Balon winces and hopes nobody noticed.
Amadeus moves into immediate range to the nearest pallone.
with shield
Amadeus moves into immediate range to the nearest pallone.
[dice=move if necessary]1d20
[dice=Speed defense]1d20 with shield
You are now in position to attack next round.
Galahad will move closer to the final Pallone
Onslaught with edge plus 3 to reduce difficulty to 6
Intellect down to 3
Nasir will close on the final pallone and attack in melee.
Speed defense:
Verred attack w/thrust- 5 damage:
The rules are not super clear for fuses with metal..."Traditional healing skills, medicines, and techniques work only half as well for you. Each time you start at full health, the first 5 points of damage you take can never be healed in these ways or recovered normally. Instead, you must use repairing skills and abilities to restore those points. For example, if you start with a full Might Pool of 10 and take 8 points of damage, you can use recovery rolls to restore 3 points, but the remaining 5 points must be restored using repairing methods."
My take is that until you are completely out if combat and can use your repair kit you can't heal the first 5 points you lost in a stat pool. When you do normal healing activity you only get half of those points.
Just like Amadeus said you get One action per turn but movement in the immediate range doesn't count as an action.
Galahad will move closer to the final Pallone
You can attack next round.
Onslaught with edge plus 3 to reduce difficulty to 6
[dice=onslaught]1d20
[Dice=Speed defense]1d20 +1
Intellect down to 3
The Pallone and Callidus continue to joust with each other (mental power vs. spinning top power). Neither is able to damage the other.
Nasir will close on the final pallone and attack in melee.
Speed defense: 1d20
Verred attack w/thrust- 5 damage: 1d20
Nasir leaps at the Pallone with his Verred in a classic Ajay position. Unfortunately his classic move is ineffective as the Pallone somehow senses the attiack and slides away from the blade.
Round 4 summary (running total of stat changes)
Balon (-7I) has no Pallone at immediate range so Balon does not need a speed roll this turn.
Amadeus has Pallone in immediate range.
Callidus (-7I) faces an undamaged Pallone.
Galahad has Pallone in immediate range
Nasir (-3M, -4S) has Pallone in immediate range
Round 5 starts now (attack and defense rolls please)
Onslaught with edge, zero cost
4 damage
One of the wires in calliduses are melts, he rips another form another port to replace it.
Amadeus keeps his usual detached expression as he swings at the nearest pallone.
with shield
Onslaught with edge, zero cost
[dice=0nslaught]1d20 +1
[dice=speed defense (no panache?)]1d20
4 damage
One of the wires in calliduses are melts, he rips another form another port to replace it.
Your bolt rips into the Pallone which had been distracted by Nasir...
Amadeus keeps his usual detached expression as he swings at the nearest pallone.
[dice=Thrust]1d20
[dice=Defense]1d20 with shield
Adding one to our attack roll cause of the old 1-2-3 results in a hit that finally kills the last Pallone. Huzzah!!!
Huzzah!!! cries the villagers as they kill the last Pallone attacking them as you defeat your batch.
The villagers hold on to their make-shift weapons as they wait to see what you will do.
"Hi! How are you folks doing?" Galahad says, replacing his blade on his belt.
Amadeus stands still for a couple of seconds, bringing his breathing back down to normal and allowing his muscles to relax. He turns around.
Is anyone hurt? We met Patel and Seria, they're safe.
Balon merely smiles and walks along beside Galahad to the villagers.
Nasir sheathes his weapon and takes a moment to treat the cuts on his arms.
"Hi! How are you folks doing?" Galahad says, replacing his blade on his belt.
The villagers seem a bit taken about the casualness of Galahad's greeting. The look at each and then the damage around them and then at each other again. No one responds.
Amadeus stands still for a couple of seconds, bringing his breathing back down to normal and allowing his muscles to relax. He turns around.
Is anyone hurt? We met Patel and Seria, they're safe.
A dark-haired, mature women rushes up to Amadeus on hearing his statement,"Patel and Seria are safe? Are you sure, have you seen them?" You can tell that she's on the verge of tears.
Balon chimes in. "They are safe, miss. Healthy and whole. Patel expressed grave concern for your safety - it appears we arrived not a moment too soon. Does your family have any injured?"
Can you double check your stat pool changes? I see 4 rounds that you attacked with an edge so that is only -12 to intellect. The other round you missed your defense roll and since the Pallone had higher initiative you took 2 might damage but no intellect was used (your attack did not happen).
A brief rest normally would give you 2 points back based on your roll but normal techniques are only half as effective so you recover 1 point to your stat pool.
For repairing, as long as you are not disturbed you can assume that you have the tools and expertise to repair those 5 points. You just need to spend 10 consecutive, uninterrupted minutes per point of repair.
Nasir sheathes his weapon and takes a moment to treat the cuts on his arms.
1d6
You get to add your tier to the total so you heal 3 points.
Balon chimes in. "They are safe, miss. Healthy and whole. Patel expressed grave concern for your safety - it appears we arrived not a moment too soon. Does your family have any injured?"
She gives you and Amadeus huge hugs ignoring that fact that both her and Amadeus are covered in Pallone goop.
