Arena Run So Far

2:39 PM <Don1Charles> Charles walks to the Arena with Aaron. "Yknow, these kinda simulations really are a lotta fun. And a good test, too."
2:40 PM <madness> "Uh-huh. What's the simulation we're running?" Aaron yawns, having just woke up from a nap to do things late at night.
2:43 PM <Don1Charles> "I dunno. Something to do with the recent credentials they've received from low-tier CI agents. Asked me to head on in for it, and bring to other agents. I chose you and Fiere." He looks around
2:43 PM <Don1Charles> "Fiere better get his ass over her soon."
2:43 PM <Don1Charles> *two
2:43 PM <Don1Charles> *here
2:43 PM <Klurg> Fiere arrives faster than the speed of sound... nah, he arrives at a fairly reasonable speed
2:44 PM <Fae> He only creates a minor sound boom.
2:45 PM <Don1Charles> "There you are. You two ready?"
2:45 PM <Klurg> "Yep. What simulation are we running?"
2:45 PM <Don1Charles> Charles seemed pumped up. "You'll see, not sure."
2:46 PM <madness> "Alright.." Aaron cocks a brow.
2:47 PM <Don1Charles> "Hey, I dunno. They want be to be surprised too, yknow." He says as he tugs his mask down his face, sliding on his sunglasses and-oh, that's new. A gas mask. "Let's head on in."
2:47 PM <AidenEldritch> A clearly engineer-y woman with a thick braid of brown hair, grease-stained overalls and thick leather boots bounds over to them. "Assuming you're all the guys who were booked in for the Insurgency simulation, yeah?"
2:47 PM <Don1Charles> His voice is muffled, but understandable.  He gives a little two fingered wave and nods.
2:47 PM <madness> "That would be us, ma'am." He nods.
2:47 PM <Klurg> ~insurgency?~
2:47 PM <Klurg> "Yes ma'am"
2:49 PM <AidenEldritch> "Cool." She starts fiddling with the control panels. "Wait a couple secs while this thing warms up. We had the boys in the computing department cook us up something special for your run."
2:49 PM <Don1Charles> "Can't wait!" comes a muffled, enthusiastic reply
2:49 PM <AidenEldritch> As she works the machine, she takes out a spool of tape from her arm- holy shit are those her /arm bones/ she's unravelling right now, what the fuck
2:50 PM <Don1Charles> "What the fuck?" He says as he nudges Aaron
2:51 PM <madness> "..." Aaron elects not to say anything about 'em and just shrugs.
2:51 PM <Klurg> ~have we started the simulation yet?~
2:52 PM <AidenEldritch> After that whole unpleasantness is done, she inserts a steel rod from her pocket back into her arm and watches closely as the skin and muscle seal themselves over the impromptu prosthetic, before hitting the big red button and powering the gate on.
2:52 PM <Klurg> ~well that just happened~
2:53 PM <madness> Aaron frowns, brows raised in surprise. "Right. We going?"
2:53 PM <AidenEldritch> "That'd be it, yeah!"
2:53 PM <AidenEldritch> If she noticed your weirded-out comment, Charles, she doesn't show it.
2:54 PM <Don1Charles> He probably said it so she wouldn't hear! He walks in in front
2:54 PM <Klurg> Fiere heads on ahead
2:54 PM <Klurg> ~onto the breach, and all that~
2:55 PM <madness> Aaron flounders in. He'd be a much happier man should he have flounced in.
2:55 PM <AidenEldritch> Whee!
2:55 PM <AidenEldritch> Pause for desc.
2:58 PM <AidenEldritch> As you enter the Arena, you find yourselves in a lush, grassy knoll with your field of vision mostly obscured by a gigantic stone castle, all verdant moss, high towers and crumbling bits of probably-important structural elements that've embedded themselves into the surrounding area. The rest of the area around you is taken up by a little community that looks like it should be thriving, with just-lit fires littering the area and little houses: nobody seems
2:58 PM <AidenEldritch> to be here, though. Doesn't look like anyone's been here for a while, in fact.
2:59 PM <AidenEldritch> The sense of isolation isn't helped by the similarly-decaying stone walls that enclose this castle and its pet village.
2:59 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you might notice that the castle's built in a very Gothic kind of style, dating back to the Middle Ages or thereabouts. Very common in Britain and its ilk.
2:59 PM <AidenEldritch> Unpause.
3:00 PM <Klurg> Fiere whistles in appreciation
3:00 PM <Klurg> "Looks like we're in England"
3:00 PM <Don1Charles> Charles slides his T-44 off his back, loading it. "Is there a missio objective?"
3:00 PM <Don1Charles> (it's Scotland, but close!)
3:01 PM <AidenEldritch> Roll me a PERC.
3:01 PM <Klurg> "Or at the very least, somewhere that has a heavy British influence"
3:01 PM <Don1Charles> "It's pretty, that's for sure. A relic outta time."
3:01 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 perception
3:01 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: perception: 7 (4df+6=+, +, -, 0)
3:01 PM <madness> 4df+5 PERC Aaron takes a deep whiff to suck in that country smell. "Nice place."
3:01 PM <Glacon> madness: PERC Aaron takes a deep whiff to suck in that country smell. "Nice place.": 4 (4df+5=0, 0, 0, -)
3:01 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 WALUIGI!
3:01 PM <Glacon> Klurg: WALUIGI!: 6 (4df+4=0, +, +, 0)
3:02 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, as you give one of the wood houses a peek, you'll notice that there's a very familiar black, red and white insignia painted on its side.
3:03 PM <AidenEldritch> It's one of the many logos the Insurgency use in their business dealing with the various GoIs. Fiere and Aaron will both notice this, but won't get what it means.
3:04 PM <Don1Charles> Charles aims his rifle towards it. "See that over that? It's the CI logo they use when dealing with GoIs, I'm pretty sure."
3:05 PM <Klurg> "Really? Wonder who they're dealing with now?"
3:05 PM <madness> Aaron, in the meanwhile, checks the brass count in his pistol and sighs. "So, what's the plan, hotshot? You take the lead for this one."
3:05 PM <Klurg> Fiere reaches for his radio or something similar, does he find it?
3:06 PM <Klurg> "Well, we gotta know what our mission is first"
3:06 PM <AidenEldritch> Sure, he'll find his radio.
3:07 PM <Don1Charles> "Dunno, MC&D? GOC? The other fucking ones? I don't remember all the names." He says as he fixes his scope. "Gentlemen, what's the vote? Castle, or the quaint, innocent little town there? Bet there is a good torture chamber in the castle."
3:08 PM <Klurg> Fiere radios in <so, what's the mission?>
3:08 PM <madness> "Ain't a fan of torture. It's unreliable unless you got a way to verify easy information quick."
