>Is Patchouli still firing, even if we're no longer really in the blast range?
>Status check on our other allies
>She doesn't appear to be. She's still up there, but she's no longer in her 'ball of light' form. And although her power aura is still present, she doesn't give you the impression that she's about to fire again.
>Lily is standing a couple of dozen feet off your left wing. Her shield is glowing blue, so she obviously took at least one hit, but she herself is undamaged. Rin's flying disc is badly cracked, but she herself doesn't seem to be... No wait, there's a small burn mark on her upper left arm. One of the explosions from the shots she blocked must have caused some splash damage that got around her disc. But other than that, she appears fine.
>Anya, on the other hand, has obviously had a worser time. Her dome of iron has come to rest on the now-pockmarked drive almost 60 feet inside the gate, and has been blown open, resembling a torn tin can. The miko herself has partly crawled out of her wrecked protective shell, bleeding from new wounds on her arm and apparantly on her head, but still conscious and very alive.
>Magical Poppy, it seems, was unable to completely evade Patchouli's barrage. She is on the ground as well, on the grass about 8 feet to Anya's northeast. She doesn't appear to be bleeding, and she is trying to get to her feet, but smoke is rising from her body and her clothes are damaged.