Halo follows the group waiting to see her room.
This place was mad, kind of like a training camp, you sign up, you got training, food and a room. Seemed all militaristic yet, it looked like a school from back home.
Other than every kid seemed armed to the teeth with swords and stuff. Magic flying around and... hold on... Yes it was some kind of camp, had to be, all this for free!, no way, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Who the hell are they being trained for she would no doubt find out, she just hopped it was not a revelation or fundament religious group, she had had run ins with both and they normally sucked at having a good time.
"Yep it was fun, I think next time we should try out them SIMROOMS. bet we could have a lot less obstacles. See you alter, im going to the dinning room to get a coffee. "
She nods then heads off, Toby is still, seeming to be fixing himself.
"He's got five broken servos and the radar units been mashed, but other than that, he will be fine. Just need time to fix him. Lucky his nanies can fix all but the radar unit. That's going to take a lot longer."
Mean wile Halo and Toby dig themselves out from under the crashed pod, Helo stops Toby so she can clime out and see if who ever was in it was ok The wards had taken the new student to the medical wing so the pod was empty. She jockey shakes her head then walks with Toby over to the other to at the finish line.
"Well done you two, mad race, some wakky stuff going on there. Seems I need to learn some new stuff, like how to deal with magic."
Toby powers down and starts repairing itself. Toby looks very beat up from being hit by a broken life pod, Helo go's over and starts working on him.
Halo and toby look to be winning whe, from above a life pod falls with a scream on top of them.
They go out of sight, after a wile toby can be seem digging his way out from under the pod. Once out you can hear Tobys PC saying things to someone. Rude words, then once more they set off for the finish line.
Halo pulled up at the lake shore, turning back to make a run up she powered Toby over the waters of the lake.
Over powering Toby for 2 rounds. Acrobatics DC50 1d20 + 40 ⇒ (17) + 40 = 57
Running up Halo powers Tobys limps to Max, Toby then leaping high and long. Just as it comes down some 15' short Halo Powers on the Anti-Grav units the slow the fall and allow Toby to drift at speed the last 20'. Toby slams into the lake back, with a shudder. The students who thought it would be fun to use portals on the three are no showered in Mud and water. The Splutter about wile Toby scramble out after Reed.
Hitting the Fog Halo flips on Tobys tremor senses but then light streams in again from the screens. Looking outside she could see students and Plants, lots of plants. Kids looked up but she did not stop, up ahead another portal came into being. Inside she could see the grounds of the school and the others racing. Powering Toby to full speed she Jumped over the class and down into the portal as it winks out of being.
Acrobatics DC40 1d20 + 40 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 40 + 1 = 42
Toby slammed into the ground once out of the portal.
DMG 10d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 1) = 31
The force field stopped any real harm. But now Toby and Halo where facing the wrong way. Halo Pulling Toby round as fast as she could but Shoshin rode past, Halo set off after him and Reed once more.
Just as Toby pulls himself out a hound with glowing red eyes comes running over. A student some ways off seems to be trying to stop him, she is holding a leed. Halo points Tobys PA at the hound and sends a blast of sound at it.
"GERRRRRRRRRROOOOMMM!!
The hound pulls itself up as the two tone Mecha blasts it with sound from its PC, yeping its turns tail and runs back the way it came.
All this had cost Halo and Toby more time, she sets off again to catch the others.
as Toby comes out the ground below hi becomes thick mud.
Halo seeks to get him out fast.
Ref save 1d20 + 10 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 3 = 17 movement reduced form 400' to 50' for next round
"What the hell is wrong with this place, killer plants now mud holes"
Halo can't help herself seeing a group of students with pie on their faces. She brakes out laughing.
1d6 ⇒ 5
Halo powers Toby on, and jumps ahead, seeing a short cut past in some odd looking plants.
Acrobatics 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (18) + 36 = 54 Toby leaps high some 80' and comes down in the middle of the odd plants. As soon as he lands Toby is knocked about, as large plant heads full of teeth slam into him.
