Scene #6440: P:WtWM - Global Fear

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Janine Liberi	It's really really cold in the Mirror Forest. This is pretty unusual. Not to say that the Forest is typically pleasant, or even just tepid. It's more like it normally has no weather at all. No wind, no rain, no sun. There's not even any snow on the ground right now, but it's cold. Cold and dark, with shadows that seem to dance among the canopy. The kind of cold that creates tensions and phantoms, giving the sensation that a knife may be plunged into your back at any moment. The Pale Wolf is roaming the Forest as a whole. This is disconcerting. Typically, he remains in his distant part, a threat at the back of one's mind. Except on Halloween, where he gets free reign of the place. But it's March, and according to the darkened, frosted mirrors in Alberichstadt, he's currently enjoying a far wider hunting ground. Ordinarily, the procedure for Die Reisende would be to, in Janine's words, "stay the fuck out." But it's been like this for days with no signs of changing. And now the mirrors are indicating that people are in the Forest. This should not be possible. The Piper was dead, and the Woodsman was no longer playing the Persona Game. The only humans in the Forest should be the winners of the game in Die Reisende. But some are in there, with the rampaging Wolf. "At some point we have to declare this kind of thing suicide," Janine bemoans from the clearing that leads from their cabin. She does not elaborate on whether she means whomever is in here, or Die Reisende. The great footsteps of the Wolf are audible in the distance, and the Pig is hiding in his hollow. There is no sign of the Woodsman.
August Kohler	August Kohler was exhausted. He'd been in a big fight yesterday against several angel things and a god, and it showed on his face. But still, this was Big, and he was here. Armed with his coat, revolver, knife, mirrored bracelet, etc, he ventured into the forest with Janine. Normally, in the past, he would have been dead quiet. But right now... He just joked back with Janine. "What does that say about us?" With a better mood than he'd had in years only coming in a few months ago, August stepped forward, and considered. The Pig would be useless, it's a coward. They know where to approach. They need to go to the Wolf. "We're approaching the Wolf's territory. We'll try and see what's going on, and who the hell is in here. If we can get them out...well, we'll do that." And so, August heads off in that direction, one hand on his gun. The Wolf is terrifying. But he feels stronger, so how bad could this be? He does give one warning, though. "Try and avoid looking at the Wolf. It's not good for your sanity."
Kotone Yamakawa	The Wolf was on the lose now, and this was very bad news, it also shouldn't be active on a day like this either. It was not the normal time of the year in Kotone's experience. For when the Wolf became active, that alone was a cause for alarm. Kotone is as well armed with what she could be given the situation and she's darn well cloaked at the moment. Kotone is afraid and rightly so, she keeps it under enough control to head in the direction of The Wolf's territory with the rest of the group. "Get in, get the people out. Then get the hell out ourselves." She notes to August and Jaine's comment gets a reply as well. "It seems to be going that way."
Sanary Rondel	"Well, if they're dead, then..." Sanary trails off as she stops thinking out loud for once, peering left and right at her current company. It's probably better not to discuss the possibility of looting corpses until at least finding them, what with all the moral outrage that could occur and disappointment if they're alive or not carrying anything valuable. She's totally thinking it, though. "Hey, I'm the one here that didn't go to a fancy smartass school for more than a year. What's your excuse?" She smirks at Janine and August briefly, shouldering her axe while keeping an eye out for signs of the Wolf. Looking directly at it would be bad, but catching a glimpse of it shouldn't be too awful. Maybe.
Orta	Cold is something Orta can live with for the moment. It's always either freezing, boiling, or fairly poisonous, where she comes from. If there isn't ice on her eyelashes, she'll survive. One might wonder for the thing she's riding that's roughly named after something that is usually conceived of as a reptile, but one look at the white shell, violet wings, gold skin patterns, and deep marine/fighter jet anatomy, and it feels pretty stupid to ask if the Dragon is cold blooded. Despite how inherently awful the forest is, Orta seems more relaxed atop its shoulders than she had at a wine tasting, of all things, by herself. The only aspect of the display any more telling than normal is that she already has her gun(*) out; otherwise, she looks just about as perpetually animal-wary as always. Her big, toothy friend, despite having a wyvern-ish anatomy and being the awkward size just too large to be on the road but not big enough to smash a forest down by walking through it, is surprisingly comfortable, slinking between the trees and through brush like a very long tiger more than something that should be awkward on the ground. Its breath fogs from between its many, many teeth, its eyes scanning the surrounding area in a slightly desynchronized pattern. After a long ride in silence, Orta asks "What was a wolf again?" She's already forgotten what it looked like after Janine showed her on her smartphone. "I thought it was the Queen who was evil. Is the wolf . . . like a mutant-type? A monster?" When she's told not to look at it, she just says "I will close my eyes." That sounds kinda dangerous considering how much collateral she already tends to cause.
