The first blast is unnaturally silent in that fake brightness, like everything is when you’re turned inward instead of out. Four times you fail in your mind’s eye – fake plans become fake memory – so that when you finally move you don’t. As fake as your failures to catch the grenade mid-flight four times. A fake reaction from a fake reflection of a partial shard of a fake demon. The topmost frag grenade bounces up and away even as Offensive Bias flies off, drunkenly almost but you know that’s fake. You smash his right-most eye so hard that your makeshift truncheon shatters, steel wire snapping under the weight of your arm. And you stand in the light while a floating gomboc unapologetically gazes upon you as if you don’t have a grenade cluster and two working arms. All methods open, both ears closed.ĭetermination + Contempt + The Fury of a Million Suns: Route Chosen: To Kill a Demon. “-.-“ Global Virtue Check – Honor: 3 (base) – 2 (MOOTM) + 1 (Contempt) + 6 (Legitimate Antagonism) = 8 vs.
