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

[Jack_Spade]

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Mage Ini Ini: 16+4d6 36
-10 for Full Defense and -10 for late to combat. He gets one action before the first round is over

I assume you are firing the modified Savalette Guardian

Full Defense (to pretty to hit) -5 Burst: 18d6t5 7

9 DV AP -1

Soak: 14d6t5 5

4 Stun

Retaliation:
At Ini 15
Complex Action: F10 Lightning bolt
Ligtning Bolt: 16d6t5 7

DV 10P(e) AP-10 + net successes
Drain Resist: Drain resist: 15d6t5 7
No Drain

Meanwhile on the corridor:
On Assault's turn he tries to Cut: 18d6t5 5 Sharkboy


Last combat phase of the first round:

8 bnc (jumped into James) -- inside the kitchen appartment (bnc is in the van): Shoots at Mage
15 Mage (inside flat - acts after bnc, since she is the triggering event for his initiative ): Shoots Lightning at bnc
7 (E3R8) Assault (unarmed) -- in front of appartment: Uses spurs on Sharkboy
7 (E3) Anna -- in corridor:
4 (E7) Nova -- in the staircase:
4 Anna's Spirit -- in corridor:
2 Aeraziel (Wraith's Spirit) -- in astral space:
2 Aeraziel (Wraith's Spirit) -- in astral space:
*Guardian Spirit -- inside appartment: Too surprised to do anything in this round

While at least one bullet hit the mage he still managed to roll around fast as a snake and send a bolt of lightning at James.

Meanwhile, the mercenary with the spurs tried again to cut Sharkboy in half who still maintained his grip on the mechanical man.

[Thanee]

Nova, standing in the middle of a cloud of gas, needed to move away fast. She still took her time to fire another shot at the merc with the shield, before moving forward and past the melee to the other side of the corridor, far away from the gas cloud.

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Simple Action: Take Aim
Simple Action: Shoot "Battery" (Longarms 7 hits + Edge 1 hit (*sigh*)
Movement: Walk 18m towards the other end of the corridor

[Jack_Spade]

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Battery Defense: 20d6t5 10

Although the Merc had been battered quite a bit by now, he still managed to duck behind his shield in time, to deflect the APDS bullet away from him and his chummer.

[Gilga]

Anna followed by levitating Battery toward the gas cloud. He did not budge "What a useless mage I am" she thought frustrated by her own incompotency.

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She had 5 successes, resist with body + str (with -1 due to wounds?)

[Volker]

Shreaking in distress, bnc drops to the ground. She can feel the heat of the lightning bolt jolt right through between her arms and her torso, and she realizes that it was nothing but sheer luck that prevented her from being hit.
bnc gulps at how little effect the salvo had on the mage, and realizes: Here she picked an opponent she cannot best. She was expecting an unprotected and distracted mage, not a professional, augmented battlemage with a huge and brutish spirit to protect it.
Then she realized that this realization might have come too late.

[Luckace]

The blue apparition dashed down towards the man with the shield and the intimidating axe and lashed out at him with its pale, icy-cold embrace.

Meanwhile, a second shape started to manifest: it seemwd to be the winged, angel-like creature like that the team already knew, although a dangerous crackling noise seemed to surround it, as if conducting a strong electrical current.

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Undiel (spirit of water) attacks unarmed+ elemental aura: resulting damage is physical cold damage.
@Jack: please roll for any armor the merc is using, as cold could technically break it.

Unarmed Combat (cold): 13d6t5 3 not what I was hoping for...

Aeraziel (spirit of air) manifests.

I reallz hope these spirits aren't too confusing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) they're all listed in Wraith's sheet with their powers and services owed.

[Jack_Spade]

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Battery Defense: 19d6t5 6

The mercenary avoided the cold embrace with his large shield, still blocking his chummer and by necessity Sharkboy from the rest of their attackers.

[Jack_Spade]

Meanwhile in the flat, bnc had escaped the mage's attack with only the tiniest margin, when suddenly the room filled with smoke. Her ultrasound sensors told her that the mage had suddenly vanished, leaving behind only a robe and shoes.
The mist lifted upwards and diffused through cracks in the ceiling, leaving her alone with the big Guardian Spirit and his sword.

In the corridor, the shielded mercenary easily avoided the shot from Anna, meant to disarm him, and instead flicked his hand to regain the Axe in a graceful swing of the sling, while also trying to cut the spirit in front of him.

[Luckace]

The spirit hissed at the mercenary who just blocked its attack and swiftly moved right to get around his shield - moving right into the man's incoming axe, struck with uncanny brutally. There was a high, painful shriek as well the sound of shattered ice, and then with a burst of icy shrapnells the apparition disappeared as suddenly as it had come.

Down below in the janitor's flat, Wraith unlashed a pained, furious scream as he felt the link to his spiritual companion getting brutally disrupted.

[Gilga]

... "And a useless gunslinger... I can't hit a man from minimal distance." the increasingly furstrated mage thought. Then she saw the mage in bnc's feed turns into myst and felt with dred for James. Without geeking the mage, he is doomed. bnc would be devistated - she thought... but the situation also offered an opertunity - if the mage escapes through the cielling he is exposed! She notified her spirit of the opertunity using their mental connection. She hoped that at least this time they'll get a break, before the oposition gets lucky with their strikes.... Speaking of lucky the magnificant ice spirit was no more with a single strike of that axe. These guys are immune to everything... we'll be lucky to get out alive.

