A Tale Of Magik

[Zoey]

The girls eyes raise another eye brow at Raleigh at the word. "Farce? Oh..." she says scratching her cheek. "You must be the uncivilized type... Still, I was hoping maybe we could discuss about this little skirmish that is going on right now in this city. Maybe learn more about you, perhaps? Or would you rather go swimming in mud and eating grass?" she said with a glint in her eye.

The woman in front of the group grits her teeth when Dactylos asks her about her identity. "Either you are an irresponsible jerk or a bastard for asking that question" she says her hands cracking as her fingers move. "Either way, if you truely are or not the Meridias im after... You're mine!" she says as she slams her fists into the ground, causing the earth around the area to shake as walls of stone appear trying to trap the group in a done. Mima grabs any of the Exorcists close by. "We have to jump now!" she says in a tone that she knew what was coming. Dact in the other hand would feel like his feet were glued to the ground.

[Raleigh]

Heh, well I've been called a primal entity and a primordial being so civilization is something of a farce to my perception. You newer creatures pretend you all aren't plotting to slaughter one another for food, mating rites, and shelter but you still do. That kind of lying to yourself is unhealthy. Swimming in mud is no different to me than walking on it and some grasses taste just fine. So what do you want to learn of me? There is only so much I can freely tell you after all.

[Knight Errant]

"Apparently you didnt hear me before... I DONT KNOW WHO YOU ARE LADY! Perhaps you will listen to me after I pound you into a grease spot." Glares Dact... as he forms a handsign as the dome encloses!

[Blaze]

The Exorcists don't need telling twice! Blaze and Lucy immediately take flight while Jean, Okuni and Logos rely on good old fashioned leg power, leaping into the air, trusting that Mima will follow.

[Raleigh]

*While waiting for the bunny person to respond, Raleigh hops up and takes a seat on the upside down golem's feet. He pulls out a book with Celaeno Condensed on the outside and starts reading it.* Might as well read some jokes while I play distraction I suppose. *He sneezes and bats at a gnat that is flying in front of his nose for a moment before shooing it off.*

[Zoey]

The dome closes for Dact. Outside the dome suddenly digs and goes under. This process making large dust clouds which hide the woman as she goes underground as well. However, for the exorcists soon they are not alone. Mima who managed to escape grunts. "They got the knight!" she exclaims before gasping as more golems seemed to appeared to separate them from Dactylos. This golems however were more dark colored than the gravel ones they encountered and had shining green eyes. "Girls, its the elites!" said Mima as she blasted one of them with her staff, but the front golem easily shook it off with a fist.

For Dact everything is dark, and he seems to be enclosed in some sort of field which seems to be... descending!

For Raleigh the bunny girl chuckles. "You seem pretty care free, my good sir. I should warn you however that, that attitude of yours will someday cost you dearly" she replies to him before sitting on the edge. "Still I just wanted to see you and learn from people like you. I don't get to meet much with people of such... status as you" she says crossing her legs. The golems are all frozen, however even if they aren't doing anything technically they've got Raleigh surrounded. "Is this attitude of your's because of your overwhelming power?" she asks turning her head curiously as she inspects Raleigh.

[Blaze]

Blaze looks at the golems and frowns, staring at the spot where the woman and Dact vanished into the ground.

"Mima, is there anything significant under this city? Catacombs, ruins, anything like that?"

Logos meanwhile takes two chúi, large metal spheres on the end of medium-length handles from her Specibus and charges at the golems, swinging them in focused strikes, trying to cripple the golems. Okuni hangs back and fires her bow, trying to get her arrows in the joints of the golems in the front to immobilize them. Lucy helps the miko by manipulating the air to help drive the arrows in deep and guide them to their intended targets. Jean has her Revelations out and is muttering prayers to herself, glowing with a holy light.

[Raleigh]

Hehehe, there is no such thing as truly overwhelming power. A child could beat me if they only knew how. Then again I would reform just as fast as I faded as well. No, I'm this way because I've already lost the most precious thing that truly mattered to me long ago so I have nothing to fear. That and earth dolls like these can't harm me in any real way since I'm energy not flesh. The only real threat any of you pose to me is to figure out my true name and bind me to you or to seal me properly. Even in those cases I have legions of minions who will strive to set me free and have always succeeded so far.

As for me being surrounded I think you misunderstand your prey. I need but knock my teeth out and let them touch the ground to summon forth an army or perhaps loosen my sleeves and let loose another army of shikigami. For that matter I could simply freeze your golems in place by controlling either the earth or the stars by which all things are bound. My most likely action though, should the fight commence, is to reveal that you are currently talking to a double of myself, reveal that I'm actually the golem I'm sitting on as I had tackled an illusion to begin with, and then reveal that while I've been breathing this whole time I've filled the air with microscopic seeds that I then key to grow causing them to crack and break apart all the golems they've landed on so far.

