3634/Demons and Bandits

Demons and Bandits
Date of Scene:	08 January 2016
Location:	Planetary Plains
Synopsis:	Yari leads a team of Elites to free a village from bandits. Then demon stuff.
Cast of Characters:	Deelel, Reina Kinney, Blurr, 691, 774, 855

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Yari Takane (691) has posed:
The rather unimaginatively named village of Hamlett is one amongst uncountable numbers in the planetary plains. A simple farming village content to farm, and get paid both whichever faction happens to be paying more that day. Unfortunately, a group of bandits transplanted by a unification have decided to take over the small village.

And they're well armed. There's only a total of eight houses in the village, the largest of which being a long rectangle shape that serves for meetings of the village and often a place for travelers to stay. Now, it's been taken over as a place for the captive villagers to be kept. Along the outskirts of the village, sentries have been posted, each one armed with rather advanced laser guns, though it's dubious as to how much ammo they might actually have.

The bandits have made no demands, and worse still, there's been strange arcane lights coming from the central building. Mages of both factions would easily be able to tell it's an incredibly dark-aligned ritual. Enough so that there's a sickening feeling in the air that might make one's throat tighten.

Yari and her compatriots would meet just before midnight when the rituals were at their height in an area overlooking the valley where the village resides. There's good cover of night for the operation. She'll pass around a pair of night-vision binoculars.

From their vantage point, there's five visible guards posted, lights coming from both the larger building and a slightly smaller one where voices can vaguely be heard wafting from. It sees a lot of traffic. A barracks of sorts, perhaps? The local tavern, a squat village, is seeing some activity from staggering, drunk bandits.

"Our mission is simple. We get inside the village, free the captives, remove the bandits. Kill them, or spare them, it's up to each of you. I'd suggest two teams: one aimed as a distraction to draw away attention from the hostages, and another team for extracting the hostages. Questions? Ideas?" She offers to the group.

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tatsuto Satou and his adorable almost-cartoony dog Plotmon may seem a bit out of place here. He's obviously slightly nervous, unable to keep his left leg from bouncing as he crouches down. "...I should, uh. Probably be on the 'distraction' team. Not like I'm good at sneaking around or anything, so..."

    Plotmon is currently trying to keep Tatsuto all reassured and calm while pretending she's not freaking out herself.

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
More dark magic. Lovely. Dorian's response to hearing of it is a sigh. "Yet another bunch of idiots who think if they just use enough dark magic, their problems will go away." Clearly he has no love for these people. Which is good, that means he's not likely to have much mercy. And that's probably going to be very useful here.

Looking through the binoculars as they're passed to him, Dorian surveys the area. A chess-player's mind is at work now, comparing the angles, considering the layout of the village, cycling through tactics that would be useful here. He has a suggestion! "I'll actually suggest three teams. The longhouse is in the center of the village. The distraction team should try and draw as many defenders away from the longhouse and to a single point as possible, another team should cut off their avenue of return, and a third should actually sneak into the longhouse itself. What do you think?"

Reina Kinney has posed:
    Dark magic? Stuff like that? To most it would be a bunch of 'hocus-pocus,' but Reina Kinney will believe anything and everything... within reason of course.

    Reina arrives by teleporting in and lands near Dorian and the others. She takes out her binoculars and stares through them, surveying the general area. She then frowns a little and looks to the others. "Cover, stealth, distraction... whatever you need, I'll do it," Reina says in a stern voice. Usually a comment like that might sound sarcastic, but Reina speaks in a way that indicates she's not messing around.

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr doesn't need those binoculars to scan the village's structure from the cliff. He doesn't know how to recognize 'dark magic' either, but it does look like a lot of bizarre energy signatures. "There's a bunch of weird energy sigs coming from that larger building near the center." He observes. "Anyone have any idea what's in there? Too much interference, can't get a read on what's inside."

    "I guess I could handle the diversion." Well, yeah. "Who are these guys, anyway?"

Deelel has posed:
Deelel had heard about the banits, she was concenred about it and she couldn't always be just pretening to jus tbe the good little Deejay back in Argon, so here Deelel was she wasn't along, there were others in on the rescu job, she was wearing her meatspace outfit and had several items attached to her outfit, or poking out of it's pockets. They were all seamless nad had no clear controls at lest on a quick inspection.

