#earthrunes

That cretin dares BITE his lady?! That simply CANNOT STAND! And Vince is leaping forward, claws out and lips curled back from massive teeth, and lands in the fray, and will grapple and bite at the offending head.... or any part handy.

The hydra bites at Claire , Coradel tries to get a grip on the other head that bit her hand, but too low, it arcs down and bites teeth going....

and bouncing against the Lion!

Not scraping.. not missing... just not penetrating almost VIOLENTLY, as if the Lion's hide was steel! Stronger than steel!

And he tries to wrap his front paws around it, and bunny-kick kick kick with raking back leg strikes.

Like a kitten with a toy mou-... er... catnip banana. Yes.

"what the ... stupid greek myths.. it thinks he's herchules.." CORADEL overhears the whisper.. and sees that the tail of the hydra has a strand, a string, of shadow, flowing towards a sluagh!

The sluagh must be the source of this chimera!

As for Vince, he tears and wrestles! The firm muscles that have thrown many a maid to a pillowed beds are no longer used gently

Coradel abandons fighting the hydra, which probably opens her to another bite...she flickers her hand to call forth her bow, aims at the sluagh, and fires!

The arrow misses... then Leonora sees where her liege is shooting, and follows wit ha shot of her own

chimerical blood flies as the sluagh is nicked by the second arrow

"Go get him, I'll use the Lionguard here as extra Cover" Claire says

And Vince takes a fangy bite towards the head that threatens Leonora. Heaven help those on the other side when a pacifist lion finally goes to war.

Angered, Coradel points her bleeding hand at the Sluagh. "Surrender, now!" she says with the force of Dictum.

And, JUST as Vince is about to lift the Defeated hydra over his head and roar triumphantly with all the power in his MGM heritage.... (Okay.. he had help) the Hydra vanishes! As the chimera is dropped by the now surrendering Sluagh

"i surrender, lady" A hiss

He gives a disappointed "Mrowwwwwlll" As his toy vanishes - and looks towards Temerity, with HER plaything...

Coradel nods Vince to go help Temerity. "Leonora, keep this one in your sights," she says of the sluagh as she retrieves her blade.

Blade in hand, she approaches the sluagh again, another wave of dictum dancing from the sword's tip to the sluagh's throat. "Tell us the best way to defeat the remaining guards and release the captives." Hoping the order will force the captive to reveal any traps that may have been set.

"The kill switch will run a thousand volts through the underside of the carriage... unless you get the key from the foreman" A hiss

"Good to know. Now... you get the key from the foreman without revealing anything about our presence."

"It's too late.. the alarm is already being called" the sluagh says "look... I was just following orders.."

VINCE misses the nazi excuse as he moves on to find Temerity. She's won, but now gun fire breaks out... as another figure shows and fires

And he leaps to put his bulk between the shooter and any of the ladies...

"We need to get them out, now!"

To the sluagh, she orders, "Just get me the damned key! Go!"

And the sluagh look paler than normal as he is again dictumed and goes

GUNSHOTS that all can hear

Coradel switches from sword to bow and seeks the shooter.

The Gunman fires... shooting at Temerity and.. then the Lion leaps in the way! While Temerity has her own shield, the Lion's noble flank is bombarded instead and... there's an odd Sound of metal... under the fur! Vince bleeds as some bullets sink in, but the vitals are preserved as the symbol of HIS blazon lights up under his skin like some odd tattoo that evne the fur can't block

but he does bleed, and he is staggered.

Temerity gather the Wyrd and leaps at the gun man "Filth! Thou would wipe the best of cheses upon thy ass with thy stench!"

And Coradel comes upon this scene in time to see it.. and notice four more are charging forward.. but one of them is a troll

Vince rumbles, shaken, and lets his rump sink to the floor. Surely nothing that cannot be resolved by a good wash of a paw. Raised, and he licks at it, attempting to seem unperturbed.

Coradel spins three times in place chanting, "Weapons drawn?/You idiots!/Troll, attack your compatriots!" and points her bitten hand at the troll. "Defend us against them!"

Vince snarls and pushes back to his feet as more come in. Interrupting a proper wash is rude. Someone must show these fellows how to behave around ladies - and he stalks forward once more to take his place by the Valkyries.

The Troll snarls "Who do you think you're controlling you... " But he turns and charges at his men "I can't help myself, don't shoot, don't shoot!"

Narrator voice: They shot.

Coradel says, "Quick, while they're engaged, free the captives!"

"No, wait! Beware the floor, he may have thrown the kill switch. Where is that sluagh...?"

The sluagh is working some magic... and cursing .. the magic appears to be on the troll?

And Vince will barrel forward on her command... and then attempts to stop as he hears that second half.

"Bastard!" Coradel aims an arrow at the sluagh.

Then the key flies out of the trolls pocket and into the sluagh's hand he whispers something desperating in his eyes

The troll gets shot, smashing one of his men, but getting shot by them as well.. he's not down, but he bleeds

Coradel holds off on releasing the arrow, and smirks. "Oh, well done, then. Bring it here."

And he does

Temerity leaps into assist the troll against the foes "Truthbranch on your trousers, Truthbranch on your rear! And smack and a whack goees the Truthbranch, there's no safety word my dear"

And Leonora moves towards to Vince "Vince hold still .. Emma gave me this.." She pulls out something that looks like a perfume bottle... Glitter spritzs... leaving a shiney patch over the coat.... but the wound IS a bit better