>>33403440

You spring forth from the flames and tackle into him, biting, clawing, and screaming mercilessly at him as you try to tear him apart at the seams. The fire flowing off of him doesn’t even register as a problem.

The ferocity and intensity of your antagonism catches Meckor off guard. To be honest, it catches even you off guard. But this is the guy responsible for all kinds of stuff that makes you mad. Like Trevon burning down your pad and getting your friends killed. Or when Nabuth tried to kill you, and you wound up hurting Ro and killing some random guy you still don’t want to think about. And when that freaking demon tried to hunt you and Rowan down when you were both hurt, and kidnaping people for slaves, and just a couple of days ago when you almost drowned – in this moment, everything in the world is his fault, and you make him pay for it.

Trying to kill this guy focuses you in a way that you haven’t felt focused before. He’s evil. You can kill him and he deserves it. (-15 Stress: 41/100) (+2 Sanity: 96/100) You feel his power surge into you even as your claws rake across his face, catch in his fatigues, and scrape over his breastplate. (+6 PP: 23/26)

And yet, you feel that something isn’t happening that should be. There’s no blood. No panic. And Meckor’s not struggling as much as he should.

>>33403487

This thought crosses your mind a second before Meckor grabs one of you by the wrist mid-strike, and delivers the strongest punch to your face that you’ve ever been punched with before. Like, bar none. (-2 HP: 15/26)

You jerk backward long enough for Meckor to get a boot in your gut, and he kicks you off of him. You hit the road a second later, slightly dazed, but not too shaken to pop back up to your feet.

Meckor twists on the ground and gets his feet under him, looking up at you with flaming eyes, unscathed by your assault. He doesn’t have a scratch on him. Not even his fatigues are torn. (Lord General Meckor: 20/20 HP)

“Power without sustenance,” he says derisively to you, though you think he may be more of talking to himself at this point. You feel a surge of hidden energy in the air. You don’t have much time to counter whatever he’s about to do. With the focused, passionate hatred with which he stares at you though, you be it can’t be good.

But he’s so distracted with you that he’s given Ro the time she needs to grab the gun from where you dropped it and bring it up to bear on Meckor. The ground between them steams and smokes, the asphalt melted where the fire had passed over it. Then Roawn flares with glorious light. Her gun turns gold, and she fires a tight burst of thunderbolts right into the demon’s shoulder.

>>33403517

He’s knocked backward into the front of Vikrama’s car, and leaves a big dent when he shakes himself uses the bumper to push himself back to his feet, only slightly phased by the wounds in his arm. (Lord General Meckor: 17/20 HP) He gives a seething look at Rowan. “And the brood of butchers closes ranks with the corrupted fruit of the Imperiate's womb,” he says flatly to himself, almost shaking with pure, unadulterated loathing. His eyes turn from their yellow glow to a bright blue. The flames coating him follow a second afterward in changing hue, leaving him covered in such intense heat that it causes the road beneath him to crack.

Rowan stares at him, wide eyed. She has no more bullets, and you can see the waves of heat pulsing out from the general are painful to her. She grabs Waldric and starts dragging him away, trying to shield her face from the heat with an off arm.

And then the flames disappear as does the heat, and Meckor forgets Rowan to turn his attention to you. He begins walking toward where you stand, eyes fixed to your own, keeping his arms low and to the sides.

>What do you do?

>>33403583
>What do you do?
Corrupt his armour

>>33403583
Can't do shadow stuff because he's too goddamn bright. Can't claw him, he just instaheals. Can't burn him, he's practically made of fire.

Sap Will and Corrupt the stuff he's wearing?

>>33403440
>>33403487
>>33403517
>>33403583
Man, I don't even fucking know.

>>33403719
Sure, that actually sounds solid. Dude's clearly fucking impervious to our violence. Throw all of our Belphagoran shit at him. Don't stop. Corrupt, sap will, all of that.

>>33403583
Try to constrain his movement with shadows while fighting. Use the claws if we get an opening.

>>33403744
>>33403768
I don't think our Shadows would even be strong enough - dude's a physical powerhouse. Sap Will and Corrupt is definitely our best bet here.

>>33403768
Dude, he's extruding enough fire to crack the street underneath him, and we just did fucking nothing with our claws on a roll of 4.

>>33403583
Back away from Meckor while looking for a way out. Talk to stall for time.
>>33403719
Meckor's magic, son. If he allows his gear get corrputed then he ain't much of a general.

>>33403583
Corrupt his fatigues

Rolled 60

>>33403583
Prepare for the inevitable "Join my army, and we will rule together" speech. Resist rolling eyes.

Rolling for teenage rebelliousness.

>>33403786
>Prepare for the inevitable "Join my army, and we will rule together" speech.
I doubt it. He seems pretty fucking racist and really wants to just kill us outright.

>>33403744
>>33403760
Agreed. Sap Will and Corrupt are probably our best options here. Hopefully they can at least slow him down.

Issac better be breaking every speed limit in existence right about now.

>>33403786
>Implying that will ever happen.
We already tried the feign joining tactic, he isn't going to give us the offer.

>>33403583
Start praying for Isaac to show up?

>>33403719
>>33403744
>>33403760
These. If we make it out of this okay, let's try getting Belphagoran abilities this time around.

>>33403813
>Hopefully they can at least slow him down.
Yeah, that's definitely the objective. Sap Will and Corrupt, then book it while he's distracted.

>>33403583
>Pocket imps!
Summon imp for distraction!

>>33403583
Sap will.

Sap Will

Corrupt Armour

Get ready to dance and dodge

>>33403719
How about corrupting our claws? Might bite through whatever defence he has. Maybe he has some sort of protection against physical which is why Rowan's bullets went through.

>>33403583
Summon the fire bat and tell it to skullfuck his eyeholes.

>>33403583
Use our teeth. They penetrate armor well and then inject venom.

Wrap our tail around his weapon arm to keep it out of the way.

