>>32684440
Cordeliate whips forward with her blade. You fall backward, just out of its reach, and hit the ground. When the demon brings the rapier back around for a downward strike, you reach upward with your mind and pinch the blade from her grip with a flare of shadow. As you would expect from an expert swordsman, Cordeliate doesn’t lose grip of the blade.

Unfortunately for her, you were counting on it. Her sword hangs uselessly in the air, embedded in the grasp of obstinate shadow, leaving her wide open for your counter attack. You lunge upward and stab all of your claws deep into her chest.

Cordeliate’s grasp on the sword slackens and fails. She staggers backward, blinking in vague surprise at the dark blood pouring from her newfound wounds. You toss the sword off to the side with a flicker of thought. Cordeliate watches it clatter to the ground in shock. “How do you have a Verwelken?” she asks, confused. She coughs, and blood pours from her mouth.

“I am a Verwelken,” you answer.

The demon sits down heavily. “How about that,” she says, keeling over and falling onto the ground. Her eyes don’t focus on you. “Take care of my sword, I suppose. She’s named Zelathis.”

>>32684443

“Oh, uh. Okay,” you say. You’re not sure Cordeliate heard you, because her eyes are glassed over with death.

The night seems surprisingly quiet now. Except for the gunfire. You hear lots of gunfire from the other side of the house. It seems far away, though – maybe it’s the silencer Harvey has on his gun thing.

>Go check on Borislav.
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Circle around to team up with the Hallows.
>Other (?)

>>32684467
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Go check on Borislav.

Rolled 47

>>32684467
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Go check on Borislav.

Sierra is Maximum Chuuni

>>32684512
2nd

>>32684467
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Drink some of Cordeliate's blood

>>32684467
>>Go check on Borislav.
>>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
At which point
>Go team up with the Hallows.

>>32684467
Acquire the 3 B's
>Blade
>Borya
>Blood

>>32684467
>Go check on Borislav.
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Drink Cordeliate's blood

Calling it now, the sword is sentient to some extent.

>>32684467
>Go check on Borislav.
>Acquire Zelathis, lightning sword.
>Circle around to team up with the Hallows.
Do all three.
And do a quick blood snack.

>>32684467
>check Borris
>get sword.

Cordeliate’s blood seems alluring in the darkness, but you don’t know how cool that would be right now. She seems too person-like for you to feel too comfortable with the whole vampire kind of blood thing you do.

You step over Cordeliate’s corpse and pick up her sword from where it fell. Well, you did tell the lady you’d take care of her sword so… yeah, you guess.

The blade is surprisingly light, and the grip feels rigid and firm under your claws, as if it were designed to be wielded by someone with knife-like fingers. Not to mention, it practically thrums in your hand, as if somebody struck a chord on its resonant frequency.

Carrying the blade in your off hand, you make your way over to Borislav, who seems passed out. He makes an incomprehensible grunt of acknowledgement when you try to shake him awake, but doesn’t make too many moves. The poor guy’s had a long day – he’s probably not too used to being thrown around as a bear. It was likely a traumatic experience.

>>32684841

You hear an approach of rapid footfalls in the dark, and smell cinders and smoke and… blood. The footfalls are backed up by labored breathing of something big. You recognize the blood scent – it’s Ranthix. He must be in retreat, because you’re pretty sure you would have heard more noise if he’d managed to kill them. He doesn’t strike you as the quiet type.

He may run across Borislav if he keeps on his current course. Maybe he was just trying to chase off the Hallows so Cordeliate could make a clean getaway? If there weren’t so many tall bushes and shrubs around this house, you’d be able to tell for certain.

>Hold your ground.
>Be ready to hide yourself and Borislav in shadows, should the need arise.
>Head Ranthix off. He can’t be in good shape if he tangoed with all the Hallows at the same time.
>Make to follow Ranthix. You can relay his position to the Hallows and you can all hunt him down together.
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
>Other (?)

Ok. So a couple little interesting tidbits of info we got from this

>Shadow powers actually fixed Sierra's sanity a bit; they've finally been confirmed to not be some horrible damaging thing that we have to be super careful about using
>Sierra looks demony enough that Cordeliate thought she was a straight up demon, not just a hellborn.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
>Make to follow Ranthix. You can relay his position to the Hallows and you can all hunt him down together.

>>32684859
>>Be ready to hide yourself and Borislav in shadows, should the need arise.

>>32684859
>>Hold your ground.
>>Be ready to hide yourself and Borislav in shadows, should the need arise.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
>Head Ranthix off. He can’t be in good shape if he tangoed with all the Hallows at the same time.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
>Head Ranthix off. He can’t be in good shape if he tangoed with all the Hallows at the same time.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.

We need more strength, and even though she looks human, more human than us a lot of the time, she was just as much of a monster as the other demons we've hunted.

Try to find a good ambush position along his likely path. Get above him if possible so we can drop on him from above and get our murder in.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
She's demon, fair game. Then tell the hollows his position and move in.

>Head Ranthix off. He can’t be in good shape if he tangoed with all the Hallows at the same time.
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
going lose a few more sanity points

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.

