dice=Dodge 64]1d100
Having mastered his surprise at the skaven attack and relieved that the monstrous sized rat was no longer threatening them, Dirk stepped to the side, avoiding the creature's attack.
"You look like a tough one!" he says as he readies to strike the creature with his axe.
dice=Melee (Basic) 63 +10 Advantage]1d100
Failure with SL -1
Dirk now has Advantage +2
Hit Location 36 is Right Arm
Damage = 4? + 5(SB) + 2(SL) -3 (TB) - 4 (AP) = 4 Wounds
Dirk is able to deliver a stinging blow to the arm of the black furred Stormvermin.
With the Skaven ignoring her, Adela stepped over to the stormvermin attacking Hannah. Given the order of march, it was but a mere step over the rat ogre’s corpse.
dice=Attack Stormvermin]1d100
dice=Attack with move or advantage if move was taken up]1d100
Her axe lashed out quickly, the rat ogre’s blood following it in a red arc. She hadn’t even finished screaming ”Ulric!” before she was on the Skaven.
dice=Defense is needed, but always feel free to roll for me]1d100
Failure with SL +1 for Advantage +2 (charge + successful attack roll on Hanna)
Adela now has Advantage +3Hit Location 10 is left arm
Damage = 4 + 5 + 9 - 4 -3 = 11 Wounds which takes down the Stormvermin that Hanna had already softened up
It's quickly becoming obvious that Ulric really doesn't like Skaven as his WarPriest is quickly carving them apart.
Success with SL + 2 (Advantage of +2)
Adela's roll of 50 is a success with a SL +5 (Counting the Advantage she gained beating the Stormvermin)
Adela wins the Opposed Test with SL + 3 difference and now has Advantage +4
Hit Location 05 is Head
Damage = 4 + 5 + 3 - 3 (TB) - 2 (AP) = 7 Wounds
A quick killing blow to the larger Skaven is followed by a head shot to the smaller skaven who's will is clearly broken seeing all the other Skaven fall. His musk glands release their scent and he looks for a way out of this mess.
Jarvey is up
As the ratmen ranks are decimated, Jarvey draws his trusty repeater and draws a bead on one of the clan rats.
"Rat-a-tat-tat ye basterd!"
He fires a volley at the creature:
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As the ratmen ranks are decimated, Jarvey draws his trusty repeater and draws a bead on one of the clan rats.
"Rat-a-tat-tat ye basterd!"
He fires a volley at the creature:
: 1d100
Fail
The Clanrat cowers from the noise and smoke of the pistol.
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dice=Cool vs Fear 68]1d100
dice=Cool vs Fear 68]1d100
Ubaldo gulps, his face growing pale.
"M-m-monstrous t-t-thing!", he stammers, slashing wildly. However, his fear lends fuel to his strike, and Ranald lends the lawman a hand!
dice=Sword vs Huge Rat 61]1d100
** spoiler omitted **
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Ubaldo strikes at the the only still standing Stormvermin who is already engaged with Dirk.
Failure with SL -2
Ubaldo rolled a 4 which is a success with a SL of + 8 because of the gang up bonus.
Hit Location is Right Arm
Damage is 4 + 5 + 10 - 3 - 4 = 12 Wounds for a total of 16 Wounds which kills the outnumbered Stormvermin
End of Round 2 Summary
Rat Ogre - Filleted by Adela and Darted by Hanna, the poor Rat Ogre has no chance. Obviously, you have no idea how many warpstone chips a Rat Ogre costs.
Stormvermin 1 - Suffered the same sad fate as the Rat Ogre
Stormvermin 2 - Felled by Dirk and Ubaldo working together
Clanrat 1 - Darted to death by Hanna
Clanrat 2 - Broken by the pistol shot
Shadowy Figure - There is no longer a rat-shaped shadow visible in the corner of the chamber
Hanna - Currently is Schrödinger's Hanna as she can be thought of as both alive and dead at the same time until a Fate point is spent
Adela, Jarvey, Dirk and Ubaldo are not engaged.
