Calamity - Episode 8

Team Vultures talking.

## Characters in the episode

* Antônio Pontevedra
* Arthur Cervero
* Carina Leone
* Dante
* Joui Jouki
* Rubens Naluti

* † Members of the Sect of the Masks (6)
* † Dagan
* The Devil
* † The Host (Amphitruo, Aeneas, Liber, Silenus, Plautus and Arnaldo Fritz)
* The Magistrate

* Clarissa Leão (video)
* Gal (video)
* Kian (video)

## Locations in the episode

* Flavian Amphitheater
* Domus Aurea (video)

> The choice is yours.
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> The Host
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**Choice** is the eighth episode of Paranormal Order: Calamity. It aired on October 30, 2021.

## Synopsis

Between fights, choices and decisions to make, Team Vultures is involved in an urgent dilemma: decide the fate of the Calamity and choose with whom to ally in the war.

## Summary

Arnaldo Fritz, in his search for the Relics to end with Kian, ended up becoming The Host. Now, Team Vultures is face-to-face with him, along with The Devil. The entity says it is bored with the rules and the Knowledge, answering all the questions of the team. Among the questions, it shows, on a purple television with glitches, a video of Gal being hit by Kian in his abdomen and Clarissa appearing next. They see Clarissa torturing Gal, cutting him off as the man howls in pain. After a few moments, Dagan appears, screaming for Gal. Clarissa uses her machine gun to kill him in cold blood and Gal vows revenge on Kian as well as Clarissa.

Thus, The Host gives a choice to Team Vultures: let Gal die or save him if they pressed the button that had appeared in front of the television. A discussion between the members begins, with Joui and Carina being against saving the escribe, for he killed the people they loved most, while Arthur and Dante think of the idea of Gal being an ally in the war against Kian. After a few minutes discussing whether to save him or not, Arthur takes the lead as the team leader, heading towards the button. Joui tries to stop the fellow, but to no avail, seeing the button pressed and Gal being teleported away by a pink flame. The team argues with the Host and the Devil for both wanting to destroy Knowledge and, after a few moments, the Sect of the Masks appears.

At this time, those present discuss why the Masks want to protect the balance and the reason for The Host to destroy the Despair Mask — according to it, this would destroy the bridge that Knowledge has in the Other Side to this reality, also breaking the rule of their counterpoint: as long as the Masks wants to keep balance, they need a new Kian everytime. However, after much discussion, the Vultures ally with the masks, and seeing this, the Host decides to confront them in one last battle, while the Devil disappears through a blood crack, declaring itself as an enemy of the Order. Before the agents leave for the entrance of the ruins of Ordo Calamitas, Joui and Arthur end up having a rough discussion about the leader’s decision to save Gal, with mentions of Joui failing to save Kaiser and that Mr. Verity have made a bad choice in putting Arthur as leader. Arriving at the halls, they see the Host transforming and multiplying, taking the form of the ancient governors of The Colosseum, all of them eager for the beginning of the games, and so they all begin to fight..

At first, Arthur shoots Aeneas. The Hosts use several skills — such as Silenus, that floods the hall. Balu picks up his axe, and with the edge of the cable, he pierces his own chest and makes his weapon transform into a Blood flail. However, the weapon is switched by Liber for a sword of one of the members of the Sect of the Masks, the last one to die of the maskeds. The Magistrate, the only survivor of the Sect, disappears into the shadows. Balu kills Aeneas with the sword and, observing the scene, Liber switches Balu’s weapon back to his flail. Balu ends up killing Silenus, while Plautus severely injures Arthur. Seeing the combat situation, Dante begins to expel ooze from his mouth, nose and eyes, saying he would bring Death to the hosts, who see a bizarre skeletal creature appearing in front of them: The Puppet. With the creature in combat, the team manages to kill the remaining Hosts, with Liber being killed by the creature and Amphitruo being disintegrated by Dante’s Eco Dolor. Then, where Arnaldo was, the team sees something resembling pure energy, trying to find a physical form. However, the Magistrate appears again, saying that the entire fight she was holding the true power of the Host, and that that wasn't the relic yet. The real form of the Host appears to them and the fight against it begins.

With a helping hand - due to the power of the Magistrate, which reduces half the damage done by the Host -, the Vultures manage to fight, though with great difficulty, the Relic of Energy in its essence that fights against them. Balu falls after all damage, almost dying. Much of Team Vultures is injured. Dante heals Balu, severely injured mentally and physically by the Host, while Joui fights the entity and finally manages to kill it. The Host’s head is torn, thrown up and sliced with the Japanese’s katana. Consequently, lightnings and remnants of the Relic of Energy mix with the blade. Joui now has the Relic of Energy itself in a kind of lightsaber.

After the blow of the Host that hit Balu, he again finds himself unconscious and almost dying. Dante tries to help him, but fails and desperately cries out for Rubens and Carina. Rubens then manages to save Balu after doing some bandages and a heart massage. Balu wakes up, and after saying he misses his niece, he faints. Team Vultures managed to leave the battle against The Host with everyone alive.

## Episode cast

* Cellbit - Game Master
* Felps - Rubens Naluti
* Gabi Cattuzzo - Carina Leone
* Rakin - Dante
* Calango - Antônio Pontevedra/Balu
* Guaxinim - Arthur Cervero
* Luba - Joui Jouki
* João Miranda - Gal

## Trivia

* This episode contains the longest combat in the entire Paranormal Order series.
* For this episode, Cellbit wrote two different sessions: one if the players chose the side of The Host and The Devil, and other if they chose the side of the Masks.
* As a Halloween special, players participated in this session using cosplays of their characters, with the exception of João Miranda, who didn’t know he was going to be in the session.
* According to Cellbit, even he was surprised that all the characters survived the final fight against the Host.
* At a certain point in the fight, the Host tells the team that they 'shouldn't believe in their lies', referring to the masks. This phrase is a reference to the game DNBHL, Do Not Believe His Lies, a popular video series on Cellbit's YouTube.

## References

1. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 0h48m23s)
2. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 0h14m37s)
3. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 0h33m41s)
4. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 0h38m27s)
5. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 1h14m32s)
6. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 1h57m04s)
7. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 3h20m23s)
8. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 4h27m23s)
9. ↑ **Calamity - Episode 8** (*watch on YouTube* at 4h34m28s)