"I'll work on the hostages."

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
Tatsuto gets Yari's attention first. "Alright. Distraction team with Mister..." She starts, only for Dorian to bring up quite the good pint. Rubbing her chin, she then nods.

"If we're quiet, then, it should be workable. Alright. Mister Pavus, Mister Satou, Distraction Team One. Go in, make as much noise and fire without burning down the village as you can."

Then she turns to Blurr. "They seem to be ordinary bandits, but from reports there's been some sort of cult takeover of the group. We're not certain if it came from elements within the village or from outside of it. It's an arcane ritual. Possibly a summoning one, and I'd rather not find out just what they're trying to draw up." She shudders. It could be an Eikon after all.

"Mister Blurr, can you cut off the escape route for our enemies?" She offers a map of the village. Blurr could either cut off the way back up into the mountains from the northern area of the village, or deeper into the valley to the east! Luckily, the west is blocked by a large lake.

"Ma'am, you're with Mister Blurr. Does everyone understand? Miss Deelel, with me then."

With that, the ninja makes a 'go' signal and starts to wind her way around to the lake-side area to make her entrance. It's a slightly longer trek as she keeps to the shadows, keeping near the Program. There's no guards for the pair to deal with immediately. Their path /does/ bring them near to the alehouse, where two bandits armed with simple laser swords are staggering about. Yari sticks to an alleyway for now.

Team One's obstacles would include a somewhat well done sandbag emplacement at the entrance of the village. There's a heavy laser gun operated by one man, and four more laser carbine-toting bandits keeping watch.

Regardless of which path Blurr picks as Team Two, there's far lighter guards: the north comprised of three laser-sword guards, while the east has another single heavy lasergun emplacement, but it's just one man.

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tatsuto nods his head to Yari. "...Alright." He reaches into his pocket, pulling out a cell phone - a modern-ish looking smart phone, obviously from some manner of Earth analogue. He swipes his thumb across the screen without looking, before standing up and just starting to walk towards the village. Hey, he's a distraction, right? No need to be subtle about his approach.

    Plotmon glances at Dorian curiously for a moment, before trotting off at Tatsuto's heels.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel takes a moment at the mention of a cult.

"Humm it's possible they may be subject to some form of control. Though I'm not a hundred percent certain on that but if there is, I may have a way to deal with it...maybe."

She really did wish that thing was binary, one or zero, yes or no. That wasn't the case in user space and it never would be, the Dreaded /two/, aka maybe. Was totally a thing here. She'll make sure to fall in with Yari now folling after the Ninja with little trouble it was curious she seemed to have some first hand experiance with stealth as she kept up with the ninja, She also had a helmet, formless form out of thin air about her head, as she moved in.

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
Dorian nods to Yari, and then looks to Tatsuo. "Well then, young sir, shall we?" he inquires, indicating that Tatsuo should lead the way. "What sort of distraction can you make?" He can follow suit once he knows what's going on. But when Tatsuo just sort of... ambles towards the village, Dorian shakes his head. "...Though, you may have something there..." Dorian muses. While he's musing to himself, he notices the strange... creature... looking at him. He looks at the creature, blinks. Well, it did follow Tatsuo. A pet perhaps? If it's not following Tatsuo, Dorian will note, "Here, here" to the Plotmon. He figures it's like a... very strange mabari. It DOES look a little like a dog, after all.

Reina Kinney has posed:
    "Ma'am?" Reina asks, looking a bit incredulous with a raised eyebrow, before realizing who this ninja is talking to. "Look, just call me Reina, OK?"

    She then listens to the team assignments and she nods a little, before looking to Blurr. "Looks like it's me and thee. You want to take point or shall I? Either's fine with me, I just want your input!" She smiles a little.

Blurr has posed:
    "Right then." Blurr examines the exit paths he and Reina have been assigned. "I'll cover the east, and you cover the north?" he suggests to Kinney, figuring that he'd be better equipped to handle the turret. "If you need me I can be over in a flash, of course."