Hanna saw the vermin's halberd sweeping towards her and knew that she didn't have time to parry or move out of its way. Luckily for her, the heel of her boot encountered a particularly slimy section of sewer floor. In an instant , her foot and leg shot out horizontally...the rest of her body following suit. The Halberd, which would have taken off her arm and then taken her life, missed by a hair, making a small cut in the front of her robes.
Falling in a heap, Hanna thanked Shallya that she'd fallen when she had.
”Do not pursue!” Adela called out with her ‘command voice.’ She remembered what happened to her men the last time they pursued fleeing skaven into the dark. It was not a pleasant memory. ”Keep your guard up, and gather evidence to bring back with us. I guarantee that the corpses will all be long gone by the time we come back. And be ready for one of two things to happen. Either we will be followed quietly and they will strike when our guard is down, or they will try to overwhelm us with sheer numbers. Either way we will prevail if we watch each other’s backs.”
"Are you OK?" Dirk asks Hannah as he picks her up out of the muck and sets her on her feet. He doesn't otherwise seemed very concerned about the wizard.
"Can't disappear the corpses if we take them with us," Dirk says as he leans down to inspect the skaven. "Ugly fellas, ain't they?"
After the horrible events up above, it was almost a relief to have something as solid and ordinary as rat men to deal with. These things, he could clobber with his hammer or hack with his axe. Simple.
"We'll need more than an ear to prove the point," Dirk muses to himself as he chops off the head of one of the stormvermin.
Ubaldo looks about, thinking quickly.
"It is quite something to finally see stories come into terrible life. Dirk, take some hands with heads. We need evidence of tool users. Adela, I concur. Their numbers are an advantage that we must limit as much as we can. Hanna, do you require medical assistance?"
Hanna shares a self-deprecating smile with Dirk as he helps her up, "I am fine...but that was a close call."
To Ulbaldo she responds, "No...but some ginger tea would be a boon right now..."
Trying not to take too deep a breath so as no not aggravate the nausea that plagued her, she helps as she can to illuminate the efforts to harvest sufficient evidence.
Hanna saw the vermin's halberd sweeping towards her and knew that she didn't have time to parry or move out of its way. Luckily for her, the heel of her boot encountered a particularly slimy section of sewer floor. In an instant , her foot and leg shot out horizontally...the rest of her body following suit. The Halberd, which would have taken off her arm and then taken her life, missed by a hair, making a small cut in the front of her robes.
Falling in a heap, Hanna thanked Shallya that she'd fallen when she had.
Hanna shares a self-deprecating smile with Dirk as he helps her up, "I am fine...but that was a close call."
To Ulbaldo she responds, "No...but some ginger tea would be a boon right now..."
Trying not to take too deep a breath so as no not aggravate the nausea that plagued her, she helps as she can to illuminate the efforts to harvest sufficient evidence.
One of you strikes down the last Clanrat as it tries to flee, all the while it's calling out, "No No Friends Friends"
Turning back the way you came, carrying your grisly burdens, you attempt to navigate back to the exit of the sewers in the Maze. You've barely cleared the large chamber when you all can hear rapid chittering sounds echo down the sewer from ahead. After a few heartbeats, you see a bright flash of a sickly greenish light that leaves ghostly after images of the sewer burned into your eyes for a moment. Immediately after the flash you hear a wooshing sound like a tornado makes...even as that sound echoes away, it is followed by the sound of tons of stones and bricks crashing down. Lastly a stinking cloud of dust that comes bellowing down the sewer tunnel towards you followed by a tidal wave of sewage that sweeps down on you all.
Adela had faced down a rat ogre, but this was a foe even greater...gravity. She was bowled over by the wave.
Ubaldo covers his nose and mouth while bracing himself. His efforts are sufficient to remain upright.
