Welcome to the greatest city in the wide world, softsoul. You’ll fit right in - or find yourself flowing down the river.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 18:05:03 No. 5841470 Report In difference to a new, harrowing way of doing things, long desperate cries have persuaded the old scribe to try something . . . different.
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9lcYnZSULKKQoWbbnTvlbbdhtTvEPsRchdaFDb-yWs/edit?usp=sharing So now instead of hammering you with the artistic design sensibilities of a blind stoat, we're trying
plainer text . Personally I think it's a fad that won't catch on, but who am I to say but the universal clockwork mechanism?
So peruse the information up and over, and as usual, expect half to be lies and half to be misinterpretation of lies. You should ask questions. It builds character.
But for now, <span class="mu-s">exist</span>. Tell us a little about yourself, maskmate. We have to ask these questions, see.
#Marketmoniker
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
>roll 2d3 and pick 1 to use as your Guard ==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
>bump 1 by +1 ==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 10
>bump 2 by +2 or 1 by +3 ==Style==
1x of Brawling 14, Shatterhands 12, Knot-tying 12, Vanadian Boxing 12, Legionlock 10, Taking Arts 12
>You're going to want to read the rules for these, but if you're not that interested, simply consider them different ways of introducing faces to fists. ==Mask==
1 out of
Plain
Hawkmask (+Glory)
Red Droplet (+Violence)
Wrackwood (+Weird)
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
>There's a discord for skirmishy stuff > https://discord.gg/aqs46KGZ >There's some other threads, if you're interested. Though they aren't required reading >http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=art%3F Fourth Dusk
Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d3) >>5841470 “Ah…are you the right people?
I’ve lost and lost and lost my way in the winding streets and narrow visions… all is wished to do is take my place. You… you are the ones who need the fighters?’
> Rolling for Guard. Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
Sense 12 Understand 12 Influence 10 Move 10
Taking Arts (12)
Plain Mask
Fourth Dusk
>>5841470 >>5841483 #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
>bump 1 by +1 ==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12
Plain Mask
‘Yes.. yes! I have found it, I have found you!’
‘…now.. what will you seize of me? What will we seize of others?’
(Eager, over-young, susurrus at a hundred strides a second).
Riv
Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d3) >>5841470 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+?
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
> Plain Riv
>>5841514 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
> [Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2] > [Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12] ==Skills==
> [Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12] ==Style==
> [Brawling 14] ==Mask==
> [Plain] *Finger guns*
Anonymous
Rolled 2, 3 = 5 (2d3) >>5841470 I am...
>Guard roll Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
>>5841470 >>5841516 AN EMISSARY OF HELL SPIDER-MAN
>Here's the resume ==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
Abnegation
Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d3) >>5841470 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
>roll 2d3 and pick 1 to use as your Guard ==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
==Mask==
Plain
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d3) >>5841470 Another contract already? Slip need help getting his “precious item” or is this something else?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 19:40:42 No. 5841557 Report Quoted By:
Ah, well, if it isn't a sea of plain faces in plainer masks. That's alright - sometimes all good stories start with a blank protagonist to project yourself unto, yes?
>>5841487 >Discard 2, 1st >Gain an Outlander Contact - 8 <span class="mu-i">she talks less, she smiles more, and she always seems to know a little too much about who somewhere is willing to buy what for which price, which, frankly is disconcerting in someone who considers bathing a decadent marker of too much civilization </span>
>>5841515 >Discard 2, 2nd >Gain an Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8 <span class="mu-i">A thousand boots, model 33-2
A thousand swords, model Fidelis-2-3
A thousand scrips, class b ration, extra salt
you need a crate of chainmail dropped off of a wagon? Okay. Well. There's a processing fee.</span>
>>5841518 >discard 2, 3rd >Gain a Vanadian Trade Correspondent Contact - 8 From distant shore to distan shore, the trading houses shall provide - berth, barrack or bribe. And what's all that got to do with the price of lumber in the Reiklands, friend? Only everything and any thing - price of lumber sets the cost of infrastructure, which is how we get a kickback, and that's how you get a leg up on the competition, and ain't it just just so? Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5841556 #Sal
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
The Butcher
Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d3) >>5841470 > we're allowed to pick, so I pick the lowest #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 19:54:11 No. 5841574 Report Ah, now we're getting somewhere.
>>5841553 >Discard 1, 4th >Gain an Animist Associate - 8 <span class="mu-i">Just a dash of courage and all the twitchy anxiety of someone who died too young, a little touch of will, and you too can slice away parts of your soul for the gift that will keep on giving. But just. . . Don't ask where he goes the bodies from, okay? Trade secret.</span>
>>5841561 >Old Hand - Set guard to 14. ---
Well, now that we're all mostly motley gathered let's wag tongues for a minute. Here's what <span class="mu-s">Slip</span> requires:
Arson, accidents and a little luck along the way.
You know the Slicerats, I presume? They infest the city. Ever since they outed Otis Steeleye some ways back and clawed their way out of the streets to the high reaches of the alleys and rooftops they've been a sore in the city.
Used to be a local street gang had a sense of decency. Some sliver of sheer sense, not to go mucking about with knifework or the more blatant kinds of assault, but the Slicerats don't play by the old rulebook. Gets them a certain credit, with a certain kind of soul - and so they get a certain kind of recruit, but, friend, you can guess what sort of street-scum is apt to like calling themselves rats and see about slicing parts of other people up for their own gain.
Well. The Watchers aren't wont to do anything about it, the Legion is busy with all its little wars and prayer hasn't helped anyone in this city in decades or more.
So we're going to have to solve this rat infestation ourselves.
Here in Razorwind the alleys are long and you can hear the wind scream, but it's also the first staging points for many a little import business. Legal or . . . Not so much. Word on the street is the Slicerats have a shipment lying about in the basement of an old building somewhere around here.
You can put two and three together and five, can't you, maskmate?
We're going to pay them a visit.
We're going to make them pay the tariff for importing drugs and what might be worse into our fair city.
And we're going to make their merchandise the cloud's business.
Watchers might too bribed, too careless or too ignorant to take note of the rats chewing in the wood, but they're still duty bound to respond a fire in the slums.
So, really, in a sense, we're just making sure the Watchers get a message about where the crooks of the city might be, aren't we? It's practically our civic duty!
Any questions?
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
>>5841574 We don't mind if we acquire some of their stuff for ourselves do we? Take it as a bonus. Finders keepers. Also, how are we lighting it up today? Liquid Courage, Flashfire or the more manual approach?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:05:07 No. 5841584 Report Quoted By:
>>5841564 Ah, of course they'd send a <span class="mu-s">boxer</span>. You know that's not a fighting style, right? It's an addiction to concussions is what it is. Two men enter, two men leave, but one of them has to be dragged out because he's leaking teeth everywhere. It's not a fighting art, it's BARELY fighting! Icons and Eyes, fella!
Well you're as welcome as anyone I suppose; the density of your skull might have taken a sharp habituation from the sheer weight of fists flowing your way.
>Discard 2, 5th >Gain an Wrackwaster Contact - 8 They say the Wrack blows in like dust and dreams from the spot on the maps where Sareth used to be, a city all scooped out of the earth like Vanadians scoop their iced-cream. Wouldn't believe it myself, but you hear the rumours. And imagine the kind of character who goes seeking for such distant city streets, somewhere beyond the sand and the sun. They're the kind of people apt to be able to find anything, at any price, and stuff you didn't even imagine could exist too. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:10:05 No. 5841591 Report Now, Razorwind is old territory. Some say older than the city. The alleys here go on forever. But we've narrowed it down a step and a dance - have a look at your map... Remember what they about X.
Here's tonight's <span class="mu-s">issue</span>: The Slicerats have this part of town tossed up good, little ratking despots and what's worse. If we stick around too long before we light the fuse, they'll rally around.
Most of the big boys and slick ladies and other deadlier stranger things are off, being entertained by tonight's games. There's some special celebratory event the Luperni is paying for, so it's an all expenses paid fanfare for the city. Finish up here quick and we can catch the races.
But still, if they send a runner, someone's going to figure getting into a fight is more fun than watching one, and come a-sprinting. Better not be too tawdy, alright?
So, make your way to the warehouse, check it's the right basement so we don't go causing spots of arson, and then see about finding some way to light it up. Get creative, I know you have it in you. Slip might be able to give a hand too if she's around.
>>5841581 What falls off a wagon isn't for me to say - just keep in the brain bank that most of the stuff you want to put in the bank has to be carried there, which means either holding it in your hands, stuffing it in your belt or having a likely pocket. Too much sheer splendor in the spoils department and you've weighed yourself down too much for any daring rooftop escapade.
That's all to say yes: grab it if you want it, but you're responsible for it too!
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Anonymous
>>5841574 "Step 1) Walk in."
"Step 2) Flatten rats."
"Step 3) Draw in the Watcher's."
"Step 4) Leave before they arrive."
"As easy as sin."
Waxworm
Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d3) >>5841591 Taking the higher on guard.
#Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
Waxworm
>>5841611 You know what? Those 1s are a good sign. I don't want either, you can have them both.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:22:38 No. 5841620 Report <span class="mu-s">Turn 1-1</span>>Shatterhands can retreat when parrying, +3 skill
[Now printing...]
Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d3) >>5841470 (Rolling before I post the rest.)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5841470 #Mock
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
Or, is it Hawkmask...? Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d3) >>5841574 I was here too! The whole time!
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d3) >>5841470 CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:27:46 No. 5841635 Report Quoted By:
>>5841601 Frankly couldn't be half a step easier, could it.
>>5841611 >>5841613 Oh, I can have both can I? That is remarkably generous - and you're tonights first perceptive soul.
>Discard Both, 6th >Gain a Kalcimiri Glass Knight contact - 8 One blade. One suit of armor. Good hair. Fine look. Excellent dress sense. Horse optional. Quests done, maidens and lads rescued, leviathans slain, windmills toppled, tyrannies fought at negotiable prices. Daring rescue missions in the dead of night against nefarious forces never extra and if you can write a song about it, you get 10% off. But fella? Watch the armor. That stuff is expensive.[/i:lit]>Discard 2nd, 1st >Gain Technique. Taking Arts, 12... >This pairs well with overwatching a standard Taking to rifle through their pockets, as it is fundamentally easier to steal something when you're behind someone. Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
>>5841629 >>5841620 HONK
#Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5841470 >>5841621 >>5841625 (Probably should've linked the rolling post along with the actual sheet post, oops.)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:32:59 No. 5841646 Report Quoted By:
>>5841625 Mothhawkmask. Hawkmothmask. Howmuchmask?
Questions, questions, friend.
>Discard 1, 7th >Gain a Outlander Contact - 8 <span class="mu-i">she talks less, she smiles more, and she always seems to know a little too much about who somewhere is willing to buy what for which price, which, frankly is disconcerting in someone who considers bathing a decadent marker of too much civilization. Sometimes horse thieves do make excellent friends, and certainly if you need to find a supply of arrows, a good drink or know a fine place to lay low for a year or three if you've gotten yourself in a spat with the authorities. [/I]
Feel free to act from any known Mask.
>>5841629 >>5841632 I hardly need to tell either of you two the same, do I? I'm apt to go hoarse repeating myself if I have to keep saying you can act from any known Mask, and how will I ever talk about tonight's narrative if I do?</span>
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 2, 3 = 7 (3d6) >>5841620 >1Agi: Move to 5 >1Agi+4ap: Climb up to the roof >1Agi+2AP: Sneak atop the roof and move 4-4 "Let us move with haste!"
Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
The Butcher
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 4, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 3, 2, 5, 4, 4, 2 = 55 (16d6) >>5841620 > MOVE: Sprint x4. East, around the far side of the hedge maze (?) and down > ACT: Keep eyes out for lurking gangsters. Sense-12+2? > REACT: Stop if I spot anyone #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
Riv
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 4, 1 = 9 (3d6) >>5841620 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
> [Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2] > [Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12] ==Skills==
> [Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12] ==Style==
> [Brawling 14] ==Mask==
> [Plain] ==Contacts==
> Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8 (6AP) : Riv rolls his shoulders and sinks into a runner stance. Inhales once, twice, then explodes into a bolt of motion - sprinting at the wall to [4]x2. At the last moment the brawler kicks off the ground and bounds onto the wall. Exploiting his forward momentum he scrambles up the sheer surface, hooks a leg over the roof ledge then hauls himself over. [Move12+3AP](?)
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
>>5841632 I choose the Lower
>>5841470 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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>>5841620 >Gain stuff >Act from Mav >Move 2SE S >Crawl into the bush >Skulk CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:42:55 No. 5841669 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-s">Hang a breath</span>>NENNENENNNE >212 212 >2 of Slip (9 spaces) >222 333 444 >Haymaker the Slicerat 2, then face 5 and taunt him by inviting him to punch me in the back of the head >1 Agility: Gymnastically vault over the countertop and face 1 >RP: BLOCK >As a quality of life feature, sometimes the universe will give you the best available facing if you forget to specify but this is ENTIRELY up to the whims of remembering to do so, and if you haven't been clear about it, you might just take a shoe to the back of the head too. Sorry.
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d3) >>5841462 #Tier
==Core==
Guard 10+?
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Hawkmask
Let's see that guard now. Is this the sort of build that gets one killed in the streets? I won't know until tomorrow, when I properly read up on the rules, so there's no use fretting about that now, is there?
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
>>5841671 Discard 1
#Tier
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Hawkmask
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
They tell me it's not Mav, it's *man. I like his naming sense!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 20:56:34 No. 5841691 Report Quoted By:
>>5841671 I wouldn't worry either way, because getting killed in the streets is how everyone is going to end up one day or another. There's a certain kind of inevitability to every Mask Story, you know? You can only punch the odds so long...
>>5841625 Discard 1, 8th
<span class="mu-i">A thousand boots, model 33-2
A thousand swords, model Fidelis-2-3
A thousand scrips, class b ration, extra salt
you need a crate of chainmail dropped off of a wagon? Okay. Well. There's a processing fee.
A thousand Flashfires in a crate down by the pier, delivery by midnight? Well, fine, but you owe me a whiskey.
Wonderful how the State can find a way to reward those among us blessed with a fascinating with columns of numbers. If you ever need something tabulated and tallied, this man is your man.
</span>
>>5841675 Discard 1, 9th
>Gain a Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8 <span class="mu-i">Field Marshal Aranski's expedition to the deeper deserts is a feat so cloaked in hearsay and half made, half mad rumor that sieving the truth from the trash is the favorite pastime of every pub-goer in six countries. This woman doesn't cheer when they come up with another outrageous theory. This woman shrugs, smiles or shudders.
This woman *was there*, and some things, you just don't forget.
If you ask nice, maybe she'll tell you.
If you ask nicer, maybe she'll spare you the more harrowing kind of detail.</span>
>>5841643 Discard 2, 10th
<span class="mu-i">From distant shore to distan shore, the trading houses shall provide - berth, barrack or bribe. And what's all that got to do with the price of lumber in the Reiklands, friend? Only everything and any thing - price of lumber sets the cost of infrastructure, which is how we get a kickback, and that's how you get a leg up on the competition, and ain't it just just so?
Listen, we don't own the press and we certainly don't own the papers that the press presses - but let's just say we have an equitable relationship with the paper pushers and an appreciation for the Truth. No, no, don't call it a business conspiracy or a cartel - it's a working relationship. You need eight men in an untraceable carriage and eight crossbows and sixty-four type seven bolts? Well, I need a little something too. You and I, friend? You and I will *go places*</span>
Abnegation
Rolled 3, 2, 3, 3, 8, 10 = 29 (6d10) >>5841553 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
Abnegation seems to be barely listening, just wrapping up... her hands? His? They've hardly made a sound ever since arriving, and while they're of slight build that doesn't necessarily mean much. Their clothing is a little too shapeless to gauge them that way, either.
The grunt that issues forth as they hurl themselves up a wall is fairly feminine though.
>>5841620 >2 AP: Move 54 >1 Agility + 2 AP: Scramble up the wall onto the roof. (Move 12 + 2) >2 Agility + 1 AP: Move 555 >2 AP: I wonder if there's a skylight or high-up window or opening of some kind I could leap down into the marked building from. That would be convenient for everyone but the Rats, and they don't really deserve convenience. (Spot 10 + 1) Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 3, 4, 1, 6, 4 = 23 (6d6) >>5841704 Excuse me, it's come to my attention that this system is 3d6 and I went for d10s out of sheer reflex. Let's try that again.
Waxworm
Rolled 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4 = 25 (6d6) >>5841620 Surely such a menagerie of streetwise bravos as ours will fare well here. Could that be blood already staining our fair streets?
>Deploy from Spiderman >3Agi, Move 311 >3AP, Understand, Slicerats - who runs this show and how many should we expect at this sort of operation? What kind of armaments? >3AP, Sense, scan the stall. Grab me something that could be useful in a pinch. >Face 1. >1RP Dodge #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
==Contact==
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
Waxworm
Quoted By:
>>5841706 344, not 311. Stupid number directionals.
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5841620 >-Spawning on 4th Dusk >-Stance: Aggress (i have no idea if this is how stances are supposed to work, i don't think it's really mentioned in the rules doc how you're meant to "activate" them) >{1RP} Reaction: Parry >{3 Agility, 2AP} Move 333 244 >{3AP, Brawling 14} Overwatch 3-ways: Uppercut the first fool to come around the corner [-2ACC, +1DMG (Uppercut), +1DMG (Aggression)] #Mock
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 1 Aggression
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
Outlander Contact 8
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5841714 (Movement should be {3 Agility, 3AP} since i'm moving 6 tiles, oops. Remember to proofread when you make big changes to your planned actions, kids.)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
>>5841620 >3 Agil, 4 AP: Move 232 344 4 >2 AP: Act Natural. Just some other sauntering masked rat. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:01:34 No. 5841768 Report You know the issue with boxers are? Beyond their lack of style they have no patience. Good at taking a punch - which is an asset when you sprint face first into a wall, as Butcher here demonstrates - but there's deplorable lack of style about the whole affair. You slug it out and the one who stays standing is the one who wins. Where's the panache?
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5841768 (How'd I end up there?)
The Butcher
>>5841768 I'll kill the bastard that left that fruit peel there.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:11:34 No. 5841785 Report Quoted By:
Have a look at this here Slice-Rat squaring off with Abnegation and the other rooftop ravagers.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:22:49 No. 5841801 Report Quoted By:
>>5841779 Probably a rat. Bet he was a right awful clown too. Imagine it. Assault, battery, theft, drug smuggling, being a public menace AND littering. Is there nothing sacred?
--
Let's take a second to use this boxer as an instruction in something rather crucial.
Butcher is pretty fast, good legwork, and he did manage to recover himself after he dinged off of a wall.
Still, he took some damage. Because his guard was up, it was only guard damage though - you'll notice his guard is down by 3.
It takes 1 Agility to restore 1 Guard, up to your maximum. If you're right dead cunning, you'll see how there's a *bit* of a tension between restoring your guard mid-fight and *escaping a fight* that's going poorly.
Sometimes, you want to just go all out and catch your breath later. Sometimes, you want to trust in your dodging, parrying, friends, or other smart tricks. Sometimes, you want to re-centre yourself and bring your posture and poise back in line.
This is where PAIN comes in. No one's suffering any right now, but PAIN makes it harder to restore your GUARD. More on that... when it comes up.
Ahem, anyway.
--
<span class="mu-s">Waxworm</span>
The SLICERATS are numerous as their namesake and as can be inferred, they have a preference for knives. Cutters, cleavers, stabbers, slashers, slicers, you name it, they've got it. They're apt to try and pull one and shank a man, if they feel they can get away with it. Right unsporting. No honor in putting steel in someone's lung.
If they're not equipped for a raid though, they might not draw steel - so they'll make do with fists and what lays about the environment.
They're BRAWLERS, by intuition and by inclination. You rarely have to worry about FANCY FOOTWORK or anything but the old dodge-dodge-punch.
If they're MOTIVATED they do sometimes throw out the elbow drops or the more violent type of haymaker.
One unfortunate tendency of the Slicerats is that they're seldom alone. They GROUP UP, moving in packs. When GROUPED, they move as one entity, act as one entity, but each member of the group will add +1 skill to their one particular action. More about that if it comes up - although word to the wise, maskmate? Don't let them form into a rat pack.
---
<span class="mu-s">Mock</span>
You're wearing a Mothmask, Mock. You don't have to use a stance or think about or not think about it. Aggression just. . . Happens. Your Status is always aggression 1, and if it'd be any lower, it's aggression 1 the moment your turn starts. So you can try cooling your heels but there's a certain energy to the championship contenders that can't be contained.
Now as for what aggression does, it means your attacks always inflict that much guard damage, at minimum, if successful - and that much damage, at minimum, if it'd damage at all. Since succesful Guards set damage to 1, that means aggression pays massive dividends quickly. You'll hit, they'll Guard, your damage becomes 1.. and then aggression bumps it up by its value because you're JUST THAT AGGRESSIVE
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:34:35 No. 5841811 Report Abnegation spots a convenient alley window. Looks like we can get in that way, if we can clear the rooftops.>MASK TURN
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:38:55 No. 5841813 Report Quoted By:
>>5841675 >>5841671 >>5841663 Alright you two - pick a Mask and act from there. You know the drill!
As for you, Pugiliste
>Gain an Animist Associate - 8 <span class="mu-i">Just a dash of courage and all the twitchy anxiety of someone who died too young, a little touch of will, and you too can slice away parts of your soul for the gift that will keep on giving. But just. . . Don't ask where he goes the bodies from, okay? Trade secret.
The House of the Bonded pay you for the bones you bring to them, dense with memories and other, odder things. The Bonejackers need money. The economic incentives of this particular arrangement are hard to understate. There IS such a thing as crimes no one should commit, and this friend of yours swear he'd never do such a thing - but if you happen to have a body lying about the Red Rats haven't gotten to, and you have no need for . . . well. . .
</span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 22:40:37 No. 5841814 Report Quoted By:
>>5841776 The universe is mocking you. I wouldn't take it personal, personally.
The Butcher
Rolled 6, 6, 2, 6, 2, 4 = 26 (6d6) >>5841811 Your banana? YOUR BANANA?!
> Sheer Bloody Determination > MOVE: 54 > ACT: 5AP 2 Focus Wind up x3, punch (skill+1) > Move 44 > ACT: 4AP: Punch (skill+1) > Check Violence #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 4, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2 = 18 (6d6) >>5841811 You have made a powerful enemy today, thistle!
>Crawl through thistle 1NE >3AP: Grab whoever's in that hex by the legs and drag into the bush >3AP: Beat them up in the bush >-Kicking boots, Knuckledancer >Stance: Aggress >Block #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
My brain is going to sleep. Command me while I slumber, voices!
Waxworm
Rolled 2, 1, 4, 6, 2, 5 = 20 (6d6) >>5841811 A small donation, friend? It'll go to a worthy cause.
>3Agi, Move 44 and leap off the stall to reach the Rat('s pockets) >3AP, Run his pockets while I'm airborne. >3AP, on the way down hit him with the ol' Vulpes Toetwister to apply disorient. >RP, Dodge on landing Waxworm
>>5841837 The stats. Those are needed, I'm sure.
#Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
==Contact==
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Rolled 3, 6, 5, 3, 5, 5, 1, 2, 3 = 33 (9d6) >>5841811 >{1RP} Reaction: Parry >{1 Agility, Move 12} Clamber over the stall 4 >{2? Agility} Move up to the rat that's 33 of the stall >{3AP, Brawling 14} Kick him right in the ribs [-2ACC, +2DMG (Kick), +1DMG (Aggression)] (Total: 12) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression >{3AP, Brawling 14} If he still stands, kick him again. [-2ACC, +2DMG (Kick), +2DMG (Aggression)] (Total: 12) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression #Mock
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 1 Aggression
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
CourierCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CourierCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 23:23:31 No. 5841848 Report Quoted By:
>>5841840 They help ! If they’re not clear, sometimes it’s harder to figure out what happens.
>>5841844 Ack, market stalls !
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 3, 1, 5, 3, 5, 6 = 23 (6d6) >>5841811 >2 Agil, 2 AP: Run up the wall at 4 >1 Agil, 4 AP: Grab the rat by the leg and bring him down with me, giving him an unpleasant reorientation with solid ground while I attempt to land on my feet. #Sal
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
>>5841856 Also
>1 RP: Parry Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Rolled 3, 6, 1 = 10 (3d6) >>5841768 "Do take note that I don't like spiders. If you know someone who does tell him he's being stupid."
>>5841811 "Now let's get to work..."
>3Agi+2ap: Move 5-6-5-5-5 >4ap: !Mine now: Take the dodge away from Rat direction 4. Its mine and always was mine >1RP: Parry Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Amicus
Rolled 4, 2, 5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 2, 2 = 29 (9d6) >>5841811 >Spawn on Abnegation >1 RP: Block >3 Agi: Move 544 >1 AP: Offhander Rat at 3 with Grit >2 AP: Attack Rat at 3 >3 AP: Attack Rat at 4 "I have been here all along."
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
>I choose not to roll ==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5841858 "I take it someone's never seen a real spider. If you'd ever seen a Rikovol Hunting Malichnid you would know they are some of the most majestic and beautiful creatures out there. Friend of mine finally came into possession of one himself recently, and he's never been happier, I tell you what. Hired fighter's best friend, you'll never go hungry again - and not just because the charmer catches all your food for you!"
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Rolled 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 6 = 20 (6d6) >>5841811 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>Deploy on Abnegation >React: Parry >1 AP: Move 544 >3 AP: Shove Slicerat 4 of me. >2 AP: Grapple Slicerat 3 of me. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 24 Nov 2023 23:48:44 No. 5841868 Report Quoted By:
Oh my vast and baleful starts you mettlesome meddlesome masked men and whatnot, that was passably fast and no two bones about it. Let's see how we get on, shall we?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:00:02 No. 5841871 Report Quoted By:
>>5841822 Alright soft soul that was a good hit, that was some real bareknuckle brawling, dare I even say bareknuckle boxing. It might not have style but even I can't crimp comment or cringe when it cracks someone's jaw that hard - but be a mite bit careful there, you're letting your MASK get AWAY with you!
<span class="mu-s">Self Control</span>
Sometimes, you get caught up in a mood. Or a story. Or a mythology.
Self control rolls keep you grounded - and if not, well, then rather not.
You can opt to fail a self control if you have a mask that imparts such a roll, as Butcher just did, but failing voluntarily means surrendering to the little voices we all have on the inside. . .
And then Interesting Things Happen during World Updates.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:08:21 No. 5841874 Report Quoted By:
>>5841833 Klaunn, do be aware that while you're a hardcore hardcase hardheaded hell raiser, there's such a thing as casual disregard for the stinging nettles of nature. We'd have to hose you down post-brawl if you got yourself too stuck up with the thorn thistles, even when you're as gritty as you are.
Try not to ... dive into the those bushes.
They shouldn't even be this big. It's actually a public danger. I think the Grey Committee hasn't been sending the gardeners out here as often as the public infrastructure tax spending should buy the public, these thornthistles can put a child to bed for hours crying. Okay, okay, you... muscle your way right through them. That's... that's pretty badass, no lie, no slight, if anyone had seen it they'd be right proper shocked but the only witness is a bunch of masked brawlers who might not admit that you're so very hard and one very unconcious slice-rat.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:16:32 No. 5841879 Report Quoted By:
>>5841844 no one saw this.
