VENGEANCE and SLEAZY LOOKING DEMON

On Aurelia's suggestion (and the opportunity to get out of the Dungeon), the Sleazy looking Demon transforms into Eudial and goes with Vengeance. Upon hailing the main ship and stepping outside the forcefield, a small transport barge arrives, and ferries them to the grandiose battleship that leads the fleet.

Stepping through the archways, the interior of the ship is decked out very much like how Vengeance himself would do it, lots of decadant features. However, close as it may me, it's just slightly off in a way that Vengeance cannot explain. Escorted through the ship by a pair of robots, they are dismissed as they enter the palatial State-room, leaving Vengeance and the Demon alone with a figure who is seated opposite, looking out a huge window in a panoramic view of the Castle and the sprawling city of New Melded going off further than the eye can see.

"I had a suspician that you might be the one to come - only you could have unlocked the castle anyway. I tried you know. But this isn't a Castle for any Professor Reginald Fortescue Vengeance (Esq.). Somehow, of all of the versions of us across the multiverse, only you were able to do it. I'll have to find out why that is at some point."

He smiles unpleasantly.

"Now, to inspect the merchandise"

He walks up to the disguised Demon and peers closely at it from several angles, and then nods genially turns around as if to fetch something from his desk... however he suddenly pivots sharply and the decadant cane he had been leaning on turns inky black as it takes off the Demon's head in a single smooth movement. Eudial's features linger for a second as the body slumps to the floor, and then reverts to it's original Demon form before a fiery implosion leaves nothing but cinders drifting across the room.

"Now, that was not who I was looking for. I guess we'll have to do this the hard way."

The first wave of soldiers attacks...

EUDIAL, MARISA, THE SPANISH INQUISITION, AURELIA, PHANTASMIC SLAMMER, TWO IRON GOLEMS and EPSILON

The battle begins in earnest, and even holding the bottleneck of the courtyard, the fighting is brutal. The group start behind a barricade and manage to take down the Goblin-gun spearmen without any major injuries, despite the courtyard being peppered with lead shot. However, the continuous ressurection of Skeleton Warriors and the huge Mechaboars provide a much more difficult challenge.

After intensive fighting, Goldenloins the Dwarf, wielding a golden dagger and gauntlets that combine his strength with Aurelia and Imogen manages to bust through the ranks of the skeletons and break the neck of the Necro-engineer with a massive headbut. All skeletons that had been ressurected during this fight crumbled instantly, breaking their lines and allowing battle to be won while the torrent of magical energy from Marisa and Eudial manages to destroy the Ghost Tortoise. However, the Mechaboars prove much more difficult opponents, and it takes one of the Iron Golems sacrificing itself by bullrushing the pair off the bridge to take them down.

At the end of the battle, all foes lie defeated, but not without loss:

CASUALTIES:
1 Iron Golem Destroyed
The Outer gates are destroyed
Eudial and Marisa are 30% down on magic.
Imogen has a broken arm.
Phantasmic slammer has cosmetic shotgun holes in his armour
Everyone has minor cuts and scrapes

At this point, George announces he has detected the secodn wave assembling:

10,000 Robotic War Beetles (size of actual beetle with hydraulic pinsirs)
50 Weremoles
20 Rhino-mounted Elven Cavalry
2 Buttermancers
4 Hadrons (see the item earlier)
1 Truck filled with butter (for the buttermancers)

TWITCH
Twitch performs the ritual and asks the question of power
"Do you want to be invisible?"
"I do"
"Yes"
"Yes"
"Errr... yess"
*tree branches creaking*

With that, the Old World's Society vanishes from sight, leaving the room seemingly empty.
"Now" the voice of Spodra says from somewhere. "What is the plan now?"