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"No, not at all. If it was supposed to be a private affair, I can go off and do something for a bit, but if not, I'll definitely come along. Don't want to be poisoned again." With that, Shef was ready to head off.

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"Wasn't there something to do with ice cream? You and Faith earlier, were you done there, or. . .?"

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"Uh, yeah. Not really about the cold though. . . It's up to you, but if you don't mind, it'd probably make Faith happy, right?" Shef held out the second pair he'd grabbed at the store--he'd really need to get something for himself later.


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"<Yes, you're right. Be seeing you then,>" Shef said uncertainly. <"You all did good, by the way.>" With that, he resolutely strode off over to Yuki.
Yuki cheerfully waved off MAGNUM VON CHAINSAW. "It was a good fight! Had a lot of fun! We should do this again sometime!" she called as he and the adventuress flew through the portal. Then she turned to Shef. Oh, you're here. Where did you go for like half the fight? Were you off chasing some lead on an archnemesis that you just had to follow even if it meant abandoning the fight? Or do a shady arms deal while nobody was looking? And weren't there more of- oooooh. Sorry for tunnel-visioning, I think?"

"I went shopping, and no, I didn't discuss it with you, nothing to be sorry about. The point was for people to tunnel vision and not know where I was. Just, mainly them. Need some clothes?"

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"<What do you mean, and how do I get rid of it.>" Shef griped. "<The answer remains no, and the reason should be obvious to you. Imagine that killing or hurting me was a puzzle, so that when one both found all the pieces and put them together, I'd be harmed in some way. Should never let someone gather half the pieces of the puzzle and put them together, and just put that out in the world.>" Too paranoid sounding maybe, but he could explain it as part of the job.

"<If I had to fight the same Aramitama twice, and it put together that I was the one from some book, imagine the advantage they'd have in the second battle. Hostages, tactics, worldview, who knows. Ritual magic that requires sacrificing meaningless but uncommon bits of knowledge about a target, not an impossibility.>"

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<"Preemptively, no, no idea why you'd expect anyone to agree to this. Specially with how vague you're being. Why do you want this anyway?">

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Shef looked around, he wasn't going to give up his advantages that easily, even if the fight was over. If the guy didn't knoe about the illusion. . .but how could he not. He'd hear from the adventuress, he'd deduce from seeing Shef's illusion walk of with Yuki, he'd have to guess, no point in holding out, on both the illusion, and speaking english. If he'd had more time, he might have tried to escape after dropping off the clothes, then call Yuki away. But now, no point.

<"Apparently yes. Do you need something?"> They'd won the battle, so this Bel guy would have no excuse to pester him.

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Quote from: Strategy phase votebox
Resource:
Ore in the badlands (1):Frostgiant
Oil in the Desert: (4) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider

Resources credit
Oil (1):Frostgiant
Ore: (4) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider

Attack
Eastern Ocean (2):Frostgiant, Strider
Western Ocean: (3) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF
Northern Peaks (5): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider

Leviathan
Western Maelstrom: (4) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider

LIES, because MoP very specifically said to vote for NE deployment even if they are becoming cheaper
Northern Peaks: (4) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider

New Trait
Chemical Warfare
Sea Wolves: (4) NUKE9.13, Madman, TFF, Strider
[/quote]

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Two pairs, should be good enough for now. Shef made his purchase, and on the way out, stopped to glance down at the phone. First, a requiem commanding it to dispel contructs or illusions or similar. There was a moment of hesitation, was there some reason Ignis couldn't talk in person right now? No, Shef assured himself, not worth the risk. So he pulled out his pistol and shot the phone, before walking away.