[dice=Athletics 65]1d100
If you failed your Athletic test, you're swept a few feet down the chamber and thoroughly drenched in the 'Stew' before you can regain your footing. Unfortunately, some of the 'Stew' gets into your mouth.
Make an Average (+20) Endurance Check or contract Ratte Fever.
”This is going to take *forever* to wash.” Adela complained as she got back to her feet.
Jarvey barely has time to register the scheissenami wave crashing o'er Dirk and Adela before he too is engulfed in the sewage!
Dripping in skit in slowly rises to his feet, swearing and cursing as he does;
"Feckinratbasterdscabbysonso'sewerscum!"
He hacks up some sewage and looks thoroughly disgusted...
Dirk stands up out of the sewage, now thoroughly covered in filth. He tries in vain to spit the taste of rot out of his mouth. "Tastes almost as bad as Madame Helsig's stew," he groans. "Tunnel is gone, isn't it?"
Jarvey feels a little bit ill but nothing serious...yet
The group, dripping disgusting sewage, is still in the chamber which has four exits, one at each of the cardinal points of a compass. You came from the South passage, from which the sewage tsunami came, and the shadowy figure was standing in a corner between the West and North passage. You quickly note that the sewage that had been flowing swiftly out of the South passage is no longer doing so, and in fact, the level of sewage in the chamber is beginning to rise at a fairly fast rate (it will be at least an hour before it is over Jarvey's head).
Ubaldo calls out:
"Do any see tracks? A route?"
He casts his own gaze about, even in this disgusting and unfamiliar environment.
Everyone can make a Hard (-20) Perception Skill Test to see if there are other exits from the chamber.
Adela looked around wildly, unable to find an exit. She felt panic rise up, this was no way for a daughter of Ulric to die!
Ubaldo keeps looking, trying to match what he sees with his hours poring over maps.
"There is no point in staying here. We should get moving," Dirk says.
[dice=Dirk Initiative (Perception) 26-20]1d100
"There is no point in staying here. We should get moving," Dirk says.
You follow the sewer line North from the chamber where the multiple lines ran together. The further you move away from the chamber, the lower the level of sewage until finally you're not wading through sewage but can walk on the relatively dry walkway next to the channel.
Dirk's sharp ears again picks up noises from up ahead as the tunnel bends towards the Northeast. This time besides the high pitched chittering voice, a voice in a much more normal register can be heard. You'll have to go around the bend to see what's going on or to be able to understand what's being said.
Unable to figure out much of anything about the voice, Adela assumed the worst. She spoke prayers to Ulric, causing her battleaxe to glow with an icy aura. ”More foes ahead? Let us go say hello.”
"Aye, let us give them a steel welcome."
Jarvey nods in agreement, through it is plain to see any sense of cockiness and enthusiasm has been obscured by the coating of sewage on the Coach-Master.
He pulls his repeater out once again, wiping it clean as best he can...
Charging around the corner, plate mail clanking, Adela comes upon a unexpected tableau. A tall hooded man is standing next to another hooded figure that is clearly a Skaven. Standing to the side of two hooded figures is a smaller Skaven with white fur and two small horns protruding from its skull. The three stand on a small landing below a rusty metal ladder. The sewage tunnel also continues in a generally Northeasterly direction beyond the landing.
Neither party is surprised by the other,
Roll for Initiative
Dirk charges around the corner alongside Adela, ready for battle.
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[dice= Initiative]29 + 1d10
Seeing the way the sewer gases are going, Ubaldo picks up his speed and charges around the corner!
Caught out by the others charge, Jarvey hefts his pistol and joins the fray...
dice=Initiative Ubaldo]1d10+47
Seeing the way the sewer gases are going, Ubaldo picks up his speed and charges around the corner!