>>33403836
>let's try getting Belphagoran abilities this time around.
Yeah, I was against it earlier, but if THIS is how tough Meckor is - not even taking ONE point of damage on a 4! - we clearly need to aim for a weak point.

>>33403865
We can't do that yet. Corrupting our own claws/weapons for armor piercing is one of the perks we didn't buy.

>>33403865
Corrupt: Focuses hate into a nearby object, imbuing it with tainted energy and causing it to become untouchable for a duration of time. This effect has visible effect. When others attempt to touch said object, it singes them with unholy energy. Prolonged contact causes burns. Sierra may interact with the object as normal. Cost: 2 PP + 1 Stress, Type: Corrupting, Range: 5m [BE]

>>33403894
That's how it was? Well shit.

>>33403865
>How about corrupting our claws? Might bite through whatever defence he has.
That's not how that works. We would probably just accidentally burn our hands off.

>>33403583
"Do you actually listen to the shit you're saying, or are you just speaking in heavy metal lyrics?"

>>33403583
CORRUPT

>>33403915
> “And the brood of butchers closes ranks with the corrupted fruit of the Imperiate's womb,”
It really does sound like heavy metal.

>>33403915
As funny as that would be, I don't think Sierra would say that in a situation this deadly serious.

So, throw sap will and corrupt at him, and also unleash the imp. And then you run as fast as possible?

Roll dice.

Rolled 36

>>33403932
Gotta go fast.

Rolled 85

>>33403932
Hope we don't die!

Rolled 87

>>33403932

Rolled 69

>>33403932

Rolled 40

>>33403932
We better fuck someone after this

Rolled 66

>>33403932
Here we go.

Rolled 45

>>33403932

Rolled 93

>>33403932
C'mon, I wanna over-stress.

Rolled 83

>>33403932
"Pocket Imps!"

Rolled 79

>>33403932

>>33403952
>>33403956
>>33403958
Fuck.

Dese fucking rolls.

>>33403952
Not great, but could be a hell of a lot worse.

Rolled 79

>>33403952
>>33403956
>>33403958
>>33403959
>>33403966
>>33403967
>>33403968
>>33403969
>>33403976
>>33403978
...
I don't think any of those are gonna work.

Rolled 56

>>33404013
Good. We can finally build some stress.

Rolled 26

Is there a single low roll in the dice tonight?

>>33404040
There was last thread.

When we got that 4.

Which bounced off of Meckor because it was physical, which is his strength, instead of psychic, which is hopefully his weakness.

Rolled 20 + 8

>>33404060
Any of the Belph powers would be a good fit here, except maybe Terrifying Glare.
Imbue Corruption (or whatever it's called) would let us bypass his damage resistance by changing our damage type.
Inflict Pain would at least break his concentration or slow him down and hopefully give us an opening.
Soul Drinker would let us tear into his MP pool and possibly consume whatever bullshit magical effects he's cast on himself.

>>33404040
Yeah, we've got some good rolls

This is why I wanted BC.

>>33404060
No, it didn't work because he's wearing a full body suit made of plot armor.

Not that I'm bitching or complaining, mind...

>>33404195
Does this nigga even have blood? He seems like he's just a flaming skeleton.

>>33404205
No, it didn't work because he has some sort of bs healing. He doesn't have armor on his face/head, and we just clawed the everloving shit out of his face and shot him a few times before that.

>>33404242
He might have some Hellion ability that lets him take physical damage as PP damage.
I don't think it was regen, I didn't see anything about us actually managing to damage him.
He also didn't heal from Rowan's bullets, which could have bypassed the damage negation ability by dealing holy damage.

>>33404321
>He might have some Hellion ability that lets him take physical damage as PP damage.
Shit, I'd take that ability. Combined with an ability that gives us faster PP recovery, it'd beat the shit out of our current method of regeneration.

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>>33403725
>So, for a Hellion, there's nothing keeping their attractiveness at bay.

>>33404387
I wouldn't. Remember how Trevon had that bullshit regen that just kept going and going and it was faster than our current PP regen? Shit was crazy.

>>33404387
Hellions probably also have an ability that lets them regen PP faster, being the most mage-like of all demon bloodlines (that we know of).
Probably comes at the cost of him not being able to get any really good forms of Infernus regen, like that +3 HP/turn that Trevon had.

>>33404462
>Probably comes at the cost of him not being able to get any really good forms of Infernus regen, like that +3 HP/turn that Trevon had.
I still want Sierra to get that. That's just a lower priority at the moment (seriously, HP is almost never our limiting factor currently) than getting more Belphagoran stuff to deal with tanks and other physical powerhouses - like Meckor/Ranthix.

>>33404321
Do you think Rowan can cast that holy thing on our claws? Because that would be really handy right now.

>>33404507
I doubt it. Unless it says otherwise, almost all of these magical abilities are inherent super powers, not magical spells that can be cast on other people.

That'd be like trying to put our hellfire on her fists.

>>33404507
>Casting a holy enchantment
>On a cambion
No way for that to go horribly wrong.

We also have our own version of it, but nobody wanted to get it last time because it's a Belphegoran ability.

>>33404507
It'll probably hurt like hell, but we could try that while training

>>33404564
Nobody wanted to get it because we wanted to get fire resistance and shadow armor and we could only take 2 things.

>Countdown to losing control

>>33404807
I don't think we'll do it this update, but it wouldn't be unlikely on the next one

>>33404807
I just wanna go nuts and leave pieces of Meckor all over town.

This is bad. You’ve thrown everything at him. Nothing does anything. Rowan couldn’t do anything. And Meckor doesn’t want anything from you, either. It’s not like you can talk your way out of this. All he wants is for you to be dead. You can’t fight him. You’re pretty much powerless against him.

To top it all off, you’re afraid.

