Tryll's Rapid Response (Tryll)

[Anastasia]

By command, you join the rapid response group for Liber. Besides the forces waiting there, there's also Balyss, Crystal, Master, Meillarberyl, Moonlight and Finnegan. Most of them are busy seeing to the troops, save for Mei and Moonlight.

"Oh hey, you're back,' Moonlight says to Calleigh, "How were the sewers? We're waiting to be called on, so if you need to rest a moment, now's it."

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh plonks down on Moonlight's head. "It was soooooooooooo gross! We had to go down there and it was so SMELLY I stayed a ball of light most of the time and then there was a bunch of devils and humans actually helping them so we killed the devils but one didn't like vanish back to Hell so we had to disintegrate it and then we found a BIG LIZARD GUY and I dunno if he was a devil but we smashed him good cuz he was using magic to control the sewer water to form it into waves EW EW EW and was trying to drown us with it, then we found a fortress made of WATER and I dunno how that works but Tryll found a huge bomb under the fort that was big enough to level the entire city and we got it disarmed and now we're back! We saved the city!"

[Anastasia]

"So..." Moonlight drawls as you take position on her head and exposition away, "Up for more? This is the rapid response force, so we're going as soon as there's a knot our forces can't deal with."

[Yuthirin]

"Works for us, as long as there aren't any more sewers involved!"

[Anastasia]

"No way there is," Moonlight says, "Once was bad enough. Ugh."

At this you hear Tepen in your head, "Rapid response force, you may be mobilized shortly. Begin to prepare.'

[Yuthirin]

"Yeah really. Oh boy! Doin' stuff!" Calleigh cheers.

[Anastasia]

Crystal races forward, hopping onto Hope. "At attention!" she calls, "Battle draws nigh!"

Moonlight nods, checking her mace and armor over. "Be ready. Tryll too."

[Yuthirin]

"We're always ready!" Calleigh waves a wand around menacingly, "Boom! Pow! Bang! Makin' devils sad!"

[Anastasia]

"Yeah!" Moonlight calls, "We'll grab 'em and smash 'em! Right in the face!"

[Yuthirin]

"Yeah!"

[Anastasia]

Then abruptly:

All of reality flashes white. There is a violent shaking, everything trembling. A howl comes from afar, like a vast creature crying out. Outside of Aurora Benfal shakes and convulses.

[Yuthirin]

"Something is bad!" Calleigh yells, steadying herself by holding onto Moonlight's hair.

[Anastasia]

Moonlight stands resolute as noise and fury engulf everything, drawing her mace with one hand.

Outside, you see rain fall from the clear skies. A rain that becomes little tears of flame as the earth cracks, shattering in rifts all around. The wind carries a message, a woman's voice declaring, "Return to Hell or die!"

[Yuthirin]

"Uhh..." Calleigh looks uncertain.

[Anastasia]

"Okay, so did someone schedule a catastrophe?" Moonlight steps away from the gate. "'cause I think we're getting one."

"Hold and fall back from the gate!" Crystal screams over it all, "This is the hour of Semyaza's downfall. Brace!"