14338/Something Stinks in Caerbannog

Something Stinks in Caerbannog
Date of Scene:	01 April 2023
Location:	Somewhere North of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Earth
Synopsis:	Talia al Ghul, Gabby Kinney, Tommy Shepherd and Robbie Reyes, under the auspices of Nettie Crowe, help to clear an ancient evil from Caerbannog -- while turned into rabbits, they fight zombie knights and Tom the Necromancer (cousin to Tim the Enchanter). Graham Chapman is returned to Heaven at the end of the scene, thanks to Tommy adjusting particles, Gabby stealing a tongue, the Ghost Rabbit (Rabbit Reyes) setting things on fire and wrecking things with Chains, and Talia being a suitably dangerous distraction for a great number of Knights who don't like... Ni.
Cast of Characters:	Nettie Crowe, Talia al Ghul, Gabby Kinney, Tommy Shepherd, Robbie Reyes

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Nettie Crowe has posed:
    It was a brief portal from New York City (with its constant threat of invasion and the unusual) to Wales, north of the city of Cardiff (and listening to Nettie wax poetic both on the suspension of belief required to enjoy Doctor Who in the late 80's and how Ace was her favorite companion in *ages* over coms), and the impending feeling, oddly, of doom.

    Nettie had been driving 'The Bus', which was indeed once a bus and had been comandeered the last time she had been to the UK on the trail of a missing Church Grimm and a Nucklevee (horrible time that was) and anyone who wasn't driving themselves was happily invited to ride on the bus with Nettie.

    Though it's obvious that she didn't get her driving lessons in the US, and the amount of moving violations she had from the portal drop-off (outside of a suspiciously closed pub called 'The Corn and Rake'), and about an hour later the group arrives outside of an open maw in the country side.

    This gentle slope leads down to a cave, the way is strewn with rocks. Some of the rocks look suspiciously round and have eye sockets and tee... oh no. Those aren't rocks.

    Nettie throws The Bus into park as it wheezes as if it was done taking punishment from her driving skills, the dishwater-gray vehicle that has had the S H off School scratched off on SCHOOL BUS so now it was just C OOL BUS and all their non-smoking signs removed opening up to allow for lungs to be unhealthily treated, and after the bus has expelled its contents (consisiting of JLD memebers sans rides), Nettie saunters off.

    She takes a deep breath, through her hand-rolled cherry-and-tobacco cigarette, the bright end lighting up before she snorts, coughs, and gives a roll of her shoulder. Unlike her usual dress in the Candle, she's wearing leather pants in gray, leather arm bands and gloves, and has a hooded cloak slung over one shoulder, her wand and a canvas bag of items as she looks down the hill towards the opening into the Earth.

    "Bugger-all. I was betting it was fae. I owe Owen ten quid." she mutters.

    To those with magic senses: The area here feels heavy, like an unwanted weight on your shoulders. It tingles like bad static on an old TV. It feels Dark.

    To those sans magical senses: Feels like rain is gonna start in the next few minutes. The air is damp.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
And so Talia Al Ghul is getting off. She doesn't have any sort of magic senses, but she's aware of the slight changes in environment as the group goes to get off the Magic School Bus. She would glance at Ms. Frizzle.. We mean Nettie.. While going to draw her katana from her back. "So, what exactly are we at risk of running into here?"
    Heffalumps and Woozles? Scrooge? Santa Doom?
    Hand over on her blade, the Magic School Bus is perhpas left over in the custodianship of Arthur.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Sans ride? They were in an entirely different country, of course the other head of the JLD thatw as riding along was on the bus as well. Gabby was both amused, and slightly horrified with the bus ride as she'd never grown up going to school on buses. This was different than a city transit bus, too, as well as adding in the horrible driving.

It was a strange mix of amusement at the ride and an unnerving sense of tension at the lack of seatbelts sliding around and feeling the entire bus sort of tip and turn in a top heavy manner.

