[Espy]

Uhm. We don't really want to kill characters this early on, unless you're comfortable playing as Kadia-stuffed-into-Rurik's-body.

[Gallagher]

Removing limbs is cool though, I'll be able to fix that later.

[Lawtan]

Espy, do you have more on that article (sensory-deprivation)? I didn't have the time to fully read it.

Also, I am not sure yet. I may just do that (Kadia/Rurik Hybid), or I may just cause her to lose a limb or two.

[Espy]

Not sure where I saw it. You could probably just look it up.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

SO MANY POSTS TO RESPOND TO @_@

1.) The Hounds torment Sin, they quite happily tear their way back inside when they're done with what their doing. She hates them, but also has a profound maternal instinct to protect them.

2.) I suppose the net would have killed Lev if you hit him with it... Lev on his own, but Na'lsa's soul resides in his body and can regenerate from literally a single cell if he needs to (or at least he could before, he may be somewhat weaker now)

3.) Sin can't *stop* the Hounds. Death's spirit is in them, they answer to him alone. And he's none too fond of his mother.

4.) I'm okay with the net taking one out. I'm not sure how you're figuring 3 to 4. If they're not immune to fire, they;re highly resistant to it, being, well... HELL hounds. They bathe in the burning lake. I'm not entirely convinced being battered with stones and shards of metal going 300+ mph will affect them all that much. They're rather... huge, and as mentioned incredibly durable. Really, holy attacks are the way to go, which is why the net was a good plan.

5.) On power scale: 3 of these hounds would have an even change to kill Thomas in a straight fight, for perspective. And Sin is incomprehensibly more powerful than us. Incomprehensibly more powerful than almost anything in the setting, really. Only Abaddon, the Beast, Metatron, and maybe the 4 Horsemen together (and obviously Death) could definitively destroy her.

6.) Lawtan, I need you to explain WHAT Kadia is doing (OOC). How do her powers work? I don't even know if it's psy or theurgy. And why does she get to go super-saiyan cause she's angry? What if Thomas got angry? Would he suddenly go from city-buster to continent-buster? There has to be some kind of justification.

7.) The tornadoes may actually hurt our efforts in the long run. They'll prevent the gunfire from outside from hitting home, and concentrated fire from their autocannons and hmgs would do a significant amount of damage to the Hounds' bones and organs. On the other hand, they might screw up the missile's trajectory, possibly.

But seriously, I kind of recommend bailing out the windows at this point. Even if it's an a hundred foot drop (which it is) the damage is inconsequential to what's going down in this room, and we could fight them more evenly outside.

And I just love that Na'lsa is totally insulated from all of this inside Sin having the time of his life right now. :D

[Lawtan]

Very well. I'll work a ton on Kadia's background next post. Can I ask for your help there, Suze?
(Fire tornado meant to go wild and screw up technologies/trajectory. It is not really meant to harm the hounds.)

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Okay, that makes more sense. And sure we can.

[Espy]

BALLS I forgot about Dante's handgun. Well, I doubt even those bullets could do much against the hounds.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

They'd do a damn sight better than his sword. :P

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Just to note, Tarja is not trying to cook anyone friendly, she's "aiming" at the hellhounds and Sin's general area. I'm more hoping to burn away an umbilical cord or two rather than do serious flesh damage. Tarja has walled herself off from the darkness for now, but can't see a blasted thing anyway because it's still dark up against her shield, so she can probably hit party members too, if they happen to get into the same space as her psychic microwave.

Yes, I am aware that there is a bed nearby on which a man is sleeping that is covered in likely highly flammable linens. She's also trying not to hit that.

[Espy]

Should I change my post? (both about gun and fire)

[Suzerain of Sheol]

If you want to, Espy. It wouldn't hurt anything to.

[Salone]

Originally Posted by Espy

Dante can't do anything, and Diogenes doesn't care. Sacrificing Rurik COULD possible make for some sort of shielding but I don't think Law and Kadia would be particularly happy with that -- it'd hurt Kadia in a very major way, too. At this point, Nalsa's probably the only one strong enough the stop them or provide some sort of shield.

If it's possible to dig their way underground or run to the chapel which isn't real and go down that way while not dying in the process, that'd be ideal, buuuuuut.

Na'lsa has no way to stop/divert said missiles. He has the psychic power of an aging hamster.

Out of character, how are these missiles being guided? Thermal, provided coordinates, tracker, TV-guided, laser designation? And what type of missiles? Just regular old precision-strikes or bunker busters or what? If it is tracking by the thermal signature put off by Sin, a huge whirling fire tornado in a slightly different location could put it off target. EM-Pulse Grenade could technically do it, if it could somehow be set to go off before the missile detonated while in proximity of the missile. Which would require someone to launch this hand grenade at +700 miles an hour while attempting to 'lead' the missile(s) with whatever object they are launching from. All while deprived of all senses.

Falling blindly out of a window does sound a lot better.

Also, I'm finding it hard to figure out what to write, aside from a very extended version of "He is getting full".

[Espy]

I just attempted to stifle a laugh while having a very sore throat and what resulted was a hoarse wheeze crossed with a choking death rattle.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Salone

Na'lsa has no way to stop/divert said missiles. He has the psychic power of an aging hamster.

Out of character, how are these missiles being guided? Thermal, provided coordinates, tracker, TV-guided, laser designation? And what type of missiles? Just regular old precision-strikes or bunker busters or what? If it is tracking by the thermal signature put off by Sin, a huge whirling fire tornado in a slightly different location could put it off target. EM-Pulse Grenade could technically do it, if it could somehow be set to go off before the missile detonated while in proximity of the missile. Which would require someone to launch this hand grenade at +700 miles an hour while attempting to 'lead' the missile(s) with whatever object they are launching from. All while deprived of all senses.

Falling blindly out of a window does sound a lot better.

Also, I'm finding it hard to figure out what to write, aside from a very extended version of "He is getting full".

They're fuel-air explosives, and right now there's just two of them coming in. And yeah, they're tracking Sin's heat signature.

Quite honestly, I'm not sure Diogenes thought this plan all the way through... Though the hounds weren't on the scene yet when he called in the strike. I don't think he'd suddenly call it off with the appearance of MORE enemies, though...

Not to mention, Kadia's sort-of preempted the explosives by already turning the room into a firestorm, so I'm not sure it actually matters. :P

[Espy]

Uhhhhh. How many of us would actually survive a 100ft fall?