K'Don is so engrossed in getting ready for battle, that he completely ignored the term planet and world.
Marko has been listening intently to the centapedes. At the mention of the worlds or planets, he launches into a thousand questions.
"What other worlds? What do you mean on another planet? What's going on here? Who are you people? (people Humph)"
Arabella is quite curious about these odd words and their possible implications, but feels a kind of intellectual vertigo and decides to stop trying to figure things out and go with the flow until certain things come into focus.
If there's no more important questions, everyone gets equipped and the centipedes direct you down several halls to a closed door.
You hear the voice of one of them in your ear (the mind-to-mind connection broke after you got only 10 feet away) :
"Beware of the stocky creature's tentacles, they are quite strong, and it can see in darkness. Beware of the long-skinny creature, it attacks with both ends, and is very speedy. It can fly, but probably not very well within the room."
The door opens and you see two creatures :
The first one's body is the size and shape of an oil-drum. Beneath this massive cylinder of a body are three short, blocky legs upon which it stands. Midway up the body, above each leg, there sprouts a ten-foot-long, writhing, boneless, tentacular arm, which toward the extremity branches out into dozens of lesser tentacles, ranging in size from hair-like tendrils up to mighty fingers two inches or more in diameter. Its head is merely a neckless, immobile, bulging dome in the center of the flat upper surface of his body—a dome bearing neither eyes nor ears, but only three equally spaced toothless mouths and three single, flaring nostrils.
The second one is a veritable dragon, a nightmare’s horror of a hideously reptilian head with a half-dozen eyes on stalks, of retracted large leather wings, viciously fanged jaws, frightfully taloned feet, multiple knotty arms, all on a 20 foot long, sinuous, heavily-scaled serpent’s body, with a double-edged, razor-keen, scimitar-like sting at its tail.
Everyone make Spirit rolls at +2 (you sort of knew what to expect) to not be Shaken.
Initiative rolls tomorrow.
Modifier: +2
Result = 3 + 2 (prepared) = 5, success
7, success
Though Alexander had been expecting something weird, the level of weird surprised him a bit - enough that he focused on pointing his guns at the dragon-ish thing rather than the more incomprehensible tentacle drum.
"Surrender n- bother, do they understand us?!"
= 6 + 2 = 8
No need to roll the Ace
You hear in the room sounds coming from apparently nowhere that sound like gibberish.
In your ears you hear "I have told them to surrender. It is unlikely that they will do so."
Initiative (start of round 1)
Alex :
Arabella :
Connor :
K'Don :
Marko :
WindDancer :
Katana :
Snake :
Oil drum :
So in order : Oil drum, K'Don, Arabella, Katana, WindDancer, Snake, Marko, Connor, Alex
The oil drum just sits there, its tentacles weaving around.
K'Don will move in on the oil drum and attack
4+1(favored Weapon)=5
Arabella takes in the bizarre sight and almost freezes. But she had already decided what she would do next, so her hand reaches up to adjust her bioergoggs and she begins a mental manipulation of the chi energies, sending out a boost to the shooting abilities of her comrades with the weird guns, as well as boosting her own shooting ability. Her mind seems to be moving in slow motion, with a feeling of trying to run underwater, but the effect goes off. She steps back from the door to give others a clear shot and encourages them with the words, "Take out the dragon now!"
Result = 3, failure
Spending a Bennie to Reroll.
Result = 4, success
Not as good as she was hoping for, but the situation is so weird that Arabella is not performing with her usual sang froid.
Connor blinks in surprise, but what's revealed before him is so far outside his experience it can't take hold to rattle him.
WindDancer preens unconcernedly. :op
Marko pushes his glasses up on his nose.
"Well lets see if this B1tch bleeds. HAVACADAVER"
14 is a hit with 2 raises.
3+4+4+3=14 points
The centipedes would have told you that the oil-drum creature is a "Rigellian", and the snake-like creature is a "Velantian".
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As K'Don moves in to the Rigellian, it suddenly lashes out with one of its tentacles :
= 7
But does not get thru his armor
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K'Don's attack does not get past the Rigellian's Parry.
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The Rigellian now takes his regular attack, against K'Don :
= 3
And misses wildly
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Katana, wary of the tentacles, opts for a long-distance attack against the Rigellian :
= 6 vs. TN=4 is a Success
A shuriken appears from nowhere as Katana makes a throwing motion towards the creature.
Does not get thru its Toughness
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Marko - I need to know (each and every time) :
1. What spell you're casting.
2. Which creature you're casting it at.
And whenever you cast your light-based Bolt, please remind me of its AP 4.
Thanks!
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WindDancer, Snake, Connor, Alex are up.
Sitting on her little-big's shoulder, she cocks her head and watches the big-big hack at the funny looking thing.
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At Arabella's shout, Connor raises the strange gun with both hands, points it at the snake thing, cringes, and dubiously pulls the trigger.
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11=success
Alexander stood firm, raising an unfamiliar gun in each hand and firing at the dragon-thing. He felt his vision was sharper, his balance and aim more coordinated, and savored the effect. "Ugly tossers. A pity we can't have them stuffed and displayed in WeMadeIt." Obviously, he was having a hard time thinking of the monstrous creatures as sentient.
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Thanks. :)
9 doesn't get through its toughness. :(
Alexander's pause to take aim bore fruit as he nailed the snake-dragon-creature in a length of its coiling, twisting body.
Catch-up time :
Marko, your damage should have been 2d4 (light Bolt) and a d6 for the high attack roll. Since the last d4 only came to 5, I'm going to leave it as-is. Since you haven't specified which creature :
So the Rigellian takes 14 points of Marko's Bolt, that's 1 Wound.
Connor does no damage against the Velantian.
