She reaches out. The familiar overlay fades in to Gideon's field of view, but there seem to be the same weak points.

She's fought this thing a lot - she surges into action, going straight for the first weak point. 

It moves much faster. And has different patterns. And more limbs.

She's going to have to improvise.

Fuuuck - Ellyn's got her senses so shouldn't be too hard to ask her to try the theorem from Lab 4, dissolve this asshole - where are the other Houses - ?

The Sixth is pinned down on the other side of the construct.

And the Third are. Well.

They are having their own problems!!

The Body

Cytherea.

Appears in a gap between bones for just a moment.

Phae is demonstrating pretty conclusively that the Third House is no slouch in a serious fight - against someone who looks an awful lot like the Seventh necromancer - for all the tiny glimpses Gideon can get through the bones.

Though there is perhaps an excessive amount of messiness involved in this. 

Angerona is yelling at Palamedes to just try! The Lab 2 theorem! They did it once and she could really use the extra sight - she's going nuts on the parts of the bone monstrosity nearest her, working towards cooperating with Gideon. 

Gideon isn't 100% at avoiding lashing teeth of DEATH, though she's at least only getting bloodied and not, y'know, dead.

Can the Fourth maybe blow this thing up? Or Ellyn?! Can Ellyn maybe use the Lab 3 theorem Gideon could REALLY use some of that constant flux of juice and possibly the 'being on fire' would be helpful, plus super charing Ellyn's necromancy hopefully -

(It would also REALLY HELP if Tamerlane could turn off necromancy again, Gideon is THOROUGHLY confident in her ability to just stab people. Including inexplicably mobile inexplicably terrifying cancerous necromancers.)

She does get to the first weak point with just her longsword, at least, plus or minus a few chunks of flesh and blood. (Ignoring the Third House just grabbing any blood she sheds.)

Yeah, as soon as she gets three consecutive seconds to remember how it actually works, she'll get right on that. Two across from the tibia and down one femur in the meantime.

Ellyn has got Isaac working on blowing the thing up by now, and Jeannemary is being held back from jumping in by Magnus. Abigail is holding back, trying to get a line on the putative Seventh, but the construct is still taking up most of the space.

She takes out the weakness Palamedes called. 

Gideon's bringing enough hell for eight cavaliers - she buys Palamedes those three seconds - buys Ellyn twice as many seconds, to wrest this fucker's bones away from it like they practiced in one of their many reruns yesterday - 

She grabs for it, these are bones and bones belong to the Ninth-

The Fourth lobs a conglomeration of energy into the temporarily-still center of the construct, a sucking sphere that crackles off actinic sparks each time another bone is swallowed.

Oh shit. "Back!"

She gets clear!

Angerona gets Palamedes clear! 

The construct twitches, seems to struggle-

-then soundlessly explodes, pelting the corridor with shards of bone, followed by a delayed booming shockwave.

She doesn't get injured further, at least - though her glasses do end up a casualty of her quick dive, shattered glass joining the bone shards littering the floor. 

She gets to her feet and turns to evaluate the Third's fight. 

Not doing so hot! (By which she means, a lesser necromancer would have been dead a hundred times over - Phae is shoving at the absolute limits of flesh constructs and thalergy-thanergy-thalergy conversion loops and supporting her cavaliers and trying to get a good read on this goddamned asshole - )

So, yeah, they could use some help.