>>32684859
>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
>Head Ranthix off. He can’t be in good shape if he tangoed with all the Hallows at the same time.

>>32684859
We have radios or something, right? Could we inform the others, or at least Cas or Harvey or someone, of Borya's position?

>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.
I almost felt bad for her for half a second because she had a pretty cool death scene that sounded halfway sorta honorable with the sword thing, but then I remembered she's a fucking demon slaver that kidnaps people and literally drags them to hell. I hope Sierra comes to the same conclusion about not feeling too bad about it, because this chick was a bitch.

As for what to do next, Inferni have enhanced smell. Ranthix will be able to smell us, so we shouldn't sit here trying to hide Borya in shadows, but we still need to make sure he doesn't stomp on the sleepy Russian.

>>32684859
>>Make to follow Ranthix. You can relay his position to the Hallows and you can all hunt him down together.
>>Forget what's cool, you need all the help you can get if you need to fight this guy again. Drink Cordeliate's blood.

>>32685024
>I almost felt bad for her for half a second because she had a pretty cool death scene that sounded halfway sorta honorable with the sword thing, but then I remembered she's a fucking demon slaver that kidnaps people and literally drags them to hell. I hope Sierra comes to the same conclusion about not feeling too bad about it, because this chick was a bitch.
I feel the same way. Drinking her blood's uncool? Cordeliate was majorly uncool in everything but her choice in sword and maybe clothing if you're into that sort of thing. She doesn't deserve the coolness of getting drank.

>>32684876
>>Sierra looks demony enough that Cordeliate thought she was a straight up demon, not just a hellborn.
We need to ask Isaac about that later. See if demons sometimes call hellborn as "demons" or if she was mistaken because we really do just look that helly now or if there's some weird thing going on. Like, I'd be really surprised if demons didn't have some distinctive smell or energy vibe thing going on and if Sierra is putting that out in overdrive or something then it might be good to know.

>>32684859
> Be ready to hide Borislav in shadows
Fuck losing Borya to that cunt.

You don’t like the thought of it, but you need your strength. And, one demon to another, you’re pretty sure it’s what Cordeliate would have wanted. Come on, she said take care of the sword. That means she has to be rooting for you from demon heaven right now. You give in to your baser instinct to savor the kill, trying not to think about the fact that you were just having conversation with this person a couple seconds ago. (+5 HP: 12/14) (-2 Sanity: 95/100)

Lucky for you Cordeliate was even worse scum than Vincent and Jack, who are now handcuffed in the basement of a burning building. Some people deserve the horrible things that happen to you. It doesn’t trouble your nerves too much that you’re benefitting from her death. Everybody in society benefits from her death, really.

As a side note, Belphegoran blood has a kind of festive aftertaste, kind of like mint or some kind of expensive tea. It makes you wonder what other flavors are out there. (-1 Sanity: 94/100) And, with the stimulating taste effect of somebody else’s blood in your mouth, you feel ready to answer the age old question of what Infernus blood tastes like. You hone in on Ranthix’s not-quiet running, set an intercept course. He should be coming by not far from where Borislav is now. You run out to greet the big guy.

“I’m going after Ranthix,” you say into your radio, quietly. “South side of the compound.”

>>32685344

Yep. You remembered something of the map Isaac made you stare at for fifteen minutes. Not wanting to risk the demon catching a reply, you switch the radio off. Also, having learned your lesson about leaving your weapons unloaded, you shove another magazine into your SMG so it’s good to go.

You crouch behind a large, potted plant, and peer around it at Ranthix’s approach. There are several gashes on his extremities, and a few of his leathery bone plates are cracked and bleeding. One of his eyes has a long, bleeding cut across it, and he keeps it mostly squinting. His neck, where you bit him, is swollen like a snakebite, and seems to be paining him greatly.

>>32685365
The internal fire that was burning in him earlier has died down now to a ghost of an ember. His flak jacket is burnt and barely manages to stay affixed to his chest. It’s probably snagged on some of his spines. (Ranthix: 13/51)

Now, he’s not super-fast or anything, but he is managing a high running speed despite having a gimped leg. His speed isn’t giving him the most time to look out for anything important, and you’ll certainly have the jump on him if you decide to strike.

"Cordeliate!" he says gruffly, cupping the side of his face as if that might decrease the volume of his speech. "Cordeliate, time to go!" It likely exhausts his personal restraint to refrain from shouting.

>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.
>Spray him in the face. You’ve got a full magazine.
>>Try corrupting the bullets first.
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
>Sap will.
>Other (?)
PP: 8/25

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.

>>32685390
>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.

>>32685390
>Hit him with Zelathis

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
>Jam Zelathis into his neck-wound
>Unload the SMG into his head

>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face Spray him when he is down

The shadow tripwire segue into lightning swording. Give me the dice.

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.

Try to grab his good leg out from under him before pouncing on him. Stab him through the neck if we can, otherwise take out his other leg, Corrupt our SMG/bullets and push it up against a wound and hold the trigger until it's out of bullets.

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
Make him land at our feet. Then say a one-liner and shank him with the sword.