I promise.
No one's mocking you.
NO REALLY, YOU'RE DOING GREAT.
Abnegation
Rolled 1, 9, 5 = 15 (3d10) >>5841811 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
Not in the least bit fazed by having two Legion men emerge from under their robes, Abnegation springs forward
>1 Agility: Move 4 >2 Agility, 6 AP: Leaping spinning flying bicycle kick. Or some other ludicrous combination of words that puts boot to skull. (Shatterhands 12 + 5) Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 4, 4 = 11 (3d6) >>5841880 I have once again rolled d10s. I really need to get out of the habit of doing that. Fucking muscle memory, man.
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
>>5841866 Nice joke. Odds are your friend was already eaten by those "exotic spiders" and whoever as been contacting you is the guy who watched it happen and feels guilty about it. Very funny, almost got me laughing behind this mask.
Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d3) #Lagomorpheus
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:24:31 No. 5841890 Report Quoted By:
>>5841858 Hold on to that. The market for intangible defined footwork and the ability to dodge responsibility is booming, you can make good Bits selling this to hucksters who'd rather not do an honest days work in their lives
(You stole 2 of his Dodge, but unfortunately your Parry then overrides a Dodge attempt because you only have 1 RP)
Abnegation
Quoted By:
>>5841880 I should probably also specify a Parry reaction. And that I'm attacking the Rat 44 of me. Sorry, still getting used to this.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
>>5841883 "Oh, I assure you, it is no joke. They even got to meet the esteemed Professor Makoti! No one except clueless dockhands really get eaten by their own Malichnids nowadays. My friend knows what he's doing, I have no worries."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:36:42 No. 5841897 Report >>5841860 No. Nope. Nooooo. Dial it down, Amicus. Dial it down about 66% solid bloody percent. This is NOT the River Wars! There's <span class="mu-s">rules</span>, goodness gracious.
Amicus
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 00:49:42 No. 5841907 Report Quoted By:
>>5841867 Ah, a pugilist who knows how to <span class="mu-s">clinch</span>. Pay attention here, this will be very relevant very soon.
I'll repeat it when I get there, and I'll update the technique manual now you've had the guts to try - but let's briefly tell you what's happening here.
You Grappled
The Rat Guarded
But your grab still works - damage just sets to 1.
Green is an on-going grapple.
The Rat is grappled - and to break free, it has to either spend AP equal to your grapple value, try to roll its way out using some sort of Style, or tough it out.
Grappling counts AS A PENALTY too, so do note that little Unfair Fighter feature of the Legionlock system. Stacking a grapple and then bringing on the hurt is how you take them to town (And then outside town, in the cementery, if you're feeling <span class="mu-i">Impolite</span>).
If you knew a FOLLOWUP or other move, you could use the Grapple for interesting things, but at least you're assured that your enemy is unlikely to dash away as quickly. If your hold as *better*, they'd take penalties (because their Grit is 2, and your Grapple is 1, they're not taking penalties yet).
As you can easily imagine, this makes landing a good hit on someone and getting a proper hold QUITE useful in melee - the penalties you deliver benefits your entire team.
Of course, if a ... pack of rats... all decide to grapple you... and each does 1... and you get buried in 8 rats. . . and someone brings a knife . . .
Look just don't have that happen.
Once you LAND A GRAPPLE, you can use the first of very, VERY many techniques.
<span class="mu-s">THROW</span>
Rq: Grapple
Your attack tries to deal damage *and* moves your target for every multiple of Grit. Collisions (naturally) cause their own kinds of problems. Grapple Penalties sets minimum damage.
If anyone was a Pytherii Knottier, I'd now be talking about the Ropelash but let's not go there just yet, we've barely begun.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 01:03:38 No. 5841917 Report Quoted By:
>Butcher goes wild and knocks out 2 Pups - 8 damage blow through for 5 effective, then 6 damage against an Unaware target. Spent an extra point of Focus to make the first attack hit. >-3 Focus (9 / 12) >Self Control Failure, rating 6. >+1 Aggression... and... oh boy. >Waxwom reaches for a jump and pilfers a bent knife, but sticks the landing. >Klaunn bursts through the thistles and grabs someone's ankles. Then their waist. Then their head. Then the boot come-- oh. wow. moving on. >Mock is full of fury and focus, but stumbles over a stall and consequently flops a kick. They trip, but manage to move check to save themselves from a tumble down the ledge - and the follow-up kick is quite solid indeed! >Spiders, Man dashes across the rooftops and fakes out a Rat. And steals 2 of his dodge, for a passable defense - but then he also Parries, which because of his RP of 1 means the Parry supercedes the dodge. But good footwork, there. >Sal introduces a Rat to a Ledge >Spiders, Man steals someone's dodge (2) but overrides it with their own parry >Amicus introduces someone to the Popper. It does NOT have a fancy name. We do not dignify it with a fancy name. It does not deserve one. It is far, far too unpleasant for that. His target goes down with a critical hit followed by a critical health failure, and can now look forward to 8-12 months of physical recuperation. >Pugliste grabs a man and holds him quite steady, which turns out to be really useful because . . . >Abnegation shouts a KIYAA and performs one of the Seven Kicks that it is said we are not allowed to say out loud, but I've transposed an approximation of its dread name. Abgnegations target WOULD actually guard against this, unbelievably, but rather fortunately, Pugliste gives it a light tug due to the Grab and that penalizes the Rat just enough that the kick lands dead on and Abnegation can somersault to land on their feet. >Show off. >Lagomorpheous joins us. Hiya.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 01:32:04 No. 5841950 Report Mock gets a very astute physics teacher who tutors them in the dangers of gravity. Remember, Masks, <span class="mu-s">ledges</span> are not your friend - while it's a devil of a time to punch, kick, stab or hit the properly prepared fighter, most any fool with the guts to try it can do a BODYSHOVE - they're hard to parry, block AND dodge because they're just hurling their entire body right at you. And then most like off the ledge and down the well you go.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 01:39:09 No. 5841956 Report <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-b">I don't believe it. I can't believe it. I refuse to believe it. Nononononono. This isn't happening. The can't be happening.>+1 Maskstain. >MASK PHASE >GM to rest for now. Turn in ... 6-8 hours? >THANKS FOR PLAYING!!
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7 (3d6) >>5841956 >RP: Parry >3 Agility + 4 AP: Move 3323333 >2 AP + 1 Focus: Push Rat off the ledge, try to aim for the other rat below #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 11/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 02:11:15 No. 5841983 Report Quoted By:
>>5841956 >>5841950 For the architecturally attentive, it should be pointed out that it appears that's a rat-affiliated building serving as a warehouse, then a park down to the southeast and a sort of ... sandy fighting area that they're currently practicing
b o x i n g
in.
That cheeky alley window opens into the the building itself, but unfortunately right at the threshold it's utterly cloaked in darkness and you have no ability to perceive the inside of buildings. It's the Masks, you see. They make you blind to interiors. So you never need to worry about them.
okay you got me maskmate, they don't. You might even have . . . to go inside. But looking INSIDE is hard from the OUTSIDE - there is a shutter there. So unless someone IS brave enough to climb inside, you won't know what's IN THERE.
4th Dusk
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 5, 1 = 7 (3d6) >>5841956 ‘!!!!!!’
> 3 Agility, 4 AP: Move 3344443 > 2 AP, 2 Focus: Flying kick! (Targeted 33) > RP: Parry #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10 (3d6) >>5841956 >2 Agil: Run 33 >1 Agil, 6 AP: Use my momentum to ram the rat off of the ledge, then face the rat on the roof (roughly 5-6) >1 RP: Dodge - *away from the ledge* Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 3 = 24 (6d6) >>5841956 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
The Masked Pugilist sees the next mark, across from him. All he needs is a good jump...
>1AGI, 1AP: Move 34 >2AGI: Jump Across the Gap, 44 >5AP: [Sense] Scan the Slicerat South for any easy takedowns. Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 6 = 20 (6d6) >>5841956 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
Abnegation's eye twitches as they look at the window. Their fists clench tight and start to shake. Then all at once the tension releases with a firm nod. They take a few steps to the left, measure their steps, then... oh... oh no, that can't be a good idea.
>1 Agility: Move 2 >1 Agility, 3 AP: Dropkick through the window (Move 12 + 1) >1 Agility, 3 AP: Land in a roll, springboard off their hands to kick whoever looks most kickable in the room, assuming there is anyone. If not, whatever object looks most kickable. If it's totally empty, fuck it, Abnegation knows the Wind Shattering Leg Punch, they can just kick the air. >Reaction: Parry, backstepping if possible The Butcher
Rolled 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 2 = 17 (6d6) >>5841956 Might not be able to chew food proper for the rest of his life, but he'll live, eh? What did he expect, joining the Slicers. At least I didn't push him off a damn building.
> MOVE...quietly?: 33 > ACT: Wait for the rats to pass then hop down > SHEER DETERMINATION: +3 Guard? #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 9/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+1 Maskstain
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 02:54:38 No. 5842020 Report Quoted By:
>>5842012 That's not <span class="mu-s">fighting</span> you're just standing there! You're just STANDING THERE!! Where's the footwork!? Where's the GRACE?! Boxing isn't a style of combat it's volunteer torture! You can't tell me this is ALLOWED
You can't just add to your Guard with AP by being deter-- oh he can. That's . . . That's how that works? That's *intentional*? It *rewards* just *standing*? It directly makes it easier for a Boxer to recover their guard, at a vastly higher rate than any other fighter? While still fighting? That's such rank foolishness - where's the sheer love of the fight if all he's doing is taking a punch and not sitting down?!
Butcher, so help me the vast and caring Icons, you better learn to kick or we're going to have a problem. Vanadian Boxing?! What is this city *coming to* even the RATS are doing it.
Waxworm
Rolled 4, 5, 4, 4, 2, 6, 2, 6, 1 = 34 (9d6) >>5841956 Can you feel it? The celestial maw yawns, the lidless gaze lingers, the time to act is now! I must not stumble...
>Succumb to the mask. The fantasy. The Icons watch, and so I must perform. >2Agi, move 34 >1Agi+2FOC, kick off the stand, in my haste buying precious seconds. (Mov14) >3AP, !Pocketpilfer. Spend those seconds. Look deep, look personal. What pocket holds his heart, his mind, his soul? What can I take from this ill-favored puppet, not long for this world? What can I use NOW? (TakingArts12) >1FOC, equip bent knife. >3AP, give the knife a little kiss before boomeranging the weapon into the SE group. A well worn implement, now well loved. (???) >RP, dodge (away from the damned ledge) #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 9/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
==Contact==
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 6, 5 = 12 (3d6) >>5841956 >{1RP} Parry >{2 Agility} Move 66 >{1 Agility, Move 12} Climb up the statue to get up the wall 2 >{6AP, Brawling 14} Overwatch 4: If anyone tries to climb up the wall to follow me, Kick 'em back down. [+3ACC (AP) | -2ACC, +2DMG (Kick) | +1DMG (Aggression)] (Total: 15) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression (assuming something triggers my kick) #Mock
==Core==
Guard 4/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 1 Aggression
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 2 = 23 (9d6) >>5841956 >1AG: Hippity-Hop (12) to the 4 over the gap [dice 1-3] >2AG: Bounce to the 4,3 >1AP: Wall Hang Parkour Hop (12) to leap through the broken window to the 4,4 [dice 4-6] >2AP: React (10) Move to the nearest lootable inside the room. If I don't need 2AP, roll the extra AP into the next action (the Vulpes Special). I didn't roll the react b/c not sure how that works. >3AP: Opportunistically tactically acquire whatever is lying around. If whoever's inside hasn't taken up arms yet, acquiring their weapons would work. [dice 7-9] It's dangerous to go alone. I'll come with you.
#Lagomorpheus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 12 (2) Psyche 12 (2) Grit 12 (2)
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Vulpes Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
[Plain] w/big ears
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d6) >>5841956 "I used to be a well-known acrobat, you know. But then the stopped caring. They stopped caring who I was until I put on the mask."
#The Circus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d3) >>5841956 "I used to be a well-known acrobat, you know. But then they stopped caring. They stopped caring who I was until I put on the mask."
#The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
Riv
>>5841956 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
> [Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2] > [Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12] ==Skills==
> [Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12] ==Style==
> [Brawling 14] ==Mask==
> [Plain] ==Contacts==
> Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8 (4AP) - Get a running start then leap [4]x2 clearing the gap and landing on the other building's roof. (Move-12+1)
(2AP) - Move [3]x2.
(1RP) - Prepare a dodge.
Riv
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 6, 4 = 13 (3d6) >>5842194 Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 4, 2, 6, 4, 5, 3 = 24 (6d6) >>5841950 BUSH and BASH are almost the same, and as I'm the king of bashes, so am I the almost king of bushes! Obey me, bush!
>>5842095 *Welcoming honk*
>3Ag, Move 3S, Move check to burst through the thistle once more >6AP Dropkick Rat SE off the wall, taking advantage of reach >Block >Aggress #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 5, 4, 5, 3, 2 = 24 (6d6) >>5841950 >Agi3+3ap: Move 433, Hang off the ledge and jump inside the [Cheeky Alley Window] (Landing it proper) >3ap: Overwatch !Pocket Pilfer direction 4 >1reaction: Parry Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
>>5842428 "Kindred beings, we are."
CourierCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CourierCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 11:03:35 No. 5842512 Report Quoted By:
[ Turn about 33% done - minor reality matters interceding]
Leone
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d3) >>5841956 "Sorry! I am late again Ri...Leone at your service and ready to brawl." Masked woman run to the scene with her silk gauntlets ready at hand.
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2, Psyche 2, Grit 2,
Reaction 10, Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
(Well, bad time to go to sleep I guess. Feel free to bot me.)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 12:26:43 No. 5842567 Report >>5842023 Oh maskmate
Oh
<span class="mu-i">the story has you by its hooks now. Mortal plans is what happens until mythology gets in the way[/I]
When you *GIVE IN*, you should probably pick a right and true time to do so. Right at the VERY START of your turn?
Well.
Certainly gives the Mask a Field Day, doesn't it?</span>
Waxworm
>>5842567 I had ideas, but surely the mask has better! We get to see what the wrack wants.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 12:49:22 No. 5842600 Report Quoted By:
>Amicus Shoulderchecks a Rat off of a roof, the poor target automatically fails his Guard as it comes in from an unaware flank. He lands on his buddy below. They both take 4 Stun, so their agility is quite hampered on their coming turn. Amicus also remembers LEGION, ADVANCE applies to the Legionlock System - when Pushing/Shoving, any straight movement directly before sets the minimum damage (in this case, 4). >4th Dusk performs a high flying kick that sends a rat off and down a ledge and into the blessed land of distant dreams (3dmg vs failed guard, pushed 3, fall) >Pugiliste tries to dance across a gap. Oh, the Rats haven't been maintaining the building facade- OUCH. Pugiliste takes a tumble and loses some guard along with taking 2 STUN - Which is lost AGILITY on your coming turn! Aw! >Abnegation crashes through a window in a shower of glass and tiling - but what's inside? Find out . . . SOON! >The Butcher . . . waits patiently (self control pass) >Waxworm gives into the voices >Mock climbs a statue and ... doesn't dive off of it in a glorious elbow drop. (Self control pass) >Lagomorpheous bunny hops off of the map and into a different scene, joining Abnegation! >Klaunn bursts through a thistle - and takes 1 Stun from the scratchy thorns and itchy stuff. Good thing you've got so much grit, or that would have been much worse! >We're joined by a Circus >Riv performs a sweet jump over an alley >Spiders, Man exits the scene and joins Lagomorpheus and Abnegation on the INSIDE >We're joined by Leone - say hi Leone! >Slip puts on the Ragdancer Mask, sprints to keep up and opts to use Influence to Inspire!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 12:51:57 No. 5842602 Report Quoted By:
>>5842575 >Amicus Shoulderchecks a Rat off of a roof, the poor target automatically fails his Guard as it comes in from an unaware flank. He lands on his buddy below. They both take 4 Stun, so their agility is quite hampered on their coming turn. Amicus also remembers LEGION, ADVANCE applies to the Legionlock System - when Pushing/Shoving, any straight movement directly before sets the minimum damage (in this case, 4). >4th Dusk performs a high flying kick that sends a rat off and down a ledge and into the blessed land of distant dreams (3dmg vs failed guard, pushed 3, fall) >Pugiliste tries to dance across a gap. Oh, the Rats haven't been maintaining the building facade- OUCH. Pugiliste takes a tumble and loses some guard along with taking 2 STUN - Which is lost AGILITY on your coming turn! Aw! >Abnegation crashes through a window in a shower of glass and tiling - but what's inside? Find out . . . SOON! >The Butcher . . . waits patiently (self control pass) >Waxworm gives into the voices >Mock climbs a statue and ... doesn't dive off of it in a glorious elbow drop. (Self control pass) >Lagomorpheous bunny hops off of the map and into a different scene, joining Abnegation! >Klaunn bursts through a thistle - and takes 1 Stun from the scratchy thorns and itchy stuff. Good thing you've got so much grit, or that would have been much worse! >We're joined by a Circus >Riv performs a sweet jump over an alley >Spiders, Man exits the scene and joins Lagomorpheus and Abnegation on the INSIDE >We're joined by Leone - say hi Leone! >Slip puts on the Ragdancer Mask, sprints to keep up and opts to use Influence to Inspire! --
The inside of this warehouse is dusty, old and misbegotten - and crates are piled in neat rows in juxtaposition with the state of gentle urban decay. Sharp corners, well-hammered nails and a faint chemical tang to the whole affair. This . . . isn't shimmer grass smuggling, it's not some Vanadian tobacco, this thing is ... odd. The shadows, are they wavering? Hm...
--
Those Rats looks like they're about to practice their USELESS BOXING on LIVE TARGETS, that is, US. Good thing Boxing isn't even a combat art! Let alone a fighting style! Let alone some sort of national past time or sport. Okay so The Butcher did just cold knock out two rats with no effort, but that's because they're a right thinking citydweveller and a patriot besides. Even patriots can do wonderful deeds when using foreign fighting ... tricks.
But I'm still not going to accept the utility of boxing. You just *stand there*. COME ON.
[ WORLD PHASE ]
ConcussionCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConcussionCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 13:02:45 No. 5842608 Report <span class="mu-r">waitwaitwaitwoooahmaybe
Abnegation
Quoted By:
>>5842608 No they're not and I resent you implying otherwise
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
>>5842608 Command what the fuck are you talking about.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 13:27:50 No. 5842622 Report Quoted By:
... This warehouse is dark, and the air is dusty. On the table Lagomorpheous spots a pair of blades and a long silk wrap, oddly deep with the shadows, as if the light gently bends away from it. It's hazy in here - I don't mean with the dust, I mean, with your minds eye, your senses, the room seems larger on the inside than it actually is, as if the dimensions are uncertain but that can't be how architecture works. Stone is famously stern stuff, it doesn't shift - you're breathing in some kind of hallucinogenic ! That's what's causing this!
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
>>5842608 They are ON to getting their dONgs stomped ON for their cONsiderable wrONgs!
hONk!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 14:00:18 No. 5842650 Report Butcher is spotted and the rats form into a RATPACK, flinging stones and curses his way. This is one of their tricks - they'll act as a single unit, but for every participating member they get +1 to their relevant skills! That's a right stomping. Split them up, intimidate a few of them out, or try to break up their formation somehow, otherwise they'll swarm you with team-work.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 14:08:40 No. 5842656 Report Quoted By:
>>5842650 <span class="mu-s">Waxworm</span>
Anyway, charitable missions aside (which fine, okay, maybe buys them the ONE attempt at burning us all in a giant pyre, it wasn't all of them anyway, apparently it was all to do with some high level theophilosophical discussion about the nature of the soul and the sun, look, your average street Theurge is really just a man or woman in a robe doing their best to make the world a nicer place and we should all appreciate the effort where was I)
oh right
EMPYREAL BOONS.
It wards of Terror.
It holds the Dark at Bay.
It knits your bones together and seals your wounds and fils your spirit
Which is all to say that it provides a lot of Courage and Succour and Motivation. Which would be very convenient if you were presently terrified or wounded, but as neither bit seems to be the case, you might simply want to use the Boon for the other and final thing the grand sun provides.
Snap your fingers.
Make a spark.
Because the Other and Final Thing that the Great Eye will always, ever, provide is <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">FIRE</span></span> and that some surplus.
Spend a Boon by rolling against Focus to invoke it. That IS an action. That's Courage, Succor, Motivation
... or Fire.
For the Empyreal. The first three quite benefits your friends (or yourself, supposedly) but the latter ... Well. You're not *immune* to fire, now are you.
Fill things with it and they burn. You get your Margin in fire d6, so it's good for causing the odd flare-up. Though it should be said that it's not so much "conjure fire" as it is "command fire", so if find yourself staring down a wildfire and you ask it politely, you control it this way too. But you are no Theurge and will never be one, so most likely trying to do one of their Grand Tricks is going to simply hurt everyone around you.
Stick with the basics.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 1, 6, 4, 2, 4 = 19 (6d6) >>5842650 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
(1AGI) - Move [4]x1.
(3AP) - Square-up and feint a jab at [4] targetting the Slicerat's head (Brawling-14)
(2AGI) - Spryly strafe around Slicerat to [5]x1.
(3AP) - Sweep the priviously targetted Slice-rat off their feet with a low kick. (Brawling-14)
(1RP) - Prepare a dodge.
Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 4, 6, 1, 5, 5 = 26 (6d6) >>5842650 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
>3 Agility: Move 222, face 3 >4 AP: Surely Abnegation knows a guy who knows a guy who could provide something to reliably start a fire that'd burn down a building. A firebomb, maybe, or a tube of alchemical gel that superheats after a few moments' contact with the air. Or something more bog standard and less liable to pose an immense risk if it's on your person while you're leaping across rooftops. Red Markets contact invocation, please and thank you. I'm not using it yet, though. (+1 from the extra AP, not sure if it applies to the reaction roll or the contact skill roll or both.) >1 AP: Say, what's actually in these crates? Let's crack one open so we can have a looksee. >Reaction: Parry, backstep if possible Abnegation freezes in the middle of snapping off a kick at empty air, pulling back as they recognise their own enjoyment. Instead they busy themselves with fishing around in the deep, hidden reaches of their robes for a firestarting knick-knack that they'd picked up earlier in preparation, opening and peering into a crate along the way.
"...We should open up that door before we start any fires, I think. Getting trapped in a burning building isn't part of our civic duty."
Hum. That voice certainly sounded like a woman's. Let's try out calling Abnegation a she and see if she dissents.
...
No complaints so far.
Ah, that's right, she can't hear the narration. Skill issue. Oh well, it's still looking like a safe assumption that Abnegation is a woman. Whatever that's worth.
Waxworm
Rolled 2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 6 = 18 (6d6) >>5842650 My heart beats true, the flame burns within my very breast! Witness me!
>2Agi, move 44 >1Agi2FOC, leap into the Rats, slingshotting off the statue as I fall (Mov14) >6AP, use my generated momentum to perform the Reikan Twisting Top - disorient the group, turn them against one another! (TakingArts14) >1FOC,1RP, Activate Shadowtheft and Dodge. No room in this mass of Rats, but certainly room behind them! >Succumb to the mask. Bask in the warmth. Hold their attention. Worm your way into their favor. #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 9/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
-1 Empyreal Boon
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 5, 4 = 14 (3d6) >>5842650 It's treason, bush! Your judgement will come soon.
>1Ag: Negate Stun >2Ag, 3AP: Move 565 55, check to clamber up to the roof >3AP: overwatch punch facing S >Aggress, Block. #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 5, 3 = 12 (3d6) >>5842650 >1agi: Move 5 >3ap: Understand and figure out what cloak this is and who's it may be...The blades are bonded but not the cloak right? Surely that means I COULD TAKE IT >1ap: If I can take the cloak, take it. If not. It'll get it's time to be taken >2agi+2ap: Slide over in between table and boxes to open the door. >1rp: parry Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Amicus
Rolled 4, 1, 6, 6, 6, 1 = 24 (6d6) >>5842650 >RP: Parry >3 Agility: Move 644 >3 AP: Legio Advance! the gloved rat off the roof and on his friends >1 Motivation (thanks Slip): Move 3 >3 AP: Kidneypunch the rat to my 1 #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 11/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Fourth Dusk
Quoted By:
>>5842650 > 1 Agility: Move 5 > 1 Agility, 1 Focus: Leap 5, 4, Grab the overhanging Ledge. > 1 Agility, 2 Focus, 3 AP: Swing of, leap 444, soaring punch onto the Boxer! (Aimed downwards, at 4) > 3 AP: Steal their boxing gloves post impact (Pocketpilfer). Pillage their stance. RP: Block (Just like they do)
Deep breath, deep breaths, don’t do anything unwise-
‘A A A A A H-‘
#Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5842650 (Oh hey I actually managed to wake up before another turn happened. And all it took was about 3 hours of sleep! yaaay.)
>{3 Agility, 1 Motivation} Restore 4 Guard >{1RP} Reaction: Parry >{6AP, Brawling 14} Overwatch 4: Get ready to Kick someone down the ledge again. [+3ACC (AP) | -2ACC, +2DMG (Kick) | +2DMG (Aggression)] (Total: 15) >Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression if Overwatch is triggered (What's the worst that could happen? :)) #Mock
==Core==
Guard 3/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 2 Aggression, 1 Motivation
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d6) >>5842650 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 6
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>1 AGI, 1AP: Move 44 >1AP: Open the door >4AP: [Understand] Look around the room what's the stuff in here? Lagomorpheus
Rolled 2, 6, 5, 3, 4, 3 = 23 (6d6) >2 AGI, 1 AP - Move 5,4 and pick the McGuffin up from the table to my SW. >3 AP - Disassemble the crate to my SE and transform it into a sword holder [10?, dice 1-3]. I'm thinking just two or three slats of wood nailed together with space for the blades. A wooden holster/flower-box if you will. >2AP - Slot the swords into the sword holder, being careful not to pick up or touch the swords with my hands. [dice 4-6, use if needed]
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 4, 6 = 13 (3d6) >>5842650 "Yeah, this guy's got the right idea! Hey, c'mon! Yeah, you, all bloody and scary! A couple 'a rat pups got you scared?! Let's fucking gooooo!"
>Deploy on Waxworm (for a running start) >3 Agility + 1 (or 2?) Focus: 44 and jump off the ledge 34 >6 AP, Brawling 14, Improvise: dropkick into the RATPACK after Waxworm with the intent of breaking it up (stomping one of them real good is a bonus) >Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression from the above >1 RP: Parry (since I'm about to be neck deep in rats) Missed out on quite a bit, but I'm finally caught up. Good heavens, would you look at the time! Why, it's time to get killed in the streets.
(I think the only bit that needs a roll here is the dropkick, but I might be wrong. Either way, here goes)
#Tier
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 1, 6, 6, 4, 4 = 27 (6d6) >>5842650 >1 Agil: Move 4 >1 Agil: Slide down the slope 4 >2 Agil: Sprint at the Rat in the 5 ish direction that is facing away from me >6 AP: Use my momentum to kick the rat into his fellows 5, then face nearest rat >1 RP: Parry #Sal
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
The Butcher
Rolled 6, 2, 2, 4, 2, 5, 1, 5, 6 = 33 (9d6) >>5842650 Call me an artless barbarian, huh, when this lot is just kicking them iff rooftops. That's all they're fucking doing. Then when they try to do some fancy shit spin kick shit they MISS.
