The Will to Fight: Ongoing: Red and Purple

[voidtreckermods]

Dawn Attack

It's been a busy few days of fighting demons, attacking keystones and fighting both on the demon and human planes. On the morning of day nine of the month of Kazoo a gate opens close to the base camp that the two teams have made.

It seems the demons have decided to focus on this unexpected threat, because it is a sizable force, with a number of the large demons. They march towards the camp with single-minded focus, the opportunity to stop these unwanted defenders taking precedence over their desire to destroy the city.

The advantage to the landscape being as ruined as it is, is that there isn't much to stop the lookouts from seeing this force headed towards them. A gate opening is not subtle. There should be enough time to make sure the defenders are ready.

Scouting Ahead

Once that skirmish is won those on the Red team will find their SCA's beeping, with an exclamation point far out to the east.

A group of demons is congregating at the location indicated. Investigate why, defeat the demons and close any gates nearby.

It will take a while to get there and there is plenty to do on the way for those that follow the exclamation point. Roaming packs of demons, gates to be closed. Exhausting work, especially for those going in and out of the demon gates.

Protecting the City

Once it is clear that these defenders are not going to be easy to wipe out, the attacks on the city itself get more frequent. The demons have changed tactics: rather than sending in large groups they open many small portals, sending small strike teams to harry and target individuals.

Some of the attacks are clearly meant as traps: they open the gates in or very close to the city, to lure the Voidtreckers in to where they will be affected by the spell. Ranged attacks may be useful here.

Comments

Re: Protecting the City

[dreamtamer]

Dukemon uses his shield to push away a group of demons, then moves in to finish them with his lance.

Then, and only then, he drops down to one knee as he catches his breath.

"There are so many," he says. Deep inside his consciousness, both Takato and Guilmon were feeling worn down. Not injured. Dukemon's armor had seen to it that they were protected in that much. But it had been a very long time since they had fought like this so long. And even in the fight against the D-Reaper there had been long breaks for regrouping.

Re: Protecting the City

[mynameisallen]

"Yeah, though I am also not at all surprised at the numbers." Allen has had to deal with large numbers of Akuma so this wasn't exactly new either.

He used his cowl to move in closer to a few and used his sword to deal with a good few. "But this is what a battle can be like. The fight not stopping until one side wins in a sense."

[dreamtamer]

Dukemon uses his brief break to start charging his shield. The triangles lining the edges start to glow one by one.

"Until the end, then."

[mynameisallen]

"Until either they stop or we fall, which I hope it's really not the case." He did wonder though what would happen if they manage to mess up a mission. Thankfully they seem to do pretty well at them at least.

Allen looks over at what was left and it didn't seem like much was left so maybe they would know soon enough.