No Compromise

Sally looks for a moment, legitimately nervous, "I... I can't give you Del..." she says and then shakes her head, "if you won't give up Maple and I can't give you Del, then I suppose there is no negotiation. I promise when I defeat you, I'll take good care of you all," she says and starts the fight by immediately shooting at Maple. Maple manages to barely dodge the shot and all hell immediately breaks loose afterwards. As Goma sounds the horn and Yulia casts energize, multiple panels on the walls and ceilings of the room open and more tricks emerge. A central ceiling panel opens and reveals a turret, two strange sirens appear out of either wall and as they begin blaring a haunting sound Yulia grabs her head and seems to be struggling with the sound, Lemiel also seems severely affected. The rest of the group try to rush the shields. EMPs are thrown but while they still let out a slight concussive blast, the electromagnetic part seems to be missing, still they aren't entirely ineffective like this, essentially just changed to concussion grenades. They can't turn off the shields, but they do temporarily knock them around.

Lri casts an illusion and Sally speaks, "Nice try, but I have set my sights to read life signs, I can see that Illusion for what it is, I'll also still be able to see you while invisible!" she declares and shoots Lri in the chest. Lri falls on her back, but quickly gets back up, her suit and gun deactivated however Cherchiel notices that Yulia and Lemiel are being affected by the strange sirens and decides to deal with them. She moves to the left one and manages to destroy it with a quick slice of her blade, but as she turns to head to the right one the turret takes aim and fires at her. She's surprised as it fires a spray of gel at her that hits her legs and her eyes widen as she recognizes the gel, especially as it rapidly eats through her suit and armor and makes her legs feel numb. She dives into a roll, barely avoiding a second shot.

Maple sees Cherchiel almost get hit with stasis gel and turns her attention onto the turret, hitting it with a plasma shot that fails to fully disable it, but does damage it, causing it to struggle a bit more to aim itself. She's gearing up for a second shot on it when she feels an arm wrap around the back of her neck and a gun press against her spine, "Greetings," Sally says before shooting a stun shot directly into her back, disabling her and then hitting her immediately with a second one that makes her entire body spasm before Sally drops her, stunned onto the ground.

Isalia has made it over to the shields and has managed to blast one, disabling it temporarily, however as she tries to take out the console, another defense mechanism is made obvious as the floor suddenly opens and a number of mechanical tendrils suddenly lash out and catch her arms, pulling her to the ground and making her shot miss, she struggles against the tentacles as they continue to wrap around her, pinning her down on the ground and pulling her weapon from her, before they also begin to try and tear off her armor and suit.

Goma manages to take out the turret with a shot as Cherchiel also manages to take out the second beacon and Sally noticing the beacons have been destroyed goes after Cherchiel as Goma and the now recovered Lemiel and Yulia go after the shields now. Cherchiel dodges a shot from Sally, but instead of trying to get distance she charges her, Sally clearly taken by surprise by this action. Cherchiel reaches her and gets shot in the gut, deactivating her, but she doesn't care as she drops the blade and uses both hands to grab the gun instead. Sally and Cherchiel locked in conflict over the gun now. Sally is panicking as she struggles to break Cherchiel's grip on the gun, spotting that the rest of the group are engaging the shields now.

"Let go!" she yells as she tries to fire the gun, but Cherchiel keeps it pointed away from her.

Lri, Yulia, Lemiel and Goma are all near the console now. Yulia uses one hand to deactivate a bunch of the shields at once with a lightning strike and then the console is left fully ****, before anyone can take advantage however, the last failsafe goes off.

The console detonates. A burst of energy hits Yulia, Goma, Lemiel and Lri and immediately downs all of them, leaving them fully stunned and their suits deactivated, however doing this has disabled the shields and the Sally hologram. Everything in the room is shut down, including most of the group, but not the entirety of the group. Cherchiel, now holding the gun since it fell from Sally's grip when her hologram deactivated, approaches the inert console. She watches as it slowly starts to boot back up, but never gives it the chance. She uses the gun to shoot the console, multiple times, deactivating it forever.

She then gathers her stunned compatriots together in the center of the room and frees Isalia, from the deactivated, but still tightly coiled tentacles.

"We won," she says and Isalia, partially stripped, her suit torn nods and the two of them sit down, next to their stunned comrades and wait for them to wake up.