Rebecca Chambers	Wearing a light jacket with a hood on it over her uniform, Rebecca seems ready to take on the cold. Even if it looks like she's shivering, it's more like her being a little restless on trying to get going with things, since she knows in a place like this, anything goes and nothing should be taken for granted. "We can't assume they're dead unless we know for certain," Rebecca comments as she adjusts her hood. After that, she shakes her head at Sanary's comments, but resists the urge to roll her eyes. "Too bad I didn't pack any silver bullets," Rebecca says after a moment, trying to force a smile in hopes of lightening up the mood. "But I'm sure we can handle the Wolf either way!" Her smirk disappears as she realizes her attempt at making a joke isn't going so well.
Janine Liberi	Janine nods in concord with August's threat, and then offers Orta an explanation to follow it up. "Well, a wolf is like a big dog, but this is no ordinary wolf." She takes a moment to try and figure out how to explain it to the hick. "Think of the scariest thing in the world. Then add to that thing every other thing you're scared of. And then multiply the fear you would have of all of those things happening at once by 100. That's this Wolf. It's literally your fear, my fear, everyone's fear. It's nothing to do with the Queen either, it's just... a separate hazard, I guess." She takes a side look at Rebecca and snorts. "It's not a werewolf, and we're not hunting it. God fucking willing, we find those people and make an escape with them. Don't go into this cocksure, I don't want to make August drag bodies out of here." Soon, they arrive at the Wolf's part of the Forest. It's obvious that it is so, as the number of felled trees increases, and the space to walk between them widens. Deep footprints litter the earth and go all over, indicative of an animal pacing. "Hey! Any humans in here?" Janine whispers into the air as they proceed. There are indeed voices in the distance, indistinct. But another noise comes much louder. The distant footsteps of the Wolf are approaching, and gaining speed. "God shit fuck!" Janine shouts, an audible tremble in her voice as she draws her sword. "Okay shit uh... time to pick! Go for the voices or set up an ambush! Think fast assholes!"
August Kohler	August zeroes onto the mission, though Orta and her dragon being so relaxed gets a glance, as he moves up along them, before summoning Dietrich, the large dark knight in power armor, and climbing onto his back. The massive sword in hand is held over a shoulder, as the Persona makes better speed at the front... And then Janine shouts. They can hear voices...and so is the Wolf coming. August's reaction is quick. "I'm going for the voices. Let's make pursuit difficult!" As he speeds towards the voices, avoiding looking in the Wolf's direction, the sword is slammed into the ground after everyone gets past him, setting a barrier of pure fire in his wake. The wolf can probably cross it with its power, but it'll certainly be painful, hopefully enough to alert them when it gets too close. From there, August will try to head towards the voices, but the others might be able to make it there first, since he was slowed down.
