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Much of your ability to avoid damage comes from calculating where your opponents’ attacks are aiming, and not being there.
For slower-moving projectiles, evading after the projectile is launched becomes a possibility.
When that fails, you fall back on armor, minimizing impacts and preventing worse damage by keeping hits to fresh armor.
The brief clash with Infernus and subsequent impacts have already opened up many weak points in that armor.
Dodging coherent light isn’t exactly an option, but it does need to maintain a sustained beam on a point to cause greater damage. And that pilot is only human.
Charging straight down the gauntlet into Cyclops does make you slightly regret the leadup to this.
The laser fires, a solid crimson center-mass hit that you try to twist away from mid-sprint.
Even off-centered searing is enough to cause heat warnings on the external plates.
Closer..…
One shoulder lowers, deflecting the impact point to it. An external sensor stops giving a response.
Closer…
Your pilot shakes, fear and rage running through the link into you. External plates bubble and melt.
Almost there.
A sideways jump makes the beam try and follow you, horizontally tearing across until it would impact Ronin, who is chasing.
It snaps off.
And you take the opportunity to finish closing the gap, striking blade-first before energy starts climbing again.
The blade vanishes, then reappears before deflecting off of the central plating. Timing is still frustratingly inconsistent.
A second physical punch knocks the machine off balance, for the next slash to dig deep into the flank. A physical attack of its own is rebuffed, and you slip behind it, arms and intent guiding your blade to the rear armor.
The blade vanishes, reappearing a half-second later inside Cyclops.
<span class="mu-r">Link to the Future used.
Cyclops Structural Integrity 0/4</span>
<span class="mu-b">Phase-weapon effect- For each double 6, deal 1 damage to the target, regardless of defense rolls</span>
Superheated coolant sprays out from the gash as you withdraw, the machine crashing to the ground. A fatal blow.
Another down.
More bullets impact off of your sizzling armor, another burst of rotary cannon fire reminding you that this battle is still not over.
Armor readouts are not looking good. At this rate, hits to the correct location could start to knock out systems. The frame is bleeding to death by 83 tiny punctures, and there’s only so much you can do to keep everything intact.