>>32685390
>>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
Seems like it could be funny

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he's going, he's likely to fall flat on his face.
>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.

Rolled 88

>>32685452

Rolled 49

>>32685452

Rolled 35

>>32685452
Rollan!

Rolled 95

>>32685452

Rolled 33

>>32685452

Rolled 6

>>32685452

Rolled 100

>>32685452

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.

Rolled 82

>>32685452

>>32685500
You don't get to roll anymore

Anybody else got a bad feeling about the Hallows?

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>>32685497
YES
>>32685500
NO

Rolled 93

>>32685500
Well, shit.

>>32685527
>Every thread

>>32685500
Shadow quest would have sacrificed a namefag for that roll.

Rolled 18

>>32685541
>>32685542

It was the 7th roll, surely it doesn't count.

>>32685390
>Trip him with shadows. At the speed he’s going, he’s likely to fall flat on his face.
>Hit him with Zelathis, Lightning Sword.
Move to be on top of him, quick hand slice and dice. When Cordelia hit people it applied a ton of force and sent them flying, let's have that repeatedly. Strait into the ground.

>>32685527
Not really, no

>>32685541
It's best of three. Stop freaking out about nothing.

>>32685488
Good enough, on a injured unsuspecting opponent I think we'll stand a good chance of opening up our new juice box without too much mess.

>>32685500
Ha.

>>32685527
Not particularly. The way a lot of Demons have said "Demonbane kill Demons" leads me to suspect that Angels and those with Angel blood have a supernatural hate on for Demons, but they seem to be pretty on the level with us.

Granted, they are still benefiting from this arrangement, they don't have to try and hunt down a Infernus/Belphegoran/Verwelken hybrid, and instead they get an ace in the hole for their fight to keep the spooky side of the street vaguely civil.

>>32685527
>This guy again.
No.

>>32685527
Wait, bad feeling as in they're dead, or bad feeling as in they're going to kill us?

>>32685562
Crits...overrule...

>Captcha: that getfag

>>32685710
I didnt think Languid did extended ranges for crits, what with it being a stupid idea and all.

>>32685710
Only in the first three.

>>32685527
>Are they dead?
No, otherwise Ranthix wouldn't be pissbolting out of there

>Are they out for us?
No, even if we ignore every honest show of affection they've displayed towards us we're still worth way more to them alive than dead.

>>32685723
>>32685728

In the first couple of thread he let us count a (good) crit that was outside the first three. But he does seemed to have dropped that practice now.

>>32685750
Yeah, it's not a good practice.

You will the darkness into a barrier at about Ranthix’s knee level, right about at the spot where his bad leg will have to go if he keeps going straight.

He doesn’t disappoint. “So be it, suffer the indignity of --”

He collides with the barrier, flinches comically at the surprise of his foot not being where he planned it on being, and falls flat on his face. He hits the ground with some force, and his momentum causes him to slide a few feet on the grass, at which point you leap at him, Zelathis, Lightning Sword swinging.

You underestimate Ranthix’s speed.

He’s already rolled onto his back when you’re in the air coming down at him, and a shoots out a claw to seizes you by your sword wrist, and twists. There’s a definite, unhealthy popping sound, and Zelathis, Lightning Sword falls out of your limp grasp and falls to the ground. (-2 HP: 10/14)

You claw at his grip with your other hand, knowing this is your only chance. Unfortunately, your claws scrape off of Ranthix’s claws as well as if you were using a butter knife. (Ranthix: 12/51)

Man, this went a lot better in your head. You don’t need to be good with swords if you’ve got a magic sword, right?

Ranthix gives you an even look, and then looks back at where he tripped. Of course, there’s nothing there. He notes Cordeliate’s discarded sword, and then looks back at you, an odd, calculating gleam in his eye.

>>32685833

At that point, he could have crushed your skull in his off hand, torn you in half, or perhaps incinerated you in your grip. What you don’t expect him to do is stuff you under an arm like you were a gym duffle bag and starts running again. He smells like volcanic ash and dry sand.

This is not how you imagined this going at all. Your arms are sandwiched by your sides, and his powerful grip is like a crushing, bouncing vice. “How many summers have you seen, spawnling?” he asks in his low, growling voice.

>Bite him.
>Struggle.
>Maybe you can reach the handgun in your shoulder holster...?
>Start screaming.
>Demonbane are right behind me.
>You first.
>Seventeen?
>I’m not talking till you put me down.
>Other (?)

>I'm not talking to a guy (or demon) that runs off with me like it's a fucking cartoon.

Can we hellfire bite?

>>32685862
>Struggle.

>>32685862
>>Seventeen?
Biting won't do shit before he kills us, struggling would be useless, our gun would do shit if we could even reach it so yeah, answer

>>32685862
>I’m not talking till you put me down.
>Or I'll bite you again.

>>32685862
>Other (?)
"Oh, you like 'em young, do ya?"

>>32685862
>You first

Keep him talking, it wouldn't be hard for him to beak our neck as it is.

>>32685862
>Bite him.
EAT THE FUCKER!

