Aurelia is still engaged with the merciless Jorges, and speeds towards him with sunsword blazing and wings beating. Then. The unthinkable happens - it seems to go in slow motion and Aurelia sees it happening even as there is no time to stop it. Drawing two objects from a quiver in his back, a switch is flicked on each and they extend into long needle like harpoons, somehow pulsing with electricity. With a swift movement, he hurls both with precision accuracy, impacting straight into Aurelia's wings, sending her flying backwards and pinning her to the deck. Aurelia can already feel her wings are ruined. Jorges waddles over, slowly draws his cutlass with a beaky grin, ready to finish the Angel with...... "GOLLLDDDDD!"

Goldenrod the dwarf slams sideways into Platipirate like a freight train that loves shouting the word Gold. He repeatedly stabs the Platipirate well past the point where he is very definitly dead. Shouting "GOLD!" with every thrust. What is left does not resemble a Platipus much anymore... Aurelia wathces on, still stunned by the loss of her wings, when she feels the pain increase massively for an instant as the figure of Caspasian looms over her and draws out the harpoons. "No time for that now" he says even as suddenly he presses his sunsword to the wounds to cauterise them.

Even with the losses, it seems like the team is winning, right up until the moment when Eudial is projected downwards like a black meteor into the deck, and the broken halves of the anti-rift lance drop clattering down behind her...