Episode 82: Coronation, Part Two
Juliet, Walker, Dr. Armitage, Thessaly and Danny Ryan head out to Napoleon's camp. Billy, Miles, Alden and Melanie remain in town to attend the investiture.
Juliet remembers that in the alternative world of "French Twist," Walker was a military genius. She asks him to plan their attack, and after a while, he comes up with using Harmon Creel's Innsmouth folk as the main body of the attack. The Creels will attract Bonaparte's main force into revealing itself, but Bonaparte will no doubt maintain a reserve. At that moment, Walker and the other investigators will attack the reserve, ignoring the main body altogether in a bid to cut off the head of the Empire and allow the body to die.
This plan goes pretty well, although Thessaly proves too excitable to stay hidden and has to be sent to join the Creel party. Bonaparte has erected a huge tent in the woods to live in during daylight. Juliet comes face to face with Natalia the knife-thrower, last of the false Slayers, and they fight. A LOT. Walker takes some knives for her, allowing Juliet to jump over Natalia and finish her off.
Diligence's astral grenade frees the spirits of long-buried Iroquois, sending them screaming into the sky along with panicked French troopers. A zombie created by Diligence is turned into a self-propelled target by Dr. Armitage, who puts a hot dog on the end of a spear buried in the zombie's chest. Most of the Frenchies shoot at the zombie, ignoring our heroes, until it is much too late.
Bonaparte retreats to his throne room, surrounded by 29 bodyguards. Juliet challenges him to a duel, then pulls out the demon gun from "Lords of the Gun" and fires! BAWHOOM! A blaze of fury hot enough to melt the gun itself blasts out of the muzzle, scattering Napoleon's ashes across two counties. Juliet remarks, "Napoleon Blownaparte," and wins the James Bond Post-Battle Quip Award.
Meanwhile, in town, Billy and the others are shown to a special box, in which twenty vampires wait to kill them. Miles, who is indeed controlled, cuts his wrist and sprays Billy and Melanie with extremely spicy, maddeningly tasty blood, which affects vampires like catnip. They go for them, and only Billy's dumping of a bag full of crosses keeps them back for an instant. Billy grabs the butler's staff and throws it through a window, letting sunlight in on the vampires, but it looks like he and Melanie are doomed.
Simon Ysidro, Prince of Mexico, offers escape through the Shadow of the Night Before, and lets Billy, Melanie, Alden and Julien run through his cape and into the dark. In the shadowy stillness of Limbo, they await the coming of morning, while back in Arkham, the vampire guests fry in the sunlight.
Juliet remembers that in the alternative world of "French Twist," Walker was a military genius. She asks him to plan their attack, and after a while, he comes up with using Harmon Creel's Innsmouth folk as the main body of the attack. The Creels will attract Bonaparte's main force into revealing itself, but Bonaparte will no doubt maintain a reserve. At that moment, Walker and the other investigators will attack the reserve, ignoring the main body altogether in a bid to cut off the head of the Empire and allow the body to die.
This plan goes pretty well, although Thessaly proves too excitable to stay hidden and has to be sent to join the Creel party. Bonaparte has erected a huge tent in the woods to live in during daylight. Juliet comes face to face with Natalia the knife-thrower, last of the false Slayers, and they fight. A LOT. Walker takes some knives for her, allowing Juliet to jump over Natalia and finish her off.
Diligence's astral grenade frees the spirits of long-buried Iroquois, sending them screaming into the sky along with panicked French troopers. A zombie created by Diligence is turned into a self-propelled target by Dr. Armitage, who puts a hot dog on the end of a spear buried in the zombie's chest. Most of the Frenchies shoot at the zombie, ignoring our heroes, until it is much too late.
Bonaparte retreats to his throne room, surrounded by 29 bodyguards. Juliet challenges him to a duel, then pulls out the demon gun from "Lords of the Gun" and fires! BAWHOOM! A blaze of fury hot enough to melt the gun itself blasts out of the muzzle, scattering Napoleon's ashes across two counties. Juliet remarks, "Napoleon Blownaparte," and wins the James Bond Post-Battle Quip Award.
Meanwhile, in town, Billy and the others are shown to a special box, in which twenty vampires wait to kill them. Miles, who is indeed controlled, cuts his wrist and sprays Billy and Melanie with extremely spicy, maddeningly tasty blood, which affects vampires like catnip. They go for them, and only Billy's dumping of a bag full of crosses keeps them back for an instant. Billy grabs the butler's staff and throws it through a window, letting sunlight in on the vampires, but it looks like he and Melanie are doomed.
Simon Ysidro, Prince of Mexico, offers escape through the Shadow of the Night Before, and lets Billy, Melanie, Alden and Julien run through his cape and into the dark. In the shadowy stillness of Limbo, they await the coming of morning, while back in Arkham, the vampire guests fry in the sunlight.
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