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
~Stealth Team~

Yari gives a nod to Deel. "Use whatever methods you have." It /is/a consideration, but the ninja's biggest concern is the hostages. Still, at least the Program keeps up, and they both have a lovely vantage point of the drunkard men that stumble out of the alehouse. It's three of them. Yari makes a handseal, and two of the men pause. Lecherous grins form on their faces as they put their arms around...air!? They quickly walk off towards another alleyway, leaving their compatriot gawking.

Yari then signals her partner. The remaining man is drawing his laser-sword cautiously.

~Team One~

Dorian and Tatsuto hardly go unnoticed as they just saunter right in. The men with carbines raise their weapons, and that massive laser gun points right at the trio!

"Oi, nutters! This 'ere's property of Grand Wizard Omu! Git goin' or we turn ya to ashes!" Comes one of the guards. Already, that laser gun is whirring up.

~Team Two~

Just before they're off? Yari salutes. "It'll be a pleasure, then, Miss Reina."

Team Two has two obstacles! The three laser-sword wielding guards having a smoke at the northern end of the village, and the single sandbagged laser-gun emplacement to the east! All of the men are ready, however, and almost as soon as either Elites make their presence known? Weapons are readied and shouts to halt are made! There's no people being led away from the center house yet though!

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    "Pretty simple, Mister Pavus," Tatsuto murmurs as he finally registers that the magus asked him a question. "Pick a fight." He stands still as the guards spot him, and he grins a bit. "...Huh. Does that count as a threat?" He pulls a small device from his pocket. It looks for all the world to be one of those... virtual pet things that were popular in the late 90s. He glances at the screen. "Huh. Yep, counts as a threat." Beep.


     EVOLUTION_


    Reina and Blurr may notice odd symbols start to 'leak' out of their digital equipment. At first it's just a trickle of a few sigils, but it soon turns into a flood. A similar flood of symbols is erupting from the phone held in Tatsuto's left hand, as the Digivice in his right hand starts to glow brightly.

    Plotmon closes her eyes, as those sigils begin to collect around her body. The sky darkens slightly, lightning flashing across the sky, along with the electronic equipment of the bandits - at least, anything not hardened against EMP - starts to 'fizzle'.

    The sigils surrounding Plotmon form into the shape of an egg. "Plotmon shinka!" She's completely concealed from view for a moment, before the egg shatters, scattering bits of DigiCode all over the place. "TAILMON!"

    The odd weather dissipates almost as abruptly as it started, and everything seems to be in perfect working order again. Tatsuto is grinning, the smug bastard.

    https://soundcloud.com/miki-lee-1/digimon-tamers-evolution

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
Dorian smirks at Tatsuo's statement. "I think I can help you with that," he says, in a devious tone. He almost does sound like one of those evil magisters he tries to be sometimes. And there at the threat? That smirk returns. "Turn us to ash?" He smiles. "Look to your own predicament," he warns.

That's when Plotmon digivolves. That should distract them enough, hopefully. In the meantime, Dorian is going to resist the urge to stare at this weird creature's sudden evoution and instead he's going to bring his hands together, arms out, as if clapping. This action aims a lightning bolt at the whirring laser.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel says "Understood."

There's not anotehr thing said by the basic as she moves after the Ninja. She's quite and stealth for most intents. She also thankfully has no real sent and smells like whatever enviorment she's in as she moves along with her. She watches as Yari does her thing and they are left gawking, she lowers her hand and the duel disc appears out of nowhere in her hand, Deelel is ready.

Reina Kinney has posed:
    Snapping her fingers, Reina gives a nod to Blurr. "Got it," She says as her sword materializes in her right hand. "I should be OK, but if I need you, I'll give a holler... literally of course." She smirks a little at that before turning to face the three guards. "Look at this, the Three Falzing Stooges! Looks like the curtain's coming down on your act boys!"

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr heads for the path where the turret is, sizing it up and attempting to figure out how hard that thing can hit. He's not too concerned about the single human. Or at least what appears to be a human. But maybe he -should-. Yeah, overconfidence tends to be a problem with him more often than not. Once he gets in range, he starts to aim a blast of his own in its direction, to see if he can take it out.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
~Team One~

Tatsuto proves a very, very distracting person. Or, more accurately, the symbols that flow from his little device and into plotmon! The sky grows dark, lightning flashes, and...well, they don't have much tech aside from the guns, and those are pretty hardened. But the weather is distracting indeed.