>>32685906
Ah shit, can't pass this up. Changing my vote to >>32685901

Well this is really ominous. Ranthix also seems to think that we're a full-blown demon.

>>32685862

>Seventeen?
And this:
>>32685901

>>32685886
Anyone ever shown you how to gut a rabbit?

>>32685862
>>Seventeen?

>>32685862
Can we start slowly draining his PP with Dark Heart?

Talk for a bit, see if we can taunt him into wasting time, and look for a good chance for us to Sap Will him, slip his grip, stab our claws/teeth into his neck and BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER, RIP AND TEAR!

>>32685982
He's probably taking us back to Meckor.

>>32685993
Sounds like a plan. We could even latch on to something with a whip or whip him as he's carrying us.

>>32685862
>Seventeen?

Oh shit, he left our magic sword behind.

>>32685993
>BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER
I don't think that's going to work.

>>32685862
>"OI M8 I WON THAT SWORD FAIR N SQUARE DON'T JUST LEAVE IT ON THE GROUND"
Maybe it'll stall him for a second if he actually goes back to pick it up.

>>32686018
I'm hoping that Hellfire'd claws inside his neck or some other gouging wound would be at least marginally more effective than non-Hellfire'd claws.

And we can also bite him, give him another dose of venom, it's supposed to be good at penetrating things.

>>32685993
I doubt he wouldn't notice a slow drain of any sort, and BURNing is right out. That shadow trick might work again, if only to give us an opportunity while he's talking.

>>32685862
Where the hell is he taking us?

>>32686043
In our current position he could snap us like a twig, we need to escape in our that leaves our spinal column intact before we even think combat.

archive?

>>32685862
Turn on the radio and scream!

>>32685862
Would it be possible to turn the radio on while we're talking if we're going to try talking to this dude?

>>32686113
Here, mate.

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Hellborn%20Quest

>>32686132
Was our radio on the chest or waist?

>>32686148
thx you have a cookie <3

This situation is almost surreal, but it fills you with very real worry. (+6 Stress: 70/100)

You can’t stop the wide, toothsome smile that spreads over your face. “Like ‘em young, do ya?” His thick hide is slow to relinquish his power to you, but it begins draining over anyway. (+4 PP: 12/25)

“HAHAH YES,” Ranthix shouts, before he seems to remember where he is. “Though I prefer my battles on the field rather than in bed, spawnling, now your age, what is it?”

“Put be down and I’ll tell you,” you say. “And if you don’t, I’ll bite you again I swear.”

“FINE,” Ranthix says. He skids to a stop and throws you unceremoniously to the ground. “YOU’RE HORRIBLE TO HOLD, I FEEL MORE DEAD THAN I DID BEFORE.”

You get up and look around. You’re some distance from the compound, in a big field. It’s dark out here. You didn’t actually expect the demon to drop you. Your right arm hurts like hell, and is still all dislocated and useless for the time being. “So uh. Yeah. I’m like. Seventeen, I guess?” you say. You may as well hold up your end of the bargain. Demons are all up in making deals and bargains, or so you hear.

>>32686220

“AH HA, THEN SO BE IT!” says Ranthix. He grabs you shoulder roughly with one claw, and your limp arm with the other, and gives it a sharp shove back into the socket. A flash of pain sears your brain for a second, and then goes away to leave you with immense dull pain all throughout your arm. (+5 Stress: 75/100)

The demon kneels before you, grabs you by the claws and brings them to his throat. “YOU HAVE BESTED ME. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? NO! NOT BY A SPAWNLING! ANYTHING BUT THIS HUMILIATION!”

He lets go of your claws and stays there for a second, staring upward at the sky in some kind of rapturous bliss while your claws hover at his unprotected throat.

>What.
>Rip his throat out.
>So… like. I’m supposed to kill you now?
>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.
>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.
>Other (?)

>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.
>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.

>>32686233
>>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.

>>32686233
>What.

>>32686233
>Rip his throat out.

Welp, no sense looking a gift horse in the mouth.

>>32686233
>Rip his throat out.
>This isn't how reverse psychology works.

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>>32686233
Languid... what kind of twist are you trying to pull here?

>>32686233
>>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.
>>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.

>>32686233
wot.

Do we... do we try to turn him on Meckor or something?

>>32686233
"This cause I offed boss lady and 'inherited' her pigsticker?"

>>32686233
>What.
I'm guessing your boss is really shitty to deal with when his plans go wrong?

Rolled 8

>>32686233
>>So… like. I’m supposed to kill you now?
>>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.

>>32686233
>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.
>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.

>>32686233
>>32686233
"Okay. You're going to have to bear with me. Up until about a month ago I'd never even SEEN another demon before. "

>>32686233
>>This isn’t how reverse psychology works.
>>What are you talking about? I didn’t best you at all. You made off with me like some cartoon villain.

>>32686343
"Uh...what?"

>>32686291
Zelathis is a noble sword, not a pigsticker!

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>>32686233
>What.

>>32686233
I feel like he's going to go oinkbane on us and shout "TOO SUBTLE!!!"