[Jack_Spade]

The icy shrapnell got blocked by the shield and the man's armored forearm, making them smoke with cold.

With a pinging sound a big crack fromed diagonally across the shield and shattered, making it fall to the ground. Suddenly their targets were quite exposed.

[Volker]

Seeing that her attempt was nut only suicidal but also in vain, there's only one thing left to do: flee!

"Mage fleeing!", is all she manages to yell, while she turns and bolts towards the door. Panic grants her wings, as she breaks the door at the lock with a violent kick, sending it crashing against the wall. bnc then dashes through the doorway and dives for cover.

[Jack_Spade]

Having an opponent come from the flat, the mercenary in a clinch with Sharkboy tried to break free, moving towards the now open door.

Meanwhile, Anna's spirit found the mage one floor up outside his protections - though he was remarkably hard to hit in astral combat.

[Luckace]

The crackling around the winged angel seemed to intensify and small sparks of electricity could be seen flashing through its misty body. It turned to the man that just slayed its fellow spirit, flapped its wings and with the sound of a thunderclap, it sent an arc of lightning towards the mercenary.

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Elemental Attack against the spiritslayer: Elemental Attack: 15d6t5 6

If hit, he suffers -5 ini and a general -1d penalty.
As well as 12+net hits DV (AP:-6).

The ward can't actually stop an elemental attack, as it is tecnially a ranged attack and not a magical attack, right?

[Jack_Spade]

The shieldless merc evaded the spirit's attack - barely while his partner fled into the flat, taking a diving leap to prevent Sharkboy from knocking his teeth out, ripping open a duffel bag lying on the ground...

This was made possible by the fact that the large spirit hadn't followed bnc's drone outside, but instead also vanished - only to appear one level above on the astral, right next to the mage in mist form.
Clattering, the huge sword fell to the ground.

[Thanee]

Nova fired another shot at Battery. But it was not nearly as well-aimed as her previous attempts to hit him.

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Simple Action: Take Aim
Simple Action: Longarms (just 4 hits)

[Jack_Spade]

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Battery Defense: 14d6t5 6
Despite much lowered defense, the guy keeps going.

Op Force Spirit attacks Wraith's remaining spirit Astral Combat: 14d6t5 5

If successful 7P + Net successes damage

Battery evaded the shot, but was a lot more slugish than before.
Meanwhile, Wraith noticed that the remaining spirit attacked his angel from the astral.

[Luckace]

The winged spirit jolted for a moment, as if shaking off an invisible attacker. It shook off whatever had seemingly bothered it and kept fixating the axeman.

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Evade Astral Combat: 12d6t5 5
Tie. Never had that in astral combat before, but as its not listed as one of the exceptions to the rule "defender wins at a tie" on p.173, I assume it does no damage.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy chose not to follow the gunslinger into the apartment with the mage on his own and instead directed his attention to helping Nova finish off the axe man. He closed and threw a bad punch that was a evaded easily.

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Melee Attack: 17d6t5 4
Battery Defense: 16d6t5 9

[Luckace]

Wraith was biting his lips. One part of him wanted stay in the relatively safe flat, keep checking the surroundings in case the mage attempted to leave the site physically, the other part screamed at him to join the fight.
I'm not here as a witness! Let's see how you like loosing your spirit...
He closed his eyes to the mundane world and opened them to the astral world around him, looking for the astral forms of his enemies and prepared to engage them.

Aeraziel, the mage must not get away. If he or his spirits attempt anything, stop them!

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Simple action: Shift perception.
Simple action: Command Aeraziel "if necessary: prevent the mage from getting away and the spirits from ripping me to astral shreds" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

Anna's spell worked, as the mercenary tumbled backwards and fell to the ground, leaving the way free to his buddy inside the flat.

[Volker]

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phase 17: Complex Action Gunnery: 17d6t5 5
I just realized that Gunnery isn't a simple but a Complex Action.
How does burst fire via Savalette work through Gunnery? Can I do it? If so, I want.

James moves to the door, trying to stay in cover behind the door frame. The built-in Savalette bends around the corner to bring down Assault.

[Jack_Spade]

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Yeah, complex action BF works -5 to dodge
Defense: 11d6t5 5

Anna: 20 (Stun Bolt at Battery)
bnc: 17 (shoots at Assault)
Aeraziel Spirit Team 15
Mage: 14
Anna's Spirit: 13
Guardian Spirit OP-Force (with Mage): 13
Nova: 12
Bound Spirit OP-Force (Astral): 11
Assault: 6
Sharkboy: 5
Wraith: 3
Battery: 0 (on the floor).

The spray of bullets connected, but the huge mercenary protected his face with a raised armored arm, deflecting the spray neatly, while raising an AK98 with an underbarrel grenade launcher.

[Luckace]

The spirit's gaze turned to the remaining mercenary. For a moment, its eyes seemed to change to pitch black, and it let out a deep, quite unholy growl. The air around it seemed to darken and the electrical crackling was now almost palpable.

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spirit uses fear against the remaining opponent, Assault::
Fear: 12d6t5 4
So about LOS: I have no clue how far into the flat he ran, the spirit is still hovering inside the corridor. If necessary, I'll use my free action to float wherever I need to float to have LOS, but if I still have my free action, I'll float away from his direct LOS afterwards.

[Jack_Spade]

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Assault resists Fear:
Resist: 9d6t5 2
Edge Reroll
Resist Edge: 7d6t5 3
2/3 Edge spend

The mercenary recoiled from the psychic attack but caught himself to stand his ground.