He'd portal down into the tunnels below the seats again, and toss the clothes to Sera, illusion still active. <"You can cover up with these. . .again, sorry about that."> He averted his gaze, muttering, <"Wasn't supposed to happen.">

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Quote from: Time for votebox
Sunlight Warriors
Holy Blade Winged Falcon
Monks of Minos (6): Failbird, Jilladilla, AC, Twinwolf, 10ebbor10, Strider
Artificers
The Slayer
Paladins of Heliel (1): C2M
Virtuous Vermin (1): Taricus
Valorous Defiance
Goodwood Bows
Song of Soothing (4): Powder Miner, m1895, Taricus, 10ebbor10
Giantslayer
Microcherubs
Shadow Walkers (5): AC, Jilladilla, Taricus, Twinwolf, Strider
Healing Springs (3): Failbird, C2M, m1895

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Quote from: Time for votebox
Sunlight Warriors
Holy Blade Winged Falcon
Monks of Minos (6): Failbird, Jilladilla, AC, Twinwolf, 10ebbor10, Strider
Artificers
The Slayer
Paladins of Heliel (1): C2M
Virtuous Vermin (1): Taricus
Valorous Defiance
Goodwood Bows
Song of Soothing (4): Powder Miner, m1895, Taricus, 10ebbor10
Giantslayer
Microcherubs
Shadow Walkers (2): AC, Jilladilla
Healing Springs (5): Failbird, C2M, m1895, Twinwolf, Strider

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Shef, after a moment of concern, realized that he probablyndid not need to stress over that. He headed into the store, searching instead for some items in adaptable sizes, a concept he was quite certain he would find.

As far as style, well he'd really just grab some things that appeared somewhat plain, not too ostentatious, for the two to cover up if they wanted. If they wanted something like what they'd been wearing before, they could do that on their own time. Shef was slightly disappointed he'd not found a more general store to get something for himself, the original purpose of this outing, but he'd just have to do that later.

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Shef relaxed as he fell through the floor, that was over with. He hadn't been sure about hitting after the extra swords appeared, but he'd been confident Yuki could finish things if necessary. He was however, glad that this necessity had not needed to be tested.

Shef stood up, dusting himself off, though the powder seemed mostly gone. <"Just wait here a moment, I'll be right back. If there's any paperwork, or post combat evaluation, have that ready.">

After waiting a moment for affirmation, Shef would portal out of the theater, activating his illusion, and would jog down the street to the nearest place he could find selling generic clothing.

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An opening. Hopefully she wouldn't be expecting his purchases, and hopefully, she hadn't made any of her own.

Four cached portals to suddenly cause the nuclear arrow to suddenly impact the theater floor a ways away. Curl down to stab at the adventuress, and when she inevitably parries or dodges out of range, launch the knife with Expulser[3] and use all other cached portals to give it extra shots at the adventuress. Try to get the last portal such that if it's also blocked or deflected, it's behind the adventuress, then activate the retrieval unit for one last sneaky shot.
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Could this exact position be turned to victory? Not unless that victory was immediate, as Shef suspected that even if he did not immediately lose from this attack, his survival would be intensely limited in duration if he took it head on. He had the binding grenade, and the unaffixed blade. But using them now would be suicidal. There was no guarantee that the adventuress, Sera?, was exactly where he thought beneath him.

Then, he needed to get back to the spotlight, where he could both be healed, and draw Sera out. He began the quick procedure of drawing out an expulser round, though it felt achingly slow now, and then detonated it at his chest, to push him towards one side of the blade cage. Or rather the portal directly in front of that side. A calculated choice, as a portal below would have taken more time to move through, more time in the anthrax. With this, he'd be flying up towards the opposite side of the stage from Magnum and Yuki.

Expulser [3] and a portal behind Shef to propel him out of blade cage, and in a path to the stage. It won't help, but modify with portals away from a direct ballistic path. Cached portals ready for the disembodied blade slash, but not to be wasted on the causality manipulating stun sword. Use the remaining control effects to distract Magnum, first by having him think he has to pay attention to Shef, and then, to think it'd be so much cooler if he posed for a few seconds before actually defending. Sera would love it, don't mind the summoner's command protesting, it's cause he's jealous.
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