...And then plotmon is gone! The men are all staring, mouths agape at the little show.

Then they look from kid, to the mage. "Kill 'em both!"

Lightning lashes out, and hits the man using the gun right in the chest after arcing along the gun! It still stays powered up though, a rather tough piece of tech! Four more guards left! Another one grabs the end of the gun, and the massive thing starts spitting fist-sized bursts of lasers at Tatsuto and Dorian!

Of course, this draws off many of the remaining guards who hear the shots. The tavern starts to empty out, and several of the men from the center building swarm out too. A good eight guards are headed towards Dorian and Tatsuto, with even more on the way! Many look fairly drunk or sleepy, though.

~Stealth Team~

Yari waits until the rush clears out, and she appraoches the last remaining guard barring their way to the center building. She leaps upon him, but his alertness helps, and so it's an epic struggle between the two. A knife flashes, the man gets it in the stomach, but he kicks at the ninja and forces her to the ground! His back is at Deelel's front though! She'll need to act fast!

That horrible feeling of dark magic only increases. Chanting grows from the building in the center of the village, a wave of nausea radiating from it to those sensitive to magic!

~~Team Two~~

As Reina taunts the guards, they spit at the woman!

"Awww come off it! You're just one tart, it's three of us!"

The leader charges forward, aiming for a strike to Reina's chest! The other goon rushes in from the side, trying to cut at her legs! The last one waits, getting behind her, trying to cut off any chance of escape for the woman!

Blurr's blast comes from the dark, and hits the thing in the barrel! It bends it, and the idiot fires anyway! There's an awful sound of building energy, and it explodes. There's not much left of guard or gun after the bomb-like explosion. Unfortunately, it draws some of the guards that have streamed out from the building in the center! Two laser-sword wielding thugs rush at Blurr aiming to slice him to bits, as two more men with laser guns fire at his sides!

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    "Aaaand now I need to hide," Tatsuto says nervously before retreating behind Dorian. He knows that if he gets hit he's a goner!

    The tiny little cat - she's barely taller than she was as Plotmon, and that's mainly because she's standing on her hind legs instead of all fours! - backflips up into the air. "Pavus! Dodge or get ready to catch me!" she calls out, as the arc of her jump leads her right into the path of one of those laser blasts. The force of it throws her back, but, should Dorian stand his ground, Tailmon lands right on his shoulder, before leaping back into the air to PUNCH A LASER OUT OF THE WAY WHAT THE HELL.

    As soon as she lands on the ground again, her form is a blur of speed as she races towards one of the guards. "NEKO..." she shouts out, leaping into the air with her right, gloved forepaw surrounded by a corona of white light. "PUNCH!" Her paw moves almost too fast to see as it slams right into the guard's laser and chest... with the force of a speeding car.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel has a blunt weapon, lets face it, keyblades are more blunt objects of the heart than knives or swords. So she's going to just try to knock the guy out cold to hopefully get past him. She's fast and she's far stronger than a human woman of her build might seem to be. She also feels the darkness, and her blade is reacting to it, there's something clearly abd going on here and it's not happy about it.

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
Lasers start coming in, and Dorian aims a hand forward, and then sweeps it in front of him. This should, hopefully, catch Tatsuo and Tailmon in the effect radius. Why? Because a blue light suddenly creates a barrier around whoever it happens to be able to affect. It won't last very long, but for that few moments, it might be twice as hard to actually cause damage to whomever happened to be in the effect radius of the spell.

"Right," he answers to the call from Tailmon. Not to worry, Dorian can see the arc of her flight through the air. And he'll place himself right where he needs to be in order to assist the Tailmon with that punching of lasers! "Impressive," he notes.

Blurr has posed:
    Boom, the turret and the single guard go up with one shot. "Well, that takes care of that." Blurr remarks to himself with an air of satisfaction. And then a bunch more of them come pouring out of the village. Good! That means fewer of them for the others to deal with, right? Instead of trying to dodge any of the attacks, he just transforms, his body folding downward into a sleek blue vehicle. Maybe it'll confound them. Anything to stall and distract. At any rate he starts driving in circles around them at hundreds of miles per hour.

