[video]

[spiritessence]

[The feed is running, showing the side of Anders's robe. It can't be seen, but an obviously demonic voice can be heard, speaking casually like someone you'd have tea with.]

"Why do you refuse? I offer you not only a chance for freedom of this place, but the power to-"To what? To rid Thedas of the Templar Order? To ensure the freedom for every

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[Video]

[leaporfall]

Anders?

[See this? This is Marian's oh shit face. Bloody demons.]

Where are you?

[Video]

[spiritessence]

[He nearly loses his footing when he hears that voice.]

Marian? [He ducks to avoid the demon's claw, running to pick up the device again. He's in between surprised and happy, but he goes for the latter. A fight with a pride demon makes it easier. He surrounds himself with a barrier to avoid the flames and speaks quickly before it dissipates.]

I'm just at the entrance of the forest. [He backs off as soon as the barrier disappears.] I'm sure the flames will make it obvious!

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[leaporfall]

Hold on. I'll be right there.

[She kills the feed, because talking while running flat out isn't the most feasible thing in the world. Even with a spell of haste to speed her movements, she's relieved when she finally comes close enough to the forest to spot the demonic flames.]

[action]

[spiritessence]

[The demon stomps against the ground, sending Anders flying onto his back. He quickly recovers to casts cone of cold, temporary freezing the demon into place as he rolls away. He'd summon a firestorm if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't afford to have the forest burning more than it already is.]

[action]

[leaporfall]

[Marian's teeth grit at the acrid scent of smoke, all too viscerally familiar. Will-o-wisp flickers of magic ring her as she unslings her staff from her back, before breaking off to join her defenses to Anders'.

Two support mages, twice the annoyance to eat.]

[action]

[doesnotbrood]

[Outside the forest, he'd been told, and Marian was joining him. He was on his way before he'd even fully disabled his tablet.

Following the flames was simple enough, and the sounds of fighting even moreso.

He drew his blade as he approached, his lyrium tattoos shining. He remembered the fight with the pride demon.

It hadn't been pretty.] Let us be done with it.

[action]

[evokemydread]

[It's not hard for Minato to follow the smokes from the fire, running after it. Once he's there, seeing Anders, Marian and Fenris there, he quickly shift his sword over to his left hand.

Using his now free right hand, he pull out his evoker and summons Titania for a spell to temporarily buff their attacks, physical or magical.]

[action]

[spiritessence]

[The sight of backup distracts the demon, making its charge to the warrior. Thank the Maker for meat shields, because Anders needed a lyrium potion. He isn't going to just leave it at that, of course. They can't let a pride demon run loose. Feeling Minato's buff- (he really needs to ask that boy what exactly kind of magic that is), Anders offers his support also by summoning a protective elemental barrier for everyone. That should ward of the flames.]

[action]

[leaporfall]

[One corner of Marian's mouth turns up slightly at the prickle of familiar and unfamiliar support magics. She shapes her own spell, warping the gravity around the pride demon to turn its movements sluggish.]

[action]

[doesnotbrood]

[Almost on instinct, Fenris willed his tattoos to life, phasing partially between this world and the next, and charged, jumping into the air and slamming his large sword into the beast, thankful for the assistance if not a bit confused.

The demon roared and turned on the warrior, but he was prepared and turned aside, rolling and coming back to his feet.]

[action]

[evokemydread]

[Briefly and quickly, Minato switch to a different Persona. Seeing them at the front of his mind's eye, he pulled the trigger again to summon another being.

The humanoid warrior appears and strike at the demon with his blade.]

[action]

[spiritessence]

[Anders watches the demon, who was too occupied by Fenris, to notice the...weird lion thing that Minato just summoned and suffers a blow from it. He really does need to ask him exactly what those persona things are.

With the demon slowed and taken damage, Anders can feel it weakening. Still, a weak demon is still a demon, if a more desperate one. Before it tries to rain fire again, Anders shoots a winter's breath at it to freeze it in that state of vulnerability.]

[action]

[leaporfall]

[While Marian starts a little at the sudden appearance of a sixth, wholly unfamiliar, combatant, she recovers swiftly enough.

The hair at the back of her neck prickles with static discharge as she summons a bolt of lighting, which snaps down - too-bright and smelling sharply of ozone - towards the temporarily-frozen demon.]

[action]

[doesnotbrood]

[Fenris had moved into a level of combat meditation, as he was want to do, moving through a steady motion, almost instinctively dodging to clear for Marian's bolt, then taking advantage of the demon's paralysis for another assault of his own.

It was weakening.]

[action]

[evokemydread]

[Minato focus to keep Narasimha out as long as possible, giving his Persona silent orders which move to use. His concentration breaks when he disappear and need to resummon.

Pulling the trigger again, Minato calls him out again to attack the weakened demon.]

[action]

[spiritessence]

[The attacks work, with the demon stumbling backwards and it nearly falls over- but it doesn't. As it channels the next spell, a large circular blue glyph appears on the ground, wide enough to spread under Minato, Marian, and Anders. As soon as the latter saw the sight of blue, he instantly moves away.]

Get away from the glyph, now! [Otherwise the glyph would pulse, paralyzing and damaging whoever is trapped within it.]