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((Holy...god. If I said that he simply blocked it, someone would have bitched that I was being "too badass." So, I figured I would walk through the move step-by-step. His arm needs to move through the path of the attack in order to be in position to block. It was, however, in blocking position. Not with the arm, but the claws. And I even said that he moved so that no part of him would be in the path of the attack if it went right through his defenses.
Fer realz, here.))

((Anyway, couldn't you have just described it like that from the start, man?))

Gertrude's neck began pumpng. Darius' mana was being drained. She writhed as the explosion occurred, but she seemed determined on following the attack through, regardless of her burnt face. And her hair smoldering. When the punch came around, she held her arm up to block it but remained attached to Darius by her jaws.

Takeshi grimaced as his shield soaked up cobalt rounds. How to determine the real one? Paul's chance peripheral vision ((Preemptive Note: For Takeshi to have fired on the Athena itself, Paul's peripheral vision (at least) must have been able to see Takeshi)) had let him escape the first round and-

"s**t!" he roared, clutching his side. Blood was welling out where the phase round had passed through his shield.

((Dude, I just explained it! You guys said you wanted details, then BOOM, there's some details. Marco's arm was not there when the blade struck, but did indeed have to pass through its path on its way to blocking position.
And we STILL haven't looked at my completely logical attempt at stopping Sam, from BEFORE he tried to slash me! Marco is not going anywhere until this is resolved!))

Joe feebly managed to shoot at Gertrude, aiming for the head and shoulders, from his position on the remaining part of the platform.
He was jarred from the detonation, but he was determined not to die. His head and chest hurt, from his wounds and the stress, but not enough to inhibit performance, unless he tried to use the arm that was closest to the wound in his chest, which was the left arm, due to the hole from the kinetic round. His vision was slightly blurry, but he shook his head and blinked to keep it clear.
His angle of firing was from below, which made it harder to hit Gertrude in the head, but she was stationary, so Joe, experienced as he was with firearms, especially those of the handgun variety, led to the logical conclusion that he would be able to at least hit her. The effects of the shots remained to be seen, but at least he was trying. Maybe he could shake her focus, thus giving Darius the opportunity he needed to hopefully kill, or at least repel, her.
In the meantime, he tried to keep himself clear of the majority of the zombies, who couldn't approach due to Sam's Annihilation, by crawling back but keeping Sam between him and the mass of reanimated corpses. Hopefully, he could drag his way over to Fyrin without further agitating his wounds, and thus be pulled to safety without drawing the attention of an opponent. With Sam and Takeshi's attention diverted by Joe's allies, there was no logical reason that they would notice him.

((HOW'S THAT FOR DETAIL?))

One Paul went down. Two, three, they weren't even resisting. A fourth dodged around a little longer but was eliminated, thus leaving only one target who disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Paul was not any of the Multi-Pauls; he had taken his mentor's strategy properly and was Chameleonicked. It was hard on his mana supply in his iPod, but he hadn't actually used anything but his iPod yet and thus had plenty of his own left over. Apparently he'd been masking his own muzzle flash using shadow, and was basically one clever son of a gun.

He'd have to appear sooner or later, though, since Takeshi was spamming. Bullets were still flying, that was for certain.

Darius created air scythes to follow up - air hard and fast enough to cut through flesh. He aimed them for the shoulder joints, his intention to tear her arms off. She was trouble - brute force didn't seem likely to kill her, so Darius had decided to try to eliminate her various limbs until she looked like the Black Knight. That probably wouldn't happen fast, all things considered, but if he could get it done, it would be very useful.

Jacob kept his position as he attempted to remember what the blue thing was on the map.

((I'm sorry. Venom was continuing. I only moved with him, as seemed appropriate, seeing as I never gave you any more assault than the one declared in the first place.))

Jacob then realized he was the blue thing on the map. Silly him. <_<

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((Joe... he stepped... over it...))

Gertrude's ears twitched and she deftly dodged the scythes.

Except one that clipped part of a finger off.

Whoopsie.

She picked the finger up quickly and began healing it back on the vampire way: by pumping copious quantities of blood directly into it until it basically welded itself back on.

Takeshi groaned and had the zombies begin spinning and flailing, which looked absurd but put pressure on Paul. Because this took minimal focus, he continued to throw out fireballs and began to advance, keeping his force wall in front of him. His bullet wound was already half-sealed.

((Oh, another reminder: Shields don't affect gasses.))