Waxworm just jumped down into three of them, spun around on one foot and He Didn't Even Hit One.
> MOVE: 2Agi hop down, using the statues head as a handy breakfall (14) > ACT: Just punch the rats? (12) > ACT: Just punch again, it's really easy? Hello? (wind up agility, 12, damage+1) > REACT: Parry The Butcher
>>5842718 You missed a tooth, but don't worry, I'll make you some more.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 18:25:56 No. 5842918 Report Quoted By:
>>5842749 Unbelievable! He just stood there! And took it! I hate boxing! I hate boxing SO MUCH
( The Slug Rat plants its feet and passes a Guard check, and then a Grit-check to resist being moved )
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 18:45:50 No. 5842941 Report Quoted By:
>>5842917 >>5842915 Yeah okay fine, I grant that a lot of the high flying triple vault kick off a wall to kick off a man to kick a head is a little extravagant. Maybe your basic focus on proper footwork and a good, resolute guard has SOME merit. I will grudgingly accept that Waxworm just did a BOMBASTIC double flip off of an old war memorial, landed, failed to do any impact what-so-ever on the tightly packed group of rats, spat on the face of the Icon that was looking right at them and asking him to pick up some loose teeth AND is now on fire.
And okay, okay, rated against that, the fact that you're about to one-two punch two human beings right into next week <span class="mu-i">might</span> be a point in favor of boxing. A small one. A point so small I have to concentrate to see it. You guys *don't even kick*. YOU DON'T.
EVEN.
KICK.
What the Void good is taking out 4 people without breaking a sweat if you don't at least, you know... kick a little.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 18:59:59 No. 5842958 Report Quoted By:
>>5842875 Pry a crate apart? With your bare hands? There's NAILS in that, what are you, some sort of Vanadian sapper with a multitool and a disregard for sound engineering principles? Ufh. You consider doing it for a bit but that would just be the worst. And you'd spill moth dream everywhere. And hurt your hands.
Luckily, you can easily improvise a useful carry-all with your belt, some deft finger-work, and a strip of cloth you tear from your shirt. Easy does it, and a Vulpes makes do.
Yeah, get rich and make a lot of bunnies and monies in the big city, and to do that, stay alive and avoid dealing with pyromancers on battlefields, Watcher patrols, *vanadians in general*, don't hold with boxing and - word to the wise - don't put your paws directly on Bonded Steel that isn't bonded to you.
which is why you slide it into this belt, real careful, and let the sheaths prevent them from touching you[/i:lit].>MaskMark >+[Sword Hunter] Leone
Rolled 3, 4, 5 = 12 (3d6) >>5842650 "Hi everybody! Oh that's quite a crew time to bolt"
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2, Psyche 2, Grit 2,
Reaction 10, Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>agi 3 ap1: Move 4444 (check to jump onto roof using this brown thingy as stepping stone) >ap 2: try to sense if rat pack will try to get up here. >ap 3 rp1: attack if rats in rear try climbing Leone
Quoted By:
>>5842962 Correction
>rp: parry Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 19:53:37 No. 5843039 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 1, 4, 4, 1, 5 = 16 (6d6) >2AGi: Move 22>3AP: Influence Mock, get his guard up >3AP: Influence Leone, provide some punch pointers. >1AGI: Face 1
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 20:02:39 No. 5843048 Report Quoted By:
Now we're having ourselves a real scrap.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 20:13:54 No. 5843058 Report Quoted By:
Abgnetation finds a crate full of <span class="mu-r">MOTHDREAM</span>, a hallocinogenic from the far Uthani steppes. That's where the Vulpes roam, but it's not the only Banner on those grasslands. You don't hear a lot about the other in the City, because the Watcher and the Legion both made distant stern effort to keep it that way in ages past. The Uthani Banners were and are and will be again a scourge on civilized men. This is Mothdream. Chemical concoctions by distant shaman-alchemists of the Uthani, that alters how one sees oneself in the world, with the world, by the world. It is used in rituals of Denial.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 20:54:57 No. 5843105 Report They're on to us in earnest now! Look at those fists. If this wasn't boxing it'd almost be a cool fight, but because it's ... .. they're.. they're SLUG RATS, people, they're SLUGGING IT OUT. They're just -->4th Dusk takes a one-two and a one-two and blocks and Guards against all of it. >Amiucs takes 2 Guard damage >Waxworm takes 2 wounds, fails a Health check, goes unconscious. Someone get him back on his feet by shaking him awake, please. Maybe you brought smelling salts or some such? >Waxworm's mask does seem to . .. is that a light patina of ash? >+1 Maskstain >MASK PHASE
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 20:57:41 No. 5843111 Report <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">Slip</span></span> So that means...> Well, that's how it goes sometimes > Once you get the fire going, expect the rats to come running many and fast. > Maybe clear out this lot before you light the fire - or get it done early and then hold down for the stampede.
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 1, 5, 2, 4, 4, 5, 1, 6 = 33 (9d6) >>5843111 Hey kids! Who wants a balloon?
>5AP: grapple Rat SW >1AP + 7 Focus: tie and twist the Rat like a balloon animal >1 Focus: Induce coulrophobia in the opposition (Influence) >Aggress >Block #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
Riv
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 1, 4 = 6 (3d6) >>5843111 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (1AGI) Recover 1 Guard. > (2 AGI, 6AP,1FOC) Face splitting in a grin equal parts unhinged and elated, Riv once more drops into a runner's stance - flexes their calves, rolls their shoulders, tempers their nerves - then launches [4]wards at a full pelt sprint. The instant that back of the Rat immediately in front of them subsumes the majority of the brawler's vision they kick off the slick tiles of the roof - catching the unaware thug in a flying, full-body spear tackle which, if the momentum can punch through, is on a magnificent trajectory with the equally unsuspecting rat [4]ward of them, and then beyond that - the promise of dragging his new pals along for a long drop punctuated by a sudden stop. It's all just too perfect, Riv can barely restrain the urge to fire off a witty one-liner - but no, no, nothing will spoil this moment. Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
Rolled 1, 4, 5, 6, 5, 6 = 27 (6d6) >>5843105 "Heh, what do you know, you guys ain't half-bad. Watch this! You punks still don't know a thing about *real* fighting!"
>1 Agi: recover 1 Guard >1 Agi: clamber up the statue >3 AP + 1 Agi, Brawling 14, Improvise: elbow drop RATPACK from statue >Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression >3 AP, Brawling 14: get to swangin' and bangin (just punch rats) >Knuckledancer: -1 Aggression (I can use this twice per turn, right?) >1 RP: Parry (just in case I'm still neck deep in rats) #Tier
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 5, 5, 1, 1, 1, 5 = 18 (6d6) >>5843111 "Oh no, you are NOT summoning a rat king little mouseling. YOU - out of my way!"
>1 Agil, 3 AP: Push my way past the rat at 5 >2 Agil, 3 AP, 1 Focus: Run 555 655 (Chasing the fleeing rat) >5 Focus: Deck the snitching rat, face 2 >1 RP: Parry #Sal
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 6/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5843111 >{3 Agility} Restore 3 Guard >{3AP, 3 FOCUS} Move 23 23 23 >{0AP} Succumb to the story. Let my mask run wild! >-Do you hear that? GLORY is calling. #Mock
==Core==
Guard 9/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 2 Aggression
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 25 Nov 2023 21:50:24 No. 5843184 Report Quoted By:
>>5843155 Good work! I think that shut them up but good.
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Rolled 3, 3, 3, 5, 6, 3, 4, 2, 5 = 34 (9d6) >>5843111 >1ap: Pocket some Mothdream >3agi+1ap: Move 544-4 >3ap: Attempt to grapple the Rat running away. >1ap: Attempt to follow up by !Pocketpilfering him >1rp: ready block? Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
>>5843111 >>5843187 >I meant to ready block in the direction of the Boxer wannabe's with the body of the fleeing slicer. Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
>3AGI, 1AP - Move 2,2,2 // Move 1 >3AP - Slide a crate to block the door to my 2. Grit 12? [didn't roll. Feel free to roll if these are heavy enough to require exertion] >2AP - Sniff out more weapons along the way. I get that I'm surrounded by weapons grade dust and in a room full of hallucinogenic dust, but I'm also greedy. Use 1 focus if this is a major action. [dice 1-3, base sense 12] >+[Sword Hunter]: Roll Sense to sniff out nearby weaponry
Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 6, 4 = 16 (3d6) Dice for sniffing out weapons
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 1, 3, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3 = 40 (12d6) >>5843111 >2 Agility: Restore 2 Guard >1 AP: Move 5 >1 Agility: Use the statue to get down and end up 43, on the same hex as that Slug Rat that was fighting Sal (1st roll, Move) >1 AP: Offhander, momentum from above, push that Slug Rat to the ground (2nd roll, Grit) >2 AP: Hit this Rat (3rd roll) >2 AP: Hit nearest Rat that is still conscious. (Should be the same one, or the one engaged with 4th) (4th roll) >0 AP: Let the mask in control. What does the Law say about this? (Restore 1 Focus) #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d6) >>5843111 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 6
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>2AGI: Leave the building >1AGI, 2AP: Move 444 >4AP [Offhander]: Use Grit to try a trick on the Slicerat's head The Butcher
Rolled 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 1 = 23 (6d6) >>5843150 That's not how you punch things.
>>5843111 > Sheer Determination > ACT: 5AP 1Agility Clock the first rat. (+2 damage, +1 hit) > ACT: 4AP 2Focus Right hook, smack the other. (+2 damage) > MOVE: 55 #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 9/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+1 Maskstain
The Butcher
Quoted By:
>>5843258 Spend another focus, make that hit! -3 total
Leone
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 6, 5, 1, 6, 1 = 20 (6d6) >>5843111 "Ooooh bad luck but we'll see if you do actually get me." Throw a punch at roof rat. Leone turns at confused rats in hedge maze. "I am right here and soon there!"
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 12, Psyche 12, Grit 2,
Reaction 10, Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>2 ap: Attack roof rat next to me with punch right between eyes >1 agi 4 ap: Jump and dive kick closest rat in hedge maze entrance (!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice) >react: parry 4th Dusk
Rolled 6, 6, 2, 3, 4, 4 = 25 (6d6) > 2 Agility: Raise Guard to 13.> 3 AP: Steal the gloves of the Slugrat in my tile, again. > 3 AP: Do it again. If I succeed the first time, bewilder them instead. > 1 Agility: Move 2.
Abnegation
>>5843111 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 11/13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
Hm. Abnegation's, err, abnegation had been mostly mental techniques and self-discipline so far. Detachment of identity, denial of wants and desires, giving up the material attachments of a lived life. Mothdream was used by the Banners for a somewhat similar practice. Abnegation didn't know their methods of self-denial, but the mind was not a linear pathway. Yes, this was an opportunity for a revelation.
>4 AP, 1 Focus: Scoop up a handful of Mothdream and ingest it in whatever way one does so. View the self from the outside. Seek a new perspective on its desires and its connections, to the world and to itself. This is A Good Idea™. (Understand 10 + 4) >2 AP, 1 Focus: Carefully reach out with an outsider's hand to those connections, all those little anchors and pathways. Feel for the ones that do not belong, and tug them free. This is Also A Good Idea™. (Influence the other person named Abnegation 12 + 2) >3 Agility: Move 555 through the haze of a clear mind. Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 6, 3, 6, 3, 5 = 26 (6d6) >>5843730 Rolls please
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 11:02:57 No. 5843874 Report Quoted By:
>>5843235 Ah, tricky.
> Technique Manual updated. The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 4, 1, 1, 1, 6 = 19 (6d6) >>5843111 >3AP Grab the rat(chokehold or something) at 2, moving into his hex (vs 12) >Drag him 444 >3AP Throw him at the slug rat 5 #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 11:38:46 No. 5843881 Report Quoted By:
>>5843603 I don't know what kind of crime this is, Fourth Dusk.
<span class="mu-i">I just know it's some kind of crime</span>
Take those leather mittens off. You're going to end up slugging it out street style if you don't, and I don't consider "slugging" a positive thing. No, stop putting your heads up in a perfectly boring guard position that adequately covers your frontals and leaves you in a good position to deliver a cold-right when someone's overexposed. Stop that. Stop that right now! It's so BORINGLY technical! It's all... effective! Do what Mock is about to do, do a triple somersault off of a ledge! Blindfolded! COME ON
>These gloves they... feel so sweaty yet... they fit so well... >You've Stolen An Item! >With something to hand, Taking Arts no longer *just* deals Disorient - spend +1Agility on your attacks to *use* the thing you've stolen as you do your stuff. >In the case of the boxing gloves, it seems they deliver punches pretty well - they up your damage to 1d3 Stun on use and looks like they'd allow some pretty punchy improvisation CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 12:02:09 No. 5843889 Report Quoted By:
Rats can't fly - as Circus demonstrates by hacking one off of a roof. But these <span class="mu-s">SLUGRATS</span> are far worse than their peers, something in those cursed leather mittens and overbearing focus on competent footwork coupled with an unerring decision to always, always, always just STAND THERE AND GUARD means they simply just... don't... go down!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 12:06:48 No. 5843894 Report Quoted By:
Abnegation experiences rapid onset ego death and oneness with the universe and a slackening of the slow constant need of their own desires, the endless small bombardments of the physical body's reliance on such trifles as heat and hunger and humidity to keep the humors in check.>Abnegation wanders a haze, fully aware of every little ping of their own autonomic nervous system but simultaneously able to ignore every insistent reflexive urge >Abnegation enters TOTAL MANUAL CONTROL MODE >Lose Agility, Lose Action, Lose Reaction (for now, they're just 0) >Your Focus is 13 (was it lower? How lucky!) >You have 13 Focus to spend each turn to ... exist. Move? That's 1 Focus. Act? That's 3 Focus. React? That's 3 Focus. Your Focus is now... all of your Agility and Action and Reaction. >Remember to Breathe! That's ... important! >This will hopefully wear off soon, because it's sort of a drag to remember, but simultaneously the ability to have precise control over every facet of your own existence... what a joy!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 12:08:23 No. 5843895 Report Quoted By:
Lagomorpheus blocks a door. Nothing else of nothing is sensed, perceived, noticed or sniffed out. Nothing of note at all.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 12:46:53 No. 5843910 Report Quoted By:
It's quiet in here. Somehow. . . too quiet.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 13:03:08 No. 5843913 Report With shouts and hollers, the Rats pour from their warehouse. Blocking that door has forced them to seek alternative means of escaping the building, and look, they're out of breath and confused. Good thinking Lago. And now the building is empty too, so we'll face no more from the direction!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 13:09:44 No. 5843915 Report Speaking of <span class="mu-s">tapping out</span>. Waxworm was overcome by his wounds - he's mewling on the ground, after the seizure and the fire. Butcher is right by him. Butcher, you can <span class="mu-s">Tap Him In</span>. The immortal gesture of help-me-out-here is slapping your hands on their hands.
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Rolled 6, 4, 2, 1, 5, 5 = 23 (6d6) >>5843913 "Pssst, interested in learning some high-falutin' acrobatics?"
>3AP+2Agi Grab slug rat 3 (vs 12, +2 Agility) >3AP+1Agi Throw the slug rat into the slug rat at 4 (vs 12, +1 Agility) #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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Rolled 3, 2, 4 = 9 (3d6) >>5843915 >3AP: improvise to combine grappling and looting by means of picking the Rat up by his feet and shaking him violently until he's out of consciousness and pocket contents >3AP: drop him off the roof >3Ag: move 555 >Block >Knuckledance + Agg #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 10/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
Riv
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Rolled 6, 6, 6, 6, 3, 5, 6, 5, 2 = 45 (9d6) >>5843913 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10+2
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (1AGI) Move [3]x1 > (3AP) Throw a feint haymaker at the Slugrat at [4]. (Brawling14 - Wound1). > (0AP) Knuckdancer: +1 Cunning > (3AP) Feint a mid-kick towards the slugrat at [3] (Brawling14 - Wound1). > (0AP) Knuckdancer: +1 Cunning > (1 AGI) Leap [5]x1 > (3FOC) Feint rushing jab to the ribs against the Slugrat at [3]. (Brawling14 - Wound1). > (0AP) Knuckdancer: +1 Cunning > (1AGI) Backstep [6]x1 > (1RP) Prepare a dodge. Abnegation
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Rolled 4, 1, 6 = 11 (3d6) >>5843915 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 0 Agility 0 RP 0
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
Hm.
HM.
Now this IS interesting. What a liberating feeling. This is the ideal mind that philosophers speak of, isn't it? Aware of their urges, yet in perfect control of them. Conscious of what is happening to them, but able to dictate their own actions unchecked by those stimuli.
How fascinating.
Oh yes, there it goes now, Abnegation needs to breathe. What a strange feeling that is. Normally it's an effort of will to continue to hold one's breath. But now they can just... choose not to breathe. There is that sucking feeling of not having enough air, but it doesn't trigger any kind of bodily reaction.
Marvellous. Breathing is important, though. Oh yes, as is burning this building down.
"I feel spectacular," Abnegation tells their maskmate Lagomorpheus in an unwavering monotone. "I've never been more at ease than I am right now. I am the master of myself. I am now going to set this building on fire, please leave behind me."
They turn and stride out, unstoppering a flashfire vial that mysteriously vanished in the strange LAYERS of vision TRIGGERED by the hallucinogenic dust as they walk. As they pass through the door, they pitch it into a pile of crates on the other side of the building to Lagomorpheus.
>1 Focus: Breathe >4 Focus: Move 565 5 >2 Focus: Unstopper Flashfire Vial, throw it 443 of Lagomorpheus' current position >3 Focus: Ooh, more rats. Jumpkick the rat 11 of me. (Shatterhands 12 - 2 from kicking) >3 Focus: Parry, backstepping if possible Leone
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Rolled 1, 6, 4, 6, 3, 4 = 24 (6d6) >>5843915 "Yeah now you get the spirit of it can't you feel the tempo rising?"
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>3 ap: Attack the closest rat with combo of multiple jabs ending in palm strike. >3 ap, 1 agi: Roll forward and launch an !kick while springing up against the rat behind my target. >2 agi: Move 32 facing the alley where door got slammed open >react: parry The Butcher
Rolled 1, 5, 3, 6, 4, 3 = 22 (6d6) >>5843915 Get up. We need a warehouse burnt and you're the match.
> 1AP/1Agi Regain Focus (+2)/Guard (+1) > ACT: Tap in Waxworm > TALK: Is that a *duel* down there, mothmasks? (Influence+1) > MOVE: Sprint West (Move+1) > REACT: [Dodge] the wall this time #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 11/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 11/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+2 Maskstain
Amicus
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Rolled 1, 3, 5 = 9 (3d6) >>5843913 >3 Agility: Restore 3 Guard >6 AP: Restrain that man! >1 AP: Block? "Cease resisting!"
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Waxworm
Rolled 5, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3 = 15 (6d6) >>5843915 >>5843954 I'm awake, I'm awake! Did it work, was the Reikan Twisting Top incredible?
I choose to believe it was. I was witnessed. Unfortunately, I have been found wanting - I am without boons and blessing. The flame has died.
(Point of note, if I'm ever about to miss a turn just succumb to the mask. That guy knows what he's doing.)
>4AP, Power Through! The Dream cannot end here. >3Agi, 344 >3FOC, Pocketpilfer that duelist. I seem to be in a blindspot, so make it sneakylike? >RP, Dodge back the way I came. >Succumb to the Mask. I must make amends for failing to count teeth. #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well?
-Status: Two wounds
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 6/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
-1 Maskstain
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 3, 5, 1 = 9 (3d6) >>5843915 >1 AP: Regain 1 Focus (KO'd a rat last turn) >5 AP: Try to Understand (12). We keep busting up these rats but none of us have figured out how to start a fire. Think on how that might be accomplished. Also face 1. >1 RP: Parry #Sal
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 6/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:SCDZEO/f Sun 26 Nov 2023 14:53:33 No. 5843986 Report Quoted By:
>>5843954 Void and wrack, I do think it IS a duel. That looks like no less than a wrackworne leviathan pretender and a very brave bravo from Kalcmir. Doubt her rapier is much good against scaled skin; she’s patently outmatched. How honourless to step into a fight with a weapon your opponent can’t scratch. What’s going on here, we reckon?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 15:27:56 No. 5844021 Report Quoted By:
>>5843981 It is a pity, we do have to be alacritous about our arson. It seems Abnegation is on the task, but it will take some time for the fire to spread proper. Let's think now... volatile chemicals, wood, some nails..
Ah! Of course!
The crates! they're all nailed shut and secure. We can use the metal to strike a spark. Pry lose some rock or stone or something heavy, then strike the nail repeatedly. It might spark off, because it's soaked with Mothdream. Just don't breathe the smoke.
And if it does NOT spark off, the nail might get so hot it can ignite something, like some nearby wood shavings and some bits of cloth. Should be fair quick to manage, if not a little finicky.
>You've got it! >Maskmates, it looks like we can try to SPARK those crates by Influencing them as a 3 AP action! >It just takes a while, which is to say, it looks like we have to get enough Margin on the collective attempts to do so, unless we take a shortcut somehow. Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
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Rolled 2, 5, 6 = 13 (3d6) >>5843915 >3 Agi: regain 3 Guard >1 AP: Move 5 >3 AP, Understand 12: just what's going in that garden between those two? #Tier
==Core==
Guard 8/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 15:51:42 No. 5844050 Report Quoted By:
>>5843918 I think we've finally find a counter to these boxing bastards, Circus! Show them the SHOW! These guys they're so focused on PUNCHING they don't know the first thing about sticking up for yourself in a proper fistfight. Everyone knows a proper fistfight is three parts punching to one part kicking to one part getting someone in a good hold!
Look, he's defenseless and on the ground! It looks like these fellas. . . aren't any better at grappling than the common Slicerat !!
>Circus hits for 6 Grapple, 3 stun >Then flips the Slug Rat on his head, into his friend - treating him like a projectile. That Slug Rat Guards, but is still moved. The flung slug-rat ends up Prone, with a further 2 Stun, in a lock. >Because he doesn't get thrown FAR, Pytheri Naval Knots know a few tricks to tie things properly... and simply shifts the hold! He's still grappled! >For those keeping score at home, that's a total of -3 agility, -1 AP, -3 to all actions *and* a fairly compromised guard. >And Circus, your !Tie In A Knot means the penalty they're taking (-3) is skill bonus you're receiving (+3). 4th Dusk
Rolled 1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 6 = 23 (6d6) > 1 Agility, 3 AP: Test out my gloves in the rat Amicus us grappling. Easy prey!> Reaction: Block. Yes, I’m understanding…. > 1 Focus, 2 Agility, 3 AP: But this other Rat, he is far away. Keep up the gloves, *while* striking him with a push-kick- right into the bush! Box, *and* kick!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:30:41 No. 5844098 Report Quoted By:
>>5844081 woah woah woah woah woah stop hold up stop
box <span class="mu-i">and</span> kick? what the Void and Wrack and woe? That.. that doesn't happen.
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:31:49 No. 5844100 Report It’s legit, chief. They… they call it “Kicking Boxing”
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:33:54 No. 5844103 Report >>5844100 No way. That's not real. That can't be real. That would imply that boxing might <span class="mu-i">sometimes</span> be a legitimate street style. You're telling me.. boxers kick? They...
sorry I think I'm going to need Dusk there to demonstrate, I don't understand this at all. Boxers don't kick. That's... that's not what-- kicking boxing?
Really? Boxing <span class="mu-i">with</span> kicks?
Wait so... Like... a sort of style that focuses on having really grounded defensives but then uses the rapid snap footwork to throw their opponent off balance *and* does that while maintaining full spectrum control with their hands? That's almost stylish. You can't tell me the Vanadians invented that.
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:36:36 No. 5844107 Report >>5844103 They did, maskmaster. They use it in some kind of sapper or engineering corps of theirs. Apparently it’s easier to snapkick quick in close quarters if your hand are occupied with a weapon. Sees a lot of use in trenches.
It’s a whole deal, apparently. I mean don’t go be taking my word for it now, but apparently these trench kickers - trenchers if you will - they get up to all sorts of high speed low drag footwork. And sometimes use their hands.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:39:10 No. 5844112 Report Quoted By:
>>5844107 <span class="mu-i">huh]</span>
I mean. I still hate it. But.
Hm.
Boxing. But <span class="mu-i">with</span> kicks? So they all just do that, then? That's almost exciting.
I mean not so exciting I'm not going to grump about it but <span class="mu-i">almost</span> sort of fresh.
4th Dusk
>>5844103 >>5844107 Vanadian?
No it’s mine I stole the punches I can use them how *I* want to. When you steal a knife is it stuck to your hands? Does it weld to your soul, make you a knife-dusk, redefine your very nature?
…no, that is absurd. It is a *tool*. *I* am the master of these gloves, and I’ll kick if I want to!
Punch kick punch block!
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 16:53:58 No. 5844127 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 4, 5, 5, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3 = 28 (9d6) >>5844115 So you stole the punches but now you’re kicking? That don’t make two jabs of sense, quickhands.
Anyway:
>1 Agi: Step 5 >3 AP, 2Agi: Grab that Rat from behind >3 AP: Choke him out >3Focus: Boot him at his friend 433 Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
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Rolled 1, 3, 6, 3, 6, 5 = 24 (6d6) >>5843913 >Move 116 >3ap: Distract the slug rat and his friends by telling them "hey aren't you that guy who was saying that boxing...wasn't a real fighting art? Why are you with a boxer now??" >3ap: Pocket Moth Dream throw at slug rat >1rp: Dodge Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:08:55 No. 5844148 Report >>5844115 Okay. Okay if you... if you actually kick while wearing those ridiculous leather mittens then <span class="mu-i">maybe</span> there's some value to this whole idea of good technique and effective footwork.
--
But you gotta work on it, Fourth Dusk. Now look at Abnegation there, that's a kick. A door right off its hinges and at someone else, bouncing off by sheer cosmic accident and whipping a third in the face? Now that's *kicking*
You... sort of made that guy adjust his stance a little. These Slug Rats are so infuriatingly good at just *standing there*. It's incredible. You'd almost think they have some kind of special skill where the roll Grit to resist movement or something.
<span class="mu-i">Amicus spends 6 Ap and opts to be Impolite with Legionlock. The Slug Rat jabs out. Amicus . . . grabs his hands and demonstrates how the bone strength tolerance of your average pinky is a lot less than people think it is. </span>
--
Abnegation's thrown a vial of flashfire - it'll take and turn this warehouse into a bonfire. Fantastic work. Still, it'll be slow and smokey. Don't breathe in the fumes !
--
It appears a duel is being fought for honor or glory or some sort of ideal, and one lone brave bravo is pledging sword and footwork against the mountains as a Leviathan-tinged scale heart from the deeper Wrackwastes stands there, feet planted, swinging fists like an avalanche down against the bravo, who, in lieu of being able to put their rapier through any soft tissue (it appears the Scalehearts skin is mostly stone) opts to roll and weave and wait for an opening.
