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Urban Legends: The Devil's Church
Date of Scene: 25 August 2022
Location: Devil's Church, outside Gotham City
Synopsis: Chimp goes Ape, Megan Gwynn gets to Snap Crackle and Pop an energy shield, Michael Hannigan shed a little light on the subject, Patience Alperen got to use a Really Cool Ice Trick, and Charlie Gage's Anti-Angel/Demon Gloves make things go POP.

Phoebe was lucky to have this group around to rescue her from... THE LIZARD METALHEADS OF THE DEVIL'S CHAIR

Cast of Characters: Phoebe Beacon, Detective Chimp, Megan Gwynn, Michael Hannigan, Patience Alperen, Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe




Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    The site was in the middle of the woods, off to the distant side of a flightpath into Gotham's International Airport, little more than a few crumbling walls and the natural pulpit that's been dubbed The Devil's Chair. Bittersweet vine has grown into some of the trees in the area, its leaves turning red early, the orange-and-red caps of its berries hanging in the last sunlight of the late afternoon. Birds flit outside the walls and the crumbling archway of the stone building that at various times was said to be a church, the birthplace of The Devil, the Joker, Batman's home location.

    Which is silly, since everyone knows Batman's real home location is the ancient and very Gothlic looking mausoleum in the fancy cemetary in Gotham City proper, not outside city limits in one of the satillite communities from Gotham's early days as a Dutch colony.

    It's quiet, serene even, until the sound of a beer can crunching and then striking the wall breaks the spell.

    The place is overrun with what look like 80's metal band rejects on a bender. There's a campfire where the nave would have bene if it was an actual church, and sitting in the seat itself was a tall, heavily built, dyed-black hair metal head in a black leather jacket.

    Which is why Phoebe is stopped at the edge of the clearing, with her Wet Cat expression going, holding her backpack and a canvas sack.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp comes walking up towards the area. He took a cab to the area, and as he got nearer he has taken to the trees to get a better look. He will end up not that far from Phoebe and says "Well this will make things a bit more complicated." He offers as an intro that he is there.

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn was trying to keep a low profile lately, but she had been growing increasingly anxious to get out an about. She had been practicing Mike's 'Raphael's Flask' spell enough times that she felt calm enough to port herself and him to the property surrounding the spooky building they had dubbed 'Devil's chair'. And of course it'd be a popular hangout for some punks kids or whatever.

Megan shivers at the negative energy in the area once the pink portal closes behind them. "Phew, what a spooky place.." she glances around, wondering who else came..

Michael Hannigan has posed:
As the pair portal in, Mike gives a slight nod of thanks to Megan. Since working with Megan, the tint of the portal appeared to have improved. The portal had returned to its pink color. The outing had been debated a bit but in the end, it was considered an ok thing to do. Staying confined to one place for a really long period of time is not going to be doing anybody any favors.

Megan's comment gets a glance around the scenery. "So long as we're not doing any unexpected swims this time."

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen stands near Phoebe. Oddly she is dressed, well, like a warrior nun. The determined expression on her face would probably suggest that daring to call her such would probably result in one of the blades she carries coming out of its scabbard.

Dressed in black leather from head to toe, with red and gold highlights and various strapped on bits of extra armor, the brunette looks out from under a hooded cape. There are a number of embelished crosses worked into her attire giving more creedence to the religious aspect to her appearance.

She looks from the scene toward Phoebe. "You said dangerous. You kind of didn't mention it'd inolve death metal heads. I charge my over time rates for dealing with them" she jokes.

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    Charlie isn't there, and then she is there, with a faint splash of pink and purple smoke. Sitting up on a tree limb back behind Phoebe and the others.

    Her legs kick slowly like it is a swing not a tree limb, black stompy boots adorning her feet. She is wearing a pair of sturdy looking dark jeans, a dark blue batman hoodie which looks like official merchandise with the hood up, and a pair of orange lensed goggles over her eyes. Her hands vanished in the sleeves of the hoodie as she rocks slowly.

    The magically astute would have felt a loud disonance of chaos magic as she appeared up in the tree. It can be jarring to some. She hmmmms happily.