3:09 PM <AidenEldritch> There's a squelching sound on the other end, and the lady from the chamber picks up. "Mission?"
3:09 PM <Don1Charles> "Well, I don't plan on getting tortured, and I don't think we need to torture anyone. Depends on the mission objective. Unless our objective is to kill everything."
3:10 PM <madness> "Fiere, would you please ask the kind lady what we're supposed to set out to do here?"
3:11 PM <AidenEldritch> You hear a couple clunking noises. "This here's a model of one of their bases out in the Scottish Highlands. We're asking you to do some recon, blow a couple things up, generally take out as much as you can before they get back."
3:11 PM <Klurg> <yes, we got put in here for a reason, did we not?> Fiere grimaces at the squelching sound
3:11 PM <Klurg> (Redact that above)
3:12 PM <Don1Charles> "Blow shit up, take out as much as you can? Good god, we are in for a fun time, eh? Let's blow up the castle first. Oh fuck I can't wait to blow up a goddamn castle." Charles walks towards the giant, crumbling wall with a spring in his step
3:12 PM <AidenEldritch> "Won't tell you anythin' else, since that'd be kinda spoilin' the point of havin' you all doing recon."
3:12 PM <Don1Charles> "Tell her to give us a set of explosives."
3:13 PM <AidenEldritch> (woop, forgot <<>> gets used for radios)
3:13 PM <Klurg> <can we get a set of explosives please?>
3:13 PM <madness> Aaron follows Charles, taking quick, small steps in order not to spoil his aim if he needs to fire somewhere in a moment's notice.
3:13 PM <AidenEldritch> The lady on the other end chuckles. <<Up to you to find them.>>
3:14 PM <Klurg> ~of course...~
3:14 PM <Don1Charles> Charles walks with his gun up, humming softly from beneath his mask. Some sorta sea shanty! Was there a way to get through the wall, maybe gaps or broken parts? Or would we have to go to the front gate?
3:15 PM <AidenEldritch> PERC me.
3:15 PM <Klurg> Fiere looks at the castle and sees if his memory of interior design would help him remember how secret castle routes worked
3:15 PM <Klurg> (Can I roll my spec for finding secret routes?)
3:15 PM <AidenEldritch> Feel free.
3:16 PM <Klurg> 4df+6 wonder where they are
3:16 PM <Glacon> Klurg: wonder where they are: 3 (4df+6=-, 0, -, -)
3:16 PM <Klurg> (Every time I use that spec)
3:16 PM <madness> 4df+5 PERC?
3:16 PM <Glacon> madness: PERC?: 4 (4df+5=-, 0, -, +)
3:16 PM <AidenEldritch> Harsh, Fiere. You get really excited to look at some pretty tapestries, but apart from that your knowledge didn't cover secret passageways, it seems.
3:18 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+3 perception
3:18 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: perception: 2 (4df+3=+, 0, -, -)
3:18 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, this castle's been pretty sloppily-maintained, and there are some stones jutting out on one of the four towers, below a window that's been broken open. Maybe as handholds?
3:19 PM <madness> "We could climb up through those stones over there. The ones sticking out of that tower. Hope you ain't got a fear of heights."
3:19 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you don't see anything too special.
3:20 PM <Klurg> "Heights, no, water, yes"
3:20 PM <Klurg> Does this castle have a moat?"
3:20 PM <Klurg> (Ignore the ")
3:20 PM <Don1Charles> (very few castles really had moats)
3:20 PM <AidenEldritch> It does not. It's sort of sunken into the boggy Scottish countryside: one squat, block,y central tower, surrounded by four round sub-towers pointing to the north, south, east and west.
3:21 PM <AidenEldritch> Unless you count the positively /saturated/ ground as a mud-moat.
3:21 PM <Don1Charles> "Yeesh, climbing towers, good way to get yourself killed right off the bat, don't you think?" He says with a laugh
3:22 PM <Don1Charles> Charles had a pretty awful history when it came to climbing things
3:22 PM <Klurg> "Depends on how agile you are"
3:23 PM <madness> "Come talk to me at the top of the tower when you got another plan." Aaron goes to climb!
3:23 PM <Don1Charles> "Alright well, if it's the only fuckin' way, let's go ahead." He grumbles, following behind Aaron and slinging his rifle over his shoulder
3:23 PM <Klurg> Fiere follows behind
3:24 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, roll me Agility or Strength.
3:24 PM <AidenEldritch> Same for anyone else trying to climb.
3:24 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+4 muscle boy!
3:24 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: muscle boy!: 6 (4df+4=0, 0, +, +)
3:24 PM <madness> 4df+4 AGI/STR! Both the same in each stat.
3:25 PM <Glacon> madness: AGI/STR! Both the same in each stat.: 6 (4df+4=+, -, +, +)
3:25 PM <Don1Charles> Charles grips and starts pulling himself up!
3:25 PM <Klurg> 4df+6 agility
3:25 PM <Glacon> Klurg: agility: 7 (4df+6=+, +, 0, -)
3:26 PM <AidenEldritch> As you grab on, you notice from close range that these things feel clammy and slightly marshmallow-like: they've got some give to them, which helps you grab on as you all successfully pull yourself up to the first floor window.
3:27 PM <madness> "The hell is up with these bricks?" Aaron climbs in and immediately scans his surroundings, gun up to sweep in tandem with his eyes.
3:28 PM <Klurg> "This is odd..."
3:28 PM <Klurg> Fiere gets his t-44 from his back
3:29 PM <Don1Charles> Charles huffs and climbs into the first floor window, falling down onto the ground before hopping up, brushing himself off and sliding his gun off of his back
3:29 PM <AidenEldritch> The room you find yourselves in is a small circular one, with one door out to the main tower. A couple loose stone bricks lay at your feet where you've landed, and there's some rapidly moulding carpet leading to that exit out to the main tower.
3:30 PM <Don1Charles> "Let's move quick, boys. Eyes on any traps, eh?" He says as he moves to the door. He moves to the wall beside it, like he were breaching the room, and gives it a shove open with the butt of his rifle, from safety
3:31 PM <AidenEldritch> Bang. It's not locked.
3:31 PM <AidenEldritch> It hits the wall behind it and the thud echoes throughout the rest of the castle, but nothing else happens.
3:31 PM <Klurg> Fiere inspects the castle, admiring its design
3:31 PM <madness> Note that Aaron only has his pistol, as today is his day off and he plans to spend at least twenty three hours of it not lugging around his M2 Carbine and the affiliated ammo pouches. Aaron heads for the door, taking the opposite side of Charles. ".. you really want to get us in a firefight, don'tcha?"
