~Doc Hop on before he gets away ~

Polk will be Doc's horse if need be and use his speed to keep pace of atleast let Doc get off some shots before Severance gets away.

For the purposes of not dragging out this fight longer than is desired, Doc may shoot accurately from Polk's back as if he were shooting from horseback.

Ethan’s training had included warnings about ‘tunnel vision’ and ‘audio exclusion’ as well as ways to counter them. He had years of experience in using those techniques and most of the time, they worked. Tonight was one of those times they didn’t work although to be fair, they might have, had he the presence of mind to actually use them. Unfortunately the combat medic’s mind was entirely focused on getting to his wife as rapidly as he could, rather than paying attention to all the little things that one should when in sprawling, chaotic combat situation like this. That is why he was not only completely surprised by the sudden appearance of the naked man, he was also unable to avoid their collusion.

He landed in a sitting position, his hands on either side of his hips as he shook his head and got his first good look at the man. Despite the mist, he could see the pronounced canines clearly as they stood out against the darkness. Ethan knew that his laser rifle would be of little use against the vampire so instead of pulling its trigger when he brought his hands up, aiming the rifle at the monster, he left his finger indexed alongside the weapon. A bolt of near invisible force shot out of his finger, aimed at the vampire’s head. Ethan hoped that the bolt of force would be enough to knock the vampire on his back, which would give him time to draw his silver knife.

Ethan shot at the remaining vampire with his fake-gun attack. The vampire tried to dodge but failed badly, taking a blow right to its center of mass. The blow does seem to knock it back or at least slow its progress forward.

The vampire turns towards the ship's hull and sinks claws into the rust holes and splitting steel plates. It attempts to climb away. It doesn't get far before Kalista emerges from the mist, flaming weapon in her hand. With the ferocity of a beserker Viking, she buries her spiked weapon into the vampire's back. With a grunt, she yanks the monster off the ship's hull, steel slicing to ribbons under its clawed grip. The vampire lands on the dirt ground with a stumble but stays mostly on its feet.

Meanwhile, Polkatain spins around and positions himself to give chase after his target. He pauses only long enough for Doc to have a chance to grab a hold of his back.

Doc deftly leaps to Polks back, "Let's ride Polk! We're gonna finish him, he ain't gettin' away from us!"

Polk takes off following Severance trying to protect Doc with his slightly raised wings and runs as fast as he can paying attention to Doc's knee movements to direct him.

The Ax and a stake were held in Polks mouth.

Kalista Will press her attack and finish off (both) vampires. I know there is only one, meant as joke.

The battlefield widens as the combatants move in different directions.

Severance leads a chase over the open ground as the blood moon dips low in front of him. Polkatain and Doc are hot on the villain's tail. The dragon covers ground at amazing speed and is even gaining on the robotic horse. Polkatain, however, is a creature of flesh and is breathing hard. It's unclear even to him how long he can keep up this pace. Doc is bouncing around on the dragon's back like he's starring bucking bronco film played in fast forward. It's all he can do to hold on to Polkatain's wings with one hand as he draws a revolver with the other.

Suddenly, they all punch through the outer edge of the fog. The night is clear, and Doc has the best unobstructed line of sight he's had all night.

Severance twists in his saddle to see his pursuers. His face still shows the bullet wounds from earlier, but his injuries seem less extreme now. He turns back and adjusts a small rear view mirror attached to the horse. He lifts his assassin's long gun with his good arm and points it backward over his shoulder. It's a testament to the skill of the thing when it was once a living gunfighter that the vampire would even attempt to shoot while riding and holding a long gun in a single hand and aim for a target using a mirror reflection. He squeezes his trigger, releasing a burst of deadly ion energy...

Meanwhile, Ethan and Kalista have cornered a most annoying vampire. The ugly creature trashes on the ground. Every strategy having failed it, it grasped for cyber-knight's weapon out of desperation. It attempts to pull the morning star from her grip. Attempting a roll to disarm. Kalista dodges the grab. It's mathematically impossible for her to not dodge is actually burns an attack to do it. With her sight coming in and out of focus, the vampires seem to blend into a single image and then split again. Sparks spit off the magic weapon and it slams into the vampire's belly. 14 damage, it has just a sliver of health left.

Ethan catches the breath which had been knocked out of him and finds his silvered knife.

With the mist and beneath the shadow of the hull, Nyx pulled up from his canter - the robotic stallion skidding to a halt and skudding dirt and small rocks over the headless leech beneath Sir Arulus' mount. Blood and fur dripped from both rider and horse, runnels marking out a strange geometry from the splatter of the coyotes and the bouncy and the wind from the ride. He rode with his knees, one of the reloaded six-shooters in each hand, gesturing to the ship itself, "What was that hammer blow?"

Polk when he saw the vampire oddly aiming with a mirror though it strange, ~Doc I thought they didn't appear in mirrors ?~

Polk lowered his head and raised his neck up to help protect Doc from any incoming fire. He was pretty determined to protect his friend.

  As the hammer blow sounded out Arulas was calming his spooked horse. Nyx rides up covered in gore. Arulas laughs. "No clue, but let's say we find out."