"Are we here to investimigate or bash metal heads?" she pitches softly down to the gathered.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    -I had no idea.- Phoebe signs to Patience regarding the crowd that's already there. She breathes out, rubbing the back of her neck a moment before she looks around to the assembled mishmash of magicians, fighters, detectives and Phantasms, takes a breath, and steps forward.

    And as she steps forward, carrying her materials, she's suddenly lifted into the air just like she stepped on a spring. She drops her bags, but stays suspended in the air a good twenty-five feet, her arms and legs flailing as if she was introduced to an electric shock! There's a ripple of red around the outskirts of the property, and the dyed-black-haired, bevested gentleman looks up, gives a grin, and hops up on top of the large rock he was sitting on.

    "Well, well, well. Looks like we have some interlopers! And what FUN!" he calls out, and cracks his knuckles as he forms fists. The metal heads all look at one another, and their appearances all ripple slightly, as if they were wearing human skins and not their own. Their grins are a little too wide. Teeth a little too sharp.

    "I sense some lights, some holy rollers, some fancy colors and is that the smell of Chaos? Oh, I *do* love the smell of chaos in the evening!" the head honcho cackles. The red energy field crackles.

    THey start crawling up and over the walls, rustling through the vines, all of their eyes yellow with silver-black slits, like a lizard's.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp will sighs a bit and reaches over snapping a bit of a branch from the tree that he could use as a club. He really needs to get himself a sword, club or something to bash bad guys with. He jumps down to the ground, and looks over to the others "Someone able to cancel out that spell, and get her back down to the ground?" He does put himself in between the floating girl and the full metal lizards.

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn is dressed in her black mini dress and gold gauntlets, boots and belt, a casual X-uniform that works fairly well for stealth and JLD missions too. She glances around a5 the assembled heroes but only recognizes Phoebe of the lot, and she smiles and waves to her, stepping towards hers. "Heey!" she calls out to her, then blinks, freezing where she is as the red magic field crackles alive.

When Phoebe goes flying from the shock, she gasps, flying to her side, checking her over for obvious signs of injury. "Hey, are you okay?" and then she glances at the punks with a slight frown, "Wait what? They're sorcerers too?" and not really thinking, she summons her soul dagger, taking a swipe at the magic field, hoping to nullify its effects perhaps..

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Mike turns his head at the joke about metalheads. "I wouldn't knock metal heads in general." He gives a slight knowing smile, "A lot of them are pretty nice people."

And then the one guy just HAD to do the villain speech. Mike glances up to the floating Pho and sighs. "...Looks like these are part of the minority." Mike mutters, crouching down to draw up a bit of broken branch already on the ground. He's not picky.

Detective Chimp's question causes for Mike to glance up again. "Uh..."

Yeah. He doesn't have any anti-flotation song-spells at the ready for some reason. Guess the topic never came up before.

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen frowns as Phoebe is caught in the field of whatever nature. That wasn't her area of expertise. As an aside to Michael, she mumrurs, "Death-Metal Heads. Metal Heads are a fine, upstanding bunch of folks." As the rest of the *Heads make their way over the walls in unnatural ways she frowns more deeply.

To Chimp, she shakes her head, "I'm more the banish evil demons and undead sort of girl, sorry."

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    Charlie is also not dressed like she usually does when on patrol for Gotham stuffs. She is wearing her JLD not her Batgear. Still she has her undersuit armorweave under those jeans and hoodie. Also her belt under said hoodie and gloves in her sleeves, literally, hands out of sight and all.

    "Uh crap not sorcerers I don't think... I mean maybe their boss dude is all magic but those wall crawlers are totes demon infested or just plain demons or .. something demonic...." she may have some demon experience or PTSD from that incident with one of the demon three and .. oh hell so many incidents. Fracking demons.

    The small teen is suddenly much more serious as she flicks her arms out revealing a pair of sturdy weighted gloves on her hands. She cracks her fists together and traceries of runes flare to life, red and tinged with chaos energy. Some sort of tailored and woven into them enchantment that didn't stand out until she activated them. "I can't cancel the spell on Pheebs... bet it is a ward of some sort so if you can disrupt those it might break it." she shifts up to stand on her tree branch and then steps up vanishing in another slash of smoke and just going for it.

