Pax RP

"Are you mad?! You can't fire at-" Senka screamed, only having a second to realize what Phoebe was about to do. Was she stupid? Or did she simply not realize how unstable it was. With a look of horror she turned just in time to see Felicia tackle her, cloaking them both in shadow, and shuttling the duo into the void.

Skathi would not know in advance of the flash, but a projectile of potential 'egg-normous' laid high in her watch list. "Deal with it," the demigod grumbled, forcibly directing Luxuria to intercept the attack. Large, feathery wings beat down the air behind the chimeric beast in his brutal charge upward. Being no more than a disposal pawn, he would receive the bulk of the explosion as the blinding light radiated an otherwise dimly light chamber.

"Trickery," she hissed under breath, letting her eyes naturally adjust against the sheer radiance. Gula in his bulky form expelled a noxious gaseous mist around himself and his controller. The orange cloud thickening on the outside in a sticky gel.

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A much expected outcome theorized by the two mortals, shattering warpstone might not been the wisest idea from the 'Elder. Avarice, nonetheless, stood immobile from the exponential pressure of energy welled up inside. "I... Can't move-"

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"You are out of time."

Eerily on cue, the Insanity group in the midst of fighting vegetation experienced a massive shockwave from an explosion that breached their room. An entire side of stone wall vaporized upon impact of raging celestial flames, they fortunately weren't denigrated only due to limited the blast radiance. Said damage exposed the Rectificando room to the Occultum... As well tearing an opening to where the rest of the group stayed to fight Skathi.

The surviving vines that continued to constrict from the celestial bomb lost some of their prey. Jinx managed to fully incinerate her annoying tendrils, and Tom's Sanity relic made it easier to struggle against them-the Egg blade itself function no better than being sharp in cutting. Bill's brute strength broke through the barrier of vegetation put in front, yet Sloth tugged herself up to the charred room to avoid his claws.

Tom cursed when he was trapped in the vine netting - only to be knocked sideways by the overpressure wave.

As he gathered he senses, the first thing he noticed that the Sanity Blade charm was still out - and it was glowing even brighter than before - they had to be getting close.

He quietly grabbed the ball that was hanging off his wrist, and with a thought activated it. It quickly unfolded and reformed itself into a knife, at the same time exposing the egg metal with a dull blue glow. It was his trump card, but if he couldn't extricate himself and Jinx, it wouldn't matter, so might as well use it.

Felicia in her little bubble of shadow wrapped in Void was pretty much generating her own small pocket dimension at this point, by shutting off the area they were in in this Reality with the bubble of Void she'd pulled out. However, that explosion *was* Warpstone and even in here the extra dimensional Split felt the shockwave pass over them. She didn't let them out however until she was sure the blast had passed... which would be right about now.

The bubble was sent back into the Void itself as the Split removed her protective Shadow Wings from Senka and she turned to survey the massive damage. That was... certainly not a small explosion by any means. It'd blown a hole all the way back out to where they'd just come from as well as another room containing the 'Insanity Trio'. "You okay?" The Split asked her fellow Knight first.

Meanwhile...

After brute forcing his way through the vines Bill scrambled to get after Sloth, opening his wings to give better chase.. only for the iridescent young Dragon to get knocked into the wall by the incredibly powerful Warpstone blast that blew a hole through from the other room, making him yelp and stunning him from the unexpected shock.

Jinx, whilst she had instinctively cloaked herself in this disturbing black fire that had incinerated the vines had not been counting on the wall next to them being evaporated by a blast of Warpstone accompanied by the resultant shockwave, and the young Jix was flung sideways from where she stood into the wall that still stood next to her. There was something of a crunch followed by a low moaning "Owww" from Jinx as she tried to remember just exactly where she was and what was going on exactly.

"I think... so..." Senka said, pushing herself up off the ground. Felicia had brought them back to reality, though their surroundings no longer looked anything like how they had left them. The silver and gemstones were all likely incinerated. This was a warzone.

"... Oh hell. There's nothing left." The knight gasped, looking back and forth down the incinerated hallway. "Thank you for the save..."

Tom cursed as he worked to cut the vines, but unlike his two companions, he was still for the moment trapped.

As the residual flames settled down in their intensity, casting off occasional violet embers to the air, an overall presence of ambient Insanity reached a new peak. Now lingering, the curses' influence from the different rooms slacked against waxing madness. Those without a means to endure the heavier insanity would be subjected to its waves. Hallucinations of fear, stress, or their own sins rose from within. Images, sounds and sensations they believe to be part of reality.

This too extended to the remaining vines, those not directly connected to Acedia. The Knight's determined effort with his blade's edge would eventually free himself of that particular threat. "Go deal with those other mortals... These three are mine," a sickly sweet voice echoed around. The Satyr, not one to bother complaining, swung herself out to deal with Felicia and Senka.