Then Waxworm.. tries to --
... Waxworm, a pair of duelists aren't distracted by fighting each other. They're looking at the battle space to make sure that no one gets hurt. Was your plan to put your hands directly in the pockets of a person mid dodge and hope they wouldn't notice? Well they've noticed now. That's fine. Interrupting a duel is a little poor form but just don't say anything odd and we can let them get back settling their grievances by murdering each other
ah
well
that works too.
[ WORLD PHASE ]
Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:13:17 No. 5844156 Report Quoted By:
>>5844148 Uncouth.
>2Agi: Step 6 >3Ap: Grab 1 >3Ap: Apply pressure. Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:14:20 No. 5844158 Report Rolled 4, 4, 2, 5, 2, 6 = 23 (6d6) >>5844148 Uncouth
>2Agi: Step 6 >3Ap: Grab 1 >3Ap: Apply pressure. Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Scalar Scree !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:25:14 No. 5844174 Report <span class="mu-r">Bones like rotten wood this one.</span>
Araignee Amour !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Araignee Amour !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:29:42 No. 5844182 Report Quoted By:
>>5844174 >>5844158 <span class="mu-b">Little much, don't you think? Maybe he wanted something? Do you *have* to cripple everyone in your life so they match your self esteem?</span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 17:57:48 No. 5844212 Report Quoted By:
He's winding up for a haymaker! He has room to move in! DUSK, WATCH OU--[/i:lit]
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 18:14:22 No. 5844228 Report Quoted By:
The Flashfire Vial that Abnegation throw goes off with a soft woos and the flames seek fuel, converting chemical concoction to the Empyreals embrace at speed. The wood is soaked with the volatile product of the Moth Banners. The smoke billows, thick and stained with purple.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 18:23:14 No. 5844236 Report The Slicerats pull aside the Stall near Leone and Slip, and pour into the pair. Leone's footwork keeps them at bay, but these look motivated. With a push, they separate Slip and Leone. >Spider Man takes 1 Wound! -1 When you're in such pain! Although... that smoke that's pouring from the building? Maybe you could Breathe Some In with a quick single AP and that might help? >+1 Maskstain > MASK PHASE
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 18:25:35 No. 5844241 Report It looks like that Scaleheart with the glare at the world steps so gingerly you'd think he fears breaking something important has turned Waxworms arm-bones into some sort of soup.>WaxWorm has suffered a Critical Wound. Those are worse than your average wounds. >Your... arm no longer works. Most of your bones in the whole left side, really.
Riv
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 3, 2, 3, 6, 3 = 19 (6d6) >>5844236 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 5/12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (3AGI) Recover 3 guard. > (3AP+3Focus) Locate a loose tile in the roofing then pry it out. [Sense12(?)+3Focus-1Wound] > (3AP) Hurl the extracted tile at the Slugrat at [4,5]. [Brawling14(?)-1Wound] > (1RP) Prepare to dodge either [2]wards or [3]wards Fourth Dusk
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d6) >>5844236 ‘…you are good. Very good.
Thank you.’
> 1 Agility: Raise Guard to 13. > 1 Agility, 6 AP: Steal his technique. *Return the favour*. > 1 Agility: Move [6] > Reaction: *Parry*, with newfound skills. #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 11/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 4, 5 = 13 (3d6) >1AP - Don't Breathe>1AP - Scoop up some mothdream >3AGI - Move 6,5,6 >3AP - Leap through the window, moving 6,5,6 >1AP, 4 Focus [12?+2=14?] - Throw the mothdream at the slicerats and tell them to surrender. [dice 1-3] >0AP - Allow myself to breathe again. >+[Sword Hunter]: Roll Sense to sniff out nearby weaponry
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 6, 5, 2, 5, 1 = 25 (6d6) >>5844236 >1 AP: Look around for hidden enemies (Sense 12) >2 Agility: Move 23 >5 AP: Do the same thing to the rat on my 5 as I just did to the other one >1 RP: Block #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+1 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 2, 3, 2, 6, 6, 6, 5, 1, 5, 4, 1 = 45 (12d6) >>5844236 >3agi: recover guard >3focus: !Mine now! Take sluggers aggression >3ap: Strike at Slugrat (confuse him! disorient!) >3ap: Slugger! !Here take this (my wounds) >1rp: Parry >1focus: Here. Mothdream in your face. Big disgrace >3focus: !Pilfer the slugger Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 5, 3 = 13 (3d6) >>5844236 Getting involved in someone else's fight was right unsporting, especially if it's a duel for honor. One does not gain glory by slinking away with it like some sneakthief. No, that's not where glory lies. It lies in finishing off indisposed opponents in the most spectacular way possible!
>2 AP: Move 66 >3 AP + 1 AP + 3 Agi, Brawling 14+4, Improvise, Wear My Kicking Boots (I don't actually have to kick for this, hopefully): give this rat the people's elbow >Knuckledancer: add +1 Aggression >1 RP: Parry (just in case I end up elbow-deep in rats) #Tier
==Core==
Guard 11/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 1, 5, 2, 6, 1, 6 = 21 (6d6) >>5844241 >3AP + 2Focus: Grab the Rat's hands >3AP: Maskbutt him repeatedly, honking each time >Aggression up >SEE WHAT HAPPENS >Block Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
>>5844287 #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 10/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Loot==
Some coins
2-3 bits
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 4, 5, 6, 6, 1 = 24 (6d6) >>5844236 >{1RP} Parry >{3AP, Focus 12} Power through >{3 Agility} Move 665 >{3AP, Brawling 14} Kick the rat while he's down. No funny business this time, just kick him. [-2ACC, +2DMG (Kick) | +2DMG (Aggression) | +2DMG (Kicking Boots, 2 Grit)] (Total: 12) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Aggression (P.S. What's that orange star next to my aggression? Also, I wasn't aware we could spend AP to recover Guard. I was under the impression it was only Agility that allowed it.)
#Mock
==Core==
Guard 12/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 2 Aggression, 1 ???
-Status: 1 Wound
==Array==
Health 2/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 9?/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 5, 1, 2 = 8 (3d6) >>5844236 "WOah woah woah, that was a close one. Where'd that come fr- ah. My friend, if you want to play at being a ninja, maybe avoid the sand pit next time, and your footfalls won't betray you. Now, into the Empyreans light with you."
>3 Agil: Move 332 >1 AP: Move 3 >5 AP: Slug the sneaky bastard >1 RP: Parry CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 21:13:19 No. 5844454 Report Rolled 6, 5, 4, 3, 5, 6 = 29 (6d6) >>5844445 Wait a breath --- Sal! Pugiliste! He's been making those footprints since at least a turn ago! He's been here this whole time!
That sly skulker snuck out of the warehouse when we opened the doors for him!
Whomp him something good! He's one of them there MOTHS! That <span class="mu-i">has</span> to be at least as bad as a Vulpes Deep Pocket, those avaricious takers of things.
Quick, Slip, any insight?
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 21:16:49 No. 5844458 Report >>5844454 <span class="mu-i">beats me, maskmaster. I don't get a lot of thoughts about boys in bananas swirling knives around. All I can say for sure and certain is that it's a sight good thing that Lagomorpheus took those blades, or I bet Pugliste would have been cut up something way worse than this.
That, and I know Moths are expensive. When they say Contract Bid, they mean Bid. You'd need to have the Theurges own treasury to afford more than one of these flutterwings, so we shouldn't have to fear more than just the one fighter.
But they're canny. Even if Sal tries to slug him, I bet you us that Moth has some kind of trick to avoid being taken out by a single punch. Probably dodge as all gets.
Maybe trick him out, somehow ? Make it harder for him to move?
</span>
Waxworm
Quoted By:
>>5844458 Jokes on him, dodge is a SCAM. Think you have quick feet, good odds? Face meet FIST!
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Rolled 5, 6, 6, 6, 5, 6, 2, 2, 5 = 43 (9d6) >>5844236 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 0
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 1 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>1RP: Parry >2FP: Recover Guard >3AGI: Move 661 >4AP: Try a Trick with my legs on the Slug Rat, use Reaction >2(3) AP: Attack Slug Rat Abnegation
Quoted By:
>>5844540 Maybe... maybe just have a lie down, maskmate. Sleep it off.
Leone
Rolled 2, 6, 6, 6, 5, 6, 1, 3, 6 = 41 (9d6) >>5844236 "Damn running out of space. This is little crude but it'll have to do. Let's dance little mice!"
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>3 ap: Shove the rat in front of me >3 ap: Round house kick the rat closest rat i didn't shove >2 agi: Move 22 face rat pack >3 focus: Trick: Dare the rats to attack [call them mice] (influence 10) taunt Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Rolled 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 5, 4 = 67 (20d6) (Test rolling. Need to get rid of these cursed dice.)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5844561 (...I think I accidentally threw out the *lucky* dice instead.)
Leone
The Butcher
>>5844553 > 656 on the Kick > again with the spin kicks If he's falling off, can I catch him?
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 00:25:47 No. 5844649 Report Quoted By:
>>5844630 Yes - it's a natural part of teamwork, and no harder to do than an Influence Skill roll. I do it... more than I have to... with the more glory seeking sort of friend.
Abnegation
Rolled 2, 6, 4, 4, 6, 4 = 26 (6d6) >>5844236 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 0 Agility 0 RP 0
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
"Pain is delusion," Abnegation monotones, "a chain of the world to keep you tethered to it. I will one day slip free." Their head bows slightly. "But not today. Today I wrap the chain tight about you."
>5 Focus: PUNCH RAT 1 OF ABNEGATION >5 Focus: KICK RAT 11 OF ABNEGATION >3 Focus: Parry, backstep if possible >Surely I can go a whole turn without breathing, just once, as a treat The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 2, 4 = 8 (3d6) >>5844236 "Okay, rrat, it's time to test what you've learned."
>3AGI Drag the rat 556 >2AP Drag rat 66 >4AP+3Focus Jump onto the rat 6, using held rat as a cushion. (Improvise 2 cushioning?) (Vs 12+1AP+3FOC+grapple bonus) >Reaction:Block with the rat's body. #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 12:26:12 No. 5845065 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 4, 6, 5, 2, 2 = 23 (6d6) >>5844678 Surely. What is your lungs yearning for the sweet rush of air but the chain that ties you? Forego breathing.
Be free.
Forego it too long and be free permanently.
>>5844236 Maskmate! That’s not how you kick! Here! *This* is a kick!
>3Agi: Ragdance (+3 AoE) >3Ap: Scuffle with the rats 4. (-2, go for the legs) >3Ap: Leone! Watch out! ( Influence Guard, +2 ) >3FOC: Slip-Step to Leone >1Rp: Parry. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 16:18:53 No. 5845249 Report Quoted By:
Abnegation clocks a rat and sends them stumbling - apparently full autonomic awareness makes it hard to coordinate an entire proprioceptive response to being checked on your balancing skills.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 16:22:56 No. 5845258 Report Quoted By:
It's CIRUS! WITH A CAPTIVE SLUG-RAT! OH THE HUMANITYYYYY
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 16:31:10 No. 5845273 Report Quoted By:
Punch! Kick! Stumble only about four times! Very high flying dramatics, true spirit of the pugilist! None of that boring technically grounded stuff, wonderful work mask mates. It's not a real fight until you spin yourself dizzy off of a ledge!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 16:46:16 No. 5845293 Report Quoted By:
... THAT SLUG RAT
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 17:26:59 No. 5845334 Report The Mothrat... It moves with the quiet tenacity of a knife seeking a throat! >Leone has 4 wounds. >Leone . . . Passes a Grit check. Leone is still on his feet! Leone powers through. >Your wound penalty is *-2*! >Arson Accomplished. +1 Maskstain, group. >MASK PHASE >overview: >Pugiliste, Spidersman, Mock. PRONE. 3 Agility or 3 AP to stand up, otherwise -2 to everything. Legionlock ignores penalties. >you can obviously crawl just fine on the floor, if you'd rather not stand. >Someone might try to spring to their feet with a 1 agility move roll, but do note that the penalties play into that also! Ufh! >Leone, wounded! He Shrugs It Off and stays on his feet! NO GUARD! -2 from PAIN! >Waxworm is flung like a rag doll! >Abnegation is in Full Manual Breathing Mode still, but you can fill the chains of the world rattling back, slow and sure. It will wear off... soon. Maybe end of this turn. Maybe next? Who can say.
CombatCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CombatCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 17:34:21 No. 5845342 Report Quoted By:
you feel it in your BONES don't you, softsoul? The sheer NEED for VIOLENCE.[/i:lit]
Riv
Rolled 2, 2, 2 = 6 (3d6) >>5845334 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 0/12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (2AGI) Prance [2]x2 across the roof. Square up against the Slight(?)rat. As wispy streams of smoke seep from beneath the tiles beneath their feet, Riv flashes the rat a cocky grin. "Howdy pal. Hope you found the climb up spiritually fulfilling, cause I'm afraid you're going on an express trip straight back down."
> (1AGI+6AP+5FOC+1RP) When the rat attacks, Riv dodges around the thug's blows and slips behind the rat's guard. Aiming to end up in extreme close quarters the newcomer - invading their personal space to a distressing degree. Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 4, 2 = 11 (3d6) >>5845334 What?!? So many attacks, and so much movement! How is it possible? Does he have 9 agility? 12 AP? Is he dumping all of his focus in that one turn? In any case, he’s too dangerous to leave conscious, he needs to go down!
>1 AP: Grab a handful of sand >3 Agil: Move 222 >2 AP: Move 11 >3 AP: (Wait for an ally to occupy the space 2 of me first, then:) Throw the sand in the ninja wannabe’s face! >1 RP: Parry Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 2, 4, 1, 3, 6, 2, 3, 5, 6 = 32 (9d6) >>5845334 FATHER
I
CRAVE
THE QUESTION
THE ANSWER TO WHICH
IS
YES
>1AP: Grab the Rat at my feet >3Ag: Move 332 >3AP: Throw the Rat at the Mothrat >1AP: Feel the flow of violence. Know the best single way to dodge the falling body. The Moth will take it. I will know where she is because I know where she won't be. The violence will bring us together. (Roll not sure what to predict the Moth's dodge) >1AP + 4 Focus: Jump-drop-fall-kick the Moth in the head. >3Aggression: Finish her! >Block >Knuckleduster Aggression up #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 8/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Loot==
Some coins
2-3 bits
ChainCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ChainCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 18:26:18 No. 5845376 Report >>5845351 <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">DO YOU NOT SEE THE LONG CHAINS WRAPPED AROUND YOUR CONSCIENCE SOFT SOUL
THEY ARE CONTROLLING YOUR EVERY ACTION! THEY PULLED LIGHT FROM THE HIGH HEAVENS AND LEFT SCAR TISSUE IN PLACE OF CLOUDS AND FROM THE SEEPING WOUND THE LITTLE SPRITELINGS SEEP IN AND THEY ARE
IN
US
TO BE FREE OF TYRANNY ONE MUST FIRST BREAK THE CHAIN THE TYRANT HAS FORGED <span class="mu-i">IN THE MIND</span>
FREE OF THE FLESH
AND
FREE OF THE SOUUULLLLLLL </span></span>
Abnegation
Rolled 5, 5, 2, 2, 6, 4 = 24 (6d6) >>5845334 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 11/12
AP 0 Agility 0 RP 0
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
Abnegation extends a finger to point towards the guarding slugrat.
"To spend the gift of freedom focused exclusively on one task to the exclusion of all else is a waste of that gift. It is also unsound tactically. And- please excuse this body."
Abnegation pauses their monotone rant to suck in a sharp gasp of breath that whistles through their mask and teeth. Yes, that's better. The lungs must be heard eventually. Such is the responsibility of imperfect freedom.
"And in making this mistake, you reaffirm your bindings to the world's imperfection. You are either too ignorant to see or too cowardly to act, both damning characteristics. At least this mind attempts resistance."
They turn to Pugiliste and Spiders, Man!, helping them out of the dirt. "Rise, maskmates. Chain him in your arms, then chain him in anguish, 'less a better idea occurs to you. His blind devotion to defence from striking leaves him open to grittier arts."
>1 Focus: BREATHE >2 Focus: Denounce the Slugrat and his feebleminded ways. Who even knows what this is trying to accomplish. (Influence 12 + 1) >6 Focus: Haul Pugiliste and Spiders, Man! to their feet. >2 Focus: Motivate Pugiliste and Spiders, Man! (Influence 12 + 1) >2 Focus: Move 16, Face 4 Amicus
Rolled 1, 4, 2, 4, 4, 5 = 20 (6d6) >>5845334 >2 Agility: Restore 2 Guard >1 Agility: Move 1 >3 AP+5 Focus: Hit the mothrat good (Pack tactics means +6 on the roll) >3 AP+5 Focus: Hit him good, again (Ditto) #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 2/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+1 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
The Butcher
Rolled 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, 6 = 23 (6d6) >>5845334 > ACT: Trick Agility on the cornered rat. No room for footwork. Boxing+3 > ACT x2: Punch him twice, 3 Focus > REACT: Block #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+3Maskstain
The Butcher
Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d6) >>5845428 And one more punch
The Butcher
Quoted By:
>>5845429 Being around these wood masks is bad fucking luck.
(That was the dice for the second punch, I'm not spending focus)
Riv
>>5845376 "Be they steel or sorrow or starlight, shackles yield to many keys dreamdreg. Destruction is the least among them. Defy the concept of restraint itself and assume the shape of water."
"Here, allow me to demonstrate."
Fourth Dusk
Rolled 5, 1, 5, 3, 6, 1, 3, 4, 5 = 33 (9d6) >>5845334 ‘!!!!!!!!’
> 3 Agility : Move 221. Step into their personal space. Make her uncomfortable. > 1 Focus: Time this as do not to get into my ally’s path. > 6 AP, 6 Focus: *Punch the moth up close hard, fast and thrice.* #Fourth Dusk at
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12 (Brawling Gloves)
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 5, 1, 1, 2, 5 = 17 (6d6) >>5845334 >{3 FOCUS} Stand up >{3AP, 2 Agility, Brawling 14} Kick one of the rats to my 66 [+2ACC (Agility) | +2DMG, -2ACC (Kick) | Min. 3DMG, -3 GUARD (Aggression)] (Total: 13) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Cunning >{3AP, 1 Agility, Brawling 14} Kick the same rat again [+1ACC (Agility) | +2DMG, -2ACC (Kick) | Min. 3DMG, -3 GUARD (Aggression) | -1DMG, +1GUARD] (Total: 13) >-Knuckledancer: +1 Cunning >{1RP} Parry #Mock
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 GLORY, Prone
-Status: 1 Bruise
==Array==
Health 2/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 9?/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Leone
Rolled 5, 1, 3, 6, 1, 2 = 18 (6d6) >>5845334 "Nice catch dude. Wait....ouch shit that hurt. Damn."
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>3 ap: attack the normal rat next to me with elbow strike >3 ap: attack the moth rat with palm strike >react: parry Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 22:19:51 No. 5845589 Report Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d6) >3AP: Leone, GET UP>3AP: Come on, shake it off! (Influence Wounds, Leone) >RP: Slipdodge
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
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Rolled 2, 5, 2, 1, 1, 2 = 13 (6d6) >>5845334 "Ah, right on cue. Your ranks were getting a little too thin for my liking. Square up!"
>3 AP+2 Agility+1 Focus, Improvise (-2 for +2 damage), Brawling 14+2+1-2: Throatpunch the rat to my 6 (not the one that Mock kicked, the other one) >Knuckledancer: Build +1 Aggression >3 AP+1 Agility+1 Focus, Improvise (-1 for prone? Take one more focus and use the one already being added to buy it if that's not enough), Brawling 14+1+1-1: Knee stomp the same rat >Knuckledancer: Drop 1 Aggression >RP: Dodge (Reaction 10+3) #Tier
==Core==
Guard 9/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 10/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 22:42:21 No. 5845623 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">surprise lightning action!</span>
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Rolled 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5 = 21 (6d6) >>5845334 >-Accept to be raised up by Abnegation >1AP: Ready the vial of [Slapcrete >1agi: Move 3 >3AP: Toss the slapcrete at the feet of super conscious guarding slug rat >2agi: Move 33 >2Ap+1fcs: Give my wound to the statue "Try this on for a size!"
Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: wounded 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 4/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 22:46:52 No. 5845627 Report Quoted By:
And good riddance too. Someone, throw those things in the fire and lets get on with our day. Boxing is not and never will be a fighting art, and I do not care for how well Butcher has laid low every challenge he has faced tonight.
ChainCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ChainCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 22:56:47 No. 5845635 Report Quoted By:
>>5845439 <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">Water is no shape and thus is water unrestrained by the coercive forces that the Other attempts to imprint upon it, the great cooling, the Eternal Flow, it is said that in the depths below the Leviathan Straits are lands we cannot comprehend ruled by monarchs more titanic than the vast reaches of the Pytherii political sphere I am water I am wind I am shapeless chainless changeless unbound I do not seek perfection for I am not flawed I do not seek becoming for I am all that I need to be I am at peace with my own flaws and in flaws I find peace for what are not but the duties we choose to uphold and the chains we wrap around our own souls
i am free of the soul
i am free of the flesh
i am
that is all</span></span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 23:27:03 No. 5845649 Report There! <span class="mu-i">There!</span>. You hear that woos, the soft whiffle-pop, the slow groan of timber? The fire has it now, the Empyreal's Embrace. The High Eye will *feast*
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 6 = 18 (6d6) >>5845649 >{4AP} Move 6656 >{1AGI, Move 12} Climb up the statue and onto the roof! >{2AGI, 2AP} Move 5566 >{ALL OF THE FOCUS} Grapple the mothrat! >{0AP} Succumb to the mask... There's only one option here. #Mock
==Core==
Guard 5/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 2 GLORY
-Status: 1 Bruise
==Array==
Health 2/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 6?/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 27 Nov 2023 23:46:16 No. 5845666 Report Quoted By:
>>5845351 Some Focus unspent - see turn.
>>5845354 Knuckleduster is a lot of things, but it sadly does not trigger on Blocking (Not very aggressive, all told). Some focus unspent. 9/12.
>>5845423 You feel for *certain* that the drugs will wear off at the end of THIS turn.
>>5845424 Some focus unspent - 7/12
>>5845539 Next time, try to avoid standing in smoke in sand on top of a fallen body. It helps !
>>5845565 Leone, Butcher can **REALLY** hit, wow. Slip pulled you to your feet, so you're good to go, but that one was a <span class="mu-i">skullrattler</span>.
-Status: OUCH
-Status: -2 from wounds, 3 bruises.
It seems the Wrackwood, stained by your own sweat, tears and blood have granted you a boon. A critical failure from someone else that hits you? That seems to count.
<span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s">Khorkis, Resplendent Advancer of Great Works Through Bloodied Hands</span></span>, or, as some call it, <span class="mu-i">the worm that devours the hearts of men with glory</span>.
You can use this Boon with a Focus roll. It rewards tenacity, conviction, courage, self-sacrifice and devotion. Which might seem rather vague, but what is a dream but an unstoppable force given direction? They say belief and Fatih can both move mountains, but it's the dream of hills to become mountains in the first place.
To spend a boon, take an action and invoke it. It helps to invoke it for a purpose the Icon *appreciates*, or they're won't to do much grand good. On the other hand, if you do something that rewards their keen attention to you, the world will <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">resonate</span></span> with the thrum of their presence.
In this case, conviction, ambition, devotion, self-sacrifice... Or, as some might put it, *Glory Seeking*? The Boon will likely help you pull off something *grand*, or help someone else do something glorious.
>>5845589 Work on your public speaking, Slip.
>>5845625 Didn't see you there, Spiders, Man. Grand apologies. But as a Statue is an unliving thing and you are <span class="mu-s">not an animist</span> you appear unable to make it accept the truth that it is in fact capable of being wounded at all.
Strange. There was a moment there where it looked like that almost worked. I wonder if that means it's possible. It would take an an animist.
Are all Vulpes so close to the Mesh that they can, with a twist and a push, change the world? No, it's... a way of life, a martial art, a style of thing-taking and stuff-stealing and pocket-pilfering, it's not <span class="mu-i">animism</span>. Is it? . . . Is it? Hm.
I mean. If it *was* some sort of animism, you'd need a Link to establish the Boundary Impermance between you and it, and allow the twin mixing of sympathies and the flow of signature, some established way of Influencing the specific thing, some way to, you know, mix influences. To influence it, somehow. Yeah, if you could find a way to influence it to have a Link with you, maybe you're just enough of a hedge animist that the Taking Arts could work? But I don't know how you'd influence something to link with you.
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
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Rolled 5, 1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4 = 32 (9d6) >>5845649 >1Ap: Breathe in some of that Moth dream (but remember to breathe normally) to alleviate/deny wound >3agi+1ap+1FCS: Do some sick moves to get up the building and face EL POLILLA >1rp: dodge >3ap: Attempt to !Mine Now EL POLILLA'S ability to dodge >3fcous: Throw Slapcrete at EL POLILLAS FEET >1AP+1fcs: Get ready for something REALLY BAD TO HAPPEN (Sense Check. Get ready to jump) "LOOK HERE. I KNOW THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT TO YOU BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO COME DOWN WITH US."
Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: wounded 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 5-5=0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 6, 5, 1, 3, 1 = 22 (6d6) >>5845649 >3 AP: Move 656 >1 Agi+4 Focus, Move 12+4: Scramble up the statue and get on that roof >2 Agi+1 AP: Move 665 >1 AP+all of the focus, Brawling 14+6: hit the rat with TWIN MOTHWING FINAL DROPKICK >0 AP: mothmask...take the wheel #Tier
==Core==
Guard 2/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 10/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 = 33 (12d6) >>5845649 >3 Agility +2 focus: Move 11 and use the statue to climb to the roof (Move 10+2) >1 Focus: Hold my breath, this smoke has to be illegal >3 AP: Move 656 to the mothrat's back >2 AP: Kidney punch >1 AP 1 Focus: Kidney punch >3 Focus: Grab the mothman and jump off the burning roof #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+2 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Riv
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 2, 1, 6, 6, 4, 3, 1, 4 = 31 (9d6) >>5845649 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 0/12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
>(3AP, 1AGI) Riv sharply jerks his grip, pulling the rooftile he is dangling by free and sliding down the wall. > (3AP, 1AGI) Riv allows the ceaseless pull of gravity flow through him as he descends. Feet bracing and knee buckling as his feet strike the ground, Riv feels the ebb of momentum that he knew would follow. The masked brawler allows the jolt of force rebound through his body without resistance, carrying to his left shoulder - guided by a thoughtful angling of a limb, and honed by a complimentary flex of musculature. The inertia of the landing is transferred into a swing of an arm, a flick of a wrist, propelling a roof tile through the air in a whip-like flourish. The shard of ceramic whistles through the air, wildly spiraling on a collision course not with the SightRat, but with the tree limb upon which they perched. > (3FOC, 1AGI, 1RP) Arm hanging slack, back bowed, legs bent, eyes clear and focused on the transiently transcendent Rat. Riv's purges their of tension, empty all intent from their mind, reshaping themselves into a receptive conduit of force. He waits swaying gently, keenly poised to turn the SlightRat's incoming counterstroke aside through a passive redirection rather than an traditional riposte. Lagomorpheus
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Rolled 5, 1, 3, 6, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5 = 41 (9d6) >1AP - Make sure these swords are securely tied in their sheathes so that no Moth can liberate them and use them for untoward deeds. >1Agi - Hop SE (3) onto the building. [Dice 1-3, (Move = 12)] >2Agi - Bounce 3,3 across the roof >5 Focus, 5 AP - Acquire (modified 19) that Moth's knife, [strike]from the front, in broad daylight[strike] from the side under a purple moth-haze. They are using it unsafely in an unsafe manner in an unsafe place. >AP - Bravely, Bravely Run away. To the 6,6 hopping off the roof. Try not to stab myself on the way down. [dice 7-9] >+[Sword Hunter]: Roll Sense to sniff out nearby weaponry
Lagomorpheus
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Those last two moves were my last 2 focus. I just got excited and mistyped.