Rebecca Chambers	"Of course, I kind of got a bit irrational there," Rebecca says with a sigh as she looks down at her feet for a moment. She looks away before whispering to herself, "Get a grip, Becky! You're supposed to be better than this!" After a moment, she looks to Janine and nods. "I really don't know what came over me there..." Her voice trails off as they arrive at the Wolf's part of the forest, and she grits her teeth while her right hand goes to draw her Beretta as her left hand grabs a clip and slaps it in. At the same time, her hood comes down to give her a wider berth for her peripheral vision. As soon as August takes off towards the voices, Rebecca follows behind him, acting as a cover for him as he takes the lead while being ready to provide covering fire if and when the need should arise. "I'm with you!" She calls out to August. "Let's deal with those voices!"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa takes note of Orta and is well aware of the habit she has for collateral damage. Still given the Wolf? They will very likely need that level fo firepower if it comes down to a fight. She'll reply to Rebecca as she moves. "Not sure if those will work much better than copper or lead." Janine gets a very good summary of the Wolf and still can feel the fear rising in her. The party has entered into the Wolf's part of the forest, she makes up her mind rapidly. Kotone knows what she has to do. "I'm going for the voices." Kotone notes, she's made sure her cloak is up and functional still as she makes her way for the voices in the distance she'll attempt to use any cover she can to press forward to the voices, she clearly got one train of thought at the moment, to confirm if the people are alive or dead, if they live get them the hell out. She clearly does not want to fight the Wolf. <<Legs get Moving, Rebecca presume your medical skills may be needed, same for you Sanary.>> Orta does not seem to be afraid would that leave her less affected by the Wolf? it's certainly possible but not one she wants to gamble Orta's or anyone else lives on. Janine hopefully will come with them as they head for the voices, she does not want to leave anyone behind here. <<Looks like it's been made Miss Liberi lets move. Orta don't fall behind, getting caught alone by the Wolf is serious bad news.>>
Sanary Rondel	"The Wolf is different from a regular wolf, too. Those are kind of assholes, too, but not anywhere close to this one." Sanary attempts to clarify for Orta after Janine's explanation, shrugging and nodding a moment later. "... Yeah, it's pretty monster-y compared to a regular one. Bet your..." Orta's big freaking dragon gets a side-eye. "... That could eat a regular one easy enough. Not this one. I... Think?" She squints briefly at the creature slipping around those trees, trying to get a read on it before giving up and continuing onwards. "Is silver a... Thing that's good against wolves? Werewolves, whatever?" Rebecca and Janine both get a clueless look from the healer, pausing to glance at her axe. "Pretty sure this one's just steel, but... I mean, it chops shit up. What's the difference if it's steel or silver or freaking.. I dunno. Magic gold?" Then again, fighting the Wolf is probably not the ideal solution. When the sound of footsteps comes with that warning and the plan coming forth, however, Sanary's demeanor shifts quickly. "Got it. Alright, let's see if this thing still works..!" Running past August, she taps on her eye a few times as it blinks and makes odd electrical noises, and then she cringes as she turns on the magitech device's thermal vision. She nearly trips over nothing in the process of turning it on, but she soon switches to trying to actually find their targets. Hopefully, they'll appear as some color other than blue! "If anyone sees corpses, let me know so I don't stomp on 'em!"
Orta	Orta stops to think about that. Her brow knits and her lips twist, fingers to her face, as she visibly tries to contemplate something that looks like that. After a full ten seconds of eyebrow-twitching contemplation, she exhales, and then vocally decides "I definitely won't look at it then." Probably a good call. "I don't really understand why we would come here if it's so bad, though." She takes a long look, leaning from the 'saddle' to stare, at the big wolfy footprints, intensely interested by what strange sort of creature could leave them. With that basically being the dramatic cue for the noises to start though, Orta freezes up in the moment of being asked to decide between things on the spot. Even worse, things that are 'a vague mission objective that involves people' and 'a big horrible monster coming out of the woods'. She looks side to side frantically as everyone makes up their minds to go charging after the human voices, lurching forward as the Dragon lunges ahead of the wall of fire August puts up. Left in the indecisive preteen dust, she clutches hold of the Dragon's shell with her offhand, whereupon it digs its front claws into the ground and turns fully around in a fluid motion, carving furrows in the ground from arresting its weight. Orta holds out her gun towards the fire, and then squeezes her eyes shut, doing exactly what she said she would, and instead relying on her connection to the Dragon's biotechnological sensors to get the radar in her head, following the ominous, Aliens-esque blip instead. Berserk Program: CLEANSING WAVE The dragon rears up and then slams its front limbs back into the ground, ripping off a deafening, partially supersonic roar. Bright green energy wells up from the craters, coalescing into condensed rings around its body, and then fires out deep into the forest as massive, omnidirectional ripples. They crash through the forest exactly like successive, pounding waves, but rather than smashing crushing, they burn away everything caught in the light, disintegrating everything in radius --from the outside in, where certain objects might be sturdy enough to withstand more than one wave. The Dragon remains rooted there for a while, stancing up to continuously draw energy into itself and discharge it into its surroundings, establishing a great big zone of 'no things allowed in general'. As far as choices go, Cleansing Wave is meant for obliterating large numbers of targets in all directions, or deep in cover, all in one swoop, so it's not Orta's best order, but she can't see it, and she wants to make sure the Dragon hits, as well as also try to dissuade the Wolf from going straight through her and after her friends, like the wall of Persona fire is ostensibly meant to. She's just forgotten to mention the part where everyone behind her has to run real real fast not to get caught in it as well.