>>32686389
If he wanted us dead our head would currently be about the consistency of chunky salsa.

Either he's fucking with us, which I don't think is likely considering how we're still a danger and he's not all that healthy, or he honestly is willing to let us kill him, which is pretty freaky.

The big possibilities I can see are some sort of weird demon oath, or stain on his honor that has to do with our age, or some sort of power of his that does something to the person who kills him.

>>32686436
>If he wanted us dead our head would currently be about the consistency of chunky salsa.

Clearly his methods are too subtle for us

>>32686233
>Other (?)
"...Umm... swear...fealty? To me, I guess? I'm not quite sure where this is going."

>>32686389
If we kill this guy oinkbane will fall out of his demon costume.

"Skitters there you are! Good disguise, very subtle."

>>32686233
>Rip his throat out.
Oh maybe he realizes that he's fucked and wants a quick death from US.

There’s only one thing to say in a situation like this.

“What?” you ask, blinking.

“THE SENTENCE OF THE DEFEATED IS DEATH,” Ranthix says.

You look around you. There is literally no one else that is seeing this right now. “Uh….”

“I AM THE DEFEATED, CLAIM YOUR RIGHT SPAWNLING.”

“But like. You’re not the defeated,” you say.

“THOUSAND HELLS, SURE I AM SHUT UP AND SPILL MY BLOOD WITH THE SHADOW OF YOUR WRATH.”

“Are you trying to reverse psychology me into letting you go or… I’m not getting your angle.”

“WHAT ARE YOU EVEN – THE ANGLE IS TO PAY GLORY TO THE EVERLASTING VICTOR!” he grabs you by the claws again and jerks the points of them slightly into the flesh of his neck, lets go, and resumes death readiness. “A FIERCE BATTLE WAS WAGED; IN THE END I WAS FOUND LACKING. LIFE IS SUFFERING WITH MY NAME MIRED IN SUCH DEFEAT. MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT NO EAR SHALL HEAR OF THE DISAPOPINTMENT THAT WAS RANTHIX. THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORSE. I BEG OF YOU, NEVER TELL ANYONE HOW PATHETICALLY RANTHIX DIED, OR HOW GREAT IT WAS WHEN RANTHIX SPLIT YOUR BACK WITH HIS TAIL OR THREW YOUR URSINE COHORT OUT OF THE WINDOW.”

>I feel like you may have an ulterior motive for making me kill you.
>If you want to die, can’t you just kill yourself?
>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.
>Other (?)

Rolled 71

>>32686564
>>I feel like you may have an ulterior motive for making me kill you.
>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.

Is your boss really that bad?

>>32686564
>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.

>>32686564
>I feel like you may have an ulterior motive for making me kill you.
>If you want to die, can’t you just kill yourself?
>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.

ALL OF THE OPTIONS!

>>32686564
>>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.

>>32686564
>>I feel like you may have an ulterior motive for making me kill you.
>So… you want me to tell people that I defeated you? Because that’s what reverse psychology is. Like, you tell me not to do something, because you want me to do it.

>>32686564
>Kill him

>>32686564
Great. We got a Samurai on our hands.

>>32686564
Ya know what
>Just kill the talkative bastard

>>32686564
"... Alright, I guess."
Guy's fucked up anyways, no remorse, just give him the honorable death he wants before he gets offended and rips our arms off.

>>32686564
You know if your willing to wait for a bit we can get the hallows to pop you

>>32686564
>Nigga what.

Does he remind anyone else of Borya a little bit? I mean, sure, he's the demon flavored version instead of the druid mix, but this is really bothering me more than it should.

>>32686564

Knock him out, prisoners are more valuable imo. Plus it is denying him what he wants without letting him go.

>>32686650
How the fuck are we gonna knock him out?

>>32686564
>Other (?)
"Whoa, do you come with a volume control there, Brian Blessed? You better explain exactly what you want, because I'm completely fucking lost here."

>>32686564
>Kill Him

>Kiss him

>>32686564
Don't kill him. Complain that he lost us our sword that we were suppose to have now.

>>32686564
It's pretty weird, but ok I guess. Let's give the man what he wants.

>>32686701
This, we won that sword fair and square.

>>32686564
This is going interesting places.

>"Yeah, the part where you threw the bear out the window -was- pretty cool."

>>32686564
Oh shit.... What if ripping his throat out maxes out his stress and sends him into Rampage mode

“I don’t think you know what reverse psychology is,” you say, taking a step back from the demon. “Like. You tell me, hey, don’t do this, because secretly, you want me to try to spite you by doing the thing, when that was really what you wanted me to do in the first place.”

Ranthix thinks about this for a moment. “SO. ARE YOU INSINUIATING YOU AREN’T GOING TO SPITE ME IN DEATH?” he asks.

“I guess not that much, really,” you say.