    There is a ripple of the magic protection likea skittering flare of light....but.. someone with a fancy knife so Charlie is absolutely going to be trying to appear midair above one of the wall crawlers a heartbeat later and slam a glowing gloved fist down into the top of it's head.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe is indeed floating about twenty-five feet up, unable to combat the spell while she's in an anti-gravity trap. Luckily this also puts her out of the way of the lizards.

    The soul dagger takes a swipe at the field. It snaps, crackles, pops, and in an explosion like a thousand rice krispies baked to a neon-red glow the spell with the shield is snapped, the division between the real world and the interior of the shield is taken out. Everywhere the shield was holding in looks faded and gray, like a fine layer of ash had settled on everything. The human-suited lizard demons all give hisses, and begin to size up everyone in the vicinity.

    Charlie gets the first blow in from above! CRACK! Right over a lizardhead with corpse paint! He gives a snarl, his head turning a complete 180 to face her after that gloved fist comes down, and embeds itself a good two inches into his soft head! It does some serious damage -- but the guy snaps out his tongue, covered in venomous barbs and tries to wrap it around Misfit's ankle!

    Chimp is the next sized up, with one smaller member of the band going after him. He's got an X carved into his forehead, and he tries to get a bite on the Simian's singed hat!

    Mike is the target of two of them, going after his arms to try and pin him against a tree in a most painful manner!

    And Patience... Patience is an OBVIOUS source of 'this is bad for us'. Two snarl at her, showing needle-like teeth now as they charge her, one pulling out his chain belt, the other raising a fist. They are equal opportunity fighters -- they're not going to hold back because she's a girl!

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp maybe fighting lizard folks with animal like reflexes, well Chimp has animal reflexes and has been doing this for a while, he ducts, but the lizard does get his poor ragged hat. "That is mine." He tells the lizard and then adds "X marks the spot." and he swings the jury rigged club like a pro baseball player pumping the juice. He maybe the smallest one here, but the lizards are going to learn something a little dab will do you.

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn blinks and darts back, shielding her face and darting in front of Phoebe as the shield crackles and breaks. She turns back towards her, getting ready to catch her. But it seems she's still floating? "Huh, what?" dispelling her dagger she offers her hand to Phoebe, "Welp, time for plan B..Sihalnovarumchinoth!" and she will try to teleport them both to the ground, closer to their true goal, the old spooky building, while the others are busy fighting. With any luck it'll port her out of the floaty field thingy too..

Michael Hannigan has posed:
OOOOH WATCH OUT LIZARD GUYS. MIKE HAS A STICK.

Mike does not have much time to ponder the Phoebe predicament as the movement towards him registers. Dropping the one puzzle for later, the man who started his music career off as a drummer gets to once again show off his stick skills. Just probably not in the way one would expect.

The first of the pair gets greeted with the branch hitting him upside the head. Following through with the momentum, Mike ends up spinning his body to move from between the remaining lizard man and the tree. Instead the musician sort of orbits around the tree to give him the needed space. The discussion from earlier does seem to register with him. And while he may not have an anti-floating spell all ready to go, there is one that does come to mind that might be a good test of what they got.

"Don't let the dark
have final say,
Lucia's Light
show me the way!"

Mike's momentum stops as a glow of holy light starts to come from his clothing and skin. Are they demonic?

Let's find out.

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen is used to being a glowing beacon of sorts to all manner of evil and demonic beings. It kind of runs in her family - in every possible sense. Her eyes harden as the time to fight has arrived.

So they're not going to hold back because she's a girl? That's good because she is about to show them just how much like a girl she can fight.

Despite the swords, she takes a length of .. wood? Splintered but clearly at one time part of a handle for some sort of weapon.

Holding the piece of staff in her left hand, she takes out a vial with her right, flicking the small cork from the top. She slowly pours the water over the staff and her palm as she... prays?

"Oh God, grant that this water be endowed with Your Divine grace to drive away devils. That whatever possessions of the Faithful may be sprinkled by this water may be freed from everything unclean and delivered from what is hurtful. Let everything that threatens the peace or safety of the Faithful be banished by the sprinkling of this water; so that the health that they seek by calling upon Thy Holy Name may be guarded from assault. Amen."

