Salted Wounds [IC], a Deep Black Sea game Options

[Gilga]

Aiming her gun at the door, Anna made sure that they already by counting down... >>3... 2... 1... Open She opened the door with her mind, while her real hands tightly grip the gun.

[Jack_Spade]

The door opens and Nova's flashlight cuts through the darkness, revealing two emaciated creatures about the size of dwarves, but downright skelletal and hairless. The third one has more flesh on it's frame but is grayish white and shows a very prominent jaw. This last one seems to stand in a kind of black liquid until Nova realizes that this is in fact a large colony of tiny roaches climbing over each other. The pile in the middle of the room turns out to be made from human bones. A sickly, sweet scent fills the room and makes anyone with functioning sinuses gag.

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Critter 1 Ini: 10+1d6 13
Critter 2 Ini: 10+2d6 17
Critter 3 Ini: 10+2d6 15

Roach Swarm: Ini: 7+2d6 14

Ini time for Anna

Nova is charged by Critter 2: Charge Attack: 14d6t5 5
defend against DV 8 P AP-1 + netsuccesses (if any)

With incredible swiftness, one of the skeletal freaks charged at Nova, ready to swipe it's dirty claws across her exposed face.

[Gilga]

Anna acted quickly and without flinching fired a single shot at the beast charging Nova.
OOC:
Initiative 21: Simple action take aim, simple action fire single shot at the beast charging Nova (critter 2) free action spell defense. (all our team).
Fire Predator + Take aim: 17d6t5 4 Damage is 8P -1 AP.

[Thanee]

Nova managed to get out of the way of the charging things' claws.

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Defense 6 hits

[Jack_Spade]

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Critter 2: Defense: 10d6t5 3
Soak: 6d6t5 2
Takes 9 damage, Ini drops by 3 to 14

New ini:
Anna: 21: shoots critter 2
Critter 2: 17 14 --> attacked (failed)
Nova: 15
bnc: 15: shoots critter x
Critter 3: 15
Roaches: 14
Critter 1: 13

Anna's shot hit home, slowing the critter down but didn't drop it. Nova and bnc had an opening to act before the other critters could react...

[Volker]

With a yell, bnc fired a well-aimed salvo at the already wounded creature, sending it to hell and beyond.

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Rolls as in the OoC thread: Fire: 10d6t5 5
If I may: Critter Defense: 10d6t5 3
I forgot the -2 penalty, which would subtract another die. Oh, and the -3 wound modifier...

Soak: 6d6t5 2
With 8 + 3 (or 4) -2 = 9 boxes of damage in addition to the 9 it already has, it's dead-dead.

[Thanee]

Seeing that Anna's shot was effective, Nova drew her right arm closer to her body, in order to shoot at the thing right in front of her without it being too easy to just push her gun away. She aimed and fired a single shot, while the guncam on her Savalette was trained right on her target sending the feed to the rest of the team.

She positioned herself in a way, that she would block the entrance, so the other critters would not easily get through.

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Pistols 5 hits (9 Agi + 6 Pistols + 2 Smartlink + 1 Take Aim - 3 In Melee)

Damage 8P AP -5 (APDS rounds)

[Jack_Spade]

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New ini:
Anna: 21: shoots critter 2
Critter 2: - down with 31 damage
Nova: 15: shoots critter 2
bnc: 15: shoots critter 2
Critter 3: 15 Charges Nova Charge Attack: 14d6t5 3, Nova Defense: 11d6t5 4, attack fails
Roaches: 14 delay after Critter 1
Critter 1: 13 Simple Action: Command Roaches to attack, simple action spit noxious breath at Anna and Nova with AOE: Spit: 9d6t5 5, no scatter
DV 6S, Nausea, defend with Will+Body+inhalation protection (respirator)
Roaches: Swarm Anna (Gestalt Consciousness: Swarm Attack: 20d6t5 9
Normal defense,
Damage= S Net successes, no armor for soak, also Composure (CHA+WIL) to avoid panic vs. Net successes

The second skeletal creature charged Nova, but was equally unsuccessful. Finally, the critter with the prominent jaw opened its mouth and vomited a stinking spray at Nova and Anna, while at the same time a swarm of cockroaches flowed past Nova's feet and began to find it's way into Anna's cloths.

[Gilga]

Anna jumped toward the roaches momentarily surprising them. It allowed her to avoid the vast majority of the swarm. Nevertheless, the little buggers were impossible to completely avoid. She ignored the discomfort from the roaches, and carefully aimed and her gun, at the critter that inflicted this misery upon her.

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Damage resist: 12d6t5 5
Anna takes 1 stun damage, and would have double wound penalties.

Defend + full defense: 18d6t5 8
resist damage with body only.
Body + mentor bonus: 7d6t5 3
no damage.

Cha+will: 10d6t5 6

Anna acts again at 2nd passage but at initiative 1 due to full defense: She'll use: Simple action take aim, Simple action to fire. Fire Predator + Take aim: 17d6t5 9 Note that the accuracy of her pistol is only 8.

