Snark is remarkably businesslike tonight
(1783)
Kane uses Disturbance to determine that yes, that's a demon driving that car. He tries to con the other driver into pulling over but the guy will have none of that, so Kane has to get overt. Flaming sword to the tire overt. Curiously the little four-door can heal a flat tire. Neat trick.
Black Shuck decides something out there is cool and takes Glen for a drag.
Sunae in the back seat starts to get a nightmare that quotes the old movie “Nomads”, a nightmare that ends in the seatbelt of the waking car wrapping around her soon to be waking neck. The screaming TVs in the back of the sedan miiiight have something to do with that. And they miiiiight have something to do with Earl's fuzzy dice doing a bolo impression against Kane.
Zahirah gets to James “Kahuna” Bouchier who gets the wrong impression.
There's a car chase going on, except Kane's got one hand trapped by that bolo and the other holding a sword. Sunae is in his lap and all would be well except one of those damned TV demons has just stepped on the gas. Of the Cadillac. Kane figures it's gremlins and goes celestial to look for one, but it isn't.
Corat guides Remiel on getting its latest vessel back home.
Celestial Kane gets into the backseat of the Corolla with the TVs, but there's just no love for a blackwing there. Sunae is poised to leap from Earl on to a lawn, making the Caddy a large unguided missile. The TV demons meanwhile gang-Sing Kane. Kane replies by running a sword through the driver-oops, in celestial. He goes physical along with the sword and pulls the handbrake. Weeeeeeeeeeee!
Black Shuck is now a very big dog hanging his tongue outside Mitch's little car. Poor Glen is stuck next to the canine abattoir, who is leaning left and right to give directions. Mind you, dog the size of a small horse in a car that's not much bigger than that. They see a driverless Earl go ambling across the street in front of them. And Sunae makes eye contact with Artemis. All together now!
Remiel is now no longer Amy. Now it's Tom. Hi Tom!
And Kane is now a block of ice on the road. Hi block of ice on the road!
And goodbye to Tishbite and the TVs. They are so outta here.
Corat's not happy about how Kane handled all that, and expresses that with a fist. Or that's what he wants the bystanders to believe, a nice loud argument between two tough guys. This is still demon-town after all, and he's the tolerated angel and Kane was just in full Celestial form and blackwing glory.
Zahirah gets promises from Kahuna that, if he keeps them, will keep him out of Hell. This required a little negotiation.
Sunae wants to tell Corat and Kane what she saw in the Marches but they're not cooperating...well, that and she has to say when Artemis is not around and she's not cooperating either.
Mitch, ever the reasonable one, asks Glen how he got into sorcery. Conversation must be really important to be talking past that dog for it. Corat is doing damage control, grumbling the whole way as he fetches Earl, minds Artemis, and gets Remiel out of the line of fire.
Black Shuck in a roundabout way leads them all to the dogfight that Odin and the boys are enjoying. Sunae stops them all short and asks pointed questions. Artemis denies being part of Odin's sneaky plans, though she was aware of them and didn't care to mention it. In the midst of all this Ryuki calls Glen and gives him some Old English to memorize, something to pacify Odin with...a deal.
And Sunae predictably and with some accuracy calls Ryuki a bullshit artist. Glen educates her on dogfight etiquette and why letting Black Shuck off his leash would be considered unsporting. Corat separates the party into hard and squishy, Earl and the car with the roof. They come upon four trailers forming a corral with a dogfight in the middle. Shuck jumps on top of one of the containers and makes enough impression to silence the entire matter, including the two canine combatants. For a minute, until one of the Hunt yells for the fight to continue...the better to cover their exit, because if Shuck is here angels might not be far behind. Lucky for them Shuck is compelled to defend a female in distress, a female dog in this case. He waits for only the slightest permission, which Artemis was happy to give him, and then he crunches the other pitbull's head in his massive jaws while straddling the broke-leg pet to defend her. Of course, this causes the humans to stampede. Glen curses Shuck's inability to obey his clearly superior somethingorother.