At the knight's shrug, Nyx nodded and cried out a command to his stallion, "Hai, up!", intent to make the standing leap up onto the ship's deck - or close enough. He braced himself in his stirrups, ready to hurl himself the final feet if the robotic steed fell short

Kalista went after the now single Vampire, attempting to kill it before it could do more harm.

I did not decide how high off the ground the ship's top deck would sit. Why not? Nyx propels himself up from the back of his robot and manages to wrap his arms over the edge. From there, he is able to grab a railing and pull himself the rest of the way up. From his commanding view of the battlefield, he sees the outer edges of the fog bank with himself at the center of a perfect circle.

Ethan, still on the ground in more or a less a kneeling position, saw that his invisible bolt of force had struck the vampire. He knew it had connected not because he could see it any better than anyone else but by the way the creature had stumbled. The combat medic had just gotten his silver knife in his left hand and was coming to his feet when Kalista rounded the corner of the ship, a flaming Morningstar in her hand. She brought the vicious weapon down into the vampire’s back, staggering it.

The sudden appearance of his wife not only raised Ethan's spirits and soothed his worry about her but it gave Ethan the chance to get his feet under him. Since the Cyber-Knight was clearly the more dangerous foe it faced, the vampire turned his attention to her, ignoring the combat medic. Ethan used the opportunity to lunge at the vampire’s back with his silver knife, using his years of medical knowledge to aim for the undead monster’s heart.

  Arulas laughs at Nyx and simply cuts a hole in the side of the relic. His Psi-sword slicing through the metal like a hot knife through butter. The molten metal dripping down onto the ground or Arulas' shoulder. He starts yelling hello as he carves a tunnel forward for himself.

Doc grinned, a worthy foe, then used his knees and hand to steer Polk away from the shot while simultaneously firing back at the undead orc, "Maybe he's fancy Polk, don't rightly know. But we bout to kill him."

Arulas finds a large room inside. The floor is covered in loose dirt. Bones shards are scattered about. This appears to be the room where the vampires rest during daylight. He can definitely heard the sounds of fighting further inside, just past this room in fact.

Ethan plunged the silver-coated knife into the monster's back. With a slight adjustment and a twist, he finds the heart and pierces it open. Strangely cool blood pours out over his hand. As Kalista begins her swing for a killing blow, the monster in front of her turns to dust and bone and collapses in front of her eyes. Ethan did not make the called shot, but what the heck. He made an extra skill roll instead. I see no point in dragging out this fight any longer.

"ETHAN!" Kalista was talking really loud, like she couldn't hear well. Trickles of blood from her ears would confirm this. "I AM SO RELIEVED YOU ARE UNHARMED. THANK YOU, HE AND HIS TWIN MERGED A MOMENT AGO. I THINK I AM HAVING TROUBLE HEARING AS WELL AS SEEING."

Ethan watched as the vampire instantly turned into dust and crumbled before him. He let go of the silver knife and paid no more attention to it or what was left of the monster. Seeing blood flowing from his wife’s ears, combined with her overly loud speaking, was enough to concern him both as a husband and a medic. Kalista was showing all the signs of perforated eardrums, likely caused by the massive explosion he had heard earlier the one that had demolished his force field.

He stepped over the pile of bone and dust that was all that remained of the vampire and put his hands on Kalista’s shoulders to steady and comfort her. People that had their one or both eardrums perforated often suffered from extreme vertigo. He had learned that both in medical school and first hand during this time with NEMA before and after the Coming of The Rifts. He guided her to a sitting position if she didn’t fight him so that he could begin triage. Ethan knew he could likely heal all of her injuries with a touch but he wanted to be sure he had identified all of them as he had been trained and not rely on the mysterious power he had gained as a result of exposure to the energies of a powerful rift.

She did not argue, allowing her husband to lead and guide her as he choose. She blushed, "HERE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE? YOU ARE NAUGHTY."

"MAKE WITH THE PEW PEW BANG BANG DOC." Polk said as he followed the direction of Doc's knee movements.

Ethan was grateful for his helmet just then as it hid his furiously blushing face from view. Considering that, as far as he could tell, all of the rest of the Lumberjacks weren’t in view, no one else would have seen him blushing anyways but he was grateful for the helmet’s faceplate nonetheless. His wife’s loud and uncharacteristic risqué outburst confirmed what his examination of her had already determined; she was suffering from perforated eardrums and a mild concussion. Judging by the burn marks on her armor, she had survived a point blank explosion of some magnitude. It was a testament to her durability that she was alive at all for any mortal woman would have been blown to pieces or at the very least, suffered massive internal bleeding from burst arteries, veins and internal organs.

Finished with his triage of her and after getting his face’s coloration back under control, he removed his helmet and gave her a goofy grin. “You probably can’t hear this but you are incredible,” he told her, reaching for her ears with his hands. He cupped the sides of her head gently and then concentrated on his hands, filling them with a portion of the energy his body now produced and that he had learned could be harnessed to heal others.
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Atop the ship, Nyx took in the rolling banks of fog, lapping at the island deck beneath his feet. He looked around for an entrance, not seeing Sir Arulus' entrance beneath nor the others within the fog

Doc used his free hand to fire his revolver at Severance.