[OOC] Panzerknacker Options

[SquirrelDude]

To make the plan clear.

Flash-Bang and HE grenades are placed near the bottom of the stairs, wireless links active for bnc to take control of them. Slob and Krestov (and a combat drone if available), wait for the thing to start moving when the gas clears. Suppress whatever it is to try and keep it from escaping into the hall long enough for bnc to fire off the grenades. I don't think it kills it, but hopefully it's a start.

RIP

[Jack_Spade]

Hehe, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

keep moving (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[SquirrelDude]

Immediate relevant information.

How far is slobber from the grenade
How far is slobber from the door to the stairwell.

Does he recognize the weapon Kn: Firearms: 9d6t5 1



Noting here: Slob's current speeds are

Walk 12(16)
Run 24(32)
Spring 24(32)+2m*8d6t5

[Jack_Spade]

It's a spell (Elemental Grenade as bnc will certainly be able to tell you)
As per the plan the grenade is exactly at the base of the stairs. You still have time to get out of the way...
It's about 2 m from the base of the stairs to the door frame. Depending on the force of the spell it could have quite a large radius

[Gilga]

Some rule question: Would you allow Anna to levitate the grenade? If so, what force to send it flying back where it comes from, and hopefully bring us out of the radius of the blast?

[Jack_Spade]

Nope. That thing is not an object but a spell construct containing an elemental effect. Actually I think having another spell interact with it would either trigger it or cause an intersection, snuffing out the other spell.

[Gilga]

Triggering it is not such a bad option - would mean the explosion would be further away from us than it would otherwise.
However, can she help our cause by simply using the levitate spell to close the door near the stairs and preventing the grenade from getting closer to us?


I made a post leaving it vouge if she actually shuts the door or not so that you can proceed either way. I rolled perception to see if she noticed it in time to react quickly - figuring out that if she did not or if Jack would not allow the action she'll just run with the rest.

Perception: 13d6t5 5

[Jack_Spade]

The grenade is where it is - at the base of the stairs. Triggering it sooner won't give you anything. Closing the door is possible but not particularly easy with levitate as you have to be carefull to move the door without taking it from its hinges.
I'd say you need 4 successes on your spellcasting test or you'll instead damage the door.

[Gilga]

4 success is too much for her skill right now... she'll just run.

[Volker]

is there someplace to stick the SOK into?
What's the system's defence dice pool?

What is it rulewise? A host? A program? Gear?

[Jack_Spade]

Ruleswise it's a modded Triox Ubermensch RCC with a +2 Sleaze Attribute and Smoke&Mirrors running, Swarm Program and an Agent R6 + a personality program.
The SOK contains an RFID identifier as well as a pattern akin to a QR code.

[Volker]

From today on until Sunday, I won't be able to post, as I'm going to a LARP, where I run about in heavy platemail, swinging foam swords, drinking mead (lots of it) and singing dirty songs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Feel free to roleplay bnc in the meanwhile. She'll try to use the defence system to bring down the mage, obviously. First objective is keeping Gerhardt alive, though. Okay, first comes our own safety, then Gerhardt's, then geeking the mage. Though geeking the mage might just result in achieving the other two objectives.

[SquirrelDude]

So as someone who still won't look into the magic rules closely enough: What does "Dual Natured" mean in this context? What can we do to exploit that?

[Jack_Spade]

It means the entity can perceive both the mundane and the astral at the same time and act on both - but can also be targeted by purely astral phenomena and has to avoid intersection with mana barriers.

@Volker

Have fun:

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[Gilga]

Either a perciving mage or aspirit... it means that Anna's spirit can (rather ineffectively) stunbolt it from the astral. Then again Anna has little combat abilities herself. So perhaps the two of them would make a dent.

Should she use the grandes? What will they do?

[Jack_Spade]

Well, he went to the trouble of freezing the neuro stun grenade, so he seems to have some respect for them - of course that means he is likely to just jug one of his elemental grenades around the corner as well...

Time to mix this up a bit.

[SquirrelDude]

The two grenades slobber placed were flash-bangs so they'll each do 10S -4 AP damage in a 10m radius. If Anna placed the HE grenades (unlikely), they'll do 16p -2AP damage, losing 2 damage every meter out.

[Gilga]

We'll she'll place all of them on the floor... and if Kynos allows us to join him... bnc would have a blast blowing the grenades (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

Except that bnc has isolated herself in the staff room and is now closest to Zola, separated only by a flimsy door from whatever he does next.
Also the traps you layed are currently frozen solid and their electronics non responsive.

Crossing through the Rover is not the easiest task and requires three complex actions (enter, navigate through, exit)

Having the grenades lying just around might also cause another elemental grenade thrown to neutralize them.

[Gilga]

Oh... I did not realize that we are cut off from bnc...


Let me think about it, I mean we can at least get Krestov and Schmidt inside. Then with all the commotion it is possible that Anna did not even realized what bnc was doing. She'll realize that bnc is exposed and dash to the rescue.

I'll edit the grenades then (?)

******
Okay, I edited the post - Anna does the same, Slob is firing they run away from the Grenade everything is fog of battle... So what I added is the realization that bnc was not in that room with them and that if they left she would be alone with Zola.

[SquirrelDude]

@Jack

Can we get a quick map layout to show exactly where bnc is in relation to the team/spirit/suppressing fire?

Slobber might be leaving the frying pan to jump into the fire.

[Gilga]

Can spell defense help with these grenades? They seem not to target 'us'... ?

[SquirrelDude]

Also, Kite was the one who could do invisibility, not Anna, right?

[Jack_Spade]

Sure:

https://pyrophilios.files.wordpress.com/201...t-situation.png

And, no, Kite was the rigger, Flatline and Anna have both Invisibility in their repertoire

@gilga

Spell defense works against the casting of the spell - which is actually a bit difficult with the elemental grenade spells. You'd have to dispell the spell instead (but you already tried that once with Zola's spells and it wasn't good for you)

[Gilga]

Well, she is a beginner as Slobber asks, though I am not sure invisibility would help.

Invisibility: 9d6t5 5
(Forgot that she was maintaining improve intuition on Slobber, so a total of -4 to all actions. (-2 wounds, -2 spell)

Improved invisibility F5:

9d6t5: 5 [9d6t5=2, 5, 6, 1, 5, 5, 6, 2, 3] Taking off the last 2 dice - due to calculation error, she keeps the hits.

drain: 14d6t5 4