Alex does 1 Wound of sonic damage against the Velantian.
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NOTE : the Velantian can stretch out to 1x4 squares, or down to 2x2 squares, as needed (think very flexible, large, snake).
The Velantian moves in towards Marko and Connor, and twisting its body in a seemingly impossible way, uses some of its eyes to attack Marko with a bite, and the rest of its eyes to at the same time attack Connor with its barbed tail :
= 7 vs. Marko's Parry=5 is a hit
vs. Toughness=4 is a Success
Marko takes 1 Wound and is Shaken
= 5 vs. Connor's Parry=4 is a hit
vs. Toughness=4 is a Success
Connor takes 1 Wound and is Shaken
EDIT : DARN IT, I forgot the Velantian has to recover from Shaken, have to put it here or all the above results will be changed :
= 6 = Success
ALL - remember the new Shaken rules are in effect, a simple Success means you can also act!
Initiative (start of round 2)
Alex :
Arabella :
Connor :
K'Don :
Marko :
WindDancer :
Katana :
Valentian :
Rigellian :
So in order : Rigellian, WindDancer, Arabella, Connor, Alex, Valentian, Katana, Marko, K'Don
The Rigellian tries to wrap a thick tentacle around K'Don :
Phooey. Spending a Bennie
K'Don, make a Strength roll vs. TN=8 to avoid being Grappled
Her eyes go wide as Con-nor cries out and stumbles back. She snaps her gaze around, stares daggers at the ugly snake-thing for a moment and then, personal safety thrown to the wind, launches at it with a tiny but ear-splittig battle cry!
A flash of flying color tears through the room into the alien thing...
... with all the fury of an enraged beast protecting a loved one.
Connor yelps and staggers back as the thing lashes out at him, then raises his gun and fires again, point-blank.
Arabella tries to move as far from the tentacles and the snake-thing's mouth and tail as she can get and still get off a shot with her new plaything.
Whaa Whaa Whaaaaaaa.
Looks like a failure
Captain Jack Sparrow "I gotta jar of dirt, I gotta jar of dirt!!!"
Better yet, put together a bad of debris, glass shards,
Marko will take great pride in inflicting a first wound. Puffing up his chest a little bit, he decides to try another spell. But then he sees Connor way too close to the monster for his comfort. Marko will step up between the monster and Connor and kinda nudge Connor back a bit.
Marko will cast the Summon Ally (, the panther of course.
10+3=13 Success with one raise(?) gives the panther a hardy edge (Looked but couldn't find hardy edge.)
If he can't do both, Marko will cast the spell
3/15
0 Wounds
Arabella - I made the icon 2x2 to include the tentacles, the body is more-or-less human sized. So use the standard rules for Innocent Bystander - if you roll a 1 on the *Shooting* die, AND the shot misses, then you'd hit K'Don.
Marko, see Discussion.
K'Don is "Grappled". Oh boy, we get to use the grappling rules! Let's see how bad they are...
K'Don, the only thing you can do is try to break free (make either a Strength or Agility roll and I have to try to beat it), or take any other action (like attacking) at -4.
"Connor!" About to follow Arabella's example and pull back, Alexander hesitated when he saw that Connor was against the wall with Marko. Instead he shot at the monster hemming Connor in, his teeth bared in a grimace.
7=success
Anyway, Arabella will shoot at the Valentinian (Serpent) and hope for the best.
Result = Snake-eyes.
In initiative order (bold names means you have an action item) :
WindDancer zips thru the air and (bites?) the Velantian, giving it a Wound and making it Shaken.
Arabella, roll damage for hitting Connor (fortunately it's non-lethal).
Connor's shot does not get thru Toughness.
ALL - if you're adjacent and Shooting, the TN is the target's Parry! So Connor didn't even really hit...
Alex, roll damage for hitting Connor.
Alex's second shot just makes the Velantian Shaken. This would NOT inflict a Wound, as the second Shaken has to come from a lethal, physical attack.
The Valentian attacks again :
= 4 vs. Marko's Parry=5 is a miss
= well, at least the dicebot is being fair...
The Velantian loses his action next turn. He won't recover from Shaken, or anything.
Katana launches another attack against the Rigellian :
WOW
= 20 vs. TN 4(!) is FOUR Raises!
vs. Toughness=9 is a Raise
The Rigellian takes a Wound and is Shaken.
Marko, before you can do anything you must recover from Shaken!
IF you succeed, then you can cast (see Discussion), and...
I moved the wolf icon next to you to temporarily represent your Ally. Move it to wherever you want, within your Smart die value in squares from you (in other words, within 10 squares from you).
It can attack this round, so pick a target and roll for it.
K'Don, because the Rigellian got a Raise on the grapple, you are also Shaken. You must try to recover from that before doing anything.
The only thing you can do is try to break free (make either a Strength or Agility roll and I have to try to beat it), or take any other action (like attacking) at -4.
Whew, that was a lot! Hope I covered everything...
Alexander watched to his horror as Connor stepped in front of the snake-monster for a fateful moment.
Fortunately Connor is only grazed by the shots, and is not affected by either of them.
Regarding the non-lethal Shaken result above, had I known it would have inflicted a Wound, I would have spent a Bennie right then to recover from the Shaken status, thus the attack would have left the Velentian still Shaken.
No help there.
Ok, so Marko's ally appears, and can attack. See "Bodyguard" stats for details. It has one attack (bite or claw or whatever), and damage done is 2d8.
ALL - I'm changing my mind about the Velantian's fumble : he is *prone* until his next action. That means he's at +2 to BE hit (vs. Parry) and -2 TO hit (Fighting).
OK I've spent quite a while looking for the BodyGUard stats. Could some one zero me in to where it is?