Then, Kaboom

Another...spirited debate on how to proceed.  I must agree with Alanna-san's thoughts that Loki can 'stuff it'.  Or that at least, Aren-san can handle it herself.  I imagine it's for different reasons, but we at least agree on that point.  There was, at least, some good news.  Moira-san's...abilities to guess the whims of fate have given us a solid lead to pursue.

Alanna-san was also given the location of a sacrifice her mother, The Morrigan, wanted.  Moira-san's abilities provided that answer as well.  Her grandfather had killed her father.  Given all that we had learned, there was finally a plan.  Let Aren-san and Moira-san deal with the professor, then stop by where Alanna-san had asked to meet her grandfather before continuing with our primary mission.  I gather everything went well at the professor's.  They didn't call Alanna-san in to deal with the problem, at any rate, so things must have gone peacefully.

Much better then what occurred at the hotel, later.  I joined Alanna-san as she went into the room.  It....well.  Alanna-san did not act in a way I didn't expect her.  As soon as the door shut she immediately pulled her blades and started to lunge, only pausing when her grandfather revealed a 'dead man's switch' linked to what would later prove to be a rather impressive amount of explosives.  I did the only thing I could think of as she surged forward again - I ordered the kami within the detonator not to carry out it's function.  It worked.

Alanna-san, at least, seems to have complete faith in my abilities, after talking to the mask captured from Hideki.  It is, strangely, comforting to hear.  With the sacrifice taken, Alanna-san talked to the others.  As they began to clear the hotel with their own abilities to convince, I told the detonator to resume it's function in ten minutes time.  Give us time to get far enough away.  Alanna-san's plan was, ultimately, simple...the attention of the media from the explosion would keep the Titanspawn from removing this town from exsistence unnoticed, giving us time to put an end to the threat.  And I now realize I never mentioned that Alanna-san asked her grandfather to meet us in the town the Titanspawn had designated as their next target.  Apologies.

As we were weaving our way through the fleeing traffic, the hotel exploded.  It was really quite spectacular, and given what I have learned of the American media in the past few weeks, they'll be camped out there for months.