3:32 PM <Klurg> Fiere tries to remember the inside of their design, so he won't get lost
3:32 PM <Don1Charles> Charles keeps his gun pointed down the hall from cover, before he sticks his head out and heads down. "Hup to it boys, fire in your step! Cmon Aaron, when was the last time you were in a firefight?"
3:32 PM <Don1Charles> Charles had such an enthusiastic attitude, it was nearly infectious
3:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Pause for desc.
3:35 PM <AidenEldritch> In contrast to the dismal gloom of the tower, the central building looks pretty homely. Torches light up the interior of what appears to be the dining room, a very well-decorated set of humongous tables carry the aftermath of a sumptuous feast, with plenty of haggis, gruel, and actual people food like chicken and bread littering the table. Wine's being served in /actual goblets/: given the sheer opulence on display it looks like the boss invited all his
3:35 PM <AidenEldritch> lackeys, too.
3:36 PM <AidenEldritch> There are doorways to the other towers: the one where you just came from, flimsy-looking wooden ones to the left and right that look like they were preserved from the original design, and - oh hello, a thicc iron door to your front!
3:36 PM <AidenEldritch> Unpause.
3:36 PM <AidenEldritch> Everyone, roll me a PERC.
3:36 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 perception
3:36 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: perception: 5 (4df+6=+, -, -, 0)
3:36 PM <madness> 4df+5 PERC " 'bout two weeks too short for me to be happy about another one."
3:36 PM <Glacon> madness: PERC " 'bout two weeks too short for me to be happy about another one.": 3 (4df+5=-, -, 0, 0)
3:36 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 wario
3:36 PM <Glacon> Klurg: wario: 6 (4df+4=0, 0, +, +)
3:38 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you notice from above you muffled footsteps and the clinking of metal.  Upstairs is the top level, if your view of the castle from the outside was accurate, and it's exposed to the elements. Funnily enough, there are no ladders or stairs in this room leading upstairs.
3:39 PM <AidenEldritch> And Charles, you hear the sound of car engines coming through the open window.
3:39 PM <Klurg> "There's someone above us, there's metal clinking"
3:39 PM <Klurg> "Knights?"
3:41 PM <Don1Charles> "Through the window, I can hear car engines. Oh for fucks sake, these are CI. I'd hope they're not knights."
3:41 PM <madness> "Oh, /now/ you ain't excited."
3:41 PM <Don1Charles> Charles's gas mask goes around his neck and he slides up his mask, taking a piece of bread and biting it before tossing it out, and then taking a goblet and drinking a little wine."
3:41 PM <Don1Charles> *remove "
3:41 PM <Don1Charles> He turns, goblet in hand. "I'm like a king or something." sip sip
3:42 PM <AidenEldritch> The wine tastes a little metallic. Apart from that, you don't feel anything off: the bread is still warm, and tastes fresh out the oven.
3:42 PM <Don1Charles> Then he sets it back down and munches some more bread, before tugging his mask down and his gas mask goes back up. "Alright. Sorry. Needed that for data."
3:43 PM <AidenEldritch> Delicious data!
3:43 PM <madness> Aaron jerks his head over to the left door as a sign to head there!
3:43 PM <Klurg> Fiere takes a mutton and bites into it
3:43 PM <Don1Charles> "Right right. Fiere, take point."
3:43 PM <Don1Charles> "We are done eating, dope."
3:43 PM <Klurg> "Mhm" he says through a facefull of mutton
3:44 PM <Don1Charles> Does he take point?
3:44 PM <AidenEldritch> Actually, Fiere, roll Academics.
3:44 PM <Klurg> (Interior design?)
3:44 PM <AidenEldritch> This isn't for architecture or anything.
3:44 PM <Klurg> 4df+2 uh oh
3:44 PM <Glacon> Klurg: uh oh: 0 (4df+2=-, -, 0, 0)
3:45 PM <AidenEldritch> You taste nothing wrong with the mutton! It's beautifully pink, fatty and sweet.
3:45 PM <AidenEldritch> A little bit of blood gets on your shirt, but they cooked it rare anyway. Meh, personal hygiene probably isn't your highest priority right now.
3:46 PM <Don1Charles> "Fiere, I said take point."
3:46 PM <Klurg> Fiere puts it down and takes point
3:46 PM <Klurg> "Ooph, rare mutton"
3:47 PM <Klurg> "He brushes his hands off on the table as he moves towards point
3:47 PM <Don1Charles> "Blech, I prefer lamb." He says as he moves up behind Fiere to continue!
3:48 PM <madness> Aaron waits patiently, debating whether or not to go on his own at this point.
3:49 PM <Klurg> Fiere is at point and moving on ahead
3:49 PM <Don1Charles> Charles is following behind him. Catch your ass up, Aaron
3:49 PM <AidenEldritch> Have they opened the left hand door yet?
3:49 PM <Klurg> Fiere gingerly opens that door
3:49 PM <madness> Aaron's waiting for Fiere to! He's already posted up by it.
3:50 PM <Don1Charles> Damn! Charles moves to the side. goddamn Fiere going straight in, what a badass
3:50 PM <AidenEldritch> The door creeeeeeaks open.
3:50 PM <AidenEldritch> Perception, Fiere.
3:51 PM <Don1Charles> Charles looks up to Aaron, pointing to Fiere and making a facepalm motion. It all looks kinda weird considering he currently looked like a gas mask mook, but Aaron probably got what he meant
3:51 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 slowwwwllly creaking
3:51 PM <Glacon> Klurg: slowwwwllly creaking: 4 (4df+4=0, -, 0, +)
3:52 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you swear you see a scurry of motion out the corner of your eye when you enter the room.
3:52 PM <Klurg> "There's something in there" he informs the team
3:53 PM <Don1Charles> Charles slides his flashlight onto his gun and flicks it on, pointing the barrel around the corner, which had the flashlight aimed out
3:53 PM <Don1Charles> "Tell me whatcha see?"
3:53 PM <madness> "That doesn't tell me a whole lot." Aaron tosses Fiere a flashlight. "C'mon, point man, tell us what you got."
3:53 PM <Don1Charles> Charles gives Fiere a little kick in the butt to get him to, yknow, go in
3:54 PM <AidenEldritch> It vanishes as quick as it came, though, and you're left standing in a slightly less messy version of the room you entered before. Not very many bricks in this room, thankfully: you could've seen a shadow dance across their grey surface, but actually- Hey! Is that a flare gun?
3:54 PM <AidenEldritch> Probably just the light bouncing off that.
3:55 PM <Klurg> "Hey, I'm not going on first, at least not yet"
3:55 PM <Klurg> Fiere swaps Charles for that kick
3:55 PM <Klurg> Waps*
3:55 PM <madness> Aaron pushes them both aside, taking his flashlight back and shining it when he enters.
