Combined Forces #3

• The Students of Life and Death, the Gaping Maw of Sound, the Wild Bunch, the Belligerents, Tough as Dirt, and the Tidal Guard all stood in defense of the city of Cypress against the Dawn Chasers, who came to destroy the Daughters of Eve

• When the Dawn Chasers broke against the Filotimo Gates, it seemed Cypress would be kept safe, but Thrax and Middalah Devir appeared, and broke the gates, allowing the Dawn Chasers fleet entry

• The Listener and Tough as Dirt defended the Gates of the city from attack from the jungle, and all the better they did, for the most powerful Dawn Chasers, the Executors and Executrixes, including Grand Executrix Shala Bast, attacked those gates

  • Included in those attacks were Executor Aver Gallant, Executor Javalane, and two vampires, Executor Poole and Executrix Altar, a gross violation of the Dawn Chasers mandate to destroy all undead, and an obvious hypocritical display on their part

  • During the fight, Jemiah, a former Dawn Chasers traveling with the Wild Bunch, attacked Druvigan due to some subconscious impulse built into his cybernetic limbs. Jemiah was restrained and his limbs removed, stopping the vendetta driven assassination attempt by Replica, the creator of those limbs

• After destroying the leadership of the Dawn Chasers, the groups rallied at the docks to see the Tidal Guard had handled the fleet, as ships littered Cypress Bay

• Harvest, the Relic Hunter protecting Lily and Dahlia, had been defeated, though left alive, and the girls had driven off their assailant, Middalah

• They attended the amassed groups in an effort to find protection, only to find Jackal discover them and profess his love for his long lost sisters. The only problem being they had no idea who he was and had never met him

  • Jackal broke upon hearing this and his latent necrotic energy lashed out, killing many in Cypress before being brought down by those gathered at the docks

• While everything seemed to be peaceful, Klem, the brother of Caster and denizen of Ephemareldion, appeared and pulled the ichor from Raithe's body, using it as a catalyst and roadmap to pull Juiblex, the Demon Lord of oozes, into the material place

• Those gathered fought against the Demon Lord and were able to destroy his physical form but he began to reshape almost immediately

  • The Word created a painting on the docks of Cypress which captured and imprisoned the form of Juiblex while he was at his weakest

• Before celebrations could happen, however, Gore was driven by the Divinaxiom to steal the divine spark of creation from the Daughters of Eve

  • When Gore refused, the Divinaxiom consumed Gore's soul, leaving his heroic body a broken husk on the docks

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