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Iomedae in Novapest.
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She would like to get her gun from a dead body! Paladins do not have a taboo on scavenging things from dead bodies, because they are an institution of Golarion, where doing this is more or less the secondary strategic priority of every single engagement.

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Zero did indeed produce a lot of dead bodies, and all the shooting is producing more! She can get a gun off a dead body without much trouble, though it specifically being an anti-materiel rifle is trickier and digging through pockets for ammo might be slightly non-ideal for her invisibility, bandoliers are not presently all that popular.

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She wants one of the good guns she killed a demon lord with. She'll put her Ring of Protection on instead of evasion, heal fully, and then take her chances on being spotted getting ammunition for it.

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Not that hard! Unfortunately, she will be spotted (by Ilderia's people, since this specific weapon is one they're using) and this will involve a couple of rounds headed her way.

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At this time Iomedae is invisible and has a Defending holy avenger and the best Ring of Protection money can buy and an Amulet of Natural Armor only a little weaker than that and if they're mere humans they're going to find shooting at her very disappointing. She'll still try to go away promptly, though.

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Then they will be tragically disappointed. Alas.

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Great. Time to hide and practice swiftly reloading the coolest weapon Iomedae has ever wielded. 

 

(She'll keep an eye out for changes on the front and an eye out for Centuries.)

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Hide: Success!

Reloading practice: Success!

And a Century can eventually be spotted! (Running from one building to another.)

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Right. Iomedae is not very fast but she'll attempt to chase him down.

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Not impossible. He notices an invisible thing when she gets close and points his gun at it.

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Invisibility's a finicky illusion; she kicks the ground, and that breaks it. Hopefully no one here has any way of determining it's the ring in particular. "Century."

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"Iomedae." Nobody is going to shoot her immediately, but there's still fighting going on.

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She wants to swap for Evasion but she doesn't want to reveal that much about what abilities she has and when. "Who controls the constructs."

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Century looks older than he did yesterday, and more tired. "Steelmind. He's the Tyrant's son. Hides in a bunker somewhere we can't track down and does everything remotely."

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Sensible. Solvable with enough simultaneous Nightmares, which she doesn't have, and not especially with anything she does have. 

"What's the story with the wall of force?"

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It takes him a moment to realize what she means. "The Novapest Shield. To keep us in and everyone who might invade while the Tyrant's busy out. Disintegrates anything it touches, stops anything it can't, absorbs energy to keep itself going. Can't take it down if we can't take the palace, and if we can do that we've already won."

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- tells you some things about the Tyrant, not ones inconsistent with what she’d previously believed. Her overall picture of the man is that he's definitely Evil, plausibly Lawful (certainly so where it doesn't cost him things he wants very badly; the hard question about people like that is whether they stick with it when it does), and that he's fairly sure of his victory, though not so sure of it he can afford to keep his most valuable people off the battlefield. A force wall to prevent his enemies from fleeing is consistent with all of that.

 

She nods. “It remains the case that I am good at single Evil targets, not useful against the constructs, and not durable enough it’s wise for me to hang around the battle lines. Do you have in mind a place I should be?”

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Pause to listen to Ilderia. "How fast can you move? Do you know how to ride a motorcycle or drive a hovercar?"

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"Faster than an ordinary run only in short bursts using limited resources. I don't recognize either of those words. I can ride a horse, including if it's flying."

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"Horses are obsolete. Can you stay on a rapidly-moving metal wheeled-or-flying thing-like-a-skeleton-horse someone else is driving?"

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"I would expect so, if it's the kind of thing trained people without powers can learn to do at all."

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"Ilderia will send a rider to pick you up so you can start hunting their supers. 'Till then - pick your shots." And he'll turn back to the fight.

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She'll step away from him, shoot at constructs, switch Invisibility for Evasion when no one seems to be looking. 

 

What she wants is to talk to Ilderia, but she's aware that this request is a major imposition in the middle of an ongoing fight which Ilderia's side does not appear to be winning.

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No, they do not. The impression she's getting is - where one side has a lot of strong adventurers, they can run rampant unless they're countered by adventurers on the other side; otherwise, the constructs can easily defeat Ilderia's soldiers, who try to hold out with the advantage of the defensive. Buildings are getting blown up, often, when Ilderia's troops need to evacuate them, though that doesn't seem to reach the basements.

- A shiny metal motorcycle will phase incorporeally through a wall, with a woman wearing grey armor with Ilderia's arms on it and a very fancy spear in a holster by one side. She looks at Iomedae and nods.

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Aroden teaches that progress and invention are fundamentally meritorious activities and that there is nothing more human than the strange and the new. She will get on the incredibly suspicious horse.

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