[Helena had it right that everyone involved is a mess in some way or another; and they can't exclude themselves from that assessment when they're starting to show blood. Dio is breathing heavily. It's not that he has lungs to spare for the snarky remark; he's drawing attention away from his lack of oxygen to use for any other purpose. The focus of the battle has shifted from high-level crowd control to quite simply Not Wiping Out. As the man (they haven't even asked to name himself) has said, there's no path to pulling him out without another significant weakening effort. It's as good a time as any to target all their enemies even if some of the Noise have served as ammunition. Dio calls out a fusion with a catchphrase and everything because that's just what you have to do in this game.]
The reckoning is nigh!
[The knives rise up (did Dio bring them or summon them? Yes), twisted at an angle to cut open the throat. If electricity jumped between the conducive blades, you could draw an analogy to the disease spreading properties of dangerous needle sharing practices, but you could also not do that because not everything is a manifestation of the holy plague that will eventually claim humanity. It's for the best that this is a level two fusion that enables multiple successive telekinetic bursts, slicing the enemies open with jolting aftershocks.]
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They bring us to teach them trends, I guess...
[Helena had it right that everyone involved is a mess in some way or another; and they can't exclude themselves from that assessment when they're starting to show blood. Dio is breathing heavily. It's not that he has lungs to spare for the snarky remark; he's drawing attention away from his lack of oxygen to use for any other purpose. The focus of the battle has shifted from high-level crowd control to quite simply Not Wiping Out. As the man (they haven't even asked to name himself) has said, there's no path to pulling him out without another significant weakening effort. It's as good a time as any to target all their enemies even if some of the Noise have served as ammunition. Dio calls out a fusion with a catchphrase and everything because that's just what you have to do in this game.]
The reckoning is nigh!
[The knives rise up (did Dio bring them or summon them? Yes), twisted at an angle to cut open the throat. If electricity jumped between the conducive blades, you could draw an analogy to the disease spreading properties of dangerous needle sharing practices, but you could also not do that because not everything is a manifestation of the holy plague that will eventually claim humanity. It's for the best that this is a level two fusion that enables multiple successive telekinetic bursts, slicing the enemies open with jolting aftershocks.]