Of course she could have gone otherwise given who else was here with her today, but... She couldn't always misuse her boyfriend for travel purposes. So she spills out of the bus with the sort of haste one seeking to feel SOLID LAND again might have, and pauses a few yards away to gather her wits about herself.

Talia's use of the sword earns a grin of fond memories, but she reaches for some knives attached to sheathes attached to her legs. There was no attempt to appear 'normal' today in her attire. Bodysuit, boots, light body armored top and those gloves with low-cut backs on her hands to allow for easy claw-ing.

"... Is it Fae then? Or... golems?" It's her guess while glancing at one of the rocks with eyes, squinting a bit. "I hope it's not a grue." Tim would be proud.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    Gabby's plus-one is here, not as quick-travel but just as a guest. A guest that all too soon wishes he wasn't here, not unlike that one kid from the Magic School Bus who always wished he'd "stayed home today." That is very much the sentiment Tommy currently is feeling as he makes his way off the C OOL BUS after Gabby.

    His own experience with moving at great speeds means he's not all that discomfited with the ride itself, moreso the inherent dislike of not being in control of his movement. And maybe he should have done as Gabby had and dressed for the occasion, but he's just in a pair of cargo pants and an oversized sweater, casual-like. Good for the spring weather on this side of the globe, though!

    "What's a grue?" he asks, baffled, wary of getting mud on his new shoes. He's sans-hat today which is unusual for him, but maybe he's learned something from last time with the goose from hell.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
Robbie, unsurprisingly, declined to partake in a ride on the C OOL BUS. It's unclear how exactly he got himself here; the Hellcharger's been to this part of the world with him before though, so it's a strong possibility.

The tall, lean young man might not be as recognisable today, geared up as an Avenger: head to toe in sleek black leather with the signature white stripe, and reinforced with some sort of bulletproof something or other-- but truthfully, the demon requires none of it.

He looks, as always however, like he hasn't slept enough. His dark curls look slept in, and his eyes have dark smudges under them as he picks his way closer to where the others are assembled.

"Golems?" He scowls slightly at Nettie. "You never said nothin' about Golems to me."

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    "Eh, possibly the French?" Nettie states, her nose wrinkling slightly as she kicks at one of the actually-a-rocks-and-not-a-skull as she answers Talia. She takes a few steps forward, the more magically-inclined of the group taking point, and she gives a small 'hm' sound.

    "Don't think it's Fae. If it was, woulda prolly called in the Constantines to deal with it. Don't mess with Fae. They *will* wreck your shit, reverse your tides, curse your moon and steal babies from your family and eat them under the dark of the New Moon, depending on which group you piss off. Nasty bunch, Fae. Don't care much for my kind anyway. Upsetting the natural order and all." Nettie explains as she picks up a handy dandy on-site tool (a stick), and she pokes at the ground.

    "A Grue is a creature that hides in the dark and consumes you, body, soul, existence. Especially if you piss off Dungeon Masters. Nasty bunch, Dungeon Masters. They'll also wreck your shit. Last time I played with an ol' friend Gary he laughed as he made me re-roll my character after a party wipe. Aah, the seventies were a weird time." she kicks at a little mound of dirty, and makes a face.

    "An' there's no Golems here, not that I'd wager. Wales isn't particularly known for its Jewish mysticism." she gives a soft 'hurm' sound.

    "... this is the boarder of the thick amount of magic. Feels a bit like..." she chews a moment on her cigarette. "Wadin' in Peanut Butter."

    And then Nettie passes through the edge.

    And she simply seems to disappear, as if there's a portal there. For a heartbeat.

    Then her voice crackles, with lots of static, over a handy-dandy walkie-talkie.

    <BUGGER IT ALL TO HELL. COULD USE A HAND!"