[Knight Errant]

"Huh..." Mutters Dact, looking around. He takes a lantern, shedding some light on the situation!

[Zoey]

Shedding the light would reveal that the ground around Dact was moving and flowing upwards! Yet the ground he stood on was solid, however it wasn't like that for long till the ground beneath him broke and revealed a huge underground chamber with an underground waterfall and large crystals which illuminated the cavern! However there was no sigh of the woman...

"Yes, but it's pretty down under, but I don't see the reason to go there" replies Mima confused as the Elite Golem Guards charge the Exorcists. The battle starts and the first thing the Exorcists would notice is that these aren't any push overs, also the rune the woman had on her arm started to shine on their heads. Their exterior was much tough and weren't easily damaged even by the mightiness of Logos attacks. The damage was minimal at best. Mima hanged back using what she could of her power to stall the creatures. "I don't think this is good!" she exclaimed as two golems ripped a huge part of the ground and threw it at Jean.

The bunny girl shakes her head. "The golems are not mine and their fate is not of my concern" she says glancing at one. "Still I am honored you would take such precautions. It does show you are indeed worried about your well being, so I take it all you just spoke of is a lie" she said kicking her legs around in the air before looking to the sky. "I always wanted to meet a scared god like being. Its interesting".

[Raleigh]

Heh. An amusing interpretation. What I said is a lie of course I admit but not for the reason you think. I came here with some people so their protection is my concern not my own safety. Besides, all war is based on deception so simply using illusions and stand ins isn't cowardly but rather a way to make an opponent waste energy and effort on false threats. People who say otherwise are the same kind who complain it is cheating if you simply make sure their spies have false information. Nay, my greatest fear since I saw what we would be facing was boredom. A simple set of constructs for opponents is no fun and makes my presence here more of a form of bullying and overkill than anything resembling to the deus ex following along for when it is needed.

I am still confused even after all these years why you other creatures keep comparing me to a god. A god I am not though I have been turned into I think three or so at this point I just absorbed the traits. My son is one to be sure but I'm not. Poor boy to limit himself so... ah well at least my daughters didn't do anything so silly.

[Blaze]

"Well, I think that's where that woman took Dact." Blaze says.

Jean doesn't even notice the rock as it hurtles towards it. THankfully Logos realized how futile pounding on the golems was and leapt back to smash the hunk of earth out of the air, letting Jean carry on. A large magic circle appears under the nun as the sky gets dark, thick clouds rolling in.

Okuni meanwhile, notices the runes on the golem's heads and decides to try something. Channeling some chi into her next arrow, she fires, this time aiming for the rune on one of the golems, hoping it was the source of their life.

[Raleigh]

*A gnat flies over the fight between the golems and the exorcists. To some below they might hear Raleigh's voice.* You know the traditional golem was animated by the word of truth carved into its body. Removing a single letter from the word would reduce the golem to dust as that one letter removed changed the word from truth to dead.

[Knight Errant]

"Neat." Comments Dact. He hefts his warhammer and wanders onwards into the cave!

[Zoey]

Okuni's arrow flies true and hits the golem right on the rune. The golem groans and roars as it staggers it's starts to crackle in magics as it starts to disapate from the construct. The other golems notice this and one jumps behind it and starts to absorb the leaking energies into it's body. The golem hit just falls to the ground, lifeless. As the sky goes dark, the golems either don't care or are unaware. The golems quickly start to move charging around trying to encircle the girls. Mima glances to Jean. "Whatever you're planning you better be quick about it!" she exclaims. Logos would start to feel more physically tired as she pounded the rock away. Okuni would feel her chi reserves were almost empty after that arrow hit.

As Dact walks deeper, stalagmites starts to rain from the roof with a lot of force and seemingly aiming at the knight. It was like the whole roof was shooting at him!

The bunny girl raises an eyebrow as Raleigh mentions the bit about boredom. "So if you really want to fight, you should've said so" she says standing up, rubbing her neck. "And while we're at telling each others motives, I'm just here to keep you busy too. All my partner's business if with the Meridias kid, and those girls you brought could be a hinderence so at least their being kept entertained and well... I have you, so everything's going great I suppose" she adds looking at Raleigh. "So how-" she yawns, covering her mouth quickly. "Sorry, my bad... Anyways, how about it? We can stay here, chat, and wait for the kids business to be over or if you're really that inmature and what to 'fight' cause this is boring, I won't have much choice but to make my guest happy".