"Holy C..."
Srt roll DC Srt10 +8 [DC18] 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Made by 10
But shear size and weight Toby, powers him throw and out the plants, there bites just can't get past his armoured shell. But the going is slow, taking a full race round just to move past them.
yep reed, students! Say having a pick neck, Try acrobatics skill +8 as a DC if you make it you can jump over them if not you run over there food hehe
"Yer well best keep a look out foxy, I just about trampled a book warm student, I think we better take this a bit slower, or we'll end up in detention"
8+ your Ride/drive/acrobatic/fly etc skill.
In this way there is a kind of 60% 40% chance of you missing but having to say how you get past, or being stopped/diverted by it for a wile as you deal with it.
Like Halo stopping Toby dead not to hit a fellow student and now shes in last place as she lost time.
1: Clear path this time.
2: Plants/trees/bushes
3: grounds/Pond/statue etc Features Gardens
4: Small out Building
5: Student or Students
6: grounds Staff/teacher!!
Edited for more random stuff to happen and fun, guys how about we roll fro events etc.
Toby powers away after Shoshin speeding up as she pilots him, hitting 400' feet a round, she pulls topy up with Shoshin. He and his mount with Halo and Toby neck and neck as hey head off round he school.
Race Obstetrical's for racers eyes only:
Roll 1d6
1d6 ⇒ 5
1: Clear path this time.
2: Plants/trees/bushes
3: grounds/Pond/statue etc Features Gardens
4: Small out Building
5: Student or Students
6: grounds Staff/teacher!!
As she speed on a student reading a book walks out of a hut she was passing, blocking her root.
"O SHUGGERRRRR!!
Drive check DC44 not to have anything in her way1d20 + 36 ⇒ (6) + 36 = 42
She pulls Toby up to a dead stop, leaving deep dirt ruts in the ground, then wait wile the student walks on out of her way. Not even looking up from his book.
"what the..."
but then she starts to power Toby back up again, Shoshin was now ahead and Reed was just passing her.
Any spell that hits the whole school or large area with Tornado force winds will have you in detention real fast. I'm seeing kids and cows flying past etc.
So you may want to rethink the whole Tornado force winds thing.
Toby can move fast so targeting him may be hard, but if he is hit with winds, hes got a str of 30 and can tunnel hehe sounds fun.
40 ft./level radius cylinder 40 ft.
so 40x16 or 640'r and area 1280' across with
Hurricane force winds (75+ mph) destroy wooden buildings, uproot large trees, and cause most ships to founder.
" Err Shell we just start with out him, he seems to be lost in his own little world there."
Says Halo v Toby.
"So rules, to make clear, we race around the school. Its just under four miles if we keep just inside the ward boundary. Now no messing with each other, we just race, no harming others and we need to be mind full of others, going round if need be so as not to hit any one. How dos that sound. We go when the last light go's. I'm going to keep my lights and sirens on so others can see us coming. Toby here is over 3000 pounds so really do not want him to hit any one."
Mean wile outside of Iolth's funky lucid dream/vision of going Full-Vamp and back at the start of the fun race Halo gets ready
Halo waited at the starting line. Toby had is Mecha warning light on so others could see the Mecha coming. Something that big would have to go slow. She would have to take it slow in parts so that she it no one.
working out a root she could see it was around 3.8 miles around.
Then she scanned the others. Iolth looked like he had totally zoned out. He was just looking off into the sky, eyes wide. was he sweating, what was up with him. He looked like had seen a ghost or scary alternative reality where things had gone bad in some way. Well lucky they where in this one ready to start the race. best get him out of it.
I agree 100% Dalesman, happy with the funky lucid dream/vision thing and happy to have Halo and Toby back doing a silly race with out the need for Lynora, having to deal with this stuff.
I think what I am saying is, I was happy wile it was a simple race, with no PvP, just a bit of player fun. That could be looked after by players doing the race. Now with this bigger thing from one player, PvP and power background stuff. It ways out of what I was looking for. So I'm going to keep Halo and Toby out of this until its been sorted by higher powers.