    There's the rattling of dry bones clicking against one another, and the rending of cloth coming from the direction she disappeared into.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Talia al Ghul would ahh over, "I see. In that case, according to the old stories, the way to defeat them is simply to not go through the dark. So does anyone have any issues with.." Even as there's the sound of Nettie going to yelp over along the link she would grumble. "Just like the time Nyssa took me on a snipe hunt." She goes to ever so casually move to take up her blade and light a torch, and would go forwards.
    "We could have prepared better. There are old stories that they have a convention that one could go in disguise to and find out the secrets of thier society, and take them down. We'll need an intact specimen for that." Blade in front of her, torch ready to light anything on fire.
    "And if you do see Lord British, remember that while he's nigh immortal there are always ways to take him down."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney steps in closer to Tommy to reach out for his hand. It could be something as simple and endearing as wanting to hold his hand--but no, she presses one of the knives into his grip. Leaning in she pecks a kiss to his cheek offering quietly, "Just in case." Of course he could escape most things but being near a cave that could make racing away difficult. She worried.

Her attention shifts back over to flash a grin at Robbie along with a shake of her head. "Just random guessing," she explains about the golems. Something here was making a lot of skulls after all. Once Nettie steps forward and vanishes though she takes a quick sniff of the air.

It's the crackle of the walkie that has her letting out a sigh. "Okay changing my guess to 'reanimated skeletons'. ... And who's Lord British?" she wonders aloud.

A little side to side roll of her head comes as she prepares. "Well, guess it's time to go in to whatever that is," she reasons with another glance and grin toward Tommy. "You ready?" Of course she's already started off in the direction Nettie went, angling to the side so she might 'enter' from a bit of a different position. Never hurt to spread things out.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    "Gabby I can explode things with my mind," is what Tommy says when he's given a knife. A KNIFE! What is he going to do with a knife? In fact he asks: "What am I going to do with a knife?"

    He looks first at Talia with her big, big knife, and then at Robbie, who might have a knife in that leather getup somewhere, and then he stares down at himself in his Nikes and has a moment where he asks himself (internally, this time) what he's even doing here.

    But okay! Forging on ahead, here, as Gabby already is--the blink and you'll miss it disappearance of Nettie certainly hadn't been blunked and missed by the guy with superspeed perception, after all--Tommy nods and follows right on her heels. None of the talk of golems or snipes is paid any mind to simply because it all goes straight over Tommy's head. He literally has no idea what he's about to walk into, here!

Robbie Reyes has posed:
By the time Nettie gets to telling the story about her friend Gary, Robbie's completely lost the plot on her rambling. He's pretty much prepared to just walk right on into the cave, and get this over with one way or another; he may not be able to pick up on magic per se, but he *does* have that demonic spidey sense for evil afoot. And there's *plenty* of it going on in that cave.

But then Nettie goes and traipses on in, and vanishes-- like she's been prone to do, lately. With a siiiiiiigh, he trudges off after the others. "You wanna quit makin' guesses before you jinx us with somethin' worse?" he grumbles at Gabby. Maybe he'll get around to asking her, later, who the guy is. And why she chose *this* of all things for a date.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    Congratulations, you are now both inside the cave, looking out, and a rabbit!

You are a rabbit with appropriate coloring to your choosing. You additionally have 'Epic Leap' and 'bite someone's head off with your deadly teeth'. All your normal powers are intact (ie Gabby still can pop claws, Tommy has superspeed, Talia has a sword sized down for her size, Robbie is still capable of transforming into the Ghost Ri--... er, Rabbit.).

    Nettie herself is a rabbit, gray with black 'hood' markings, her ears pinned back, wand in her teeth, her left food thumping a little against the ground, tail raised up and showing the cotton-white of warning.

    Out, beyond the entrance? The source of the bone-rattling and metal-scraping. Knights with different markings on their shields are shambling about. There's one with a sun and a broken crown on his head, the remains of his beard scraggling to a lop-sided, half-flopping jaw. They appear to be guarding something up on the ridge, where moments ago the plucky members of the JLD had been standing, with the bus.

    The bus is nowhere in sight, but there is Darkness and Evil beyond!