“IN THAT CASE,” Ranthix continues, “TELL EVERYONE EVERYWHERE HOW STRONG AND FIERCE I WAS, AND HOW I CARRIED YOU LIKE A PITRAT AWAY FROM YOUR ALLIES WITHOUT YOU BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, AND HOW I COULD HAVE SLAIN YOU AT ANY INSTANT IF IT WASN’T FOR THE POWER OF YOUR INESCAPABLE DESTINY. AND ALSO, CALL ME RANTHIX THE TERRIBLE EVERY TIME YOU INTRODUCE ME IN THE TALE.”

>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>Can you talk… not as loud as you are?
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?
>Other (?)

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>Can you talk… not as loud as you are?
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>Can you talk… not as loud as you are?

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>Can you talk… not as loud as you are?
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>RANTHIX THE TERRIBLE
>RANTHIX THE HUGE AND FIREY
>RANTHIX THE SURPRISINGLY FRIENDLY EXPOSITION DUMP

>>32686731
>>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>>Can you talk… not as loud as you are?

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?

>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
>Other (?)
Say nothing. Puzzlement intensifies

>>32686731
>>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
>Other: "Spite you in death? Dude, you're fucking metal as all hell!"
THEN
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?

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>>32686731
>Yeah.. sure... I can do that...
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686731
I... I think we should run. Like, right now. Guis. Run.

>>32686731
"Alright."
Sweet merciful fuck just kill him already.

>>32686786
This is exactly what I'm feeling right now.

>>32686731
>Other (?)
Reach for your radio and try to contact the Hallows. "Ummm... I got a super weird situation here. I think I need an adult"

>>32686817
Fuck that. I want to know about our destiny.

>>32686731
I always find myself confused by this board. You wanted to head Ranthix off, presumably because he is weak and an easy target. However, when he is asking you to kill him, you all decide to pussy out. What gives? Oh, and
>Kill the poor guy

>>32686830
This.

MFW he says "I am an adult."

>>32686731
>Okay, inescapable destiny what?
>Meckor can’t be that bad. What’s this all about?

>>32686867
Because he's clearly going to live through being killed.

>>32686860
It's bullshit.
He's either stalling or just going for something dramatic.

>>32686867
Might be able to get some information out of him.

>>32686885
Or get another demon thing to be our friend. It's like fucking Pokemon. Got to collect them all

>>32686867
Because there is something seriously weird going on here.

>>32686867
He was actively trying to kill us and the Hallows. Now he's acting all nice and friendly and asking us to kill him. Of course we're confused as fuck.

>>32686893
Well he was in every sense of the word Meckor's Heavy so does that mean he has less moral culpability than Cordeliate McSlaverperson?

>>32686830
I want to say this for the lulz, but I am actually worried a wrong step here will set him off.

If there was ever anything deserving the title THE TERRIBLE affixed to the end of their name, Ranthix would be the one deserving. “Yeah I guess I could work that out,” you say. “But I mean. This can’t be about Meckor being a bad boss. This is like. More ridiculous than that warrants.”

Ranthix stands, towering above you. “HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY JUDGEMENT! THIS IS EXACTLY AS REDICUOUS AS IT WARRANTS. WHAT ARE YOU INSINUATING NOW?”

“No,” you say, putting your foot down, “I’m the one that asks questions here. Like, you’re the…” you count on your fingers. Nabuth. Dogwalker. Waldric. Cordeliate. Like, five goatmen? Should you count Trevon? Probably not, he was hellborn. You guess you should count your mom, since you know you saw her at some point. “Literally, you’re the tenth demon I’ve seen.”

And that's counting goatmen, but you're not sure if they're hellborn or demons or what.

“SO WHAT YOU’RE TELLING ME,” says Ranthix, looming over you, “IS THAT YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING.”

>Remain silent. You don’t want to tip the scales here.
>Maybe you should run.
>It’s not too late to try to kill him.
>That’s exactly what I’m telling you.
>Other (?)

>>32686731
> Other
Just fucking end the sot. Fucker is begging for it.

>>32686948
>>Remain silent. You don’t want to tip the scales here.

>>32686948
>>Other (?)
"NOT EXACTLY...."

>>32686948
>That’s exactly what I’m telling you.

>>32686948
>>Remain silent. You don’t want to tip the scales here.
Let him rant a bit

>>32686948
We shoulda iced the fucker when he was practically jamming our claws into his neck himself.

>>32686948
>>That’s exactly what I’m telling you.

>>32686948
>I know enough.
>It’s not too late to try to kill him.

>Remain silent. You don’t want to tip the scales here.
Let him rant for a bit story time!

>>32686948
>Other (?)
"This has to be the weirdest fucking night I've ever had."

>>32686948
>That’s exactly what I’m telling you.

>>32686948
>Remain silent. You don’t want to tip the scales here.

>>32686948
>That’s exactly what I’m telling you.
Along with a side of
>>32687026

You decide not to say anything, because you don’t know what you’re supposed to say. However, your silence is an answer in and of itself.

Ranthix watches you carefully, and with a surprising amount of thought. “SO THAT’S HOW IT’S GOING TO BE,” he concludes. “FAREWELL SPAWNLING, I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP.”

The Infernus turns and bounds off into the darkness with surprising speed. You don’t think you can catch up to him if you tried to pursue.