From above along the ceiling, steady drips of viscous oil dripped on to the floor. Each droplet grew in their own accord, exponentially amassing in a dark serpent which matched Bill's length-growing slowly after that size.

Phoebe reformed, soaked in darkness and radiating out raw fear. She looked around the place as she took note of the damage. "Shocking how much a hit like that does...Well, shall we get focused?"

Eltra clung to the walls, focusing his attention momentarily on his systems. He was scanning the area with an intent to find alchemical stuff. Perhaps a circle, intent, or ways to use it. He bought time throwing microfusion bombs around the mess below, aiming to have the overwhelming force blow them to kingdom come, or at least into pieces. throw enough at enough angles and they can't block them all. The light and sound from them was utterly blinding and deafening, and the heat and pressure was extreme. They were runaway fusion reactions, after all, contained in unassuming blue and silver spheres.

Felicia turned to her friend "No problem" she replied about the save, turning to look over the damage. Senka was right, there was nothing left. The woman sighed deeply. What a shame... Oh hey, was that Tom, Jinx and Bill over there? Felicia turned once more to Senka "Looks like that blast blew half the place up huh?" She commented, before blinking as an eye twitched. Something was wrong here. Something was very, very wrong. Felicia watched the walls begin to melt and drip down, twisting into impossible shapes. Darkness was behind them-but not just that. Void. They thing was disappearing into the Void.... shadowy shapes appeared out of the nothing so pure and Felicia could see wisps of people she recognisef. Wraiths of friends long lost, twisted and in pain-and all because of her.

Whilst Felicia was a creature normally resistant to the effects of Insanity magic the sheer volume of what was pouring into these rooms managed to overwhelm the extra dimensional Split. Outwardly babbling and staring at things noone else could see, Felicia backed up and lashed out at these delusions.

Meanwhile...

Jinx and Bill both picked themselves up off the floor after the brief respite, the Jix rubbing her sore head and the iridescent Dragon shaking his body after hitting the wall. Both were sore-and both snarled after the retreating Sloth before the other hissing voice caught their atttention. Worked up now the young Bill didn't even stop to wait for the snakelike oily being to fully form. With a furious roar-and, were those spikes that just popped up out of his scales? Bill charged at it from ahead before swinging his neck and horned head with the momentum to knock the thing aside.

Jinx walked over to Tom. "You... okay old man?" That voice was pained, but there was another small pop as she Distorted bones back together.

Gula joined its fellow corrupted compatriot in a daze from the second Floran bombardment. Recovering from blindness, Luxuria's barely held on given the non-deity influence controlling them. Probably moreso disoriented from the harsh throw earlier than the actually blast.

"You imitations are useless," the demigod growled underbreath, skidding along the ground once the blast disintegrated the orange gooey veil. She suffered no discernible burns from the explosion, boasting instead three additional pairs of arms held out around herself. As if they deafened any damage that might had incurred. "I'm done with these games..."

Skathi clasped her original hands together. The huldra's aura rose exponentially for a brief moment before lapsing off into the duplicated limbs. Each of them signaled arrival of a clone, grown in full as the wrenched themselves free about Skathi, totaling six in number. None of them possessed her soul. Though the high admixture of Eldritch and Insanity boomed intensely under their cracked skin. "Take care of the pests," she directed the lesser selves. Two of them blitzed over to the struggling Fir Bolgs. Makeshifts abominations, neither were of huldrefolk stalk, the curse taking quite a toll of such vessels. The demigod was not one to waste power. A single strike pierced the two weakened beings, siphoning off the cursed energy from their bodies.

Another pair shot upwards in the air. Neither deemed wings to necessitate flight, the ringing music of madness echoed around them in the destination toward Eltra and Tox. One manifested flying sets of icicle spears, intending to skewer the Floran in the frosted barbs. Whereas the other cloaked herself in celestial flames. Her jaws broke apart to unleash a torrent of fire the Dragon Knight's way.

"Damn it&#33; Just stay down Sigrid&#33;" the Insanity Knight exclaimed. She never imagined her might could match the huldra rebel back in her heyday, though Solveig's determination managed to keep her on level with the furious brute. That is, until having to deal with a second serving. "Gah&#33;" The surprised kicked from the clone knocked the fox-tailed girl sideways. This fake Skathi packed enough force to match before she fell down the dark road.

And one ran off to deal with that gargoyle. Skathi didn't forget of her existence...

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Physical attacks might not been the brightest idea. Sloshing around the impalement, Invidia endured the strike rather well, not appearing to have a solid core. "Pathetic," the leviathan hissed. Its oily mass threw over a loop behind the dragon, attempting to smother him in its essence.