Janine Liberi	A wall of flame springs up between the party and the Wolf as they begin their sprint towards the voices. As Sanary brings up her thermal vision, she can see two figures talking among themselves. And yet, their are audibly three voices. However, as they begin their approach, the figures seem to notice, and... start running away? Janine looks back at the pulsing blasts Orta is doing and does indeed pick up the pace. "I'll get above the trees!" she yells, looking into her sword and summoning Binacabella to boost her into the air with wind. It is at that moment that the Wolf arrives at the flame wall that August has made. The Wolf is strong. Probably strong enough to just plow through the flames. But that and whatever Orta's dragon is doing? Slightly trickier. But the Wolf is also smart. No dumb brute he. The perfect predator, the incarnation of fear does not just plow through defences, it circumvents them. Because there's nothing scarier than something that might happen in spite of your best laid plans. The Wolf jumps the flames, soaring through the air, flying above even Orta and her dragon, to meet Janine in midair and spike her back to the ground with a slash of its claws, before coming back down to slide to a stop in front of Die Reisende. And now they're looking at it. The occipital lobe, the part of the brain that handles visual information, perceives a giant white wolf, impossibly massive and sleek, with keen, intelligent and cruel eyes. But the amygdala, the part of the brain that handles threatening stimuli, perceives whatever the perceiver fears the most, but in wolf form. A wolf spattered in the blood of loved ones, a wolf with great spider legs and mandibles, a long, serpentine wolf, a wolf-shaped abyss beneath a high place. It stands there, grinning, daring Die Reisende to attack it, to lash out in the face of fear.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is very glad she had taken off when she did, she's forced to speed up though to keep from getting caught in Orta's area denial attack. It might just be enough to make the Wolf actually pause. Or so she hopes. The party closes in voice but wait they are running form them? "We're here to get you out of here." The Wolf proves it's cunning shortly after Janine gets them some better recon from above, not only does the wolf leap it meets Jaine and spikes her to the ground. The Wolf is before them the sum of all fears and Kotone still has many of them. That part of the brain that process she still has it's one of the parts of her that's still flesh and even if it wasn't her soul still knows the touch of fear. Kotone feels the terror building as she tries to not look at the Wolf, she sees Janine is down spiked into the ground. She'll move to try and get Janine and pull her back from being so directly in Wolf's path, she's trembling, in a way she's not since the day of the attack that left her a cyborg. She's still like a Phantom but it's easy enough to figure out where she is as she grabs Janine and starts to pull her back. Damn it, this is going right to hell. She may very well be leaving herself open as she does this.
August Kohler	The flames aren't as effective as August would like, and he sees Fear Itself. The wolf changes in his mind's eye, and he freezes up. Whatever he sees terrifies him. It's enough to make his jaw go slack. Before, he would have probably attacked, or done something blindly in result, allowed his nerves to get the better of him. But August Kohler is different now. He takes a moment to think things through, and realizes the voices are the most important thing. But at the same time, with Janine swiped, he views himself and Orta as primary combatants. He needs to do something to keep Janine from getting focused on by it. So he shouts out to the Wolf, with some confidence (but clear fear in his voice at the same time - he's not as brave as he thinks he is). "You want to dance? Let's go, Wolf." Dietrich starts up, and briefly sprints into the Wolf's line of fire...before it suddenly jukes away, moving in the direction of the voices. If the /Wolf/ is the one to lunge at August, it gets a flaming sword sweeping up as a reward, with insane strength, that of a demigod, behind the blow. August isn't as fast as he could be - seeing the Wolf is pretty bad - but he's able to hold it together. He's going to be a knight, after all. And so, after that, if August can get closer to the voices, he will.
