The two Nazi snipers flee from the Tower of London on jet-skis, zigging and zagging through the maze of flooded streets....
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The Nazi snipers finish breaking down and packing away their rifles inside their cases, and hurry down stairwells inside the towers on which they stand, until they reach the flooded level, outside of which are tied jet-skis....
The two remaining Nazi submachine gunners, horrified by the carnage so easily wrought by Excalibur and the other weapons of The Fierce Ones, and seeing the shadow on the stairwell wall of whatever otherworldly horror was making that terrible caw-roar (Kepler), quail with fear and despair.... They glance at one another briefly, a haunted look in their blue eyes, and as Kailin's flute trills with climactic urgency....they fall upon each other's swords! Impaled, each on the other's longsword, the two Nazi submariners salute each other with the Nazi salute before collapsing into bleeding heaps on the floor!
The two remaining snipers can no longer see any viable targets, as all enemies are now in the tower housing the stairwell, so they disassemble their sniper rifles this round....
Excalibur's diagonal slash ends with half the long blade sunk into the Nazi's chest and protruding out his back.... GAK!! Dawnbringer arcs down, landing halfway through the Nazi's head! He exhales with a wet rattling wheeze as he falls off of axe and sword, a corpse before he hits the floor.... Derrik and Yingzen now face each other across a dead Nazi, and a 5-ft step from both PCs would allow them to flank the nearest of the remaining two Nazi submachine gunners....
The Nazi parries with his longsword....
A Nazi shrieks as Grimm's bomb bursts on his chest, igniting him!
The earth breaker connects with the Nazi's head, and would have caved it in had the man not rolled with the blow somewhat, leaving an ugly bruise on the side of his jaw....
The Nazi snipers continue to try to shoot down Kepler in round 3.... Sniper rifle against Kepler deals 3 damage.... Sniper rifle against Kepler to confirm crit crit damage deals a lethal 29 damage to Kepler!
The Nazi shrieks as Excalibur splits him open from abdomen to breastbone.... He collapses.
The submachine gunners, seeing that they are being attacked from the stairs by Derrik, Koran, and Radsworth, and from behind by Yingzen, throw down their Uzis and draw long blades from sheathes on their backs.... Longsword against Yingzen
Longsword against Derrik
Longsword against Derrik
Longsword against Koran
Rad fires a shot that hits one of the Nazis, who roars in pain....
The Nazi screams again as Yingzen's blade slashes him again for 11 damage!
Derrik charges one of the Nazi submariners, Excalibur hewing through Kevlar to slice flesh open! The man screams in pain....
Submachine gun vs Derrik's touch AC of 14 with magical wards misses.... Submachine gun vs Derrik's touch AC of 14 with magical wards misses.... Submachine gun vs Derrik's touch AC of 14 with magical wards deals 2 damage after DR.... Submachine gun vs Derrik's touch AC of 14 with magical wards threatens a crit........but fails to confirm. 6 damage after DR....
Seeing Radsworth's burning bullet blaze to life, Vash targets the same sniper, dealing 17 piercing with his longbow! The Nazi screams as the arrow pierces his Kevlar vest and sinks into his flesh!
Badly wounded and enraged, Kepler shreds the Nazi submariner, tearing off his left arm, then his right, then his left leg, then his right, and finally ripping the torso asunder with an explosion of viscera! (That Nazi's dead, in case anyone wasn't certain....) Crowing to the heavens, Kepler is suddenly yanked through an extradimensional wormhole to his mistress' side....
The three snipers on the rooftops of the towers continue to fire on Kepler, the man harried by the eidolon taking a 5-ft-step back, but still provoking an AoO from the fierce avian outsider with its extraordinary reach.... Sniper rifle misses.... Sniper rifle clips Kepler for 2 damage.... Sniper rifle punches into the eidolon for 9 damage....
After the Nazi submariners (and several of The FOs before them): Yingzen strikes without warning from the shadows, dealing 19 slashing damage to the nearest Nazi submachine gunner! AAAAAACH! Ein schwartzenvogel-teufel hast mir!!
Will save succeeds! The willful Nazi sniper resists Kailin's paralyzing pavan!
There is just one sniper on each of three towers, so only one sniper can be targeted.... Reflex save fails! The sniper screams as the flames sear him for 8 fire damage....
Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up.... Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up.... Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up.... Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up.... The Nazis have no chance of hearing the preternaturally stealthy Tengu approach....
Grimm's bomb smashes on and ignites one of the submachine gunners at the bottom of the stairs, and splashes an adjacent gunner with flaming liquid.... He shrieks as he's burnt for 14 fire damage! Reflex save against DC 18 splash damage fails.... The adjacent gunner screams as he's burnt for 8 fire damage!
To confirm: Readied submachine gun attack does not confirm....