They do all wake up a bit later and luckily, their deactivated tech also seems to come back after a short rest. Yulia taking the time to also mend Isalia and Cherchiel's damaged suits and armor.

"I guess all that's left is Administration," Yulia says.

"Indeed and that has to be where she's keeping Del as well," Maple responds.

Combat: Operations Sally

Difficulty: 5

Knows your tricks +20

Shutdown Shot +20

Dampening Field +10

Invincible Enemy +10

Shields +30

Anti-Magic Beacons +10

Stasis Gel Cannon +10

Life Sign Reader +10

Restrictor Tendrils +10

Desperation Attack +10

Energize -12

Hunting Horn -12

Lightning Strike -14

**** Lance -14

EMP Grenades -5

Illusion -0

Cloak -0

Plasma Rifles - 60

Plasma Blade -10

Angelic Rays -12

Final Difficulty: 6

Yulia Roll: 12

Result: Success

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Inventory: 105 EMP grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 sewing kit, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 3 two liter jugs of Lemiel's Milk, 3 health potion, 5 mana potions, 7 vials of Semen, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 0 grenades, Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Binding Bandages, golden bangles, silk gloves, Siren Queen's black heavy armor, black bikini bottoms, Smithing Ingredients (104 metal plates), 2 cure potions.

Yulia's Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit(currently removed). Ceramic Beaked Mask (currently Removed), Reinforced Monastic Scapular (currently removed), standard bra (currently removed), Standard Panties (currently removed), Ornate Rapier (-3), Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel), Cloak of Turbulent Waves (immunity to ranged attacks and offensive magic), Demon Horn Hairband (-2 to all ice magic, currently removed), tech armor, tech bodysuit (Core upgrade: speed, Special Upgrade: Light Module, Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10).

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Masterful Unlock (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%-10%)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed, Cost currently halved rounded down: 1% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Cloak (Lvl 1, mastered, cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

God's Light: (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 3, Masochism Rank: 3, Lesbian rank: 4, Submission Rank: 3, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 2, Degradation Rank: 2, Exhibition Rank: 1, Anal Rank: 2.

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Faithless: Yulia gains no effect from support spells cast on her, but offensive spells cast by her double in effectiveness. Lasts until faith is restored or replaced.

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia, Lri, Lemiel, Maple.

Cherchiel Health: 100%

Cherchiel Mana: 100%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini(currently removed), plasma Sword (-10), Tech Armor.

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Goma Health: 100%

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma Equipment: Ritual Knife of Escaping Threads (-1, -3 with boar mask, automatic -5 when being used against tentacles, webs or other binding methods), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage,) Tech Armor worn over her hide outfit, Swim Trunks (currently removed), tentacle dagger (-3), Scepter of Still Waters, Plasma Rifle.

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%), Puppet (Mastered, 10% per active command)

Goma Status Effect: Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak.

Isalia Health: 100%

Isalia Mana: 100%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Masterwork Trident (-3)(Unequipped), Isalia's Shield (-3), One Piece Swimsuit (Currently removed), plasma rifle (-10), Tech Armor, Tech Suit (Core Upgrade: Speed).

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 5% per 1% Health healed)

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1, Domination Rank: 1.

Isalia Status Effect:

Lri Health: 100%

Lri Mana: 100%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3), black swimsuit (currently removed), Blood drinker, tech armor (Sans helmet), tech suit (Core upgrade: speed), plasma rifle (-10), 3 EMP grenades, Veil of Hidden Depths, fishbowl of Illusions.

Lri Status Effect:

Lemiel Health: 200%

Lemiel Mana: 200%

Lemiel Equipment: Angelic Visor, twin magic blades (Summoned, -10, take 5% mana to summon), Tech Armor, Tech Suit (Core Upgrade: Strength, Special Upgrade: Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10).

Lemiel Spells Known: Angelic Rays (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 20%), Heavenly Soothing (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%), Retribution (Lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 100%, unusable, triggers automatically at 0% hp if Lemiel has enough Mana to trigger it), The One True God's Judgment (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 100%), God's Light (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Lemiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat level raised to high.

Maple Health: 100%

Maple Mana: 100%

Maple Equipment: Tech armor (Helmet removed), tech suit (Core upgrade: Speed, special upgrade: Conversion), plasma rifle (-10), targeting helmet, rail gun bow (-10 when used ignores evasion abilities or resistances), 9 cross bow bolts.

Maple Status Effect:

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