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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7866389" data-attributes="member: 6920268">The constables start creeping along the train to the first freight car were they remove the less stealthy team members from the Absurdist Web and then uncouple the freight cars from the passenger cars behind as this gives Leone/Magneto less trains to throw at them and also reduces the risk of collateral damage,With this done they move through the freight cars towards Leone's private carriages of course the jolt from detaching the main part of the train has alerted Leone and his bodyguard ,as the train map we are using has a Piano then Leone begins to play a villanous overture as the 4 clockwork soldiers, 4 clockwork gunslingers, 4 Arcane Marksmen and 2 Witchoil powered pseudo golems fortify the last freight car ready for the constables. At this point I am in two minds if the force I have assembled is going to overwhelm the constables , I will soon see,The fight starts with a volley from the clockwork gunslingers which largely misses, Manuel would love to suit up and blast them with a cannon but fears to use the steamsuit with Magneto nearby instead he runs up and unlocks the door to the carriage of gunmen, it turns out this is franlkly a waste of time. William casts a lightning bolt spell which  blasts through the door both golemns numerous minions and deep into Leones passanger car, then using her recently aquired shoes of lightning assault Nevla transforms into a bolt of lightning and crashed into the middle of the enemy formation injuring several of them. Then the detonate spell she cast earlier releases its energy in a truly impressivly high damage roll a sphere of lightning blasts out and drops all 4 clockwork gunmen and 3 clockwork soldiers it badly damages both golems, the remaining soldier and all 4 arcane marksmen. At this point I start worrying that the fight is going to be one sided in the opposite direction. The lightning  blast also leaves the carriage on the verge of breaking in two.Padme rushes up and stabs the clockwork soldier in the back fatally, Ulvaar charges in and assaults a golem then the golems act one punches Nevla then moves away from the collapsing area and takes an attack of opportunity, the other one also punches her most of these attacks miss, the arcane marksmen blast her with scorching rays. Manuel moves forward past the breach in the train and casts shield, Padme moves forward and stabs the central arcane marksman , he dies, the train breaks in two and all the rear freight cars start to derail , only one Golem is left behind but he catches up soon as Leone rises from the piano and unleashes his power a shard vortex encompasses the pc's. he raises his shiedld and throws the golem at all the pc's except Padme doind a fair amount of damage and wrecking the golem. William casts confusion at Leone and fails,  Ulvaar finishes the last golem. The arcane marksmen step back and shoot at Nevla and Padme they all roll badly and all 9 shots miss Ulvaar moves forward and drops all 3 with a whip of lightning . Padme moves and attacks Leone but the metal shield largely prevents damage, Manuel moves up and throws alchemists fire on Leone, William Boneshatters him leaving him in pain and exhausted,  Nevla hits him with blindness which he fails to save against. Using his magneto senses Leone hits William with the roof critting and smashing him through the floor (2 hero points to stop the huge damage spike killing him) then ulvaar moves up and hits him again the metal shield blocks most of it.Manuel takes a chance and unleashes a nock gun blast with ironwood bullets which slams into Leone hurting him through the shield, William picks himself up on the rail tracks behind the train, padme lands a flurry of flanking attacks and draws blood, Nevla hits leone with a Boneshatter which flips him over the edge , his power surges restoring his sight and begginning a massive train crash. Leone rises from the whirling mass of train carriages and the fireball of the engine, Ulvaar rises up to meet him on wings of air and the two duel over the train crash with Ulvaar landing several blows and taking glancing blows from a couple of trains which he is tough enough to shrug off finally as the train comes to a halt the batterred Manuel and Nevla join in a burst of radiance dazzles and injures leone and Manuel fires an alchemical icendiary ironwood bullet from his rifle which breaks through Leones shield and knocks him out. Ulvaar grabs him with TK to stop the fall killing him,When he recovers Leone taunts and insults the team but he is in mage cuffs low on hp  and nowhere near the crashed train sp he can't do much , soon his exhaustion brings him to sleep and Grappa wakes up. He explains his plan, they decide that killing Leone by ripping his soul out is no worse than hanging him and the lich will be stopped from escaping. (With a side order that if they don't go the Ob will probably release the Lich and that makes this a better plan). They discuss the archeologist in the head and think that they can use this to transfer her to a duplicant of herself turning her into an Indiana Jones/Terminator crossover. Then rather than put up with Leone on their trek they stuff him in the absurdist web , which also means Grappa will be in charge when they pull him out. They report to Harkover and he asks for a copy of the mind switching spell. Manuel is further convinced he is a Blue Dragon in disguise.While most of them are really bad at survival , William channels Queen Zidi and is now a master of survival making the overland trek easyNex week a Legion of my Finest Frost Giants guards the secret lair in the ice of the Lich of the Demonocracy<img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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