Reina Kinney has posed:
    "Watch who you call a tart!" Reina yells as she twists to the side and dodges the first guard, swinging her sword at him in a horizontal motion. The second one who hits at her back will find that her shield absorbs the impact, although it does stun her a little. "Dammit," She curses as she spins around to try to take the next guard down with an elbow strike. The third one will be dealt with in a moment.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
~Team One~

SUDDENLY CATTE!

A cat that's tossed around by lasers, and /punches one out of the way of Tatsuto/! That alone has the group of gathering men hesitating. Which proves horrible for the guards, as tailmon rushes in with a light-powered punch that sends laser, guard, and gun straight into his compatriots. It's a lot like watching bowling, except that the gun goes off and scythes down three guards. Two others are utterly unconscious.

More lasers pour in, but Dorian's spell has most of them plinking off! Often right back into the crowd. Many of the men are now panicking, firing into their fellows. They're not well disciplined. Yari would likely be sighing about fire control if she could see.

~Team Two~ Lasers and swords mean very little, as Blurr transforms! It creates a tiny tornado of laser-lights, and eventually? The guards that have already been assaulting blurr just go down through sheer speed and dizziness. Complete with swirly-eyes.

The first man tries to block Reina's strike, but only ends up getting part of the blade up in time! It cuts the power, and he goes down, chest sliced up! That shield holds, and yet, the man at her back raises his blade and starts to strike again and again rather brutally against that shield! The last man eats an elbow to the face, jaw cracking, and goes down. Another guard shows up, shooting lasers at Reina!

~Stealth Team~

Clonk! Down goes the man, and Yari sighs in relief. After yanking out her knife, she nods.

"Thanks." She offers, before leading on! Thanks to the others, they manage to get inside! There's no guards, but inside, three of the hostages are tied up in the center. A group of four robe-clad mages, one with a massive deer-ankler'd mask on, surround the three hostages with an arcane circle around them. Yari steps in, ducking behind an uprighted table. There's several in the darkened room, with many hostages tied up in a corner of the room. The ninja whispers to Deelel!

"Use those techniques of yours to stop that ritual. I'll start freeing the hostages." She crawls over, body all but shimmying along the ground to the group, a kunai cutting rope as she shhhh's them.

A burst of magic, and ethereal arms begin to rise up from the circle! Deelel will have to get to work!

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tatsuto continues to cower behind the mage. God, that's so pathetic.

    Tailmon lands on both feet, raising her 'hands' high as she sticks the landing. Then she stares for a few moments. "That was... more effective than I intended." She actually pauses for a few moments, before shrugging and kicking a guard in the shin. "NEKO KICK!" And before that guard even hits the floor, she leaps up and bowls into another, bringing her tail up to slap him in the face. "Cat Tail~!" she calls. Is that a real attack?

    Then she headbutts him just to be sure.

Reina Kinney has posed:
    Two down and two more to go. The more Reina's shield's hit, the more it annoys her. Namely since it's starting to wear out, and if her shield is drained, she'll be more vulnerable to attack. Snapping her fingers several times, Reina's sword disappears, and in its place are a pair of energy projectile shooting pistols, one in each hand. "Get away from me!" She yells as she fires her pistols, one at the remaining melee attacker with the other at the shooting guard. All the while she's pulling back, trying to find cover.

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
That plinking effect isn't going to last long. And so, while Tailmon sets up for her attack, Dorian pauses, to time it exactly right. And once she's out of the way? Dorian brings the boom. Quite literally, in the form of a fiery rune that glows on the ground underneath the feet of as many of the soldiers as he can possibly aim it under. And then he 'fixes' it in place and his hand raises up into the air. Right when he does, the rune explodes underfoot, if they haven't managed to get out of the way.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel :is fairly quick she nods to Yari as she movces on ahead noticn the hostages and the ritual that's going on here. She narrows her eyes a bit and the keyblade is made reasdy. She says nothing but nods and moves, with inhuman speed. The Basic woman is agile and fast, she had to be, she wasn't /made/ for pure combat after all. Still she's got an ide ashe brings down her blade, things of darkness would have no issue sensing her or the blade, after all they are /drawn/ to it ofren like a moth to flame.