3:55 PM <Don1Charles> "Fucking pussy." Charles gives Fiere a push out of the way and heads in
3:56 PM <Don1Charles> Charles and Aaron go in at the same time, presumably. Charles waves his gun around to see stuffs with the flaslight. "Flaregun. Yo, flaregun."
3:56 PM <Klurg> Fiere heads in, glad to not be in point anymore
3:56 PM <Don1Charles> He is in the back.
3:56 PM <Klurg> "So, whoever's in here, mind explaining what's going on? And who the CI is meeting with?"
3:57 PM <madness> "You taking it or am I?" Aaron scans around the room.
3:58 PM <Klurg> Fiere takes the flare gun
3:58 PM <Don1Charles> Charles takes it and puts it on his belt goddamit Fiere
3:58 PM <Klurg> Now it's a Fliere gun
3:58 PM <AidenEldritch> He's faster he gets it.
3:59 PM <Don1Charles> (ok fine, you can keep it for that stupid pun)
3:59 PM <Don1Charles> "Where to go from here?" He says as he looks around, checking the ceiling and doorways
3:59 PM <AidenEldritch> Given the weight, Fiere, you can tell that it's loaded.
3:59 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, as you check the ceiling, roll me an... MDEF.
3:59 PM <AidenEldritch> :D
4:00 PM <Don1Charles> Of note, Charles has two layers of eye protection, being sunglasses and gas mask plastic. Dunno if that'd dull it's effects at all
4:00 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+3 mdef
4:00 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: mdef: 0 (4df+3=-, 0, -, -)
4:01 PM <Don1Charles> (You know what piss off for making me roll an mdef you knew what was gonna happen)
4:01 PM <AidenEldritch> Wow jesus. Charles, you get a stinging headache but 0 Mhealth damage because I am a kind god.
4:01 PM <Don1Charles> What was on the cieling?
4:02 PM <AidenEldritch> It looks like a chandelier-no, jellyfish-no, it's a HUGE mass of flesh-no, it's a tumbleweed full of teeth-
4:02 PM <AidenEldritch> Whatever it is, it flickers between a lot of very distracting things.
4:02 PM <Don1Charles> "GOOD GOD ON THE CEILING FUCKING KILL THAT DISGUSTING MOTHERFUCKING SACK OF CUNTS." He say as he moves out of the way of it dropping onto him and fires at it with his gun
4:02 PM <AidenEldritch> If you couldn't tell, it would NOT be a good idea to look at it for too long
4:03 PM <Klurg> Fiere looks at the ceiling (roll mdef too?)
4:03 PM <AidenEldritch> It didn't drop on you, but you still put a couple rounds into it!
4:03 PM <AidenEldritch> (Please hold for a bit.)
4:03 PM <madness> Aaron's covering their flanks so no one's coming up to slit their throats. He peers upwards for a good half-second, before his eyes drop to the floor.
4:03 PM <AidenEldritch> From upstairs, you hear a muffled "WHO THE FUCK'S FIRING?", before the thing on the ceiling opens itself inside-out.
4:04 PM <AidenEldritch> The ceiling around it parts, and you see a very angry man with a very large gun drop down from a ladder that falls through the newly-made hole.
4:05 PM <madness> CAN AARON OUTFLEX THE MAN TO RECEIVE A BUFF TO HIS INTIMIDATION?
4:05 PM <Klurg> "Good job Charles"
4:05 PM <madness> :D
4:06 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, you try to flex-off this motherfucker, but though his arms look JUST big enough to tote the gun he's carrying, the only thing you achieve is to get the gun pointed at you.
4:06 PM <AidenEldritch> AGI/PDEF!
4:07 PM <madness> 4df+4 AGILITY!!!
4:07 PM <Glacon> madness: AGILITY!!!: 4 (4df+4=-, +, +, -)
4:08 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+6 [RNG] BANG BANG
4:08 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: [RNG] BANG BANG: 5 (4df+6=+, -, -, 0)
4:08 PM <Don1Charles> Was Charles kinda close?
4:08 PM <AidenEldritch> What's he trying to do?
4:09 PM <Don1Charles> Pull out his switchblade, slash open the guy's wrist/hand gripping the trigger of the big gun
4:09 PM <AidenEldritch> Roll me Melee, then.
4:10 PM <Don1Charles> His blade clicks out as he does exactly that! Slashing open the wrist (please, don't describe this)
4:10 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 melee
4:10 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: melee: 5 (4df+6=0, -, 0, 0)
4:10 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+3 He doesn't see it coming, so PDEF.
4:10 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: He doesn't see it coming, so PDEF.: 6 (4df+3=0, +, +, +)
4:11 PM <Don1Charles> (y you do this)
4:11 PM <Klurg> Fiere fires upon the enemy
4:11 PM <AidenEldritch> ...Lord heavens above. Okay, resolving these things:
4:11 PM <AidenEldritch> nvm Fiere roll RNG
4:11 PM <Klurg> 4df+6 no shooting the flexing man
4:11 PM <Glacon> Klurg: no shooting the flexing man: 5 (4df+6=0, 0, -, 0)
4:12 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+3 He's not fuckin getting out of this one
4:12 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: He's not fuckin getting out of this one: 5 (4df+3=+, +, 0, 0)
4:12 PM <AidenEldritch> WHAT THE FUCK
4:12 PM <AidenEldritch> Okay, so, in order:
4:12 PM <Klurg> (This is the sword guy, the fat guy, and the zombie all over again)
4:13 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, whatever this guy shot at you HAMMERS into the side of your chest and you feel a couple ribs jostle about: luckily your swoleness protects you from the majority of harm. 0.5 PHealth damage.
4:14 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles and Fiere, you're both blinded by the muzzle flash or something because your attacks both miss, unfortunately.
4:14 PM <madness> Aaron GRUNTS, doing a little pirouette before FIRING BACK! (If he may, that is)
4:14 PM <Don1Charles> Charles curses under his breath as he is now face to pecs with the big dude
4:14 PM <AidenEldritch> As you get your breath back, Aaron, you'll notice a solid cylindrical hole in the wall opposite you.
4:15 PM <AidenEldritch> Before you fire, he shouts: "Anoo, intruders!"
4:15 PM <AidenEldritch> Now roll Ranged.
4:15 PM <madness> 4df+4 RNG! pew pew pew suck my .45 acp
4:15 PM <Glacon> madness: RNG! pew pew pew suck my .45 acp: 4 (4df+4=0, +, -, 0)
4:15 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+3 He's gonna get /fucked/ this time!