Sanary Rondel	"I see... Two of 'em!" Sanary calls out as she trips over another inconveniently placed nothing, still adjusting to the change in vision that turning on her eye's unnatural sight brings with it. She can still see the two figures easily enough, though, despite the three voices giving her ample reason to be confused. "I hear three of 'em, but... Wha?" Why are they running? Scowling, the healer picks up the pace as she breaks into an outright run. "Hey, jackasses! We're here to save you, so get back here!" She most certainly does not sound or look like someone here to save anyone. She looks angry and annoyed, her axe is gripped tightly in her hand, and she's chasing them through a dense forest of weird shit. Luckily, the Wolf's appearance is there to save them! Despite those earlier warning not to stare at the Wolf, the sight of a draconic monster out of nowhere triggers the immediate-response part of her brain. Sanary's immediate response, of course, is to indeed attack it. She doesn't even utter anything verbally recognizable as words in favor of just shrieking incoherently and rushing at it with her axe. Her technique is sloppier than normal, and the only possible saving grace is that she's swinging much faster and harder than she normally would out of pure instinct. It's enough strength to cleave right through a person or two, but the Wolf? She'll worry about that after she hits something.
Orta	Orta envisioned that going differently, but out of the ways she'd expected it could have gone wrong, that also wasn't one of them. Ideally, the constant outpouring of area-of-denial destruction would have kept it at bay, or at least forced the Wolf to circle around wide, but feeling the radar presence leap up and over high gets a panicked spray of fire at it on the way up, and then Orta clutching the Dragon and urging it to turn around as well, now that the horrible monster she still refuses to open her eyes for has already broken through. The Dragon wrenches its claws from the earth and finally takes to the wing itself, taking only one beat of its wings to loft its weight from the ground, and a second to go soaring upwards like a rocket, turning over at the apex of its climb and banking back in to swoop down towards Die Resende's, and the Wolf's, targets. With absolute trust in her monstrous friend displayed by refusing to even look at where the hell she's going, Orta does dare merge senses with its own thermal sensor organs, peering through the trees for any human blobs, and ideally a big wolf blob too, urging it towards the former, and as the dark shadow passes over the cleared trees in the blink of an eye, leaving a shower of searing blue homing lasers spearing from the heavens and straight into the latter. An extremely rude strafing fly-by without actually going into an attack run. Of course, having a laser-spewing 'dragon' swooping in on them from the air probably isn't any less terrifying for whomever Orta is chasing. Since she won't look at them visually, instead of just thermally, she commands the Dragon to snag them up in bubbles of rider-oriented telekinetic force (or just its big meaty claws) passing over them.
Janine Liberi	Janine is definately worse for wear. The swipe had claws, and they've cut into her. Not deeply, but enough that blood is flowing. The Wolf very much tracks the cyborg as she does this, but it seems content to just watch right now, for some reason. It watches Dietrich lunge at him, and lazilly raises a paw, only for the Persona to juke away and bring a sword up to its face. This strength makes the Wolf rock back, blood oozing from its muzzle for a moment, giving Sanary an opening to hack at it freely. However, all the wounds quickly regenerate, leaving the Wolf looking terribly smug. Meanwhile, Orta goes to rescue the targets with telekinetic force. One of the voices struggles terribly against the grasp, pushing against it with inhuman strength. But the other two are easily snagged and pulled over. Two adult men in suits, one a tired looking German and the other a nervous looking Iraqi. Detectives Karl Vernunft and Iman Abdul Mantiq. The third figure, pushing to get free is the Woodsman. But now, the Wolf goes on the offensive. Moving like darkness that floods a previously lit room, he lunges at August to full-body tackle him, before swiping at Sanary with its hind paws to launch her in the air. Next, at Kotone to try and slam her down into Janine's prone form, potentially crushing the girl if Kotone dodges. Lastly, it lunges at Orta and her dragon, aiming to take the throat of the latter in its mouth, even leaping through the air to get it.
August Kohler	The bait works, and Sanary gets to...well, rampage against the Wolf. But it's a regenerator. That's problematic. Orta grabs the people they're looking for, and it turns out to be the two detectives and the Woodsman. August doesn't care about the Woodsman, he can handle himself. The two detectives, though... "Are you kidding me?" The redhead mutters, right in time for the Wolf to go on the offensive. It slams into Dietrich, who intercepts for August proper, but the mere impact is enough to crack armor and bruise ribs, pushing August and his Persona back. The wolf might have a moment of enjoying that, up until the cracked armor begins to /regenerate/ itself, the power armored knight wreathing that sword in fire and darkness and moving to slam and give Janine and Kotone a hand. Before Janine can be crushed, Dietrich's sword comes up to carve into the regenerating Wolf, August not holding back even slightly, letting forth colossal strength that would pulp a human being. It's exhausting on his muscles and energy, but the Wolf deserves everything he can give, even if it's only for a few seconds. "Orta! Begin a retreat if you've got them! The longer we fight, the more dangerous this gets!" If she complies, he'll try and join up with her as soon as he can.