Round 1 Initiative
Ubaldo
Hanna
Hooded Figures (Man and Skaven)
Adela
White Furred Skaven
Jarvey and Dirk
Hooded Man
No attack - will turn and climb the ladder
Defense - Dodge if needed Failure with SL -3
Hooded Skaven
Attack - Throws a glass globe that contains a weird swirling greenish gas at the bend of the corridor Success
Defense - Dodge
The globe bursts against the wall of the tunnel and a sickly green cloud forms immediately.
Ubaldo is already past the spot so the gas has no impact on him.
If anyone purposefully moves into the cloud make a Hard (-20) Endurance Test. Failure means you've been overcome by the gas and lose consciousness (gain the Unconscious Condition until you either are moved away from the gas or the gas dissipates in rounds. Success means the gas has no impact on you.
If you want to make a ranged attack through the green cloud, it is -20 to attack.
White Furred Skaven
Attack - Casts Dart at Ubaldo Failure with SL -1
Defense - Dodge Success with SL +1
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Jarvey squints at the billowing mist, realising that firing blind would be folly and as likely to beg friend as much as foe.
With a grimace at his sewage encrusted countenance, the diminutive Kutche Meister shakes his head;
"Ach. Covered in Nuln night-soil, and now venomous vapours! This just tastes sourer an' sourer..."
He presses through the cloud...
... but is overcome by the bitter fumes and collapses in a (small) heap!
Seeing what is before him, Ubaldo swings his fine blade in a wild arc!
SL5
5 (my SL) - 1 (Enemy SL) + 1 (Prayer) + 5 (Str) +4 (Axe...what does practical do again?)
SL2
SL5 if the second attack would have been dodged
Adela didn’t hesitate. There were three foes, and she was able to attack before the third could finish chanting it’s spell. So she charged straight in, heedless of the way behind her being filled with poison gas, or the danger of whatever Spell was being cast. She was a Daughter of Winter! She was Ulricsdottir! This was where she belonged and this was her work. Even though she was covered in filth and facing death she grinned savagely. Leave the perfumed temples to the weak men of the cloth. She knew that it wasn’t their prayers that Ulric listened to.
[dice=Hit White Furred Skaven 75+10 Charge=85]1d100 SL5
5 (my SL) - 1 (Enemy SL) + 1 (Prayer) + 5 (Str) +4 (Axe...what does practical do again?)
[dice=Using Advantage for another attack]1d100 SL2
[dice=Fortune Reroll if the second attack wouldn’t hit]1d100 SL5 if the second attack would have been dodged
[dice=Defense of whatever type needed]1d100
Adela didn’t hesitate. There were three foes, and she was able to attack before the third could finish chanting it’s spell. So she charged straight in, heedless of the way behind her being filled with poison gas, or the danger of whatever Spell was being cast. She was a Daughter of Winter! She was Ulricsdottir! This was where she belonged and this was her work. Even though she was covered in filth and facing death she grinned savagely. Leave the perfumed temples to the weak men of the cloth. She knew that it wasn’t their prayers that Ulric listened to.
Hanna follows the rash Ulric-ite at a more contemplative pace, knowing any rushing about may bring about a debiltating bout of heavage.
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What's happened so far in Round 1 - I will write up a narrative too but this is just to get the facts down
1) Ubaldo charged the enemy, attacked and missed white fur Skaven
2) Hanna held her action (waiting to give Player a chance)
3) Hooded man ran for it and climbed up a ladder
4) Hooded Skaven threw a glass globe that shattered between the enemy and party, except for Ubaldo who had already moved to the enemy
5) Adela charged the enemy and needs to make an endurance test or fall unconscious in the gas cloud...if the test is successful she reaches the white furred Skaven and kills it
6) If Adela failed her Endurance test, the white furred Skaven tried a spell and it failed
7) Jarvey charged the enemy and did not make it through the gas cloud and is unconscious
8) Dirk is up and depending on Adela's Endurance check sees 1 or 2 Skaven still alive and a gas cloud between himself and the enemy