4:15 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: He's gonna get /fucked/ this time!: 5 (4df+3=+, +, -, +)
4:15 PM <Don1Charles> (tell when it's PC turn and such also plz)
4:16 PM <madness> liar
4:16 PM <madness> >:v
4:16 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, you're apparently thrown way off by the bullet hitting your chest and your aim spatters off wildly.
4:16 PM <madness> Aaron does a preemptive dive behind the table to give himself at least /some/ concealment.
4:17 PM <AidenEldritch> Not PC turn yet, because as this is happening, there's a grinding noise where the stone bricks lay, and a woman in CI outfit clutching a flare gun in her hand RISES out of that pile. "Where's my backup gun-"
4:19 PM <Don1Charles> "What kinda motherfuckers are YOU all?"
4:19 PM <madness> "Fuck."
4:19 PM <AidenEldritch> AND BY CI OUTFIT I MEAN scrappy-looking garments that look like they were salvaged off a run-down dumpster in one of the shittier districts of New York.
4:20 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, the woman – apparently named Anoo – notices the orange gun at your belt, and apparently abandons her plan to shoot the flare out the window, because she's wheeling ON YOU PDEF EVERYBODY!
4:20 PM <Don1Charles> "BOYS LET'S JUST WASTE THESE MOTHERFUCKERS ALREADY!"
4:20 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 "agreed"
4:20 PM <Glacon> Klurg: "agreed": 5 (4df+5=+, -, +, -)
4:21 PM <madness> 4df+4 PDEF (+2 if it's equal or less damage than falling 30 feet) HUBBA WHA NOW
4:21 PM <Glacon> madness: PDEF (+2 if it's equal or less damage than falling 30 feet) HUBBA WHA NOW: 5 (4df+4=0, -, +, +)
4:21 PM <Klurg> If Fiere fires his flare gun at the lady, will he ignite her?
4:21 PM <AidenEldritch> You might, but it's not your turn yet~
4:22 PM <Don1Charles> (yall aiden is gonna announce pc turn)
4:22 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles you haven't rolled PDEF yet.
4:22 PM <Don1Charles> melee or ranged
4:22 PM <AidenEldritch> To quote madness, MAGIC.
4:22 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 pdef
4:22 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: pdef: 5 (4df+6=-, -, +, 0)
4:23 PM <AidenEldritch> Pause while I describe the scene.
4:24 PM <AidenEldritch> As she lets the flare loose, you realise this definitely isn't a normal flare, because when it lights up it's almost instantly consumed by unearthly white fire. It doesn't hit you: rather, it hits a spot next to her teammate's foot and then SHATTERS with a tremendous crack like a mirror maze being thrown off a high balcony.
4:25 PM <AidenEldritch> An icy-cold gale of ice and snow coats the room and fog obscures your guys' vision for a moment, before the fog disperses out the window where the woman is trying to pull the man out and down through the window.
4:26 PM <AidenEldritch> What you assume to be his foot is now a mass of crumpled, anemic splinters on the floor, and there's a thin trail of blood leading through their path.
4:26 PM <AidenEldritch> Since you guys all fucking aced your PDEF rolls, it's now PC turn. Unpause.
4:26 PM <Don1Charles> Did big guy have his gun set down?
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4:27 PM <Don1Charles> Or like, not in his arms as he climbs out a window?
4:27 PM <AidenEldritch> It's a very cold, dented piece of metal on the floor.
4:27 PM <AidenEldritch> You guys were a bit away from the blast, so you probably didn't have the skin ripped from your hands like poor fuck apparently had.
4:27 PM <Don1Charles> Charles's knife goes into his pocket as he sprints towards the man! Dumb bitch was unarmed
4:28 PM <Klurg> Fiere aims his flare at the lady
4:28 PM <madness> Aaron fires at the woman and man with the rest of his magazine in an effort to slow their roll!
4:28 PM <Klurg> And fires
4:28 PM <Don1Charles> He applies a choke hold, puts one boot against the window sill, and goes to slam him back onto his head
4:28 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+10 melee
4:28 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: melee: 8 (4df+10=-, 0, 0, -)
4:28 PM <madness> 4df+4 RNG CHARLES HE WAS GONNA SLOW THEIR ROLL WITH HIS ROLL WHA
4:28 PM <Glacon> madness: RNG CHARLES HE WAS GONNA SLOW THEIR ROLL WITH HIS ROLL WHA: 4 (4df+4=+, -, +, -)
4:28 PM <Don1Charles> ( I said he sprints up first.)
4:29 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+5 Werebrick skin is a little tougher than usual, so woman tanks it.
4:29 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: Werebrick skin is a little tougher than usual, so woman tanks it.: 8 (4df+5=+, 0, +, +)
4:29 PM <AidenEldritch> (Against Aaron.)
4:30 PM <Klurg> 4df+6 fliere ranged fire!
4:30 PM <Glacon> Klurg: fliere ranged fire!: 6 (4df+6=-, 0, 0, +)
4:30 PM <Klurg> Against the lady
4:31 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you put a crack in the guy's skull that leaves an audible crack.
4:31 PM <AidenEldritch> Wow word repetition. Anyway, he's fucking dead as shit.
4:31 PM <Don1Charles> "BAM BITCH." He says as he releases the choke and rolls out of it, looking to the woman
4:32 PM <AidenEldritch> The woman is hurriedly clambering out the windowsill, which is when Fiere's flare comes up in a neat parabolic arc, and hits the windowsill daintily.
4:32 PM <AidenEldritch> Who's closest to the window?
4:32 PM <Don1Charles> Charles, i'll be honest
4:32 PM <Don1Charles> Can he use man corpse as shield tho
4:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Good thinking. Roll a PDef with a +2 for that.
4:33 PM <Don1Charles> Is it more goddamn magic or is it ranged
4:34 PM <AidenEldritch> It's more goddamn magic, unfortunately. But hey, props for the meatshield idea.
4:35 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+8 meatshield me, muscle boy
4:35 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: meatshield me, muscle boy: 6 (4df+8=-, -, -, +)
4:36 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, your flare lights up a bright green as it arcs through the air, and when it detonates all Charles feels is a soft rustling of the wind through his hair.
4:36 PM <Don1Charles> Well no, cause his mask, but I get the idea
4:36 PM <AidenEldritch> Hehe. Or that.
4:37 PM <Klurg> Does werelady get damaged?
4:37 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you might notice that this guy's torso feels a heck of a lot heavier. Fiere and Aaron, you'll realise that this is because he is now /drenched/ with an array of lichens and ferns that have apparently taken up residence in his back.
4:38 PM <AidenEldritch> The formerly icy floor is still icy, but now there are clovers all over it! Yay clovers
4:38 PM <madness> "Charles, get the fuck away from the corpse PRONTO."