Sunae heals the unlucky pet, and one of the dogfight owners decides she's going to try to take home an old Anglo legend. Speaking of old Anglo legends, Odin and the boys speak perfectly fine modern English, never needed Artemis to translate, and have in fact picked up some internet slang. How do we know this? Kane is quite discreetly trailing them. Remiel is emptying Tom's stomach at the sight of all this.
Odin and the boys try to remember how to use their getaway motorcycles, while a still-invisible Kane stuffs rocks into the tailpipes. This disables two of the five bikes, and Odin figures out that something is up. The guys rearrange so that four of them are on three working bikes, and a fifth sits placidly on a nonworking one. Glen prefers the direct approach, walking his lovely dog over and asking whassup to the guy on the nonworking bike while the others slink away. Corat whisks a katana to their leader's neck to, er, slow them down.
Glen delivers Ryuki's message and Odin mocks his English, though he's duly impressed that Corat is holding the dull edge of the katana to his throat. Corat wordlessly demands ignition keys but only gets Odin's, the others being out of his reach. Kane demands the key from the guy left behind on the nonworking bike and he gets it, along with the guy's name and backstory. He's Hereward the Watcher, watching with one blue eye and one grey. His mother is Lady Godiva,
After some sharp but hardly fighting words, Hereward attacks Glen, creating enough distraction for two of the bikes to make a run for it. Odin challenges Corat to make good with his blade. Kane hops on Hereward's bike in pursuit-rather amazing that it worked. Glen banishes Hereward rather than take the punch, although Ryuki forgot to mention that banishing-on-the-fly kicks like a double-barreled shotgun with a mule attached. Corat seriously considers using the sword's sharp end, but Odin's pretty sharp himself. He complains that they led the angels where they wanted to go but were then left outside, ignored and without compensation, so they did what they wanted. Then Odin ascends out of his vessel, hoping to buy his companions a little more time in the world.
Vessels start to be reclaimed as Kane and Corat pursue the three fugitives on two bikes. Keeping in mind the motorcycles are also vessels (you can't imagine the recordkeeping headache this part was!).
(2034)
Kane uses Disturbance to determine that yes, that's a demon driving that car. He tries to con the other driver into pulling over but the guy will have none of that, so Kane has to get overt. Flaming sword to the tire overt. Curiously the little four-door can heal a flat tire. Neat trick.
Black Shuck decides something out there is cool and takes Glen for a drag.
Sunae in the back seat starts to get a nightmare that quotes the old movie “Nomads”, a nightmare that ends in the seatbelt of the waking car wrapping around her soon to be waking neck. The screaming TVs in the back of the sedan miiiight have something to do with that. And they miiiiight have something to do with Earl's fuzzy dice doing a bolo impression against Kane.
Zahirah gets to James “Kahuna” Bouchier who gets the wrong impression.
There's a car chase going on, except Kane's got one hand trapped by that bolo and the other holding a sword. Sunae is in his lap and all would be well except one of those damned TV demons has just stepped on the gas. Of the Cadillac. Kane figures it's gremlins and goes celestial to look for one, but it isn't.
Corat guides Remiel on getting its latest vessel back home.
Celestial Kane gets into the backseat of the Corolla with the TVs, but there's just no love for a blackwing there. Sunae is poised to leap from Earl on to a lawn, making the Caddy a large unguided missile. The TV demons meanwhile gang-Sing Kane. Kane replies by running a sword through the driver-oops, in celestial. He goes physical along with the sword and pulls the handbrake. Weeeeeeeeeeee!
Black Shuck is now a very big dog hanging his tongue outside Mitch's little car. Poor Glen is stuck next to the canine abattoir, who is leaning left and right to give directions. Mind you, dog the size of a small horse in a car that's not much bigger than that. They see a driverless Earl go ambling across the street in front of them. And Sunae makes eye contact with Artemis. All together now!
Remiel is now no longer Amy. Now it's Tom. Hi Tom!
And Kane is now a block of ice on the road. Hi block of ice on the road!
And goodbye to Tishbite and the TVs. They are so outta here.