Orta	The bubbles the Dragon uses are for scooping items off the ground or manipulating the environment without having to land and have the rider get off, as picking up or catching the rider themself if they were to fall or be knocked off. They're not suitable for restraining someone(something?) like the Woodsman whatsoever, and the soft bubble of light that envelops him is broken in an instant. The two detectives, though, are pretty much exactly the fragile normie humans that benefit from being pulled out of a combat situation by an Ancient-bioengineered superweapon. With those two in tow, Orta still obliviously thinking that 2/3 rescues is 'good enough', the Dragon banks upwards, and is suddenly leap-chomped by the Wolf. The armoured beast screeches like an electronic eagle where its teeth bite into its flesh, drawing purple-blue blood and gouging at the white plates, causing Orta to cry out in intensely worried shock. Despite the Wolf's frankly enormous size, it doesn't drag the Dragon back down to earth. Slows its flying to a laboured upward crawl, certainly, but the beast dutifully beats its wings and strains whatever other systems keep it afloat, struggling to support its rider and continue the rescue even when bleeding from the throat. Orta frantically pats around its head and neck, blindly slapping her hand back and forth until she lays makes contact with canine snout. Her hand recoils, and then her gun snaps to the ready, jammed straight into its nostrils. "Fall to the earth and die!" the yells, gritting her teeth and squeezing the 'trigger' down as hard as she can. The organically shelled firearm hisses and discharges a rolling, percussive rhythm of incendiary thumps, strobing bright green light at seizure frequency as it empties countless shots of explosive emerald energy straight into the Wolf's nose and throat. Despite being scared of even opening her eyes, Orta streams at the top of her lungs as she wrestles with the Wolf's bite, blazing away on high-powered full auto with no signs of stopping; ammo count infinite.
Kotone Yamakawa	August gets clever and shows just how much he has changed over the year he stands his ground, he moves to attempt a distraction on the Wolf. Sanary follows up with a quick and brutal attack. Sanary strikes hard on the wolf but the Wold is looking quite smug in the wake of healing its' wounds. While Orta is off making a drive for the people they came to rescue. Kotone has another problem. She could dodge and save herself but that would leave Janine a smear. She acts without thinking much she digs her feet in to brace herself to shield Janine form it and take some pretty serious damage. She is going to take a hit but August acts fast and his actions will damn well help Kotone from being utterly managed it's still not good she's taken a hard hit it's clear she's damage there. The cloak is out, she has some arcs of electrical energy about her joints from the force of the impact. That thankfully fades. She'll formally thank August later. "Right ... we need to go." She'll move to scoop up Janine as carefully as she can and she will move to stars pulling out. "I'll get Janine clear, Sanary she's going to need treatment the moment we're out of here!" It's clear though Kotone took a hit there and this may be the best action for her get herself and Janine clear. Orta has things in hand with the people they came for from the sounds of things, too so if they can just pull this off they might be successful.
Sanary Rondel	There's a lot of angry noises coming from the axe-healer as she chops at the Wolf, taking full advantage of that opportunity to do so. Even though it's regenerating, she doesn't stop, and she's so focused on offense and trying to kill this damned dragon (not Orta's) that she doesn't even realize that the targets of their search have been retrieved already. She has enough sense to realize when she's being attacked, at least, but that's not enough to actually avoid the blow. Sanary doesn't avoid the blow at all, either, as she brings her axe back to block some of the strike, but the weapon is no shield. It launches her skywards as intended, and Sanary can feel the wind getting knocked out of her for a moment before she starts descending. "Ghk... R-retreat? Right... We got what we came here for, right?!" If not for August's warning, she probably wouldn't have even noticed Orta's retrieval of those people yet. Although Sanary's still moderately panicked, she finally gets her shit together enough to start falling back, finally focusing on healing as green light pours out of her. Kotone and Janine get the bulk of that healing magic blasted into them, then August and Orta/Orta's dragon should they get close enough to Sanary during the fighting retreat.
