so close to freshly spilled blood Talia didn't flinch for a moment.

"The boat was destroyed," Hannah delivered the grim news, there was deflation of hope among the mothers and fathers. "But we are not alone. These goddesses are here to help." Hannah gestured to Rhona and Yuki, because despite this not having been the original plan the two had no choice now and their presence was a huge confidence boost.

"Good," Talia broke in, "they were dropping in from the roof of the fifth floor... Hannah, they're us. The Sorcerer and a few others-... they've betrayed us." The Fae gasped in surprise, many couldn't even begin to fathom how this had happened, but Talia was still focused. "Hannah, this circle won't work, if they drop in from the roof they'll land right in the middle of the mothers." She said seriously. There was a moment of silence and then all eyes turned to the goddesses. "...What do we do?"

@OtomostheCrazy

Amgetoll Forces
Earth
Month Two


Both Urtok invaders and Human defenders, which were rapidly assembling, paused to stare at the Goddess in surprise. A quirk of divine powers; the language of the gods was understood by all, but it was fair to say the totally alien Urtoks had more trouble than the shocked Humans. Getting the gist of it though, the closest Urtok gestured back towards the ship. A large screen was on all sides, the words 'Return Amgarrack or be invaded' lit up and switched through languages every few seconds. It should have said, 'Return Amgarrack and we'll stop the invasion,' but aliens weren't very good at Earth grammar.

Hesitantly the stalling battle began again, the Humans were spreading the word that something had joined them. Either a giant synthetic or some kind of genetic experiment, or a literal Goddess, no one could decide, but she was human shaped and that was good enough. Morale revitalized, the Humans renewed their charge at the invaders and the battle was pulled into full swing once more.
@Lmpkio Thalios and Alec have just moved to engage Horus and Set near Elysium I think. Aforgomon is going to steal away Thalios I believe, but you should still have Alec to pair off with.
@Trevor1001 Dunno anything about sea animals that heal. Except starfish. And clams live forever. And lobsters. And probably crabs too. That's all I know though. Good luck, I'll leave it up to Reese whether that works or not, and if so how well.
@rechonq The realms can't normally be seen, no, their existence would be totally hidden if not for the power of deities like Amgarrack. Amgarrack is the only God of over a trillion beings spread across the stars. Yet he's a passive God, he deals in blessings and fortunes, his offensive abilities are unimaginative and weak, his primary abilities being to 'buff' others.

Our enemy is old and has a different source of power besides followers, he's also evil and aggressive, so he is of similar caliber to Amgarrack, but stronger and due to his spheres more clever and well equipped for the trickery needed to set a disaster of this scale in motion.

As for hiding realms, it may be worth moving them to Earth for a time. That could certainly work as hiding it, but then you have the problem of being on Earth... Maybe if a god had a sphere around hiding things, or just magic in general. Alternatively the realm could simply be altered to be more defensible. Occus transformed Hyperborea into the magic forest it is now using a combination of magic and a piece of his soul. The piece of soul, once disconnected from Occus when he died, forced the realm to look after itself and it became sentient enough to take steps to protect itself.

It's a unique case because magic was involved, and unguided magic does crazy things, but the process could be replicated in order to essentially 'edit' a realm. Tapping into the essence of the realm and binding it to yourself would allow some control over it. Influencing the terrain, the elements, etc. I do suggest being ready to sever he bond once the changes are made, or if you plan to bring the ability to shape the battlefield with you into battle, be ready to sever it at a moments notice. You don't want to be connected to a realm about to be ripped apart.

I really need to make a chart, but I'm just going to stick this into the Divine Magic category of my mental list. The kind of magic available to all the gods regardless of spheres. Things like creation, inspiration, worship buffs, a superior form, shapeshifting (to a degree), and immortality (in the sense that your soul will never be fully destroyed).

This would be something that had never been done in the presence of the Merged before, something not done since long before they even existed. So the idea would have to come to whoever used this somehow. It's not just something everyone knows they can do or even how to do it. A forgotten art you could say.
@rechonq Of course it's OP, it's very OP, but while Asgard used to be a big bad powerful realm it no longer houses an entire pantheon strengthened by mortal belief. The pantheon was deposed and the followers forgot long ago. Olympus is the only place with true power anymore, aside from the Underworld. Not many live in these other realms, and a handful of minor immortals living there doesn't make up for it. Olympus is home to most of the Merged, with others living in the Underworld or on Earth. Technically it could be destroyed as well, but it would take a lot of the Merged dying and a significant boost of power to the weapon in order to try it.

The Underworld is too big, there's too much to it, it can sundered in chunks, possibly, but only after significant cleaning out. It's unlikely they'll even try.

Earth is the only totally safe place, it's the only true original world, and even then just because the Old Gods aren't there yet doesn't mean they won't come hunting, but at least they can't destroy it using their weapon.
@OtomostheCrazy Da, is late though so maybe not tonight. But maybe.

@rechonq Well... yes and no. The Nexus is useful for moving the Merged's forces around. The surprise attack is sprung, now regroup and organize and the Nexus will allow you to reach whatever realms you need to get to. You could also just leave it and come back later, Asgard was destroyed because there was so much resistance it was easier to rip it apart than to take it. The Nexus is more valuable than Asgard, so it's safer to keep, but it may be easier to abandon it and come back later.
@Zelosse Do it and I send the Underworld the way of Asgard, with you in it! :O
@Zelosse It's so hard to remember who knows what, SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! JUST SHHH!
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