Snippet #1689401

(Day 7)

Exuro

Mercifully for Exuro (and Fellmund too, considering that Ignis wanted him to be kept in one piece), his still-intact Combat Armor leggings managed to take the limb-severing brunt of Fellmund's card swarm. Granted, they couldn't hope to soak up all the punishment the cards had dealt to his legs, thus leaving the mercenary bleeding quite profusely through the many slashes now present in his armor. For a moment, it seemed like Exuro was about to lose consciousness, but that soon changed when a certain distinctive malignant energy signature quickly became apparent.

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Ignis

"I know that look, Fellmund. Trust me, there's nothing you'll want to see if you try to strip that old bag down... not to mention that she's the type of person who carries the ashes of her dead husband around. May not seem like too much to you aside from creepy, but I don't want to risk his ghost getting called out and turning you into fine Tested puree. Trust me, it took me months of planning and a good pile of platinum to arrange for his end, and it was still worth it to have that teleport-happy meat slicer no longer sabotaging all my projects."

At that moment, Ignis burst into the midst of the makeshift ambush point in the usual, flashy blast of purple flames. Julias was still noticeably absent, but the look on Ignis' face would make him seem welcome by comparison. After glaring over at Flare for a moment, making sure she wasn't going anywhere, he headed over towards the tree where Exuro and Fellmund were standing - or hanging, in Exuro's case. Speaking of whom, he went to respond to Ignis' arrival - presumably to spit out some form of Wasteland obscenity - but Ignis quickly responded with a quite-literally bone-crunching right hook, silencing the mercenary and leaving him with a rather off-kilter nose. After re-aligning said disfigurement with a quick, but equally-painful-sounding snap, Ignis took a step back to admire Fellmund's handiwork.

"There. All better. And Fellmund, I have to say I'm pleased with your work. Kept him in working order and everything. That's important... we'll need him in one piece for what I have in store. In the meantime, feel free to keep up the good work. Just remember not to do anything too disfiguring..."