You make use of your fear and press it together before you. It’s a hasty move, but you fling at Meckor anyway – you need to buy yourself time. (-5 PP: 18/26) (+5 Stress: 46/100)

Meckor raises a hand at the unseen force of negative energy, catches it, and crushes it into nothing in his fist. “Four hundred years gone to waste, hellborn filth,” he says, his voice carrying with it a disconcerting cadence of something that hurts to process. (-1 Sanity: 95/100)

You whip out your other hand and summon an imp into existence at your fingertips.

When your imp spirals down to nip at the back of Meckor’s head, he twitches his neck and the fire within the small creature turns blue, then green. The imp spirals out of the air with a pathetic yowl, and is consumed by its own fire before it touches the ground. “A lifetime in the cause of glory, despoiled,” he says, his words searing into your mind. (-2 Sanity: 93/100) (+7 Stress: 53/100)

>>33404992

You’re running out of tricks. You try to muster up the hatred necessary to corrupt the approaching demon’s armor, but your concentration is breaking, and it fizzles out before it even does what you wanted it to do. (-2 PP: 16/26) (+1 Stress: 54/100)

Nothing works. You have to run. You turn around and run fast. You don’t take the time to look behind you at the thing pursuing you. In the reflections of windows, however, you see crooked lines of lightning, and you can feel a hard electrical charge in the air.

And then your muscles freeze up painfully, and you collapse mid run to the ground, seizing up with a fire that burns all of your nerves at the same time. It feels like an eternity, but just as abruptly as it begins, it ends, and you’re left twitching on the ground, smoke rising from the surface of your skin. You feel like you’re going to throw up. (+25 Stress: 79/100) (-4 HP: 11/26)

You see a pair of boots step up to you, well out of arm’s reach. You feel another charge of electricity building nearby, and manage to look upward and Meckor, who points a finger at you, while a tongue of live lightning snaps and jolts about the length of his arm.

Still twitching from having been electrocuted for who knows how long, you fight to get to your feet, but manage only to kind of get into a sitting position. You can taste your blood in your mouth. You look around, hoping to see somebody coming your way, but then you look behind you and see an unpleasant face.

>>33405017

“Ah you found her,” says Philostrathus, suddenly behind you somehow.

She seems shaken from her experience with you earlier, but that doesn't stop her making up any more of those damn centipede snake things. A couple of them are crawling out from behind her back as she speaks. She smiles blissfully down at you, far enough away not to be someone you can reach easily.

Meckor ignores Philo, and keeps his attention on you. “Your foul little life mocks her memory no more,” he says in a low growl, pointing his lightning-infused arm at your heart.

You’ve… you have to do something. Anything.

>Move your body. (Hard)
>Fight! Attack everything! Be violent!
>You’re a coward.
>Well, my mom loves me more than you, any day of the week.
>Don’t kill me, man. Can’t you just like, be cool?
>Panic.
>Other (?)

Rolled 18

>>33405058
>Move your body. (Hard)
>Well, my mom loves me more than you, any day of the week.

>>33405058
Explode in fire!

Rolled 79

>>33405058
>Move your body. (Hard)

>>33405102
We don't have to move to explode right?

>>33405058
"So did you actually try to hit on my Mom, then?"

>>33405138
"Oh i get it you lost your girl to a human, that explains a lot"

>>33405058
>>Move your body. (Hard)

>>33405058
>Move your body. (Hard)
>Fight! Attack everything! Be violent!

Pounce onto him, then bite the everloving fuck out of him, inject as much venom into his veins as we can. And Explosive Flare as well, it might do something to him to have us set it off while we're point blank and grabbing onto him.

If that doesn't work try shoving our tail down his throat and lacerate his insides, we're kinda running out of good options.

>>33405058
Oh my god, he's such a blatant racist because our mom fucked a human and made us instead of having pureblood royal demon babies with him. This would be funny if he wasn't trying to murder us.

>>33405058
>Move your body. (Hard)

Are they close enough to use flare on?

Rolled 17

>>33405058
>Fight! Attack everything! Be violent!

Not going out like a punk

>>33405058
>>Move your body. (Hard)
>Well, my mom loves me more than you, any day of the week.

>>33405058
>>33405102
>>33405131
EXPLODE FFS!

>>33405201

Yes.

>>33405058
>Explode

>>33405138
>>33405170
Start with this to get him monologuing, then attempt to move our body.

Rolled 41

>>33405058
>Move your body. (Hard)
>Well, my mom loves me more than you, any day of the week.
>Other (?)
EXPLODE
Drag our paralyzed ass into the shadows, with shadows.

Rolled 34

>>33405058
>Knock his arm into himself
GO SHOCK YOURSELF MOTHERFUCKER

>>33405058
Are we anywhere near a sewer grate or something? We could probably haul our ass with shadows if we could get underground.

>>33405058
>Well, my mom loves me more than you, any day of the week.
"You're the one mocking her memory, asshole."

Issac you fuck where are you?

>>33405537
Back fighting skellies

>>33405058
This is why mom never loved you.

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The suspense is killing me here. D:

“Well you’re the one mocking her memory now, you fucking asshole,” you shout at him. But then an idea comes to your mind. You laugh in his face. “I get it now,” you say, feeling giddy. “It explains everything. Human stole your girl, huh? So’d you ever like, hit on my mom then?”

”I should have executed him,” says Meckor. “Before he made her weak. Before you made her weak. I’m so sorry, my Queen,” a vague look comes over him, and his arm tenses, ready to bolt you with lightning.

And then you explode. (+10 Stress: 89/100) (-8 PP: 3/26)

Philostrathus explodes into sparks as she is wont to do, while her snakes are all reduced to ash.

Meckor stands firm against the explosion, and when it’s over, he glares down at you, breathing heavily. (Lord General Meckor: 16/20 HPElectricity arcs everywhere as he powers up to fry you from the inside out. “It finally ends,” he says.

But your exploding has hidden from him the sudden appearance and approach of something fast.

A series of footfalls in creccendo pounds along from the side, and a massive form charges out of your peripheral vision. Ranthix lunges at Meckor with the speed and weight of a pickup truck, his hide smoked, cracked, and bloodied. (Ranthix: 19/51 HP) “LONG LIVE THE IMPERIATE,” he thunders. “MAY SHE REIGN TEN THOUSAND YEARS!”