Lagomorpheus
Quoted By:
Oh, and it's Probos, not Propbos.
The Butcher
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d6) >>5845649 > SHEER DETERMINATION: Hit. Him. Boxing+2, Damage+5. 5 Focus > ACT?: Still conscious, somehow? How about another, all Focus > MOVE: 2323 > ACT: Tap in Wax Worm... again. #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+3 Maskstain
The Butcher
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>>5843978 Sodding damn building's on fire. it's time to go. Climb on, you're not getting up that wall with a broken arm by yourself.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 3, 5, 6 = 14 (3d6) >>5845649 "Stupid moth thinks he's hot shit because the universe thought it'd be cool to create a guy that can't be touched and hops around everywhere like a grasshopper. Gonna murder the next one I find I think, teach the lot a lesson in humility. No way am I jumping on a burning building to try to grab that bar of soap though."
>3 Agil: Move 112 >6 AP: Climb up the incline. If any AP remains, move in the 1/6 direction. Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Tue 28 Nov 2023 02:34:56 No. 5845813 Report Quoted By:
>>5845789 They're almost as infuriating as boxers !
Leone
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Rolled 5, 6, 6 = 17 (3d6) >>5845649 "Huh what how when? Now my jaw also hurts." She stops for a moment and looks at the downed rat and kicks. "Ok i'll take a little breather for now."
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: OUCH
-Status: -2 from wounds, 3 bruises.
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>6 ap: Just kick the prone rat >3 agi: recover focus >react: parry Waxworm
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Rolled 3, 3, 4, 1, 6, 1 = 18 (6d6) >>5845649 EEEEEEEEYA!
Right, I'm awake. I AM awake. That didn't work out quite as I expected. Give me a moment here, Butch - I want to take a gander at these mighty warriors.
>3AP+2AGI Power Through. A little pop, and maybe this arm will - ah, no. Definitely not. >1AGI, move 4. I would say put on an act, look beaten and broken but we're already there. Give a friendly wave. >1AP+2FOC, Understand, watch the duel and perform stylistic analysis. Who has a weaker guard? Look for openings to rush in there, snag a valuable when the guard drops. >RP: Dodge. It hasn't worked yet, but luckily nobody close is in fighting shape. #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: Oh void why?
-Status: Two wounds (Serious) Two breaks? (very not good)
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 4/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
-2 Maskstains
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
Fourth Dusk
Rolled 2, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2 = 12 (6d6) >>5845649 > 3 Agility: Move 222 > 3 AP: Climb 1, 2. Rolling Move (10+1) > 3 AP: kick the Rat with 4 Guard. #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12 (Brawling Gloves)
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Fourth Dusk
Quoted By:
>>5845866 >Reaction Point: Block (The Rat with 4 Guard should be 2 x2 of me after my climbing.)
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 1, 4, 4, 3, 6 = 24 (6d6) >>5845649 "I've seen a few DISAPPEARING ACTS in my day! How about you change your career to COOKED HUMAN PRETZEL FIRE EATER."
>2AGI: Move 23 >3AP+1AG+2FOC: Weave into the mothrat's personal space and tightly secure their arms. (vs 12+3) >3AP: Slam them into the ground facefirst against the burning part of the rooftop. (vs 12+grapple bonus) >Reaction:Apply pressure to their limbs to hinder their attack. #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 9/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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>>5845649 *muffled honks of HATE*
>3AP: get out of the thistle >3Ag: restore Guard >3AP: pocket the knife that hit me #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Loot==
Some coins
2-3 bits
Abnegation
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2 = 16 (6d6) >>5845649 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 11/12
AP 0 Agility 0 RP 0
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
>1 Focus: Move 3 >3 Focus: Clamber up to the roof, then hold on to the ledge. Build power in the arms and the legs and the core, then channel it all for the sole purpose of propelling this body up into a majestic arc that comes down straight on the grappled Moth. (Move 12 + 2) >9 Focus: Serpent's Precept, Piercing. A kick named Spear of the Startreader, aimed at the Moth. (Shatterhands 12 - 4 + 6) Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Tue 28 Nov 2023 14:32:48 No. 5846415 Report Quoted By:
>>5845866 <span class="mu-b">Told ya, maskmaster. Kicking Boxing. It's a whole thing. You just gotta get into the Vanadian spirit! </span>
>Technique Manual update with the first Advanced Technique! > *Snap Kick* ! <span class="mu-s">SNAP KICK</span>
Rq: Punch or grapple on last action OR a successful Block during World Phase.
Effect: -1 AP discount on a kick. Can’t improve +Hit past -2 (it's snappy, see, but imprecise)
> Naturally, everyone who isn't otherwise limited can attempt uncovered advanced techniques. Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
>>5845649 #Pugiliste (Red Droplet)
==Core==
Guard 7
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 1/2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>Reaction: Parry >1AGI: Move 2 >2AGI: Climb up the wall to the roof. >6AP: Taunt: "Hey you scruffy toilet paper weaing Voildbrain! Try me!" Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
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Rolled 2, 3, 6, 1, 6, 6 = 24 (6d6) >>5847108 (Shit, the rolls)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 01:14:31 No. 5847303 Report Quoted By:
What is this? She fights like nothing I have ever seen, or heard about - it's like something form the War of 638, those damned mask-wearing Vandians, their trencher corps. The ... anathema ...>+1 Wound, Lago
CulminationCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CulminationCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 01:34:39 No. 5847333 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5, 3, 2, 5, 5, 5, 4 = 53 (12d6) <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">Sightrat</span></span>>xF: Back-Kick Shove Slicerat 2 down 3 [3d6] >xF: Step 6 >xF: Shove Maskmate 6 up 1 [3d6] >xF: Step up, 1, mark-stab >xF: Jump 222 [3d6] >x!F: Sprint 2/3 >xF: Remember my corporeal exisance >xF: Remember to Breathe >xF: Remember I have a heart >xF: Resist the crash [3d6]
CulminationCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CulminationCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 01:50:30 No. 5847348 Report <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">do you>Fourth Dusk gets hit at a series of perfect angles and takes a stumble and then a tumble!</span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 01:51:42 No. 5847351 Report Quoted By:
Abnegation falls like stars once did
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 01:53:04 No. 5847353 Report Quoted By:
Let go of your grip now, Mock? In your moment of TRIUMPH?
Meta-Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5847348 >Rolled 17 on shove >It shoves him 2-3 tiles aint no way chief
THE LAW aka meta-Amicus
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>>5847358 That was the back-kick, rolled a 12
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:00:43 No. 5847365 Report Quoted By:
Abnegation kicks off of the Mothrats shoulders and lands on their feet and -- woah --- whup -- yeah -- there's the comedown. >Abnegation is back to the more mundane form of self denial.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:03:50 No. 5847370 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">Something brushes Sal's knee ever so lightly, like a soft breeze, a gentle summer wind, a ...
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:19:41 No. 5847385 Report Quoted By:
The Empyreal's Embrace has the warehouse now.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:28:42 No. 5847400 Report But after the fight, oh friend, after the fight come the bruises and the clicking of the bone and the unwrapping of your hand wraps and the slow, sure tally - more of us than them? Glory, grand deeds, or grim accounting?>Aftershock Phase. No active hostiles - RP converts to 3 AP, as you need not "react" to enemies. >If worried about danger, Reaction as a skill-roll or a Prepared action is quite useful (And that's only 1 AP!). Yeah, sorry, Maskmate, you might be good, but you're not "parrying a falling wall" good. >Guard remains relevant, against environmental dangers. >What'll... be?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:36:43 No. 5847412 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-s">You should know...</span>
Riv
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Rolled 3, 2, 5 = 10 (3d6) >>5847400 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 0/12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (1AGI) Casually waltz [1]x1. Stand over the incapacitated SightRat. > (1RP) Prepare a redirection parry. > (6AP) Inspect the status of the SightRat. (Sense12+3AP) *Riv shrugs sympathetically and offers a commiseratory smirk.*
'Tough luck pal, though on the other hand: I DID warn you.'
> (2 AGI) Move [2]x1, [1]x1. Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 2, 5, 1 = 8 (3d6) >>5847400 Hey, I saw some rats emerge from this building here. Wonder if there's anything valuable inside. Wonder if there's anything flammable to help this inferno along.
>3 Agil: Move 656 >3 AP: Move 565 >3 AP: Look inside this building for valuables. Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
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>>5847400 >>5847436 I forgot we had 9 AP
>Spend 2 more AP to enter the building proper before searching, then add the 1 leftover AP to the Search action. Lagomorpheus
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>3AGI - Move 5,4,4 >1AP - Acquire poor lost abandoned gloves >1AP - Acquire poor lost abandoned Door >1AP - Move 1 >5ish AP - Acquire the 3 poor abandoned light blue bags of organs. Load them onto my new door-travois. >Rest of AP - Drag my loot off the map. This would be easier with someone to help me carry it. I'm willing to split the loot on the door. >+[Sword Hunter]: Roll Sense to sniff out nearby weaponry
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Rolled 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 2 = 22 (6d6) >>5847400 >-I need to not be standing here. >-I need to not be standing here. >-I need to not be standing here. >-I need... >{3FOC} ...to STAND (Phase II) (6 + 3 = 9) >{1AP} Hold my breath. >{3AP} Grab the moth. >{1AGI, Move 12} Jump off the roof 1. >{2AGI, 5AP} Move as close to the left edge as I can get, leaving entirely if I can. #Mock
==Core==
Guard 0/12
AP 6(+3) Agility 3 RP 1(-1)
-Status: 3? Aggression, 2? Cunning, 2? GLORY
-Status: 6 Wounds, Burning, K.O.
==Array==
Health -3/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 3/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5847465 (Darn, missed the phase 2 roll. Disregard the rest of my actions since I'm still knocked the fuck out.)
Abnegation
>>5847469 In light of this, what would the AP cost be for picking up someone's unconscious body so you can carry them away?
Amicus
>>5847400 >3 Agility + 1 AP: Move 6655 >1 AP: Take a deep breath away from the smoke, then hold breath again >2 AP: Move 24 >6AP: Help Lago carry the wounded to safety on his makeshift stretcher #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+2 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Amicus
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>>5847542 (I accidentally spent 1 more AP than I should, last act should be 5 AP)
The Butcher
Rolled 5, 5, 5, 1, 6, 6 = 28 (6d6) >>5847400 That's not our fight, friend. He'd rip the your lungs out if you tried, besides. Coming or what?
> MOVE: Get climbing once Wax Worm hops on (move+4) The Easy Way > REACT: grab him if he tries to get killed again instead. The Hard Way (boxing+2) 2 Focus > ACT: Wasn't there... Something else though? ...
> Tap Contact, Wrackwaster 8. Dead drop. 6AP. Oh Well, It Was Probably Nothing #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
+3Maskstain
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Rolled 4, 1, 5 = 10 (3d6) >>5847400 >1AP Recover Focus >3AP+3AGI Do a sick jump 111 across to the other rooftop. (vs Move 12) >3AP Clamber 123 off the rooftop. #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
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>>5847580 >2AP+3AGI instead of 3AP
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
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>>5847580 >3AP+2AGI >2AP+1AGI to move off rooftop instead
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
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(I need to go to sleep. Tag me in and bot me out, or just drag me out - just don't leave me hanging, please.)
Waxworm
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Rolled 1, 4, 3, 3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 6 = 29 (9d6) >>5847400 >>5847564 Butcher, I have to do it. Look at that matchup and tell me it's a proper duel. I need to help her because it's the right thing to do. I believe in Waxworm, and I think you should too.
>1AP activate reactions. Dodge. >3AP DODGE BETTER >3AGI+1AP, move 4444 >4AP Pocketpilfer. Nab something that he NEEDS. Scalehearts have a, er, scale right? Or is it a wrackstone? >3WP Disorient the man >3WP Disorient the man >Succumb to the mask. All the stops. Waxworm needs to make GOOD CHOICES! #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 2/10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: Oh void why?
-Status: One wound (-1), Seven bruises (ouch), Shattered Arm (-1 Parry, -2 Grapple, +1Critfail)
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
-2 Maskstains
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
Fourth Dusk
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>>5847400 > 1 AP: Pull myself up [6] > 3 Agility, 1 AP: Move [666, 5] > 1 AP: Take hold of the downed Sightrat. > 3 AP: Drag them [323] > 3 AP: Take their things. It’s only fair. #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 6/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12 (Brawling Gloves)
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
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Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7 (3d6) >>5847400 >3AP: Get up >3agi+1ap: Move 333 2 >3ap: !Pocket pilfer the bodies >2ap: pull the bodies out of the smoke to 33 Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: wounded 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 5-5=0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 10:50:11 No. 5847770 Report >>5847492 Simply 1, and a shoulder to carry your burdens on.
Abnegation
Rolled 6, 2, 6 = 14 (3d6) >>5847770 Why thank you.
>>5847400 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 7/12
AP 9 Agility 3 RP 0
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12/13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
>2 Agility: Move 23 >2 AP: Pick up the Moth and Mock (Moth and Mock sounds like a band name) >1 Agility, 5 AP: Leap 16 (Move 12 + 5 - ? because I /am/ carrying two people) >2 AP: Move 66 "This mind regrets that you were also hit," Abnegation says quietly as she hoists Mock onto her shoulders beside the Moth. "Perhaps this is why some Shatterhands practicioners prefer to call out their attacks."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:44:57 No. 5847856 Report Quoted By:
>>5847772 Also it channels their Kiyaaaacks, which I think is the Rikovian term for the noise whistling foot hitting a board makes
Bot-Tier
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>>5847400 (Botting for Tier, as their IP got banned.)
>{1AP} Hold breath. >{2AGI, 4+AP} Move 656 565, leaving the map. #Tier
==Core==
Guard 2/12
AP 6(+3) Agility 3(-1) RP 1(-1)
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 10/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothmask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 14:47:40 No. 5847925 Report Quoted By:
This <span class="mu-b">Sight-Rat</span> will see nothing for a long while. The chains of the world are firmly wrapped around their limbs, but the stoutness with which they bear their pained state is strange.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 14:49:16 No. 5847927 Report The inside of this warehouse is choke-thick with fumes and soon to be hallway filled with fire. Sal sweeps his eye across the tables and counters and chairs. The rats abandoned their work to flee, and in doing so, it looks like they dropped their tools and various bits. But this place is still pretty bare - a rat-scavenged hole more than hidden treasury.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:10:59 No. 5847958 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 6, 4 = 16 (3d6) Butcher hoists Waxworm up over a shoulder and begins the ascent, but Waxworm struggles and twists and tears his own wounds open in the doing.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:17:31 No. 5847968 Report Quoted By:
Fourth Dusk swings off of a ledge, with grace, and grabs the Sightrat (still marvelously unconscious), then pulls them back, way away from the choking fumes and stinging chemicals.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:26:37 No. 5847978 Report Quoted By:
Being a doctor is back-breaking work. Spiders, Man!? uncovers 4 bits collective, and this one on the left, the skinny one, he had a vial of [Heartflush], every marching soldiers favorite friend and hated nemesis. It promotes a certain rapidity of response.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:30:15 No. 5847983 Report Quoted By:
>>5847772 Almost made, but the smoke made the last bit a right trap of careful footwork and groaning roof-tiles. You go down in a sprawl of Slice Rats, moth rats, Mock and the faint realization that you didn't even have to think about trying to balance your own inner ear. It just happened. Score for one automaticity. You wouldn't even have made it this far if you had needed to concentrate so hard to remember to exist!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:38:48 No. 5847993 Report Quoted By:
With some grunting effort, sweat and the chill stains of sudden cold between the licks of high heat, Maskmates filter out of the area, into the city proper, into the afternoon hours. The fire brigades will be here soon, and a hundred Slice Rats, to harass and harry, and there are grander, better, far more worthier places to be
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:51:55 No. 5848004 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9 (3d6) And what is pain but the molting of your new skin, and wounds the mark of a new form?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 16:04:22 No. 5848011 Report Quoted By:
Waxworm takes 90 resonating feedback and turns into various interesting types of novel organic mist.
CombustionCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CombustionCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 16:17:10 No. 5848030 Report <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">ugh my h-head... ugh...>MASK PHASE
Bot-Tier
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>>5848030 (Question, has our RP gone back to functioning as normal, or do we still have 9AP?)
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 16:40:57 No. 5848058 Report Quoted By:
… are we fighting again?? Uh?! Why are you all GLOWING> Fight ! Fight ! Fight ! > Reactions back on, AP at 6
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 29 Nov 2023 16:44:08 No. 5848064 Report <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">… wait is that… Waxworms Mask. It was made of wood. That’s organic material. Hygeaic doctors swear she finds whatever she has for pleasure in that!
Riv
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Rolled 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 4 = 16 (6d6) >>5848030 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 10/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 10] :: [Focus 0/12]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 12]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
> (2AGI) Move [1]x2. > (3AP) Search the downed Rat for anything interesting (interesting is also a secret synonym for valuable). (Sense12) > (1AGI) Move [1]x1 *Distant ambience of Waxworm's vaporization*
"..."
"Huh, that was certainly a 'festive' noise. Well... as the upstanding citizen that I am it would be direly irresponsible to not check it out - *unconscionably* so."
> (3AP) Sprint towards the boxes to the far east. (Move12). > (1RP) Avoid tripping. Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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Rolled 4, 6, 2, 2, 6, 2 = 22 (6d6) >>5848030 >Hold breath >3Ag, 1F: move 11 22 >Have the smoke cover my approach >6AP: attack the rats 2 and 3 of me by bonking their heads together >Aggress >Parry #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Loot==
Some coins
2-3 bits
Knife (1d3 bleed)
The Butcher
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Rolled 2, 1, 5 = 8 (3d6) >>5848030 A mere droplet no more
> Recover 1 Focus > REACT: Block (+2 from agility) > ACT: Floor that one 3 of me (+2 damage) > MOVE: Onto his spot The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
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>>5848030 >Move 232 >3AP Move 211 >3AP Move 16 >It's leavin' time. #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 4/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 7/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
Waxworm
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>>5848030 >>5848064 >6AP Move 111 on my newfound mask legs and attach to my new host. The KO’d Slicerat will do. >This Wax is good, I just need to Worm my way in… #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 0/10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: Wormless Wax? Waxless Worm?
-Status: Uncertain existence
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
==Mask==
Waxwood (+Weird)
-2 Maskstains?
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
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>>5848030 >>Use all AP to exfil Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: wounded 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 5-5=0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Anonymous
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Rolled 4, 6, 3, 5, 3, 6 = 27 (6d6) >>5848030 ‘……’
>3 Agility: Recover 3 Guard >4 AP: Bodyslam the Rat [5] of me off the ledge. >2 AP: Snap Kick Rat [6, 2] of me, before they can get up. Reaction Point: Block
Really, really hoping guard taker takes effect….
Rea
#Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 6/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12 (Brawling Gloves)
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 3, 5, 2 = 10 (3d6) >>5847927 Just my luck, a bunch of junk. There are more coming, and outside sounds like more of a scuffle, this is very dangerous. But dang, there’s got to be something good in here, right?
>2 Agil: Recover Guard >1 AP: Cover my mouth and nose, try to limit breathing. >1 Agil, 2 AP: Move 611 >3 AP: look around deeper in the room for anything valuable. >1 RP: Dodge Abnegation
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>>5848030 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 7/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 10/13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7 - USED THIS OUTING
Animist Associate - 8
>3 AP: Stand up >3 AP: Tag in Mock >2 Focus: Pick up the Moth and one of the downed rats, just in case the building goes kaput even here >3 Agility: Move 665, escape off the left of the map Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
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>>5848030 (Experimental turn. Be prepared to tell me this isn't how it works.)
>-Get tapped in. Suffer -6AP from my Wounds. >{1RP} Convert RP to AP. (+3AP) >{1AP} Stand up. >{1AP} Grab the remaining rat. >{2AGI} Move 656 and leave. (If I'm not allowed to do this, then I guess I'll just sit this turn out.)
#Mock
==Core==
Guard 0/12
AP 6(-6) Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 2 GLORY
-Status: 6 Wounds, K.O., Prone
==Array==
Health 0/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
Lagomorpheus
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Rolled 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5 = 21 (6d6) >6AP - Search for the rope/manacles/bindings that my Red Market contacts gave me to tie up the captive rats. [7+3=10]>+[Sword Hunter]: Roll Sense to sniff out nearby weaponry
FireFox
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>>5848030 "It was fun fighting with you all but me and Slip here have to slip away for now."
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: OUCH
-Status: -2 from wounds, 3 bruises.
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>2agi: Weave past these pummeled rats (Move 66 to ledge) show of that Rikovian style legwork. >1ap, 1agi: Cross this ledge in swift fashion (11) >5ap: Move into hedge maze (61111) Amicus
>>5848030 >Redeploy "Leave no mask behind!"
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+2 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 16:39:36 No. 5849305 Report >>5849272 <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">Oh, a real mask*mate*, is it? Hot tip, hotfeet, if you want to make it to a place where you can rescue anyone on time to pull them from the paws of these rats, you should get moving!
Act from Riv's position if you feel you must, but I ought to tell you even I'm starting to find this whole affair a little less sensible than I'd love to like!
But <span class="mu-i">hey</span>
that's what heroics are for, ye?</span></span>
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 2, 5, 1, 4, 5, 2, 6, 5 = 34 (9d6) >>5848030 >Get out of Riv's pocket >3 Agility: Move 433 >2ap: Punch the standing rat to my 4 >2ap: Punch prone rat to my 2 >2ap: Punch the other prone rat to my 2 >1RP: Block Hang in there Dusk. You'll not fall today.
>>5849305 Just my duty ma'am. Can't just stand in the sidelines and watch a maskmate get overwhelmed.
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+2 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 22:28:50 No. 5849651 Report Looks like Sal is finding the Flame game we interrupted. Ufh, one of those rats had a winning hand. Two Empyreals in Morning' Glory? You don't get that much gold in all the Glimmervelts, friend, that's a rare draw!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 22:47:01 No. 5849692 Report Abnegation and Mock aid some concussed rats off of the warm and getting warmer rooftrees, heading for the streets around the place. Duck into a side-way, keep low - you can hear the ruckus starting now, the shouts, the screams, always so it goes
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 22:59:23 No. 5849704 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 6, 6, 2, 6, 6, 4, 4, 5 = 44 (9d6) >>5849692 I think this is starting to be a bad place to be, no laughing matter at all !
>3AP: Grab rat to my right, Klaunn just got him off his feet >3AP: throw him at these two besides me >2Agi: Grab Fourth Dusks Hand, it’s conveniently hanging over the ledge, get out of here >1Agi: Move-check to help Klaunn up CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:15:21 No. 5849738 Report Quoted By:
The Butcher... he's just...
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:16:25 No. 5849740 Report Quoted By:
Is he just . . . He just... <span class="mu-i">standing there</span> and...
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:17:54 No. 5849744 Report Quoted By:
taking it[/i:lit]?
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:40:07 No. 5849786 Report <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">help a girl out, will you</span></span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:48:54 No. 5849804 Report >>5848408 Sal, you can maybe try to get out through that window (or somewhere else). Don't be too dissuaded by the fact that breaking through it seems hard - you can't really "miss" a stationary object under normal conditions.
But trying to beat it apart is a mugs game. Pry it off the wall or something. You can Influence (or Style) your way through it by attempting to manipulate it. You only need to beat its DR in Margin that way (2, in this case) rather than break it apart with your bare hands. Though, if you want to try that way...
Well, maybe be a Shatterhand. They're unreasonably good at beating up boards.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 4, 3, 1 = 8 (3d6) >>5849651 Ah shit.
>3 Agil: Move 323 >2 AP: Move 22 >1 AP: Grab the Courier Bag >3 AP: Move 556 >4 Focus: Move 554 3 >1 Focus: Sprint East #Sal
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 2/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet
Amicus
Quoted By:
Rolled 3, 6, 5, 6, 1, 4 = 25 (6d6) >>5849786 >6AP: PULL >3 Agility: If I've pulled everyone up, run before that waxspider gets us! Grrrrrarrgh!
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 10
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 10
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+2 Maskstain
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5849804 Yeah but with the amount of energy and time I would need to spend to break or pry open the window I would already be out the door by just running. What hooligans actually boards there windows around here? I don't remember any hurricanes passing through here. If they really wanted discretion, curtains would do just fine and for cheaper! Ugh, rats.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5849806 Also
>1 RP: Parry CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 01 Dec 2023 00:12:40 No. 5849837 Report Quoted By:
>>5849812 >>5849815 Good thinking, though mind the smoke !
Fourth Dusk
>>5849786 > 3 AP: Pocketpilfer the Rat’s *grip*. Let her go! *Let her go!* > 3 AP: With my stolen leverage, help Amicus *pull*. > 3 Agility: Follow Amicus away from the spider monster. > 0 AP: Call out to Slip to come with us. > 0 AP: Be very grateful to Amicus. > Reaction: Dodge (I don’t think that can be blocked….) #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 6/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 12 (Brawling Gloves)
Plain Mask
==Contacts==
Outlander (8)
Red Market (7)
Fourth Dusk
Quoted By:
Rolled 1, 3, 5, 1, 4, 2 = 16 (6d6) >>5849943 Rolls…..
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 5, 3 = 12 (3d6) >>5849786 >6AP+3AGI: Steal the window and exfil? I'm sure someone will buy it...or maybe we'll use it idk (Taking Arts 12) >1rp: Stay safe out there. Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: wounded 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 5-5=0/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
==Mask==
Plain
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Riv
Quoted By:
#Riv> (3AGI+3AP) Jog [3]x1, [4]x4, [5]x1. > (3AP) Riv snatches up the Wrackwood animant by the edges of the thorax, mindful to keep the entity's violently twitching limbs pointing away from his body. > (1RP) Prepare a dodge.
Riv
Quoted By:
#Riv> (3AGI+3AP) Slowly Jog [3]x2, [4]x3, [5]x1. > (3AP) Riv snatches up the Wrackwood animant by the edges of the thorax, mindful to keep the entity's violently twitching limbs pointing away from his body. > (1RP) Prepare a dodge.
The Butcher
Rolled 4, 2, 6, 1, 3, 6, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 6 = 52 (12d6) >>5849786 (there is no way this turn works)
> ACT: 3AP Trick the Boxers Guard > ACT: 3AP Shove him into his friends (spend 2 focus, add 2 hit. Add 3 grit to damage) > MOVE: 1Agility, Evade (spend 1 focus, add 1 hit) > MOVE: 1Agility, 1Focus. Move 32 > MOVE: 1Agility. Up the statue (again), over the edge (again) (spend 1 focus, add 1 hit) > REACT: Dodge > If any Focus goes unspent, add to Guard #The Hook Alley Butcher
==Core==
Guard X/12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 13
==Style==
Vanadian Boxing 12
==Mask==
Drenched Red? (+Violence?)
