It was still technically a victory. Plus he tanked a Caladbolg, that's pretty major.
Also... I... I'm really not getting how the Rider thing purified everything. Or why Toshi didn't just do that in the first place. It also makes "Sakura" and "Taiga" look even worse because I doubt they didn't know about this.
Yeah, none of that makes a fucking lick of sense to me.
Also, Lantz. Congrats. You lose. Raul went Loud. You just forced him to go Loud through your actions. Enjoy the rape train, because he has no brakes. Everything is now dead in this area, when the real Angels arrive. Enjoy your time limit before practically invincible beings arrive to fuck you for witnessing him going Loud, if you don't die in a second here.
To explain why? A few of his now available Exploits.
Echoing DeathThe demon strikes a target dead and the death undoes the last action the character took. This requires the demon to warp time and causality, and as such it carries a greater risk of breaking the demon’s cover (in game terms, the compromise roll for this Exploit carries a –2 penalty). If the Exploit is successful, though, the demon can erase the last few moments of the target’s life, perhaps saving the life of someone that character killed. This Exploit can only affect the actions the target took in his last few minutes of life. Anything longer than that and the effects of the actions he took have already reverberated out into the universe too far to be undone.
Everybody Hates HimThe value of a scapegoat is indisputable. Having someone for everyone to hate, a target for their collective frustrations, allows unification among people — and for a demon, it allows someone else to take the blame. This Exploit makes a human target into the person that everyone hates. It does so by changing the target, though, not the world at large. The person simply trips the parts of the brain that causes others to read him as the enemy. Depending on where and when the victim falls under this Exploit, he might not live out the day.
Solitary ConfinementThe demon gestures at a target and opens a rift in reality — a black pit of nothing where the person remains trapped. The oubliette doesn’t keep a victim incarcerated indefinitely, but it creates a place ofperfect sensory deprivation. The victim cannot hear, see or feel anything, even sound or sensation that he creates. Even if the target only remains in the oubliette for a matter of minutes, the experience saps his will and can drive him mad. The target must be within the demon’s Primum rating in yards, and the demon must be able to see the victim for this Exploit to function.
DisintegrateWith a single touch, the demon can turn a solid object into dust and vapor. The object vibrates for a moment, and then cracks and disappears with a faint glow.