As she finishes, her eyes inexplicably glow an icy blue like the heart of a glacier. From her hands, that same blue glow envelopes the holy water soaked wood and from it is formed a spear of holy water embued ice - as clear and pure as glass blown by a master craftsman.

With a skilled spin, the weapon's broad tip is held toward the two lizard creatures. If they want to fight, she'll fight and bring the power of God Almighty with her.

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    That is predictable and gross the chaos muppet thinks as she yanks her hand back out from the demons head. Well whatever it is.

    The tongue lashes around her pant leg for a brief moment, she is gone though even as it starts to tighten. Vanishing with another slash of pink and purple smoke there leaving behind some tattered denim. Hopefully the underarmor did it's job.

    She does appear behind the demonic skull faced owl wanna be. "Hoot hoot ugly!" she notes chipperly as she spins with the momentum of her new fall and backhands with the weighted glove into the other side of it's head.

    More will and juice is poured into the enchantment in the gloves now the red runes flaring bright on impact.

    "How is everyone doing!?" she calls out worried.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe is teleported out of the anti-grav spell's influence. She falls on her butt. -Bless you.- she signs in ASL to Pixie, and gives a thumbs up. Teleportation always took a moment for her to get over, and she's not used to Megan's version -- stomach might need a moment.

    Chimp's Demon hisses, hat in its mouth as it eyeballs the chimp and goes in for a second, non-hat bite -- and then gets a branch to the forehead for his trouble. Chimpanzees are strong, especially for their size, and he goes flying, hits a tree -- and drops the deerstalker hat.

    MIKE HAS A STICK.

    WHACK goes the stick against the first of the lizard demons accosting the drummer, and the second gets whacked into the tree in a most uncoordinated manner. He'll never make the Hell Ballroom Dancing Brigade now! How embarrassing -- and when Mike gives his rhyme in perfect time dealing with slime that's un-divine, suddenly they do *not* wanna get close to him, drawing back a little as the two look at one another, shifting about.

    The two that were going after Patience skid to a stop. They have Concerns now, and they look back to their Leader with confusion.

    They hiss, one's throat puffs up as the other blinks his slitted eyes as an icy spear freezes into being.

    The Leader turns his gaze to Patience, giving a low growl as she catches his attention.

    The venomous lizard demon with the human skin explodes.

    Just, totally explodes, from thei nside outwards in a most disgusting manner, and he reeks of rotten eggs, putrid hamburger and that particular smell that belongs to Gotham on a hot, humid summer day when the garbage men are on strike, and you're standing next to someone who doesn't wear deoderant. It's so bad that everyone in the area might even be able to taste that smell on the middle area of your tongue.


    It's gross. Everyone is now dooing bad, Charlie.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp is starting to walk to get his hat, and then there is gore and stench. There are times Chimp really wishes he did not have an enhanced sense of smell, this is one of them. He moves grabs his hat, gives the downed lizard another bash to make sure it stays down and then putting his hat on, he will look to see who needs help. He moves towards the group, looking about making sure, there are no lizards trying to sneak up on them.

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn blinks as she lands more lightly on the ground, offering Phoebe's hand up and an apologetic smile, "Ahh, sorry about that! You okay?"

As the battle continues around them, she is already headed towards the front door, hopefully unhindered by any baddies. "Sooo Pheebs, what now? I guess whatever is causing all this bad mojo is induce right? So then, lead the way, I'll do my best to protect you."

Well, she's definitely no tank or heavy hitter, but Megan is good at getting into places and escaping. And she can do magic support too if needed..

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Oh don't worry Lizzy. With enough practice and some convenient accidents to the competition, maybe you can still the team!

Mike takes note of the reaction, taking another step towards them to confirm. "Yep. Demonic." He confirms to those who likely have a better magic sense than him and already knew.

Just humor him. Whatever smile that was forming on his face upon the spell's success dwindles as the smell registers. Demon deterrent. Not scent deterrent. He scrunches his nose for a moment.

Right. Demons.

He starts to give chase, herding them towards the ones actively smiting them. And for those that don't run?

He's still got that damn stick.