Yep sorry but I thought we where NOT going PVP, and this was just a simple race, with some funny interplay.
MG is right about rules for PVP and now you going explodo.
There are other pcs just like yours with problems, schools used to them,
But as a player you need GM oversight for stuff like this and also you should have let us
Your other players in the scene know v PM what was going to go down.
I think you need retro that last set of actions and stick to the race for now.
Then ask a GM to help you introduce what ever it is your doing for your PC some other time when it's all been worked out and agreed on.
Halo and Toby will not be PvPing
As of now Halo is the other side of the school, dos not see any what going on with your PC.
I think casting a lethal spell, doing non-lethal in a game is fine, or it dos nothing to anyone is fine. So no wards.
But as Soon as try to hurt or harm other students they whisk you away to a detention and / or a waiting teacher. So wilful DMG to school, teacher, students or other will need a GM to take over as the wards.
He cast it in the grands an as of now, no one has been hurt, best just dismiss it and try some other thing. Or if you want it to get you into trouble. let it stay and wait until some poor student walks in to it, or staffer sees it.
I think now you have said your no longer a student we will need a GM to over see this. Also WOMs is there and he may have something in mind.
The path had opened up and now she was moving past a large lake.
::Target change::
On one of the imager zoom feeds she could see Iolth change shape,
What the ... No idea Toby, just keep us to the left of the lake, then take the turn up past the green house. We will go over with a jump then open it up once we get to the playing fields round the back. We will pass the others there, so lets go Stealth.::
They speed on around the school, but Halo is keeping note of whats going off in the air behind her.
Stopping I think you can do this, but just a note. Change weather takes 10 minutes to cast the spell and an additional 10 minutes for the effects to manifest, so I would add in something that speeds the casting up, or the race may be over before the spell kicks in :)
As she powered the other way around the School, Toby was supplying data on their path. She had worked out the root around the school was some 3.8 miles long, not taking into account unseen obstacles. With the tour she had scanned a map of the grounds now that was her overlay. Placing dots on it where she, toby and the others where estimated to be. Going the other way around the school, she had split the targets. Behind the imagers showed something was going on. Clouds forming overhead, and black dark things thrashing about. She had made two terns so it was hard to see now. To much foliage and ground stuff in the way. What ever it was it did not look fun. But she was having a hard time. You just can't run a nearly two ton Mecha around a school. Other students, ground staff getting in the way. more than once she had to flow them down or just jump over others. On girl on a broom stick almost hit them mid jump, until Halo Dropped Stealth and put on the lights and sirens She kept them on, so going was better and others now could see her coming. But still she had to be careful. All the wile overhead the winds where picking up. Checking her root she estimated it would take them at this speed, close to
Calculation in head, 3.8 miles = 5280 feet per mile x 3.8 miles = 20064 feet. 20064 feet / slowed speed of 65 feet a second = 308.68 seconds or 5.15 Minutes [52 rounds]
so just over five Minutes to get around the school, and she was 30 seconds in.
Toby ::"PROXIMITY ALERT!!::
Halo Wooooowoo!!!
She acted to move them,
Acrobatics 1d20 + 33 ⇒ (16) + 33 = 49
Drive Mecha 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (19) + 36 = 55
From behind
"HAY!! LOOK WHERE YOUR GOING YOU DUMB CONSTRUCT!!
darn I only just missed that teacher or who ever it was.
"Sorry!!"
She called back, all ready speeding away, lights blazing.
He and the others where warned
It's clear the intent is not to hurt, or harm, but mistakes are made.
I'm all for rules light, and rule of cool.
But , 1st day at school, mistakes can be made, brake rules
Wards kick in, hehe
"I want to add a few race rules, no teleportation or using of displacement as a means of locomotion , no skipping to another plane or time manipulation, worm wholes, and so on. For yourself and others, we all stay on this plane using just Flying, running swimming, tunnelling climbing only. It's no race if you just transmat to the Finnish line."
