sheep_game | mingly

[his nose picks up on the scent at the same time that Ananke spots the flower]

--Should we make a run for it? It's big enough to dodge.

[he shifts the aim of his sunflower towards the thing's mouth. it's gotta be hard to bite them if it's getting a mouthful of sunlight!!! and he preemptively shifts them to slip around the thing, towards the remains of the lily path]

[THE SIZE OF A HOUSE???]

Go intangible, dodge it, get on that path. Try to avoid it anyway, we don't know if it'd still have some kind of effect--

[turns on the rest of an armful of flowers, trying to just get this thing as blind as possible]

[A HOUSE!!

Plasma blasts are good, blasting off chunks of goops and wolf souls that slosh off and rejoin the being from other points.

The BEAMS OF SUNLIGHT in its mouth and at its eyes do throw it off and stop it from chomping any of them, but it also means it's thrashing about in pain, swiping about blindly. If anyone gets slashed, it won't infect them, but it'll be a Bad Time.

Lethe however, if he gets close enough to the flower, he'll get a whiff of the demon's scent, rather than her human form, even though the Lady isn't anywhere in the mist at the moment. Follow?]

[ Eeugh. He switches to intangibility as soon as Charon mentions it and tests out how intangible plasma blasts are by aiming at anything that looks like it might be housing a brain to try keeping it distracted enough for Charon to slip by ]

Let's go!

Follow me! I've got her scent!

[takes off in the direction of the Lady's scent, not going intangible but using the shadows as cover to slip through and avoid the thrashing of the giant wolf]

[YEAH HE IS ALSO JUST GOING GHOST MODE AND BOOKING IT AFTER LETHE. RUNNING AWAY FROM THE GIANT MOOK IS AN ACCEPTABLE TACTIC]

[GOING GHOST IS A LEGIT

the amalgamation is busy being BLIND so they're able to get away injury free, for now.

Lethe got the scent for sure, though it doesn't look like any path they've been on before. Her 'garden' constantly moves, after all. They're running for a good while, with smaller mist wolves attacking. Nothing they can't handle.

More alarmingly though, is a voice that rings out eventually.

It's not the Lady's.]

How curious. So you are looking for *her* after all. How lost you'd be, without me. That demon is a slippery one; if she didn't want her garden found, aha, you wouldn't be finding it.

[ Falters and catches himself mid-step, throwing a wide-eyed "oh shit" look at the other two ]

Sorry—ma'am? Are you...here to help?

[stumbles and swears, grabbing Ananke's shoulder to steady himself]

Who...State your name and purpose, please.

Who are you?

[JUST BLUNT AF IS THIS ANOTHER DEMON???]

[a mocking laugh]

Oh, absolutely not. I also have no time to waste on insects like you.

Just curious why anyone would be searching for the name of one of my many children. She gave it away fair and square after all.

But, I can ask her myself later.

I'll leave another to you all.

[Before they know it. . .they're in the ruins of the Lady's garden. The table and such is still set up from their last 'tea', and the dried up fountain still covered in dead, brittle vines.

Oh, and also there's a sheep demon there holding a glowing white orb. It smells intensely of both the Lady's normal body and demon self. It's her name.

,,,I didn't feel like drawing a demon tho so you get a catherine npc.]

[ WOW DON'T LIKE THAT

moves a little further in front of Charon ]

I'm guessing there's no chance you'll hand that over nicely?

[as soon as Ananke covers Charon, Lethe goes STRAIGHT for the orb in the demon's hand]

Oh, hey, you brought it right out to us, how nice of you!

[tries to make the demon a ghost for a sec so it just drops the orb,,,

it worked on Blossom 2.0 (RIP) so. worth a try]

[A GOOD TRY BUT NO. Well, the demon does go intangible for a moment, which is a boon, because he swings that MASSIVE CLUB AT LETHE.

. . .and it harmlessly goes through him. So, good move!!

The demon just cackles though, the Orb isn't exactly solid, after all.

So he swallows it :)

They can see the essence of it spreading through its ghostly body.]

Gyahaha! Tricksy ones aren't ya? But you can't spoil my meal. . .I can smell your names too! I want to eat them!

So how about a deal? Beat me, and I'll give you a taste of that stupid girl's name!

But I win, and I get YOURS. Gyahahaha!

I mean, if you really wanna waste your own time...

[ straight up aims a blast of plasma at its face while he's talking, hoping to blind it at least temporarily even if it goes ghost ]

[wow, demons these days just think they can ask for anything, huh

takes a few steps back while it's still intangible, looking it up and down for potential weak points]

Talk about lousy service. I'm not interested in speaking to grunts who only know how to whet their own appetites. Why don't you hand over that name and let us speak to your manager? We'll make sure to leave a nice review if you do.

[his eyes narrow]

If you wanted to deal, you shouldn't have opened with insulting a lady.

[between one word and the next he's in dragon's shape; spits fire at it on the heels of Ananke's plasma, as punctuation]

Tch. Stupid mortals.

I'll just rip your names AND souls out by force!

[his whole body FLEXES, and he opens his mouth--eating the plasma shot. It swirls through his body, so now instead of being intangible, he's now made of plasma, giving him a new solid form.

The first still hits him in the face, but he's a demon. Gotta have a little more force than that!!]

Here's a game: Just DIE. I'll be sure to file yer complaints with big Mama later!

[SWINGING THE NOW PLASMA CLUB AT LETHE]

Lethe!

[ TRIES TURNING THE DEMON INTANGIBLE. AGAIN? ]

WHY CAN IT EAT PLASMA?!

[Instead of trying to run away from the thing, he ducks under the club and tries to tackle it to the ground! whether that works or he falls right through an intangible demon is tbd]

[LETHE WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT]

Feed it something else!

[he's just gonna fuckin. scramble for some distance himself and start casting a spell, no one die in the next ten seconds]

[HE'S STILL INTANGIBLE HE JUST HAS A PLASMA SHELL

TACKLED!!

BUT THAT MEANS LETHE IS TACKLING A PLASMA HOT BODY. The demon GRAPPLES him, hoping to burn the werewolf. He'll also feel his soul being tugged, as if trying to be forcibly ripped out.]

C'MON MUTT, GIVE ME A REAL MEAL!

Everything I can feed it is bad for us!

[ tries to tackle LETHE to force him away from the demon and get between both of them ]

[Okay ow that hurts!!! a hiss of pain escapes him at the burns, and as soon as he feels the tug on his soul he reflexively uses his Teacher skill to connect Charon and Scaranake to him. it's not like, anchoring his soul in a tangible way, but it makes him feel less worried about his soul getting yanked out.

He gets in one SOLID punch to the demon's stomach in an attempt to make it cough up what it's swallowed, very much a "the fastest way to get our Lady's soul bits back is to make this guy throw up" kinda move. but he won't stop Ananke from yanking him back after that]

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