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Talia al Ghul would let out a 'guh' over as she would suddenly look down over at the Knights. "They're the ones that say Ni! Likely some sort of enforces of the Wizard Werdna." She was either getting into her role, had been hit way too many times on the head, or had suddednly become a member of the Skara Brae Adventure's Guild. Her eyes glaring ahead over as seh would look like a psychotic Trix Rabbit, blade in front of her.

She was going to gut those kids if they got between her and her cereal.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Bunnies." Hm. HM. "We're buns." HEEE HEEE. Gabby's leg is already rythmically thump-thump-thumping against the stone beneath her soft squishy fuzzy feet. Thump thump thump. A tail twitch in either aggitation or an overdose of energy comes, her nose wriggles, and she flicks her ears as if testing out all her new, unexpected appendages.

"Sooo Tommy you know what they say about bunnies," she teases leaaaaning in his direction. Only to right herself the other way with a mutter of, "Sorry, focusing. Undead knights. Half right? It wasn't such a bad guess," she mutters to Robbie though really, it didn't much matter right now. They were bunnies. Potentially murderous ones.

"Well I guess this means...?" She prattles off quickly with an excessive THUMP THUMP THUMP of her rear legs kicking and stretching and then she's bursting out of the cave.

"LEEEEROY BUNNYKINS!"

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    "NO CANOODLING ON THE JOB, MISS KINNEY!" Nettie barks around her cigarette and her wand.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    White-haired Tommy is now a white-furred bunny and this is just... a lot to take in, okay? He rears up on his hind legs, the rapid twitch-twitch of his nose scenting the air as he adjusts to his new shorter stature. Just breathe, Tommy. Just breathe.

    That lasts all of... let's say a solid half a second before he lets out a shriek (or really, a very bunny-like SQUEAK!) as he looks down at his hands. Er, paws.

    "What the hell. What the HELL." And then Gabby's leaning in. "Gabby we're furry prey animals!"

    Her meaning strikes him a microsecond later and he thumps a hind-leg, but Nettie's barking at them is enough to put a stop to that particular train of thought. Instead he runs after Gabby, only to, of course, immediately overtake her given his superspeed. He leaps into the air to try and rebound off the shield of one of the shambling knights as fast as his little bun legs can take him.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
Robbie passes through whatever weird magical energy field sits at the threshold of the cave opening, goes to take another step--

and finds himself considerably smaller than he'd been a moment ago. Smaller, that is, to the tune of a 4 pound lionhead rabbit. Which turns out to be basically a black fuzzball with white nose and feet. Eli's none too pleased about it, but it doesn't hamper his bloodthirsty monologuing much. If what he's got to work with is a buck-toothed lagomorph, then so be it.

"Nettie, I'm gonna fuckin' kill you," grumbles the bunny in Robbie's drawl. Then it hip-hops off once more in the direction of the knights.

First person to point out that he looks like a little bouncing pom-pom gets lit on fire.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    At the sound of the 'ni', there comes a pause from some of the knights. They rattle. They grind bone on bone. Their eyes, in spite of their descication, are very much Alive, and not in control, staring, looking around, but at that word... that horrible, awful word, three of the zombie skeleknights break off and begin to make their approach, raising their longswords in an attempt to group-smite Talia-bunny!

    Gabby goes streaking out faster than any normal bunny really has reason to, Leeroying to the... err... peril of a crossbow bolt being launched from a knight in green checks with a chicken also wearing knight armor on his shield. This happens to be the the knight that Tommy picks out and slams into at super-speed, which knocks him back a good fifteen feet.

    "Don't threaten ME with a good time!" Nettie states in reply to Robbie, she may be grinning but it's hard to say with buck teeth and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. She hops up on a rock to get a better look at what's going on from a higher vantage point as a knight with a gated helm comes roaring towards Robbie, looking to bring down a morning star heavily onto the fluffy death rabbit.

    And that's when a fireball lights up the cavern.

    THe sourc eof the Evil Feeling is, of course, a necromancer, wearing black garb, his helmet set with heavy ram's horns, a gaunt face and unclean teeth clenched tightly in a snarl as he barks out in an ancient tongue.