Corat's not happy about how Kane handled all that, and expresses that with a fist. Or that's what he wants the bystanders to believe, a nice loud argument between two tough guys. This is still demon-town after all, and he's the tolerated angel and Kane was just in full Celestial form and blackwing glory.
Zahirah gets promises from Kahuna that, if he keeps them, will keep him out of Hell. This required a little negotiation.
Sunae wants to tell Corat and Kane what she saw in the Marches but they're not cooperating...well, that and she has to say when Artemis is not around and she's not cooperating either.
Mitch, ever the reasonable one, asks Glen how he got into sorcery. Conversation must be really important to be talking past that dog for it. Corat is doing damage control, grumbling the whole way as he fetches Earl, minds Artemis, and gets Remiel out of the line of fire.
Black Shuck in a roundabout way leads them all to the dogfight that Odin and the boys are enjoying. Sunae stops them all short and asks pointed questions. Artemis denies being part of Odin's sneaky plans, though she was aware of them and didn't care to mention it. In the midst of all this Ryuki calls Glen and gives him some Old English to memorize, something to pacify Odin with...a deal.
And Sunae predictably and with some accuracy calls Ryuki a bullshit artist. Glen educates her on dogfight etiquette and why letting Black Shuck off his leash would be considered unsporting. Corat separates the party into hard and squishy, Earl and the car with the roof. They come upon four trailers forming a corral with a dogfight in the middle. Shuck jumps on top of one of the containers and makes enough impression to silence the entire matter, including the two canine combatants. For a minute, until one of the Hunt yells for the fight to continue...the better to cover their exit, because if Shuck is here angels might not be far behind. Lucky for them Shuck is compelled to defend a female in distress, a female dog in this case. He waits for only the slightest permission, which Artemis was happy to give him, and then he crunches the other pitbull's head in his massive jaws while straddling the broke-leg pet to defend her. Of course, this causes the humans to stampede. Glen curses Shuck's inability to obey his clearly superior somethingorother.
Sunae heals the unlucky pet, and one of the dogfight owners decides she's going to try to take home an old Anglo legend. Speaking of old Anglo legends, Odin and the boys speak perfectly fine modern English, never needed Artemis to translate, and have in fact picked up some internet slang. How do we know this? Kane is quite discreetly trailing them. Remiel is emptying Tom's stomach at the sight of all this.
Odin and the boys try to remember how to use their getaway motorcycles, while a still-invisible Kane stuffs rocks into the tailpipes. This disables two of the five bikes, and Odin figures out that something is up. The guys rearrange so that four of them are on three working bikes, and a fifth sits placidly on a nonworking one. Glen prefers the direct approach, walking his lovely dog over and asking whassup to the guy on the nonworking bike while the others slink away. Corat whisks a katana to their leader's neck to, er, slow them down.
Glen delivers Ryuki's message and Odin mocks his English, though he's duly impressed that Corat is holding the dull edge of the katana to his throat. Corat wordlessly demands ignition keys but only gets Odin's, the others being out of his reach. Kane demands the key from the guy left behind on the nonworking bike and he gets it, along with the guy's name and backstory. He's Hereward the Watcher, watching with one blue eye and one grey. His mother is Lady Godiva,
After some sharp but hardly fighting words, Hereward attacks Glen, creating enough distraction for two of the bikes to make a run for it. Odin challenges Corat to make good with his blade. Kane hops on Hereward's bike in pursuit-rather amazing that it worked. Glen banishes Hereward rather than take the punch, although Ryuki forgot to mention that banishing-on-the-fly kicks like a double-barreled shotgun with a mule attached. Corat seriously considers using the sword's sharp end, but Odin's pretty sharp himself. He complains that they led the angels where they wanted to go but were then left outside, ignored and without compensation, so they did what they wanted. Then Odin ascends out of his vessel, hoping to buy his companions a little more time in the world.
Vessels start to be reclaimed as Kane and Corat pursue the three fugitives on two bikes. Keeping in mind the motorcycles are also vessels (you can't imagine the recordkeeping headache this part was!).
(2034)