Derrik gets to the corner tower housing the spiral stair, and about a quarter-turn down the steps, just far enough to see down into the chamber below....and to be seen by four Nazi submariners standing at the bottom of the stairs, aiming submachine guns at the top of the stairs with readied actions to fire on intruders! A hail of automatic gunfire greets Derrik as he appears at the top of the stairs! Readied submachine gun attack hits for 3 damage after DR.... Readied submachine gun attack misses.... Readied submachine gun attack misses.... Readied submachine gun attack hits for 8 damage after DR.... (Double-check those attacks against Derrik's touch AC with the +3 deflection bonus....an assuming they hit, but that first one might not....)
The Nazi submariner screams first in fear as the furious eidolon bears down on him with the beating of mighty wings and razor-sharp talons outstretched, then in pain as one of those deadly talons rakes a triple slash-wound in the man's face!
Secondary shots at Kepler.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle misses.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 4 damage.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 3 more damage.... Kepler is getting shot up, and screech-roars his disapproval!
After Grimm: The Nazi crewmates begin firing on the suddenly enlarged avian monstrosity they see through their scopes on the roof of the White Tower.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 6 damage.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle grazes the eidolon for 1 damage.... Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle misses....
The first chakram comes close to striking the lookout, but distance and cover save him; the second chakram strikes the merlon the lookout is taking cover behind....
All three arrows bounce off merlons the Nazis are hiding behind....
Go ahead and roll initiative--the tower lookouts have relayed your arrival to others, presumably, and are now raising rifles to start taking shots at you! Initiative
AAAAAAAAARRG!!! Mein fleisch!! Es hertzen mein fleisch!! Retreat! Retreat! Ich kuchen!! Mein wiener ist geflammen!! The three Nazi submariners withdraw as best they can, given the grease.... Two crawl across the slippery floor, while the other attempts to run.... Reflex save vs DC 17 fails! The Nazi still standing slips and falls to the floor!
Reflex save vs DC 20
Reflex save vs DC 20
Excalibur carves a deep gash in the thigh of one of the fallen Nazis, causing him to scream out in pain!
Krar skirts the edge of the greased floor, and hacks into the standing Nazi, who grunts in pain!
Stepping to the edge of Mephos' grease slick, Koran swings wildly, but both his targets slip and fall right as the earth breaker passes, narrowly missing them both!
Reflex save DC 17 vs grease Reflex save DC 17 vs greaseReflex save DC 17 vs grease One of the three Nazis remains on his feet, but the other two slam to the floor after a brief instant of slipping, sliding, and flailing!
The Nazis must reload this round.... They step back 5 ft, closer to the doorway they came through (the doorway to the room where Grimm has just lit a strip of oiled cloth....), pull out fresh clips, and load them into their submachine guns....
The Nazi ducks back out of Dawnbringer's path, but cannot evade Excalibur's follow-up slash, and his shoulder is laid open to the red, glistening deeper muscle, a spray of blood and a scream accompanying the blow!
A second crewmate feels the sting of Koran's earth breaker....
The remaining three crewmates fire at The FOs.... Submachine gun deals 4 damage: 2 to Kate, 2 to Derrik.... Submachine gun misses Krar.... Submachine gun deals 3 damage to Koran....
Excalibur slides through trench coat, Kevlar vest, flesh, and bone, speeding along the death of the evil submariner targeted by Dwayne, Krar, and Koran in quick succession! The crewmate falls dead!
Krar's temple sword slices into the Nazi vampire thrall and he grunts in pain, but maintains his aggressive posture!
The disgusted crewmate shakes Duke off of his leather boot, which Duke is gnawing and slobbering venom on....
Ja, vut he said.... The earth breaker breaks the crewmates cranium into its component bones (parietals, occipital, frontal, maxillary, temporal, etc) with a loud CRACK!! The corpse falls to the floor....
After Koran (who I'm assuming will destroy the wounded crewmate before he gets to act, so he won't be included in this post): Four more men in black trench coats with the red fangs insignia, armed with submachine guns, rush into the room through a doorway in the west wall! (Double move into the room.)
Krar's blade cuts through trench coat, kevlar vest, and flesh, spilling a gout of blood and causing the lone crewmate to roar in pain.... He staggers, as if swooning, fighting to remain conscious and keep his submachine gun trained on Krar....
The crewmate screams as Dawnbringer hews through his Kevlar into flesh, and his screams are forever silenced when Excalibur opens the same cut deep to the bone! The crewmate falls silent to the floor....
Round 3 actions: The despairing crew mates only now think to start shouting for back-up (though the gunfire and screaming certainly serve the same purpose). All three remaining crewmates shout in German: Achtung!! Kommen sie hier, schnell! Schnell! Submachine gun grazes Koran for 1 damage.... Submachine gun grazes Krar for 3 damage.... Submachine gun nails Derrik on the left thigh for 10 damage (5 to Derrik, 5 to Kate)....
Mephos scorpion scuttles up to a crewmate, taps his ankle with its charged stinger, causing the man to scream and jerk as electricity briefly grants an X-ray view of his skeleton.... Mephos sends a ray of fire searing into the same crewmate, and he screams, nearly finished....
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