Day of the Mother Part 5

## Story

When Seline and Talia arrive at the Cathedral they see that the 42nd Mercenary Troop has been tapped to provide additional security. Talia says 42nd are just hired thugs. 42nd used to be a proper military outfit but when the district's military downsized, 42nd spun off into their own mercenary company. Seline stashes some of her items in a broom closet. Walking around Talia notices an electric hum similar to the sound CRT TV makes but it's definitely higher up and Seline cannot hear it. Talia can smell her prey but she's cannot pinpoint where he's at. Seline passes Talia one of 2 platinum rings for warding bond. Talia and Seline start dancing as the evening continues. Talia activates her boots of speed. Sister Mabel addresses the attendees and set off explosives in flower pots arranged around the perimeter of the room. Explosives take out the extra security for the event. John Xhin drops his sister Mabel disguise and brings his long rifle to bear on Talia. He shoots at Talia and misses the first time but the second shot clips her shoulder. Talia activates her Shield draws out her guns and shifts. Jenny drops down from the broken skylight in the ceiling using her wings to slow her descent and hovers in the air  before she brings her demonic minigun to bear. She cuts down 3 people until her minigun flares and she flinches in pain. John seeing Talia shift cast something at her that has her surrounded in thorns (hex) and then misses a shot at her. He jumps the banister trying to put some distance between him and Talia. Talia closes the distance again. When Talia goes to shoot with both her guns John manages use the rifle to knock both shots wide. Talia roars in his face and he smiles back with a manic gleam  in his eye. Jenny drops to the floor, laughing maniacally as she swings her support arm mounted minigun around and cuts down two more people. When Seline casts spiritual weapon, a silvery glowing scarecrow appears and pops Jenny in the face. Seline follows up with Toll the Dead causing the blood to flow from Jenny's nose. Jenny's laughter stops and her focus shifts to Seline as a source of these attacks and her insane smile returns. The remaining celebrants panic attempt to escape. With a grin at Talia, the black of John's pupil leaks down from his eyes into his veins, blackening them as it spread throughout his body and disappears. As he leaps away, Talia puts a shot through his side. He winces as he sticks to the wall and runs up it about 20 feet, above where the balcony used to be. Talia is able to hit him with another shot. Jenny tosses a package behind her and the subsequent explosion wipes out another handful of people. Seline cuts her finger and she pointed at Jenny her arm turns black as she cast Bane. Seline's blood that stains for bone dagger evaporates into a cloud of red that surrounds Jenny who coughs as a spell sets in. Seline's scarecrow attacks again but Jenny sidesteps it. Someone in the crowd shouts there's a way out and others move toward them. John shoots Talia below the heart. On his second shot, an energy flows out of a skull formed on his rifle to John and he grunts in pain. Talia snarls and returns fire, missing her first shot but the second goes through his leg. Shock from the sudden pain makes John dangle from the wall a moment before he regains himself. With a vicious smile and more maniacal laughter, Jenny unleashes a torrent of gunfire goading the crowd toward the exit. Seline casts warding bond on herself and Talia. Seline's scarecrow lands a vicious blow to Jenny's face. Jenny spits out blood and response and snarls. The crowd swarms toward the exit panicked by Jenny's gunfire. John takes cover behind some decorative stonework and shoots Talia twice more. Talia's return shot hits John breaking his concentration on on Hex. Jenny pulls out a huge pistol. The kickback from her shot is enough to make her miss and wrenches the pistol from her hand. Seline's responding Toll the Dead causes blood to drip from Jenny's eyes. A shepard's tone screams out of the gaping Maw of Seline's scarecrow before it sinks rusted nail teeth into Jenny shoulder." Light em up and let's blow," John shouts as he runs along the ceiling for the shattered skylight. He lets out three wild shots hitting nothing. Talia put another shot through his side but her second gun clicks empty. Jenny flashes her brother an ok sign and tosses a large satchel at the clumped together crowd trying to escape. Luckily her remote fails. She calls out "Brother sweety, we have a problem!" "Death has come tonight,  you do not have dominion over death," Seline pronounces as her Guiding Bolt forms silvery wings on Seline's back. A specter of death flows out of Seline's body with an outstretched hand and shrieks toward John, grabbing him by the throat. His inverted body suffuses with a white light as the specter merges with him. John Xhin's spider climb spell fails and he pummets head first into the floor to the sound of breaking bones. Jenny shrieks with pain and rage. After a quick reload, Talia misses with retribution. Jenny's burst of fire takes Seline down. Swiftly Talia slips Seline a greater healing potion. Jenny fires again, missing once and her gun flares at her. She screams in rage. Although her scream morphs into shepard's tones as Seline's responding Toll the Dead rocks Jenny again. Two shots from the reloaded Punishment and Retribution snap Jenny's head back and she limply slumps to the floor. Seline and Talia fiercely embrace in the after math of the Xhins' carnage.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent
* Talia Grey