"I see you have gone viral, user."

Deelel doens't say another thing as shr throws the keyblade at the mage that seems to be doing the ritual and then lets lose a burt of wind magic to keep people off their feet.

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr stops the whirlwind as soon as the bandits have become incapacitated. Hah, those humans were no match for him! He keeps an optic on the path from the village, in case any more of them come out after him.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
~Team One~

Tatsuto's digimon is a wrecking ball! Guards go down as the small digimon ping-pongs between them with kicks, headbutts, and tail-slaps! Eventually, there's a small crowd of guards all fallen in a heap!

Dorian's fire-power proves literal, adding to Tatsuto's friend's power! Those guards who aren't already down go flying into the air in burning heaps thanks to those runes, or otherwise just knocked unconscious due to the explosive shockwave! A few guards are left...who quickly begin to run away!

~Team Two~ Reina fires just in time! Both men start to attack again, but she draws those weapons, and her guns take their heads off! There's a convenient beginnings of a sandbag emplacement for the woman, as the final guard that runs up takes up his laser-gun! Will he shoot her down!?

Blurr remains untouched, at least for now!

~Stealth Team~ Deelel's attack proves fruitful. Her thrown-darkness-devouring keyblade proves pivotol! It slams into the head-mage, knocking him away and utterly unconscious. Those rising hands pause, trembling, all but three! The remaining mages are quickly ripped into the ritual as stray kunai cut the hostages free from Yari! They run away with the growing crowd of hostages that Yari is freeing and all but shoving out! Stealth is utterly lost as she tries to get everyone away towards the lake!

Much of the magic gets sucked in by Deelel's keyblade, but enough summoning magic left from the death of those casters causes a spirit to manifest! Rushing out and destroying the building's roof, the writhing form of a snake-like, puss-dripping demon-serpent lingers in the sky from the ritual! It oozes disease and hate, but it's hold on the world is tenuous at best! The remaining guards utterly flee before it, even the bandits abandoning the village alongside the hostages.

Eyes wide, Yari flicks explosive kunai that cause the disease-spitting, hissing serpent-demon in the sky to hiss to writhe even as she calls out into the radio!

"Kill that disgusting Eikon!" She broadcasts! One last target as the hostages flee!

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tailmon isn't sure whether to feel guilty or just revel in the curbstomping. She's never actually fought humans before, so she's not quite sure how to feel about it!

    But then a demon-serpent rises out from the central building. WELL THEN.

    The cat Digimon removes one glove, then the other, tossing them aside to reveal her more slender, white paws. She plucks the ring off of her tail, holding it between both paws as she brings them up to her chest, palms together, almost as though she's praying.

    ...Wait, judging from her murmuring lips, she IS praying.

    A glowing yellow aura surrounds her paws, as glowing DigiLetters begin to circle it like a halo.

    DE JI TA RU - MO N SU TA

    "Cat..." she murmurs, as she brings her hands to her side. "LASER!" she shouts, thrusting both paws forward and shooting out a yellow beam of holy energy, right towards the demon-snake-thing!

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
The guards are running away... and it seems like there's a bigger problem! A big, writhing, disease-spewing serpent. "...Venhedis," Dorian swears under his breath and he heads towards where the serpent is. The word translates out of Tevene to an angry and not-nice word. "Why is the evil thing always a serpent?" Not that he's afraid of serpents, no. In fact he's got three of them carved into the end of the staff he uses. Actually they're dragons, but they're serpentine dragons. He likes serpents. He's concerned about the bad name they're getting.

But. Anyway. While the others being to unload all their ordinance on the evil snakey thing, Dorian concentrates his focus on the area underneath the serpent. Again he raises a hand, and from his hand a bolt of lightning fires. But it's not to hit the serpent directly, no. The bolt strikes the air above the serpent, and then Dorian pulls his hand down, forcibly separating his hand from the bolt.

That won't actually hit the serpent, no. But what it WILL do is create a distinct area. As long as the serpent doesn't move from that area, it won't affect the thing. But should the thing try to escape the visible perimeter of lightning underneath it, that ring of electricity will zap it continuously.

