Sticks and Stones

The two massive stick creatures approach as Yulia casts Identify.

"despite their appearance and surroundings they are disturbingly flesh and bone like any normal human, simply twisted into a simple approximation of the normal human form instead. Their simple, thin frames make them difficult to hit and makes their own hits the equivalent of being smacked with a... well a very large stick. Ranged attacks might be at a disadvantage, but it is also not recommended to engage in melee combat with these monstrosities," the spell returns.

One of the figures raises his arm and brings it down where Yulia is standing, Cherchiel moves and tackles her aside as the arm comes down and kicks up a huge amount of disturbingly spirally dust as well as gouging a massive ravine into the grassy ground. Cherchiel quickly gets to her feet as Yulia stands back up.

Goma sounds the horn. As another one swings it's arm in a sweeping motion. Cherchiel **** to protect Yulia raises her shield. The arm impacts and Cherchiel let's out a horrified sound as the **** of the impact, lifts her and carries her along with the sweep, the sweep knocking Yulia, Maple, Sally and Isalia aside as well, but Cherchiel's shield does manage to focus the brunt of the impact protecting the others from being more than simply brushed aside. Cherchiel however, doesn't fare quite as well. When the sweep ends she is tossed through the air and lands hard on her back as her shield cracks and then splits in half.

Yulia stares at where Cherchiel fell with horror and runs over towards her as Maple screams to the others, "get back! We need to get distance from these things!"

Talwa and Lemiel open fire on the nearer one with fire spells and angelic rays. The rays struggle to hit, but the fire is more all encompassing and manages to ignite the central spine of the creature who let's out a horrendous sound as it barrels towards Talwa. The other one however suddenly runs forward and catches it from behind, halting it's forward movement as Goma puppets the second one.

This doesn't last long, however as the first one elbows the second one in the head forcing it to let go and then rushes forward. Sally moves to protect Talwa and receives a punch that is the equivalent of being on the receiving end of a swinging steel beam. Sally is lifted off her feet and tossed through the air. Maple takes aim and shoots with her rail gun bow and pegs the first one in the skull. It makes another horrid noise and then topples forward as the group scramble to get out of it's way as it collapses, luckily despite the heavy impact, it's thin form means it doesn't cover much area. The second one still seems to be under the effect of puppet and simply stands waiting for orders.

Yulia is kneeling beside Cherchiel healing her while muttering to herself.

"You're okay... You'll be okay," she says. A sentiment that turns out to be true as Cherchiel groans and sits up, mostly only her arms which were bracing the shield are injured and the healing takes care of that.

Sally is more damaged, her torso burst open from the impact, she's still functioning, but her form is badly damaged and Maple and Lemiel are trying to decide if it's possible to fix her.

"If... If they had hit anyone else head on... They'd probably have killed them," Lemiel mutters.

"A fight meant not to be difficult, but to potentially kill..." Alide confirms.

"Don't underestimate the threat Lydia poses," Dahlia adds.

Yulia stands and turns on Dahlia, "you... You didn't cast pressure! The voices-" she starts and Dahlia crosses her arms.

"I don't have to listen to the voices, just you..." Dahlia says and Yulia blinks and glares at her before stepping up to her, her attempt at intimidation slightly hampered by her much smaller size, but the threat she poses to Dahlia is immense which more than makes up for it. Dahlia balks and steps back.

"You will listen to what the voices command as if they were me," Yulia declares and Dahlia swallows.

"F... fine..." she says and turns her head away.

Cherchiel is holding the two halves of her shield in her lap and she looks sad and holds it out to Yulia, "fix it?" she asks and Yulia blinks and casts repair. Cherchiel looks relieved and holds her shield lovingly. Yulia stares at her for a few seconds and then looks at Dahlia before looking to the rest of the group.

"Isalia... Lri... Why didn't either of you do anything?" she asks.

"Well it was over so quickly..." Lri offers and Isalia quickly nods.

"Yeah and what about Beck! She didn't do anything either!" Isalia says pointing at Beck who simply stares back at Isalia.

"Beck's basically a braindead moron, you can't expect her to really do anything," Maple says as she lifts Sally to her feet. Sally is still damaged and Yulia blinks and approaches casting repair on Sally.

"Oh... I should have thought of that," Lemiel says and Yulia blinks.

"Did... Did you try to cast heal on Sally? The Robot?" she asks and Lemiel shrugs.

"It might have worked..." she says nervously.

A quiet chuckle reaches Yulia and she turns to see Alide covering her mouth with a hand to stifle laughter.

"What... What's happening. Alide, tell me what's going on!" she yells and Alide laughs harder before stopping.

"It wouldn't be any fun if I told you... But I will say... You definitely had a stronger response to Cherchiel getting injured than usual. You should know she's stronger than that, shouldn't you?" Alide says and Yulia swallows.

"I just thought... I mean she went flying and her shield broke and..." Yulia starts and then slowly stops speaking, "I was so scared..." she admits, looking surprised at the idea.

"Yoo Lee Ah... What do with stick man?" Goma asks pointing at the remaining stick figure.