    "Kill anything that looks older than me!" is what Nettie barks out, trying to formulate her own plan.

    ... well out of Robbie's way.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
And then over as Talia goes to advance on forwards over, there's another shift in her. And she changes over into another sort of rabbit. One that's about six inches tall, in a sparkly red dress, and bright red hair. Liefeled scaled body ina n anime'esque frame.
    "Oh.. No.." Only able to speak slowly and exaggeratedly, weapon gone. "Oh no.." In a sing-song, damsely voice.

    "Be vewy quieth.. I'm hunting wabith!"
    This was inevitable, wasn't it.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
The bolt from the crossbow would have potentially hit any normal bunny, but Gabby was a bit enhanced herself. Not to Tommy-buns level, of course, but enough that it only grazes over her back leaving a splash of red on her otherwise pristine white fur. She doesn't feel any pain but it was impossible to miss the pressure as it passed by, and the scent of coppery blood in the air.

With a ferocious "RAR!" She leaps at another of the knights bounding up into the air rather high to try and clamber up onto it, past the swing of it's arms, going for the throat.

Sure, it's bone, but she's TRYING to sever it from the other bones so that the head will come off. A few fitful kicks of her feet against it's ribcage is used for extra leverage.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
Robbie should've expected this, really, being April Fool's. It *must* be some kind of prank Nettie's playing on them. Well, he'll deal with that later. Right now, Eli's decided he's taking over-- bunny or no bunny.

The knight charging toward him, morning star aiming to turn him into a bloody pulp, does manage to land that hit. But what he probably wasn't counting on is the little black fuzzball suddenly exploding in flames, little metal claws digging in and latching on tight to the mace as it's swung around. And lighting *it* on fire as well with a *FWOOOMP* as it quickly travels the length of the thing and tries to spread to engulf the knight himself.

Can bunnies do battle cries? This one can, and it sounds rather demonic.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    The weapon was gone. Talia is now a six-inch tall figure in a red dress and red hair, and for a brief moment, the knights who were attracted by her saying Ni pause, and appear to look in confusion to each other.

    There's grunts and moans, their voices not able to be comprehended, but apparently works well enough between the two of them -- and one goes to poke at Talia with his sword.

    Gabby takes to the air, the enhanced tinybun with the perfect eyeliner getting splattered a bit from the bolt, but she bites, she digs in -- and the head comes right off the sucker, giving a cry as it tumbles down off the zombie knight, and then the whole body collapses in old cloth and bones.

    And no one was expecting a firebunny.

    Eli taking over means that there is a new threat on the bunnyfield -- err, battlefield. And he would find that in spite of the difference in size and locomotion, everything else works precisely as it should, fire, metallic (if lapine) skull, fire spittle. It does change the tone of the spellwork that the guy in the black robes is working though, because suddenly he's not the Big Threat on the field.

    The flaming morning star is taken up, the rabbit gives a cry of demonic rage, and then the knight that had the morning star is now also on fire, engulfed by the flames of Hell, and collapses in a heap.

    Then the greywitch hare springs past Eli.

    "GoodToSeeYouPleaseDon'tSetMeOnFire--" she begins, and skids behind a rock as another fireball comes at her, singing the fur on her legs a bit.

    The necromancer on the ridge howls something, and more of the knights turn to regard the Ghost Rabbit and the Greyhare.

    "Don't suppose you could be a dear an' give us a bit of crowd control?"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Even as the small, small form of Jessica Al Ghul takes a step back, just going to repeatedly go, "Oh no.." Seemingly all she can say at this point, even as Elmer Fudd advances over on her. Then she finds herself, even worse to meme position back to a Shrubbery.
    A SHRUBBERY. She can only whimper here then as she's caugh tup over in what the Knights Who Say Ni truly want. Hoiste dup in the air over and stuck to said shrubbery, the small rabbit-sized Talia Rabbit can only glare and huff, dangling over from the top of the overly stretchy dress, green eyes looking like murder.
    Meanwhile, Elmer goes back to head along to bust up the bunnies, "Kiww Da Wabbith!"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Success! The head off Gabbun bounces away again only to glance over at the choas surrounding Talia and Elmer Fudd and what? There's only one way to mentally parse that. "Must be next to the source of the ... chaos magic?" Yes she'll go with that. Pretend you know what you're doing!