Reina Kinney has posed:
    The last guard is taken out with a couple more shots, then the demon appears and Reina scowls. "Oh great, a big bad! I'm gonna have to use my big weapons on this thing!" She snaps her fingers again, and this time her rifle materializes. "Time to take out the trash!" She yells as she fires off a few energy rounds.

Blurr has posed:
    A giant, dripping snake thing is suddenly writhing in the sky! It's disgusting-looking. Blurr makes a face. "I'm guessing that's not a friendly thing." Must've been whatever those bandits were doing in there! Creating this monstrosity. No idea why, but that's irrelevant at the moment. His own photon cannons emerge from subspace, quickly firing a salvo of lasers at the creature!

Deelel has posed:
Deelel has given up on ll at that point she sees they are down and now she's got to worry about the thing in the sky, the keyblade vanishes form her hand. The disc on her back is removed and powere dup. She watches people fleeing while she looks at the horrible thing above and now leaps into the air launching her disc at it and summoning her keyblade. A second later, she throws the keyblade at it like a boomerang.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
That digi-cat is more than a simple cat. She is a HOLY CAT! She prays, and charges up her holy lasers, lashing out towards the unholy thing! Disease-drippings evaporate, and a third of its tail is cut right off, horrible demon-blood raining down upon the center building. Someone will need to come through here with prayers and a lot of fire later.

Dorian's work proves very useful, as lightning magic bursts forth and cages the creature neatly! Much of its blood is even contained, helpfully ensuring the majority of the village won't be tainted by the beast. It writhes, lashes out with its limbs, and howls in pure agony by the containing magical power of the mage! Yet, already, that cage is cracking! The warriors gathered need to put it down!

Just as that lightning cage cracks, in comes Blurr's plasma lasers! The salvo crashes along the creature, causing it to scream and cough, its tail (or at least what is left of it!) lashes down! Yari leaps back from the house-sized crater it forms, debris slashing at herself and her fellow compatriots! She ignores the bleeding and pain, teeth gritting, barely avoiding her wounds being infected!

That keyblade goes zooming towards the creature, smashing it right in the head! It's hold on reality fizzles, far too much combined damage assaulting it as lasers, lightning, and kunai pepper its form! But the creature sucks in a breath, horrible noxious fumes venting from nostrils! It prepares to unleash a flood of toxic sludge out from its mouth as a parting gift to the heroes!

And then, Reina Kinney levels her weapon and takes a smooth shot. Blap! Blap! Blap! Three solid rounds, two through the eyes, and the last through the forehead of the snake. There's a horrific gagging sound as all of that world-killing bile is redigested and attacks the demon, its flesh already dissolving before it finally sinks back into its home plane of reality. The middle building is left a dissolved, burning, nearly rotting husk from all of that blood and weapons fire.

Not helped by Yari, the exhausted ninja 'helpfully' burning away the few scraps of demon-flesh with fire ninjutsu.

"Die, Eikon!" Someone might have an unholy magical creature obsession. By now? Bandits are gone or otherwise giving themselves up. The hostages are saved. And the head cultist is cowering, ready to be taken alive by concerned parties that aren't committing arson.

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tailmon drops back into a defensive stance after snapping off that holy laserbeam of justice (and possibly of Kindness). She's panting heavily, cheeks reddened with the effort. That is not a technique she uses very often, for a very good reason.

    A reason which becomes obvious the moment she faceplants into the dirt and Tatsuto scrambles to make sure she's okay.

Dorian Pavus (774) has posed:
The serpent beast dies, its blood doesn't taint very much and cultists are surrendering rather than force the assembled Elites to fire them in a literal way. This is good. Dorian sighs. And then suddenly Tailmon's faceplanting and Tatsuo's moving to her aid. "Is... your friend all right?" he asks. He's not sure of the gender, and he doesn't know what she is, so he can't call her by species name either!

Tatsuto Satou (855) has posed:
    Tailmon's body fragments into specks of colour for a moment, before compressing into the slightly-smaller form of Plotmon. Who's out like a light. "She, uh. She's gonna be fine. I've never seen her use that attack before... Probably took a lot out of her?" He seems rather troubled.