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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6248519" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 98b - The Downfall of Lorcan KellKell drew two machetes from his cloak as he strode into  the office.  "I thought I'd sent you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />s a clear message when I carved  up that scar-faced tiefling bitch, but it looks like I'll have to be  more direct." Sevitar stepped  into his path, and Kell slashed at him twice, stepped round him and  felled Niniel with two more blows.  He might have carved a bloody path  through the entire unit were it not for the vendetta bullet that struck  him from the shadows.  Uru had been up there all along, in the rafters,  waiting for a clear line of sight. [DM's Note: Vendetta Bullets are insane in the hands of an executioner assassin.] It  was then that Marshal Korrigan's voice could be heard calling for Kell  and his men to surrender.  A well-placed shot from a rooftop dropped one  of his thugs out in the street, and Matunaaga paused only to reload.   Rumdoom appeared from a doorway behind his carriage and lobbed a grenade  at a Kell Guild technologist.  Korrigan charged for the doorway that  was blocked by Nick Reder. Kell  wasn't daunted. "More law-pigs to whet my blade."  He took Niniel by  the hair and used her as a human shield.  Dark priestess Kate Glenn used  her corrupt power to stun Uru.  He fell from the rafters like a swatted  fly.  In an instant, Kell was looming over him, raining down blows. More  shots revealed the presence of Kell Guild musketeers who had also taken  up position overlooking the street.  Among them was the dangerous Kurt  Hawkins who had double-crossed Unit A in the past, and ambushed Unit B  too.  They opened fire on Marshal Korrigan, but their bullets ricocheted  harmlessly.  They switched targets and Matunaaga was forced to take  cover at street level. In the  backroom of the office, Ludo and Theren went toe-to-toe with Lepage and  his goons, exchanging spells and blows.  The fight went well for them,  and these lesser foes were quickly dispatched.  Theren used his life  magic to help Niniel to stir, and she in turn aided Uru.  Sevitar  recovered enough to slip into Kell's very shadow and build up layer upon  layer of his eerie shrouds.Brajham  chose to focus on Kate Glenn, whose dark magic he found offensive.   Perhaps it was his righteous ire, or perhaps his bright life magic was  uniquely inimical to the priestess, but when the rainbow wave of light  struck her, it burned the flesh from her bones and she was killed  outright. Having dealt with the  technologist, Rumdoom charged Reder, who was proving difficult for  Korrigan to shift.  Rumdoom knocked him aside like a skittle, and his  armour threw sparks as he skidded over the cobbles.  Then Rumdoom and  Korrigan were in the building and facing off against Kell.  Korrigan  gave orders for everyone to focus on the crime-boss and Rumdoom locked  him down so that he couldn't harm anyone else.  Then Sevitar emerged,  peeling himself off Lorcan like a wraith and struck a necrotic blow that  made the gangster reel. He staggered back towards the back door, and reached into his pocket with a smirk. As it happened, Kell never got the chance to use his gatecrasher charm: By  now, Matunaaga was the only RHC officer outside, pinned down by  musketeers who he knew would open fire if he tried to cross the street.   But the maustin caji are swift.  In the blink of an eye he crossed the  hundred feet from one point of cover to the other, before the musketeers  could so much as squeeze their triggers.  Then he was round the back of  the building and behind looking Kell in a flash.  His fist wiped the smirk of Lorcan Kell's face and knocked the mob boss out cold.  His gatecrasher charm tinkled uselessly to the floor. In  a trice, he was cuffed and most of his men were arrested (though some  saw their chance and fled when he fell, including Reder and Hawkins). Kell came round as he was dragged to his feet, gave a bloody grin and said, "All right, you win. I'll come quietly."</blockquote>

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