And she's bounding off again before another knight decides to aim for the stationary rabbit. A glance is cast over her shoulder to the necromancer in the cage, eyes narrowing--Not that you could tell it around the FANTASTIC faux eyeliner fur (which was real fur it just looked like heavy eyeliner being black), and she calls out, "Should we eat that guy too?" Okay not EAT but. She's trying to figure out if getting the source of skeleton knights might be the best course of action.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    Something about the term "chaos magic" makes Tommy flinch, which abruptly ends the ping-pong session he's been having thus far. Bouncing off another shield, he falls to the dirt and rolls a couple of times, his previously pristine-white rabbit fur now all full of muck and mud.

    It takes him a moment to recover, at least from his perspective; from everyone else's it just looks like he climbs back to his feet once his rough landing is over. But he manages to shake it off, and he lets out an adorable little growl of frustration that sounds... well, he's a little bunny, it doesn't sound intimidating. But then he stretches out one white paw towards one of the shambling horrors and scrunches up his lil bun-bun face in concentration.

    All it takes is a little willpower to force his power outward, and then the very molecules of metal and bone begin to vibrate, a prelude to an explosive dissolution of atomic bonds.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
The Ghost Bunny goes flinging off to collide with a rock, once the owner of the weapon he was attached to is consumed by hellfire and becomes a smoking pile of ash.

He shakes himself off, turns those red, smouldering eyes briefly on Nettie-- but seems to resist the brief urge to try to chomp her head off. Never mind he's tiny, and couldn't be much more than the *size* of her head. No, Robbie's still in there somewhere. And he's insistent that they're going to behave themselves.

By opening his little rabbit maw filled with pointy metal teeth in an elongated, alien-looking metal skull, and belching out a plume of scorching flame at the cluster of knights who seem suddenly interested in them.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    AND THAT'S HOW NETTIE GOT EXPLODED OUT THE BACKEND OF THE HELL GOOSE, EVERYONE. Tommy messing around with molecular bindings! That's a weird kind of magic!

    Nettie of course approves whole heartedly since she's not currently about to be blasted out the tail end of the Hell Goose.

    With the focus on the bunnies coming from a hunter, and then the knights turning to gang up on Ghost Rabbit, there's a peculiar happening.

    Tommy's force, that show of power rattles off the magic bindings around them, and there is the sound of screaming in everyone's heads. Words in Middle French, in Frankish, in Old Welsh and Brythonic, before the Germanic invaders had come to Angle-land.

    The knight with the crown, his jaw hanging off him turns towards Tommy, and he raises his shield with the Sun on it, his sword glowing dully, but he stays back, away, as knights are slowly pulled apart by the molecules of their bones being loosened, riptured at such a small level.

    Other knights are consumed by the gout of flame from Eli's horrifying metallic jaw, rending a group of them to ruin, swords and shields and maces dropping as the zombies break down in fire and ash, and Nettie, the old hare she is, wrinkles her nose as her torn ears draw back.

    "Yep, that about works." she confirms to Eli "Good on you."

    And she hops over the rock, her wand in her mouth as she calls out a warning in an old tongue, grating on the ears (even those ears of rabbits), and she fires a bolt of dark violet energy crackling with darkness to it herself, consuming some of the knights.

    Who turn on their fellow zombies.

    "Hamstar a bhi ar d?athair agus boladh smear trom ar do mhath-- AIRHG!"

    and she's hit with a fireball that sends the hair back with the smell of singed fur, but the knights she's commandeered bring their shields up to guard.