"I... Don't know," Yulia says staring at the waiting figure.

Combat: Stick Guardians.

Difficulty: 20

Battering Rams +20

Difficult Target +20

Petulance +50

Hunting Horn -18

Puppet -30

Rail Gun Bow -10

Ultra Durable Shield -5

Firestorm -20

Great Fireball -15

Angelic Rays -5

Final Difficulty: 7

Yulia's Roll: 11

Result: success.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Inventory:18 EMP grenades, 17 Aphrodisiac Grenades, 17 incendiary Grenades, 17 fragmentation grenades, 18 flash grenades, 17 smoke grenades, 12 healing kits, 1 sewing kit, 8 days worth of rations, 1 two liter water jug, 3 two liter jugs of Lemiel's Milk, 2 empty two liter water jugs, 12 mana infused health potions, 12 health potion, 12 mana infused mana potions, 100 mana potions, 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 2 grenades, Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 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 (98 metal plates), 12 mana infused cure potions, Shutdown Gun, Weight of Righteous Justice (0 against most enemies, -20 against Tower Below Denizens), Wall of Sacrifice (-2 at 0 sacrifices), Slayer's Handbow, Ring of Sanctity.

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), 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, 5 remaining charges.).

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Open Sesame (Lvl 4 (Final), Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20%)

Mass Undermine (Lvl 2, Mastered, cost: 25%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

Cloak (Lvl 1, mastered, cost: 10%)

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

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 4, 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, Breathplay Rank: 1, aphrodisiacs Rank: 1.

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

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, Sally, Talwa'Ish Renni, Rebecca "Beck" Hardcliff, Dahlia (enslaved).

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, four charges), Tech Armor, Carapace Armor (Currently Unequipped), Aspect of the Apex.

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, Currently worn.) Tech Armor (currently worn), Swim Trunks (Currently removed), tentacle dagger (-3), Plasma Rifle (-10, five charges).

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

Goma Status Effect:

Isalia Health: 100%

Isalia Mana: 80%

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

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed)

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1, Domination Rank: 1, Bondage 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, two charges), 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, currently halved 2% mana to summon.), Tech Armor, Tech Suit (Core Upgrade: Strength, Special Upgrade: Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10, two charges), Necromancy Staff, 0 undead servants, Ring of Clear Mind.

Lemiel Spells Known: Angelic Rays (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 20%, currently halved 10%), Heavenly Soothing (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25% currently halved 12), Retribution (Lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 100%, unusable, triggers automatically at 0% hp if Lemiel has enough Mana to trigger it. Currently halved 50%), The One True God's Judgment (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 100%, currently halved 50%), 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, three charges), targeting helmet, rail gun bow (-10 when used ignores evasion abilities or resistances), 5 cross bow bolts.

Maple Status Effect:

Sally Health: 100%

Sally Mana: 50%

Sally Charge: 100%

Sally Equipment: Ultra Durable tech metal shield (-4, unequipped), Ultra Durable Tech Metal Club (-4, unequipped), Mirror Shield (-4, reflects all damage and spell effects to the caster/attacker), Needle Mace (-5, Inflicts hit targets with a deadly poison, potency increases with each hit), Gimp Suit.

Sally Status Effect:

Gimped: All damage taken is dealt as mana damage.

Talwa Health: 100%

Talwa Mana: 100%

Talwa Equipment: Bustier, Glasses, Prism Staff.

Talwa Spells Known:

Magic Armor (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 10%)

Firestorm (Lvl 3, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Fireball (Lvl 2, Mastered, cost: 25%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Talwa Status Effect:

Beck Health: 50% (Max lowered to 50%)

Beck Mana: 20% (Max lowered to 20%)

Beck Equipment: Mining Spear (-20 against armored enemies, -5 against unarmored enemies), Leather Armor, Conqueror's Promise, Ring of Sanctity.

Beck Spells Known:

Animate Golem (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 10%)

Beck Fetish: Masochism Rank: 1

Beck Status Effect:

Dahlia Health: 100%

Dahlia Mana: 1000%

Dahlia Equipment: A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel). Potion of Salted Fields, Ring of Achieving Desires, Staff of the Damned.

Dahlia Spells Known:

Pressure (lvl 4, Mastered, Cost: 50%, Cost currently halved: 25%)

Ice Rain (lvl 4, Mastered, Cost: 50%, Cost currently halved: 25%)

Regeneration (Mastered, Cost: None, Passive Ability: Health recovers automatically)

Fetish Call (Mastered, Cost: None, Unique Ability: Summon those with a fetish to her and affect them with one or more of their fetishes.)

**** Curse (Unmastered, Special Ability: On **** afflict the one who struck the killing blow with a curse)

Dahlia Fetishes: All of them: Rank: infinite

Dahlia Status Effect:

Burning: Take damage every turn.

Curse: Obedience (Must follow any command given to her by Yulia)

Fiona Items: Slaver's Whip, Demonic Dress, Spellbook of Animate Golem, Potion of Ghastly Form.

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