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen smiles as the two wanting to attack her hesitate.

"What's the matter? You seemed so intent on fighting me when you thought I was harmless. Let me show you how wrong you were."

Spining the spear, she moves with a speed and dexterity that few could naturally match.

The spear slashes across the first lizard before swinging back around to impale it through the torso. That holy water spear tip snaps off inside the being of evil.

"That's gonna hurt I bet."

Her eyes glow icy blue again and that spear tip is regneerated just as before and she aims it toward the second, choosing just to thrust it deep toward the creature's chest.

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    Okay. That was unexpected. Also very gross.

    She vanishes with another slash of smoke and appears behind one of the dou that are menacing Mike but held at bay. She basically sucker punches another one in the back of the head leaning in with her will and magic to make the glove flare again. "Ugn.. why are demons so ugly and gross." she complains miserably.

    She is still dripping ichor from the last one.

    Tough life.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Poor Chimp. The smallest of the lizard demons squawks, but stays down.

    Chimp's got another issue, though. Namely in one of the other lizards, who now also has a stick, but the stick is on fire. Why is everyone getting sticks?

    The sticky demon swings his fiery branch at the Chimp. "We ain't got no bananas, monkey!" he crowls.

    Phoebe gives a nod to Megan, and she motions towards the now abandoned rock where the leader had been sitting. She's going to need a hand with it, and Megan's been so handy for the sake of her voice. Really, she should get some cookies or something for how useful. The two, Pixie and Prodigy, make their way towards the rock!

    Luckily, the others have the attention of the demons. They are very demonic. ANd as Michael plays herding hound, harrowing hardy unhallowed towards the chaotic punch-girl, they try to avoid him and that stick. Luckily though they were imitating some metal heads, they weren't as smart as the real thing!

    The demons back away from Patience and her very icy spear, and as she moves with surprising speed to them, they fade, the holy water snapping off and causing the lizard to burn coldly from the inside out, adding to the stench of forty thousand years of gristley gloom from every tomb closing in to seal someone's doom!

    And that's when the leader steps in, manifesting a bronze spear that reeks of hellfire.

    "Oh, this should be rich." he snarls, his eyes glowing a faint red color as he spins his own spear and tries to rob Patience feet from her!

    The second demon squeals, hisses, and breaks away as its boss takes over fighting Patience!

    Charlie suckerpunches another demon in the back of the head, and ends up exploding its head forwards -- thank goodness. This one smells less like rotting meat, and more like if someone yelled PINESOL in the next room while next to moulding lemons.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks to the demon and says "I'm an ape, not a monkey no tail, sharp teeth, bites your face off." He says as he will use his stick to block the other stick, and moves in close on the demon. He makes a grab for the demons wrists with his feet, as he grabs at the demons head with one of his hands. He bears his teeth and makes a roar/screaming noise to make the thing think he is going to go in for a bit, as bad as that one smells, he does not want to know how they taste so he brings his fist down between the things eyes over and over."

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn blinks as Phoebe motions to the rock rather than the building itself and she narrows her eyes on it as they approach, magic senses totally focused on it as she tries to figure out what's so important about it.."Wait, what..That old thing? Or something underneath?"

Michael Hannigan has posed:
As Mike is herding the demons, the appearance of Charlie swinging her fist towards one of them does lead to the musician finding a flaw to his plan. As the chunks of demon land upon him only to sizzle out of existance, Mike grimaces.

Well, At least his mouth was closed.

Mike heads towards the demon with the chain.

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    She looks sheepish over the headless demon before it hits the ground. The sheepish look is shot to Mike.

    Then she pops back out of existence once more.

    She appears behind the demon that is breaking away from it's boss as he engages with Patience. Honestly she figures that Patience has the boss. He seems to think she is the big threat. So there we go. Right?

    She waits until the demon finishes turning to break away and grins making eye contact with this one before throwing a solid punch at it's middle.

    Glove flaring.

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen managed to back the demon with the chain up. Then his boss came into the picture and decided to get all over confident. She begins to pray aloud, just to get his ire up.

"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend me in battle. Be my protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, I humbly pray.."