Janine Liberi	People rescued, time to go! The detectives seem irate, but the very presence of the Wolf is frightening enough that they don't argue or complain, especially since its under attack from said creature. As Orta finds its face and begins pouring shots from her strange gun into it, Karl draws his service sidearm and joins the assault, with Iman following suit. Dangling in the air like this, there's only so much the Wolf can take before letting go and falling back to the earth with catlike grace. Janine groans as she is helped up. "Did we get him?..." she asks as the Wolf begins pursuit as a leisurely lop, only to be suddenly tackled by the Woodsman. It's apparent that the large man-like being is being run ragged. He's beard is patchy, his clothes are torn, and he has light scratches that aren't closing up. But still, he wrestles with the Wolf again, holding him down so everyone can make their escape. Back at the exit, after Janine has been tended to, she goes up to the two detectives and tries to slap them both with her good hand. Iman takes it, but Karl backsteps to avoid it. "What the fuck are you two doing in here?!" she demands. Karl regards the group and produces a cigarette to light. "We did the Persona Game. That big guy pulled us in. He was pretty ragged, said something was making that giant wolf more powerful. I said we wanted Persona in exchange for finding out what when you all showed up." Janine looks furious at this, so much so that she stalks out through the mirror back into the real world. "You kids shouldn't be doing this," Iman says. "But you are, so you may as well let us help out. And even if you say no, we'll just come back another day."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is thankful for the healing from Sanary, it helps to make getting out far easier and she isn't looking back. She does not see the Woodsman but she darn well hears him. "We got the people we're going now Janine, hold on." Once they make it to the exit she'll make sure to let Sanary do her thing in more detail and she'll look back to the Detective and tilts her head and than Janine stalks out, well she'll be all right if she's seemingly cheesed off like that. "We'll talk another time trust me on that, cooperation on some level is in all of our best interests I think. Now if you might excuse me I have some parts that need further repairs. I'm also very glad we got you both out alive."
August Kohler	They're able to rescue the detectives, who August is frowning at, but he ends up...laughing? It seems he can understand their drive. "Let's get out of here, though, while we have a chance." August will move to help escort people out with Dietrich's strength. This is a mess... But allies are a good thing. As a Persona User, he knows the power of bonds. But that's not enough to stop him from getting one last quip in. "But I've been doing more than you can fathom. Believe me - I'm old hat at this." And a little bit of bragging. Because it helps his self-esteem, which has been in dire need of that for years!
Sanary Rondel	Sanary is panting heavily as they regroup near the mirror, moreso out of mental and emotional fatigue than physical. Being forced the face a dragon-wolf without little to no preparation has taken a clear mental toll on her even if she's (relatively) okay on the physical front. "The Woodsman pulled you in? Huh. So even he's doin' some recruiting now..." She strokes her chin lightly, watching Janine leave before turning back to Iman with a shrug. "Eh, why not. We'll need to see what you can do if you survived all that shit in there, but we can deal with that after..." She gestures at everyone and the assorted injuries that her healing magic couldn't patch up. "It'll be easier if we all know who's good at what." A beat, and then she scoffs rather suddenly while glaring back the way they came from. "... Even though not all of us HAVE PERSONAS! Jackass."
Orta	Rambo screaming eyes-closed Orta only really needs to do enough damage to the Wolf's face and mouth (not usually hardened targets) to get it to let go with its mouth. That's the upside of the ridiculous situation she'd gotten the two of them into with her extremely poorly thought through plan to rescue the two detectives (whom she still doesn't know are detectives). The epic clash between the Wolf and the Woodsman goes unobserved; she wishes that third guy, whoever he was, the best, and turns back to the portal at high speed, fumbling through her bag for a medical device to pop on her bleeding, suicidally dutiful Dragon buddy, releasing a sparkling green mist that seems to reinvigorate the flagging creature, a deep rumbling coming from its throat as it aerially limps to the finish line. "Can I look yet?" she asks, when they settle down to a safe spot, lowering both men to the ground from their TK bubbles. "Maybe, but you shouldn't be here either." she then replies to Karl. "The game is dangerous. The forest is dangerous too. You would probably have died." is said like a childish matter of fact. "Then, they'd send changelings home to your families. You wouldn't want that." That's the actual stinger.