Then then he collides with Meckor, and the two go tumbling off into a ball, like cats fighting.

>>33406424
It also killed Languid.

His lawn is called Suspense.

>>33406440
The distraction gives you more than enough time to get back to your feet, and remember how to move again. The peril of unavoidable death lifted, you’re feeling pretty good. (-15 Stress: 74/100)

Hipster guy comes sprinting up the road from the direction Ranthix came from, putting you between him and the huge Infernus. He has odd, segmented skin, like the leathery armored plates Ranthix has, but less thick and more subtle, and he has fine, pointed horns, short, small, and sharp. Add to that a pair of black claws, and that’s actually getting somewhere worthy of your consideration. “Lord General!” he yells.

Meckor breaks free of Ranthix’s headlock long enough to speak. “Kill the hellborn!” he says, just before Ranthix seizes him by the horns and heaves him through the front of a jewelery store, setting off like, a jillion alarms.

“TREASON!” Ranthix says, bursting into flames as he leaps into the store after Meckor. “ALL OF YOU ARE TREASON!!”

“Ranthix you idiot!” shrieks Philstrathus, walking out from behind a parked car as if she’d been there all along, three, four condapedes slithering out from her form. “You can’t commit treason against an empire that doesn’t exist!”

>>33406462

“Let Meckor deal with the traitor,” says the hipster, focusing his attention on you. A trickle of blood runs down his face from his nose, which is slightly scewed to one side. He smiles, and flexes his claws. “Try it again. I dare you,” he says.

With the Hipster and Philostrathus focusing their intention on you. Unfortunately, both of them are between you and where Rowan is. Or maybe that’s a good thing? If they’re with you, they’re certainly not killing them. Unless they killed them already. You try to stop thinking about that. (+5 Stress: 79/100)

>Just so we all know, if you like, hit me too hard, I might freak out and kill everything starting with you guys.
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
>I have like, all the demonbane coming here like, as we speak. Just FYI.
>Run away. Who knows who’ll win in a fight between Ranthix and Meckor.
>>Run away and hide. It’s nighttime, you’re in your element.
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.
>Other (?)

>>33406490
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

>>33406490
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
Hellbolt snakebitch so she either burns or books it, and pull the hipster's legs out from under him, forward this time.
Then go for the throat.

>>33406490
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

Use hellfire too, target Hipster.

>>33406524
I'm voting this she's got no staying power and he just told us to it again so why not.

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>>33406490
>Just so we all know, if you like, hit me too hard, I might freak out and kill everything starting with you guys.
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

SUFFER NOT THE HIPSTER TO LIVE!

>>33406490
>Other (?): SHOUT ROYALLY
"DO YOU REALLY THINK THE EMPIRE WAS GONNA FALL JUST LIKE THAT? ARE YOU ACTUALLY DUMBER THAN RANTHIX? BOW DOWN WHILE YOU STILL HAVE THE CHANCE FOOLS!"

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>>33406559

>>33406559
You know what I am adding this to my vote here, >>33406557

>>33406559
>Who the hell do you think we are

>>33406559
>ARE YOU ACTUALLY DUMBER THAN RANTHIX?

I wouldn't insult the dude that just saved our ass. Twice.

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>>33406559

>>33406490
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

>>33406559
What a strange thing to say.
Also insulting to the only ally we have right now.

Don't say this.

>>33406490
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
"He's more concerned by the fact that my mom never fucked him back in the day than actually conquering or leading. This is all a petty vendetta about unrequited love."

>>33406490
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
>I am more insane, insaner?, sometimes.
>>Just so we all know, if you like, hit me too hard, I might freak out and kill everything starting with you guys.

>>33406557
Voting for this one

>>33406490
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

Pop bug bitch with the whip, charge the fuckers, unleash claw, bite, and tail on Hipster and steal his PP. Inject venom if we can.

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>>33406597
Ranthix is best husbando.

>>33406559
Shout:
- Anon's stupidity knows no bounds.

>>33406559
This sans the insult to best husbando.

>>33406651
It is mostly just fetal alcohol syndrome.

>>33406490
>You guys know Meckor’s fucking insane, right?
>Maybe you can put one of them out of commission real quick. You might not have a gun, but you’ve always got your fire whip.

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>>33406614
OH SHIT!@ BURN!

>>33406462
>ALL OF YOU ARE TREASON
Ranthix, I... I hope that's because English isn't your first language. And not that you're retarded.

Mind you, you're still a brutal, slave-peddling BASTARD, so even if you save our life, there's only so far you can get into our good books. Like, seriously, even if he's saving our life, don't forget the slave operation he was involved in, how nonchalant he is about innocent casualties, and so forth. He may be a worthy ally, but anyone who thinks he's husbando material is fucking retarded.

>>33406559
No insulting Ranthix.

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>>33406490
>>Just so we all know, if you like, hit me too hard, I might freak out and kill everything starting with you guys.

Who are we going to kill? Pic related.

>>33406614
This is good.
>>33406559
This is a level of retardation I'm not familiar with.
Just.
No.

>>33406614
I like this

>>33406714
>Implying they aren't avatars of treason.

>>33406614
>>33406559
These, but without the insult to Ranthix.

>>33406714
Nobody thinks he husbando material. They think he's a great, scene stealing character.
The guy runs around in full giant red demon mode, yells everything he says, and is so dedicaed to sierra's mom's memiry that hes going full Vader on his allies right now, and its amazing.

>>33406714
>complaining about his grammar while he saves your life

>>33403440
Sierra and Harvey will NEVER be a thing, right?

Roll some dice for that fire whipping.

Rolled 46

>>33406847
Depends on us, really

>>33406868
Diiiiice

>>33406847
Nope.
Neither will Sierra and Wolfgang.
Neither will Sierra and Ranthrix.