As he sweeps his own baleful spear at her feet, she has no interest in giving them away. She's attached to them after all. Instead, she performs a flip backwards, putting more space between them. As she sets, she looks at him and continues to pray.

"..And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls."

Her eyes glow again, and the spear tip begins to shift and change.

"In the name of the Father. The Son. And the Holy Spirit. Amen." With each mention of the Trinity, the spear forms a new head, taking a trident form.

She sprints forward, dodging attacks as she seeks to drive the holy water imbued weapon into the leader of the death metal demons lizard band.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Detective Chimp goes ape on the lizard; luckily, the skins they were borrowing contain all of this one's brains before Chimp spatters it all over the area.

    Phoebe looks to Megan, and she gives a wry smile, and shakes her head, She mimes sitting on it, and holds her hands as if in meditation. She's got to do something to the rock itself, and as Megan opens her senses, she might feel the tingling. It's a deep tingling, buzzing against the back of her head as the leylines start paying attention to the two magic people, coming up closer to the seat.

    Mike gets chunks of demon attached to his face. Ew.

    He turns to face the demon with the chain, who narrowly escaped being skewered by Patience, and the Demon takes a look at Michael. Takes a look at Patience, and then at Chimp and Charlie, and determines that Mike is probably the *least* of the worries -- and he rushes to meet the musican and mage, swinging his chain to try and catch and rob him of that stick!

    -- until Charlie delivers a solid punch to its middle, leaving another hole in the lizard demon, who blinks, drips ichor, and then collapses.

    Luckily, none of that should hit Michael's face. Should.

    And then down to their boss. The demon with the brass spear turns the follow through as Patience begins to pray.

    "This is the City of Gotham, bitch. This city is the Dark, the providence of the Saint of Lost Causes -- we're going to take this place--" the bossman says, but the spear he's bearing is just a shade slow.

    Her weapon peirces his shoulder, and he gives an unholy HOWL of pain, reaching up to try and grab its icy shaft and pull it out of him.

    "No - NO -- that... can't... you--!" he snarls, the three peircings going through his vest, shirt, and into his body. There's the howling of winds, and then the wards around them break down.

    All of the lizard men are turned to stone.

    And slowly, they begin to crumble.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks around the area, and sees the crumbling Rock lobs...rock lizards. He will reach into his jacket, and pulls a flask out and takes a long sip of it. And then pulls a hanky from his pocket wiping himself off "Booze Demons, and not rock lizard demons." He will look around and head towards Phoebe to see what she is up to now.

Megan Gwynn has posed:
Megan Gwynn shivers as she reads the magic of the rock, and of the land it is resting on.."Oh wait, you're saying we're standing on the focal point of ley lines? Soo..We have to what, communicate with it..Purify it or..Something?" she nods however, to Phoebe's indication, trusting she knows what she is doing, and Megan steps rather hesitantly towards the rock, taking a seat on it, closing her eyes as she sits on it and..Focuses, tries to connect with the rock and the land, trying to get a better read off of it.

She's not entirely sure what she's doing, she's never tried connecting to the earth before, but..In theory anyway, Megan is part faerie, even if she was never taught the ways of the nevernever, she is still very much a part of nature. Maybe she can..Communicate with it or at least sense whatever dark magic is corrupting this plot of land.

Maybe, with Phoebe's help, she can heal it..

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Mike glances down as the spray of demon hits his shirt, fizzling away under the holy light.

With there still being a demon that Charlie can potentially explode left, Mike opts to keep the spell up just for now.

Or that was the plan. As the remaining lizard people turn to stone, he instead gives a cautious look around before focusing on his next task: Catching up to Megan.

Patience Alperen has posed:
Patience Alperen steps back as the boss demon turns to stone. "God's will be done. Amen."

She steps back, the icy spear melting into water that drips to the ground. The length of wooden spear staff is carefully, reverently, tucked away and she turns to look to Phoebe and the others to make sure everyone has made it through safely.

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe has posed:
    "Eeeeew..... seriously. Does anyone know why demons are so fragging gross?" she shakes off like a dog. Shaking this way. Shaking that way. Then shakes her arms trying to get as much of the guck off as possible.

    "Hey can your light sizzle sizzle these demons off me without sizzling me?"