#anywhere

The voices, yes, distract and delay Frank; for just a moment, he's ready to go to their aid....

He instead looks up at the beam. Is this the 'gate' of which the voice spoke?

Yup

He scans for weaknesses....

Oh, one could move it, open it up and let the thing completely out ..it's free already essentially..tethered, not stopped

And the Eshu suddenly draws his weapon "I won't let you hurt my mother!" Advancing on Frank

Frank is now distracted not by his daughters, but by a homicidal eshu.

"Stonehands, can you speak?" Brekke takes her axe and strikes at the mistletoe binding him.

As the Eshu falls prey to the voices, he looks around at who is left. He focuses on the mistletoe... the Eilunid, and the Nocker. He whispers quickly to them, "See the beams above? They hold the gate that contains the Dark. If we were to.... "His hand flutters towards the stone creature caught in vines. "Take his bindings, and use them to shore up the beam back into place, we can use it's own strengths against it."

But she only strikes once before she hears the eshu threatening Frank. "Stop!"

It comes loose... and the Rock Giant groans

"I... remember you"

"Free him. I have this." Frank focuses on the eshu.

And Frank does.. this motely are scanvgers, not fighters

A momentary hesitation, but then yes, she turns and directs all of her energy to severing the mistletoe. "Stonehands...you made a statue of me...long ago....do you remember? Firnost...." Her words distributed between each strike.

"Brekke... freeholder brek.."

((What pooka? I never said pooka..))

He whispers as well to the two, "And if you have any other methods of warding you might place upon it, there's never such a thing as too much overkill."

The Eiluned nods "I see .. but it's chance..."... /The Nocker says "Got it"

"Yes...try to pull free..." And then she pauses, and instead grabs a branch. "By Balder's pain and Frigga's tears, shrivel and fall away!" She casts Holly Strike on the mistletoe.

And just then, as the others lift the bar to grab the mistletoe, it is oblerated by a holy strike

The nocker goes "SHIT"

Symon flinches and mutters something inaudible.

The Eiluned says "Lower the bar, it's too late .. that was our only ch.."

An blackness swirls out "Free"

Frank tries to keep an eye on the eshu AND on the other danger....

The Rock giant risees "We are lost.."

The Formorian Leftenant laughs "*Oh so very lost.. I was merely tethered by a foot to so speak, now? I AM entirely free *"

It doesn't have a form.. exactly, it's darkness... but it has mass

Brekke looks up to see the swirl of darkness, and she grabs the remains of the mistletoe. Lifting the mistletoe up against the bar, she sings a verse of Edda about binding Loki and works a heatherbalm on the barrier.

Symon had the same idea, and, gathering up withered bits and pieces, has climbed the wall to hold tehm against the edges of the beams, that they can grow and join together.

The Nocker pulls out a nail gun! "FURK TRAP IT TRAP IT!"

ANd the Eiluned quickilvers to increase the speed.

"Stonehands! Can you work the rock closed around it?"

The Rock Giant yells "The Bale must light! Or this is temporary at best" " He grabs the building and chants

Frank? Frank releases the Eshu from a sleeper hold

(OOC: Because I neglected him)

Brekke restores the mistle toe and throws it to Symon

Symon puts it in place

"Send him to light it! He knows the quickest way!" He hisses to whoever can listen, once Frank releases the Eshu.

It fuses to trap the thing... even as the nocker nails the beam back

Frank drops the eshu around his neck like a weird stole, 'cause when a troll puts you in a sleeper hold, you go to sleep. Then he steps forward to Brekke's maimed side.

Brekke looks to the eshu. "If you can do it, GO."

Then watches him flop to the ground.

The stone is in place the Formian officer spews hatred... it's not entirely sealed off... but more than tethered. . but it won't last

THe Eiluned calls out "FUEL THE FLAME!"

"Do it, Brekke." Frank guards her back.

"Care for him!" she indicates Stonehands, then seeks her way back to the flame as fast as possible.

The Eiluned calls out "Sacrifice a treausre, tell whoever it is to sacrifice something powerful"

As Brekke hears this, she races up.