Toby moves to the start line, waiting.
"and from what the tour guide said the wards count a lot of stuff and actions as aggressive, lethal or not, some thing you may think is ok to do to others may end you up in detection, just think about that before you start doing thing to Toby not he and I linked, doing thing to him is like doing stuff to me ward wise."
Toby powers up fully bring his shield online, Halos voice takes on a serous tone over the PA system of Toby.
"strictly no 3ed party's, lots of other kids and staff around here, no harming or using others, if at any time any one gets hurt the race ends,"
Toby's head moves scanning the root it will take,
" last of all you only do stuff to yourself until the first turn, then after that it's game on, if your happy with that then so am I"
others, could you declare your daly spells if you do magic that way, always good to be open about such things now for and disputes later. Toby and Halo have none, so simple there.
@Iolth:
Sorry looked at your PC sheet, I noted your SR
SR don't stack for Gestalts, you take the higher SR: so SR49 (Half-Fiend SR + Eldritch Veil SR) needs to change I think they say to just the highest one.
"I bet that I can outfly that big ol' hubk of metal there, Halo." Iolth says with a mischievous smile. He stretches out his wings and starts hovering in the air. "I bet that I can make the return trip faster than Toby. Wanna see?"
"of course I'm going to wait for you"
Then as they get ready
"Toby dos not fly, so I think your going to beat us"
"Cool, lot of guys back home follow Gaia. Hippyos having out door festivals with great music, mind altering stuff food and drink, go on all weekend. All spaced out and talking to tree's. Never done one but they seem fun. Would love to see some great bands on outdoor stages"
She finishes off packing then walks over to the others.
"So what we going to do now, there are classes but we only just got here. I think spending a day looking around and finding our rooms is not asking to much."
Halo is a bit shocked by what iolth just did, as he damages the Mecha, a shimmering seems to come into being around it. Even as he go's to fix it he can it's it's all ready mending. Then after he dos Adamantine claws spring out of it feet it powers up standing to move to attack with its front leg but then..
"STAND DOWN!!
Halo calls out as soon as it dos, the Mecha stops dead, not moving leg raised.
halo go's over to The Mecha and checks it, there did not seem to be any permanent damage . Then she go's to Iolth but at arms length.
" are you ok! that was one hell of a dumb thing you just did. Tobys not the kind of robot you want to #%#% off, I think the wards things would have saved you but it may have been painful until they did"
She looks at him long and hard.
"I'm here because I have no other place to go and your here because you got like dangerous magic problems, So the rest of you, why you guys here?"
Halo having just claimed back out stops and looks at the Iolth in the cock pit.
Looking around it, Iolth see the Jocky Pod is all screens and odd looking light winking panels.
your a bit big for the seat. As you sit there a snake like cable comes out and seems to look for an input in your head,
"Sorry, but no way any one but me drives him, you have to have the right head gear"
Halo says wile tapping her head.
The snake like cable not finding any imput port in Iolths head, pulls away. Then Tobys big Tail comes over the hood and picks Iolth up from the Jocky pod. It places you back down on the ground next to its left lag.
It then closes the Jocky Pod.
"Nothing that can't be fixed, leg servo cover plate came lose, sheared two bolts. Not a biggy. My fault, pushed it into the reds with that last jump, hit a tree, lucky really, if it was not for Tobys inertial dampeners I would be a mess inside the Jocky pod... and... that's it"
She turns off the power tool, putting it away she takes the tool kit back to the pod. She getting in the Jocky pod she makes toby move his back left leg to check its working ok.
"O sorry this is Reed, he's a druid and I hit one of the tree. Lucky he fixed it now."
She climes back up Tony, getting a jacket and a tool kit from the Jocky Compartment. Putting it one she comes back down. The she starts Checking him over, seeing the power links are all not damaged. finding a plate lose she starts to fix it back in place with a tool.
True I can see how a druid would get a bit freacked by a large mechanical killer robot with a young girl in its belly showing up hehe.
just a she looked at a big tiger by his side and thought OMG!!