+3?Maskstain
The Butcher
Quoted By:
>>5850040 See you all in the afterlife.
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
>>5849786 >All AP. All Ag. All Focus: disengage, run south through the smoke keeping one hand on the thistle wall as a guide to not get lost in the smoke, and leave the map with all haste >Don't breathe in the smoke #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 5/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Loot==
Some coins
2-3 bits
Knife (1d3 bleed)
Leone
Quoted By:
>>5849786 "I have arrived."
# Rion 'Leone'
==Core==
Guard 13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: OUCH
-Status: -2 from wounds, 3 bruises.
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
==Mask==
Wrackwood (+Weird)
>3agi: Move 111 >3ap: Move 561 facing 4 >3ap: Overwatch punch if rat comes to range >react: parry CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 11:46:42 No. 5851205 Report Riv? Riv be careful. Riv that thing is all instinctual predation and a need for new sensation, I don't think--- Riv?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 11:48:08 No. 5851207 Report RIV
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Quoted By:
>>5851205 >>5851207 Told them about the Spiders. Friendly my ass.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:02:16 No. 5851215 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 2, 2, 1, 2, 6 = 43 (12d6) Leone escapes!>Interception! Move 11 >3Ap: headbutt Slicerat 4 >3Ap: Kneestrike Slicerat 4 >3Agi: Roll move to get *out* of here*, thank you, I have places to be
CoachCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CoachCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:17:47 No. 5851220 Report <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s"> HE'S DOING A RUNNER. GET 'EM, BOYS! </span></span>>Against move 11, these interceptors get 1 margin.
CoachCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CoachCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:19:08 No. 5851222 Report <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">HE'S DOING A RUNNER. GET 'EM, BOYS! </span></span>>Against move 11, these interceptors get 1 margin. >Klaunn: Beat them in a standard, unmodified move check or take as many wounds as you fail by, as they pummel you proper before you escape
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:20:51 No. 5851223 Report Quoted By:
>>5851220 Time to go, people. Time to go very much indeed - looks like that final desperate knee-strike broke their hold and we're free to flee. They've all gone and tangled their whiskers and tails in a painful pile
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:23:21 No. 5851224 Report Quoted By:
You know the old adage, yeah?
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 3, 6 = 11 (3d6) >>5851222 CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:34:30 No. 5851230 Report Quoted By:
Well, that was a all a little more hair-raising than we might have thought it could get. Good work, Maskmates, though.
ChangelingCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ChangelingCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 12:45:01 No. 5851232 Report <span class="mu-i">What an interesting feeling it is, to have both hands and legs and eyes by which to see and lungs with which to laugh and teeth with which to smile and eyes by which one can see and taste oh no that's the tongue tiiihii there are some many little chemical receptors and photoreceptors and nerve signals and neurons and what a wonderful amalgamation of chemical constraints the neuronal synaptic transmissions are !
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 13:13:59 No. 5851246 Report ==Masquerade Ball Finished==>Ash and Smoke >Swordhunter
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 13:15:01 No. 5851247 Report <span class="mu-s">Downtime and Destressing</span>
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5851246 (So do we get one of /each/ category (i.e. +1 guard, and +1 array stat, and +1 style, etc.) or do we pick one to raise?)
Riv(???)
>>5851232 'Ha! Certainly didn't see that coming... what a wily little critter. Am I to understand that my body has been usurped, or is this more of a roommate situation?'
'In either case I'm going to go with the flow and see what opportunities this new mode of existence provides, though it would be preferable to know what circumstances I'm starting from.'
(Is Riv still a playable character that is eligible for progression (
>>5851246 ), or has he become an NPC?)
Fourth Dusk
>>5851247 Two questions, Command…
A.
Is this a valid Improvement?
Guard 13 -> 14
Health 2 -> 3
Taking Arts 12 -> 13
No conditions to sell (surprisingly!)
Gain 12 Bits, 125 Gold Coins, 1 Reputation & Maskmyth, a pair of Boxing Gloves
B. If one wished to study a new fighting style, to mix it with their old one, how would they do it?
C. I still don’t fully understand Psyche, though, and what triggers ‘Psyche’ damage.
D. Additonally, how do we unlock more… ‘moves’, for our fighting styles, like Snap Kick or the advanced Style arts? And would it be possible to combine them moves from multiple Styles, if we studied diligently?
(Comment wise- I really enjoyed the game! It felt a lot like we were high flying vigilantes, right up until Waxworm violently exploded and ate Riv. I assume that’s part of the experience, though.
I liked how the guard system worked, making everyone more resilient than they seemed, but also indicating when unspoken rules are broken and damage became *lethal*. The mechanics are still confusing despite being literally written, but much more parseable.
What Masks and Maskstains are, and what they do beyond drive you to make poor choices in return for buffs, does feel… very arcane, though. I seem to have much more reason to care for tangible martial arts than maskstains, and yet I feel I’m missing something.)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 13:36:42 No. 5851254 Report Quoted By:
If you're the peculiar sort, it should be noted we updated the <span class="mu-s">Technique Manual</span> with some... advanced.. footwork.
Anonymous
>>5851246 Is "bump up a skill or a style" separate from the accrued style/skill points?
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5851247 (If we choose to learn a second Style, do we automatically learn that Style's passive techniques as well? And do those techniques apply only when actively using the style, or do they always apply? Like, if I had Shatterhands and learnt Taking Arts, would I be able to use Mine Now/Take This with Shatterhand's 1d6+Margin damage?
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:1872pDFU Sat 02 Dec 2023 14:08:54 No. 5851266 Report >>5851262 No! Sorry, Command tangled that one. A point bumps up a rating by +1, or a skill by +2
Trust Command to slip in a brainrattler at the end. Leave it to the rest of us to fix.
>>5851263 Mixed Martial Arts is Vanadian *heresy* and I thank you not to consider it.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5851246 May I sell my existing Style, and get a new one? If so, can I save my Style and Skills increase for this new skill? If I can't, does that increase make my Style sell more valuable if I apply the increase to my Style?
Is the damage to my Grit something I can sell to the Red Markets or does that just recover?
Abnegation
>>5851246 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13/13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 13
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
!Stormspin: Roll Style, add margin to next kick
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
===Things===
12 Bits
125 cold coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
>>5851266 Strangely enough, this mind does trust Command.
So, who wants pizza?
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:hZYDs+C3 Sat 02 Dec 2023 14:33:09 No. 5851283 Report Quoted By:
>>5851272 Eh, no one is much interested in Pain around here. Any half competent animist can get as much as they need with a hammer, you know?
It’s one bit for the lot, no haggling.
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5851246 >{2 Inspiration} +4 Move (and +3 Agility) >Sell 6 Wounds for 6 Bits #Mock
==Core==
Guard 12(+12)/12
AP 6 Agility 6(+3) RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 2 GLORY
-Status: Alive?(-6 Wounds)
==Array==
Health 3/3 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12(+12)/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 16(+4)
==Style==
Brawling 14
-!Creative Use Encouraged, !Wear My Kicking Boots, !Knuckledancer
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
==Stuff==
18(+6) Bits
125 Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5851246 >+1 Guard >+1 Health >+2 Move (and +1 Agility) >Sell 6 Wounds for 6 Bits #Mock
==Core==
Guard 13(+13)/13(+1)
AP 6 Agility 4(+1) RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 2 GLORY
-Status: Alive?(-6 Wounds)
==Array==
Health 4/4(+1) Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12(+12)/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 14(+2)
==Style==
Brawling 14
-!Creative Use Encouraged, !Wear My Kicking Boots, !Knuckledancer
==Mask==
Mothmask {1 STAIN}
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
==Stuff==
18(+6) Bits
125 Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
Lagomorpheus
>Raise Guard to 14. Pfff, as if anyone would every try to hit a rabbit. >Raise Move to 14, which incidentally raises Agi to 4 (min of Move-12 or 3). Run Rabbit Run. >Try to sell those bonded blades to the appropriate people. Where they'll end up killing monsters instead of in the hands of mercenary assassins. Get a no-name receipt for the taxes. Turn over the receipt and a tax witholding to the Family accountant. Pay the 10% tithe to the Family banner. Divide the rest among the mask-group-pot in accordance with the terms of the vigilante contract. >Turn over 1 bit and 13 gold coins to the Family. Death and/or Taxes baby. >Turn over the 3 bound mice to the right people. If no one reputable in the red markets wants them, I don't know. I don't want to sell them to a back-alley chop shop. Do the authorities reward Masks who turn in prisoners for questioning? >Offer the stolen boxing gloves to the other mercenaries on the way. Vulpes travel light, why burden myself with possessions that I don't want to use. Better to buy some good will with them instead. (Boxing gloves go to the first claimant who will actually wear them. If no takers, then I'll give them to the Family). >Buy a thief-staff. I would like to be able to pole vault and bop field mice on the head. Maybe talk to the Family about the best ways to use one or pay bits for a Staff Skill? >Buy some thin rope. For high altitude work and tying up bad guys. >Find an appropriate spot to start building a Fortress for our Auxilia Corpus. Start construction with my door. >Consider my Mask. I'd like to improve movement capabilities. Running or Hopping. Alternatively, rabbits are known for Biting, even if they are more scratchers in reality, so sharp teeth would be OK. Can my Mask Mark improve my existing weaponsense? What does that stain look like?
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 15:50:30 No. 5851337 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i"> . . . At best, then, a minor setback. </span></span>
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 16:08:29 No. 5851352 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-g"> A stain on my performance record. But at least your beer is good.</span>
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 16:11:11 No. 5851354 Report Quoted By:
("crash")
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 16:21:26 No. 5851363 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-r"> <span class="mu-i">Interrupt me again and I am going to ship you back to your void-touched country in a jar</span>. Four times this much, next month, on time. We're going to pay for it. You know I have the money. In fact I will <span class="mu-s">double the price</span> simply so you stop <span class="mu-i">complaining like a rat</span>.
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
ConspiracyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 16:55:28 No. 5851388 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-g">Very well then. I... I'll report to my supervisor. But I'm going to be sarcastic about it.</span>
The Butcher
>>5851247 > +1 Psyche (Waxworm painting me red with gore) > +1 Boxing (Many rats got punched) These advancements make sense to me.
I appreciated the detail of all the teeth going everywhere, tis a shame Wax screwed up the mission to collect them. That would have been fun.
Do you have to fail self control rolls to gain statuses like aggression or cunning? I was trying my best to play aggro after the first but I never got another point. Even 5 focus on that one guy didn't get one. Then it went away and I'm not sure why. Did the spider eat it?
How much maskstain was getting absolutely drenched in blood worth? I don't think its ever coming out.
Why are my allies so unreliable?
What style was Slip using? It didn't look like shatterhands
WHO IS KEN
WHO IS GREEN, WHO IS RED
Thanks for running! Poor Waxworm. With all of his wounds and his broken arm, he would have made out like a king. Selling injuries is a novel idea.
Waxworm
Quoted By:
>>5851389 As if this is the end of Waxworm, no this is just the beginning! I’ll be back next map to fail every dodge and inexplicably explode. Your mask will never be clean again.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5851246 >Guard +1, 14 -> 15 >Health +1, 2 -> 3 >Brawl +1, 14 -> 15 >Sell pain, +1 Bit >See about delivering the courier bag to the right place to make it rather difficult to exonerate the Slicerats >Search out a contact Say, what does a street fighter that uses naught for weapons and armor but their fists and feet use Bits for anyways? Also, what happens with the Core stat upgrade when I already have 15 Guard? Would I get any compensation or is that part of the reward just wasted?
#Sal
==Core==
Guard 15
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 15
==Mask==
Red Droplet
13 Bits
125 cold Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 18:31:58 No. 5851472 Report Rolled 3, 5, 2, 5, 1, 1 = 17 (6d6) >>5851249 They're split into categories because you apply the thing in each category to the thing.
>>5851250 It <span class="mu-i">seems</span> your body has been... commandeered.. by something... and you are no longer in control. Let's hope you wake up with a screaming headache at some point and not, as might be presumed, get inconvenienced by some sort of accident.
Sorry, can't be known.
>>5851252 It is, yes.
B: You wouldn't. Vanadian Mixed Martial Arts is <span class="mu-i">heresy</span>.
C: Scary things, frightening things, Influence checks to spook, intimidate, control, charm or confuse, sudden shocks. Psyche is for one's psyche. Nothing tonight has been particularly harrowing, other than the last bit, which you all resisted like champions. It is significantly worse for everyone who experiences frightening events. When Klaunn bends someones bones, you can see that the Slicerats on the roof take Terror - and thus, get compromised in what they can do and how they would act.
D: It seems there are strange and often arbitrary conditions attached to a Masquerade that results in things being revealed. It seems you must simply try things.
D+: Vanadian Mixed Martial Arts is <span class="mu-i">heresy</span>. That said, techniques that are not specifically locked to a fighting style seems to be able to be used by any. So, Snap Kicks, for instances, are available to all styles.
E: They drive poor choices in return for interesting force multipliers.
>>5851263 Vanadian Mixed Martial Arts is <span class="mu-i">heresy</span>. Stop trying it.
>>5851262 No, the Scribes just need to be punched. You spend 1 point to bump one thing by one. To be <span class="mu-i">painfully</span> technical, the system actual treats the memories of this Ball as "Inspiration", and one Inspiration allows one to increase one stat, style or skill by 1. The follow-the-dots method is specified in this thread because it's <span class="mu-i">faster</span>.
>>5851272 Nothing here appears to mention anything as advanced as "selling a style". So you appear to be asking questions for which there are no answers yet!
>>5851281 Me!
>>5851336 Your Blades, Bound Mice and Various Other Sundry is accounted for in the totaled mission payout, but thank you for diligence. We have . . . reached out . . . to the relevant friends and contacts in the Whisper Markets and it seems someone had use for a few Slicerats they could ask some questions off.
And don't worry, Maskmate, the Red Market is not - despite Vanadian horror stories - a market for mere murder. Not a hair on their heads or shred of their personalities will be harmed. But it is oh so very useful to oh so many people to ask a few questions of the kind of low-rate thugs that might know a thing or two. Information isn't worth its weight in gold, because there simply isn't enough gold in the world to pay for the kind of thing that can move mountains and shake empires.
As for your <span class="mu-i">accursed gloves</span>... well, we'll see about those.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 18:43:33 No. 5851488 Report Quoted By:
>>5851389 No, you don't have to fail self control rolls first. Brawlers can shift their footwork innately with attacks. For everyone else, it requires <span class="mu-s">Influence</span>, either of someone else or yourself. You can psyche yourself up as well as calm yourself down.
Violence also <span class="mu-s">makes</span> you more aggressive once you fail control of yourself, or give into the Mask - it's part of what violence is. But simple success at calibrated attacks, that's not enough.
It went away because you got hammered rather badly and your stance got broken up. There's a roll involved, and if you get knocked about too much, you lose your natural aggression in favor of the faint feeling of an oncoming concussion. That's why the Mothmask sets your aggression to 1, at all times and always, such that even if you foul up your footwork, you still end up aggressive.
The drenching is worth quite a lot, but you'll simply have to wait a little...
Your allies appear to somehow be caught up in delusions of neither glory nor of grandeur but somehow they convinced themselves about half-way through that they could control themselves when they take action to <span class="mu-i">specifically let go fo all self control and let the random chaotic nature of the world take over</span>. That, I think, is merely on them.
Slip... Are you going to comment?
Ken is our lookout! He helped Slip earlier find the warehouse.
Colours don't have personality, your question is for poets I'm afraid.
And yeah, Waxworm would have made out like a gold clad magnate. Too bad him and Riv are lost.
>>5851449 Good pay for good work. Worry not at all, you mercenary, you get compensated quite well for services rendered. And if it is not to your liking, you are well able to simply not take the invitation to the Ball. So no, no "reward" is wasted. How is it a reward to learn how to fight better, any-chance. That just seems to be your skill improving.
As for <span class="mu-s">bits</span> and other such things - while Coins buy you all the little detritus and interesting joy you need in your True Face life, Bits is what you use to <span class="mu-s">barter</span>, it's all the things worth really getting into the trading spirit for.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 18:50:37 No. 5851495 Report <span class="mu-s">Rare Finds and Bricabrac</span>
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 19:14:46 No. 5851520 Report >>5851389 <span class="mu-b">Sure, I can comment - I'm a Tattercloak. You wouldn't know it, it's a very obscure style of fisticuffs. I had this old teacher show me, owed me a favor. Said she used to teach people who fight with blades and lantern lights against shadows that come alive, but I'm not sure I buy it. Sound a little far-fetched. What I can tell you is she was good at... thinking orthogonally.
Any two bit Brawler can learn to use their fists and feet, but I had a tutor teach me a little about all the rest of the sharp and soft bits a human carries around. It's all just a matter of angles, you know? You end up punching <span class="mu-i">around</span> your target, in all the space they don't occupy but will soon. And they try to hit you in all the space you used to be in.
I know this cool trick to light my hands on fire with an oil-rag and throw a right mean left hook, I bet I can show you that one!
>And Slip could, indeed, show you that one - because it's Ash and Smoke. </span>
CivilCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CivilCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 19:21:36 No. 5851530 Report >>5851520 <span class="mu-g">... if you two need hospital services, there's a open service down on Eagleend. Can I kindly ask you to stop laying about here?
The washer woman nervously glancing out of the alley over there told me yous were a bunched of washed up corpses, but I see you're breathing fine and thus I'm going to have to ask you to move along, you're spooking the morning folks what-whom just want to soap some underthings and grab a bath.
Come on, up you go. And stop staring at me like you've seen a Crassus come again -- Oi, why are you covered in stains and smell like you've been in a burning building? Did you two spend all night in a drug den? I don't much care for that fashion.
I swear by the Eye, you addled ashstains get more burnt every day. You'd think those damn Slicerats were selling stuff that ate part of your heads every time.
You know, I don't much care what you huff and puff and swallow down in your own time, but when you start scaring morning-folk it becomes a Peace business, you hear? Come on, get moving or I'm going to fine you.
Go find a Theurge and get the Eye's benediction. Your sparks are dulled by the dope smoke! You're losing your light, people. Get! <span class="mu-s">Get</span> or so help me the Empyreal itself I will use the butt of this spear.</span>
Riv
>>5851530 "Blegh... oof. And a fine how-do-you-do to you too officer. Frozen hells, feels like someone tied me to a weathervane in the midst of a tempest. Ah... slivers of memory are starting to trickle back, bit by bit. Yeah, maybe not my finest moment, through having all my important bits still attached is a nice silver lining."
"Oi Wax. You need a hand getting up? You seem to be short one."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 19:44:55 No. 5851550 Report >>5851530 >>5851246 >>5851247 Oh, there you two are. Hm. Sorry, contracts already paid out. You'll have to take it up with someone else, we all thought you were rather dead, so everything is cleared and clean our end.
>You... died. Surely you did. You were barely two pieces of meat held together with hope and a long tendril of pain leading back to a corporeal existence. >Maybe you had the services of an exceptional doctor? Hm. Strange. You should think about it but--- somehow--- the memory is all a little vague, stained with smoke and dust and a knife chopping down, again again again. --
Riv, Waxworm
<span class="mu-s">Medical Marvels</span>
You can take a standard advancement.
You're paid 75 cold coins, 6 Bits. No reputation. No mask myth. You were dead, who'd believe <span class="mu-i">you</span> did anything impressive? Getting murdered on the job does not inspire confidence in your capacity to survive other, stranger types of Ball.
You lose -1 Focus. You cannot quite shake the feeling that you don't fit in your own body.
+[Rat Mark], for participating crimes against the flesh.
+[Hygean Mark], for exposure to medical practices best undisclosed
Riv
Quoted By:
>>5851550 Alright, that's fair enough.
However, what does 'a standard advancement' entail?
> Just Core? > Core and Array? > Core, Array, and Style/Skill? > Some other fourth combination I didn't mention? Waxworm
>>5851547 >succumb to the ma- >where’s my mask? “Riv, I still have my head! And my arm? I exploded, I did. Is this new Wax or a new Worm? Time will tell…”
Riv
Quoted By:
>>5851651 "Riiight. Not for nothing, but you seem pretty un-detonated from where I'm standing pal. Though, supposing that you did, maybe don't go yapping about it publicly. Certain folks have quite a sour opinion to the notion of deadmen walking; fancy themselves enforcers of something or other and abhor grand violations of biological conventions."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sat 02 Dec 2023 22:26:22 No. 5851718 Report <span class="mu-i">perhaps you'd like to accept our invitation to the next Ball, at a place of our choosing, at a time of our devising, where we expect the participants to be eager to Dance the Red. Among the guest-list we find:
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
>>5851246 "Well guys going to bounce. Take care until next time!"
Just like that Spider-Man disappeared into the city. Returning to it's web of information and intrigue. Disappearing to let place to Petrus a man with a dream of doing good with a little bad.
[Maskquerade Result]
>Gain 12 bits (now 16 bits), 125 cold Coins (we'll check on this later), 1 Reputation, 1 Maskmyth >+1 Guard (now 14), +1 React (now 11), +1 Taking Arts (now 13) >>5851247 >Sell my 1 and only wound to the Alley animists (17 bits) >Maybe have a talk with a {Vanadian Trade Correspondent} about this cool window I acquired. It's not exactly all lumber but maybe it's interesting to them? I'm looking for something that could help me produce and fire this stuff [Vial of Slapcrete] to get me places and even to disarm or incapacitate opponents. Think you can hook me up with something? >Discuss this over some Kalcimirian tea? just to relax Petrus a bit. He knows his boss Aurelius will have a bunch of work when he gets on the scene of the fire and thats STRESSING. Maybe Aurelius would like some Kalcimirian tea to relax a bit. This is what a field assistant does right? Help the big workers have more relaxing time investigating and all the snuff. >Comments: The plot thickens >Desires: Man I sure want to be better at this schtick but I think I did pretty well? I still strive to do even better though! And I'll need help! >Thoughts: I sure hope I don't lose tracks while we do this. >Questions: So remind me, what is the Masquerade? Who even is in charge of organizing it? Why is a bit obvious but maybe it's not entirely altruistic in Razorwind nothing is completely altruistic... >>5851495 >Take back the newly acquired [Whispercloth] I really like it. >>5851718 >Accept invitation Dear me, sounds like a dance for Spider-Man.
Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 11 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 13
==Mask==
Plain
==Things==
[Whispercloth] +1 Dodge, +1 Grapple reach
[Vial of Slapcrete] Sticky...maybe useful for the future of...web slingers?? Maybe someone could help with this
4x[Heartflush Dose]
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 8
The Red Markets - 7
Riv
>>5851550 > [-1 Focus] > [+1 Rat Mark] > [+1 Hygean Mark] > [+75 Coldcoin] > [+6 Bits] > [Guard 12 => 13] > [Reaction: 10 => 11] > [Move: 12 =>14] Please yell if I did anything wrong.
#Riv
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 11] :: [Focus 11/11]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 14]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Inventory==
[75 Coldcoin]
[8 Bits]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
==Other==
[1 Rat Mark]
[1 Hygean Mark]
Riv
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>>5851718 > Accept invitation CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 00:23:35 No. 5851851 Report Quoted By:
>>5851798 No, it rather appears that all is well !
>>5851793 The Mask Balls are organized by the Red Market, through Open or Closed contracts, where ... interested clients wishing to organize a Masquerade let slip the details to the proprietors of the Red Market, the whisper traders, the you-know-who, with details specified and payment held in bank accounts inaccessible. The Whispertraders then prepare the invitations, to either let the Masks who wish to attend show themselves, or perhaps, sometimes, if certain expertise is required, they invite the Mask directly.
They considers themselves performers of a vital service. Is it all altruism? Perhaps not. Vast amounts of money or favors do change hands. But is it all selfish?
Friend, a society could not function of armed marauders murdered men in broad daylight. The Red Markets, for all the horror stories, do vet their contracts. There are such a thing as ... <span class="mu-s">Etiquette</span>. There are Balls we do not invite to and there are kind of Dance we do not do.
But if you do not void those fine guidelines, then, yes, many things are allowed and allowable. Still, as all Masks who attend a Ball must submit to the details to do so <span class="mu-s">and</span> have their Maskmoniker irrevocably associated with this event through all time, one finds that most Masks guard their reputation rather fiercely and seldom accept invitations to events that stain their bodies with too soul-scaring work. Clients who offer such find participants had to acquire.
Now, is this to say that none can be found? Alas not. There are some willing to do slight evil for slighter gain. But does it imply that most Maskmates find that their work takes on a glimmer of the old ideals, a tinge of Justice, a dollop of Truth, just a slightly blush of Hope?
Yes.
Of course, there are always alternative means to hire talent for. task.Old cold coin rents you plenty of loyalty from companies, outfits, units and bands of adventurers. But that's all ... <span class="mu-i">mercenary work</span>. The Masquerade is many things, but it's nothing so crass as simple mercenary effort.
Abnegation
>>5851472 Oh, you do? Excellent. Perhaps we can make an event of it. Anyone else?
Please do not be put off by this body staring at you as you eat, it's just practice.
>>5851495 This mind is not good at perfect bodily control? This mind will /become/ good at perfect bodily control.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 01:53:12 No. 5851951 Report >>5851918 It is a worthwhile, laudable goal, but better, grander generals than all the Legion's finest have fought a battle against the urge to scratch themselves when they itch and <span class="mu-i">lost</span>. So it is. So it will continue to be. But we strive for much improvement.
--
Here, perhaps while we wait for odder, stranger things to occur, for stars to align, for sparks to roar into wildfire flames and all such other wonders, maybe you'd like to ... stretch your legs.
I'm sure there's other things that will come up soon - I hear tell that a proper masquerade always starts with a with a little bit of cunning slight and careful preparation.
But maybe all that will be for other times? You could save some bits and coin if you like - the chance will come up again when we're invited to dance again.
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5851247 (Question, would Aggression and Cunning be statuses that go for 2 Bits, or only 1?)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5851951 I take it Features must be purchased at the same time your quarters are? Also, do all of these Coin purchases have mechanical effect or are they just flavor?
Do we need to keep track of the food we are eating? CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 02:34:40 No. 5852000 Report >>5851336 Oh, and *now* we can finally answer this, more proper than before.
A Thief-Staff and some Rope both turn out to be what we might term Knickknacks in this particular dance of masks and mysteries. They're also things that a contact will help you source <span class="mu-i">later</span> - you'll see how, and it will be thrilling.
As for Maskstains, they are a little almost myths and marks, not quite there yet. With a set of 3, they form into a Maskmyth, proper - which you use to Carve a new set of symbols and garner some grand benefit. There's a secret, tricky use, but it's not quite useful to know it just yet.
>>5851976 Both are in such abundant supply around here that it's worth less than a little bit, I'm afraid. Cunning and aggression and aggressively cunning and cunningly aggressive - how else would you describe our grand, glorious city?
>>5851986 I'm sure you can convince some hard-working mason to knock down a wall and install some new fangled pipes and other such, if you discover the need later. Expansions are all the rage these days, isn't it? Though I think it's a little unbecoming, if you ask me. Used to be you just grew up in the block you grew up in. Not all these dreams of owning your own garden must be <span class="mu-i">corrupting the youth</span>. Or maybe not.