"Thank you, thank you so much for this." Tears of relief are flowing down her checks carving channels through the drying Pallone innards on her face. "We're all okay now. My name is Naedi and Patel and Seria are my children. We lost a couple of villagers yesterday though. Something caused the Pallones to go mad. We've lived in the False Woods for generations and they've never attacked the village before." She looks around to make sure the other villagers are not listening and then adds, "I have no idea of what could have triggered the Pallones to attack."
Is she lying? Trained in social interactions...
Galahad looks at the fallen pallone, looking to see whats inside (without poking around much, just looking at ones we chopped in half and such)
Is she lying? Trained in social interactions... [dice=Intelligence check]1d20
She definitely seems to be duplicitous.
Galahad looks at the fallen pallone, looking to see whats inside (without poking around much, just looking at ones we chopped in half and such)
1d20
It seems to be made up of series of tubes and channels that radiate from a central hub. The central hub is composed of a mixture of organic brain matter and metallic fibers. You see nothing that would explain how it moves or eats.
Besides Naedi, other notable individuals include a much older man who is supervising the disposal of the Pallones and a young man who watches your interaction with Naedi while smoking a stim pipe. There are also a couple of tikes peeking out from the window of one of the dwellings.
Given his purpose in the Order, Amadeus takes little at face value.
Please, ma'am, we're covered in goop.
He'll disengage and wave Galahad and Nasir over, and whisper to them when they get there, letting Balon do the talking with the villagers.
Some things aren't adding up. Why'd they send those two, but not any of the other children? They trusted the children's mount, but we saw that the other creatures in the false forest are not acting normally. Also, I think Naedi knows much more about what's going on than she's letting on.
Galahad will defer to the others in social interactions. It had been a minute since he really conversed at length with anyone.
Given his purpose in the Order, Amadeus takes little at face value.
[dice=Detect dishonesty]1d20
Please, ma'am, we're covered in goop.
He'll disengage and wave Galahad and Nasir over, and whisper to them when they get there, letting Balon do the talking with the villagers.
Some things aren't adding up. Why'd they send those two, but not any of the other children? They trusted the children's mount, but we saw that the other creatures in the false forest are not acting normally. Also, I think Naedi knows much more about what's going on than she's letting on.
You're sure that she's lying about not having an idea of the trigger of the attack.
Callidus, seeing a break in the action, sits down in in a quiet area and begins working on his fused electronics.
When he gets a moment, Amadeus will call Balon over and relay his suspicions to him as well.
What do you think? I'm determined to get to the bottom of this, but you seem to be much more on your element when dealing with people than any of the rest of us, so if you want to, I think you should take the lead.
Balon is in his element indeed. Without making his gesture obvious, he gestures at the young man watching Naedi and smoking the stimpipe. In a low voice, he mutters, "Let's see if I can get to the bottom of this."
He walks over to the man and greets him.
"Don't expect me to fall all over myself thanking you like that bloodworm brain over they," he says pointing to Naedi. "Stupid witch."
"I was actually just going to ask you for a smoke. I enjoy a good smoke after combat," he says jovially, winking at him.
Conspiratorially, he leans in closer. "What's her deal, anyway?"
"I was actually just going to ask you for a smoke. I enjoy a good smoke after combat," he says jovially, winking at him.
Conspiratorially, he leans in closer. "What's her deal, anyway?"
"Don’t believe those fools. This is all that girl’s doing. Why don’t you ask her why this has been happening?”
Listening to the conversation between Balon and the boy, Amadeus scowls slightly, gears moving in his mind as he digests this new information.
This confirms my suspicions about her not telling the truth. He called her a "witch" is he referring to the mother or the daughter? I hope this doesn't lead to needing to kill the girl, that's just not right. It would explain why they sent her and her brother away, however, if they feared that whatever incident prompted this attack would lead to her being placed in danger not from the pallones but the other villagers, and that might explain the disturbances in the numenera that Collins was alluding to earlier. As well as what Balon meant when he said Patel told him Selia was special.
Amadeus will make his way over to Collins, motioning for Balon to come over when he's done and calling the others as well.
Collins, was it? Do you remember what you said about suspecting that something was tampering with the numenera on our way here? Is it possible that a person could do that, perhaps an exceptionally gifted nano? Nasir, as far as you know could a person be the cause of the unusual behavior of the Scutimorphs?
"The girl. You mean Seria? How do you know?"
The Beyonder shrugs, shaking his head.
"There's nothing that I can rule out. Taming and riding a scutimorph is impossible, was impossible before we met those two. Must be something about the kid."
Chewing at his fingernail in thought, Nasir continues.
"But if the boy brought her to the Cylion Basin, he wanted to use their healing pools. We get here, we see that the scutimorphs are goin' nuts and acting funny- on their route out. The others in the False Woods was normal. Could be what happened to her, it threw the scutimorphs, the pallones, all of 'em out of whack. Wouldn't be surprised if trouble followed 'em out to the Basin, now that I think of it."
"The girl. You mean Seria? How do you know?"
The man gives a bitter laugh. "Of course I mean Seria you dolt. She's a Beale...you know, controls animals with her mind. How did you geniuses miss that?"