[Thanee]

Nova manages to resist the temptation to throw up in the face of the hideous stench produced by that nasty critter.

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Toxin Resistance 6 hits

[Volker]

bnc yells: "Take out the stinker! Roaches are his!" and swirls Tom at that little bugger.

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I declared a Free Action "shout" in my first init pass. This is the one mentioned in the post. This time, I'll really wait for Thanee to declare Nova's action first.

Init pass 2

Nova: 5:
bnc: 5:
Roaches: 4
Critter 3:
Critter 1:
Anna: 1: declared shoots critter 2 (9 hits), but first it's everybody else's turn, beginning with Nova.

[Gilga]

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Anna would shoot critter 1 (the stinker). She shot critter 2 in initiative phase 1 with 21 initiative, and it is long dead.

[Thanee]

Nova didn't even need bnc's encouragement, as that thing that just spilled its noxious breath at them went right to the top of her I-want-you-dead-list, anyways.

So, she aimed at the thing and fired another shot in its direction.

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Pistols 5 hits (with +1 for taking aim and -3 for being in melee)

Damage 8P AP -5 (APDS rounds)

[Volker]

Gritting her teeth, bnc unleashed another salvo to take out the infected monster. Dazzled by the confusing situation, the untrained decker aimed too high, forever. A serious of bright blinks flare up where her rounds hit the stone wall.

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If you'll allow me to roll your rolls to speed things up:
Defense gnawer against Nova: Defense rolls: 10d6t5 0
Hahahaha *rofl*
Soak gnawer: Soak: 6d6t5 4
That's 8 + 5 (net hits) - 4 (soak) = 9 boxes.

bnc fires another salvo:
Pistols: 10d6t5 2
Defense: Defense rolls: 7d6t5 2 - missed.

current initiative:
Init pass 2

Nova: 5: fired at Gnawer
bnc: 5: missed Gnawer
Goblin: 5
Roaches: 4
Anna: 1: declared shot at gnawer 2 (9 hits), but first it's the monsters' turns
Gnawer: 3 0 (-3 initiative from 9 boxes of damage by Nova)

[Jack_Spade]

The goblin was obviously irriated by the flying lead and began to attack Nova in a frenzy

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Attack: 10d6t5 5

DV 8P AP-1 + net successes
Nova Defense: 11d6t5 1
Do you want to spend Edge?

Roaches attack Anna:
Attack: 20d6t5 7
Damage= S Net successes, no armor for soak, also another Composure (CHA+WIL) to avoid panic vs. Net successes

The gnawer meanwhile had fallen over by the shots and screeched with a painfully loud tone into the darkness, while his roaches continued to swarm all over Anna.

[Thanee]

While she was shooting the gnawer, the critter in front of Nova found an opening to attack her with its claws. Her armor took most of the force out of the attack, though some bruises remained.

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Damage Resistance 8 hits -> 4 boxes of Stun Damage

[Gilga]

Anna proved to be, as nimble as a cat in avoiding the swarm of roaches, she targeted the gnawer and fired a single shot with a lot of finesse.

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Defend + full defense: 18d6t5 8

Anna acts again at 2nd passage but at initiative 1 due to full defense: She'll use: Simple action take aim, Simple action to fire. Fire Predator + Take aim: 17d6t5 9 Note that the accuracy of her pistol is only 8.

[Jack_Spade]

The Gnawer perished with a very precise hole in his head. At once the roaches lost their cohesion and began to flee from the glare of the flashlight. The remaining goblin realized his hopeless fight and began his retreat

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New Ini:
Ini 2: 10+2d6 22

Yeah, fear gives wings as it seems...

Goblin will disengage and head for the hole in the wall with full defense
Full Defense: 15d6t5 2

[Volker]

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Initiative: 1d6+9 12

[Gilga]

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Initiative: 14+2d6 25

Initiative 25: Anna fires a well-aimed shot at the remaining goblin.
(simple action take aim, simple action fire single shot
Fire Predator + Take aim: 17d6t5 9 limit is 8.
Damage is: 8P -1 AP + net hits.
OOC: She is quite the gun bunny!

[Thanee]

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Initiative 11

[Jack_Spade]

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Soak: 6d6t5 2
Goblin takes 14 damage, goes down

The last goblin fell to the floor, unmoving but still breathing.

[Luckace]

Wraith's voice suddenly echoed through the team's comlink channel:
"don't kill it. I might be able to read its mind. Perhaps it witnessed Bean Si's escape, or it was brought here by the Harvesters. It's memory might be useful anyhow."
Also... Everyone okay? "

[Thanee]

After a quick glance over her shoulder, Nova replied: << Yeah, everyone's fine. Hurry up then, not sure how much time that thing has... >>

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@Volker: Might be a good time to mention the regeneration ability... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

While the team looks on the creature begins to stir...