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Acedia stopped momentarily when she found herself in the charred room. Her gaze had settled on the distracted Senka, as if recalling forgotten thoughts. "..." Shaking her head, the Fir Bolg went to ready the vines around herself once more. Two Knights, and some sort of being which radiated Eldritch energy? What a bother...

Felicia no longer saw anything around her as what it was. What she saw were ghosts and monstrosities barely percieved and not fully formed. The room too had entirely disappeared from her sight, replaced by something far more primal. Afraid, the Split lashed out with shadow tendrils at apparitions. She either hit nothing or would damage the walls and everything else around her whilst lost in delusion. "Go away&#33; Leave me alone&#33; I'm done with you&#33; You're not supposed to be here&#33;" She yelled at things and people that didn't actually exist. Behind her now, Felicias already hideously twisted Dragonfury manifested behind her. Before, it had been a creature of purple arcfire bursting through strained seams of barely held together black flesh that glowed purple. Now it reacted to the state of mind overtaken by Insanity with the shadow flesh now constantly melting and reforming over exposed bones as the purple arcfire burst out of the holes in the seams uncontrollably. What too once were simply glowing purple eyes of the mentally manifested Dragon now seemed to be weeping burning arcfire diwn its snout. Raising skeletal wings that had purple fire flowing through its veins the Dragonfury proceeded to lash out at everything and everyone. At Senka, at the clone Phoebe, at Acedia, at the very walls themselves. Freezing Arcfire breathed by this monstrosity started burning upon the floor of the Temple.

Meanwhile...

Bill roared loudly as his charge failed and the snake leviathan managed to coil a loop around the iridescent Dragon. Multicoloured spikes however were still apparent all over the beasts body, especially the neck. Jinx's eyes widened-that thing wasn't solid&#33;-before the inexperienced Bill did something even more daft and proceeded to do a death roll akin to a crocodile.

Jinx however, fished about in her pockets for something...

Senka felt heavy. As if for the first time she truly experienced the weight of her armor. It was crushing, pulling her down. She could see herself becoming nothing more than an iron statue, rusted in the bottom of these catacombs...

Something was wrong with Felicia. Forgetting her earlier delusion, Senka took a step forward, watching her flail. How odd. It was like she was dancing. But there wasn't any music&#33; What a silly girl... The insanity heavy in the air evaporated Senka's ability to be worried by these events.

Suddenly... someone new&#33; Senka looked at the arrival of Sloth with curious eyes. Their gaze seemed to linger on one another, for a full minute before she broke it off.

"I know you&#33;" Senka suddenly exclaimed, excited. "I know yooou&#33;"

The Knight eagerly marched forward, to catch the deadly sin in a warm bearhug. She repeated "I know you&#33;" again, feeling friendly toward the girl to the point of insanity. She just wanted to hug her and catch up&#33;

Jinx never got an answer out of Tom. When she looked back to him, she'd find him battered, ashened, unconcious - and bleeding out from the stump where his left leg used to be....

Eltra used his targeted blink to dodge around, hoping to stab the attacker with a black knife that would sap energy out. He relied on his highly durable metal armor for protection. The constant strain on the mind made focus so much harder than it needed to be.

Tox, meanwhile, was looking around for Skathi's soul, releasing a dark cloud of icy cold around her as she moved to dodge her attacker. She just needed to find the real one...She had this...

Phoebe had pulled herself together far more, manifesting physically, completely, and throwing her aura of sheer, raw fear out to shield the others. She could manipulate fear once it set into them, use it as a protective emotion, trigger Fight instincts, and block insanity out. And if that failed...Well, she could just take their bodies over. That, too, was her domain. The woman was a cosmic force, and while limiting to not break people, she was still a force to be reconned with, and she so rarely used her full power. It would be nice to cut loose.

"Old man?&#33; Tom&#33;" Jinx exclaimed, noticing the broken man and his missing leg.... and the pool of blood that was pouring out of him. Jinx swore loudly in Deian before she knelt next to him. No&#33; Not now&#33; Alright, alright, calm down, breathe. Concentrate... first you need to stop the bleeding.

Quickly Jinx ripped off a piece of Toms shirt and with her own Floran knife made a tourniquet, twisting the material tightly before she formed a black fireball in her hands. "This is gonna hurt" she warned noone who'd be able to hear her as she applied fire to flesh to cauterise the wound.

~Bill&#33; Stop fooling around&#33;~ She sent the iridescent Dragon, before breathing again. Alright, alright.... There's no way for you to apply healing magic, Mom never taught me that.... But if I can just... Jinx put one hand on the stump and concentrated. She could sense him slipping, how close he was to going. Concentrating hard, Jinx attempted Distorting the marrow to produce blood cells faster. It'd be temporary, what he really needed was water now. Scratch that, what he really needed was to not be here now.

~Bill&#33;~

Snorting, the iridescent Dragons spikes now sparked with a static charge. The snakelike being would soon be in for a huge shock.