She thinks its a Made Bio mechanical Tiger by the way, not knowing anything about Familiars, :) hehe
"Cool, magic that makes you fly. There was a guy on the ship I came on who could levitate. All he hid was go up and down, real flying now that sounds fun."
She god to Toby and opens a small panel on his side, taking out a cable she ups and clicks into he back of her neck. Toby's head moves and looks up at the flyers, tracking them.
"wow wings, hay that's Shoshin and the crazy magic guy we meet on the school tour."
Then a booming voice comes form Toby, its halos but amplified.
"HAY SHASHIN DOWN HERE"
Then on to the Top of Toby number of flashing lights come on Toby, Red and white.
Just out of curiosity, are mecha considered magical items or no?
Halo's mecha is more like an animal companion and most of her class features are wrapped up in it. It is a unique creature here and not easily available. She comes from a different plane.
Agarthan mechs are like Gundams. Totally different thing.
To the best of my knowledge the Dragon Empire doesn't employ mechs, although Dalesman can answer that more accurately.
Yep we worked this out v PM
Halo has control implants for Her Mecha, it's what makes her smart and fast, but it also locks Toby to her. The cable in the back of the neck drives it.
Local Mechs are as Lynora pointed out not the same to Halo and Toby Mecha.
Difference is tech level, complexity and cybernetic implants done on another plane,
Probably impossible to replicate on this plane. In other words unique as has been said, other pcs from other planes are the same, odd balls that are unique. Think of him as her smart car.
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There is a down side for being such, she has no real def v magic other than basic saves, same with Toby. Because on her plane there is no magic. It's one of the things she's going to have to lean here.
Jess :
As for attack another PC or there PC stuff, [same thing to me] Halo dos not do PVP unless it's to protected herself, but the wards do a much bette job of that, Toby is for protection not for offensive combat. I don't think any of my PCs has ever attack PvP. :)
"I hail from a land where this kind of mount is unheard of," he said, "I thank you for using terms I would understand."
"Really wow, you have never see a robot before."
She look shocked but then she seems to think of some thing, putting her arms down she smiles at him and says.
"But that's fine, I'ed never seen real Magic before today. I don't know what they mean when they talk about magic as well, acatif.. Abr-some thing. Summering ? All gobbledygook to me, just seems to kind of brakes all the laws of nature Back where I came from, here different rules. So looking to learn some magic, if I could that would be soooo cool"
"He will not harm you," he says, calmly walking over and rubbing the big cat behind it's ears. "He is my friend, try to harm him and you will deal with me, as for the half man, half bull, you are corr have a few questions though, what is a mec-mecha, was that the word?"
She pops the lid again, reaching behind her head she disconnect a cable that was inserted into her neck. It slides back into the Jocky bay. Once done she climes out of the Jocky seat and then makes her way down tobys back left Leg.
"O I see, custom pet, ye seen them before, would not dream of hurting it."
She says, then jumping the last bit to the ground.
Turning around she, Toby, behind her closes the Pilots pod but dos nothing more, standing perfectly still.
She walks up to Reed, looking up into his face, Halo is about 5'8" . She is not armed, she has on a kind of Jump suit.
"A Mecha is a Cyberneticly Driven powered Vehicle you know, used to carry operators and equipment into hazardous areas. This unit is a ex-combat Scout Mecha known as a LQ - 84if Sniper Wolf. Built it a Mecha-Jocky and one Serge class anti-static installation Gauss-Gun to a place the Jocky can shoot things from. The Gauss-guns not fitted at the moment. Frankly never will be. You can't hit anything unless its at least half a Km away and what ever it is going to hit. Has to keeps still for the two minutes it takes to aim and fire the silly thing. In other words no use for Tobys new role of body guard. Nope its size and claws or much more use for that."
You can't see any claws but you can see where the come out.
"Soooo, o I'm Halo Jonnes by the way, nice to meet you, well cant call you minotaur, could I ask you name?"