Incidentally that's apparently not on offer. Must mean it remains but a dream, even to the rich.
Anyway, naturally, if you own a someplace, you can simply try to install a feature later. Perhaps you renovate.
And one would hope you keep track of all the food you eat, soft-soul, but there's scant need to enumerate it. But it can be useful to have ... perspective... for just how fast and how far you can throw your coins away on wonderful meals and interesting experiences. Let alone if you try to bribe someone, you now know precisely how much to offer.
As for mechanical effects, I don't think I see gearlocks or clockwork on the listings, so maybe not so many mechanical effects. Do these things play out in strange, unpredictable ways, such that a cultured patron of the arts is more likely to encounter good fortune when dealing with a theatre troupe? Well, it's always thus - but you cannot predict it, and the world will never tell you until it happens due to an improbable series of coincidences. So perhaps just treat these with the spirited ability to ... let loose for a bit, buy some wine, enjoy a rapier lesson. Such things.
If down the line, something interesting occurs because of it? Well, perhaps it'll be, well, <span class="mu-i">interesting</span>.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5852000 Nice. Does this adding Features later also apply to "A Convenient Location"? That seems something a bit more difficult to add to a house or apartment than a new room. Perhaps it would just involve selling the place and buying a new one?
What does "Discreet Security" entail? Private men in suits? A gated community? Some of those fancy schmancy "security systems"?
Do I have any avenue to gaining a contact besides the base "Red Markets - 7" contact that everyone has?
Lagomorpheus
>Spend 25 Cold Coins joining the Messenger's Guild. The Lagomorphs have long been used to deliver a message. >Spend 30 Cold Coins acquiring an exceptional set of sewing tools, including a fine needle (maybe a nice CuAg alloy? I hear those are popular nowadays, although for some reason I feel like putting a little Fe and some Ni in there would help. Some NiFeCu. Hmmm, Did it need a hair of Ti for that low weight-low drag? CuTiNiFe? Eh, I'm not metallurgist. It's just got to stitch things together after all) and some thread. >Put up 25 Cold Coins and 1 Ash Stained Door towards a communal fortress. >Put 11 bits and 11 coins in a bundle for now. Need to think about how to spend it. A Staff? - No, I'll find one or make one. A sling? Don't know how to use one, but they are easy to make. An Enhanced Mask? Maybe. A flourish for luck? It's not just for murder after all. But no. My rabbit feet are lucky by virtue of not being where they aren't supposed to be. Do I want to hire a spy to tell me the location of the master of Rats? No. Someone else will do it and pay us better. No point killing the golden goose. What about this ?Outis? fellow that the old timers talk about? Hmm. Better to sleep on it and see what dreams come to me. >1 Bit and 13 Cold Coins already set aside for taxes and tribute.
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
>Continue being destitute
Fourth Dusk
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Rolled 2, 3, 3 = 8 (3d6) >>5851951 125 Cold Coins, Ratwhisker, Luperni Games Tickets, 16 Bits
> A Good Bed. A door that locks, and Privacy. + An Easy Way Out
+ Physical Security
(50 Coins)
Correspondence with Distant Family (20 Coins, for Exceptional Quality)
A Tailored Set of Comfortable and Resilient Clothes (30 Coins, Exceptional Quality).
15 Bits, 15 Coins: A Flourish
> Gentle tears of bloodstain red, as if preempting injury. 10 Coins, 1 Bit, Ratwhisker (?), Vanadian Mitts
> Enjoy the Luperni Games (?) Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 11:38:48 No. 5852554 Report >>5852464 Asceticism is, as they say, ass. Wouldn’t you rather some clinking coin and grand marvels for a month or two?
Well, if you’re dedicated to wandering the path of the world denying teetotaler, perhaps you and Abnegation can arrange some sort of deal.
In such a case, it’s not exactly unknown? Who would you like me to donate your spoils and toils too…
A local Ward, to help the needy and the low?
The Empyrean Emissaries, to pay for the healthcare and ministration of the world?
The Universities, to help with fee-deferrals for anyone taking their administration examinations? Surely, the starving students appreciate the aid.
Perhaps you’ve some other goal?
>>5852010 It would involve moving, yes. A mason can do much but they can’t brick a road that cannot exist.
Security? A little of A, a little of B, a dash of C, just a touch of D for Diligent local Watchers and neighbors who know to note the apperance of mysterious roof bound assassins. You get what you pay for, whether that’s the friendly faces of the local Ward leaders quiet attention so no small timer tests your doors or the presence of a long-term contract to watch your weeds. You can specify the details, surely - you’re the buyer. In either case, they have skill 11, more if exceptional, rather more if outstanding.
As for contacts and allies, you do - but let it aside for now. See, consider that tonight started at the high point of festivities. Usually we’d have a little Warm Up, for all the preparation and planning that one desires to do. Contacts are more useful then and there, including making some new faces your new friends. For now, you’re simply advantaged in the guard department and simultaneously in sore need of socializing a little. Win some, lose some.
Fourth Dusk
Rolled 1, 4, 1 = 6 (3d6) > By request of Command, rolling vs Understand 12 to comprehend the Luperni Games.
Tier !!5IYNvgoHhsp
>>5851246 >Guard 12 + 1 >Grit 2 + 1 >Brawling 14 + 1 >+12 Bits >+125 cold Coins >+1 Reputation, Maskmyth >>5851247 >Sell 4 Aggression for 4 bits, +4 Bits >>5851495 >Take Mothdiver Mask. After all, it is my mask. It was made for me. >>5851718 >Accept invitation. >>5851951 I'll navigate this at a later date.
#Tier
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Brawling 15
!Creative Use Encouraged (Unpenalized improvisation)
!Wear My Kicking Boots (Damage gets +GRIT against prone targets)
!Knuckledancer: Build +1 or drop 1 Aggression / Cunning per major attack.
==Mask==
Mothdiver Mask
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
Vanadian Expeditionary Veteran - 8
==Stuff==
16 Bits
125 cold Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
Rolled 6, 3, 2 = 11 (3d6) >>5851951 ==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 11
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
>10 Gold Coins: Get a Bed and quarters of Exceptoinal Quality >30 Gold Coins: Get a Gym of Exceptional Quality >60 Gold Coins: Get Workshop for creating weaponry of Exceptional Quality >11 Bits: Find a Seller for Flourishes Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Rolled 1, 6, 5 = 12 (3d6) >>5851495 >Take Mothdiver Mask (Hadn't thought to note it until now, but I probably should.) >>5851951 Shopping List:
>3 weeks' worth of bland food (-3c) [122c] >A bed to rest in, and the house it's in (-50c) [72c] >A bedroom (-15c) [57c] >A place to practice, in peace (-45c) [12c] >A carving to further improve my diving prowess (-12b, -12c, -1myth) [6b, 0c, 0myth] #Mock
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 2 GLORY
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 4/4 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 14
==Style==
Brawling 14
-!Creative Use Encouraged, !Wear My Kicking Boots, !Knuckledancer
==Mask==
Mothdiver Mask {1 STAIN}
-+1 Hit and Effect on high-diving style moves.
-Recover 1 Focus when landing a diving attack.
-Punches are boring...
-+Mothmask effects
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
==Currencies==
18 Bits
125 Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
>>5852554 I'm poor, not an ascetic.
I'll keep my spoils, thank you very much.
Riv
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>>5851951 > Spend 15 Coldcoin to acquire the [A Good Bed, A Door That Locks, And Privacy] Sundry, at standard quality. > Spend 50 Coldcoin to modify the prior Sundry with the [Easy Way Out] feature, at outstanding quality. > Spend 1 Coldcoin to acquire the [Bland Food For A Week] Sundry, at standard quality. #Riv
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 11] :: [Focus 11/11]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 14]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Inventory==
[75 => 9 Coldcoin]
[8 Bits]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
==Other==
[1 Rat Mark]
[1 Hygean Mark]
Pugiliste !yPt2WNhqL2
>>5852578 ==Core==
Guard 12
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 10 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 11
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
!Red Rivers: Dmg rolls of 1 are rerolled.
Self Control 12
Unsullied Flourish: Gain +1 Crit Rating. Can be expended to recover wounds.
==Contacts==
Red Market 7
Animist Associate 8
==Assets==
[A Bed and Quarters (Exceptional)], [Weapon Workshop (Exceptional)], [Gym (Exceptional)]
Correction: Spend 11 Gold Coins as well on a Flourish
Flourish: A cosmetic crack one the mask, as if it were struck by lightning.
Also:
>2 Gold Coins: Get Exceptional Bland food for a Week. Remaining Liquid Assets:
12 Gold Coins
1 Bit
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
Rolled 5, 4, 5 = 14 (3d6) >>5851246 >Clarify the precise amounts of "Some coins and 2-3 bits" previously looted >Sell off my wound >Bump Grit >Bump Move by 2 >Spend 14 bits and 14 coins to purchase a mask flourish: a red sphere, like a drop of blood, in the place where the nose would be >Spend 15 coins on a proper room #Klaunn
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 4
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 14
==Style==
Brawling 14
==Mask==
Red Droplet (+Violence)
==Contact==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent
==Possessions==
Some coins
1-2 bits
Knife (1d3 bleed)
96 Coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 12:53:01 No. 5852609 Report >>5852596 Mhmh. And you can <span class="mu-i">barely</span> taste the sawdust in your bare barley.
>>5852585 Oh, your spendthrift discipline is due to grand plans not a lack of desire. Worthy of respect, softsoul, you're not in some retreat from the worlds many interesting perils and puzzles, you're a future <span class="mu-i">speculative investor</span>, simply gathering liquid assets !
>>5852582 But the artist needs must know: what does the carving or symbol look like? It's rather hard to depict it if one does specify it. But, much joy - this is exactly the kind of thing a Carving can do.
>>5852573 but what about micro-fluctuations in the price of Reikan lumber that influences the local availability and demand of common goods which results in a supply cascade that alters the price landscape?! You must bargain now or you face bargaining later at <span class="mu-i">mildly altered prices</span>! The calamity!
Well, whether it's half a coin or six-tenths of one is hardly material or germane. Perhaps it won't be so bad.
>>5852561 The <span class="mu-s">Luperni</span>?
To call them a family is to understate their size and to call them a mere mercantile operation is to misdescribe their reach. The House Luperni is part of the <span class="mu-i">Noble Cartels</span>, those grand almost-nations enclaves that cluster around our fair city.
Perhaps in a distant place, you'd describe them as a corporation, but we're not so crass and they're not so craven. They have social obligations. They have charitable works. They offer scholarships. The product of Luperni factories fill our stores, their masons carve our streets and their clerks man our distant supply stations, trained and true. If you buy a cup and it breaks and the marker's mark is Luperni, well, you know where to go and who to direct your complaints at. They're metalwrights and miner lords, artificers and researchers and producers of things.
The Noble Cartels are not nobility. Cestipherion holds sway over seaways and supply lines, and half the agricultural products someone eats is from one of their fields. Luperni produces unparalleled amounts of the mundane cruft and stuff of life. High and mighty Fideleion has had eight out of ten government infrastructure projects in their portfolio for the last thirty years.
They're not a mere guild, nor a single clan, or something so curiously Reikan as a singular bloodline declaring their nobility by virtue of an intertwined family tree, no siree, the Noble Cartels of Pyther are that very best institution in all the whole wide world:
They're enterprises anyone can enter, of a hundred hundred hands coming together to make light work of all the world.
Yes, admittedly, they sometimes compete and yes admittedly perhaps the Luperni have an egregious amount of standing swords and willing strikers, but their business interests are so vast and reach so far they need the manpower for securing their sites, surely so, yes?
As for the Games, in all their grandiose expenditure, they're how the Cartels keep score in their little private games.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 13:02:16 No. 5852623 Report Rolled (0d3) >>5852607 Fairer and fair. It looks like...
>>5852609 . . . By putting on massive games for the rest of us. Every year, the contract is offered for bid on who will bear the expenses of entertainment for the coming year. As you can imagine there's rather a lot of prestige involved, and this year, it was Luperni who won (in a surprise bid, some way. There's rumors they wanted to dissuade attention away from a series of unfortunate events, but who can say?)
Weeks of dances, excitement, revelry, excess, a little too much branding, what the Vanadians' called "applied marketing" and what the rest of us call "free food in the streets", and all the marvels under the Eye on display to curious onlookers. And most at Luperni expense.
Brings the city together, you know? Makes the Reds and the Greens a little less restless about who wins a chariot race because they know that either way they win something, even if it's simply pies and armbands. Gives the rest of us something grand to appreciate. And let's not be too shy about admitting it, if you burn a kingdoms worth in coin to put on grand shows, you're going to get your name on people's lips and that means Prestige and Reputation and they would not be Noble Cartels if they did not engage in the greatest game of all: That of getting to the very top of the pile by pointing out how much grander they are than everyone else.
<span class="mu-s">Cestipherion</span>, those grain magnates, ran the Games for the last eight years running, so it's nice to see some changes in the line-up.
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
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>>5852609 >But the artist needs must know: what does the carving or symbol look like? (I'll be totally honest, I have no idea, I didn't think about it whatsoever. My guess is probably worse than yours, so... Surprise me?)
Abnegation
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Rolled 3, 6, 2 = 11 (3d6) >>5851951 #Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 14/14
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 12
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
!Stormspin: Roll Style, add margin to next kick
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
===Things===
0 Bits
8 cold coins
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
[A Library, For Personal Perusal]
[A Place To Practice, In Peace]
[A Bed To Rest In, And The House It's In - COMMUNAL with Lagomorpheus]
Rejiggering my advances a bit and deducting coin for the following.
>Spending 12 Bits & 12 Cold Coins on a Carving for Stormspin. Let's say the pattern's the one on the mask in the image I posted for Abnegation when I first signed up. If that's not acceptable, make it a tornado-y spiral that looks curiously as though it's meant to be viewed from above. >80 Cold Coins on [A Library, For Personal Perusal] and [A Place To Practice, In Peace] >>5852225 >Put up 25 Cold Coins towards making the communal home [A Bed To Rest In, And The House It's In] The Butcher
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>>5851951 > A rented room with convenient rooftop access 15$ (escape route) > A bribe of just the right officia 45$ (to make sure certain people are sprung from prison): > Seven likeminded blokes that want to stick it to the Rats $35 > And my old lieutenant, Eightfingers (Street Tactics 14) $14 > He was the thinker, I just punch things > 16$ 12b leftover Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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>>5852623 >0d3 That's why I'm saving coin
You never know when fate turns against you
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
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>>5851951 Cold Coin purchases:
>50: A Bed to rest in, and the House its in >>25 : A Convenient location>>25 : Physical Security>>15 : A Bedroom>1: Bland food for a week Remaining: 9 Coins, 13 Bits
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
Quoted By:
>>5851718 >Accept invitation Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
>>5852623 How much would a colorful wig cost, to go with the mask?
Waxworm
Quoted By:
>>5851951 Let me know if I messed up.
>-1 Focus. The Wax melts… >+1 Rat Mark. It’s not a crime if nobody knows… right? >+1 Hygean Mark. A blessing, from our Red Lady! >+1 Guard. As if a Worm has need of such… >-1 Inspiration, +1 Reaction >-1 Inspiration, gain !Mug The Future >25 CC towards the communal fortress. I live with Lagomorpheus and Abnegation now. >30 CC on exceptional tools for a fishing pole and tacklebox >15 CC on a kitchen. We eat well. >Claim the stainwood mask, as I am a walking calamity >Worm my way into the next Masquerade, invitation or no #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All good. Honest.
-Status: Alive?
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 11 Focus 11
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
!Mug The Future: Steal AP from your future self. Start next turn with that much Stun.
==Mask==
Stainwood(+Weird)
-2 Maskstains
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
-Cold Coins x5
-Bits x6
==Other==
-Rat Mark x1
-Hygean Mark x1
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 15:57:26 No. 5852769 Report <span class="mu-i">Some ways out and up the coast we find one of the near shanties that's near a town, a place less its own little village and more a far flung appendix to the grand city of the Flame - and in this place, tossed by salt and with the quiet industry of a fishing village, a warehouse nominally owned by the grand Noble Cartel Cestipherion we find a warehouse where the labourers all think alike and the deliveries all come alike.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 16:35:34 No. 5852797 Report <span class="mu-s">Warm Up</span>
----
Every good dance starts with a warm-up. You have some choices to make.
First, is the manner of your particular approach. They're enumerated in <span class="mu-g">green</span>.You pick one, as that counts as your deployment. Either right through the front-door, or some particular trick that requires some extra effort but has the potential for dividends paid later.
Second, is any optional activities you attempt on your way in - you can do this no matter what your approach is, and they're enumerated in <span class="mu-b">blue</span>. Indicate this <span class="mu-s">but don't roll it</span>. We wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, would we?
For any given approach or target, the total margin is what matters - so if someone fouls up magnificently, perhaps someone else can aid them.
If you spend time carefully working up a plan, <span class="mu-s">Foresight</span> accrues on a team-wide basis. Anyone can tick one in later to roll 3 times and pick the best of a given set <span class="mu-i">or</span> a few other interesting things, plans and contacts depending.
Despite listing all that first, it's probably the last thing you want to do because once you make the choice, it's locked in and you're off. So have some patience and commit when you're <span class="mu-s">ready</span>.
>>5852769 Much more importantly, is all the clever, careful plotting that goes into preparing for a scrap proper. While your approach sets you up, now is where we take a step back, take a breath, and rely on your <span class="mu-s">contacts</span> and other other sundries that might be handy and other tricks you can rely on (Butcher appears to have made some friends, and those certainly can try a given Task)
You can reach out to a contact both here, in the Warm Up, and later, in the thick off it, so using one now doesn't exhaust it for later. <span class="mu-s">If</span> you opt to not overburden your friends with requests, you <span class="mu-s">do</span> get a bonus to a contacts Reaction roll later (So the help they provide then is much likelier to be much better).
What's relevant is that <span class="mu-s">Contacts</span> are rolled to help you set plans in motion, alter the conditions of the terrain, prepare caches of small items, or help you work towards kit and tools you might feel you need. It's nice to have a network.
So work out a plot, plan a little, and if you think you have a good idea, tag in a Contact to help provide something. Multiple contacts can work together on the same task, if you ask one and it fails. The skill rating is modified a little by the nature of the task itself.
<span class="mu-i">Finally</span>, you shouldn't be a slouch yourself either. Consider this kind of Warm Up a sort of "broad-time" phase. You get 1 general action yourself as well, which is basically one broader skill or style roll to try and do *something*. You'll get better at this with time.
==<span class="mu-s">General Requests</span>==
<span class="mu-i">relevant contact skill is modified by the oddity of the request</span>
+4: Quick, easy, simple
+3: Two out of the above
+2: One out of the above
+1: You opt to spend your action to help, pass an understand check
Eightfingers
>>5851718 >>5852769 >>5852797 So that everyone here is on the same page, here's the invitation, and here's the briefing. No, I ain't surprised half of you lost it already, its the way of things on the streets, you get used to it. We're /dancing the red/ that means lots of violence, everyone's favourite. The rest'll be gobbledygook until after the posting's done. The Market loves doing that, builds suspense. For who, who fucking knows, its not like anyones Watching except the sodding Conners.
We're destroying another shipment, someway somehow. After your great work on the last warehouse, he'll have done things differently this time. Alchemical Foam, Fire Tamers on hand. More guards inside the warehouse, that's for fucking certain, and the shipment is probably dispersed all over so you can't destroy it all at once.
If I had to guess, its those pink boxes. He's got canoes and pull carts and runner canisters all lined up, see, ready to squirrel all this shite away all over the city. You'd have to torch the whole roachshitting lot to catch your shipment, this time tomorrow. Call your favors in, get things that can destroy, quickly, and's hard to stop. That's what I'd do.
> Eightfingers assists with The Plan. Street Tactics 14 If you can pull the heat inland, make em think that's the only angle you're using, all motheaten-brain like. Then Butcher here, or one of the rest of you, can sneak in with some of the boys and dump all that lot at the docks into the drink, under darkness. That'd be half the job done.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 19:13:49 No. 5852953 Report >>5852730 The only cost is never being taken seriously in this town again. So...
Free, presumably.
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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>>5852953 They will take seriously my balloon art!
Though the wig could look, maybe, a bit more threatening? (Also 4 colors is somewhat too colorful)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5852797 Would we roll for our Approach right now in the Warm Up?
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
>>5852797 My plan is to appear suddenly from a container seemingly too small for me somewhere in the enemy rear. Preferably next to one of the cranes. I think this would be
>Develop a plan >Be clever CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:40:18 No. 5853035 Report >>5853023 It is, precisely so.
And to avoid accidentally spoiling the future, we note down your choice you roll it on the turn when you intend to trigger it. You won't know how your clever trick goes until the moment you try to pull it off.
>Klaunn, Clever. What you can do, if you'd like, is to check your Understanding now, because that's an optional task that you're doing ahead of the big moment. It's easier to coordinate those if we know they go.
Marvelous how it seems the instructions tell you do to do the exact opposite.
>>5852999 Generally not, you'd roll it on the moment you trigger it - as it tells us how well it went.
Amicus
Rolled 1, 5, 4 = 10 (3d6) >>5851246 >+1 Guard (10->11) >+1 Health (2->3) >+1 Legionlock (10->11) >Gain Ash and Smoke Maskmark The contraband must burn.
>Gain Swordhunter Maskmark Had enough of these. No more.
>>5851247 >You have some comments? Thanks for running, you madman. I loved it.
>Desires? A few.
No, I will not elaborate. >Thoughts? Heroism doesn't pay.
>Questions? I have regretted not rolling for guard or contacts at chargen. Can I do it now and immediately give you both dice for whatever they're worth?
>>5851281 I could go for some pizza
>>5851718 Accept the invitation.
>>5851951 >25 Coins for membership to The Association >10 Coins for Correspondence with distant friends made during the war >45 Coins for a Memento of a dream choked in blood >12 bits, 12 coins, 1 Maskmyth for a carving. A bonus when helping a friend in danger. >>5852225 >25 Coins to the Communal Home. Not sure what's missing or who'll be staying there, but I'm used to not living alone. >>5852554 I would like to donate
>My 8 last coins to the Empyrean Emissaries, to pay for the healthcare and ministration of the world? #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 11
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
-Ash and Smoke (Roll vs Influence to add Frie or Smoke to next action *or* inflict it on the environment. +1 per Focus spent.)
-Swordhunter (Roll vs Sense to sniff out nearby weapons. +1 base effect against armed opponents.)
2 Maskstain
1 Reputation
==Contacts==
The Red Markets - 7
==Things==
Association Membership
Correspondence with distant friends made during the war
Memento of a dream choked in blood
Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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Rolled 4, 4, 4 = 12 (3d6) >>5853035 Let's try to understand (vs 10)
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5852797 >(green) Run Interception >(blue) Search out a contact that can either aid our approach, provide some hands, or provide some demolition materials CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Sun 03 Dec 2023 22:38:20 No. 5853159 Report >>5853036 We'll take your dice as the price to pay to reach old friends. Contacts are rather the spirit of things.
>Gain a Veteran's Association Contact - 8 <span class="mu-i">You either drown in the Rivers
or choke on the ash,
because it falls like rain and blots the Eye
but if at last you muster out
and make your way through darkness and doubt
remember the ken of the Association:
No one who gave so much should die alone</span>
Besides, softsoul. Heroism always pays. That is: the heroes are the ones who do the paying.
As for your donation, the Emissaries thank you kindly and lightly, and assure you your coin will go to the thing that anyone and everyone needs - the basic supplies of life. It's easy to forget, given the scale of the Luperni games, but in this far-flung city, at this hour, at this moment, even now, little lights flicker out, alone and cold and tossed by be the wind of circumstance. Sometimes, all they need is a little fuel or momentary shelter.
>+1 Reputation (Temp) >>5853060 While demolitions are rather too much to bring to most festivities, and not a scant bit illegal too, in the grand sense, the national security sense, the we have some questions about where you were last night and anyone you've interacted with over the last six months sense, it's still possible to arrange something. Alchemicals of all sorts flow through the city. We invented the art.
In any case, you should decide what sort of friends you have. Now might be a reasonable time to do so.
A Legion Quartermaster (8), known partially for graft and partially for a darling ability to deliver unmarked crates of boots and other requirements at almost no cost save a favor, some other time.
A Vanadian Trade Correspondent (8), who can get hands and materials and everything else, but it always comes at a cost.
Or just the Red Market, wise and distributed. You aren't really looking for anything specific, either way. What is "some hands" but 3-30 knifemen not exactly known for asking too many questions? Spreading the word is easy enough, but you're making a cardinal mistake - you're asking for eight different things in the same breath. Try one.
--
>Interception Sal
>Clever Klaunn
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5853159 I think it would be useful to get to know
>A Legion Quartermaster (8) some, I'm sure we will have an amicable and mutually beneficial relationship.
While I'm at it, can I ask a favor at this time, or is it too soon, having just met?
Also, it strikes me that a contact level of 8 seems rather low and rather likely to produce undesirable results if I'm interpreting this correctly. Am I wrong? Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
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>>5853159 >>5853170 Now that I mention it, I've got an idea. Can I get a reverse favor? Or, in other words, can I ask if my contact has a favor they would like me to do in exchange for, perhaps, a higher contact rating?
Riv
>>5852797 > Green, Be clever. [Roll Move]. > Blue, Develop a plan. [Roll Understand] > Reach out to Legion Quartermaster Contact. 'Say, you wouldn't happen to have one of those spiffy dashsystem dealies available to loan out wouldja? My current circumstances demand a mite more alacrity than traditional pavement pounding can supply you see.' Spend general action to help my contact see the request through. [Roll Understand] #Riv
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 11] :: [Focus 11/11]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 14]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Inventory==
[75 => 9 Coldcoin]
[8 Bits]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
==Other==
[1 Rat Mark]
[1 Hygean Mark]
==Lifestyle==
[A Good Bed, A Door That Locks, And Privacy] (Standard)
+ [An Easy Way Out] (Outstanding)
[Bland Food For A Week] (Standard)
Amicus
>>5853159 Thanks Command. A generous exchange, it's wonderful to reconnect with old friends. Just in time too!
The Emissaries have my thanks for their work. In a perfect world, no little light would go out in the darkness for lack of friends.
A small question: Why "softsoul"? What's the meaning of the word?
And what about my mask carving? Is the effect appropriate and works as intended? >>5852797 >Run interception. Ask my friends in the Association to help. #Amicus
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 11
-Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
-Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
-Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
-Ash and Smoke (Roll vs Influence to add Fire or Smoke to next action *or* inflict it on the environment. +1 per Focus spent.)
-Swordhunter (Roll vs Sense to sniff out nearby weapons. +1 base effect against armed opponents.)
2 Maskstain
1 Reputation
+1 Reputation (Temp)
==Contacts==
Veteran's Association Contact - 8
The Red Markets - 7
==Things==
Association Membership
Correspondence with distant friends made during the war
Memento of a dream choked in blood
Abnegation
Rolled 4, 1, 2, 5, 3, 1 = 16 (6d6) >>5851718 Accepting the invitation. Not sure if I need to do this, but others are so I will just in case.
#Abnegation
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 13/13
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 12
==Style==
Shatterhands 13
!One Against: All parry penalties are halved. You can retreat with a parry as well, +3 if so.