Rolled 11

>>33406868

Rolled 21

>>33406868

>>33406878
Fuck you, one of those three will work out

>>33406885
You are a great person

Rolled 84

>>33406868

>>33406462
>“ALL OF YOU ARE TREASON!!”
Ranthix, did you take acting lessons under Brian Blessed?

>>33406614
Might as well mention this fact.

>>33406559
Jesus, no...

>>33406885
Not bad. Not bad at all.

>>33406874
But be real, check this guy: >>33406878

He represents the majority

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>>33406772
>Nobody thinks he husbando material.

>>33406944
Once Sierra is the Empress, she can have all of the husbandos

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>>33406962
Gangbang all day, errday.

>>33406772
>english
Hey Ranthrix, you forgot your caps.

>>33406440
>>33406462
Ranthix best demon

>>33406962
They are called consorts

>>33406878
>Neither will Sierra and Wolfgang.
Fuck you.

>>33406885
Good job.

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>>33406878
Sierra and Moriah. All day every day.

>>33407098
She may become something like a consort or mistress, but a monogamous relationship with her is pretty implausible.

>>33407146
We do have to pump out heirs after all

>>33407098
Sierra's straight.

>>33407146
Zero chance in hell.

>>33407162
And teach them Treason.

>>33407196
Good thing we aren't in hell.
Kinda surprised that demons are so against same-sex relationships, though.

>>33407162
Which makes me wonder: demonbane and hellborn babies = Jesus?

>>33407098
By far the least in-character choice

>>33407257
Nope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7N7TDBceHY

>>33407257
Why would a demonbane-hellborn hybrid become the physical reincarnation of a god?

>>33407384
Sorry, terrible/offensive example. I was thinking in terms of uniqueness and completion of being.

>>33407257
That would be a nephilim.

>>33407146
Gotta gargle some marbles.

>>33407257
4 kids. 2 normal humans, 1 Demonbane, 1 Hellborn

>>33407769
What?

>>33407792
He's talking about Mendelian genetics, assuming Hellborn/Demonbane are heterozygous mixed-dominant traits tied to only a single gene.

Which is kinda dumb as fuck.

>>33407792
Well, Demon and Angel might cancel out to make human. If demon-ness and angel-ness works like regular genetics, you'd get a spread like that.

You shake out your fire whip. (-2 PP: 1/26) “You guys know Meckor’s insane, right?” you ask, circling around the Belphegoran as you edge toward Philostrathus and her snakes.

“The Lord General is a brilliant man,” says the hipster, wary of possible attack. “It doesn’t shock me some backwater bastard doesn’t grasp the methodology.”

You snort, keeping an eye on Philo’s approaching serpents. “Do you, even? This whole invasion shtick, it’s not going to work out,” you say. “Why do you think Waldric bailed on you guys? Like, he’s an ass, but he’s not stupid! Meckor’s having weirdo flashbacks about how him and my mom were never a thing back in the day and boy, he’s got some serious issues – I mean, maybe he used to be good at conquering and stuff, but that’s the last thing on his mind now.”

One of Philo’s snakes comes at you, and you crack your whip across its face. Its head explodes, and its body goes limp. Its master, however, laughs ruefully at you. “You may be blind to it, but the majesty of Meckor’s dreams are on the cusp of reality!” says Philostrathus. “Chthonia will rise from the ashes with twice the splendor, for I have seen it, and it is beautiful!” She begins laughing wildly, in elation at the vision of it, which no doubt plays before her eyes at this moment.

Well, you’re just about close enough, so you lay an exploding lash onto Philostrathus, cutting her frenzied laughter short as she explodes into nothingness. “Man, you guys are just as bad,” you say to yourself.

>>33407833

You feel it more than you see it – a surge of negative energy, kind of like what you’ve been tossing around all these years. Except, it’s not yours. It’s building up with Hipster guy. You turn on him and start whipping at him, running sideways to outpace the remaining condapedes that Philostrathus has left behind. Seriously, it’s kind of gross how many of those things are crawling out around her all the time.

The Belphegoran dodges your whip strikes, and you dodge a couple invisible blasts of energy. You carefully avoid eye contact with the demon, not wanting to have a rehash experience like what you had with Cordeliate, and keep up the pressure. You see an opening, then, when he steps next to a park car, under which is more than enough shadow to accomplish what you want.

You narrow your eyes with him and prod the shadow with your will, it becoming an extension of your awareness. The shadow gushes out and wraps around Hipster’s skinny jean clad legs, gumming him up enough with the last vestiges of your power to get at least one solid hit on him. (-1 PP: 0/26)

>>33407862
Yeah remember those guys who said we had enough PP to skip passives?

>>33407862


The lash crashes down on his shoulder and explodes, staggering him and setting his jacket on fire. The side of his head, neck, and part of the front of his body is charred from the blast. (Hipster: 18/24)

The jewelry shop is now fully aflame, and you can’t tell what’s going on in there, but whatever it is it sounds loud and violent. As much as you’d love to stick around and see who makes it out, you also don’t want to do that at all.

So while Hipster vampire is busy ripping off his jacket, you head for the hills. You doubt he can keep up with you now.

You run, noticing that your clothes still smoulder gently in the night air. You're getting tired, and you're not sure how much longer you can keep this kind of crap up.

>Focus on speed.
>Hide someplace.
>Try to hide your features.
>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.
>Other (?)

>>33407862
Jesus, we were never supposed to win this fight, were we?

>>33407902
>>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
>>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.

Listen, I feel bad for the muggles, but we need a pick me up or it's their ass

>>33407902
Dark heart.

>>33407902
>>Try to hide your features.
>>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them

>>33407902
>Try to hide your features.
>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.

>>33407902
>>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
>>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.

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>>33407905
wow so smart
you already figured this out?
I'm sure it would have taken me at least 3 more threads

>>33407900
Who said that?
I was saying we should buy some Belph powers, and my reasons for saying such still stand.
If anything, Soul Drinker would just help solve our PP problem.
Hell, it might even lead to passives that increase our PP cap.