4:38 PM <Don1Charles> He waits for the detonation reaction to be done before shoving away cuddle position from the big dude and standing
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4:38 PM <AidenEldritch> You see brickgirl's hands and wrist become similarly plantified before she slips-
4:38 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+2 Against fall damage
4:38 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: Against fall damage: 4 (4df+2=+, 0, 0, +)
4:39 PM <AidenEldritch> There's a loud SQUELCH as she hits the mud, and her mossied arm is cracked in places, but she's still up and moving.
4:39 PM <Klurg> "What is even going on?"
4:40 PM <madness> "Let's get the fuck outta this room 'fore we find out."
4:40 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you'll be satisfied at how lush this place looks now!
4:40 PM <Don1Charles> Charles considers shooting before he comes up with a different plan. He grabs the big dude on the non-lichen side, takes him to the edge quickly, and tosses him off. A big 250-300 pound dude like that landing on you wouldn't be fun
4:40 PM <AidenEldritch> Such synergy with the colour patterns! Such energy and vivacity! The correct application of greenery does wonders to a drab house!
4:41 PM <Klurg> "Pretty nice looking actually" Fiere says as he runs outside
4:41 PM <madness> "You going to jump, too?"
4:41 PM <Don1Charles> (he runs outside? like to the window?)
4:41 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you'll hear a loud shriek from below.
4:42 PM <AidenEldritch> Brickgirl wasn't too hot before she got the guy dumped on her, and she only moved just about far enough to have the dude land on her flailing arm and crack it off. Ow.
4:42 PM <Don1Charles> "Die down there, bitch!" He calls out, before turning back to the team. "Fiere, get her in the back of the head if you can. Once you're done, let's keep it moving, Aaron's right."
4:43 PM <Don1Charles> He reloads his T-44
4:43 PM <Don1Charles> and starts walking
4:43 PM <madness> "How the fuck do you expect us to fucking jump down this tower?"
4:44 PM <Klurg> Can Fiere aim at her properly?
4:44 PM <madness> Aaron grumbles, before peering out the window and looking around for doors leading outside the tower.
4:44 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, the convoys have stopped and she's currently being ushered in by other mooks.
4:44 PM <AidenEldritch> You have one shot.
4:45 PM <madness> Should Aaron roll a PERC or not just yet?
4:45 PM <Don1Charles> "More teams approaching." was there a door for us to continue through?
4:45 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, when you say doors outside the tower, what do you mean?
4:45 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, there's still an open ladder to the upstairs rooms, and the door back to the central tower.
4:45 PM <Klurg> Fiere shoots
4:46 PM <AidenEldritch> Well, not really rooms, more like roof, but the point stands.
4:46 PM <Klurg> 4df+6 assasination
4:46 PM <Glacon> Klurg: assasination: 5 (4df+6=-, -, +, 0)
4:46 PM <Don1Charles> "I'm gonna check the roof, give me a second." he says as he climbs up to the roof swiftly
4:47 PM <AidenEldritch> Man, Aaron probably wishes he had his brother here right about now. Fiere, you wang a jeep's tire and send some convoy members scattering, but the others are pointing up at that window and gesticulating frantically.
4:47 PM <madness> Doors along the wall that lead outside the tower and to where Charles is! Or windows close to the ground. Or, at the very least, windows leading out to a slight slope to slide down to ground level. Unless... Wait, nevermind. I thought Charles jumped off using the big dude to cushion his crash. Aaron follows Charles.
4:48 PM <Don1Charles> (good god no, he threw it down ontop of her)
4:48 PM <madness> He doesn't wish this on ANY sniper, let alone his brother. Who's probably off enjoying his new task force.
4:48 PM <Klurg> ~should have saved that flare shot~
4:48 PM <Klurg> Fiere, seeing his shot failed, follows the team
4:49 PM <Klurg> Unless he gets a second chance?
4:49 PM <madness> If only Fiere didn't throw away his shot.
4:49 PM <AidenEldritch> He does not. Assuming you're all up the top of the eastern tower now, the roof of the tower is a sparsely-furnished circle of stone, with the gaping hole to the lower floor being the only noticeable crack in the floor.
4:51 PM <AidenEldritch> It looks pretty medieval, aside from the crate of stuff to the side of the hole. There's a setup for a sniper rifle in the gap between one pair of stone blocks, and there- holy shit, is that a crossbow?!
4:51 PM <Klurg> Fiere gets in a sniper position, maybe he can still damage the car
4:52 PM <Don1Charles> Charles takes the crossbow. "Fiere. Did they see you?"
4:52 PM <AidenEldritch> It's not loaded, Charles, but there should be a little something-something in the crate, perhaps.
4:52 PM <madness> Aaron digs through the crate to search for ammunition!
4:53 PM <Don1Charles> "What's in there? Fiere, answer my question."
4:53 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you do have a better vantage up here, but they've either scattered among the town or are hiding out in the APC.
4:54 PM <Klurg> "They probably did see me"
4:54 PM <Klurg> "I can't find them even from up here" (what's an APC?)
4:54 PM <Don1Charles> (big armored vehicle)
4:54 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, JACKPOT. You find a pack of nine (9) crossbow bolts, another flaregun, an M1 Garand and FIIIIIIIVE BRAND NEW FLARES to go with the flaregun! Who knows what they'll do!!!!!!
4:55 PM <Don1Charles> (Armored.People.Killer. APC)
4:55 PM <Klurg> (...)
4:55 PM <madness> "Fiere, heads up. Charles, I got your early birthday present."
4:55 PM <madness> (Armored Personnel Carrier)
4:55 PM <Klurg> "Thanks" Fiere says
4:55 PM <Klurg> How many flares is fiere getting? All of them?"
4:55 PM <Klurg> (Ignore the ")
4:56 PM <Don1Charles> "Pass it over here. Listen, if they saw you, I bet they're sending in a squadron of boys. The CI are known to drench their problems in troops."
4:56 PM <AidenEldritch> There's another flaregun right there for the taking if Aaron so wants~
4:56 PM <madness> Aaron hands the flares over instead of tossing them. He takes only one flare for himself, however.
4:56 PM <Don1Charles> "Let's grab this shit and get it going." He says as he loads a bolt into it. "Watch no teammates are nearby when you fire that crazy shit."
4:56 PM <madness> He also hands over the bolts but that's implied already.
4:57 PM <Klurg> (Almost 3:00, dang we're far in)
4:57 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, the flare you're holding has bright purple stripes painted around the side of the otherwise black flare: think the Tron version of a barber pole.
4:58 PM <Don1Charles> "LET'S GET A MOVE ON." He says as he heads down the ladder
4:58 PM <madness> ... huh.
4:58 PM <madness> Aaron follows shortly after.
