Mariana Blakewood

"At least it's not an axe-murderer," Mariana said with only a mild tremor in her speech expressing her surprise, and as the ghastly creatures charged and those with her went on the attack she herself applied some use of prestidigitation in order to make herself gracefully float a metre or so off the ground. Katarina went on the attack after a moment of indecision, and Mariana was mildly pleased; she didn't want her to become too reliant on her word when faced with obvious dangers. Plus, her allies taking action quickly meant she had time to flip through her spell tome, which she drew out from the back pocket of her jeans and expanded it with a wave of her hand. Closely followed was her lumenstaff, and with careful manipulation of her aura, she drifted a short distant backwards and conjured a series of glowing flares in her wake using said staff, which soon solidified and shot forward like darts towards several of the Scrylings.

These magical projectiles of heat would pierce through the centre of the ghouls, as Mariana was curious if a strike to their hearts would kill them or not. Regardless, she then turned her attention to her allies, and after making sure her own protective barrier was active, she then proceeded to manifest similar energy shields around Katarina, Marah, and Asher. These shields would defend them from any intial hit delivered to them by the Scrylings, meaning they'd be given a single chance to get out of being cornered unharmed.

"Away from my sibling and familiar, deathly ones. Lest you be cast down to the lowest depths of Hell..." Mariana warned the Scrylings, her barrier solidifying as she condescended them and lazily reclined in the air, as if unaffected by gravity. "Let us lay you to permanent rest..."

So these icy beasts are possibly connected to Lind's disappearance... she thought, idly searching through her spell tome for anything else interesting that she could use against these opponents. To be calm and observant was the role of a witch, even if reasonably she should be frantic and wary of her own safety in such immediate danger. Is it possible another spellweaver is behind this...? Was Cassie herself involved in such mystiques...?

"Should you all be overwhelmed, run as fast as you can away, and we'll see if we can split them apart and pick them off one at a time. Facing a horde is terrifying, but a scattered crowd more manageable," Mariana advised, even as she accelerated her drifting through the air as a Scryling swiped dangerously near to her barrier. It momentarily weakened, but she then drove her lumenstaff into its skull, beating it until whenever it stopped moving. "Don't let them get too close, too. By God..."

If these things were once humans, she'd just bludgeoned someone's skull in. Mariana grimaced, and focused on reinforcing her defensive barrier again. She could go and throw up later on, once they were in relative safety.

Edited by Enirboreh on Aug 31st 2022 at 2:34:13 PM

The Animal in You.

As she now joins up; with the group and tries to say something about this before she started, to feel cold, "When did this become a freezer in here?" she asked. She was surprised by how cold it was, she still has some wolf fur under his jacket, she then zips; up her jacket where she sees the Scrylings and ran behind the group.

"What the hell are those things..." she said pointing at the shadowy things before seeing both Sapphy and Thomas pulling out guns, she is fearful of this, "Did you guys know about this!" she yells out to Sapphy and Thomas, thinking both of them are some monster hunting team or something, I mean what type of kid brings a gun to their school.

As she was watching the fight going on, she sees Katarina's fingers "Claws..." she couldn't believe it, was her family, not the only werewolves or that smell, that cat smell, was it from her... She covers her nose as she was growling, a werecat? Here! She didn't even know there were others like her but; she can't go wolf on her, she's a classmate and she's fighting those shadow things. I mean what will they do to her if she did it, she would be put down, like the dog she is...

Nia was busy freaking out on the ground, rolling around and covering her nose, growling and howling, her nails now longer and sharper and hands getting hairy, and her eyes glowing.

Asher

As Mariana kept the shields up, Asher braced zirself to take on any of the Scrylings that would get too close to zirself or the others. And sure enough, one made a leap towards zir, only to be met with a platform boot to the face. "Watch it! I've got New Rocks and I know how to use 'em!"

Edited by Akkun_K on Sep 11th 2022 at 3:01:15 PM

Vs. Scrylings

One of the Scrylings hissed upon seeing Sapphy's toy gun - and being creatures of instinct and pattern, not exactly the conventionally brightest of sorts, it lunged in toward her to try and bat her toy gun away with a swipe of its claw. Distracting itself from the much more dangerous combatants...such as...

One of their number crashed against a wall and snapped to pieces as Marah's braid of hair throttled it - the rest of her hair severing about three more Scrylings to pieces - the creatures' blood being icy water that rendered the air even more chilly on contact.

The one distracted by Sapphy flew backward as a hole blew through its form thanks to Thomas, followed by another one crumpling backward - its head resting in pieces and leaking icy water everywhere after another shot rippled outward.

Several Scrylings attempting to get close to Mariana would be severed to pieces by Kat - though as she struck the icy zombies dead she would be able to feel their icy blood on her hands. Nothing like any sort of normal human blood indeed. These things bled cold water.

The Scryling struck in the face by Asher's heel fell backward, hissing and screeching as it struggled to get back up on its feet...lurching back up before long, fangs bared as it charged.

Two more of them tried to advance on Nia as she underwent her change into her were form. Their claws raking and teeth primed to try and drink the unusual warmth they detected in the girl.

The Clocktower

Sapphy was very much not prepared for being lunged at, but thankfully basically everyone else in the clocktower had sprung to action.

"Oh! You've all got—! Okay, just keep fighting them; fire works well if any of you have fire powers!"

She tried to back off a little bit from the obvious front of the fight and slipped her NERF blaster back into a pocket.

"Okay. I think... Maybe should see if..."

Sapphy shut up before she divulged too much and instead started trying to check the room for possible places the missing girl could be hiding. If Sapphy could find the girl while the Scrylings were distracted with a fight, maybe she could figure out why they were here in the first place...