    Meanwhile, the necromancer on the ridge seems not amused.

    Dark tongues are wound, and the oppressive weight of the evil on this area taste like burning as he turns his attention to the Ghost Rider bunny first, black chains rising from the ground and trying to entangle the flaming rabbit!

Talia al Ghul has posed:
The group is being now engaged like wild Devilbunnies, even as there's a degree of chaos and fighting. Hnaging off the end of Elmer Fudd's gun, Talia Rabbit can only thrash about, "I'll get youuuu.." Whining over and trying to huff, not looking particularly dangerous or threatening while bouncing about as her ears grate over, like claws on a chalkboard..
    Then, even worse, one of the Knights of NI (a black one, somehow still having his limbs) goes to hold out a sphere. It's something that all fear.
    THE HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
The question of who was the actual source of the issue here becomes clear when Nettie starts talking in that odd tongue. The other tongues being spoken cause Gabby's ears to flatten back on her head with a wriggly twitch of her nose that was quite clearly finding it unpleasant. Still, at least she knew now for certain. That helped.

While Tommy is disintigrating zombies, Robbie is flambeing them, and Nettie is casting 'switch teams' on a few she turns to race through the cluster of rocks back toward the cave where the Necromancer was. Hopefully distracted as he fixes his attention on the flaming bun that was Robbie.

Again she launches into the air but this time her claws come out as she aims for the face of the Necromancer. Kicking, scratching, digging, gouging. Whatever it takes she aims to do.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    There's no real awareness on Tommy's part that he's done anything worthy of the extra attention, beyond... you know, blowing a zombie skeleton knight up. With his mind. Which is a thing he does frequently enough that he really doesn't think about that much!

    So when the royal knight looks his way, Tommy bounces off the ground and throws himself bodily at that knight because he's apparently interpreted it as a challenge, for good or ill.

    Of course he's struck down midway through his jump by the sudden intrusion of voices in his head, and the abrupt flailing of his limbs mid-air completely skews the direction of his momentum, so he hits the ground like a skipping stone and bounces, bounces, bounces, before landing in a lump. "Ow," he says, though he doesn't sound particularly hurt.

    After all, there's no way he'd survive day-to-day life if he couldn't take a few tumbles here and there, not with that level of speed. He gets back up on four paws and puts on the speed again, giving a wide berth to the hunter with the gun to avoid being aimed down on as he tries again to throw himself at the crowned knight and slam into his shield at superspeed.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
Okay, Robbie would have to admit that that's a pretty cool trick. Getting the knights to turn on their zombie buddies, that is. Though he's a little occupied right now with trying to keep his demonic self under control, and only vaguely aware of what's going on with Nettie and the Speed Bunny over there.

Well, until he's assaulted by that awful screaming in his head. Like he needed *another* voice taking up room in there.

It's enough to distract him from the fact that the necromancer's got a bead on him. Until he tries to move, and finds himself snared by.. chains? Oh, come on. That's his schtick!

The Ghost Bunny lets out a murderous HOWL and tries to ignite them with a roar of hellfire lancing out in several directions at once.

And if this wasn't absurd enough already, it then attempts to grasp one of them with its metal teeth, and whip it at the big bad necromancer with enough force to take the guy's head off.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    THUMP. The Rabbit of Speed hits Graham Chapman in the shield, making the higher zombie skid back a few feet before he attempts to bear down on Tommy with his sword, the bubbling up of ancient Brython, marred by the fact that his jaw was only half-attached to his head, and he attempts to shield bash Tommy the Rabbit back into the cave!

    A few knights try to stop Gabby from getting to the necromancer -- they fail.

    The Necromancer turns towards Gabby, his tongue twisting with rage as his language picks up in depth, his voice akin to the feeling of dry paper and splinters in your fingertips, and he raises his hand, blackened eyes narrowing.