4:59 PM <Don1Charles> Charles drops to the lower floor and goes back where they came if it was the only way
4:59 PM <Klurg> Fiere's follows on ahead
5:00 PM <AidenEldritch> Are they going back to the central part of the first floor?
5:01 PM <Don1Charles> I think so? Whatever way we are supposed to go
5:01 PM <AidenEldritch> I mean it's y'all's choice honestly.
5:01 PM <madness> "Thinking of setting an ambush."
5:02 PM <Don1Charles> Then he goes that way! "We don't know where they are gonna enter from, is the thing."
5:03 PM <Don1Charles> "You good from that shot you took, Aaron?"
5:03 PM <madness> "Yeah, it was nothing."
5:04 PM <Klurg> "Well, we could try and find the armory"
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5:04 PM <AidenEldritch> Pause one sec, y'all.
5:04 PM <AidenEldritch> Who's leading up the party?
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5:05 PM <Klurg> Can I roll interior decoration to locate the armor?
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5:05 PM <madness> "Just need to find a place where there's only one way for them to funnel out from."
5:05 PM <AidenEldritch> Is anyone in particular taking point?
5:05 PM <Klurg> Fiere's kinda taking back
5:05 PM <madness> Aaron doesn't wanna be topkick since he's 'ASSESSING TACTICAL CAPABILITY'. YEAH. That means Charles be upfront.
5:06 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles:
5:06 PM <AidenEldritch> You hear a *tink* as something metallic hits a table and then the floor.
5:07 PM <Don1Charles> He looks up again, scanning the ceiling as he walks, readying his crossbow. "On guard men." He mutters. "Just heard something."
5:07 PM <AidenEldritch> The door opposite the one you just came out of is open, and it's open to reveal a bunch of very smug-looking CI fuckers headed up by a pasty-looking fellow clutching a quarterstaff.
5:07 PM <AidenEldritch> "GRENADE, DIPSHITS!"
5:08 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, roll AGI.
5:08 PM <Klurg> Can Fiere shoot the grenade out of the air?
5:08 PM <AidenEldritch> It's on the floor already!
5:08 PM <madness> CAN AARON INTIMIDATE THE GRENADE INTO NOT BLOWING UP
5:08 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron's machoness would cause it to blow its fuse early. >_>
5:08 PM <madness> YOU'RE SO RIGHT
5:09 PM <AidenEldritch> charles bby agi
5:09 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+4 agility
5:09 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: agility: 3 (4df+4=-, 0, -, +)
5:09 PM <Don1Charles> He ducks behind a table
5:09 PM <AidenEldritch> There's a soft hiss before it explodes, and-
5:09 PM <AidenEldritch> BAMF
5:10 PM <AidenEldritch> A light pink mist fills the air. Pink???
5:10 PM <AidenEldritch> You're unharmed, but it's smoggy as shit. Smoke probably doesn't look like no smoke grenade you've ever seen before, though. -1 to PERC rolls til it disperses.
5:10 PM <Don1Charles> WAIT WAIT! Charles had on a gas mask! Fuck your mist!
5:11 PM <AidenEldritch> Actually, RANGED considering you're in a- alright then Fiere and Aaron both smell really raspberries and probably start coughing.
5:11 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles you're all G.
5:11 PM <AidenEldritch> *th ereally strong scent of raspberries
5:11 PM <AidenEldritch> *the
5:12 PM <Klurg> "That is an... odd grenade"
5:12 PM <Don1Charles> "LET'S BASH SOME MOTHERFUCKERS UP!" Charles sprints through that fog to kick some ass
5:12 PM <Klurg> ~what's up with him today?~
5:12 PM <Klurg> ~late night adrenaline?~
5:13 PM <madness> Aaron sputters and heads into the table to take cover.
5:13 PM <madness> By into I mean by.
5:13 PM <AidenEldritch> Through the mist, you can see mooks running left and right to try and take cover. Charles, you run in fist-first to a guy who's been deserted by pastyface mcstaff. Roll Melee.
5:13 PM <Don1Charles> Wait fist first meaning.... unarmed?
5:13 PM <AidenEldritch> :D
5:13 PM <Klurg> Can Fiere aim for an enemy without hitting Charles?
5:13 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you'll take a penalty to RNG because a smoke's a smoke.
5:13 PM <Don1Charles> Charles throws a nasty right then left hook combination
5:13 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+10 melee
5:13 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: melee: 10 (4df+10=+, 0, 0, -)
5:13 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+3 WHAM BAM POW
5:13 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: WHAM BAM POW: 5 (4df+3=+, -, +, +)
5:13 PM <Don1Charles> He has reinforced knuckles and hits like a champ
5:14 PM <AidenEldritch> He goes out like a fucking light.
5:14 PM <Don1Charles> "BOOM!" He looks for another one
5:14 PM <madness> "Fiere, flare 'em-" cough cough, sputter, choke ".. up!"
5:14 PM <Klurg> "I can't, they're scattered and I may hit Charles"
5:15 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 conventional firearm on a random mook
5:15 PM <Glacon> Klurg: conventional firearm on a random mook: 7 (4df+5=-, +, +, +)
5:15 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, if you're gonna flare them, you have two green, one blue and one very RED AND DANGEROUS-LOOKING one. Seriously that thing has warning labels in seventeen languages.
5:15 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+3 PDEF Oh well okay then.
5:15 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: PDEF Oh well okay then.: 4 (4df+3=+, +, -, 0)
5:15 PM <AidenEldritch> He's down but not out.
5:15 PM <AidenEldritch> You've taken out 2 mooks out of a gathering party of five, not including Pastyface.
5:16 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, what're you doing?
5:16 PM <madness> "Who the fuck cares i-" COUGH COUGH "- 's not like he has a self-preservation instinct anyways." Aaron FIRES.
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5:16 PM <madness> 4df+4 (+1 TO IT IF THIS TABLE COUNTS AS COVER) POW FUCK YOU GLACON
5:16 PM <Glacon> madness: (+1 TO IT IF THIS TABLE COUNTS AS COVER) POW FUCK YOU GLACON: 3 (4df+4=-, -, 0, +)
5:17 PM <AidenEldritch> IT DOOOO count as cover!
5:17 PM <madness> YEAH GIVE HIM THAT PLUS UNO THEN WOOHOO
5:17 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+4 PDEF
5:17 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: PDEF: 5 (4df+4=0, 0, 0, +)
5:17 PM <madness> fuark
5:17 PM <AidenEldritch> Ptwing! One of the goblets goes flying!
5:18 PM <AidenEldritch> PC turn is over for now, and the fog starts dispersing.
5:18 PM <AidenEldritch> Pause for a moment.
5:19 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, from your spot at the other end of the dining hall, you can see Pastyface and a mook discussing something frantically.