>>33407902
>Try to hide your features
>Try to find a crowd and Dark heart all of them

>>33407902
>>Try to hide your features.
>>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
>>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.

>>33407902
>Focus on speed.
>Try to hide your features.
>Try to find a crowd and dark heart all of them.
I can't even remember what dark heart did, but it sounds great.

>>33407905
Papa Hallow is on his way, we've still got back up

>>33407902
>>Try to circle around and link back up with Rowan.

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>>33407902
It is time for a mana transfer.

>>33407821
>>33407822

Thanks! I'm feeling ignorant for failing to get it.

Roll some dice.

>>33408017
I don't know which anon is which, but one said that.

And while I am ok with getting soul drinker, we shouldn't go for belph due to what MIGHT show up later.

Rolled 8

>>33408067
Nat100 inc

Rolled 49

>>33408067

Rolled 75

>>33408067

Rolled 14

>>33408067

>>33408085
Thank you, based anon

Rolled 35

>>33408067
I've rolled well so far.

>>33408085
I'm glad that you're so bad at making predictions

>>33407900
We do have enough. We're facing the BBEG and his LTs without any backup or any opportunities to drain PP back. We need to invest in some Belphegorian powers so we can fuck demons from the inside out.

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>>33408082
I only really want the Soul Drinker tree and Imbue Corruption tree so that we can bypass bullshit physical defence abilities and more effectively regain PP.

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>>33408085
Delicious PP.

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>>33408137
That's what I want as well. Fuck these motherfucking physical invulnerable asshats. Getting tired of their bullshit.

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>>33408085
Hell yea

>yfw you realize Languid has to ramp up threats because we always do bullshit good rolls whenever our life is threatened

Isn't Dark Hearting a crowd full of normies evil as fuck?

>>33408313
We already faced a pool and we almost died.

Next he will make us face the Lawn

>>33408313
I just really wanted Sierra to rampage

>>33408336
Last I recall it doesn't actually hurt them. They end up tired and complaining about being cold, but that's about it.

>>33408336
We are US deputy marshall. We need to confiscate your PP citizens in order to apprehend a dangerous criminal.

>>33408381
You mean run the fuck away from a dangerous criminal right?

You get a head start, but the Belphegoran is hot on your heels, and he’s a lot fresher than you are. Still, you’ve claimed a minor victory, and it makes you feel in control of what’s happening, even if you’re not. (-10 Stress: 69/100)

You force yourself to keep up speed, and grind your gears into hiding away your freaky features. If you can find people, you can get more energy for more fighting. Luckily, your running has been toward a main street, and even if it is in the middle of the night, there’s bound to be people someplace.

The only place you can think of, though, is maybe a bus stop or something. You wrack your mind for city knowledge, and recall that you’ve been in this part of San Fransisco before, a few months back. If memory serves you correct, you just need to turn onto that street and…. You round a corner and see it up ahead, the bus station sign. Between all the 24 hour stores, there are at least some people out here late at night, and there’s three at the bus stop. Jackpot!

You sprint at the people. A big fat guy and a couple seedy looking dudes look warily at your rapid approach, but even they aren’t expecting what happens when you run up toward them, clothes singed, tights torn, and cuts and bite marks on your arms and legs. “High fives!” you say, holding out a scraped up hand for the masses, not even caring if they see your fire whip.

>>33408537

Almost reflexively they comply, holding out their hands for you to slap as you sprint by. Three rapid, stinging slaps later, and you’re getting somewhere. (+6 PP: 6/26)

“Dude, get me some of whatever she’s taking,” says one of the guys behind you, as you skid around a corner and dodge out of sight down a side road.

Philostrathus greets you. “This is an exercise in futility,” she says, snakes snapping up at you.

But you just jump the insect snake things and run by, and she doesn’t do much to stop you.

And then, a bright point of light forms in the air. You mistake it at first for a passing jet or something, but then fucking Meckor sails out of the sky out of nowhere and lands a stone’s throw in front of you, burning with bright yellow flames once again. He doesn’t look any worse for wear after his brush with Ranthix, but boy does he look pissed. (Lord General Meckor: 16/20)

Oh crap. (+10 Stress: 79/100)

>Oh crap.
>Double back.
>Power past him.
>Get indoors.
>Other (?)

>>33408413
I hope we at least can get a good chance to ambush and permanently take care of a lieutenant.

>>33408564
>>Get indoors.
"Hey how you doing, well look at the time, I gotta go."

>>33408564
Throw a blob of shadow into his face and book it past him.

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>>33408564
>>Power past him.

>>33408564
>Double back.

>>33408619
I like he proposed dialogue, but we should try to power past him instead.

>>33408564
Pounce on the motherfucker, try to sink our god damn fangs into a soft spot and fill him with venom. As well as draining more PP.

It might catch him off balance, and running won't work. He can track our scent, probably, and just lightning us from afar.

Rolled 57

>>33408564
Bare claws as if we're going to attack. Charge at him.
Slide between his legs and keep running.

>>33408564
>Get indoors.
More people, more power and Meckor might be to big to fit through doors easily

>>33408564
Give him the double deuce as we run indoors.

>>33408564
>>Get indoors.

>>33408564
>Oh crap.
>Get indoors.

Roll dice.

Rolled 32

>>33408807

Rolled 29

>>33408807

Rolled 24

>>33408807

Rolled 84

>>33408807

Rolled 17

FIRST TIME ROLLIN

Rolled 17

>>33408807

>>33408832
If only it had counted...

>>33408827
Not bad.

>>33408827
This is going to hurt.

If we gon' and do husbandos, I vote Harvey because he damn well knows how to deal with our (lesser) rages.
And that hug in episode 2 or 3 was tight, yoh

>>33409999
I WOULD have been down for that.

But after that adoption proposal, he's our unofficial younger brother. And I'm not too interested in complicating that with banging.

>>33409999
>9999
Holy mother of quads!