    Gabby is kicking, scratching, digging, gouging, and that enables the Ghost Rabbit to grasp the chains in the metallic teeth of its skull, and take control of it. It lights on fire, the heat filling the field of battle as it whips around at the necromancer -- he's shifted, though, reaching to grab Gabby and try to throw her into the fire with a snarl, the chain does wrap around the necromancer's middle though! His robes are on fire!

    And Nettie is dizzily defended by some Zombie knights.

    "Restore to these souls their own control, then free their spirits to where they'll go. Rise and Fight for Annette Crowe." the old hare whispers, bleeding from beneath one ear and winded.

    THe screaming stops.

    There is the echoing of a horn. Cheers when they see the necromancer is now wrapped in flaming chain!

    "Fight, Duckies, like their souls depend on it!"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney tries harder to attack. Maybe if she yanked that guy's tongue out... That was kind of a gross though even for her, though she does punch up with a claw to try and skewer it during her thrashing attack.

At least until her entire tiny fuzzy body is caught in the Necromancer's hand and she's thrown toward the flames. Well. This was going to potentially hurt a LOT.

Tommy Shepherd has posed:
    Yeah... that would have hurt, if as Tommy slammed his hind-legs into king zombie knight he hadn't rebounded off and collided with Gabby in mid-air. It's sort of a catch but there's not exactly a whole lot one can do with these silly little bunny paws, so he ends up biting Gabby by the scruff and holding onto her that way. They tumble back to the ground, Tommy's back absorbing most of the momentum.

    And then he just leaves her there! On the ground! But he's throwing himself back into the fight, both front paws extended as he tries to blow up a chunk of the necromancer. His cute little bunny face is scrunched up in a scowl of focus as he pushes his power outwards again to start vibrating the atoms of their nemesis.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
Somewhere behind the rabbit's burning eyes, Robbie's aware of Gabby being thrown into the fire he himself willed into being. And even if it won't kill her, he knows it's going to hurt. A *lot*. But isn't this what he always does to people he cares about? Hurt them?

Eli, on the other hand, couldn't honestly care less about who he hurts. So long as they suffer.

The Ghost Bunny is still tangled up in chains -- this guy didn't even buy him dinner first, the nerve -- but gives a powerful yank with its teeth to try to tighten their grip on the necromancer. Hopefully enough to start cutting through flesh, if he has it, and breaking bones.

Nettie Crowe has posed:
    The Nerve. Tom the Necromancer (Tim the Enchanter's evil cousin -- who doesn't have an evil relative?) can't withstand. His tongue is taken by Gabby shortly before she's launched and intercepted. Tommy vibrates the atoms of the necromancer, making him destabilize, and the Ghost Rabbit's control of the chain ends up slicing him neatly in half. He doesn't scream -- but he bellows, an ill-formed curse dribbling out of his mouth before he burns away in Hellfire and the disruption of what atoms remain living in his form.

    All zombie knights fall, save for the ones Nettie rewarded control back to.

    And the kingly looking one. This one rights his jaw, finally, after thousands of years of not being able to correct it.

    The knights report to his side -- the half-dozen or so that remain.

    They look to the rabbits, and the one with the crown draws close, and kneels down to them.

    He gives a smile, and then he is gone, the light behind the eyes fading as the zombie-knights remaining all turn to stone first, and then drawing away to ash as the light returns to Caerbannog, the Bus re-appears, and the magic that was laid over the area seeps away like a bad dream.

    And the group, at that point, unbuns.

    Nettie is leaning against the side of the cave's mouth, her wand and cigarette in her teeth still, though her left ear's been torn a bit ragged now, and she's got knocked about her head and has a bit of a gash against her temple.

    Her cigarette is no longer lit, bit she does give a toothy grin, and points at the Ghost Rab... er... Rider, intent on giving the others a hot minute to get away if he's not under control.

    "So. Y' hot-headed bastard. Good show, but could use someone to help load the group back into the bus, yeah? We gettin' Robbie back, or are you gonna be a --" she pauses, and physically winces as she tenses her shoulders.

    "Oh, think m'ribs cracked."