!Legwork: Harsh penalties in a grapple or when off balance, dangerous techniques, kicking has less consequences
!Serpent’s Precept: -2 to skill, roll damage twice or make it Piercing (which really hurts)
!Stormspin: Roll Style, add margin to next kick
==Mask==
Plain
===Contacts===
The Red Markets - 7
Animist Associate - 8
===Things===
0 Bits
8 cold coins
1 Reputation
0 Maskmyth
[A Library, For Personal Perusal]
[A Place To Practice, In Peace]
[A Bed To Rest In, And The House It's In - COMMUNAL with Lagomorpheus and Amicus, 25 Cold Coins Floating (?)]
Carving, +1 to Stormspin
Rejiggered advances again, realised that Style levels are important.
>>5853036 This mind does not have the cold coin for a full day's worth of pizza any longer, but it is likely possible for eight cold coins to still purchase a substantial quantity of pizza. This mind believes that Slip Sensibly has also agreed to partake of pizza.
>>5852797 >Run Interception (1st-3rd, Influence 12) >Influence Patrol 4 Not really sure what an Animist Associate can actually do for me, so unless someone comes up with an idea I'll likely just sit on it and the Red Markets. As for the general action...
>Use Mothdream to achieve a state of total conscious self-control. Small amounts, Abnegation does not think detaching in entirety is a good idea. Practice keeping the body regulated. Last time several internal bodily processes were out of balance by the time the effect had worn off. It had few practical implications for the job, but that may not always be the case. And in any case, Abnegation is not interested in Mothdream for purely job-practical reasons. (4th-6th, Understand? 10) Fourth Dusk
Rolled 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 3 = 21 (6d6) >>5852797 > Accepting the Invitation Going through A (the front gate).
Rolling Understand to estimate what, exactly, will be waiting for us there. (First set of dice)
Rolling Outlander Contact to acquire a smoke bomb or flash grenade, to stun and stagger a crowd of foes. (+3- Quick, Simple, second set of dice).
And, of course, bringing my Boxing Mitts!
(Freshly Cleaned, of course.)
Lagomorpheus
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>>5852797 >Accept the Invitation to the Ball. >Prep some pouches of mothdream. Prepare to go in hot through the front door and cause a ruckus (option A). >Develop a plan of approach (10) +2 Foresight - My plan is to throw things into the eyes of the Rats and generally cause a ruckus when going through the front door. That should pull the bulk of the Rats to the front and allow the hidden deploys a change to either raid unmolested or pick off high impact targets. >Ask the Red Market (7) if there are any Messages in the Zone which need to be delivered. >Ask the ?Family? (?) if they have any Messages what need deliverin' in the Zone. If any of these Messages need special tools to be delivered properly, ask to borrow those tools. >General Action - Deliver messages in the Zone and try to scout it out along the way. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 04 Dec 2023 10:12:51 No. 5853688 Report Quoted By:
>>5853170 Now would be the time, because it's now you have the need. As for offering something for something, being willing to take on an Inconvenience runs the gamut from +1 to +4 (to your targets) in exchange for . . . An Inconvenience of approximately equivalent value. You can offer this as you like.
You can also thrown in some Bits, some information, some coin, interesting information, because what friend doesn't work harder when motivated? That's more up in the air, but, usefully, if your request falls through your incentives don't "disappear".
>>5853211 Because it's what you are and what you have, a soft soul, ripe for the plucking and the changing. You can become what you yearn to <span class="mu-i">be</span>, as opposed to all those hardliners who are more set in their ways. Bound by the flesh, yes, but free in the place that matters: the soul.
>Front Fourth Dusk
Lagomorpheus
>Interception Sal
Amicus
Abnegation
>Clever Klaunn
Riv
>Influence: Abnegation, Patrol 4 [-2]
>Foresight Margin Accrued 11
[Masks: 7]
---
[Warm Up Phase...]
Anonymous
>>5853446 (Whoops.
Understanding is 12, Outlander Contact is 8 (+3))
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5852797 >Go right through the front! (+1 GLORY) >...A plan? I'm gonna dropkick some guys. Is that enough of a plan? (Forego a plan. All guts, all glory, but not a drop of foresight...) CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 04 Dec 2023 10:32:48 No. 5853694 Report Quoted By:
>>5853691 Well, if you feel more comfortable in the rush of things, friend, then may the Moths guide your hand.
>>5853690 Much obliged, obliging friend. It does make it marvelous miles easier if the scribes don't have to stare, bog-eyed, at how a number became a number. Simply noting down what you use for what makes the <span class="mu-i">entire universe</span> run smoother on better greased tracks.
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
Rolled 4, 1, 2 = 7 (3d6) >>5851951 >Sell Aggression to Alley Animist +1 Bits (18 Bits) >Spend 2 Coins for exceptional Bland food for a week >Spend 30 for an Exceptional Good bed, door that locks and privacy >Spend 15 on a bedroom >Spend 10 on a easy way out >Spend 30 on a workshop >Put on a sweet Scarf I got that one time for the outing >Spend 9 Bits on Vanadian Trade Correspondant for a Meeting (8-->9) >Spend 9 Bits on acquiring a Hookshot and Hookshot training Vanadians had hookshots right? (roll?) >>5852797 >B: Be clever >Develop a plan of approach Spider-Man
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 11 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
==Style==
Taking Arts 13
==Mask==
Plain
==Things==
[Whispercloth] +1 Dodge, +1 Grapple reach
[Vial of Slapcrete] Sticky...maybe useful for the future of...web slingers?? Maybe someone could help with this
4x[Heartflush Dose]
==Contacts==
Vanadian Trade Correspondent - 9
The Red Markets - 7
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 3, 1, 4 = 8 (3d6) >>5853060 >>5852797 >>5853159 You know, the advertisement on the tin isn't such a bad idea. I think I'll take him up on that.
>Requisition some boots for all the maskmates. Good for keeping us mobile, kicking down doors, and sundry creative uses. Take on an inconvenience (+2) to facilitate this. (Should be +4 or +3 for quick, easy, and simple, or at least quick and simple if requisitioning this number of boots isn't "easy")
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
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>>5853743 (Using my Legion Quartermaster (8) Contact of course)
Waxworm
Rolled 3, 1, 6, 1, 1, 6, 3, 5, 1 = 27 (9d6) >>5852797 Dice for cooking, contact, and then influence.
>General Action: Catch some fish with my exceptional fishing gear, cook it up in the communal kitchen for my flat mates. An army marches on its stomach. >Call up my Glass Knight friend, have him loan me a PROPER knightly weapon and instruct me on its usage. Surely he trains me on the regular, this is just a refresher course! >Support Abnegation in influencing Patrol 4. Wrack all over the remnants of that patrol. >Deploy AT THE GATES! #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All good. Honest.
-Status: Alive?
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 11 Focus 11
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
!Mug The Future: Steal AP from your future self. Start next turn with that much Stun.
==Mask==
Stainwood(+Weird)
-2 Maskstains
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
-Exceptional Fishing Gear
-Cold Coins x5
-Bits x6
==Other==
-Rat Mark x1
-Hygean Mark x1
Amicus
Rolled 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3 = 14 (6d6) >>5852797 >Ask my Associates to help me intercept some rats (First roll, should be quick and simple but not necessarily easy, 1st roll vs 11) >Spend some time volunteering for the Empyrean Emissaries. Try to find out what's the word on the street about the rats, their plans and their merchandise. If nothing else I will have helped some flickering lights. (2nd roll, Influence 12) >>5853743 Ohhh, genuine Legion boots! How nostalgic. Much appreciated Sal
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 04 Dec 2023 16:07:20 No. 5853859 Report >>5853186 Dash systems? At this hour? In this economy? In this city? Apologies, friend, but demand is fierce and the supply is limited. Vanadian Gearlock systems are expensive ever since the Defense Council closed the borders, they're redirecting most of their production to internal needs, and the latest batch of House Luperni models were delayed due to an incident with Dr. Bel Phegor, the overseer of their research line. But you're in luck, perhaps an alternative can be arranged...?
>>5853446 Brightlights, flash fires and all the chemical accoutrements of the arts of artifice and trickery. That sort of stuff? Easy to acquire, easier to source, and if the Chemicaes are too busy to take an order perhaps you didn't know this, but you can get the same result at half the cost if you use horse blood in -- Okay okay, they'll stop talking if you stop asking.
>>5853703 Ehhhhhh it fell off the back of a caravel, don't ask too many questions.
>>5853743 If there's one thing we have, it's boots, Sal. Boots and biscuits and curiously, eight thousand model seven-two-LD full helmets, wolf style, flat-topped. Recalled because the metal alloy turns out to be mixed poorly, so the helmet gets brittle with heat. Oh, you want boots?
Here. Last and best boots you'll ever own.
>>5853768 Had you ten years, a thousand training dummies, four squires and no obligations, he feels he could still not show you how to use a sword with anything resembling competence enough that he would let you leave his sight with one, unsupervised. A sword is a separator of things. It one of the only tools forged by human hands that has no purpose other than to end others. In the distant Rikovols, they say that some things are worth dying for and draw their blades only when they wish to test that oath. This perhaps is admirable.
But in Kalcmir, <span class="mu-i">the first sword was forged</span> and you're apt to get yourself cut up something fierce if you go waving one about like you have the first thing approaching a clue on how to use one.
---
<span class="mu-s">Slide a piece of Kit</span> into your pockets, down your back, your belt. Tools have Weight. Once you breach your Grit multiples, you take -1 to Reaction and Movechecks and further every multiple hence.
>Front Fourth Dusk
Lagomorpheus
Waxworm
>Interception Sal
Amicus
Abnegation
>Clever Klaunn
Riv
Spiders Man
>Influence: Abnegation, Patrol 4 [-2]
Waxworm, Patrol 4 [-1]
>Foresight Margin Accrued 14
[Masks: 8]
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
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>>5853859 >Take a pair of boots, need that extra oomph on my dropkicks (Also, you forgot to mark me down as taking the front door.)
#Mock
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: 3 Aggression, 2 Cunning, 3 GLORY
-Status: Alive
==Array==
Health 4/4 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 10, Move 14
==Style==
Brawling 14
-!Creative Use Encouraged, !Wear My Kicking Boots, !Knuckledancer
==Mask==
Mothdiver Mask {1 STAIN}
-+1 Hit and Effect on high-diving style moves.
-Recover 1 Focus when landing a diving attack.
-Punches are boring...
-+Mothmask effects
-Carving: +1 Hit when diving
==Kit==
Model 73 Boots
-1 Weight
-+1 Raw Damage on kicks
-Feet protection
-*Clonk Clonk Clonk*
==Contacts==
The Red Markets 7
Outlander Contact 8
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 04 Dec 2023 16:18:59 No. 5853864 Report Quoted By:
Looks like we can draw some of that [4] Group away from the relevant warehouse, lead them on a merry chase, then loop around.
Riv
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>>5853859 "Ah, magnificent. Your resourcefulness never fails to impress. I'll take half a dozen."
> Acquire 6 Luperni Jaegerhound FCS fuel cells #Riv
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 11] :: [Focus 11/11]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 14]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Inventory==
[75 => 9 Coldcoin]
[8 Bits]
[6 Luperni Jaegerhound FCS fuel cells (Wgt: 1.98)]]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
==Other==
[1 Rat Mark]
[1 Hygean Mark]
==Lifestyle==
[A Good Bed, A Door That Locks, And Privacy] (Standard)
+ [An Easy Way Out] (Outstanding)
[Bland Food For A Week] (Standard)
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Mon 04 Dec 2023 16:38:33 No. 5853875 Report >>5853786 >>5852883 >>5853348 Eightfingers and Butcher's Blokes and some of the more practical members of the Association think they can work out a few ways to slow down some of the fleeter rats. Carts and wagons in the slim streets of the city, a quick hit and run in a blind alley, such things. They're still working on it. Gaming it out, wondering, staring down at a crumbled map and moving pieces with concentrated distant looks in their eyes.
And then, Abnegation, pondering, in the kitchen, staring at cold slices of bread and pondering about their friends, fighting the urge to blink, fighting the urge to sleep, fighting the urge to take a bite of the savory meal, finds a thought...
If, as Amicus reports, the Empyreal Emissaries find themselves serving charitable care to the Slicerats could it be that it is not simply because the scurrying lowlives are so habitually kleptomaniac that they must steal free blankets? There has to be some sort of limit to the larceny, even for a rat.
Mothdream, when carefully administered, dulls the need for sleep and the urges of breath and low, constant churn of your digestive tracks. One can look at the delicious remnants from the planning session that litter the communal kitchen and feel nothing at all.
And what if one offered <span class="mu-i">that</span> to all the mingled, mewling throng that flocks to the Flame for warmth and succor? Bread will kill the hunger pangs but Mothdream <span class="mu-i">will kill the Hunger</span>. Even now, in now dosage, with practiced breath and an expanding awareness of the limits of their own physical form and all the possibilities do, Abnegation remains chain to the thought of tomorrow. One needs a meal, yes? One <span class="mu-i">needs</span> to sleep, at some point.
But if hope was lost in a war, or taken by the night, or fortune turned foul in some trade dispute, if all the little slings of world conspired to knock one down from one's perch, then perhaps the hope of never worrying about such things becomes an enticement.
Imagine the . . . <span class="mu-i">Sales pitch</span>. Accept the bread and blankets and bunkbeds of the hard working Theurgic Acolytes and their flame-mad masters, who, it is whispered, did try to burn us all for some divine favor or accept an armband, a knife, a place in the pack and the end to all your hunger, sleepless nights and insistent bodily sensations.
Small wonder Rinik has such a plague of rats at his beck and call. No whispered tales of Rinik or the Slicerats selling Mothdream or kicking up a turf war with the Shimmergrass gangs. They're in in entirely different lines of business.
Because Rinik and the Slice Rats aren't selling Mothdream at all. <span class="mu-i">They're giving it away for free</span>.
[Warmup Phase 2]
>Our contacts are mostly spent >Our plans are mostly in motion >All that remains is final adjustments, checking our kit, marking our masks, preparing for a dance >Every Mask gets 1 general broad-time downtime action. Riv
Rolled 3, 4, 3 = 10 (3d6) >>5853875 #Riv
==Core==
Guard 13/13
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
[Health 2] :: [Psyche 2] :: [Grit 2]
[Reaction 11] :: [Focus 11/11]
==Skills==
[Sense 12] :: [Understand 10] :: [Influence 10] :: [Move 14]
==Style==
[Brawling 14]
==Mask==
[Plain]
==Inventory==
[75 => 9 Coldcoin]
[8 Bits]
[6 => 5 Luperni Jaegerhound FCS fuel cells (Wgt: 1.65)]]
==Contacts==
Legion Quartermaster Contact - 8
==Other==
[1 Rat Mark]
[1 Hygean Mark]
==Lifestyle==
[A Good Bed, A Door That Locks, And Privacy] (Standard)
+ [An Easy Way Out] (Outstanding)
[Bland Food For A Week] (Standard)
> Riv activates one of his fuel-cells in a controlled environment, experimenting with using the device so as to form a clearer idea of how it functions and what he can realistically do with the force it generates. (-1 Luperni Jaegerhound FCS fuel cells) Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
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>>5853875 >Equip Model 73 Boots >Practice lighting things on fire (in a controlled environment). I’d like to be able to more consistently get thing’s burning quicker. (I would like to improve my usage of the Spark action learned last map) Waxworm
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>>5853875 Maybe one day I'll be as dashing and dangerous as a Glass Knight.
>General Action: Sit and fish by the water, real inconspicuous like. Keep an eye on the sorts of unsavory fellows going in and out of the docks. Anyone especially dangerous looking? >Equip bonkstick >Equip brightflash bandolier #Waxworm
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All good. Honest.
-Status: Alive?
==Array=
Health 2 Psyche 2 Grit 2
Reaction 11 Focus 11
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 12
==Style==
Taking Arts 12
!Shadowtheft: [1 AP and Dodge Reaction] - Dodge behind, steal 1 guard
!Mug The Future: Steal AP from your future self. Start next turn with that much Stun.
==Mask==
Stainwood(+Weird)
-2 Maskstains
==Contact==
The Red Markets - 7
Kalcimiri Glass Knight - 8
==Pockets==
-Bent Long Knife
-Bonk-ken
-Brightflash Bandolier
-Exceptional Fishing Gear
-Cold Coins x5
-Bits x6
==Other==
-Rat Mark x1
-Hygean Mark x1
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5853859 Dr. Bel Phagor? Do you perhaps mean Dr. Dr Bel, Ph, Ag, Or? I know he has an unusual name, but you can’t just mash it all together. It doesn’t even work that way if you try, the Ph is silent.
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
>>5853924 Ah, slight correction, only the H is silent, but the point still stands. You give people the wrong impression by inaccurately and callously mashing names together into one word. A man of his standing deserves some respect, no?
Amicus
Rolled 6, 4, 3 = 13 (3d6) >>5853859 >Take a pair of boots, a brightflash bandolier, a set of wire-fangs, and three fuel cells >>5853875 >They say you can find anything in the Red Markets. Ask my contacts there if they can find me a proper suit of armour, like the one I used to have. (Definitely quick, probably simple, no idea how easy it is. Rolling against 10?) What Rinik is doing is despicable. Dreams and needs hurt, but they are important. They're what drive us forward. What remains when they are gone?
#Amicus
==Core==
Guard 11
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 10
==Style==
Legionlock 11
!Unfair Fighter: Adds ½ of any penalty your target is suffering that you’re not also suffering as +hit/+effect.
!Offhander: 1 AP to roll against Grit or Reaction to try a Trick (which penalizes targets)
!Pack Tactics: Get a 1 AP discount on major attack actions if target is fighting an ally of yours.
==Mask==
Legion Fullhelmet (+Honour)
+Ash and Smoke (Roll vs Influence to add Fire or Smoke to next action *or* inflict it on the environment. +1 per Focus spent.)
+Swordhunter (Roll vs Sense to sniff out nearby weapons. +1 base effect against armed opponents.)
-Carving (A bonus when helping a friend in danger.)
2 Maskstain
1 Reputation
+1 Reputation (Temp)
==Kit==
Total weight: 4
Model 73 Boots
Wire-Fangs
Brightflash Bandolier 6/6
Jaegerhound Fuel Cell System Fuel Cell x3
==Contacts==
Veteran's Association - 8
The Red Markets - 7
==Things==
Association Membership
Correspondence with distant friends made during the war
Memento of a dream choked in blood
[A Bed To Rest In, And The House It's In - COMMUNAL with Lagomorpheus, Abnegation and Waxworm, 50 Cold Coins Floating (?)]
The Butcher
Rolled 1, 2, 4 = 7 (3d6) >>5853875 Eight said he wants someone to lead the boys in while others make a big stink at the gates, but I don't see three masks making a stink big enough for thirty.
> Butcher volunteers for the front door > He'll take two flash bandoliers > Until then, he'll watch Eightfingers work and offer really, really obvious observations (Understanding 10) Klaunn !!A5ANDj+KATg
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>>5853859 >Take wire-fangs, bandolier and 3 fuel cells Fourth Dusk
Quoted By:
>>5853875 > Equip a Bandolier of Flashfire #Fourth Dusk
==Core==
Guard 14
AP 6 Agility 3 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 3 Grit 2
Reaction 9 Focus 12
==Skills==
Sense 12, Understand 12, Influence 10, Move 10
Taking Arts 13
Plain Mask (Flourish)
==Equipment==
Vanadian Fighting Mitts
Flashfire Bandolier (6/6)
Spider-Man !!S6VzTDwnQAm
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>>5853859 >Take the last set of Wire-Fangs (Gotta do this before they're all gone)
Lagomorpheus
>>5853965 >>5853875 >Sew our friend Amicus a carrier vest. Then all they have to do is find some plates to go in it. Not sure how "proper" it is, but it's some sort of armor. >>5853859 >>5853768 Waxworm, would you mind if I took one of those Bonk-Ken? To bonk rats. And play Don Quixote. If not, that's ok. I'll throw grenades and cause havoc or something instead. I can only promise that I will make self control rolls when I bonk with it (because of my mask) and also that I will not treat it as a sword (because it's not a sword). I may also use it for things other than Bonk!.
Waxworm
Quoted By:
>>5854294 Help yourself. I hadn't considered wielding two, for my mentor was loathe to see me wielding even one!
The Circus !SrRUK1ndVE
Quoted By:
>>5851246 >Health to 3, Move to 14 #The Circus
==Core==
Guard 15/15
AP 6 Agility 4 RP 1
-Status: All well
-Status: Alive
==Array=
Health 3 Psyche 2 Grit 3
Reaction 9 Focus 12/12
==Skills==
Sense 10, Understand 10, Influence 12, Move 14
==Style==
Knot-tying 12
!Painpoints: Stun Dmg Base
!Jointlock: 2x Grapple effect
!Tie in a Knot: Grapple penalty as +hit on followup
==Mask==
Plain
1 Reputation
1 Maskmyth
==Contacts==
Red Markets-7
==Inventory==
12 Bits
125 Cold Coins
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 06 Dec 2023 04:58:27 No. 5856108 Report >>5854294 <span class="mu-b">Waitwaitwait, Bunpunch enthusiast over there.
You're . . . Going to mark your Mask with the vow of the Swordhunter. Declare wide to the world that you intend to use no steel by your own thoughts and no tool but your own hands, all that, grand and storied and writ clear as day on your Maskmoniker, your contract marks and held high on your own face.
And <span class="mu-i">then[/i| the first thing you'll do is strap yourself down with alchemical devices and grab a wooden practice sword?</span></span>
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Wed 06 Dec 2023 05:20:34 No. 5856133 Report Quoted By:
>>5853965 Space in your head for something or someone else to fill your hopes and dreams with their ambitions.
>>5853924 >>5853927 Last I heard he was still working on the Or, but very few distinguished souls get that sort of degree. That's the man, Sal, good ear. Tussle in the Luperni Library a few months ago. Apparently a Reikan Narrative Event got a little out of hand. I hear they're somewhat like our Masquerades, only, you know, drunk and the audience is part of it instead of off-limits and instead of symbols and masks they use "roles" and have these things called safe words, but also, that part makes sense, because no Reikan can take a proper punch. Dr. Bel is still riding high on the idea that he'll revolutionize gearlocks, though it's odd that the Luperni are so invested in the projects. They don't lack of personal paramilitaries of the professional sort, sure, but imagine outfitting each and all with a boost dash system. Logistics nightmare. A striker consumes multiple cells for every hour of operation. You'd beggar yourself paying.
>>5853880 It seems if you plug it into something, it releases the pent up energy at a slow rate - the environment won't be too reactive, but 1 Force is still enough to push things, move things, warm things up. It adds this enhancement to all actions once per action. Attach one to yourself and you'll find physical activity boosted. Well, if you had a wire-system or Bondsteel arms or mechanical artifice. Since you don't, it'll mostly go nowhere. But you could warm things up? Maybe You can hold it in your hand and jump, maybe, or treat it the world's most dangerous pair of knuckledusters (dangerous to your hands. You don't want to be holding it when it breaks). You can adjust the release rate handily, if you had something bigger you needed to power.
You probably want the explosive release.
Turn the safety override off (1 AP, readying the cell) then throw it. Upon impact with a sufficiently hard surface, the chemicals will mix all at once and flash-convert to empty air and loud noise and the roar of mountains breaking. The direct target and most things inside 4-8 tiles are subject to the cascade shockwave. It releases 4d6 *all at once*, dividing by 3 per tile, far more in closed confines.
>>5853978 Thanks, that was very helpful, the way you suggested not losing a fight and getting them while their guard is down. Well.
No, that last one. That... Actually is helpful, something fierce, for why not get them when their guard is down? The Slicerats cling to the neighborhood. It's theirs. We need simply plant a knifeman in any cafe they think they're safe in and take that safety. . . Away.
>Front Mock
Fourth Dusk
Lagomorpheus
Waxworm
Butcher
>Interception Sal
Amicus
Abnegation
>Clever Klaunn
Riv
Spiders Man
>Influence: Abnegation, Patrol 4 [-2]
Waxworm, Patrol 4 [-1]
>Foresight Margin Accrued 14
[Masks:11]
The Butcher
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>>5856108 That sounds like the thing I want. Sod these bandoliers, someone get the paint.
Lagomorpheus
>>5856108 The Mask chose me. Soul intention self-manifesting sans act of hand. I can promise you Skip that I will not use this Bonk-ken as a sword. Maybe as a Bonk, but not as a -ken. And these alchemical devices. Do you think that they violate the shared collective sigil of Sword Hunter? I'm not well cultured in this symbiology. I wouldn't want to Bunsai in opposition to ages of culture and tradition. That might reflect badly on the family it might. Wouldn't want to cast shade on the family reputation by oath-breaking. Oh, and what are your favorite color and shirt dimensions?
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slip Sensibly !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Thu 07 Dec 2023 09:33:38 No. 5857572 Report >>5857114 <span class="mu-b"> Liar. You can bend it every which way you like, liar, but it doesn’t make you, liar, any less of a liar, liar. I’m neither going to be distracted, liar, by shirts, liar, or any other questions, liar. </span>
Lagomorpheus
Call me a liar will you? Then hear my oath lawful keeper of oaths: I shall not use this bonk-ken as a sword.>Swear Oath not to use Bonk-ken as a sword.
Nishina
>>5857572 Eat your pizza, Slip.
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Slips Sensibility !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:eclwQYJ1 Fri 08 Dec 2023 00:34:51 No. 5858300 Report >>5858215 <span class="mu-b"> You are not making an oath. You are lying.
You are a liar. You lie. So the thing from your mouth is noise, neither true now or true later, and to call it an oath is to <span class="mu-i">lie again</span>. Liar.
Of course liars cannot swear oaths, liar. An oath is a promise kept and a bargain held, liar, and you do neither. You can do neither, liar. You lie. What would you know about honoring anything? How would anyone expect you to keep something so simple as a promise to other people when you can barely keep a promise to your own face? Liar.
I am not calling you anything. I am stating the fact of your existence.
<span class="mu-i">Liar</span>. </span>
>>5858288 <span class="mu-b"> Thanks for this. It is nice to have food when the city is so heated.</span>
Amicus
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>>5856108 Wait, Slip, are alchemical devices really against the spirit of the Swordhunter oath? I'd better give them back if so.
>>5858288 >>5858300 Pizza!
Lagomorpheus
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Skip, do you know the story of the first Swordhunter? If so, would you share it?
Riv
(Uh...)
Mock !!47rHJhDsK7/
>>5862364 (Nah, Command's just taking a break for now since there's a bunch of other skirmishes going on right now and he didn't want to clog things up too much.)
Anonymous
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>>5862365 Damn skirmish traffic jams! *honk honk*
Sal !!N5bughrC0Ni
Rolled 4, 4, 1 = 9 (3d6) >>5858300 >Punch the skirmish traffic jam Abnegation
Rolled 2, 4, 1 = 7 (3d6) >>5864761 The skirmish traffic jam rolls to defend
Za Warud
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Rolled 3, 1, 5 = 9 (3d6) >>5864761 >>5864918 Obligatory world event roll, nothing to worry about™
Anonymous
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(Welp, looks like Command's back at it again, sooner than expected.)
>>5868076 >>5868076 >>5868076