5:20 PM <AidenEldritch> Eventually they agree on something, and Pastyface draws himself up to his full height. He sounds very much like someone who's trying not to choke on snozzbery-flavoured smoke grenade: "FOUNDATION, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SURRENDER!"
5:20 PM <AidenEldritch> Unpause if you want to make convo or just pop one in him. He's out in the open, and no RNG penalty~
5:20 PM <madness> "NO, THIS IS /YOUR/ LAST CHANCE TO SURRENDER!"
5:21 PM <madness> Can Aaron flex to gain his intimidation bonus?
5:21 PM <Don1Charles> "I'M GONNA PUNCH YOUR TEETH DOWN YOUR THROAT, CHAOS BITCH!"
5:22 PM <Don1Charles> Was he armed?
5:22 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron gets a +1 XP for best one-liner of the run- nah jk. Aaron, he looks like a finger of mozarella got stretched up to the height of a fullgrownboy you get that bonus automatically
5:22 PM <AidenEldritch> All stretchy paleness
5:23 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, he's armed with his big hittin' stick.
5:23 PM <madness> 4df+5 "I AIN'T NO PUNK BITCH SO YOU BETTER FUCKING DROP YOUR GUNS 'FORE I DROP YOUR ASS OVER THE SIDE OF THIS FUCKING TOWER"
5:23 PM <Glacon> madness: "I AIN'T NO PUNK BITCH SO YOU BETTER FUCKING DROP YOUR GUNS 'FORE I DROP YOUR ASS OVER THE SIDE OF THIS FUCKING TOWER": 9 (4df+5=+, +, +, +)
5:23 PM <madness> FUCK YES
5:23 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron
5:23 PM <AidenEldritch> This guy's totally pissed himself.
5:23 PM <AidenEldritch> Just from eyes alone you can tell that, holy /shit/ he is scared.
5:24 PM <AidenEldritch> He cowers behind mookboy and calls out, "OKAY MAYBE I TAKE THAT BACK"
5:24 PM <AidenEldritch> Mookboy shoves him off himself, and fires a few rounds in Aaron's direction.
5:24 PM <Klurg> ~I'm glad he's on our side~ Fiere thinks about the scary Aaron
5:24 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+5 BRRRRRUP
5:24 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: BRRRRRUP: 5 (4df+5=0, 0, +, -)
5:25 PM <madness> 4df+4 AGI If only he could frighten bullets.
5:25 PM <Glacon> madness: AGI If only he could frighten bullets.: 4 (4df+4=-, -, +, +)
5:25 PM <AidenEldritch> No PDEF?
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5:26 PM <madness> 4df+4 OOP PDEF
5:26 PM <Glacon> madness: OOP PDEF: 5 (4df+4=-, +, +, 0)
5:26 PM <AidenEldritch> Mookboy hits another goblet of wine off the table.
5:26 PM <Don1Charles> Charles fires his crossbow bolt into mook!
5:26 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+4 ranged
5:26 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: ranged: 4 (4df+4=+, 0, -, 0)
5:26 PM <AidenEldritch> While you were popped up for banter, Aaron, you notice a large circle of pink chalk on the floor in front of you. It's coated a couple legs of turkey and some bread, too.
5:27 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+4 Mookboy Dodge???
5:27 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: Mookboy Dodge???: 1 (4df+4=-, 0, -, -)
5:27 PM <Klurg> Fiere makes mookboy regret his firing choices
5:27 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, your crossbow hits him square on the chest and sends him-
5:27 PM <AidenEldritch> Pooft.
5:27 PM <Klurg> (Nvm)
5:27 PM <AidenEldritch> He's vanished.
5:27 PM <Don1Charles> :O
5:27 PM <Klurg> (Charles did it first)
5:28 PM <AidenEldritch> You hear the soft sounds of wizardboy wailing.
5:28 PM <Klurg> "So that's what the crossbow does"
5:28 PM <madness> "The hell?" Aaron tosses a dime inside the chalk circle if he can.
5:28 PM <Don1Charles> "Well then..." He cranks the thing back and slides another bolt on, standing up straight. "Come here, drop that staff for me."
5:28 PM <AidenEldritch> Wizardboy gets up, knees quivering, hands up in the air and raising the staff above his head-
5:29 PM <Don1Charles> "I said DROP."
5:29 PM <AidenEldritch> Aaron, the pink circle starts lighting up and your dime FWINGS back at you.
5:29 PM <madness> OH DEAR
5:29 PM <Don1Charles> Charles moves swiftly towards him
5:29 PM <madness> Agility?
5:29 PM <AidenEldritch> Wizardboy shrieks "MY NAME IS LACHESIS", and before Charles can smack him in the jaw
5:30 PM <AidenEldritch> He manages to get off one last "AND I RAISE THE DEAD" and then all hell breaks loose on the table.
5:30 PM <Don1Charles> "What kinda name is La Cheeses?"
5:31 PM <AidenEldritch> Meat starts flying from the table and into what seems like a centerpoint in the middle of the dining room. Hunks of lamb, mutton and pork start melting and sewing themselves together into what looks like someone's horrific inbred child with a rotisserie.
5:31 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, roll PDef.
5:31 PM <Klurg> Fiere shoots Lachesis
5:31 PM <Klurg> (Nvm
5:31 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 ouch
5:31 PM <Glacon> Klurg: ouch: 5 (4df+5=+, +, -, -)
5:32 PM <AidenEldritch> Fiere, you feel a sudden wave of nausea wrack you as the mutton roiling around in your stomach gets TUGGED towards the meatgolem that's forming in the center of the room.
5:32 PM <Don1Charles> "Hit that thing with the goddamn Flare!" He says as he would continue to move to Lachesis
5:32 PM <Klurg> Fiere does so and loads a shot into the flare gun
5:32 PM <AidenEldritch> Nothing happens, though, and you manage to keep it down though you feel like you could vomit at any point now.
5:32 PM <Klurg> What shots did I have?
5:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Two green, one blue, and one red one labelled in 17 languages with "DO NOT FIRE."
5:33 PM <Don1Charles> Can I do an action?
5:33 PM <Klurg> Fiere takes a green and fires it at the monster
5:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Wait up a sec, y'all.
5:34 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles do your thing, then Fiere.
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5:35 PM <Don1Charles> Charles moves and slams his knee into Lachesis's stomach/ribs
5:35 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 melee
5:35 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: melee: 9 (4df+6=0, +, +, +)
5:35 PM <AidenEldritch> All his energy is out from the spell he cast.
5:35 PM <Don1Charles> Good god he likely shatters the dude's rib cage
5:35 PM <AidenEldritch> He goes limp anyway, but now he's got a nasty-looking bruise on his stomach and probably some intestinal bleeding.