>Shoot Ranthix.
>Call it in on your radio
>Better not talk about this one with the Hallows.
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.
>Other (?)

Rolled 92

>>32687120
>>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.
>Call it in on your radio

>>32687120
Get the sword. Its ours damnit.

>>32687120
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.
>Call it in on your radio

We should have just killed him... Why, you guys? Why...

DAMN IT wanted to talk to him then kill him NOT FOR HIM TO GET AWAY!
>Shoot Ranthix
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up cursing that he got away the entire way.

>>32687120
>Better not talk about this one with the Hallows.
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

>>32687120
>Call it in on your radio.
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

>>32687120
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

>>32687120
>Shoot Ranthix.

>>32687120
Looks like you guys fucked up again.
>Shoot the fucker, try to redeem your horrible failure.

>>32687120
>Shoot Ranthix.
We probably should have killed him, but if he's this bad...he'll probably drag his boss down

>>32687120
>>Better not talk about this one with the Hallows.
>>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

>>32687120
>Call it in on your radio
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

>>32687120
>>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.
>Call it in on your radio

>>32687120
Nice going guys
>Shoot him.

>>32687120
>Go back for your awesome sword before the cops show up.

Roll dice for your shooting.

Rolled 89

>>32687189

Rolled 9

>>32687189

Rolled 2

>>32687189

>>32687189
Looks like the majority vote is to go get our sword.

>>32687189
Can we call in the Hallows like right now?

>>32687194
>>32687196
You too, please take this cookie for being awesome at dice.

Rolled 21

>>32687189
ASSHOLE IF YOUR NOT GOING TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THEN HOLD STILL!

>>32687216
Two not too, sorry. I am very sleepy

>>32687211
I'm counting 10 to 5 in favor of the sword, but they're bit mutually exclusive so whatever.

>>32687196
Okay! Maybe saved from our decisions. Guys too tough to have to fight again.

>>32687193
Cheater.

>>32687193
Trying to cheat the system, eh?

>>32687246
agreed SHAME ON YOU! >>32687193

>>32687193

Laugh at this anon who doesn't know about 4chanX

fuck, was there a guy who rolled before the 9?

>>32687193
>This queer.

>>32687266
Yeah. It's a 76. I didn't delete my shitty 100, not sure why they bothered getting rid of theirs. We can still see it.

“Dammit,” you say, bringing your SMG up. You should have killed him – if he’s anything like you, he’ll be right as rain in a couple days and be ready to take everybody on again. It was just about all everybody could do to drag the bruiser down to (almost) killable levels.

You get Ranthix’s bounding form in the sights and open fire. And you keep shooting. And keep shooting. And then you run empty, and fucking Ranthix is still fucking running away. What the heck’s he made out of? (Ranthix: 5/51)

He leaps over a fence and runs off out of sight through a line of bushes. You have no idea what the hell any of that was about.

Regretfully, you turn and head back toward the flaming compound. You hear sirens in the distance, but you should have at least enough time to get your sweet magic sword back before you and the Hallows have to book it.

You flip your radio on and tell everyone you’re on your way back. You’re not quite sure yet how you’re going to explain what just happened.

--End Part 17--

Thursday morning is the intended time for the next thread.

>>32687245
Guy's only at about 12 hp and we just landed a shot on him with that 9.

>>32687278
Right if anyone asks tell them we tryed to bring him down but he got away leave out the fact we talked too him

>>32687278
Time to track him down and make him swear fealty to us.

>>32687278
Goddamnit, big plans for Sierra. What did you do, mom? What did you dooooo!

>>32687316
Dont you mean and make him hold hands?

>>32687278
I hope everybody takes the time to reflect on how badly you all fucked up.

When the guy who has four times as much hp as us and beat the shit out of a magic bear gives us a free kill shot, you take it.

>>32687278
Thanks for running

>>32687334
Oh we were going too kill him but we wanted to pump him for more information NOT for him to book it!

>>32687278
I suppose having the poision finish him would be too much to hope for.

Anyway, cool thread. Thanks for running!

>>32687334
>Implying the information we gathered wasn't more important

>>32687334

He's clearly going to be our demon husbando.

I have no regrets

>>32687342
The thing is we already had Edward to pump. Now we probably won't have that because now they'll be onto a leak. We've lost one ally and let a regenerating murder tank survive.

>>32687358
More like demon dad.

>>32687380
Mebey we can track him down he only has 5 left he has to rest some whare and if Meckor hates those who fail him i doubt he will go straight back too him

>>32687380
That's what I thought at some point; "Maybe this guy's our dad!" but I guess not.

I think he knows something though.

>>32687348
>Implying we gathered any information from him at all.

Seriously, we just gave away information, we told him how ignorant we are about the demons for nothing in exchange.

>Kill me
>No, man, you should go
>Let's shoot him before he runs away
Why are people so stupid?

>>32687412
Pretty sure we knew our dad wasn't a hulking fuck-huge fire demon already.

>>32687551
They were tying to get information about an INESCAPABLE DESTINY!

When the guy was clearly just being dramatic, and telling us to be dramatic when telling tales about him.

