Chapter 2: Expedition to Farsky

Eunbyeol appears in a flash of light, spoiling the Marauders' counter-ambush. She leaves a deep gash in on of the Marauders. Lucina manages to parry the incoming blast with a deft maneuver of her sword, sending it into the side of the nearby ruins. With her blade still glowing hot, she trades blows with the charging Marauders. Haisha envelopes herself in an energy shield and harries an approaching Marauder with her sling, forcing them to dodge. Aduan takes one of the energy blasts full-on.

Desoto ducks, and attempts to manually trigger one of his traps to either take some of the marauders out or at least provide a distraction.

Myrage hops back up from the ground and draws his crossbow to fire a shot at one of the marauders at short range, preferably the one that just got gashed.

The energy blast whizzes by Desoto a little to close for comfort, but impacts harmlessly on the ruins behind him. He pulls on one of his traps sending a pile of metal debris cascading down from the side of one of the ruins, distracting one of the Marauders. Myrage retaliates but his arrow goes.

The three marauders who advanced now thrust their spears at Lucina and Myrage, snarling viciously. The distracted Marauder turns to take a swipe at Desoto when he realizes he triggered the trap (TN 6 defence roll). Two of three Marauders that Eunbyeol surprised turn to fight her. The injured one stumbles backward, clutching their wound and retreating to the other group. ROUND 2

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Group 1 (engaged with Eunbyeol)
Marauder 1: 9/9
Marauder 2: 9/9

Group 2 (engaged with Aduan, Desoto, Hashia, Lucina, and Myrage,
Marauder 3: 4/9
Marauder 4: 9/9
Marauder 5: 9/9
Marauder 6: 9/9

Hashia fires her wrist mounted projector at the four Eunbyeol is engaged with.

She'll aim it behind them, and attempt to get as many as she can in the blast radius without damaging her own group.Edit: Minor effect: Ensure that it doesn't damage own party but get the marauders.

Lucina moves quickly, trying to avoid the incoming attack. She's not quite quick enough and takes a nasty cut on her side.

"Aiieeeeeeee!"

Eunbyeol pulls her arms in tightly as she half-steps back, then twists forward to dodge the marauders' blades, and mutters something mostly unintelligible under her breath. The lights that float around her speed up, and a distinct humming sound is accompanied by the smell of ozone.

"Try that again, why don't you?" she asks the nearest one with a grin.

Aduan casts Onslaught against the minds of two of the ranged attackers.

The party recovers quickly from their initial back-step.

Hashia's detonator fills the air with silence as repulses everything in its range, devastating the nearby Marauders. Lucina wastes no time with the pain of her injury and strikes back with a lethal blow, impaling the enemy on her sword. Eunbyeol deftly sidesteps her attackers, then activates her luminous shield, sending waves of doubt through the Marauders' minds. Another Marauder blocks Desoto's darts with an armoured gauntlet. Myrage disappears, causing his adversary to startle. He searches around desperately for the invisible foe. Aduan tears into the Marauder's psyches. It is too much for one, who falls dead. The other grips his helmet and stumbles backward in pain.

In the face of such power and technology, the Marauders immediately break off the attack and head for the cover of the ruins. A warhorn sounds from above; it seems as though Hashia's detonator has alerted the town's defence force. You see a squadron of beetle riders scrambling, diving off of the floating islands above you and heading your way.

Two dead Marauders remain clad in black armour and gas masks. Their sticks lie in the drit, one of which still has a ranged charge.

Hashia halfheartedly heaves a hefty stone at them, to keep them honest. But she does not pursue. "Fools. Such waste of life."

Not being a cruel person, Myrage simply mocks them instead of attacking them whilst they abscond.

"And don't come back, ya?!"

"We did it, Stuffy!" Eunbyeol gives her plushie ravage bear a high five, then turns to Hashia. "Sorry it took me so long to get here! I was chasing a burglar on the other side of everything."

Lucina grabs her bow and nocks an arrow as she watches the marauders flee, but doesn't fire any arrows.

Hashia gives Eunbyeol a quick hug. "Glad you could come; looks like we needed you."

Aduan steps over to one of the Marauder bodies and picks up the stick. "Really need to figure out how this thing works." He steps back to the others but doesn't mess with the power stick. "Need to get to a controlled environment so I can test this thing out."