>>33409999
Thing is, from what I've seen of Harvey is that he's a bit...emotionless, and more of a friend/brother. He's also not really that close to Sierra.

You flip Meckor off and turn to the side, and run to the front doors of some building you think is residential. It’s locked, and you heatedly blast the lock with the darkness within to break it open. (-3 PP: 3/26) You barge inside and take off down the hall of doors, even as you hear pounding boots behind you as Meckor makes pursuit and ignites everything into flame as he goes. The flames almost immediately trigger the sprinklers, and all of his roiling fires are extinguished, as is his ability to produce lightning. You’re able to turn and weave enough to hold off any effort he makes at doing anything magical, but it doesn’t give you any real time to evade. Before you know it, you’re running out the back door of the building and into another side street.

You go to leap of the edge of the stairs that lead down the sidewalk when you feel a hand seize your jacket. You effortlessly slip out of it and jump forward and out of Meckor’s grasp, and into the middle of the street. You see a crooked little passage almost straight ahead, and you make a break for it, it being your only real way out of this mess.

You round the corner and see only one thing. Snakes. Fucking snakes everywhere, like, two dozen of them. They spill out before you, impossible and ugly and chittering. You almost get the feeling you could walk on them they’re stacked so high, but at the last second you dare not risk it. These things are bad news.

>>33410059

And then you’re seized and grabbed by the neck, and hoisted into the air. You can feel his power going into you as Meckor’s skullface glowers at you, but it’s too little, too late. (+4 PP: 7/28) He shakes you violently with both hands wrapped around your neck as you struggle to break his grip, to tense your neck so he can’t cut off your windpipe or snap your neck. If it wasn’t for the pressure of shadows pressing back out against his grip, you have no doubt he’d just wring your head off or something.

“You stole her life!” he yells in your face, his bones dull without the glow of the flame to them. He’s still soaking wet. “You stole her from us!”

You feel pressure building in your skull. You’re going to pass out or explode or die or something. Your vision is swimming, and your claws just slip uselessly off his fingers. Fucking magic. (+17 Stress: 96/100) (-7 HP: 4/26)

As you’re about to pass out, something happens, and you’re dropped to the ground like a bag of rocks. You gasp for air and cough at the same time, which doesn’t really work, and you quickly regain your senses.

Meckor has fallen to a knee, and a glowing gold crossbow bolt sticks out of his side, right out of his breastplate, burning with smoking white mist that hurts to look at. (Lord General Meckor: 7/20 HP) “The butcher,” he breathes, looking to the source of the attack.

>>33410077

Isaac walks confidently toward you as he feeds another bolt into his crossbow and starts reeling it up. The bolt starts smoking white as soon as its settled in place. “Meckor, this ends tonight,” he calls out, a gold halo fixed above his head. It’s not a ring of light so much as it is a solid gold band, glowing hazily in the night air.

Snakes pour out of the alleyway along with Philostrathus, and you see the Hipster come out of the door that Meckor pursued you through. His eyes widen at the sight of Isaac. “No,” says the Belphegoran, wincing at the pain speaking causes him with half his face burned off. “The demonbane is here!”

“Now is the time!” says Philostrathus. “Kill the heir!”

Meckor, however, is backing off from Isaac, and away from you. “The advantage is not ours,” he says. “We will avenge all when the time is right.”

“The time is right! The time of her doom is nigh!” Philostrathus yells. “It is now!”

The General, however, turns away and runs, picking up speed. Water steams off of him as he builds up heat – whatever he’s trying to do, the water’s keeping him from doing it.

Isaac takes aim at Meckor’s back.

The Belphegoran makes a beeline toward Philostrathus. “Run! Meckor commands it!”

“If he will not kill her, I will!” Philostrathus screams at the Hipster dude. And before you know it, a literal boiling mass of fucking condapedes is bearing down on you, faster than you can move or think. Oh no. (+4 Stress: 100/100)

>>33410099

Stay calm – snakes, they’re no big deal, you reason with yourself as you see the nightmare roiling toward you. (-3 Sanity: 90/100)

You look back at Isaac – this is all almost over. But when you look at him, his aim is wavering at a point between Meckor and Philostrathus.

You see Isaac’s aim on Meckor waver at the sight of your impending doom. You probably won’t be eaten by snakes, but there’s not a chance in hell you’ll be able to go through that kind of crap without losing it.

While Philostrathus cackles at your impending doom, Meckor’s getting away – you’re not in mortal peril, not actually (maybe), but this could be the good guys’ team only shot at Meckor, and who knows what other BS he’ll cook up in the meantime if he escapes?

But what if you do lose it, and you wake up to some other dead guy? Or like, multiple dead people? That… you don’t know if you can handle that, not again.

Isaac seems torn between targets, but if he hesitates too long, it’ll be too late to take either shot.

>Do something!
>Isaac?
>Shoot the bastard!
>Help me!
>Other (?)

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!

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>>33410133
>Shoot Meckor already!

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
Give him permission to kill Meckor. We'll be okay. It's okay, Isaac.

Even if we're not okay, stopping that lunatic is more important.

>>33410133
>>Shoot the bastard!

Rolled 62

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
"Fucking shoot him, Isaac!"

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
"TAKE THE SHOT"

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!

We don't have enough spare stress or PP to use Flare, which sucks, but we can probably cut a swath through them with our whip, hopefully enough to retreat and not splode.

>>33410133
Use shadow to spring ourselves out of danger.

Maybe, just maybe, seeing a golden bolt appear in Meckor's thrice-damned black heart will make us feel better about the impending flood of condapedes.

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
>Other
Do we have enough PP for a Flare right now?

Okay, just so everyone knows, this is a really, really big deal. Barring some ultra crit roll, you're not going to worm your way out of the consequences.

>>33410268

QM Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellbornQuest
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The character sheet is the thing you should look at.

>>33410273
Well if Isaac hadn't hesitated, he could have shot Meckor then helped us. I think everyone here is pretty certain what Sierra would say, Languid.