>>32687562
Meant to link
>>32687544

>>32687544
To be fair, the majority vote wasn't to shoot him.

>>32687576
So the majority was stupid twice.

>>32687551
Yeah, I meant more like demon father figure. Mostly joking anyway.

>>32687576
Majority vote was to go get the sword before the cops showed up. Shooting him did not prevent that, and it was the second highest voted thing, so we did both.

>>32687544
we never sead he should go we sead we wanted why he was so willing for us to kill him we can tell it was not about Mektor just wanted to know a bit more but he for some reason i suddenly wanted to live and bolted WHY did he even run if he was so willing for us to slit his neck?

>>32687586
At least they were consistent.

>>32687406
>>32687599

Are you the same person? Because you are committing a crime against the English language everytime you post.

>>32687599
Go to bed. You must be really tired to fuck up words that badly.

>>32687605
That's not a good thing when you're being stupid. For example, people who argue about waifus.

>>32687599
>sead
>capitalization
>punctuation
it hurt try raed this

>>32684532
Given that we actually have powers that is impossible.

>>32685527
They scare me more then any horror movie I have ever seen.

God damnit I go to bed after part 1 and we let Ranthix get away. Does nobody here know how to bluff? We should have tightened our grip on his throat and had him indulge us with the details of our glorious destiny in exchange for us not despoiling his name in death. Since when did none of us remember to play into these idiot's theatre when it is to our advantage?

>>32688745
Have you read the past threads? We aren't that good at decision making.

>>32688772
Been here since thread 1, and yeah every time I'm gone it seems something dumb happens. Fun quest though, and we should probably bring up this destiny crap with the Hallows. While it could have just been part of the posturing that seems so important in demon society, the fact that he was capitulating even at a point where he could have ploughed through and escaped suggests that there is more to it than that (unless he's just that much of an idiot, which is possible too). Cordeliate was also oddly sanguine about handing over her sword after the realization that we were verwelken as well as infernus/belphegorean, though her odd behaviour could be down to systemic shock from her injuries.

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>>32689341
Honestly at this point I am thinking it is a good idea to go lone wolf as much as we can (meaning assaulting a compound would not be a lone wolf thing).

Also should probably move some SMG to assault rifle since out demon stuff tends to have the not-long-range things covered.

>>32689750
We just need to take the time and ask somebody what the hell is going on. You know, like the demon hunters we're staying with.

Just so we don't stop in the middle of a fight again and start looking for the plot. That shit's annoying.

>>32691503
Oh we need to deal with lose ends and all that first.

Wow, the people that decided to let Ranthrax go are retarded.

>>32694252
Yeah i thought so to, but there seems to be something really weird going on with all that. It is perfectly reasonable thing for her to do as well, it was a really weird turn of events and she was put off.

And we might have gained a sort of ally inside meckor's forces. If we were to meet him again, he would probably refuse to fight us or something and that could be a nice tipping point in the next fight.

What they SHOULD have done was to have him swear fealty to us or something. We are (most likely) of royal blood so it could have worked.

And lastly, it was a very human thing to do. He didn't kill us when he had the chance and we didn't kill him when we had the chance.

>>32694252
You lack honor.

>>32694480
>We are (most likely) of royal blood
We have LITERALLY no reason to think that. We're, at best, the fifth-generation bastard of a high-born Infernus. We're a mixed-breed mutt, with human mixed in on top of that. The SINGLE hint in that direction was Reeber being called 'royal,' and in context, 'Royal' could have just been his breed of hellhound, like 'Bulldog,' or been the name that the dogwalker had been using.

Basically, thinking that Sierra is royalty is hopeful people grasping at straws with very close to zero evidence because they want her to be even more special than just a theoretically-impossible mixed-breed.

Am i the only one who's kind of happy he's still out there, this just means that when he comes back to kill us we'll be stronger and it'll be a great way to gauge our strength when we kill him solo.

>>32698688
I was hoping for a more climactic end to that whole thing. It was the biggest boss fight we had so far.

>>32694480
>What they SHOULD have done was to have him swear fealty to us or something. We are (most likely) of royal blood so it could have worked.
This is jumping to conclusions, which in this case will get us fucking killed. Sure, we could have leaned on him to swear fealty to us, but after how quickly he defected from Meckor? There's obviously some code that he's following but doing his damned hardest to squirm around when presented with the opportunity.

>And lastly, it was a very human thing to do. He didn't kill us when he had the chance and we didn't kill him when we had the chance.
Too true, which is why I'm not too angry at how we handled this. I don't see why we spared him -then- shot him though. We can play it off later as though we were putting on a good show for the Hallows if it comes to that.


>>32689750
I agree with the lone wolf thing, our shadow powers don't go very well working with a crew that seem to literally spew light.

I'm not saying we should flip the bird to the Hallows, but maybe we should think about making our own way. Perhaps harnessing the Landwell for a month or so and seeing what we can get out of it.
Or building a fully-sick treehouse that works too.

>>32699271
>Building a treehouse
>In a national forest
I'd like to see how long that'd last.

>>32700023
We have a park ranger on our side.