>>33410273
Oh shit this is trading Meckor for Isaac isn't it!?

>>33410273
Let's take the risk.

>>33410133
>Help me!

>>33410273
Well, fuck. I guess tell him to shoot the snake bitch, then.

>>33410312

It's a crossbow. He can't load and fire two bolts fast enough to get Meckor and save you.

>>33410316

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but Isaac's not in danger. You are.

Anyway, it was your guys' crazy rolls that lead you to have this choice in the first place, so this is a good thing, kind of.

>>33410329
Going with this.

What if we used our Fire Whip to latch onto something and swing ourselves away?

Or, of all else fails, we corrupted ourself?

>>33410273
>consequences

/tg/ is shit at dealing with consequences. But let's do it anyway.

>>33410273
It'll probably end terribly.

But it's gets rid of the biggest threat we know of, and he probably won't be able to stop the swarm of murder-insects coming at us, so in all likelihood we're going to stress explode no matter what.

>>33410273
Snake bitch it is then.

>>33410363
>>33410312
But he could have shot Meckor immediately then used anything else he had to help up.

>>33410390
Except he has nothing else.

>>33410363
Well shit as long as poppa angle's okay lets go for it.

>>33410376
I like this idea too but I think we don't have the time to pull ourselves away to safety here.

>>33410376
>Corrupt ourself

Do it

>>33410380

Unless Isaac fails horribly, he can help you. This isn't one of those, you have only one real decision and one outcome things.

>>33410390

He's far away, and there are too many snakes to deal with in any other way than doing something to Philostrathus.

>>33410413
If we survive this, it might be an excellent time to remind him that carrying a firearm just in case is a really good idea.

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
>Inb4 we roll a nat one and get away scot-free
That probably won't happen, but oh well.

>>33410437
Covering ourself in hellfire might be a better idea.
Suffusing ourself in raw hate doesn't seem smart when we're this close to a breakdown and we're immune to fire.

We have some pp, explode the snakes.

>>33410475
We have 7.

We need 8.

>>33410475
Explosive flare needs 8 pp and would shoot us up to 110 stress.

>>33410416
>angle
He sure is obtuse

>>33410466
We currently have 6 pp. We need 8 PP + 10 stress (could possibly push ourselves and spend Sanity for it). So one melee and we have it. So we prepare the fire to the degree that we can, melee one centipede for it's PP, then use the absorbed energy to release the fire.

>>33410492
Now I'm saying this is a bullshit idea but could we summon the familiar and corrupt it so it explodes or something?

>>33410450
Just out of idle curiosity, could our teeth have done anything to Meckor?

>>33410513
Can we even Dark Heart the snakes? I remember we touched them before and I don't think it worked.

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
SHOOT HER!

>>33410133
>Shoot the bastard!
I'm so going to regret this

>>33410535
Yes, we can.

>>33410450
I think you might want to do a number vote on this.

Is hipster in range to whip? Maybe we can drag him to us.
Alternatively we're in an alley. Maybe there's a dumpster?
Or we can just suck it up and get mauled by a ton of fuckoff snakes.

>>33410533

You couldn't even tear his shirt with your claws. Your teeth weren't going to do anything.

>>33410513

You can't decide to spend sanity or stress. That happens as the character demands. Right now that'd be stress.


And for all of you who voted
>Shoot the bastard!
Which one are you talking about? I assumed the consensus would be that it would mean Meckor, but I think there's a lot of you that wanted it to mean Philostrathus.

Also, your whip can't grapple, it's made of fire.

>>33410617
And if hipster is close enough to even knock down and dive on, we can drink a bit too.
Maybe.

>>33410597
Number vote? Why? It seems pretty unanimous that everyone wants Issac to shoot Meckor.

>>33410133
Do we have enough shadow around to stop the snakes? Like make wall or something?

>>33410500
I have shamed myself and my ancestors.

I think this might be a quest ending scenario.

>Congratulations! You died, but at least Meckor did too and LA is saved!

>>33410636

We'll probably do a number vote on this. We'll do one in five minutes at the 40 mark, so be there. You have been alerted.

Inb4 end of quest because Sierra is kill. Or we start again as Nevada

>>33410636
Meckor.

>>33410636
I just asumed it would be Meckor, Philostrathus will simply tp away

>>33410636
Meckor, kill the fuck out of him.

>>33410642
Because it's damn important and the wording of some people's votes seems to imply that they think 'shoot the bastard' means shoot Philo.

>>33410681

It's a magic piercing angel crossbow.

>>33410687
Even if we die it will be worth it.

Utilitarianism ho.

>>33410636
I thought it meant Meckor honestly.

>>33410694
The only guy that worded it in a way someone might confuse it for a vote to shoot philo was referencing jurassic park.

>>33410694
>some people's
I see one person. Are there others?

>>33410636
>I assumed the consensus would be that it would mean Meckor
You're ENTIRELY CORRECT.

>>33410726
That was me, sorry. I want him to shoot Meckor. I was just referencing Jurassic Park. I apologize for any confusion I've caused.

>>33410273
>the consequences
Are you of the QMing school of thought that the MC should be able to die at any time or are you one to keep them alive to prolong the suffering?

Anyway, number vote.

1. Kill Meckor
2. Kill Philostrathus.

No post quoting.

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

2

1

2

1

1

>>33410810

The MC can die, but only at dramatically appropriate moments and when given plenty of forewarning. This isn't quite at quest ending tier yet, though.

1

1

1

2

Here's my argument for crying out for help.

Guys. We got a lot of information tonight. We know what Meckor is capable of and as well his lieutenants. They even given us a name of who they're trying to bring over here. That's big, guys. We'll be able to fight it since we know its name. Tonight has been very profitable despite our beaten body. Also, the only reason why he wanted us dead tonight was to release us from our landline. He can't summon Godzilla without that landline. Us being alive and mentally sane is being a major thorn in his plans.

1

1

Seems like a landslide victory for Meckor, so far